Abyssal_Bleakness said: I don't agree with this picture. Sniping something that is mind blowingly stupid and has no means of protecting itself isn't a challenge, nor is it something a real sniper would do. Real snipers have training and know that blindly shooting someone down is only going to bring the heat on you, either immediately or later. At the same time, I don't agree with YoruKishi's comment either. Sniping can be a crucial detail in a military conflict. It can be something you can't win without. It can even be something that saves the lives of large numbers of ground troops, and its a very manly thing to do in those circumstances. To know that if you are caught you will be tortured, disavowed and killed, yet to sneak into enemy territory anyway, and to kill your target anyway? That is a manly thing to do.
This picture is a disgrace to Snipers. REAL snipers.
A relative of mine was in the Army, and he never liked snipers. Too many of them that he met were simply people who loved to kill things and looked for any excuse to do so. One of them he met during Vietnam loved to brag about the story in which he camped out this one spot, staked out near an enemy encampment. He watched for a several days a single man come out of the encampment, go down by the water side and fill up buckets of water to take back to the encampment every morning. One morning as the man went to get the water, the sniper put a bullet through his head.
And you guys are all idiots anyway. Whoever made this pic obviously forgot that Snake absolutely refuses to kill most of his targets. This was passed down from his 'father,' Big Boss, who hated killing people and would rather stun them or tranq them if worst came to worst.
That last bit comes from Peace Walker-where you would gain extra heroism from not killin people like a madman. As for this picture, the artist is a total noob for doing this. Solid Snake would never do such a thing.
vanguard23 said: And you guys are all idiots anyway. Whoever made this pic obviously forgot that Snake absolutely refuses to kill most of his targets. This was passed down from his 'father,' Big Boss, who hated killing people and would rather stun them or tranq them if worst came to worst.
That last bit comes from Peace Walker-where you would gain extra heroism from not killin people like a madman. As for this picture, the artist is a total noob for doing this. Solid Snake would never do such a thing.
Perhaps in his later years, but considering Liquid's taunts to him in MGS1 are considered true by Snake, he wasn't always someone who stunned/tranqed his enemies.