{"id":26326,"date":"2015-03-28T18:33:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26326"},"modified":"2015-03-28T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:33:48","slug":"hitman-absolution-ep9-bald-shootlots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26326","title":{"rendered":"Hitman Absolution EP9: Bald Shootlots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1ZvNFEXz4QQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ZvNFEXz4QQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I made fun of the game for having a gunstore willing to put firearms on display when they have these massive suppressors attached. That was a silly thing to comment on. There are so many egregiously wrong things with this story that we really don&#8217;t have time to waste on tiny trivialities like that. <\/p>\n<p>But it does sort of make me wonder about the use of suppressors. I&#8217;ve used firearms a couple of times in my life, and boy howdy are they <strong>loud<\/strong>. Even with proper ear protection. Movies don&#8217;t do them justice. If movie shootouts were at all realistic, everyone would stand around after the fight doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tekhh7Iy-sM\">this<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>So I wonder why more people don&#8217;t use suppressors on the firing range. I&#8217;m well aware that in the real world they don&#8217;t magically make a handgun sound like a blowdart, but even shaving off a few decibels would help a lot. Maybe it&#8217;s the expense. Maybe it&#8217;s the legality. Maybe it would interfere with the ballistics too much. Maybe it&#8217;s just not practical. I honestly have no idea. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m totally fine with suppressors being 100% legal, easily available, and supernaturally effective in the Hitman universe. This is absolutely the type of compromise my brain is willing to make. On the other hand, having &#8220;The Agency&#8221; be a massive paramilitary force with thousands of soldiers, massive funding, no accountability, with a control room that looks like NASA? Not so much. <\/p>\n<p>So the bossman demands 47&#8217;s head on a platter. Jade responds that maybe they should look for the girl. Boss replies that that&#8217;s not needed, because 47 will &#8220;know where she is.&#8221; <em>But&#8230; didn&#8217;t you just gave the order to <strong>kill<\/strong> him? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did the writer have some kind of short-term memory damage? <\/p>\n<p>Why is the town of Hope stuck in the 50&#8217;s? 50&#8217;s cars. 50&#8217;s music. 50&#8217;s haircuts. Letter jackets for all the gang members. They&#8217;ve even got a huge barbershop that would have been too big for a town this size even when places like this were in their heyday.  In another game I&#8217;d assume this was a stylistic choice, but here I&#8217;m going to assume it&#8217;s for the same reason that nothing makes sense: The writers really didn&#8217;t know or care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I made fun of the game for having a gunstore willing to put firearms on display when they have these massive suppressors attached. That was a silly thing to comment on. There are so many egregiously wrong things with this story that we really don&#8217;t have time to waste on tiny trivialities like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[477],"class_list":["post-26326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-hitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}