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2015/01/20 16:57:25
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
The captions of the photos have the location of the sniper. Don't peak if you want maximum fun!
It sounds like a fun project for a photographer and the Snipers involved. For the record they are all German Army.
Since it’s not a documentary project, Menner said part of the fun is trying to find the hidden snipers. While he is using real people and creating images in which the snipers are actually hidden, many of the comments he has received from viewers has questioned the authenticity of the images, something he finds amusing.
“First of all, it is real,” he wrote. “Whoever has doubts about that should contact the German Army. There were snipers present in every single shot and they were in fact, ordered to aim at the camera, so they could see me, even though I was almost never able to see them. The professional training they have received means that in some of the images, no trace of them can be seen, even if you look at the image pixel by pixel. This is exactly how a sniper in a forest is supposed to appear.”
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2015/01/20 17:03:52
Subject: Re:Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
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Some of them I saw right away. Some of them I couldn't see at all.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
The only one I didn't find was the guy hiding in the first picture that was full of rocks. Even after they told me where he was, I still couldn't see him in that one.
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2015/01/20 17:08:08
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
A few were fairly easy, but I'd have preferred an arrow or a red circle as opposed to a caption to find the rest.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2015/01/20 17:09:49
Subject: Re:Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
I caught every one bar the second quickly. Huh, but that's with me knowing there was a guy there and over a small area. Out in the field that guy would've shot me days before I saw him. =P
2015/01/20 17:11:50
Subject: Re:Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
Wyrmalla wrote: I caught every one bar the second quickly. Huh, but that's with me knowing there was a guy there and over a small area. Out in the field that guy would've shot me days before I saw him. =P
Yeah, the difficulty lies in not actually knowing there's a sniper in a certain area.
On the off chance you do, everyone knows that the correct protocol is to call in an air strike/artillery bombardment/both on the location, not try and find himself yourself.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2015/01/20 17:22:37
Subject: Re:Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
How well do thermal sights work on ghillie suits? Does all the crap mask the heat signature? I've read that those things get ridiculously hot so I'm unsure (to the extent that they can catch fire in the desert). I'm not sure how often a regular squad carries such a device, but vehicles do ...though I don't know what business a sniper would have shooting when there's one of those about.
2015/01/20 17:26:48
Subject: Re:Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
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I don't think the standard ghillie suit does any thermal shielding. So it would probably work.
But then again, a Sniper isn't going to be shooting you from a range where you could detect him with thermal imaging.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
I know there are small drones meant to be field deployable in development that would be able to, but like someone said, you'd have to know there's a sniper before you knew to deploy the drone in the first place.
By then, you've probably lost a few people.
2015/01/20 18:39:16
Subject: Re:Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
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2015/01/20 18:52:53
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
squidhills wrote: The only one I didn't find was the guy hiding in the first picture that was full of rocks. Even after they told me where he was, I still couldn't see him in that one.
Right the one with the rocks really stumped me could not find him at all. Cool pictures as well
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2015/01/20 18:55:37
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
One of the pictures you can totally see the rifle barrel.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Crazy_Carnifex wrote: Was I the only one who started thinking of the "How not to be seen" sketch?
"Mr. Sniper, could you stand up please?"
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2015/01/20 19:03:05
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
Crazy_Carnifex wrote: Was I the only one who started thinking of the "How not to be seen" sketch?
"Mr. Sniper, could you stand up please?"
''Mr Sniper has learned the first rule of not being seen. Unfortunately he has chosen a rather obvious hiding spot...''
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Grey Templar wrote: One of the pictures you can totally see the rifle barrel.
They were ordered to point at the photograph.
They should still be invisible while doing that.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Grey Templar wrote: One of the pictures you can totally see the rifle barrel.
They were ordered to point at the photograph.
They should still be invisible while doing that.
Damn I hate it when my Invisibility drops. Then I make for the zone line /ooc CHUGACHUGA CHOO CHOO TRAIN INCOMING!!!!
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2015/01/20 22:12:49
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
Some of these are downright bloody invisible, one other however is so obvious it's hilarious. Even from just videogames, I've learned to never hide near trees, as you'll break up the transition from the grass to the tree, making you a bit obvious if somebody bothers to look.
Besides that example, I can't find any of them.
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2015/01/21 15:35:12
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
#2 was the hard one for me. The others i found relatively quickly. THAT is because We were told that they were in the picture shown, after that its up to finding the 8, find the line, and try to find what doesn't belong.
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2015/01/21 15:37:15
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
#2 Was one of the easiest for me; that lump of moss looked completely out of place even from a quick glance.
Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
"You need not fear us, unless you are a dark heart, a vile one who preys on the innocent; I promise, you can’t hide forever in the empty darkness, for we will hunt you down like the animals you are, and pull you into the very bowels of hell." Iron - Within Temptation
2015/01/21 15:44:03
Subject: Let's Play a Picture Game! Find the Sniper!
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