He played a game, now he thinks he's an expert...

[Saevus]

I've fired a small rifle, it was only about 15 pounds, so not very heavy, I assume that other rifles are probably heavier, but I digress.
One of my friends thinks that he's such a good sniper he could do it in real life, and he can with water guns, but he's never tried to fire a real rifle, he doesn't know how different these things shoot compared to toys.

15 pounds Holyshit what caliber ?!


The real weapon that will maul its user is a bow, a bow string, if your not careful, will hit your arm just as hard as its firing that arrow.

I savaged a shirt sleeve, completely, as a result of that. Fortunately, it was hardly an injury; more like rugburn on the inside of my forearm.

And 15 lbs. is excessively heavy for a rifle, unless it's all FUCK YOU IMA LIGHT FIDDY.

Massive facepalms ensue when people who play RTS think they understand military strategy, but look at you kinda funny when you mention 'logistics'.

 

[axle 19]

People who hear a song on guitar hero and think they know everything about the band

 

[Wolfdale]

(Note: I've ignored all posts after the OP in replying here because I'm too tired to be assed reading four pages. Got it? Right.)

This is something I've seen quite a few times. Nowadays, I shoot shotguns competitively at a local gun club (quite proficiently), but back when I was a Counter-Strike 1.0-obsessed primary-schooler, I recall being absolutely amazed by how hard it was to cock the first .45 handgun I ever held, although I'd already known how to hold, load, cock, and fire the damned thing.

Playing a game can give you a (very) basic feel, but people often overlook that actual experience is required to understand how to handle a firearm. Even if one knows how to do everything needed to fire a handgun, for example, if they've never fired one before the recoil will likely knock them flat on their asses in surprise.

 

[TOGSolid]

In bit of reverse game - life logic, when I actually got to fire a .454 casull raging bull, the kick WASN'T as bad as games had led me to believe. I could in fact fire the damn thing one handed (which was tough as fuck to do, that damn gun has some serious weight to it).

I am very, very grateful to have lots of friends with guns who let me waste their ammo

My personal favorite are Counterstrike players who try and rattle off all sorts of bullshit on guns just based on their CS experience and then look at you like a deer in the headlights when you try and explain to them that most of those animations and what not are horribly, horribly wrong.

Man, if guns worked like they did in CS, then trying to fire a rifle would result in a hot spent casing smacking you in the face every time you pulled the trigger.

Silly CS players *pats them on the head*

 

[riftinducer]

I had some dopey 11 year old kid tell me he could hold a drift because he played a lot of NFS:Carbon (the fact that he plays Carbon should be a good indicator). I'm no expert, but the moment I mention things like lift-off oversteer, he shuts up. I've made a mental note to skip the country when he learns to drive.

 

[Nohra]

However, a game is hardly a substitute for real crawl-through-the-mud training. There's just some lessons that can't be learned in the sterile game environment.

If only we could prove this to Jacka** Thompson.

 

[Heroic One]

A friend of mine played Rome: Total War to death and now thinks he's the king of roman history. I told him most of the game is fictional, he laughed it off and proceeded to fail many history tests.

Ah, memories.

 

[Ibuki]

Love the little kids in my area discussing how more realistic halo's weapons are
compared to Cod4's or rainbow six's. Or how unrealstic bullet penatration is in cod4 "Your stupid, bullets can't go through walls". yeahh, hope your never caught in the middle of a shoot-out of any sort.

On the matter of tactics, I'v played with a guy, in halo, who claims to know
"advanced military tactics", despite no military training. was funny to watch as most of the tactics failed. Or the revoled around us being human shields, though
he never actually said that was the purposed of the "manuver" so he wouldn't get killed.

@the ninja related post. I laughed hard, but it made my bloodline cringe.

 

[Mauller]

My friend played Trama Center on the DS. Now he thinks that he can perform surgery. His court date is next month.

 

[maffro]

No one? No one at all?
Fine, as usual, I'll make the reference to one of my favourite games.
GUITAR HERO.
This is the reason haters bash the series so much. Some smug twat plays it, and thinks he can actually play a real guitar. Little does he realise that if he tried to play one, he wouldn't know how to play Smoke on the Water's riff...
... Not that I know how to play all of it, but I'm learning, honest.
I've never known someone like tis in real life, but it's bound to have happened in the past, possibly to a man called John S. Retard or something.

I was reminded of this conversation after reading an XKCD strip a few weeks ago.

I was in the IT room at school getting some coursework done, and I noticed the kids who usually concern themselves with R n' B and football are talking about guitars and rock music, picking styles, solos, band lineups, etc...

I join in, after a while, they're talking about Virtuoso's so I throw in a quick mention of Vai, and Malsteem. They seem perpluxed. I mention a Metallica song which isn't "Enter Sandman", and they're equally confused, and start shuffling their feet.

I say "Do you know anything about music that didn't show up in between songs on guitar hero?"

"...not really."

End of.

 

[sombod]

oh yeah, bout cs.

when firing a shotgun, the projectiles dont spread that much ....

 

[milskidasith]

I do know some things about weapons after playing video games, but only because I look them up. I don't legitimatly think I could handle firing real weapons, though. Except maybe small pistols.

 

[LwaXley]

in my opinion pistols are a lot harder to shoot with than rifles...

 

[milskidasith]

I was referring to the kickback... You see, I have atrophied arm muscles due to too much gaming...

 

[werepossum]

Only shot Pistols once in my life. Bootcamp. They are hard, and if you know what you are doing, rifles are MUCH easier. Especially at longer ranges...

I've never been better than decent with handguns, but a preacher I know went out shooting with the TWRA (Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency) agents in our area. They set up spray paint cans at about fifty feet (15 meters.) Preacher thought "man, this is easy" and proceeded to drop the first can with a 30-30 rifle. "No" they told him, "you have to shoot the spray buttons without knocking over the cans." He thought they were fooling him until they proceed to do just that, over and over. Now at fifty feet I can nail a silhouette, or hit a can maybe one shot in five with a handgun with decent sights, but I can't even SEE the damned buttons at fifty feet! I couldn't hit the spray button more than once in three times with a scoped .30-06 from a decent rest - I know, I tried.

Those guys are wizards with handguns. One of them dropped a running dog chasing deer at fifty paces with a 4" barrel .357 magnum revolver - one shot, through both lungs. Still amazes me. Funny story though - agent walked up on the man running deer with dogs, startled hell out of him. Agent: "Your dog's chasing deer." Man: "That's not my dog." Deer comes running into view, dog close behind. Agent draws revolver, tracks dog, fires and drops dog. Man: "Shit! You shot my dog!" Agent: "You said that wasn't your dog." Man: "Well - I didn't think you could hit it."

 

[Acaroid]

Oh that kid in taiwan that thought he could kill a taxi drive after playing GTA4.... oh wait he never acctually played GTA4 *dig dig*

I think im an expert at what an asshat is if i play any online game ever...

 

[CTU_Agent24]

WOW, i have just discovered some people who play "Time Crisis" think they are experts at shooting. God, you gotta love that

 

[Von Faceless]

My friend plays the Naruto: Ultimate Ninga games a lot, read a few japanese books, and looks up samurai swords on the internet and thinks he's a ninja. It gets pretty annoying when he's all like "I just ninja'd you, I'm so badass". I can't wait till he goes to Japan and gets his ass kicked by a REAL ninja and wakes up the next day with a throwing star in his face and all of his possessions sold on the black japanese market.

You sooo need to get him to take part in this gameshow [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMRR_Mpf7nk]