:rolleyes:
Do the rolleyes thing all you want, you have to admit that it’s pretty sick to make a game out of the murder of a real person, whose daughter, brother and sisters are still alive.
And we’re glad to give you your opportunity to condecend. I hope it was everything you thought it would be.
No, we don’t have to admit that, or agree with it, or even take it seriously.
That “chaotic” physics model is a little too much so. I’ve seen crashed vehicles, including buses, fly virtual miles into the sky, disappearing in the distance.
Incidentally, if you position the camera just right, you can see the motorcade cars that make it through the underpass reach the edge of the simulation and seem to fall off a cliff.
That’s nothing compared to computer simulation. With a computer simulation, you can see the event from 360 degree angles and in multiple perspectives simutaneously. Sims passenger (and other eyewitnesses) that react to computer-imput stimuli. The Sims can be computer models of flesh-and-blood human beings that can show impact of bullets (something you could *never * do in real life). You can change the velocity of the bullet without changing constants (also something you couldn’t do in real life). Digtially recreating the Zapruder film, from different angles in different scenarios.
Don’t be ridiculous. That would be as bad as a game based on running a Nazi Concentration Camp :eek:
What an interesting software tool… I hesitate to call it a “game”, but I’ve always had an interest in ballistics and wondered how Oswald actually pulled off the JFK Assassination, and having run through the simulation a few times I’m very much inspired to find out more about the events involved that day.
Trying to assassinate a real person in a game is certainly morally bankrupt, but the fact is JFK is dead in real life (so its not like the programme is advocating the killing of a currently living person), and there are are plenty of games in which you get to assassinate fictional people (the Hitman series spring to mind), which no-one here is complaining about, as far as I can see.
A rather morbid bump, since I think that everyone should play the game at least once today.
Haven’t downloaded or tried the game yet.
However, wasn’t Oswald supposed to have been in the army - and perhaps had some special skills in sharpeshooting?
Just a thought.
Oswald enlisted in the Marine Corps when he was 17. From Wikipedia:
Norman Mailer, who checked the KGB records on Oswald said that the KGB laughed at how poor Oswald’s shooting was.
Why would the KGB have records on his shooting ability? He never served in any military capacity for the Soviet Union.
He was married to a Soviet general’s daughter and was an American defector, I can well imagine that the KGB would want to keep such a person under surveillance.
Forgot to add that he went hunting with his father-in-law.
Oswald’s wife Marina Pursakova was born out of wedlock, and wasn’t even sure who her father was. You may be thinking of Marina’s uncle, with whom she was living when she met Oswald. He was a police officer with the local militia in Minsk. Conspiracy theorists have bumped him up to a general in the KGB.
Actually, I’m going off memories of the JFK film by Oliver Stone as to who Marina’s father was. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s one of the least reliable sources. However, it was from a standard news source that I heard about Mailer’s statement.
Mailer’s Oswald’s Tale, pp. 114-16, make it perfectly clear that LHO’s poor shooting was in the context of a bunch of Soviet hunting club members walking through the fields with shotguns, hunting for rabbits and other small game. Oswald was startled by one rabbit that bolted from right underfoot and blew a shot straight into the sky, then later took another shot at a rabbit and missed.
He was clearly not a small game shotgun hunter, which is quite a different question from whether he was a marksman with a rifle and a slow-moving target.
Lee Oswald’s brother Robert said, “I went hunting with Lee plenty of times. He was a good shot who always got his game.”
Deer hunting, I believe (but couldn’t find the cite). Quite the difference from shooting at running rabbits.