I have very strong opinions regarding prohibitions and regulation of firearms, mainly because the people advocating them the most demonstrate the least real knowledge on the subject at hand. The firearm community has spent a century building a culture of responsible gun ownership, safety in the field, and individual discipline as the basis for preventing accidents. The hoplophobes demand arbitrary laws enforced at gunpoint. Who is actually doing something constructive here?
When it comes to guns, I have fired a fair few, and I have opinions regarding calibers, platforms, etc. but I try to recognize my own limitations. As for video games, the real fun is when I am playing online with a gunsmith friend and his practical shooting competition crew while they're all bitching about how badly the game screwed up depictions. We used to play Payday 2 a lot, and amidst the absurd heists, there were frequent comments about SVEEDISH LOJIK as they poked fun at the developers who relied on gameplay gimmicks to differentiate guns instead of any semblance of realism. It's a fun game, just don't trust it to give an accurate impression of relative effectiveness!
I agree completely with your first paragraph. The second took me by surprise. I didn't have you figured for a gamer.
My bio says, "Gamer, maker, bad Quaker, librarian, market anarchist, manual curator." Most of my gaming these days is tabletop, but I have spent a fair chunk of my life with PC and console games. I don't play online much at the moment because my rural internet connection is already dodgy, and the refugees from worse COVID lockdown states all expect our rusty internet pipe to handle their Netflix, Disney+, and porn streaming in 4K HD like it did in LA, Portland, Seattle, or wherever. The bandwidth isn't there, and ping is off the charts.
I'd not noticed your bio, I'm sorry.
I'm not a gamer myself but used to play Ghost Recon online back around the year 2000 or so against my brothers. That was about the extent of it. I was ok at it but connection was slower than theirs so I used to lose a lot. Lol.
So you know sometimes there is lag to be blamed!
Yep, I know lag well. I'd be stalking up on them, they'd see me and come up behind me and blow my head off before I even knew they were there. Wasn't a lot of fun. When I played alone against the computer I was pretty good. 😊