We should make some “cash-lympics” where some random people from every nation within the desired age are invited for free to just compete, with no training whatsoever. It would certainly be as fun/exciting as watching this dude
I think MXC essentially provides that experience.
Right you are, Ken.
Huh, I thought that that looked exactly like a Takeshi's Castle obstacle, and sure enough the whole thing with MXC is that they repurposed Takeshi's Castle footage to make a new show? Wild
Yep, take a Tekeshi's Castle episode, have a couple guys dub over it with silly voices, broadcast it on cable, profit.
I highly doubt it is, but is it still going? I miss that so much.
My experience from visiting Turkey is that they love cats. People even leave food and water out for the strays.
Well feed.cats hunt for fun. Hungry kitty hunts generally only enough to eat.
Aren't dogs a dirty animal in Islam? Since Turkey is 90+% Muslim that'd skew stats towards cats as pets.
I like him already.
He attacc
He protecc
But most importantly, he passed the vibe checc
His name is Yusuf Dikeç, he was in the 10m air pistol men and mixed team events. The silver was in the mixed team event, won alongside teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan. Despite what appears to be an exceptionally successful sport shooting career otherwise, he seems to have struggled in prior Olympic games ("struggled" relative to "qualified for the goddamn Olympics" of course) but apparently he was just on the ball this time
This is the type of character you see in an anime and you scoff as unrealistic. I stand corrected
Heh. You made me use ten percent of my power, pretty good.
Someone starts getting close to his score, "interesting! I haven't had a match like this in a long time," and he switches gun hands.
Japan experiences a high number of earthquakes because of all the athletes removing their extremely weighted training equipment when facing tough competition and needing to get serious. Undo the bindings and casually allow it to drop to the ground and the only reason Tokyo is still standing is because they designed their buildings to account for this.
And then a character known for watching bullets travel from the gun to the target is shocked to realize he can't follow the movement of the gun anymore.
Japanese athletes: 100 pushups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and a 10km run every day.
Wouldn't such a regiment have a high risk of all your hair falling out?
That doesn't sound absurd for an athlete.
And yet the results speak for themselves.
Shameless YuYu Hakusho reference (I hope)
Isn’t aiming with both eyes open the way to do it? I learned to do that in the military to keep your situational awareness and never stopped. Also, it works really well with a holographic sight, like you’ve got the red dot / reticule floating on the target.
If you look at Olympic pistol shooting pics there’s a bunch with a hand in the pocket too.
Both eyes open is great for the real world. Olympic target shooting is a very different animal. Don't think of it like normal shooting. Situational awareness is not a factor. Unlike practical shooting, tunnel vision is desired. Most shooters wear blinders to obscure the off side eye. On the aiming eye they often wear special glasses. They are focusing on absolutely lining up the physical sights, there are no optics in Olympic pistol shooting.
For comparison, this is what a more conventional Olympic headgear setup looks like.
Yes the hand in pocket is pretty common in Olympic shooting. Unfortunate that it was part of the list as it undercuts the rest of the valid observations unusualness of the setup and success.
This shooter was much more casual than most. Most shooters will line up with special highly stable, but strange looking stances.
makes me want to scream NERD!, except she could blow my head off easily.
Nerd? No, she's a cyborg sent back in time to protect you.
Pretty sure that's an air pistol and firing an actual pistol like that (assuming something big enough actually blow a head off) would do weird things to her shoulder.
It would do weirder things to your head.
She shot you a week ago. Wait for it….
Omae wa mou shindeiru
Eh, poses like this absolutely would not work in real world situations.
If you were standing exactly 10m away and did not move,...
Damn, standing exactly 10m away from someone and not moving is my power move.
It's my preferred flirting method.
I assume an Olympic shooter would use a different stance when firing a more powerful gun and still "blow their head off."
Araki furiously taking notes for new JoJo poses
Your eye is still open under that flap though, no? I dabbled in Olympic pistol shooting back when I was doing across-the-course service rifle, and I was told to always keep both eyes open by the dude teaching me. Same for service rifle (and later palma). I always found that closing one of your eyes fucks up your focusing. If you don't have the little flappy dealy, you just do your best to defocus/deprioritize the view out of your non-dominant eye. I actually went for quite a while without any sort of cover because it helped me avoid cross firing (which is probably more of an issue with across-the-course than with Olympic pistol).
You're absolutely right about the lack of spectacles though. This guy is one hell of a marksman.
The unusual factor at the Olympic level is that he both chose not to wear a blinder and not to close his eye. This means he was getting visual input from both eyes, that as you noted he had to block out mentally.
When shooting is down to the millimeter, all of this is important. This is the exact opposite of practical shooting, where you want a large field of view, or potentially an occluded eye effect to aim in some cases. (Cover the front of a red dot and then aim with both eyes open for a test of occluded aiming. Your brain will overlay the dot from the shooting eye and the target from the weak side eye and you will be able to aim. It will not be down to the millimeter accurate however, which matters within the abstract environment of target shooting.)
Can't argue with Olympic-level results, but I've been training myself to shoot with both eyes open and get better steel on target.
Yeah, every time someone mentions the hand-in-pocket thing it's "ah, you don't know what this event is". Same with that one about holding the gun with both hands.
I post the screenshots that 4chan provides. Unfortunately they are not always 100% on the ball.
Depends on whether the targets are shooting back.
Why would a target marksmen need during awareness?
Paris can be dangerous at night
He looks like he commented to someone doing this sport professionally that it look easy and now, with a bit of disdain and irritation, he had to show them what he meant by that
Both eyes open can be better for your aim if you can resolve both images of the sights and place the target exactly between the images. Takes practice but seems to have a higher skill ceiling
So he's just silently telling everyone "skill issue"? 😄
Oh, do you need the "!" in front of the link? I tried something like that at first and it showed nothing
That's standard Markdown syntax for embedded links: instead of linking, just show the content. Usually only for images but I think some sites will allow audio (and video?!) embeds as well.
Yes, video too, but support by clients is inconsistent (some don't show playback controls and loop it like a gif, some just display a link). By default, the media hosting server allows for up to 900 frames (up to 30-37 seconds of smooth video) and 2160p; the audio track is removed; the filesize limit is 40 MiB (most instance owners set it way lower, perhaps 5 or 10). There is a caveat: all media must be encoded to a single codec of the instance owner's choice: VP9 (default), H264, H265, AV1, or VP8. Uploading in one of the others is possible but beware: it is going to be reencoded by the server, and if the process doesn't finish within the timeout of 30 seconds, you get the error ffmpeg timed out. In 30 seconds, a server without HW acceleration will typically only process a very short video (for feddit.org, it's about 1 MiB's worth of H265) so anything longer than a few seconds will fail! To take advantage of the full upload limit, you must reencode the video yourself to VP9 or whatever other codec is set (you can tell by uploading a tiny file in any codec and inspecting the output).
You can use the following command to reencode the video to VP9:
ffmpeg -i input.mkv \
-r 899/ `only use this for longer videos where you need to reduce frames to 900` \
-c:a libopus -b:a 48k `audio will probably be removed anyway` \
-c:v vp9 \
-crf 32 `constant quality mode, lower is better quality, try finding lowest value satisfying filesize limit` \
output.webm
FFmpeg can do much more to the video: resize, crop, trim etc. Look it up. If you want GUI, try Handbrake.
Alternatively, just use a more lenient hoster like GitHub or catbox.moe and embed the file from there, which has no aforementioned limits:  will embed a 10-minute 4K movie.
I want to embed you
Wow! Thanks for the detailed response, I definitely did not know all that about it, nor would have thought to look it up.
Next time you can just upload the image and it will embed it in your comment.
FWIW your link worked just fine. Also disallowing hotlinking is the decision of the web server hosting the image, not Lemmy.
His hand is in his pocket to stabilize the swing from his massive dong 🍆
Opps, my huge gun was off target due to my magnum dong.
He has to synchronize his breathing with that swinging pendulum before he can time his shot.
And that's the last time I call John Oliver a British toucan...
How close did he get to making the Lion King worth watching as Zazu?
The US Army used to teach shooting similarly to that, minus the hand in the pocket of course.
Both eyes make a huge difference if you want to switch between moving targets, so it makes sense in a military setting
They removed the soldier's hand!? That's serious dedication!
Once you sign the papers they can do whatever they want to you.
If you have your hand in your pocket you go to the 'target' side of the range.
'Parry this you fucking casuals'
I heard the US lost. They should have sent cops. Then just paint a black man as the target 🎯. 19 shots hit, and only needed one for gold.
19 hits but 200 bullets fired.
and some acorns
Plastic cups. But that's for russian cops.
Many in the crowd hit, they had to redirect fire to the target
Tbf there were people in the audience holding water bottles which could be thrown as a deadly weapon -- how do you know those bottles aren't full of kerosene -- and also filming the officer which can lead to the officer's family being threatened by doxxing. The only people allowed to threaten the officer's family with violence is the officer
I didn't think about this possibility. The ratings are dropping and we need more viewership. How about next year Simmons Viles? Is that the correct spelling? How about she trains all the shooters to do a few cart wheels and such before actually shooting. Basically like an Xman event level demonstration of agility and dexterity. But let's hope none of them are cops of this might end badly.
They can’t, there are acorns in France
The best shooters in the US don't typically make it out of high school.
Well, they make it IN high school
Quality vs quantity.
Unless they arrive a little late and, upon hearing the sound of gunfire coming from within the stadium, barricade themselves outside and wait for the shooters to run out of bullets or targets.
Edit: a word
They only do that if it's kids.
Just got to drag US politics into it, don't you?
Even without a gun, that is an expression that says, "you will really regret it if you ever try to fuck with me."
But he'll never hear you coming.
I'm not saying it's good practice, but you can fire .22 LR without getting ringing in your ears. I'd never do it all day, but I've definitely done it a couple times just to get an idea how loud it is. The dude can probably hear fine. I'm not saying it won't catch up to him though.
Edit I hear he shoots air pistol? I don't know if that's correct, but it's definitely even quieter.
I heard someone say that he was wearing regular earplugs and that these are compressed air guns so not nearly as loud as regular guns. I have no idea on either of those loudnesses
Yep! He competes in (at least) 10m mixed team. They use PCP pistols for that, so you really don't really need more than a pair of earplugs. 25m and 25m rapid both use .22LR though, and many competitors compete in both events and only bring the one pair of PPE, so that's where the images of competitors wearing full ears vs. earplugs only in one side come from (and/or some people's ears are stupidly designed so they can't wear normal earplugs / earbuds and have to have the uncomfortable and bulky over-the-ear protection. Not that I'm bitter or anything. Stupid ears.).
Also, his shooting stance is 100% standard, here's him & his partner Sevval Tarhan in identical stances. It's really more for comfort than anything else, since rounds go for 1hr 15min. Ergonomic stance means you can keep up the consistent shots for that long a period
The meme format with him vs. the south korean shooter Kim Yeji looks so different because they are competing in totally different events, even though they're both shooting PCP target guns.
Shooting .22lr without earpro isn't great, but yeah... doing it occasionally shouldn't be an issue.
I use 22 on invasive nutria around the property, and when I see one of the giant rats I'll just grab the rifle and go shoot them. It's not like firing a .308 or .223 where it's loud enough to permanently damage your hearing from 1 shot.
But if I'm going target shooting a 22 I'm gonna put on eyes and ears. Especially for a pistol. For those who haven't shot, pistols are generally way louder than rifles of the same caliber. Not only is it closer to the shooter, but more of the gas expansion and powder burning occurs outside the barrel.
Air guns can also be just as loud as a 22 BTW. It's actually fairly common to have a integrated into an air rifle in the US since the legal definition of a silencer specifically involves being designed for use on a firearm (air rifles aren't legally firearms).
how does it sound from a rooftop?
...like it does from a deck or a driveway. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
They're joking (I hope), about the attempt last month.
I see. In my mind I don't really connect target shooting and varmit hunting with a 22 with violence, so I missed the reference.
It's like connecting wood carving with stabbings.
If you know nothing about guns they all kinda read the same. Unless it's one of maybe 10 that have been featured in media (mainly videogames personally) enough for me to know then I have no real frame of reference.
I'm curious now, guns I know somewhat in no real order:
AK-47
M16
Uzi
Desert Eagle
is the AWP a real gun?
magnum?
hand gun/pistel?
I'm going to stop because I'm switching between namimg models and broader categories but I think that makes my point pretty clear lol
Fun facts about those guns.
The first 3 are actually illegal in the US unless they were made before1986, and even then they require a special license per firearm that takes a year to get. And those pre-1986 guns start around 40 grand.
You can get modern guns that look like an AK, M16, or Uzi, but they have to be manufactured in a way that they can't fire full-auto without illegal modification. For instance, I can take a full-auto trigger and drop it into my AR-15 and it still won't fire full-auto because the lower receiver (legally the gun) is missing a hole required for the auto-sear that allows the full-auto to function.
Desert Eagle is a sub-brand of a company called Magnum Research and is a family of firearms. Most famous among them is a variant that fires a 50 cal Action Express round, but you can get it in a 357 or a 9mm as well. Saying "Desert Eagle" is like saying "Xbox." I probably know what you mean, but it technically covers a lot of devices.
The Awp is a very specific model of Accuracy International precision rifle. They're quality precision rifles, but they're also like 15 grand, and for 99.999% of shooters you could spend $3,000 on a Ruger and a decent optic and shoot just as well. I have a Bergara custom rifle and a top-of-the-line Razor optic that are combined worth about 7 grand (mostly the scope), and I honestly don't think there's a human on the planet who could shoot well enough to determine a meaningful difference between it and an Accuracy International.
"Magnum" essentially refers to a larger, overloaded cartridge. They're usually just a little longer so they can hold extra powder. My 44 magnum revolver will shoot 44 special (regular) or 44 Magnum. The projectile is the same, but you've got like double the bang with a Magnum.
Honestly, for handguns there's no reason outside of bear defense to use a Magnum other than for the giggle factor from the big boom. My 357 Magnum also fores 38 special which, while technically weaker, can be fired more quickly with greater control in a tighter group at revolver distances, and a 38 special will take down just about anything. It's the difference between killing a fly with a fly swatter or a sledgehammer - the sledge is more powerful, but I wouldn't say it's the better tool.
Handgun refers to any firearm designed to be fireable using 1 hand and no shoulder stock. A pistol is a handgun in which the firing chamber is integrated into the barrel, inclusing most single-shot, automatic, and multi-barrel handguns. Revolvers have a rotating cylinder with multiple firing chambers that line up up with the barrel before firing.
Thank you for the detailed information. I really appreciate it. And dammit I knew I was spelling pistol wrong but my autocorrect decided it was fine.
I know a professional assassin when I see one
Should have sent this one for Trump
Don't worry, with sniper rifle he can hit all the way from Paris
And the other one is flicking a cigarette.
You you you oughta know
And the other one is giving a peace sign.
"Have you seen this boy" insurance salesman edition
Being ruled by Turks for 400 years kinda makes sense now
Plot twist: he is blind on one eye
And deaf on both ears
and has an artificial arm
Peak sport right there!
Silver?
Pathetic.
if yer not first yer last 🤪
First loser...
No hearing protection either...
Small caliber air guns, so no dangerous decibels, but most shooters do wear ear protection to block out distractions.
I saw another picture of him in that event from the side and he was wearing ear plugs.
He had earplugs.
So with the addition of some better equipment, like an eye shield, maybe he could have taken home the gold? Is there a GoFundMe?
I'm sure he had access to equipment.
On the one hand, I was just making a joke. You're probably right.
On the other hand, there are Olympians working part time jobs to pay for their training and equipment. Not every country sponsors their athletes, and this shit ain't cheap. Few things highlight global economic disparity like the Olympics.
If the caption is right this guy is Turkish military. They will absolutely give him all the range time and equipment he asks for.
I mean, they're not fooling anyone. That guy is obviously Jeremy Renner with dyed hair.
Even Texans fear him
I can't be that stable with my arm held out in any circumstances but this seems like an incredibly fun sport.
10m air pistol. Accuracy is what counts. It ain't your American shootin that's for sure
Not that impressed, but still quite cool.
If somebody did the same in competitive rifle shooting I'd be astonished...and no, I don't mean you need to keep one hand in the pocket.
wins silver at Olymics with a gear disadvantage "not that impressive" 🤡
So by your logic silver is something not often won by anyone in Olympics?
In 2020 there were 448 events at the Olympics, let's round up to 450. Each event gives 3 medals, for a total of 1350 medals. The Olympics are held every four years, so that 337.5 medals are awarded in an average year.
There are about 8.1 billion people in the world. On average, 0.000004 % of the worlds population receives an Olympic medal each year.
If this were a completely random yearly lottery, and you lived for 100 years, you would have about a 0.0004 % chance of winning an Olympic medal in your lifetime.
I would count myself lucky if I won that by the time I was 50.
Just to be a total pendant, some of the events give two bronzes, e.g. boxing. It won't change the conclusion of your comment of course.
I love pedantry <3 I got the "three medals per event" from some Wikipedia page, and I know they love pedantry over there as well, so maybe you should make a contribution?
In that case, let me add that in team events, each member gets a medal.
no no you see, there are hundreds of people who got silver medals, it is not a big deal.
yes
literally only one person can get silver in each category every 4 years? per 8 billion people out there
...but the comment was about quality and quantity of the disadvantage, not about winning silver in Olympics.
How many medals do you have?
Personally none in the Olympics, but I have the same amount of Tour de France’s as Lance Armstrong (and one more ball)
We should make some “cash-lympics” where some random people from every nation within the desired age are invited for free to just compete, with no training whatsoever. It would certainly be as fun/exciting as watching this dude
I think MXC essentially provides that experience.
Right you are, Ken.
Huh, I thought that that looked exactly like a Takeshi's Castle obstacle, and sure enough the whole thing with MXC is that they repurposed Takeshi's Castle footage to make a new show? Wild
Yep, take a Tekeshi's Castle episode, have a couple guys dub over it with silly voices, broadcast it on cable, profit.
I highly doubt it is, but is it still going? I miss that so much.
Iirc it got rebooted recently.
Relevant
Have it like The Price Is Right. Just call random people down from the crowd to do the hurdles.
I'm fat and slow. I'd start running toward the hurdles and then swerve around them at the last second.
At least slow down and gingerly step over them, like a distrustful dog on an obstacle course.
Sounds like the perfect show for a sports channels during slow times.
This dude is a professional sport-shooter and have been for decades.
People would straight up die
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Games_(British_TV_series)
He has kitty!
My experience from visiting Turkey is that they love cats. People even leave food and water out for the strays.
Well feed.cats hunt for fun. Hungry kitty hunts generally only enough to eat.
Aren't dogs a dirty animal in Islam? Since Turkey is 90+% Muslim that'd skew stats towards cats as pets.
I like him already.
He attacc He protecc
But most importantly, he passed the vibe checc
His name is Yusuf Dikeç, he was in the 10m air pistol men and mixed team events. The silver was in the mixed team event, won alongside teammate Şevval İlayda Tarhan. Despite what appears to be an exceptionally successful sport shooting career otherwise, he seems to have struggled in prior Olympic games ("struggled" relative to "qualified for the goddamn Olympics" of course) but apparently he was just on the ball this time
This is the type of character you see in an anime and you scoff as unrealistic. I stand corrected
Heh. You made me use ten percent of my power, pretty good.
Someone starts getting close to his score, "interesting! I haven't had a match like this in a long time," and he switches gun hands.
Japan experiences a high number of earthquakes because of all the athletes removing their extremely weighted training equipment when facing tough competition and needing to get serious. Undo the bindings and casually allow it to drop to the ground and the only reason Tokyo is still standing is because they designed their buildings to account for this.
And then a character known for watching bullets travel from the gun to the target is shocked to realize he can't follow the movement of the gun anymore.
Japanese athletes: 100 pushups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and a 10km run every day.
Wouldn't such a regiment have a high risk of all your hair falling out?
That doesn't sound absurd for an athlete.
And yet the results speak for themselves.
Shameless YuYu Hakusho reference (I hope)
Isn’t aiming with both eyes open the way to do it? I learned to do that in the military to keep your situational awareness and never stopped. Also, it works really well with a holographic sight, like you’ve got the red dot / reticule floating on the target.
If you look at Olympic pistol shooting pics there’s a bunch with a hand in the pocket too.
Both eyes open is great for the real world. Olympic target shooting is a very different animal. Don't think of it like normal shooting. Situational awareness is not a factor. Unlike practical shooting, tunnel vision is desired. Most shooters wear blinders to obscure the off side eye. On the aiming eye they often wear special glasses. They are focusing on absolutely lining up the physical sights, there are no optics in Olympic pistol shooting.
For comparison, this is what a more conventional Olympic headgear setup looks like.
Yes the hand in pocket is pretty common in Olympic shooting. Unfortunate that it was part of the list as it undercuts the rest of the valid observations unusualness of the setup and success.
This shooter was much more casual than most. Most shooters will line up with special highly stable, but strange looking stances.
makes me want to scream NERD!, except she could blow my head off easily.
Nerd? No, she's a cyborg sent back in time to protect you.
Pretty sure that's an air pistol and firing an actual pistol like that (assuming something big enough actually blow a head off) would do weird things to her shoulder.
It would do weirder things to your head.
She shot you a week ago. Wait for it….
Omae wa mou shindeiru
Eh, poses like this absolutely would not work in real world situations.
If you were standing exactly 10m away and did not move,...
Damn, standing exactly 10m away from someone and not moving is my power move.
It's my preferred flirting method.
I assume an Olympic shooter would use a different stance when firing a more powerful gun and still "blow their head off."
Araki furiously taking notes for new JoJo poses
Your eye is still open under that flap though, no? I dabbled in Olympic pistol shooting back when I was doing across-the-course service rifle, and I was told to always keep both eyes open by the dude teaching me. Same for service rifle (and later palma). I always found that closing one of your eyes fucks up your focusing. If you don't have the little flappy dealy, you just do your best to defocus/deprioritize the view out of your non-dominant eye. I actually went for quite a while without any sort of cover because it helped me avoid cross firing (which is probably more of an issue with across-the-course than with Olympic pistol).
You're absolutely right about the lack of spectacles though. This guy is one hell of a marksman.
The unusual factor at the Olympic level is that he both chose not to wear a blinder and not to close his eye. This means he was getting visual input from both eyes, that as you noted he had to block out mentally.
When shooting is down to the millimeter, all of this is important. This is the exact opposite of practical shooting, where you want a large field of view, or potentially an occluded eye effect to aim in some cases. (Cover the front of a red dot and then aim with both eyes open for a test of occluded aiming. Your brain will overlay the dot from the shooting eye and the target from the weak side eye and you will be able to aim. It will not be down to the millimeter accurate however, which matters within the abstract environment of target shooting.)
Can't argue with Olympic-level results, but I've been training myself to shoot with both eyes open and get better steel on target.
Yeah, every time someone mentions the hand-in-pocket thing it's "ah, you don't know what this event is". Same with that one about holding the gun with both hands.
I post the screenshots that 4chan provides. Unfortunately they are not always 100% on the ball.
Depends on whether the targets are shooting back.
Why would a target marksmen need during awareness?
Paris can be dangerous at night
He looks like he commented to someone doing this sport professionally that it look easy and now, with a bit of disdain and irritation, he had to show them what he meant by that
Both eyes open can be better for your aim if you can resolve both images of the sights and place the target exactly between the images. Takes practice but seems to have a higher skill ceiling
So he's just silently telling everyone "skill issue"? 😄
https://i.servimg.com/u/f41/19/88/36/99/img_0927.jpg
That's why these exist.
Darn it. Can you not hotlink images in Lemmy?
You can. Most instances run image hosting too.
Oh, do you need the "!" in front of the link? I tried something like that at first and it showed nothing
That's standard Markdown syntax for embedded links: instead of linking, just show the content. Usually only for images but I think some sites will allow audio (and video?!) embeds as well.
Yes, video too, but support by clients is inconsistent (some don't show playback controls and loop it like a gif, some just display a link). By default, the media hosting server allows for up to 900 frames (up to 30-37 seconds of smooth video) and 2160p; the audio track is removed; the filesize limit is 40 MiB (most instance owners set it way lower, perhaps 5 or 10). There is a caveat: all media must be encoded to a single codec of the instance owner's choice: VP9 (default), H264, H265, AV1, or VP8. Uploading in one of the others is possible but beware: it is going to be reencoded by the server, and if the process doesn't finish within the timeout of 30 seconds, you get the error
ffmpeg timed out. In 30 seconds, a server without HW acceleration will typically only process a very short video (for feddit.org, it's about 1 MiB's worth of H265) so anything longer than a few seconds will fail! To take advantage of the full upload limit, you must reencode the video yourself to VP9 or whatever other codec is set (you can tell by uploading a tiny file in any codec and inspecting the output).You can use the following command to reencode the video to VP9:
FFmpeg can do much more to the video: resize, crop, trim etc. Look it up. If you want GUI, try Handbrake.
Alternatively, just use a more lenient hoster like GitHub or catbox.moe and embed the file from there, which has no aforementioned limits:
will embed a 10-minute 4K movie.I want to embed you
Wow! Thanks for the detailed response, I definitely did not know all that about it, nor would have thought to look it up.
Next time you can just upload the image and it will embed it in your comment.
FWIW your link worked just fine. Also disallowing hotlinking is the decision of the web server hosting the image, not Lemmy.
His hand is in his pocket to stabilize the swing from his massive dong 🍆
Opps, my huge gun was off target due to my magnum dong.
He has to synchronize his breathing with that swinging pendulum before he can time his shot.
And that's the last time I call John Oliver a British toucan...
How close did he get to making the Lion King worth watching as Zazu?
The US Army used to teach shooting similarly to that, minus the hand in the pocket of course.
Both eyes make a huge difference if you want to switch between moving targets, so it makes sense in a military setting
They removed the soldier's hand!? That's serious dedication!
Once you sign the papers they can do whatever they want to you.
If you have your hand in your pocket you go to the 'target' side of the range.
'Parry this you fucking casuals'
I heard the US lost. They should have sent cops. Then just paint a black man as the target 🎯. 19 shots hit, and only needed one for gold.
19 hits but 200 bullets fired.
and some acorns
Plastic cups. But that's for russian cops.
Many in the crowd hit, they had to redirect fire to the target
Tbf there were people in the audience holding water bottles which could be thrown as a deadly weapon -- how do you know those bottles aren't full of kerosene -- and also filming the officer which can lead to the officer's family being threatened by doxxing. The only people allowed to threaten the officer's family with violence is the officer
I didn't think about this possibility. The ratings are dropping and we need more viewership. How about next year Simmons Viles? Is that the correct spelling? How about she trains all the shooters to do a few cart wheels and such before actually shooting. Basically like an Xman event level demonstration of agility and dexterity. But let's hope none of them are cops of this might end badly.
They can’t, there are acorns in France
The best shooters in the US don't typically make it out of high school.
Well, they make it IN high school
Quality vs quantity.
Unless they arrive a little late and, upon hearing the sound of gunfire coming from within the stadium, barricade themselves outside and wait for the shooters to run out of bullets or targets.
Edit: a word
They only do that if it's kids.
Just got to drag US politics into it, don't you?
Even without a gun, that is an expression that says, "you will really regret it if you ever try to fuck with me."
But he'll never hear you coming.
I'm not saying it's good practice, but you can fire .22 LR without getting ringing in your ears. I'd never do it all day, but I've definitely done it a couple times just to get an idea how loud it is. The dude can probably hear fine. I'm not saying it won't catch up to him though.
Edit I hear he shoots air pistol? I don't know if that's correct, but it's definitely even quieter.
I heard someone say that he was wearing regular earplugs and that these are compressed air guns so not nearly as loud as regular guns. I have no idea on either of those loudnesses
Yep! He competes in (at least) 10m mixed team. They use PCP pistols for that, so you really don't really need more than a pair of earplugs. 25m and 25m rapid both use .22LR though, and many competitors compete in both events and only bring the one pair of PPE, so that's where the images of competitors wearing full ears vs. earplugs only in one side come from (and/or some people's ears are stupidly designed so they can't wear normal earplugs / earbuds and have to have the uncomfortable and bulky over-the-ear protection. Not that I'm bitter or anything. Stupid ears.).
Also, his shooting stance is 100% standard, here's him & his partner Sevval Tarhan in identical stances. It's really more for comfort than anything else, since rounds go for 1hr 15min. Ergonomic stance means you can keep up the consistent shots for that long a period
The meme format with him vs. the south korean shooter Kim Yeji looks so different because they are competing in totally different events, even though they're both shooting PCP target guns.
Shooting .22lr without earpro isn't great, but yeah... doing it occasionally shouldn't be an issue.
I use 22 on invasive nutria around the property, and when I see one of the giant rats I'll just grab the rifle and go shoot them. It's not like firing a .308 or .223 where it's loud enough to permanently damage your hearing from 1 shot.
But if I'm going target shooting a 22 I'm gonna put on eyes and ears. Especially for a pistol. For those who haven't shot, pistols are generally way louder than rifles of the same caliber. Not only is it closer to the shooter, but more of the gas expansion and powder burning occurs outside the barrel.
Air guns can also be just as loud as a 22 BTW. It's actually fairly common to have a integrated into an air rifle in the US since the legal definition of a silencer specifically involves being designed for use on a firearm (air rifles aren't legally firearms).
how does it sound from a rooftop?
...like it does from a deck or a driveway. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
They're joking (I hope), about the attempt last month.
I see. In my mind I don't really connect target shooting and varmit hunting with a 22 with violence, so I missed the reference.
It's like connecting wood carving with stabbings.
If you know nothing about guns they all kinda read the same. Unless it's one of maybe 10 that have been featured in media (mainly videogames personally) enough for me to know then I have no real frame of reference.
I'm curious now, guns I know somewhat in no real order:
I'm going to stop because I'm switching between namimg models and broader categories but I think that makes my point pretty clear lol
Fun facts about those guns.
The first 3 are actually illegal in the US unless they were made before1986, and even then they require a special license per firearm that takes a year to get. And those pre-1986 guns start around 40 grand.
You can get modern guns that look like an AK, M16, or Uzi, but they have to be manufactured in a way that they can't fire full-auto without illegal modification. For instance, I can take a full-auto trigger and drop it into my AR-15 and it still won't fire full-auto because the lower receiver (legally the gun) is missing a hole required for the auto-sear that allows the full-auto to function.
Desert Eagle is a sub-brand of a company called Magnum Research and is a family of firearms. Most famous among them is a variant that fires a 50 cal Action Express round, but you can get it in a 357 or a 9mm as well. Saying "Desert Eagle" is like saying "Xbox." I probably know what you mean, but it technically covers a lot of devices.
The Awp is a very specific model of Accuracy International precision rifle. They're quality precision rifles, but they're also like 15 grand, and for 99.999% of shooters you could spend $3,000 on a Ruger and a decent optic and shoot just as well. I have a Bergara custom rifle and a top-of-the-line Razor optic that are combined worth about 7 grand (mostly the scope), and I honestly don't think there's a human on the planet who could shoot well enough to determine a meaningful difference between it and an Accuracy International.
"Magnum" essentially refers to a larger, overloaded cartridge. They're usually just a little longer so they can hold extra powder. My 44 magnum revolver will shoot 44 special (regular) or 44 Magnum. The projectile is the same, but you've got like double the bang with a Magnum.
Honestly, for handguns there's no reason outside of bear defense to use a Magnum other than for the giggle factor from the big boom. My 357 Magnum also fores 38 special which, while technically weaker, can be fired more quickly with greater control in a tighter group at revolver distances, and a 38 special will take down just about anything. It's the difference between killing a fly with a fly swatter or a sledgehammer - the sledge is more powerful, but I wouldn't say it's the better tool.
Handgun refers to any firearm designed to be fireable using 1 hand and no shoulder stock. A pistol is a handgun in which the firing chamber is integrated into the barrel, inclusing most single-shot, automatic, and multi-barrel handguns. Revolvers have a rotating cylinder with multiple firing chambers that line up up with the barrel before firing.
Thank you for the detailed information. I really appreciate it. And dammit I knew I was spelling pistol wrong but my autocorrect decided it was fine.
I know a professional assassin when I see one
Should have sent this one for Trump
Don't worry, with sniper rifle he can hit all the way from Paris
And the other one is flicking a cigarette.
You you you oughta know
And the other one is giving a peace sign.
"Have you seen this boy" insurance salesman edition
Being ruled by Turks for 400 years kinda makes sense now
Plot twist: he is blind on one eye
And deaf on both ears
and has an artificial arm
Peak sport right there!
Silver?
Pathetic.
if yer not first yer last 🤪
First loser...
No hearing protection either...
Small caliber air guns, so no dangerous decibels, but most shooters do wear ear protection to block out distractions.
I saw another picture of him in that event from the side and he was wearing ear plugs.
He had earplugs.
So with the addition of some better equipment, like an eye shield, maybe he could have taken home the gold? Is there a GoFundMe?
I'm sure he had access to equipment.
On the one hand, I was just making a joke. You're probably right.
On the other hand, there are Olympians working part time jobs to pay for their training and equipment. Not every country sponsors their athletes, and this shit ain't cheap. Few things highlight global economic disparity like the Olympics.
If the caption is right this guy is Turkish military. They will absolutely give him all the range time and equipment he asks for.
I mean, they're not fooling anyone. That guy is obviously Jeremy Renner with dyed hair.
Even Texans fear him
I can't be that stable with my arm held out in any circumstances but this seems like an incredibly fun sport.
10m air pistol. Accuracy is what counts. It ain't your American shootin that's for sure
Not that impressed, but still quite cool.
If somebody did the same in competitive rifle shooting I'd be astonished...and no, I don't mean you need to keep one hand in the pocket.
wins silver at Olymics with a gear disadvantage "not that impressive" 🤡
So by your logic silver is something not often won by anyone in Olympics?
In 2020 there were 448 events at the Olympics, let's round up to 450. Each event gives 3 medals, for a total of 1350 medals. The Olympics are held every four years, so that 337.5 medals are awarded in an average year.
There are about 8.1 billion people in the world. On average, 0.000004 % of the worlds population receives an Olympic medal each year.
If this were a completely random yearly lottery, and you lived for 100 years, you would have about a 0.0004 % chance of winning an Olympic medal in your lifetime.
I would count myself lucky if I won that by the time I was 50.
Just to be a total pendant, some of the events give two bronzes, e.g. boxing. It won't change the conclusion of your comment of course.
I love pedantry <3 I got the "three medals per event" from some Wikipedia page, and I know they love pedantry over there as well, so maybe you should make a contribution?
In that case, let me add that in team events, each member gets a medal.
no no you see, there are hundreds of people who got silver medals, it is not a big deal.
yes
literally only one person can get silver in each category every 4 years? per 8 billion people out there
...but the comment was about quality and quantity of the disadvantage, not about winning silver in Olympics.
How many medals do you have?
Personally none in the Olympics, but I have the same amount of Tour de France’s as Lance Armstrong (and one more ball)