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(BBC) Scary At least four injured by a hand grenade at a Sri Lanka zoo. They taunted the grenadier lemur   (news.bbc.co.uk) divider line 29
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MrWilson-GOML 2008-02-03 05:36:24 AM  
Idiots... you only use grenades when you go FISHING.

 
Jebdiahbob 2008-02-03 05:36:49 AM  
shogun.shafted.com.au

 
2chris2 2008-02-03 05:39:36 AM  
This is surprising to me because, in every first person shooter I've ever played, grenades are useless.

Most of the time you throw them, they go too far, or not far enough, or they bounce off some piece of the wall near you and land right on top of you.

If they do land near your enemies, the enemies yell "Grenade!" and all run away, thereby escaping injury.

Apparently computer games aren't an accurate reflection of real life. Or maybe I should have been playing Zoo Commando.

 
Bonanza Jellybean 2008-02-03 05:42:30 AM  
Dynamite Monkey makes me laugh every time I see it.

 
IAmRight [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 05:42:37 AM  
2chris2: This is surprising to me because, in every first person shooter I've ever played, grenades are useless.

use the plasma grenades. they stick. Or corner people and throw towards their feet.

 
FarkinFarker 2008-02-03 05:53:28 AM  
Christian Republican Gun Slinger: I thought it was the Mexican Staring Frog... oh well.

Nah, that's Southern Sri Lanka.

2chris2: This is surprising to me because, in every first person shooter I've ever played, grenades are useless.

You sucked ass at Quake.

 
Ashnar 2008-02-03 06:02:06 AM  
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

 
Uncle Wiggly 2008-02-03 06:10:29 AM  
Would've thought a Tamil Tiger.

 
liberalish 2008-02-03 06:24:20 AM  
I am eating hot oatmeal right now.

that is all.

 
wilder_card 2008-02-03 06:25:47 AM  
Ashnar: Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

ROFL. Nice ref.

 
Krom [recently expired TotalFark] 2008-02-03 06:31:02 AM  
Uncle Wiggly: Would've thought a Tamil Tiger.

The wall wasn't high enough.

 
PrincessOfPenguins 2008-02-03 06:34:54 AM  
Dynamite (Tamil) Tiger?

 
Satchel_Brown 2008-02-03 07:14:29 AM  
Someone post a pic of a grenadier owning a building in AoE III stat!

 
mistahtom 2008-02-03 07:15:47 AM  
Failmitter fails because the article mentions an attack, tigers, and a zoo yet they seem incapable to make some sort of connection and instead revert to what appears to be some sort of a British inside joke as a headline.

 
rickytickytappy 2008-02-03 08:06:15 AM  
Would someone please make a grenadier lemur? k thx bye

 
NutWrench 2008-02-03 08:57:33 AM  
Yay Dynamite Monkey!
You guys are on the ball, today.

 
Roukzeptea23 2008-02-03 09:43:30 AM  
2chris2: This is surprising to me because, in every first person shooter I've ever played, grenades are useless.

When I first started playing first person shooters, I was pretty terrible and I got a huge number of kills in Halo by accidentally throwing a grenade at my feet while button mashing and taking out the guys who were standing next to me shooting me. It was so bad that my friends were terrified of my "suicide grenades" when they were playing on the other team. Eventually I got better and started killing people with bullets and without killing myself in the process.

 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 09:59:23 AM  
The Ring-Tailed Grenadier Lemur:
www.hotlinkfiles.com

And here's a Grenadier Lemur without text:
www.hotlinkfiles.com

 
Pxtl 2008-02-03 10:35:38 AM  
IAmRight: 2chris2: This is surprising to me because, in every first person shooter I've ever played, grenades are useless.

use the plasma grenades. they stick. Or corner people and throw towards their feet.


Again, a reflection that grenades are useless in FPS games - the only way to make them worthwhile is to make them stick to players, effectively making them contact-explosives. Which is not a grenade.

Imho, the problem was Quake 2. In quake 2, the handgrenades were on the same powerlevel as the light-shotgun. They were harmless and pretty much intended for use in the single-player mode to hit moronic baddies around th ecorner. They were never intended to be major deathmatch weapons. And every FPS copies Q2's weak-assed anti-moron grenades.

I want a game where the grenades kill every single farker in the room.

 
PacManDreaming [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 10:41:45 AM  
Pxtl: I want a game where the grenades kill every single farker in the room.

Turok, Dinosaur Hunter.

 
cubic_spleen 2008-02-03 10:49:40 AM  
Pxtl: I want a game where the grenades kill every single farker in the room.

It's called Real Life. Join the Army.

 
tshetter 2008-02-03 10:56:13 AM  
www.civfanatics.net

/so obscure

 
planes 2008-02-03 10:59:04 AM  
Not much of a laughing matter.

www.global-air.com

 
Oldiron_79 2008-02-03 12:08:37 PM  
1kbwc.popamericana.com

 
Oldiron_79 2008-02-03 12:10:48 PM  
Don't taunt the tiger.

 
Mitrovarr 2008-02-03 01:22:12 PM  
cubic_spleen: Pxtl: I want a game where the grenades kill every single farker in the room.

It's called Real Life. Join the Army.


I hear it's like that in America's Army. Combined with the general nature of a game like that (i.e. mostly linear levels, an enemy that can generally predict how long it'll take you to get from spawn to the main choke point) it means that the odds are good that you'll be taken out with a spammed grenade, without you having seen the enemy or them having seen you.

This is probably why grenades aren't done realistically more often.

 
Evil Twin Skippy [TotalFark] 2008-02-03 02:17:46 PM  
I love fark...

/me I was there for Dynamite Monkey

 
studebaker hoch 2008-02-03 04:32:33 PM  
Please do not taunt the totalfarkers

 
No Such Username 2008-02-03 04:54:33 PM  
liberalish:

my spoon of O paused halfway up when I read that

/rock on oatmeal brethren

 
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