Yesterday Valve released the latest in their series of "Meet the team" 
videos for Team Fortress 2. This time, it's the sniper - a mean-looking 
Australian game keeper.

In-game sound clips include him saying "gawd save the Queen!", "g'day 
mates!", "wave goodbye to your heads!", and of course "thanks for 
standing still, ******!"

The video isn't quite how I expected it to be - he's actually quite laid 
back. He tells us what a great job being a sniper is. "It's challenging, 
it gets you outside, and you'll never go hungry - cos as long as there's 
two people left alive, you can guarantee somebody will want somebody 
else dead."

Funniest moment is when he's on the phone though.

"I'll be honest with ya - my parents do NOT approve."

[Cut to shot of him on a payphone.]

"....No, dad.... I'm *not* a 'crazed gunman', I'm an assasin!..... Well 
because one's a job and one's a mental sickness!!"

I LOLd just now thinking about it. Do not do this while peeing. ;-) 
[Especially if others are around... gives the wrong impression.]

Hey, maybe you should watch the video!

[Of the sniper, not me!]

http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/

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Invisible wrote:
> Yesterday Valve released the latest in their series of "Meet the team" 
> videos for Team Fortress 2. This time, it's the sniper - a mean-looking 
> Australian game keeper.

This reminds me of a fellow I knew during the 2002-2003 time frame.  He 
was a civilian filling the civil engineering position in our unit.  I 
learned that he had been a sniper in the Marines during the Vietnam 
conflict, and that during this time he had over 130 confirmed kills to 
his credit.

Most people never even take so much as one human life in the heat of 
some strong emotion, so to do this over a hundred times, in an even 
temper, is something not seen every day.

He didn't talk about it much, although he did not object when, with much 
pomp, we nicknamed him Sniper.

Regards,
John

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John VanSickle wrote:

> This reminds me of a fellow I knew during the 2002-2003 time frame.  He 
> was a civilian filling the civil engineering position in our unit.  I 
> learned that he had been a sniper in the Marines during the Vietnam 
> conflict, and that during this time he had over 130 confirmed kills to 
> his credit.
> 
> Most people never even take so much as one human life in the heat of 
> some strong emotion, so to do this over a hundred times, in an even 
> temper, is something not seen every day.
> 
> He didn't talk about it much, although he did not object when, with much 
> pomp, we nicknamed him Sniper.

Yeah - people who have *really* killed people... tend not to want to 
talk about it much.

Unsurprisingly, really. The real thing isn't very funny.

TF2, on the other hand, as a souped-up cartoon. ;-)

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