Boom! Headshot!

Boom! Headshot!

This is an amazing video:

Rationalizing Brutality: The Cultural Legacy of the Headshot - Jacob Geller

There's so much here, there's no need for me to rehash the whole thing, you can watch it yourselves, but the thing that really hooked me was the way a headshot can be interpreted as the total annihilation of the actual person. Their entire essence, just DESTROYED. That says so much about the subconscious of a police officer that decides to shoot someone in the head. Twice.

This video also mentions this amazing web comic that really delves deeply into the mindset behind the Call of Duty/Punisher/Blackwater Bro Culture that has been so pervasive in "gamer culture" over the last few years.

About Face

In my opinion, both of these are MVP posts that need to be preserved in some sort of game culture time capsule.