Celebrim
Legend
Felix: "Motive: the note on the tarot card implies that he has a reason for what he is doing;"
The note on the Tarot Card, quote "I am God" is a B movie reference.
I forget the movie, but one of the B-Rate special forces movies begins with the special forces team pinned down or otherwise in trouble, and someone asks what they should do, and the leader says something like 'I'm going to ask God for help.' and he radios 'God', and then we get this shot from up the Barrel of a .50 caliber sniper rifle and the guy opposite the business end says 'God speaking'.
'God' is a sniper 'handle'. It's possible even that the joke is based on a real military reference, since someone shooting at you from 700 yards out is seemingly able to reach out at smite someone almost like 'the hand of god', but in any event it is a reference that anyone obsessed with sniper culture and ego would latch onto.
Regards the reference to Kebold and Harris, if you actually read something other than a sensationalized account of Columbine you would realize that killing anyone they actually knew wasn't much of a priority. They had no motive other than the mutual fantasy between them. The same thing with the 'Beautiful Creatures'. The motive was an elaborately constructed fantasy.
I really think it unlikely that this person or persons (and I still maintain that it is likely that they are operating in some parody of a military sniper team) has anything but a passing familiarity with RPG's. If they found RPG's a truly satisfying ego experience, they'd still be playing them and not lying await in the bushes with a loaded firearm.
Finally, at the risk of really offending people, I think that as long as we are profiling people, if they did RPG, the sniper(s) would be power gamers.
The note on the Tarot Card, quote "I am God" is a B movie reference.
I forget the movie, but one of the B-Rate special forces movies begins with the special forces team pinned down or otherwise in trouble, and someone asks what they should do, and the leader says something like 'I'm going to ask God for help.' and he radios 'God', and then we get this shot from up the Barrel of a .50 caliber sniper rifle and the guy opposite the business end says 'God speaking'.
'God' is a sniper 'handle'. It's possible even that the joke is based on a real military reference, since someone shooting at you from 700 yards out is seemingly able to reach out at smite someone almost like 'the hand of god', but in any event it is a reference that anyone obsessed with sniper culture and ego would latch onto.
Regards the reference to Kebold and Harris, if you actually read something other than a sensationalized account of Columbine you would realize that killing anyone they actually knew wasn't much of a priority. They had no motive other than the mutual fantasy between them. The same thing with the 'Beautiful Creatures'. The motive was an elaborately constructed fantasy.
I really think it unlikely that this person or persons (and I still maintain that it is likely that they are operating in some parody of a military sniper team) has anything but a passing familiarity with RPG's. If they found RPG's a truly satisfying ego experience, they'd still be playing them and not lying await in the bushes with a loaded firearm.
Finally, at the risk of really offending people, I think that as long as we are profiling people, if they did RPG, the sniper(s) would be power gamers.
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