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Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike
dotarray writes "Osama bin Laden's final hiding spot in Abbottabad, Pakistan, has been made into a playable map for Counter-Strike: Source. Honestly, we're a little surprised that it took this long."
The real criminal here is that Pakistani realtor who sold that house for $1,000,000.
I think there is a missing option in Counterstrike: the "shoot the fuck out of the house and sort through the rubble later" -playmode
"Honestly, we're a little surprised that it took this long."
Eh, it just took that long for military intelligence to get it declassified.
Does having a witty signature really indicate normality?
I'm interested to know where the floor plans came from. Real or made up?
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The surprise here is that people still plays counter-strike.
Am I the only one who was hoping for a Left For Dead 2 map with Osama zombies?
Oh, now I remember why I stopped playing counterstrike.
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[UBL] - I hear something!
[UBL] - hey who teamflashe------
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well hung for an asian...
And also a magnitude or more larger than CmdrTaco.
...soon, Team Fortress 2. This will be the next RedFort.
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I'll bet the US Navy SEALs had a very detailed counterstrike map of the area, and played it many times before the event.
I'd like to see their version...
It is fairly amazing what someone can piece together using well known sources. 30 seconds on google maps gave me satellite imagery and many images from the ground including the downed US helicopter.
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=9294138184493326603&q=Abbott%C4%81bad,+Abbottabad,+Khyber+Pakhtunkhwa,+Pakistan+compound&hl=en&dtab=0&sll=34.169215,73.242433&sspn=0.049606,0.057297&ie=UTF8&ll=34.169848,73.240979&spn=0,0&t=h&z=19&lci=com.panoramio.all
There is or can be built a machine that can simulate any physical object. -Church-Turing principle
When I first saw that compound, my first thought was how long it was going to take someone to make that into a map. It seemed like the perfect setup for one.
The map in TFA uses the "fy_" prefix, which is a long-standing way of denoting community maps with no particular objective. The two letters were originally an initialism for "Fuck You" – often bowdlerized to "Frag Yard" or similar.
go suck your moms 3ft arabian cunthairs!
They should just model out all of Pakistan and be done with it.
Only one of the terrorists starts with a gun (which changes from day to day depending on who you listen to).
The Pakistani government has outed the CIA's station chief in Pakistan.
I bet it would cost you $1,000,000 to build one like that in your good-ol' USA, because of all the regulations and shitty experience you have.
In keeping with realism, will only one side be armed?
I think Osama was an asshole, but I find the celebrations of his death rather distasteful. Maybe it's because I'm not American and I can't begin to understand how American nationalism works, but still, making Counterstrike maps to re-enact somebody's death is just... twisted and wrong.
I think I'm also being realistic when I say the publicity surrounding his death could be turning him into a martyr/hero in some shadier circles, so it may have been a mistake to make it such a big deal. I sincerely hope this doesn't end in retaliation, because terrorism costs lives, and (in the long-term/bigger picture) terrorism funds the various "Patriot Acts" around the world.
Just my 2c. If any morons haven't figured it out, I'm against terrorism in all shapes and forms.
Holy cow Counterstrike is still around!!
For our arab friends there is also another map ;)
Bin Laden's mansion only worth 25 percent of what he paid for it, meaning he'll be underwater for a long time.
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I'll give the SEAL team the benefit of the doubt about shooting unarmed combatants in the heat of battle (though there doesn't sound like there was much heat from what has been revealed).
Don't they go several times through those mock up buildings featuring pop up posters with cartoonish artworks of hostages and badies prior to deployment anymore?
There's a SEAL on your lawn!
We don't want SEALs on our lawn!
To be honest, I don't care so much about the map itself. It's just pleasing to me there are still FPS games out there with map editors that allow you to make such maps in the first place. So many games are missing level editors and mod tools that it's becoming novel for them to do so (and yes CS:S is getting a bit old, but it's still fun and still supported by Valve). If you're trying to make maps for something like one of the latest versions of Call of Duty, forget it.
So is it VIP? Protect the VIP team! :0) Funny ... I will not ring the bell ...
The purpose of existence is to make money.
Really, what's the point? Go in and shoot 4 unarmed people and one armed one? That's a challenge in an FPS?
when is the world going to move on from counterstrike!?!!?
Cognitive dissonance. It's not just for three times before breakfast anymore.
Hopefully not while OBL still has his teeth...
People still play Counter Strike.
They nailed his hideout when they released Fallout New Vegas....it's a shithole in the desert right?
Do we get to kill his unarmed wives and civilians protecting him in this, or have they been given weapons? Do we get to kill unarmed Bin Ladin?
Start-to-crate ratio 0.
Right In the first screenshot
And no pallets
some guy in Texas was overjoyed with the leaked 'Osama shot dead' newsfeed that he fired his gun in the air, and all 236 rounds fell on Osama accidentally, interrupting an exercise being held onsite.
I really don't understand all this fuss about bin laden was assassinated or murdered etc. the simple fact is he was a enemy agent. A enemy agent who had declared war on the US and the rest of the world. Being as the US had declared war back at the Terrorists he is simply a general too risky to capture and being as this is during a war time event and being as he is a leader of the enemy forces whether he is armed or unarmed ( possibly with explosives ) he is too much of a risk to leave alive for the marines there and the welfare of those back home.
all i can say is Good Riddance
Regarding the actual map, kinda makes me want to play it.
This is a great news about finding Osama Bin Laden house and then subsequently killing him.
especially since the hideout was known in 2005.
If someone had planned the killing of 3000 innocent North Korean civlians, and also supported numerous terrorist acts around the globe and authorized the assassination of American politicians opposed to him and car bombing of americans and attacks on canadian schoolchildren and were hiding in the US and US government didnt do jack diddly about it for 5 years even though there was United Nations sanctions and an interpol warrant. If then the North Koreans came in and capped him without killing any Americans in the process, Id say that person got what they deserved.
Just thinking, all the newbs that end up on the terrorist team will always lose because we've already pointed out all the weak points in the compound. The result: Lots more Youtube videos of pissed off newbs breaking their keyboards.
Okay, where's the Urban Terror map? I used to love that game. Played it all the time until I got bleary eyed and had trouble with depth perception and focusing. (The effects are temporary) The development of that game has become stagnant. I believe there is a strong probability of Duke Nukem Forever being released before Urban Terror makes any serious progress. Stuck at 4.1 and has been for years. Sad...sad sad.
But maybe someone will make the map for Urban Terror to spark some interest in the project again.
I wondered if it would be this, or one of those retarded lame-ass Asian videos where nobody looks like who they're supposed to be - not that you can see, with 97 different sets of subtitles all going on.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I find it bizarre as to why people need to recreate this 'situation'. Typical internet warrior fantasy.
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I think a lot of people fail to see the larger picture. We aren't all from Texas and the US isn't the wild west anymore. We are dealing with large groups of people and not a one-on-one gunfight.
Longer term, jailing Osama and putting him on world trial, a terrorist who would only be proud dying for his cause, would have been the largest blow to the terrorist psyche. He would be paraded around as an example. Shooting him would have just created another martyr, incentivizing more people to hate the evil US of A.
Longer term, shooting Osama would lead to more US deaths not less just to satisfy some sense of payback a lot of Americans want to satisfy but can't come to terms with.
Once you start despising the jerks, you become one.
I'll leave to you to look it up; but I remember when the Clinton admin created Al-Qaeda after the WTC bombing in the 90s - the purpose was to use old laws used for organized crime which are not really fair but have existed for a long time. They created an organization so they then could apply these old laws to go after the leadership of the criminal organization.
Bin Laden I believe had some sort of name for his tiny little funding organization but it was small (but the name was long) and not directly doing anything - it provided funding for groups and people doing things it liked. Much the same as the USA has done for generations (but is accepted, but largely unknown to the ignorant public.) In doing this, they were able to convict leaders of the organization indirectly and do so legally. At the same time, it gave him a great name, lots of attention and P.R. to grow more influential.
Its been a long time but I do remember it. So, while it may be that he was convicted in the 90s and could have been again (especially when he finally took credit for the successful attack.) It still is the case that his death sentence was not carried out according to the "rule of law". (A meaningless phrase today.) I am not sure NY has the death sentence... Although he can die resisting arrest...
Correction: Even if you are an American, if you are a terrorist you do not count as human and they can kill you without trial if you leave the country. Bush moved towards this but it was Obama who has done it.
Correction: the USA hardly killed anybody looking for Osama; the vast majorities were killed for geopolitics and Osama was just the excuse for the ignorant masses. I read their plans in 1999 before Bush got in; I knew about the Afghanistan oil + pipeline plans before Bush was president - and so did anybody who followed Cheney's think tanks position papers. The idiot press didn't look behind the curtain - anybody with a brain realized Bush was really a front man and it would be his staff deciding most the policies (even if he wasn't a moron, the advisers have a big impact and most are not planning to run for high office so their opinions can easily be determined and by extension one can gain insight into the politician.) The trajectory of the Bush admin was quite predictable; we just have shallow reporters but no journalists.
Nelson Mandela was labeled a terrorist by the USA decades back... But back then we didn't claim the right to just openly assassinate such people and so he lives today as a hero and we are completely ignorant just how evil "we" thought he was.
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Hell yeah. I'd hope they put a cap in that Bastard!
I really want to know every details about this things, it very interesting to find out the result :)
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I was hoping someone would make a map of abbottabad.
However, I'm still waiting on fy_waco.
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Where's fy_waco?