Comment on Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?

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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

There are three effective methods of avoiding gunfire, in increasing order of efficacy:

  1. Be so close to the enemy that you’re on the same end of the muzzle that he is. Now would also be a good time to stick your knife and/or pistol up his nose. (Keanu’s goofy close-in pistol holding stance in the movies is supposed to be a nod to avoiding exactly this sort of thing, given the ridiculous amount of CQB that seems to be inevitable in the setting.)
  2. See to it that there is something that is proof against small arms fire between you and the shooter. Furthermore see to it that it stays there, or failing that encourage him to stay where he is until he runs out of bullets.
  3. Plug the other guy before he sees you. If you’re a rotten shot, preferably with some manner of artillery or an airstrike.

Note that there is generally a rather wide span of distance between 3 and 2, and also 2 and 1 where you probably don’t want to be standing.

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