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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by Bancakes on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:45AM (#27059240)
For me, it was a Kurdish soldier on the ground getting shot in the head with a AK from point blank. There were no bits and fragments flying around, his skull just broke apart and his head flattened uncannily like a squished rubber toy and his eyes popped out.

In another video, a ISIS (?) soldier gets shot in the head, and falls to the ground. We see him struggling to get up while a viscous red liquid pours out the side of his head. Just pours out. No pink mist or giblets. He didn't die instantly.

This broke the preconceptions I had from movies and videogames. I consider it an important milestone.

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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by b0rsuk on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:00AM (#27060703)
I think they do it for lower age ratings. In video games, people just drop and stop moving, and often there's even no blood. No visible pain or struggle. I think it desensitizes people to violence.

In reality, after a large scale battle the field is littered with people writhing in agony. It commonly takes several hours for a wounded person to die. Several hours of pain, as you slowly realize no one is going to help you and you're not going to make it.

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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:51AM (#27060642)
Those types of videos gave me a new fear. I've never been one to fear death, but now I fear being in severe agony where I question why I'm not dead and wish I was.

The worst I saw was one where they gouged a guy's eyes out, skinned his face, and cut off his hands and feet, and he was still alive and seemed conscious and aware.

Then there's the infamous 2-guys-1-hammer video.

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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by worker767424 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:00AM (#27059315)
> I consider it an important milestone.

Milestone in what?

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Re:LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online by Bancakes on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:03AM (#27059337)
Maturing and learning of the dangers around us. We can't wait for natural selection to teach us, it's good to have a rough idea of how non-telegraphed and rapid emergency situations are.
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