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Rich People Are Turning Their Homes Into Hitman Levels With Armed Guards, Lasers, And Moats - Kotaku
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Well... Gamers, you know what to do.
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all a high-end luxury home with lots of security says to me is "there's a prize inside!"
We call that environmental storytelling
It's like a kinder egg! 😋
I'm sure some esteemed deeds are commemorated here!
The prize: slowing the environmental & biodiversity collapse, and a bit more freedom to society, also some polluted meat & bones.
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JEFF BEZOS
[CHICAGO SUNROOF INTENSIFIES]Learn to hack, learn to quadcopter/drone. 
How hard would it be to program around a dozen drones or so to execute a coordinated kamikaze attack?
It's for a book, I swear
ironically or unironically?
unironically don't commit acts of terrorism.
ironically though, arduflight can do flight planning, and could probably trigger.. other hardware at the right time if you need to. diy drones are probably less traceable too.
you can have an entire arc in your book about the democratization of making people afraid of beautiful clear days, it would be sick.
Thanks, and i am being 100% serious about the book thing
I am currently getting my first book edited for publishing, while also working on the sequels
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... ok but being a terrorist ironically just as a concept sounds kinda cringe.
Tho theoretically one could prob incorporate, purely for purposes of irony, billionaires own tools into the drones to customise them, keep things fun (after all, the point of terrorism is to inflict terror damage on the opponent so keeping class solidity would make sense).
Like some drones could be controlled by their own AIs, some drones would be coal powered instead of battery, some such diy drones could use a military drone as their main payload, etc.
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"the insurance guy got shot on a public street so to avoid that particular fate I'm installing more guards and lasers in my house" 
They are preparing for an AI apocalypse, so swarms.
Lol. Reminds me of my favorite Dead Kennedys song. I wonder if one day one of these rich creeps will get shot by their own guards.
Fun fact, those guard jobs are often just regular jobs on indeed and anyone could apply and lie about their qualifications
Then your target just hands you a gun and thinks you're gonna protect them
That's just the start, once this happens once it will create a ripple effect of fear washing over the ruling class, they won't trust their real bodyguards anymore and will inevitably treat them poorly due to this new paranoia, this of course leads to some of those bodyguards getting some thoughts of their own and it could all just keep going from there
They are 100% checking the palantir profile of each person. They’re only hiring the sort of chud that worships the rich.
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Good I hope they live in permanent fear
I missed the "Rich" part of people.
Like, making my house a video game level was one of the first things I tried to do when I learned how to make Doom levels.
lmao yeah I definitely tried to make my house in the og HL-1 editor for a counter-strike map but gave up. I was only like 16 I think at the time.
Video games have trained me for this
I'm almost convinced Hideo Kojima was using MGS to try to teach stealth and combat skills to the gamers while making sure the West wasn't the hero of the story 
If hiding under carboard boxes doesn't actually work, I'll be sorely disappointed.
I was very impressed in MGS2 on the hardest difficulties if you were in a box that wasn't in the area it should be the guards would try to move it, and if you had an alert they would search every spot methodically so they would still check your box unless you were like hidden beside other similar boxes. On some behind the scenes of the development they showed the dev team and Kojima going through a close quarters combat training class and learning how to properly clear rooms as a team.
But they later added an oil drum you can hide in and then roll at enemies in to take them down, that's bulletproof and unstoppable in real battle.
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"God job planting the gun on that handsome Italian kid Agent 47, for your next mission you'll be going to a wedding in Venice..."
Meanwhile, millionaire politicians like 
are protected by 3mm of glass that can be overcome by a drunk with a hammer
Ok, but there better not be an unskippable cutscene before the boss, I hate those, there is plenty of environmental lore to get what's happening.
I wonder how much they'll be paying their guards? Or the contractors to make sure that the building work is all properly done? I'm sure that they'll be more than happy to be generous to other people when their life is on the line, and their insatiable greed won't get in the way of making their fuhrerbunkers fully secure.
We need a good version of Mr Beast to sponsor the hitman speedrunning community to do something really funny 
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I like those Ukrainian drones that drop a stream of napalm/thermite, allowing them to zip across a forest or anti-drone net and torch the whole thing in 30 seconds.
Moat? I got a trebuchet for that, $20 extra if you want to throw it to throw a dead body.
$20? In my day you'd fish the body out of the river for me and launch it for a nickel!
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Hmm, well, would it be that hard to set up mortar, and bombard them 24/7?
challenge accepted
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