Pop quiz, hotshot.

You are storming a known terrorist’s compound. When you light the place up with flash bangs and kick in the door, do you:

1) Charge in, guns blazing, and shoot everyone who looks like a terrorist, or

B) Wait a few seconds, let the terrorists get their bearings and arms themselves, and then charge in and shoot them (only after first taking fire yourself, of course), or

参) Charge in, stand around with guns on the terrorists until they make a move towards a gun, and then shoot them, or

Ω) Pause the game, get some more Mountain Dew, and then curse at the ten-year-old on Xbox Live who just killed you while you were AFK?

If you answered anything but 1, then you’re probably an idiot.

Or, you know, a member of the media:

3 of 4 men killed in assault on bin Laden compound were unarmed, never fired shot, officials tell NBC News

— msnbc (@msnbc) May 4, 2011

For your next pop quiz …

Invitation to Wisdom (叡智への誘い)

To celebrate the arrival of the package from my English-teaching friends in Japan, I thought I would choose today’s track from one of the games included: Trails of Zero (Zero no Kiseki). It’s set three years after the events of Trails in the Sky.

Other than that, I don’t know much about it. I’m still working on the Trails in the Sky trilogy myself, but hopefully I’ll finish it up before too long and can get through Trails of Zero before Trails of Blue comes out at the end of September.

I don’t know how they churn out such consistently good music, but whatever Falcom uses to motive their JDK Sound Team works like magic.

All this bluster about not releasing the photos

Is pretty pointless.

Fanatical Islamists are going to riot and kill and plot whether we show them pictures of their vaunted hero or not (if they even believe that he’s been killed without a photo to prove it).

Even if the White House doesn’t release them, they’ll eventually come out. Whether they’re released later in the year, or by the next administration, or by Wikileaks, the truth will out.

Personally, I’d be fine with a theatrical edit and release of the raid’s video stream. Put that up in theaters, charge $10 a head, and watch the money roll in!

It’s not like the feds can’t use more of it.