Pssst, hey art person, when cartridges are fired the casing separates from the bullet, ejecting out of the ejection port. It doesn't stay attached to the bullet in flight.
Technically the bullet is just the projectile in the cartridge, which consists of the primer, casing, powder, and bullet (and sometimes a sabot) to make the entire cartridge (or cartouché in french, idk why I know that.)
So at Aperture Science you fire the entire cartridge which is the same exact amount of bullet but includes some percentage more metal per shot, varying by caliber.
Though it is an amusing visual, a 9mm cartridge stuffed inside a necked down .308 (or so) to fire the entire cartridge just to make it keyhole.
I saw that and then realized that having parabolas emanating from a mouth is more confusing than the whole cartridge. The cartridge is 100% recognizable while a fired bullet needs more context, like smoke or motion. Besides, it's art and clearly meant to be symbolic instead of realistic.
I understand that for sure, personally I'd have used another iconic projectile like missiles or mortars, if I couldn't figure out how to show the motion of just the bullet enough to get the point across with bullets.
It's just one of those silly things you usually see in bad cheezy movies or old videogame killshots, looks ridiculous every time.
It's just the votes for 'Kremlin-critical' resolutions. So also things like banning all oil imports in the beginning of the war. As fun as that sounded it would have been economic suicide.
Oh no, our poor economy, better let them murder people in Ukraine unpunished instead of trying everything to stop not just them but also everyone else like China.
As a leftist that had to cut off a bunch of contacts in the last few years, it's usually one of:
"the Soviet Union helped us on our struggle, so we refuse to see they were not that good in the first place and more importantly that it's deader than Monty Python's parrot"
"America bad, so everyone else good"
"[Insert long, ahistorical, and ideologically incoherent rambling], so it's now their turn to play empire. What do you mean no one should play empire?"
"Comrade Dmitry tells me what to think since 1972 and he says Ukraine are Nazis and that Putin is a true comrade"
"We should have peace at all costs. Why are you asking me about WW2, Operation Barbarossa, and the lend lease? I've to... go water the plants, that's it, water the plants" runs away
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