That doesn't seem like rule of cool at all, or funny, or much of anything, it's just describing two people aiming. I'm really into science and technology and I don't see the appeal.

: Mechs aren't cool*. In fact, that goes for pretty much all of anime.

>:( you know mechs aren't exclusive to anime, why would you say that and potentially start the anime haters vs. anime lovers thing again?

: The thing is, 343i's fun is completely different from Bungie's fun. In fact,
: Bungie's fun isn't what Bungie's fun used to be. Used to be, the
: impossibly cool shotgun reload animation was lampshaded in the manual with
: a "You wouldn't understand the mechanism if I explained it to
: you." Almost twenty years later, Joseph Statten laments not being
: able to come up with a canonical justification for why the souls of Vex
: pour out of their heads when they die.

That's the Fallen, not the Vex, and if you're thinking of the quote I think you're thinking of, he started thinking up an explanation-- which fits his role as a writer-- and then the person who had the idea basically said "no, it's actually their soul", and he accepted that and saw the value in that. I don't know why you'd use Destiny as an example anyway, the whole game runs on space magic. (Also they're bringing back the Marathon shotgun reload in a weapon coming later this year.)

: "Hey, man, the animation is almost complete, but we don't have the
: dialog nailed down."
: "Dialog? For heaven's sake, it's twenty solid minutes of Spartans
: kicking ass! I don't see pornos headhunting for scriptwriters, do
: you?"
: "But what if it's not enough? This is anime, we've got a fanservice
: quota to meet."
: "Tell you what, let's just have Halsey and the Master Chief regurgitate
: lines from the games. We can pretend that it gives the later lines more
: meaning or something."
: "Works for me."

again with the insulting and generalizing