Aim
Aim verb - To have in mind as a purpose or goal.
Usage example: aimed to have his paper all done in time to go to the movies
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The weapons are also a bit difficult to aim as they have no sights to use, although equipping laser modifications made it much easier to calculate where your shots would land.
Source: Guns Akimbo - Realistically, just like Robin Hood doesn't stop to do a couple of pages of calculus every time he looses an arrow, and very few toddlers calculate the forces and energies involved in walking, someone with a lightning gun would learn to aim it by experience.
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