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2016-03-09 at 4:58 AM UTC in Objective proof I am a god or a demigod. Discuss/Prove me wrong.I have a newfound appreciation for sploo.
This thread is honestly one of the funniest things I've read all week. It has multiple dimensions of humor. -
2016-03-08 at 4:36 AM UTC in Free Ebook / Audiobook Amazon Hack
Amazon used to use a DRM scheme which allowed remote deletes, but i think this only worked in conjunction with their e-book reader.
That's pretty interesting. I've never experienced that problem though.
I have a ton of stuff saved up because of the ol' Zoklet library. -
2016-03-08 at 3:52 AM UTC in Free Ebook / Audiobook Amazon Hack
Nice find man. Any idea if they delete after you cancel the trial or if they have safeguards against OP's idea? I know somestreaming services will let you download videos but they are only good so long as your subscription is. In any case I am sure soph or one of our resident 4@xx0Rz could find a way to unlock the drm.
Well what I did was save all this stuff to an external HD after I downloaded it. So after my subscription was cancelled, it didn't affect the files I had saved there.
Amazon has a lot of weird things like this. -
2016-03-08 at 3:24 AM UTC in Free Ebook / Audiobook Amazon HackThis shit is off the hook.
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2016-03-08 at 2:01 AM UTC in Free Ebook / Audiobook Amazon HackIt's like literally free books. Nerds everywhere will cream.
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2016-03-08 at 1:40 AM UTC in Free Ebook / Audiobook Amazon Hack
just a headsup its also super easy to torrent e-books as .epubs and then load them onto your e-reader. no loopholes required.
Agreed. I just like this because you don't have to know what you're looking for. You just browse amazon and grab what you want. -
2016-03-08 at 1:05 AM UTC in Free Ebook / Audiobook Amazon HackAs soon as I figured this out, I instantly thought of you guys.
So it's no secret that EasyDoesIt is short on cash. I got an oldschool E-reader from a garage sale (some old kindle model) a few months ago. This is awesome since I read a shit ton of books.
The only thing is that I've also spent a ton of money on ebooks because you can buy them through the device. This kind of sucks but I love to read so I was torn. Anyway, I wound up getting this goofy thing on Amazon called "Kindle Unlimited" where you can read as much as you want for for like 10 bucks a month.
I found a weird "free trial" promotion loophole that works for thirty days. Basically you just signed up for the free trial on your amazon account, download a ungodly amount of books for a month weeks, and then unsubscribed from it before it's over.
The best part is that you don't even need a kindle. It works on your phone, computer, or whatever. You can even download audiobooks from it.
I'm learning Web Development so I can change careers and it's awesome that my books are now free. Just a note, this probably works on textbooks.
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2016-03-07 at 1:27 AM UTC in Objective proof I am a god or a demigod. Discuss/Prove me wrong.D'aw, were you thinking of me when you made that third option?
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2016-03-06 at 7:20 PM UTC in ITT: We tell notable stories of when we were shitfaced/high in publicOne time I was totally sober and got pulled over. As soon as the cop comes up to the door, I roll the window down and say...
"I'm not high man." -
2016-03-05 at 6:58 AM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
I have to admit, I came into this thread purely with the intention of baiting you into some long responses.
Checkmate. :/ -
2016-03-04 at 5:53 PM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
Excellent point, just maroon me with a pistol and one bullet, when i get tired of it i'll take a cap to the dome(head).
The army actually has a handbook they give to everybody which has a section on military psychology. It was kind of helpful I guess. -
2016-03-04 at 3:43 PM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
All I need is beedrill and canned sardines and I can live forever
Pfft, what are you some kind of neckbeard gearqueer?
We're talking about the most likely, ultimate survival scenario. You're going to be driving through Death Valley Desert 100 miles away from civilization with nothing in you car, which you manage to drive off a cliff like a dumbass after it gets struck by lighting during a hurricane, sustaining horrible injuries all over your body. You will have to survive for 72 hours using only your wits and minimal gear.
You and easy play pretend survivalist by actually having "supplies," but that's because you're fucking pussies. Only us true survivalists have endured real scenarios.
You will have to find clean water, so hobble out of your car with nothing but tattered clothes and start digging a hole in the (desert) ground with a cactus needle. After you've dug thirty miles into the earth's crust, you might find a dinosaur fossil that you can suck on for sustenance. While you're digging, you need to cut off your finger and use it as bait in a super reliable trap that is based off the documentary "Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote."
By the way, all of this is being done after you've sustained a concussion from the accident, so good luck. If you were just the awesome survivalist like we are and not some kind of faggot neckbeard zombie survivalist edgelord, you'd make it. -
2016-03-04 at 3:17 PM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
I mean you link a fucking Bluing Touch Up Marker. I think the last thing that you are worried about are minor scratches in your weapon when you are trying to get out with your life. Sure its a nice thing to have when you are "roughin it" or going on an extended hunting trip but its not a "survival item".
According to your scenario, you won't even have a weapon, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Also, I'm not sure how much weapons training you've had, but minor scratch on your weapon will destroy the bluing, cause it to rust, and potentially and render it useless in less than four months if you use it frequently in damp weather. -
2016-03-04 at 3:14 PM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
No. I'm talking about being caught out in a situation where you don't have your entire neckbeard zombie survival kit with tactical dildonics technology. This is about surviving with a small pack you can keep under your car seat or in your trunk. You're not going to have your shit on you.
Once again, basically most of your post is irrelevant because we're talking about two separate scenarios. Going to build a cabin in the woods and live there for a year is going to require a different set of tools than surviving a car accident. You're simply going to take more gear unless you're some kind of retard or feel like you have something to prove.Here's the type of situation you can in fact be faced with; you are driving interstate through mountainous terrain. Your brakes fail or you are a little sleepy. Your car tumbles 40 feet into a ravine. You are barely conscious. Your cell phone is busted and there is no safe way to climb up to the road without walking for several miles. You need to stay alive for 2 days so you can make your way up to the road and get help. Good luck not knowing how to survive without an air conditioned tent. Or you could have a complete but barebones kit that you know how to use and make it.
You're strawmanning my point. Making it out like I don't know how to survive a scenario like this simply because I described a longer one with more preparation is asinine. I would disagree with your load out anyway. I have a small BoB in my car at all times (it's just a little backpack) that has enough stuff to last me for three days. It weighs less than 27 lbs. You'd be surprised what you reliably fit into it without it being a huge hassle.3 steps to purifying water to an acceptable level:
1. Find water. Put it in a pot
2. Start a fire and boil water
3. Pour water through some fabric to remove particles of lint and bugs and shit. The more layers the better.
That's it. Drink it.
No, it's not, you will most likely get fucking sick. This is my point about you guys who are talking shit. You're trying to make this great point about how being a "true" survivalist is just surviving with minimal gear, and yet you don't know how to purify water. Can you do that and get away with that method for a little while? Maybe, if you're at a clean source of fresh water to begin with, which totally defeats the purpose of needing to purify it anyway but so good luck finding an underground spring in the desert (as per your scenario). Also, that method doesn't treat the water for pollutants, which exist en masse in contemporary society (even in the wilderness).As for making a reliable trap
1. Find a big rock, a stick to support said rock and something to pull the stick away (you can make some pretty reliable string by knotting together strips from springy twigs).
2. Set it up to easily fail.
3. Find a way to get animal under the rock (many ways to do this, but looking for tracks is a great one).
4. Pull the stick away.
Congratulations, you have meat.
Jesus Christ Falco, you have no idea what you're talking about! Lol, and how are you planning on luring an animal into this "trap?" With the Cliff bars you mentioned? This isn't even a good trap man!
If your scenario of minimal gear and little preparation, you'd be better off making a snare because it requires less gear. Or just eating bugs for protein (which you mentioned, so good on you).Alfie is awesome but as I said, less extreme survivalists. This is for the kind of person who wants to go camping with minimal gear, and unrelated to my point, which is that the highest chance you have of getting into a "survival situation" is one where you won't have a tonne of shit. You're going to mostly be trying to stay alive for a couple of days until you can make it to a road and a car comes by, for example.
And it's a fair point. But just concede my point was talking about something totally different, which is a denomination of survivalism known as "homesteading."I don't think we disagree on that tbqh.
I agree with you.I'm just saying that what your "kit" should be is your wits and the amount of stuff you can reasonably get in your car, because the only people who seriously prepare for a TEOTWAWKI-SHTF situation with thousands of dollars of gear (which could reasonably lt you live for weeks if not months) are fat neckbearded wannabe commandos who will buy the kit, maybe go out into the wilderness twice and then go back to playing the videogames that put them on to the idea.
Like I said, apples to oranges. I don't think leaving contemporary society to live in a rustic cabin for a year makes me a fat neckbearded wannabe. I mean, I've already been in enough scenarios with little preparation to prove myself my knowledge and skills are accurate. I don't like going out and recreating them by camping. Even then, if you're going out camping, it's not really the same thing because the adrenaline of a real "OH SHIT" scenario makes it totally different.There will literally never be a survival situation where you will have or have use of, a bow. You are not shooting 6 point bucks or keeping your bow under your car seat
Not true. Even in your scenario, a bow will get you meat more efficiently than a trap. It's not unrealistic to think you can have one in the trunk of your car.See, the clear difference in our points of view is that you're preparing for Mad Max or The Walking Dead, or some sort of planned trip in the outdoors. That is no more survival than taking a cruise is sailing.
...Building a cabin out in the woods and transitioning into being self sufficient is not a camping trip, sorry. Totally different. You'll need a lot of shit to help you transition.
tl;dr - Yeah I agree with you that you should learn to survive with minimal stuff because that's the most likely "survival scenario" is one you don't plan for, but the original post is about me moving off the grid for a year and transitioning into self sufficiency and all the gear that I used to get me there. Crashing your car in the desert is not the purpose of this post, and "homesteading" is still a real component of survivalism.
Also, I implore you that the dude's way of purifying water is really a bad method. Spending $13 on a .05 lb water enhancement and keeping it in a backpack in your trunk (with other supplies) so you don't drink motor oil doesn't make you neckbeard.
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2016-03-04 at 3:46 AM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
Saying someone is ignorant doest make it so when you are ignorant of their own experience with the matter.
You literally did not read my post if you think that my points are as moot as you say they are. Also saying you did this for a living is unverifiable. I mean its entirely possible but every time I argue with you and you get in a tiff it just so turns out that you either taught a college class on the subject, have military experience, or make a living out of sitting in a cabin with a bunch of survival gear. I literally do not give a fuck about your "creds" unless you can provide information that I find useful rather than your personal gear preference.
I guess you disagree with FM 21-76 then vetbro. Im sorry that you find the fact that a minimalist is more likely to survive with sufficient will and knowledge than the most materially prepared individual who freaks the fuck out when he drops his flashlight batteries in the water whose will is not strong offensive
I didnt fucking read to kill a mocking bird either but I aced the test. Fuck reading something in full dude my mind works where I can look at a paragraph in full and pull out keywords and information rather than need to read every single word individually. My whole "Didnt read" would be better understood as didnt read verbatim but skimmed most paragraphs.
I am sorry you feel that way. Someone who gets this angry over a disagreement on a broken spinoff of somethingaweful forums would not fare well when their equipment fails and their plan goes to shit.
Yup. Im SOOOOO embarrassed. Nigga I live to argue on the internet. Saying that im embarrassing myself is retarded because I literally have an ongoing thread about cultivating psycic power and becoming a demi god. I am a Trump supporter faggot. Do you think I really give a shit if you think that I look stupid? I am confident enough in myself and my ability that I need not seek approval on a forum based on a forum based on a forum based on a forum based on a network.
So really if you arent going to post any more information about survival or techniques that come in handy then stop rageposting because it is really making me think you are just some faggot.
I'm not going to let you derail my thread. Pretty much every time you have a disagreement with someone on this forum (not just me), you simply don't read what they write and start responding to it as if you did - totally misrepresenting most of your opponent's argument (just like what's happening here).
The name of the fucking thread is "Survivalist Gear." You're seriously going to walk into this thread and complain that it talks about gear too much? Then you're going to argue since I don't post my PI here you've somehow proven I've made all this up? Alright, fine, that's cool, but I'm not repeating myself again about over-reliance on gear. I also will not mistake Captain Falcon's point with yours. You literally came in here, said you didn't read the post, "disagreed" with things I've never said, and are still arguing with me about something I actually agreed with you in the original post (which aldra pointed out, but I guess you didn't read that either).
If you want to talk about survivalist strategies, we can talk about that too. Captain Falcon and I both posted links about trapping in the thread. I disagree with him, but it didn't devolve into a butthurt fest. Aldra asked an intelligent question about bows. I want more input on this.
If you're going to act like a tranny in a college classroom who wants to talk to halt class in order to talk about their feelings, nobody is interested. If you want to actually contribute to the thread, you can. We're all listening. What strategies would you share? -
2016-03-04 at 3:06 AM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
. My point is that in a survival situation you generally dont have these things that make it slightly easier given you face the situation necessitating their use.
...and how many of these "survival scenarios" have you been in?
You know, since you seem quick to criticize my lack of experience on this matter.
The reason I ask is because your point doesn't seem to apply to me - as as every time I've been in one of these "survival scenarios" I was already prepared with the right training, the right mindset, and the right equipment to survive. -
2016-03-04 at 3:01 AM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
mindset for something like this is not easily taught, especially via fragmented text. he touched on that, but it's largely a thread about preparedness in terms of equipment.
it's largely a list of items and recommendations which he endorses as helping make his life easier over the time he lived in the 'wilderness' and during deployment; I don't understand why you're arguing. in terms of wanting or needing less equipment, it'll depend on personal experience and capability - a lot of the stuff he listed is probably not necessary for someone who's learned to survive away from civilisation, but the thread isn't exactly aimed at bushmen and the like.
Well like Kek said, he's arguing because didn't completely read either of my posts. He typically doesn't when someone disagrees with him.
Anyway, aldra's pretty much summarizing the OP for those of you who don't want to read it. If you want to live out in a cabin in the woods away from civilization, you probably won't need mousetraps, but it'll save you money in food because they'll almost certainly get into things that are stored. This is something I didn't know until I tried living that way.
That was my point. I literally received some of the best training from the most elite military in the world on this matter and put it into practice for living it for a year. It doesn't mean I'm infallible and can't take criticism ( like I said, captain falcon's point is well taken), but I definitely have perspective on what works and what doesn't.
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2016-03-04 at 2:57 AM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
You are retarded and a massive douche. I read bits of your post but what I read was shit like "lol at a civilian telling a veteran…".
Once again, you admit to not reading what I wrote but feel entitled to give an opinion on it, which is practically the definition of a "retarded douche." That's literally the highest form of ignorance, man.
And yes, it's funny listening to someone showcase how they have no clue they're talking about try to tell someone else who literally did this for a living how things are.Well Vet are you telling me that you see a list of items more useful than FM 21-76? Because really what me and Capn Faggot are saying is that survival comes from whats in here (points at head) and here (points at heart).
Pretty fucking gay and stupid, bro. You can be as motivated as you want, there's no guarantee you're going to find clean water in nature. You can be as knowledgeable as you want, if you get bit by a snake in your sleep and don't have anti-venom you're still going to fucking die. Again, if you read what I wrote, you'd know that (for the third time) my point wasn't bring as much gear as possible. My point is you have to prepare for shit or you simply won't be prepared for it. Take it from someone who has actually been there and isn't just talking shit on the internet, nature will throw enough curve balls at you that you can't really afford to miss out on having basic necessities.It does not come from things and I argue mental preparation is just as if not more important than material preparation.
Which you would know is in my original post that you're still criticizing because, like you admitted, you didn't fucking read it.Its obvious you have never been in a real survival situation and think that camping for a long time or hanging out at the barracks eating MRE's means surviving. You really need to learn to handle critisizm or even input. My point was never "do not prepare" it was "knowledge comes before gear. If you were actually in the military you could understand this point. Much like in our debate about religion you inflate your ego with exceedingly long posts not really conveying any particularly complex point.
And I read enough of the post to see it for what it is. I looked at some of the item descriptions and I enjoyed everything up until your amazon shoping list. I like your bit on the survival mindset but a survival mindset doesnt matter if you dont know how to use your gear. If you cant see this point and accept it you are lost.
You're such a fucking faggot kek, I used to like you, but this post is a repeat of the one last month where you were groveling before the catholic church and spreading misinformation (like saying Galileo was never charged with heresy), once again showcasing your ignorance, then got all butthurt when I smacked your ass down with knowledge. Same thing is happening in this thread. It's one thing to disagree, it's another to just say patently incorrect shit. Now you're going to act like I wasn't in the military or live in the woods for a year? Okay. Your argument literally boils down to "nuh uh."
That's fine, you don't have to believe me and I don't really care if you do, but at least do yourself a favor and spare yourself the embarrassment next time of not admitting to the entire forum that you didn't read the either of the posts your criticizing. It just makes you look stupid. -
2016-03-04 at 2:40 AM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
I read the OP but skimmed over the gear reviews, is interesting.
how would you feel about using a bow or crossbow instead of the air/rifles?
Everything comes down to the scenario. I personally have a small compound bow that I would highly recommend taking on almost any survival excursion. It's actually better than the pellet gun because you have a wider range of uses (you could kill anything from a squirrel to a deer with it). This is the one I use:
http://amzn.to/1TtG6eC
If you have the money though, you could get something way nicer. Stay away from PSE if you can. They had a series of great bows come out for a few years, but everything before and after sucks.
Stay away from crossbows though because it has more mechanical parts that are more inclined to fail.Anyone who tells you to take a bow or crossbow into a survival situation is retarded. Find out how to trap shit.
While learning how to trap shit is overall good advice, anyone who makes blanket statements about what's always bad in survival scenarios is retarded. It always comes down to your situation. If aldra is in a position where he has to worry about self-defense a bow is going to serve him in ways that a trap wouldn't. I agree it's helpful to trap, but bows are great because they can have multiple purposes and you can reuse arrows. I don't know if you've ever tried to build a trap out of things you find in nature after it has recently rained (I have), you're going to have a really shitty time and almost nothing is going to be outside.
I get your greater point that you want to travel lightly, and it's a point that's well spoken. However, not every excursion is a two week long camping trip, and if you don't bring the right stuff or know how to use it you're going to die.
Also, just a note, this was my favorite book on trapping. It even has Vietnam War style mantraps in it:
http://amzn.to/1TcKHBE
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2016-03-04 at 2:27 AM UTC in Survival Gear / General Discussion
You would be surprised at how little you need to survive.
My own recommendation would be some good clothes (you can already guess this), a big (emphasis on BIG) knife, a small metal pot or two, some disinfectant and bandages+bandaids because you don't want to fuck with infection, and a way to start a fire (matches are good, ferrocerium rod is better), maybe food if you can't catch your own.
My own opinion is that the more shit you carry, the more you are defeating the point. If someone is carrying a tent, a pantry, the entire water supply of los angeles and so on, you might as well just stay home.
And that makes sense - if you're talking about a short camping trip. Remember, I was out there for like a year. Also, the idea of survivalism isn't that you get to pick and choose whether or not you just "stay home." The idea is that something happens that disrupts the way we're living life and you have to adapt to it.
Granted, I went out on my own fruition, but you wouldn't last a week with just the stuff you stated. To be blunt, you don't even have a way to reliably purify water from what you listed (assuming you even find a clean water source in nature). Also, even if you somehow could make a trap out of the little you had (which you could, but you'd end up destroying what few supplies you had), you wouldn't get enough ammino acids. You also wouldn't be able to build a very reliable trap.
The video you posted is a great point of my original post. Namely, you've got thousands of people liking it, but the guy in that video is kind of full of shit. Pouring your water through a cloth will enhancement out really big pieces of dirt, but it's not enhancementing out any pathogens. You could of course boil it as well, but that's still not reliable if it has traces of pollutants in it (which it probably does, it's 2016).
Trust me, I'm on your side about most "survivalists" being a bunch of fat guys who have way too much gear, but that's not what's going on in this post. My point is, if you want to last for more than a few weeks, you're going to need shit you can rely on. You'll also probably end up needing things you didn't realize you did, like mouse traps.