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[BlackFlyme]

Do it. Be a(n urban) legend.

Build yourself the most shiniest meat bicycle.

I don't like camping. Too many mosquitoes. And drunks with access to firepits and gasoline.

[Tawa]

Build yourself the most bitchin' meatcycle.

FTFY

[Descan]

>tent
>few day's clothes
>basic supplies
>motorcycles

You have to make those from bone, bark and leather in the sweet wilderness.

Honestly, people just move to Alaska the Deep Calahari if they want that.

No he wouldn't. If we as a species wanted to go back to a hunter gatherer, then we wouldn't do it stupidly, we'd set it up proper-like :v

[Orange Wizard]

No he wouldn't. If we as a species wanted to go back to a hunter gatherer, then we wouldn't do it stupidly, we'd set it up proper-like :v

I can't see us as a species doing anything properly unless it involves killing other members of our species.

[EnigmaticHat]

I mean clearly we haven't done that properly, look how many of us survived.

[Orange Wizard]

In other words, collectively, we suck at everything.

[SalmonGod]

The only thing we suck at is agreeing how not to make things suck for each other, especially as relates to dealing with the people who willfully make things suck for others.  Just about everything else imaginable we've figured out at least in theory.  For being such social creatures, we're really, really bad at being socially functional.

[Baffler]

The only thing we suck at is agreeing how not to make things suck for each other, especially as relates to dealing with the people who willfully make things suck for others.  Just about everything else imaginable we've figured out at least in theory.  For being such social creatures, we're really, really bad at being socially functional.

No, you just have to see it from a different view. One where the individual doesn't matter. It's really quite an impressive machine we've built when you take a step back and look at it. Sure some gears have a tendency to jump or grind, a or few belts get burned out and stop. We've even had a few fires break out in the main assemblies, but over its very long lifespan the machine has been vigorous enough to bounce back from even the most catastrophic failures, and keep growing just like it's supposed to. At the end of the day, what's the cost of a few spare parts? And why try to fix something when it functions well enough as-is? As long as it keeps working more or less as it should, there's not anything really wrong.

[Bauglir]

Yes sir, the Greater Good is always adequate justification for whatever the little people have to put up with.

[penguinofhonor]

I'd say it's still great from an individual perspective, at least for most people. There were complications when I was born - I'd probably be long dead without modern medicine. We've just eliminated many of our worries so thoroughly that it's hard to imagine dealing with them.

Everyone can imagine themselves as the hunter who lives a fulfilling life providing for their tribe or whatever, but nobody wants to imagine themselves as the sad baby who dies of some easily preventable disease before their first birthday. The reality is there would be a lot more of the latter.

[Bauglir]

I'd say it's still great from an individual perspective, at least for most people. There were complications when I was born - I'd probably be long dead without modern medicine. We've just eliminated many of our worries so thoroughly that it's hard to imagine dealing with them.

Everyone can imagine themselves as the hunter who lives a fulfilling life providing for their tribe or whatever, but nobody wants to imagine themselves as the sad baby who dies of some easily preventable disease before their first birthday. The reality is there would be a lot more of the latter.

Now there's an argument.

[Rolan7]

Monty Oum entered my thoughts again, and every day since he passed away.

Mayherestinpeace.  A unique artist.

I finally watched Apocalypse Now on Netflix (almost two weeks ago) and it was really moving.  A proper classic, and very dark.

[Yoink]

I'd say it's still great from an individual perspective, at least for most people. There were complications when I was born - I'd probably be long dead without modern medicine. We've just eliminated many of our worries so thoroughly that it's hard to imagine dealing with them.

Everyone can imagine themselves as the hunter who lives a fulfilling life providing for their tribe or whatever, but nobody wants to imagine themselves as the sad baby who dies of some easily preventable disease before their first birthday. The reality is there would be a lot more of the latter.

Yes, but so what?
Said child dies before it has the chance to understand just what it's missing out on. In many ways it's the lucky one, then or now.
Depending on what you believe in, it may even move on to a better place, or be reincarnated to have another go at things.

[TheBiggerFish]

I'd say it's still great from an individual perspective, at least for most people. There were complications when I was born - I'd probably be long dead without modern medicine. We've just eliminated many of our worries so thoroughly that it's hard to imagine dealing with them.

Everyone can imagine themselves as the hunter who lives a fulfilling life providing for their tribe or whatever, but nobody wants to imagine themselves as the sad baby who dies of some easily preventable disease before their first birthday. The reality is there would be a lot more of the latter.

Yes, but so what?
Said child dies before it has the chance to understand just what it's missing out on. In many ways it's the lucky one, then or now.
Depending on what you believe in, it may even move on to a better place, or be reincarnated to have another go at things.

Yes, but WE understand that if we break society that badly, we'll be killing them, and murder would, y'know, damn you to a bad fate.

[Orange Wizard]

IMO being deprived of life is way worse than having a crappy life.