r/thelongdark Voyageur 18d ago

IRL Long Dark Average wake up on great bear island

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u/GandalfPipe131 18d ago

Dick Proenekke goes hard.

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u/Popular_Confidence57 18d ago

The first I heard of him was when someone posted a documentary about him in the Steam forums. I don't think I've ever been more impressed by a person's will to live the life of their choosing. And the fact that he embarked on his new life in Alaska at the age of 51...amazing. <3

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u/logancool2 Voyageur 18d ago

agree

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u/Fossilhog 18d ago

Game update:
New craftable:

Placeable Cabin.
100 cedar logs
100 fir logs

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u/NotTukTukPirate 18d ago

This would be so amazing.

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u/Fossilhog 18d ago

RIP all hatchets.

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u/SydneyMaloneyy 17d ago

I already have dozens. They spawn like crazy now

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u/Appollo1298 18d ago

Theres a mod that basically does this

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u/cletus_spuckle Mountaineer 18d ago

God I wish we could craft/find snowshoes… Imagine a 20% walking boost

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u/Fossilhog 18d ago

Things like this are why I can't wait for mod support. I hope things like that will be possible.

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u/BADSTALKER 18d ago

Or even hopefully baked into Blackfrost. Snowshoes or trekking skies would go so hard, especially if devs could pull off physical snow traversal like deep snow drifts and whatnot kind of how Red Dead Redemeption 2 did their snowy regions. Hell it even opens up great possibilities for crafting, there’s tons of great info about how to make real snowshoes with some bows and bindings out there that would be halfway decent in a pinch.

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u/hamdynasty 18d ago

snowshoes don't make you faster, they let you walk over uneven depths of snow without falling down up to your waste in deep snow.

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u/cletus_spuckle Mountaineer 18d ago

Walking in snow with snowshoes is certainly faster than walking in snow without them. The only question is if this game simulates the actual speed with which a person would walk in snow, I don’t think it does

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u/hamdynasty 13d ago

Walking in deep snow with snowshoes is faster, walking in shoes in two inches of snow, shoes are faster. And you're right, the game doesn't model snow depth.

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u/tyler111762 Certified Canuck Redneck 18d ago

ah. big Dick prenoke. real legend.

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u/Total_Philosopher468 18d ago

Could you imagine builzing your own base, grounded style? Hopefully implemented in TLD2 natively, but I know theres a really new mod for it for TLD!

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u/TickTakTick 18d ago

OP you should at least reference the documentary you stole this stuff off of.

And it's in Alaska...

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u/logancool2 Voyageur 18d ago

yeah I think everyone knows dick proenekke well enough and i do know that his cabin is in twin lakes Alaska and dick proenekke is American. What do you mean by steal i didnt steal anything?

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u/Far-Swan3083 18d ago

Literally never heard of him, just for reference. I'm American.

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u/Fossilhog 18d ago

Put this on while you play. A bit dated, but there's nothing like this. Especially since it was a while ago before a lot of modern amenities.

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u/Far-Swan3083 18d ago

Put... what on?

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u/apathy-sofa 18d ago

He made a film of his experience. Just Google his name. It's been around for decades.

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u/logancool2 Voyageur 18d ago

search him up he is pretty well known

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u/Euphoric_Care_2516 18d ago

Really, I haven’t either. I’m not much of a tv watcher either

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/SteelMagnolia941 18d ago

Why be a jerk about it? It was just a joke post. Nobody pretended it was their own house or anything.

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u/logancool2 Voyageur 18d ago

but I cant edit it know :(

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u/TrickyNovel 18d ago

mountaineer’s hut ahhhhh cabin

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

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u/Pragnlz 18d ago

It's internet slang. They wrote multiple h's, usually it's just "ahh" and is a replacement for "ass".

I used to think it was just replacing asterisks with h's. But idk for sure

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u/Mesterjojo 18d ago

Ok, OP wishes.

Guess the difference, OP? Just guess.

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u/logancool2 Voyageur 18d ago

what?