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[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'm not sure that you meant born because everyone is taking it too literally and it doesn't help make a decent question.

Document everything I can think of for future people and put it in a place that someone will find out but is not that open to be degradation.

I know how impossible this sounds.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Look around for some andesite, granite, or flint, and copper. Use those to make tools. Instantly get promoted to the top of the human monkey group because I "know magic" of fire and stone. I'm an apprentice smith.

Probably spend the rest of my life making one of those Roman 12 sided smithing test things that historians can't figure out what it is.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

As a new born I guess:

  1. Find my moms breast
  2. Drink milk
  3. Sleep
  4. Pee and poop
  5. GOTO 1
[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suppose next would be die because of the infant mortality rate

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

Tits, self relief and death? That’s one more thing than I’m guaranteed at the moment, where do I sign up?

Cry, poop, or do other newborn stuff. But what else do babies actually do? πŸ˜†

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Enjoy the fact that capitalism won't exist for another couple hundred millenia

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Feudalism was worse, and despotism was even worse than that.

We got like 220k years to spare. We're good.

[–] DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure how accurate my memory of the modern world map would be for that far back but depending on "where I spawned in" I would try and migrate to like ideal farmland or somewhere I know is good to build up.

If I was near Iberia I'd probably try for Cordoba.... Western America, I'd go for San Francisco or anywhere near Lake Tulare... I'm sure there's more than I am remembering right now.

I wouldn't have to worry about organized religion having immense crusades and could carve out a little kingdom.

Try to make a modest "fortress" out of ashlar blocks or anything I can make primitively. Try to find a way to record as much "hints" towards technological progress for my descendants to follow.

Fertilizer, Germs, Animal Husbandry, Public Works (Dams), Canning, Gunpowder (not idea of gun just explosives, but they'll probably weaponize it), steam power, oil, electricity, refrigeratation, concept of computers.

It'll probably just have to be drawings but if I can find a cool gal and learn her language enough to roll with it then it'll just have to be that, No point in writing it in English.

If I can actually get to the point of building a steam/wobbler engine that would probably be my life goal.

Throw in ancient technologies that are cool like Yakchals(?) and what not to actually survive to that point.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

You'd have fun with Vintage Story.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Obvious first question, are we friends with dogs yet?

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

ok I am gonna get in on that shit wayyy ahead of the curve/maybe probably be eaten by dire wolves

[–] CII_RX@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Horse 2

Now has integrated saddle

[–] CII_RX@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A human can ride horse 1 without a saddle.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

saddle is dlc on horse 1 tho lol you can't even find horse 1 saddle in dungeon chests

[–] CII_RX@lemm.ee 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Saddle can be found in Barns and the like. You're just not looking in the right chests. Of course you're not going to find one if you're looking in a dungeon chest!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

bro are these all fake images then!?

[–] CII_RX@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No, we're talking about a different game

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The game is called The Hustle

[–] CII_RX@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's a lot like the Sims.. but you don't get to control anyone, and the graphics are better.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The Simps?

and the graphics are better.

Maybe it is just because I haven't played past the first noobie questing hub yet... but are they actually better for most people's playthroughs?

[–] Uff@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

With benefits. One drought and they're a kebab.

[–] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Find other humans and try to kill them all. Then kill self. Earth breathes a sigh of relief!

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 23 hours ago

Wait no ! once you've killed everybody else you can live out the rest of your life knowing you cannot reproduce.

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Survive, get that weird fruit and have sex.

And to go to "there", it seems nice "there", why shouldn't we go "there"? It doesn't have other people "there".

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People long ago are not that different from us, like people from the middle ages, they acted like us now because they ARE like us now.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

There's no real evidence that people are smarter today than they were 5000 years or so ago. We just have more knowledge/technology.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

do some weird ass draws on walls stuff

[–] Captain_Baka@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago

confused unga bunga

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Cool because I was going to say murder the inventer of the wheel and steel the idea.

[–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That would require some knowledge that they couldn't get (people can't think things that they don't know the basics of, like a different colour). Rolling rocks and fire would be on that age.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No, it would require usefullness compared to cost.
How are you going to use the wheel when there are no combustion engines, no roads or even domesticated horses?

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

I'd think a wheelbarrow or hand-drawn cart would still be useful, but I see your point

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Punch a tree until it falls. Make an axe out of wood. Use it to chop more trees down. Find shelter for the night. Build a crafting table. Wait until sunrise. Run around until I find sheep. Kill them for wool. Make a bed.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Drill, drill, drill!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 1 day ago

Food, water, shelter, sleep?

Find a nice waterfall and build a hut by it

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

End the human race before it gets out of hand. Like humans do animals animals or non-western people. today.

[–] Uff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You couldn't because.. and this is just a guess here.. there were so few humans that you wouldn't meet anyone outside of family

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago
[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Go with the gatherers, fuck the hunters, it better be someone else who ends up eaten by Saber-Toothed Tigers.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml -2 points 23 hours ago

You're born female.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Take a nap.