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[โ€“] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 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.

[โ€“] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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.

[โ€“] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 42 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours 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

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

Cry, poop, or do other newborn stuff. But what else do babies actually do? ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours 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.

You'd have fun with Vintage Story.

[โ€“] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Nemo@slrpnk.net 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip 11 points 19 hours ago

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

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Obvious first question, are we friends with dogs yet?

[โ€“] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 18 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] CII_RX@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Horse 2

Now has extra integrated saddle

[โ€“] CII_RX@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

A human can ride horse 1 without a saddle.

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] CII_RX@lemm.ee 3 points 10 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!

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

bro are these all fake images then!?

[โ€“] CII_RX@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No, we're talking about a different game

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The game is called The Hustle

[โ€“] CII_RX@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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?

[โ€“] Uff@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

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

[โ€“] Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 15 hours ago

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

[โ€“] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 10 points 22 hours 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".

[โ€“] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 7 points 22 hours 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.

[โ€“] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 8 points 20 hours 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.

[โ€“] capuccino@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago

do some weird ass draws on walls stuff

[โ€“] Captain_Baka@feddit.org 7 points 22 hours ago

confused unga bunga

[โ€“] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] peteyestee@feddit.org 4 points 21 hours ago

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

[โ€“] potatoguy@potato-guy.space -2 points 21 hours 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.

[โ€“] folaht@lemmy.ml 1 points 15 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?

[โ€“] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 14 hours ago

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

[โ€“] Tronn4@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago
[โ€“] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

Drill, drill, drill!

[โ€“] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 20 hours ago

Food, water, shelter, sleep?

[โ€“] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 points 19 hours ago

Find a nice waterfall and build a hut by it

[โ€“] peteyestee@feddit.org 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Uff@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours 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

[โ€“] peteyestee@feddit.org 3 points 21 hours ago
[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] folaht@lemmy.ml -1 points 15 hours ago

You're born female.

[โ€“] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Take a nap.