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Ugh, losing stuff to a glitch is devastating.

Hah, light reading.

I think if development was done with proper consultation, it could be a huge success - eg. Frozen, vs Frozen 2.

Where's the First Nations? Maybe people don't know this, but pretty well all of Canada was previous inhabited by First Nations people.

Many of Canada's cherished national parks were built right over top of First Nations lands; our roads follow trails they blazed, our buildings sit on sites where they lived, and our breathtaking views previously beheld by them for thousands and thousands of years - before Canada ever existed. There are many First Nations people living in Canada today, and many of them are still suffering with the knock-on effects of the colonialism, racism and displacement from these beautiful lands (which we now virtually wander) that was ACTUAL Canadian government policy. It was wrong.

Some of TLD landscape is evocative of the Group of Seven (a collection of cherished Canadian painters) for me. The Group of Seven were incredible landscape artists hired to depict, and create, an image of Canada - but in whose works First Nations people are conspicuously absent. Here's a couple excerpts about it from an article I read in the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - a publicly funded broadcaster in Canada).

"By erasing Indigenous perspectives, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven painted a new nation into being"

"When I first started walking through the National Gallery of Canada, pausing in front of paintings, I wondered why the Group seldom painted First Nations. I read later that Canada's government officials forced out the Îyârhe Nakoda in Banff, then the Coast Salish in Stanley Park, and later the Algonquin in Algonquin Park. First Nations were forbidden from hunting, gathering or travelling through their territories. The land was now a government-established park, a Canadian park, an exclusionary park.

 https://www.cbc.ca/arts/let-s-liberate-the-canadian-landscape-from-the-group-of-seven-and-their-nationalist-mythmaking-1.6410676

I love the Canadian parks, and probably you do too. I love them enough to be open to the truth of their creation, and care about righting wrongs, so all can enjoy them in the future.

On 4/5/2023 at 11:33 AM, xanna said:

I was already looking for a lonely survival game that wasn't based on zombies, that was a specific itch I had and TLD fit exactly what I wanted. But the one thing that made me go from loving to being in love was the light. Everything about the light: sunrises and sunsets, the glow of firelight, the way the light streams through gaps, the moonlight on clear nights... it's so beautiful and feels incredibly realistic and really invokes the outdoors to me. I'll never get tired of the Long Light.

I'm so sick of zombies. Personally, I was hoping the developers would make sasquatch real. More cryptids, please!

18 hours ago, conanjaguar said:

I wasn’t really looking for TLD in particular… I hadn’t ever heard of the survival genre before that fateful day when TLD was recommended for me on Steam for no reason whatsoever (besides playing 5 minutes of Ark).

I want to say that, over time, I became enthralled with the quiet beauty of walking through a snowy landscape under a starry sky… unfortunately, the moment that really hooked me on TLD was fighting and killing that first wolf in Wintermute with that scrap of jagged metal i pulled out of Will’s hand . I never really got over how “cool” that was.

Nonetheless, I now appreciate the atmosphere and beauty of Great Bear Island much more than back then. That is the reason I come back to this game again and again.

Even so, I do enjoy the survival mechanics. Of all the survival games out there, only Subnautica and The Forest have even come close as a potential replacement.

TLD is like walking through a painting. A deadly, deadly painting. Heh.

The soundscape. Wind howling like the wolves, doors rattling, snow crunching - it's immersive. When Will complains to himself about the cold, I FEEL cold in sympathy with him; it's personal.

Haha! Yes, the poor guy, I'd just love to see gloves on his hands for once - for his sake. : )

This is a sign from the developers. It's their way of saying you're on fire.

Probably the adrenaline high.

Bash that dang log on a rock until it splits, and get you some dry splinters from the inside. Rinse and repeat. Grind those splinters finer until you're ready to try your luck with a match. Probably lots of work for just one shot.

Brilliant! I'd sometimes make arrows in cave systems, but thats it. 

If I may...

Once killed a bear at trappers cabin. Stayed the night, and when I came out in the morning there was a moose! Which, coincidentally,  looked exactly like the moose I'd seen up along that road to Hushed River Valley! Now I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure it followed me there. ; )

PS: No intention to demean your sincere post, I'm just having a little fun.

Quonset garage on the coastal highway - I know, just hear me out. Misanthrop's cabin, sound of the surf, view of the coast, and lots of great ice fishing spots because that's what I'd be doing for 40 days. : )

6 hours ago, Merrak said:

Welcome Coffee! I haven't had a full quartered animal disappear, but I did once have a locker of meat suddenly become empty. That was a rough day.

It takes a minute to recover from a blow like that. You just stand there stunned for a few seconds, consider quitting... but then think "Ok, I can roll with this."

11 hours ago, Leeanda said:

Welcome to the forum.     I've had live and dead bears disappear on me, even mid fight!😁

A blessing, and a curse. 

I'm new here - big fan of The Long Dark. Nice to meet you all!

Ever dropped a sack of hard-earned quartered meat inside that trailer up from Milton, just to have it disappear upon your return to the trailer? Yup, I know the feeling. : )