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Mmmm cat tails…. Ugggh (In a Homer Simpson voice).

What about Sleeping In My Car by Roxette when you have to stave off cabin fever? 😁

Hahaha 😂. Could be a challenge maybe? Stay Frosty Challenge: You are a post-apocalyptic ice cream man. You must transport a shipment of cat tail ice cream buckets from desolation point to a Mr. Yogi Bear in Timberwolf Mountain within 48 in game hours. If you light a fire ice cream will melt. ⛄️

Ken and Barry’s ice cream. in-game description: ”Ooh you’ve found a real treat!” weight: 1kg 2300 calories

Yes! Messy blueberries win every time. Purple tongue posse! But I would still like to have some whipped cream. Could be coconut based cream too. No need to ”have a cow, man”. In fact, skipp the pancakes, whipped cream, blueberries and vanilla ice cream. We need a broken down truck full of ben and jerry’s ice cream in tld!

In-game I just eat venison and drink water and maybe I’ll have a few cat tails on the side most of the time. But I have a sweet tooth irl and could definitely eat pancakes and sirup! Although I would prefer them with whipped cream and strawberry jam!

We need uzis, ar15:s and ak47:s! And hand grenades! Lots of hand grenades!

😂 Thank you so much for reading, @xanna 🙏🏻☀️

Hello folks, read some great stories here that really touch my gaming-heart and thought I’d give this a go! How a voyager learned to look down: Go to ash canyon they said…. It’ll be fun they said. It’s only voyager. What could go wrong? And by they I mean the voices in my head. Now, laying in a kid-sized bed tenderly nursing my broken ribs back to health in a place called Angler’s den, a place I had planned on skipping while fast-tracking it along the ledges back to Timberwolf Mountain and then the farmstead I’ve recently taken to calling home, I realize the need to take things slow on Great Bear. Especially while being in a hurry. You know the feeling. New region. Having watched turorials studied maps (cheating some would call it) you finally muster up the courage to start the trekk. You hold up in a hut at the foot of the mountain for a few days to get a short term base going. Cooking meat and boiling snow. Twig-and-cat-tail-gathering-duty. You know the drill. Further studying that map, you now know there will be three rope climbs. You grab a stim. Coffee? Nah gotta think of that living off the land achievement! You get there after spending a night and a blizzard in a nearby cave just as planned. You didn’t know the climbs would be THAT long but thankfully you make it with the help of that sweet emergency stim up the last one. No need for an uneasy shelf-night! Then slow crawling it to the mine exausted from that very same stim, not even bothering to look for any loot. All in your mind is that backpack and crampons. Curator’s rifle? Maybe in another life. Plus Barb’s old rifle is good enough and it’s only day 250-ish. You’ll not stay in these death trap regions any longer than necessary before day 500. So the plan: Quick in and out before the blizzards know you where even there. And you do things right this time! Shoes off, no frozen deerskin boots for you from the cold pools in the Gold Mine. Easy as pie. The mission accomplished! Time to really really get the hell out of here and fast! Before the next blizzard hits and you’re caught out there with the rest of the frosties. Another greyish hobo’s corpse with a fancy backpack next to you and a frozen look of permanent disbelief on your face. Ok, the last rope climb down goes well, and oh goody it’s still a beautiful sunny day! Now it’s just a matter o… wait what was that? A buck maybe? Sounded a bit… bigger? Oh god no…. No… ok, don’t panic, dont panic. Maybe you can outsprint the creature if you get a head start? It probably won’t charge anyway right? Since you’re backing away after all and it’s not a predator. Bears seem to accept a yield easily enough most times if you manage to backtrack quickly enough? Why not a moose? Granted, I am carrying that cured and tailored skin of one of his buddies from Quonset around as an accessory but still. Survival and all that. I’m sure he’ll understand? Anyways speed and stealth is the key… Well, as you’ve probably already guessed, It turns out old man moose does mind. He minds you quite a bit. So you play a bit of dodge together, narrowly avoiding one charge. Two charges (I yield, I yield already!) and finally, realizing what is coming you finally panic, lighting a marine flare and tossing it at him hoping he’ll turn into a timberwolf or something you suppose, but he eventually catches up with you and brakes your ribs like a big ol’ piece of birch bark… A swede being killed by a moose… A german would never let you hear the end of it… Things, go black. You wake up… stumbling away… and the king of the forest shows you mercy at last and grants you a chance to get away before round 2. Ok stumbling further away now and your mind is racing. Checking the penalties: No rope climbing in a ”climbers paradise” ??!?! And no more sprinting for 120 hours.. What to do? What to do? I’m so stupid! Why why why!! I hate this game! No. Calm down. THINK. That cabin on the maps! Relief as you spot it in the distance. A beacon of life in a land of death! You manage to threat a howl-barker away using that pro-interloper trick of dropping a lit torch and aming a stone and the god of winds and weather is on your side allowing the torch to stay lit this time (Thank you, Thor?). You are greatful. Bored but grateful. So many cat tails and deer! You try to leave, get into a struggle with a barkmeister, see another moose in your way further into the woods (how lucky are you?!) and realize without sprinting and climbing it just isn’t going to end well. Better to stay. Be greatful for what you have. A place to heal and rest. Venison and cat tails to last the duration of your stay (hopefully). You miss home but you know you’ll get there. No more rushing. And no more climbing down ropes without first seeing what’s waiting at the bottom end… The End! Stay safe out there. Irl and in The Long Dark! /Joel

@ManicManiac very wise ! I definitely see how music can add to the mood of the game. I’ve been making electronic music as a hobby for many years and I definitely appreciate the games exellent sound design but I also don’t see anything wrong with listening to songs while playing. I’d probably play some sixtoo for canadian flavour or maybe some ennio morricone western songs for fun, ofcourse wielding the revolver :). Will McKenzie, ice age cowboy at your service!

You guys are brave listening to music while playing! Usually I’m busy trying go make out sounds while my mind is going ”huh? What was that? Ambience? Is… are you a deer? Please be a deer!” I salute you! 🫡