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Anonymous Tue 14 Apr 2015 22:29:24 No.497448 View View Reply Original Report

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Does anyone else like to fantasize about being somewhere else or in a different world when they're /out/ like I do?

Me for instance I always try and fantasize about being in middle-earth whenever I'm in the woods or near a river or an amazing natural landscape.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Apr 2015 22:45:19 No.497454 Report

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>>497448
lLarper detected

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Anonymous Tue 14 Apr 2015 23:17:43 No.497468 Report

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I live in Florida. We have a lot of subtropical plants here, palms everywhere, some big ferns and such, weird fungus, etc.

Sometimes I imagine accidentally going thru an invisible temporal portal and ending up in the Cretaceous period or somesuch

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Apr 2015 23:20:59 No.497469 Report

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I think everyone day dreams to an extant. When you're watching a tv show, or movie you are most likely going to think about yourself in that situation. It's human nature.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Apr 2015 23:33:25 No.497473 Report

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I pretend a plague killed everybody else and I finally have the world to myself.

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Anonymous Tue 14 Apr 2015 23:38:57 No.497477 Report

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>>497448
Honestly, out here it's hard to stop thinking in reality. Mojave desert has snekes and scorps and spides and hornets and ants and these wierd giant black things with red wings and it's just fucking a mess. Always look where you're stepping and all that out here.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 00:26:23 No.497489 Report

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>>497468

I used to live in Florida. When hiking through the swamp I liked to imagine I was slogging through rice paddies and shit in 'nam. I'd always have "Run Through The Jungle" playing in my head and I would wish for an old-school M-16.

I'm fully aware I'm romanticizing a horrible experience, but whatever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 00:36:48 No.497496 Report

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>>497473
I do this too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 00:58:30 No.497505 Report

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>>497448
>for instance I always try and fantasize about being in middle-earth whenever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAj26rVWK14

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 01:00:09 No.497507 Report

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 01:00:10 No.497508 Report

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>>497477
>snekes and scorps and spides

What?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 01:56:52 No.497540 Report

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I like to think that we're in a zombie apocalypse and that whenever I hear another camper in the distance, I turn my stealth mode on.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 02:55:25 No.497575 Report

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Not while /out/, but when I'm at home and yearning to be outside I daydream about an alternate world in a viking - medieval time period and try to create my ideal wilderness. Kinda like a homebrew fantasy setting.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 03:02:28 No.497580 Report

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>>497448
On one of the trails here someone put up a sign saying Middle Earth. I should go look for it and clean it up

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 03:03:27 No.497582 Report

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>>497508
You know.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Apr 2015 22:30:21 No.498005 Report

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the army lads i was with including the mountain leader did it for all of our course whilst pissing ourselves OP

it's fine

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 17:24:18 No.498424 Report

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>>497575
Me too. Especially recently because I'm trapped in suburbia and its starting to get nice out.
>tfw just want to live in a small, cozy, 1 room log cabin and go /out/ every day in the Minnesota wilderness.

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 18:06:26 No.498441 Report

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>tfw when living in NZ
m8 i am in middle earth u jollly bru?

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 18:10:00 No.498443 Report

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>>497448
>Does anyone else like to fantasize about being somewhere else or in a different world when they're /out/ like I do?

t-thank me later

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 18:12:27 No.498444 Report

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>>497448
>Does anyone else like to fantasize
Hell yeah

>running through the woods
>humming the orc horn tune from Fellowship
>pretend to be shooting orcs as they appear

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 18:13:31 No.498445 Report

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>>498444
record this and share it with us

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 18:23:55 No.498448 Report

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>>497448
On mushrooms

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 18:44:53 No.498461 Report

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>>498443
The Arizona bearman needs to be added to that

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 20:32:18 No.498501 Report

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 20:36:03 No.498505 Report

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>>498461
I lived in Arizona and never heard of a bearman

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Anonymous Thu 16 Apr 2015 23:06:04 No.498570 Report

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>>498461
I have lived in AZ for 27 years, and have never heard of that. I know Injums up north believe in skin walkers, and such, but no Bearman.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2015 14:45:39 No.498909 Report

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>>498570
>>498505
Something i saw while on /x/

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Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2015 15:18:57 No.498919 Report

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>>498443
The Kansas Arky monster need to be on that list.
It's kind of a troll that lives near the Arkansas river not far from the Keeper of the plains about a mile from the fork.. supposed to be able to hold it's breath for days and survive on nothing but a hobo or two ever year.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2015 16:56:28 No.498972 Report

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>>497448

Not really. I think it would cheapen the outdoors experience for me. Middle Earth is pretty neat but it ain't got shit on Earth. Also Middle Earth is New Zealand anyway.

Although when I was a kid and hiking innawoods I used to sometimes pretend I was an astronaut exploring a new planet. I walked very slowly and carefully because I didn't want to disturb the ecosystem and I studied each plant, leaf, tree, rock, patch of moss, etc. with a newfound sense of wonder.

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Anonymous Fri 17 Apr 2015 23:43:32 No.499162 Report

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>>497448
I do the same thing OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Apr 2015 13:48:42 No.499495 Report

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>>498443
I live in a monster free state.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Apr 2015 13:53:55 No.499499 Report

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>>497448
Same as you OP. I imagine I'm a Numenorean ranger on some great adventure roaming across the mountainous forested landscape of middle earth. It gives me a secret inner strength and an unstoppable motivation

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Anonymous Sat 18 Apr 2015 13:54:55 No.499502 Report

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>>497473
>implying this isnt my most hoped for dream fantasy of all time

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Anonymous Sat 18 Apr 2015 14:21:33 No.499520 Report

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>>499495
And what state might that be

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Apr 2015 16:17:13 No.499557 Report

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>>497468
Shit's jurrasic yo

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Apr 2015 18:01:16 No.499615 Report

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I imagine that I'm fighting in the colosseum in rome ~100 AD except that I came from the future and brought a gun and other future tools and basically decimate everybod
oh yeah and I wear my blanket like a toga (its sky blue)

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Anonymous Sat 18 Apr 2015 20:00:53 No.499648 Report

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>>497448
> I always try and fantasize about being in middle-earth whenever I'm in the woods or near a river or an amazing natural landscape.
same

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 04:02:03 No.499868 Report

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Anyone else listen to vidya or movie soundtracks to help set the mood while in nature?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWq8i_Z1L2U for example, when walking through a moonlit nightscape.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 04:17:33 No.499877 Report

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Sometimes I pretend that each street is a different country.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 04:18:38 No.499879 Report

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Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 04:57:22 No.499896 Report

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>>497448
Heck yeah, Aragorn is the best /out/ idol.
He was probably my primary inspiration to become an outdoorsman.

Middle-earth and Pandora are my favorite /out/ fantasies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 06:20:35 No.499923 Report

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>>497448

I do this too OP, tracking and hunting in cozy forests and breezy meadows, [spoiler:lit]but I imagine that I'm a fox in the mossflower woods of Redwall, the bookseries I grew up on as a child[/spoiler:lit]

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Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 06:23:04 No.499925 Report

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Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 06:24:04 No.499926 Report

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Huh... do... spoilers not work in /out/?

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Dræfend Sun 19 Apr 2015 23:00:29 No.500332 Report

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>>497448
Yup. Reading Lord of the rings got me wanting to go /out/. Aragorn is the best /out/doorsman. I imagine I'm in middle earth or in an endless forest in the dark ages.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Apr 2015 23:02:56 No.500334 Report

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>>500332
The concept of a ranger in the medieval world is a little odd though.

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Dræfend Mon 20 Apr 2015 15:07:52 No.500641 Report

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>>500334
The closest to a "ranger" would be a travelling hunter or a scout for the king's militia. They wouldn't be common though.

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Anonymous Mon 20 Apr 2015 21:09:34 No.500801 Report

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>>500641
I have one fundamental problem with this.

Medieval forests were tiny, no sane person would lead an army straight through it and there is little reason to go in it for the sake of going in it.

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Dræfend Tue 21 Apr 2015 14:51:59 No.501268 Report

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>>500801
If you're talking about all of the medieval era, In anglo saxons times the land was 70% forest so there would be a fair amount of travelling through forests. In the late medieval era (really late) , then maybe there were a large group of bandits in a forest? A "ranger" wouldn't entirely go through a forest, they would track and look for armies across the land over moors, mountains, swamp, etc. Or a ranger could just be an archer with a focus on guirrella warfare eg:ambushes, hit and run, etc

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2015 14:55:18 No.501270 Report

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>>500332
>Aragorn is the best /out/doorsman
meh.

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Dræfend Tue 21 Apr 2015 17:37:50 No.501352 Report

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>>501270
>Smeagol
>scraggly little shit that lived in a shitty hut in the middle of a lake
>kek

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2015 17:51:05 No.501364 Report

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>>500801
>>501268
Just to clear things up, there is probably a little confusion between you guys. 'Forest' today is pretty much interchangeable with 'woods' (at least in everyday UK parlance).

In the medieval period in Britain, and most of Europe, 'forest' meant an area of woodland under special, usually royal, control, meaning that compared to the rest of a country, they are pretty small areas. Usually for hunting rights etc. Meanwhile 'woodland' just meant any old woods that aren't specifically out of bounds for commoners.

So you're kind of both right: there would be little point leading an army into a forest, unless you wanted to hide. They were not very big, and hard to move through for no benefit (lots of deer though, I guess). At the same time, woodland covered huge swathes more of Europe then than it does now, but most would have large trackways/roads through them, so in the campaigning seasons (spring/summer: less mud and snow everywhere) it would normally have been feasible to get an army through one.

Boring archaeologist out.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2015 18:23:16 No.501391 Report

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>momo is still on the list

He is fucking dead m8.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2015 18:41:13 No.501405 Report

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>>501268
That's right forgot about LotR being set in the era of mail and such due to the movies.

That said gorilla warfare wasn't seen that much in medieval Europe and if there was it was in swamps or mountainous terrain and not forests. When Europeans made it to America to had to learn how to fight in the woods from Indians (see French and Indians war).

>>501364
I've been looking at a few old forests/woods such as the one near Crecy and Orlean, both are about 5 miles across in width and around 10 miles in length.

Not a huge swath of woodland really. IIRC the 1750s marked the low point of European forest area.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2015 19:00:40 No.501416 Report

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>>501364
Very interesting, thank you for sharing anon

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Dræfend Tue 21 Apr 2015 19:21:54 No.501428 Report

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>>501364
Yea, I know the medieval meaning of forest (hunting place) but i was using the modern words for it. An army would probably go through a large road, not on rough terrain.

>>501405
Gorilla warfare wasn't seen in Europe? Weren't there bands of raiders on the welsh and scottish marches who went after sheep and livestock to raid, and gorilla warfare anglo saxons against the normans? There isn't that much description of gorilla warfare in Europe, It would probably be common among lower class peasants who only had bows, axes and long knives.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2015 19:30:11 No.501436 Report

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>>501428
Yes well the Welsh are largely those mountain guys I was talking about and the Scottish border reivers were cavalry unlike middle earth rangers.

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Dræfend Tue 21 Apr 2015 19:56:50 No.501458 Report

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>>501436
Yeah, there must have been groups of hunters that worked for the King as gorilla warfare bands that ambushed outlaws and small groups of troops.

Rangers apprentice is a pretty good book about that if you can get past that it's made for 13 year olds.

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Anonymous Tue 21 Apr 2015 20:00:27 No.501463 Report

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>>501458
Pretty much outlaws but I haven't found anything about a special force to deal with those. It's really just foresters who protect the royal forests from poaching.

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Anonymous Thu 23 Apr 2015 00:13:13 No.502320 Report

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>ctrl+f
>gorilla
>5 matches found
come the fuck on, /out/. Are you trying to quote the funny navy seal pasta?
It's GUERILLA WARFARE

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Anonymous Thu 23 Apr 2015 00:21:15 No.502324 Report

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I always imagine myself as a wandering samurai in 17th~18th century europe, carrying a bindle filled with just a couple of spare hakama(kimono for men), some tea leaves and pot and cup)

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Anonymous Thu 23 Apr 2015 02:49:16 No.502438 Report

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>>501364
What an odd pipe smoking ritual..

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Apr 2015 05:01:07 No.502508 Report

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>>502324
>hakama
>kimono for men
but that's wrong anon.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2015 16:06:08 No.503404 Report

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>>497448
i live near a large pasture, its rolling hills of green and trees are scattered, and boulders partially covered with dirt. I first took a walk up there during my first playthrough of Dragon Quest 8.. i nearly cried at the beauty of it.

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Anonymous Fri 24 Apr 2015 16:23:40 No.503412 Report

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>>498443
How does ca have 1 1/2 monsters? You would think there would be more.

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