A nonplussed character wearing a feathered leather hat and a backpack full to bursting says to a disgruntled man "aight it's been real but im disappearing into the woods forever."

The would-be hermit turns only his eyes toward the man as he raises his arms in frustration and shouts "you can't just fuck off into the woods, you have to stay here!"

The man's expression softens into confusion as his conversational parter's backpack comes to the fore of his vision as he simply departs. A narrator adds "but he could. And he did."

The traveler is seen at great distance as the man continues looking on. The narrator continues. "And no one ever saw him again."

Florkofcows.com

god I love flork

i know someone who did that... buggered off into the qld bush to brew moonshine and grow ganja.

Every couple of years he'll hit me up on IRC and send deep cut psytrance bootlegs, fun times.

Yeah, cool, but IRC? I genuinely didn't know that was a thing anymore.

What the hell that sounds like the coolest person ever

there's even selfhosted clients for it now like The Lounge.

Inb4 he got eaten by a bear several days into his new life.

I can assure you it's not just a masculine urge

My plan too, was supposed to have done it by now. But I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of.

But I will start saving in secret again when I can and fuck off somewhere.

One day, no one will ever see me again, and many will certainly celebrate.

But I'd like to remind those people, they contributed to make this world unlivable in the first place.

I want to leave because there is no fair way for me to exist within the system.

good news is - after you die, they will make a movie and after seeing it, a few dozen people will try to replicate your steps and die in the process, so you will inspire quite a few people!

• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless

IRC never died.

Wait you can do that?

if you have to ask, the answer is no.

Well I have a bad knee and sticking my hand in the fish mouth is pretty icky

You can, but it is not for everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(Krakauer_book)#Summary

the person in that book died. hence why i said "if you have to ask, the answer is no".

1. there is not a lot of places in the world where you can do that
2. you need quite specific skillset, and person asking such question most definitely does not have it.

I’m just saying my knee hurts and fishing is gross

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke The linked person did this for a couple decades in alaska. Yearly trades with a friend who came over by seaplane and landed on the local lake. they exchanged some goods, i think Proenneke made some oils from the wilderness and the visitor brought like medicine and shoes or something. He eventually had to come back to society because he couldn't chop enough wood to keep himself warm in the winter anymore.

Richard(Dick) Filmed himself setting up and his first year or couple years. This was edited into 3 or 2 films (Alone in the wilderness). you should look for them online, they are available for free if you look in the right spots. I think there's 4 hours of edited film in total of his story.

Going to disappear and leave only this meme

nonplussed character

nonplussed /nɒnˈplʌst/ The word nonplussed traditionally means surprised, confused, and unsure how to react (left at a loss for what to say or do).

TIL, if I heard this word used in a less clear context I'd assume it's like tier 3 lgbt slang or something lmao.

oh. well, then you should definitely stay in the pesky civilization. sorry about the knee.

Hrm, I see this meme just prior to certain elections...

I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of. [...] I will start saving in secret again when I can

May you find your patch of woods one day.

https://www.straight.com/news/into-wild-adventurer-who-starved-to-death-in-bus-may-have-missed-river-crossing-by-one-day

He had water and the means to purify it the entire time, and there's a claim (i.e. I can't find a source) that when he attempted to cross the river on the way out that he was only a half mile from a tram that crossed it. If he'd had a map that marked the tram he could've gone to the tram. It was an eight mile hike or so to the attempted river crossing from the bus, so he was only a day or so away from civilization.

Les Stroud (Survivorman) goes into this in one his director's commentaries for Survivorman which are all up on youtube. I don't remember which one, though.

That guy in the movie/book there went into the wilds in Alaska though, the worst place to do it, excepting the coastal parts which are temperate rainforest, or were before they cut down all the trees.

It would be rough in the winter anywhere in the north us though.

If, realistically, inspiring like 2 people worldwide to escape into the wilderness is enough to sway an election, I'll eat my shoe. There's always an upcoming election

Nonplussed is one of those words that means the opposite of what i think it would, intuitively.

https://www.timesnowworld.com/rest-of-world-news/christopher-thomas-knight-maine-forest-disappearance-article-154300950

This guy's got thebest tips.

Even those 2 can still vote and then disappear into the woods.

It is not like they would lose anything doing that.

A woman my wife works with took in a teenage boy (a relative, but I don't remember the connection) whose mother walked into the woods one day and disappeared. Her car was found, she wasn't. I think the father had passed away already, so when the mother vanished, the kid had no one else.

Poor kid lost his mother, then had to move cross country, losing all of his friends, too. A shit situation for everyone involved.

You can't just fuck off into the plains you need to stay here!

But they could. And they did.

Indeed. I should have blanked it out but I also had the masculine urge to be lazy

Sigh I guess I’m stuck here

There's always the option of surreptitiously building out in the boonies. If you have safeish boonies to build out into. No landmines or such

Until they came to cut the forest down...

Yeah land mines are always an issue

for most of the world, unfortunately.

I was a pIRCh guy, myself.

We laugh but this is what we should do

i don't think the weather/temperature was his main problem (except for that part where he finally understood he fucked up, tried to go back and couldn't because of the flooded river).
but the underlying problem was his lack of hunting and food processing skills.

https://people.com/family-living-off-the-grid-died-of-malnutrition-hypothermia-autopsy-7965000

The reality in most developed nations is that people do not have the skills required anymore and even if they did the environment is not and never has been capable of supporting 8 billion apes strip foraging the wilderness. Modern farming techniques and medicine are both why the global population has exploded in the last two centuries and the loss of either will immediately devastate humanity.

Tl;Dr that shit was hard when people knew mostly what to do and you don't

People have forgotten how easy it is to die. Doctors would slip while doing an autopsy and die from sepsis within a week

He went back to society because he was 83, i think it's fair... (he visited family durimg the time he lived in Alaska).

ah, the Ted Kaszinski way, minus the bombing of course.

Most would die within 1 month. The average is 2 weeks alone for an untrained person.

I'm getting to that point myself (and yes, I've had survival training)

Plenty of homeless camps in the woods get busted each year.

"Oh no, I'll have to pretend to leave and then move 200 meters and no one will find me for 8 months."

Really, the biggest issue is not dying. That's the thinker