Taunt can REALLY be important!
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Coyote_Seven,
Posted on: 2012-01-19 17:54 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
First thing I thought when I saw this?
A møøse once bit my sister...
Nø realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of a tøøthbrush...
Ahem.
The writers of this post have been sacked.
Lucky kid... Another animal might have ate him when he tried that >.>
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pretty much what I thought...
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Originally Posted by Durakken
Lucky kid... Another animal might have ate him when he tried that >.>
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You can supposedly pull the "feign death" maneuver with other more nasty types of critters like grizzly bears.
Not that I'm planning to give it a try myself anytime soon of course...
At any rate the kid apparently did the recommended thing with the moose regardless of any prior MMO experience he had.
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He's not twelve, he's probably sixteen or seventeen by now.
That is to say, that is a rather old news story, and it has popped up on the boards a few times already.
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Yup, don't try that with a mountain lion, they like convenience food. |
Originally Posted by Durakken
Lucky kid... Another animal might have ate him when he tried that >.>
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Let me share my experience with this. When I was a kid, we took a family trip to camp in King's Canyon and Sequoia National Parks in California. There is a lot of bear activity there. So, the park rangers come around and give you the little safety spiel on storing food, what to do if you encounter a bear, etc.|
Originally Posted by Lothic
You can supposedly pull the "feign death" maneuver with other more nasty types of critters like grizzly bears.
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My smart *** brother asked about the playing dead thing (we had both watched way too many cartoons involving this). The ranger said that it is actually an effective strategy. He told us that dropping "dead" and curling up and lying perfectly still will work. Provided of course that you remember to essentially cover up your vital organs as much as possible. He went on to explain that bears will most likely approach you, maybe claw a chunk or two out of you, or even take a bite (hence the importance of covering up vital organs). But, if you can fool them into thinking you're dead, they will most likely "get bored" and move on.
So I'm sitting there trying to think how in the hell you remain perfectly still and dead-like while a bear is swatting you around and chewing hunks off of you. I came to the determination that SCREW THAT... I'm running. If I'm going out to a damn bear, I'm at least going out on my feet.
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You don't gotta run faster than the bear...just faster than your friends. |
Originally Posted by Ultraamann
So I'm sitting there trying to think how in the hell you remain perfectly still and dead-like while a bear is swatting you around and chewing hunks off of you. I came to the determination that SCREW THAT... I'm running. If I'm going out to a damn bear, I'm at least going out on my feet.
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OK so we all agree that playing dead can be a sound tactic against aggressive herbivores, but is not an advisable strategy against carnivores.
Important safety tip!
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At best grizzly bears are carnivores with omnivorous tendencies.|
Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
OK so we all agree that playing dead can be a sound tactic against aggressive herbivores, but is not an advisable strategy against carnivores.
Important safety tip! |
But like I said before I'm not planning to test the "play dead" tactic with any-kind-ivore anytime soon regardless if it works or not.
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And here's a real life example of how a kid "tanked" a moose:
I know the article makes WoW references, but this just as easily could have been CoH where that kid would have gotten the same idea. At least as far as taunting goes. Feigning death though... well, that's a little harder, lol.
But this is still an awesome example of how sometimes, videogames can save your life! So there.