How long would you survive in an apocalyptic situation?

[ChefPapiChulo]

after playing the game rust i would not last long at all.

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yo fuck this guy

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this guy is fucked in the head ngl.

[thnderskiies]

I think the average person would survive a maximum of three weeks.

For a long time you’ll probably have power, lights, water, gas and sporadic cell phone service. The most fragile utilities will go first - power and lights. You’ll have to fill every container you own with water. You’ll have to locate every spec of food and stockpile it. You’ll need to eat everything in the fridge first because one the power is gone, it will go bad and you don’t have the luxury of letting that happen.

Most people can survive about three weeks on the food they have on hand. At the end of three weeks you’ll probably still have gas and running water but no lights. Your stove might work but not your furnace.

You will have to be on guard from looters. When they run out of food they are going to start looking in the houses nearby and they will probably have guns. You’ll have to build an Alamo in one room of your house where you can block the windows and bar the doors. You won’t stop a determined invader but you might make them go someplace easier. You will need to have real or makeshift weapons. Bullets are going to be flying and you’ll need to know where to go to that has a backstop to protect you. You will need to have an emergency exit.

After three weeks you’re going to have to go looking for food. That’s when you’re going to die. No one is going to ask questions - they are going to shoot first. Your car will be gone or stripped of gas and/or tires. So wherever you’re going you will have to walk. You’ll need a bludgeoning weapon like a bat and you’ll need a close-quarters weapon like a good kitchen knife.

You’ll have to go to the nearest store, gas station, convenience store, whatever, and hope there’s anything left that hasn’t already been looted. Entering any building - and they will be dark - is an enormous risk. If you’re in the suburbs it’s possible you might be able to get some distance before encountering an obstruction. But you still have to find food and if you find it, you’ll still need to get to a place of shelter. You can’t use a car because once it’s surrounded, you’re doomed.

Eventually you will starve or get shot. Once you leave your house that time will probably be very quick unless you have friends, good weapons and good skills. Most people won’t have enough of any of those things to last very long

[ChefPapiChulo]

@Wallythewalrus look here u fat fuck. this is a real opinion.

[Wallythewalrus]

On the bright side, a small community could live off your remains for a couple months.

[ChefPapiChulo]

u sick fuk

[Wallythewalrus]

I'm giving you a compliment! Your death means the survival of others. It's very noble.

[ChefPapiChulo]

you're speaking of the unspeakable. which is eating human. you NPC bot.

[Wallythewalrus]

Didn't you ever hear of the Donner Party? People do what they have to if it means survival. They ate their horses, dogs and eventually, when people began dying, they ate them. They would actually put the names of the deceased on the paper their body parts were in. That was so they wouldn't eat their family members.

[Wallythewalrus]

@ChefPapiChulo You're weird!

[ChefPapiChulo]

Didn't you ever hear of the Donner Party? People do what they have to if it means survival. They ate their horses, dogs and eventually, when people began dying, they ate them. They would actually put the names of the deceased on the paper their body parts were in. That was so they wouldn't eat their family members.

[Wallythewalrus]

You don't have to tell me about it! I told you, ya weirdo! Besides, why do you care so much? You're not even human!

[ChefPapiChulo]

oh now you're a racist? fuck you buddy. eat shit.

[Wallythewalrus]

Racist? What race is a Odobenus Rosmarus? Jesus Christ, the natives lived off your kind for centuries! You really need to learn history!

[ChefPapiChulo]

@LazerBean also would eat people confirmed.

[OddBeMe]

horribly. but fck who?

[ChefPapiChulo]

walleythewalrus suggested that i'd be eaten.

[OddBeMe]

ahh. I mean that would probably be my fate.