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How long do you think you could survive on a deserted island for?

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    Definitely the rest of my life.

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      Less than six hours, I have diabetes.

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        Unless the island is in the PNW and it just happens to be the beginning of berry season, pretty fucking poorly. Can assemble and maintain a fire, but would likely need a modern fire starter like a lighter, electric or otherwise. Can also build most basic shelters, but it would be uncomfortable AF, anything more advanced would be trial-and-error. Not well versed in hunting despite being at least moderately decent with a bow and arrow. My best option would be scrounging for fruit and hoping I don’t get hit with diarrhea.

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          Assuming it's like a small-ish tropical island and i'm the biggest predator around, with plenty of fruits and also a pond with fresh water and fish i can eat, i'd say i'll die in the middle of the first night from hypothermia because i can't tolerate cold.

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            I play Animal Crossing. My character has been going for 3 months as of yesterday. She has more clothes than people who live on the mainland, and a two-storey house with a basement and several rooms. She's paid off the racoon (or tanuki if you prefer) so she has no debt. As far as food, it sucks because AC is a vegan fantasy game in which meat and meat byproducts simply do not exist, but hey, the trees and crops grow every 3 days and put out more than enough food for me, the racoon/tanuki and his two nephews, his girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend and her sister, and the museum curator... oh and the ten villagers I have... to survive and thrive.

            Oh, you mean a real deserted island? I couldn't. But I'm about to get off the computer and go cross some animals because they won't cross themselves! (I know that makes no sense, but neither does the name, which it's a play on. FWIW, the game's original Japanese name means something like "animals in the forest." The English name, I think, is a play on "Railroad Crossing," but it's still kind of nonsensical. Just like our reasons for playing this game...

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              I always have a lighter so I could make fire, I can forage and fish and trap if I have to, and I'm pretty good with bushcraft. I also usually have a couple cannabis seeds in one of those keychain style pill bottles so I'm in it for the long haul, I don't think I'd even want to get rescued 😅

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                24 minutes, I'm not an island person. Need my land to be at least a peninsula, maybe a cape but no island.

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                  If there is clean water and some food I can figure out how to harvest relatively easily then I like my odds.

                  Assuming it's not an Arctic island. Then I have until winter.

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                    Idk, I don't like bugs lol

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                      Assuming it's like a small-ish tropical island and i'm the biggest predator around, with plenty of fruits and also a pond with fresh water and fish i can eat, i'd say i'll die in the middle of the first night from hypothermia because i can't tolerate cold.

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                      TIL tropical islands are freezing cold... 😉

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                        Assuming it's like a small-ish tropical island and i'm the biggest predator around, with plenty of fruits and also a pond with fresh water and fish i can eat, i'd say i'll die in the middle of the first night from hypothermia because i can't tolerate cold.

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                        Maybe it's a nice warm tropical island with perfect weather all year round.

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                          it would be just like Minecraft, so I'd make it till nightfall until skeletons and spiders murdered me

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                            If there is a source of clean drinking water? I would have a shot tonCastaway it..

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                              At most until my medication runs out. From then on, it's going down the drain...

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                                Solar still, or a transpiration bag.

                                Les Stroud said that the one thing he can count on in every survival situation, is finding trash.

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                                  When I go ?

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                                    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_threes_(survival)

                                    You can survive three minutes without breathable air (unconsciousness), or in icy water.

                                    You can survive three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold). You need shelter!

                                    You can survive three days without drinkable water.

                                    You can survive three weeks without food. But, many people have gone for over 40 days during fasting and have survived.

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                                    You can survive three weeks without food. But, many people have gone for over 40 days during fasting and have survived.

                                    I dread to think what state your body is in by that point, it has to be consuming itself to keep going.

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                                      You can survive three weeks without food. But, many people have gone for over 40 days during fasting and have survived.

                                      I dread to think what state your body is in by that point, it has to be consuming itself to keep going.

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                                      You CAN survive, but the larger question is would you WANT to survive?

                                      I'm assuming "can survive if you get immediate medical treatment at the end."

                                      This guy went 382 days, but did have water and vitamins, just no food.

                                      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri's_fast

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                                        Assuming it's a tropical island, I think I'd do well enough.

                                        If it's of any size at all, there will be fresh water, and in any case, it will fall from the sky soon enough.

                                        Even if there's nothing to eat on the land, unlikely, there's plenty in the sea.

                                        Making fire would be my first and most difficult chore. Even guys that are practiced struggle, but if our ass is on line, it's amazing what we humans can get done.

                                        Much depends on what gear I have when I get there. Not having any sort of knife would be hell. Having cloth is a big deal.

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                                          TIL tropical islands are freezing cold... 😉

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                                          People got lost in tropical forest and die from hypothermia all the time, night is cold especially when it's windy and it always caught people off guard because the day is hot.

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