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in the US at least boy scouts doesn't exist anymore, they renamed, now there's just scouts and girl scouts
they should just call them popcorn scouts and cookie scouts imo
I was in boy scouts for a while just for the camping and backpacking really, there's a bunch of requirements for advancing and stuff that I just completely ignored
I was in cub scouts and it was just a way for dads to hang out while their kids fuck around. We sold popcorn too I guess
Man, I'm jealous. Girl Scouts didn't teach shit about survival skills. We just half-completed crafts while everyone chatted, sitting comfortably in people's homes. I learned more on the one or two times I joined my family for my brothers' Boy Scouts trips than I ever did from Girl Scouts. I distinctly remember being taught about poison ivy and being shown how to build a shelter in the woods, and I still think of that sometimes when I'm out on hikes.
Would any sleepercells like to educate us AFABs on what else we missed learning?
As someone who joined the boy scouts and only learned they suck at Smash Bros.
Your results may vary.
Not a scout, but I'd wager the majority of information regarding plant types can be found in wikipedia or in any hiking pamphlet, and you can find survival books that explain core concepts like building a shelter for free on sites like Anna's Archive (just use a VPN so your ISP doesn't throw a fit).
I usually read a wide variety of books regarding random skills that may or may not come in handy one day - not as good as in-person demonstrations, ofc, but it works :)
(Honestly, as an engineer - most of what I know for improvising solutions in dangerous situations or to solve problems came from what I read in downloaded books XD)
There is no substitute for hands-on training.
Also hard to trust anything you read online when AI is going to hallucinate/enshitify all data sources.
Oh, I download e-pub/PDF copies of books published before 2022. Because of shadow libraries, almost all publicly available knowledge is accessible if you know the right places or have the right friends :)
Archive.org alone has a ton of things. For a very large value of ton.
Except to join Bibliotik you need to have really specific friends :(
my mother once asked my sister if it was because a boy scout leader sexually assaulted her
my parents are such an odd combination of progressive conservativism / conservative progressivism. The only thing they're firmly opposed to is the center left.
Hey, sounds exactly like my mom! I have no idea where this line of thinking comes that all queer people are that way because they were sexually assaulted at some point, but I've known multiple people in the older generation who think that for some reason.
She also insists that I'm "just a gay man, because I know lots of effeminate gay guys", even though I've explained to her multiple times that's not how it works and I'm primarily attracted to women. It's very tiring to deal with her at times...
"The spy has already breached our defenses."
i dunno. those girl scouts know knots too.
I'm kind of assuming that only trans people have a clear view of all our gender bullshit. I sure wish someone would explain it to (cis) me.
It's like how anime and Metal Gear have a better grasp of American politics than Americans do. We've seen it from the outside and have a clearer picture of the absurdity of the whole.
Gender can be summed up as a bunch of rules we made up to simplify the human condition into a few boxes because our brains don't like it when stuff is complicated. And then the Christians came in and told everybody that they can't have more choices than two boxes because anything more is wrong and ignore the fact that the man in the sky is actually non-binary and likes nonbinary people more because they're more like him. And one box is better than the other because nature says so don't question it.
Tldr: gender is a performance, so you might as well set yours to Rules of Nature
I know they said sleepercell, but I interpreted as 'Splinter Cell', and now this is my brain's soundtrack.
How did I know what song that was going to be before I clicked the link.
... you specifically knew it was going to be the one I picked, not the arguably more well known track for the first level?
That is impressive.
Hey uh, do me a favor and cough a few times, I need to make sure my thermals are working right.
=P
El Cargo and maybe Displaced are my two favorites from the album, and El Cargo is the more... listenable of the two, so odds were good that that's what I was going to think of when I read Splinter Cell and music (it also helps that I don't remember the music from any of the other games, Chaos Theory is just that iconic).
... I rarely meet someone with such specifically similar tastes, in any particular subgenre or category of things.
Bring a spectral phantasm has perks, but also downsides... maybe not entirely dissimilar from being an Eldritch entity such as yourself?
I'm also a big fan of Kokubo Sosho, I think that's its name? I feel its somewhat underrated out of the album, though I base that purely on vibes... don't meet too many other SC fans to talk about it with.
Anyway, yeah Amon Tobin knocked it outta the damn park with that soundtrack, had to keep Kojima in check, hah!
The inverse of that South Park episode where Butters pretends to be a girl to steal their future-predicting technology.
Fallen Boy Scout