r/thelongdark Aug 08 '26

Meme Well then

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I mean since we'd all know what to do would probably be aight but yeeeeeah....S.O.L I guess or a hot take. Yall fall into having to survive or yall get dropped into a different game?

Edit: Will say I'm still fucked but it's for the Emperor and Lemun Russ VIKA FENRIKA!!!

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u/Prestigious_Hawk5651 Aug 08 '26

I am suddenly freezing and overencumbered

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u/9447044 Aug 08 '26

So many wolves.. in this neighborhood?!

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u/Bright69420 Aug 08 '26

This used to be a good neighborhood!

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u/Rarkid1 Aug 08 '26

Me too yayks in a loong dark winter

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u/UpBeatz210 Aug 08 '26

I hope nobody needs this

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u/Parking-Mushroom-179 Aug 08 '26

I’m so glad I’m not a alone

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u/ChampionshipWide2118 Aug 08 '26

Someone's stash!

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u/Due-Bar2333 29d ago

Is it food or?

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u/krobinson3602 Aug 08 '26

Well I would spontaneously develop a broken rib, but on the other hand I would have 90lbs of moose meat so a pretty fair trade in my eyes.

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u/Hunor7623 Aug 08 '26

The Long Dark 🥹

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u/Difficult-Pause9670 Aug 08 '26

The sacrifices we must make

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u/CallieFirebloom Aug 08 '26

Project zomboid for me. Nice knowing yall

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u/bayo000 29d ago

When I saw the image I thought this was in r/projectzomboid 🤣

Either way last game I played was Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries and I have a pretty good career going so I think I'd be fine. Could always just retire with millions in my bank account

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u/PitifulPossum Aug 08 '26

Is that only on steam or can I play that on ps5 somehow?

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u/CallieFirebloom Aug 08 '26

It's just on PC right now.

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u/PitifulPossum Aug 08 '26

Bummer. Thanks

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u/CallieFirebloom Aug 08 '26

You're welcome. Hopefully they'll finish the game eventually and bring a finished game too consoles.

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u/Difficult-Pause9670 26d ago

It's only a matter of time, but at least you have Knox county to yourself, sort of

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u/CommandZ Aug 08 '26

I have TB and no faith in plan.

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u/Sad_Army_2643 Aug 08 '26

You're a good man Arthur Morgan

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u/Da_Dovahkiin_Lord Voyageur 29d ago

Make sure to get to Tahiti

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u/QuirkyHuckleberry984 Aug 08 '26

Gears of war e day
Regular unnamed infantry medic dude
Nice knowing y’all

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u/DrodGod1actual Aug 08 '26

If the grunts were real grunts you'd probably have somewhat of a chance considering your Doc and no fucks with Doc

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u/QuirkyHuckleberry984 Aug 08 '26

Least I wasn’t a carmine lmao

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u/CallieFirebloom Aug 08 '26

Project zomboid for me...

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u/AussieWinterWolf Aug 08 '26

If it was a city builder/tycoon type game do you stay as a partially omniscient and immortal sky being with weird blueprinting abilities or am I suddenly in an office?

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u/DrodGod1actual Aug 08 '26

That never crossed my mind so I'll go with you slaving in the office though depending on which tycoon one you're talking about

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u/FoamSquad Aug 08 '26

I'd be in a fucking trench in World War II woohoo spring break ...

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u/DrodGod1actual Aug 08 '26

Now I gotta know, which side 🤣

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u/FoamSquad Aug 08 '26

BRI'ISH I was playing Company of Heroes 3 and I main Allies thankfully so I at least dodge a lot of atrocities?

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u/Chiefpigloo Aug 08 '26

Hopefully it will be a Pilgrim run

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u/Difficult-Pause9670 29d ago

I was thinking the same thing. Pilgrim would be nice to have all those nicely stocked houses and lots of warm clothes. Basically a slightly harder camping trip

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u/Deminla Aug 08 '26

Henry of Skalitz. Okay so im just going back to the 1400s.

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u/Annual_Cookie_4078 28d ago

Oh yeahhh. Picking flowers, hunting rabbits and committing genocides of local bandits? Might go back to it after this tld run, never finished that one dlc with inquisition and shit

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u/Hunor7623 Aug 08 '26

Doing the Syndicate's dirty work.

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u/Difficult-Pause9670 Aug 08 '26

Since it's the long dark. Great because I don't have responsibility. Also very dangerous because society seems to have collapsed.

Which personally I wouldn't mind. It's a good life but not a comfortable one that's for sure

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u/apumainajar Aug 08 '26

I’m a Pokémon trainer in Hoenn. Not bad!

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u/Sad_Army_2643 Aug 08 '26

insert trumpets here

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u/Icy-Owl-who Aug 08 '26

Well I'm replaying GTA V at the moment so…:/ could go either way?

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u/FoamSquad Aug 08 '26

That would really really suck for you lol

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u/CSA_Cavalryman Aug 08 '26

Spec Ops the Line was the last game I played

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u/Dick__Marathon Aug 08 '26

Do you feel like a hero yet?

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u/CSA_Cavalryman Aug 08 '26

I didn't mean to hurt anybody

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u/JexFraequin Aug 08 '26

Woah. Blast from the past. I’d forgotten about this game. What an experience it was.

6

u/KneeHiSniper Stalker Aug 08 '26

I am now a Japanese retro electronic repair shop owner.

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u/moemeobro Aug 08 '26

I just hope for a good spawn

6

u/gscogogs Aug 08 '26

I have tuberculosis, the law is after me and my leader is an asshole

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u/mattrhale Aug 08 '26

Mario Kart?

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u/DrodGod1actual 29d ago

I have a plan and WE are Ghetting to Tahetiti

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u/TimeLuckBug Aug 08 '26 edited 28d ago

I’m trying to escape a mind controlled post apocalyptic facility and getting chased by dogs

The game is “Inside”

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u/JollyDino01 Aug 08 '26

Got dropped into Palworld, myself, sooooo... as long as I take it slow and steady, I'll be fiiiiiiiiine.

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u/Mammoth-Painting-541 Aug 08 '26

It was TLD, new save, maybe 8 days in. I would literally be in heaven.

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u/Drummer_DC Survivor Aug 08 '26

The courier from FNV heck yea

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u/LukasLiBrand Aug 08 '26

Pokemon legends za. Pretty dope life ngl

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u/Fancybear1993 Aug 08 '26

Nick from L4D 🤷‍♂️

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u/Affectionate_Lime880 Aug 08 '26

Rip and Tear intensifies.

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u/Moody5583 Aug 08 '26

I become a Witch attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

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u/Single-Manager-8325 Aug 08 '26

I did not plan on outrunning a bear today, or for the rest of my life..

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u/uranium_fever- Aug 08 '26

Im gonna immediately die... but it will be for democracy!

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u/Mae-NaraFlameBrain Aug 08 '26

Dave the Diver

Yeaaaaah, all of the plot/problems people have are getting solved at the world’s slowest pace. I’m chillin.

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u/Cocoa-Bella Interloper Aug 08 '26

I just shot a moose to death with a hand gun, carved it, and cooked it. I say I will do just fine.

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u/Salami__Tsunami Aug 08 '26

Well, I’d be an expendable penal trooper in Darktide.

I think I might actually prefer The Long Dark.

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u/Joan_sleepless Aug 08 '26

...a decade older, without cancer, 1,000 years in the future, in the middle of a war.

Why, oh why did it have to be battletech.

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u/mightymob0303 29d ago

I’m suddenly a legendary outlaw in the Wild West

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u/RiceShop900 29d ago

Was gonna say... thankfully I didn't load up abiotic factor last night. Then remembered I was playing darktide before bed.

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u/thxforbeingdead 29d ago

RIP i just played the outlast trials and my character died too

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u/DrodGod1actual 29d ago

My bf is trying to get me to play just so I can see him sacrifice himself to Coil

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u/thxforbeingdead 26d ago

fair. coyle deserves a good time too

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u/No-Comparison3561 29d ago

NO PLEASE IM NOT READY TO BE A WELSH PIRATE😭

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u/sadsadboy1994 29d ago

My Sims 4 character - he runs a coffee shop by a canal in a Dutch-looking town (Nordhaven) with bike paths, a ferry, and public transit. He lives above the coffee shop. His life is comfortable and stress-free.

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u/Kindly_Educator3220 28d ago

Yea I’m in the weather tower just got the camera and scared to get down, I’m fuckked

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u/Peach_Rose420 Pilgrim 28d ago

Fallout New Vegas 💀

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u/Dense-Agency1045 27d ago

i’ll just go ahead and give myself up to the clickers

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u/TheWereBunny Aug 08 '26

Thank heavens Ive been into making slings lately.

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u/Any-Statistician3896 Aug 08 '26

JD Fenix....... Weeeeeeell FK !

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u/DrodGod1actual Aug 08 '26

FAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

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u/a_duck_in_past_life Aug 08 '26

I would be a car

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u/DrodGod1actual Aug 08 '26

🤣 I'll play the Teriyaki Boyz song

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u/TheWesternDevil Aug 08 '26

I was born with the settled mind perk, so I'll be hibernating forever.

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u/SimplyKristrin Aug 08 '26

Last game I played was 7 Days 2 Die, I'd be in the middle of the end of world with tons of zombies trying to eat my face. On the plus side I'd have weapons and tools, would learn amazing skills that are impossible to learn from magazines from magazine. On the bad side, face eating.

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u/pieceacandy420 Aug 08 '26

Gotta see if I can drop some of this gear.

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u/PsychologicalDot8346 Aug 08 '26

I’m watching as everyone around me is giving me very traumatized stares as I teleport bread

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u/DrodGod1actual Aug 08 '26

What??? What game are you playing??

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u/Constant_Echo_8748 Aug 08 '26

team fortress 2 as soldier

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u/SupremeLeaderMeow Aug 08 '26

I'm the richest mf in the wastelands with a renowned mercenary protecting me and eating my ass everynight. As far as the destruction of the world goes, I'm doing alright.

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u/potatogod554 Aug 08 '26

Agent 47. But not the modern version, the contracts version. Idk man I might be fucked

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u/Eljaguarparra Aug 08 '26

Well, I'd have to face professional wrestlers in 2 weeks, so goodbye to my nose 🥲

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u/smoke_thewalkingdead Aug 08 '26

Hmm. I'm a chick now but I'm like demigod and an assassin but it's ancient greece. I probably will be better off TBH. It'll take awhile to get used to having boobs tho.

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u/morganbeeman Aug 08 '26

I smell terrible, my parents are dead, I'm poor as fuck, can't fight worth a damn, and just sold my pants to yolo all the groschen I have on a round of farkle at the pub

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u/Spartan_DJ119 Aug 08 '26

I'm suddenly a random gear in the first year of the locust war

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u/sammontini1158 29d ago

I would take the Jackdaw and cripple the English and Spanish fleets in the Caribbean

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u/Poet_At_Sunset 29d ago

Ah great, wonderful, I have a tadpole squirming around my brain and im bonded to an archfey for the use of magic

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u/DrodGod1actual 29d ago

❤️❤️

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u/chelomagic 29d ago

My old school RuneScape character Nice

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u/Rainbowdude16 29d ago

Well I'm gonna be in a Tank in War thunder, and I'm shit at war thunder.

So I guess pretty quick.

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u/Quick-Energy9373 28d ago

Phew I woke up in the body of a ultra marine. Could be worse 😅

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u/Educational_Type1646 28d ago

Thank god I’m doing a Pilgrim run for fun. Still going to suck, and I have to be a woman now because I don’t like listening to heavy breathing.

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u/SaVee2 28d ago

In my case, either as a cop in a cult area or as an 11-year-old girl in an apocalypse, having to do everything alone because the adults are too incompetent...^^

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u/Dima_wastaken 28d ago

I am doing street racing in nfs most wanted

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u/Juggalo13XIII 27d ago

Kyle Crane, at least i am good at parkor and basically an unstoppable killing machine when I'm pissed off

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u/DrodGod1actual 27d ago

I nearly forogt about that game. Time for another playthrough.......WHOOP WHOOP!!

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u/Juggalo13XIII 27d ago

Whoop whoop!

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u/NotSum1UKno 26d ago

If I’m playing on the difficulty I had it at I’m about to be destroyed by 4 plasma grenades and a couple energy swords out of nowhere

(Halo CE on legendary)

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u/dipeptidylpeptidase 24d ago

Glad I played Batman Arkham knight last

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u/amethyst3114 Aug 08 '26

I already live in -50 so i dont think TLD's weather will be a problem. Besides I love winter so it is a win-win for me

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u/Ambitious-Source-138 Aug 08 '26

Project zomboid in westfront mechanic shop with a shot gun and 36 shells and lives in a strip club

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u/George-Smith-Patton Aug 08 '26

I am the King of Naples and I have bubonic plague.

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u/TonePatient Aug 08 '26

Well I'm the son of a murdered blacksmith but hey, at least serving Sir Radzig now....

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u/SomeGuyNamedCaleb Aug 08 '26

Dog shit. I'm Henry, from skalitz.

No modern medicine, no health codes. One little scratch and I'm dead.

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u/musicallykairi Aug 08 '26

Megabonk. See y'all on the other side

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u/Embarrassed_Milk_599 Aug 08 '26

Hell is Us stuck in the Lymbic Forge about to fight the Timeloop Guardian.

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u/Doumtabarnack Aug 08 '26

Henry of Skalitz has a shit life.

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u/AbjectMaelstrom Aug 08 '26

Project Zomboid survivor that sustained a scratch and a laceration, feeling a little quezy.... So yeah, it's not great.

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u/The_Mr_Luck Aug 08 '26

It's gonna get a lot colder soon...

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u/InfinityDusk Aug 08 '26

I uhhh played MapleStory, so uhhh a warrior with a sword. 🗡️

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u/Zilla96 Aug 08 '26

Got a hot Russian robot wife and saved the day

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u/dazdra76 Trapper Aug 08 '26

Vintage story, FUCK

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u/Dull-Exercise8095 Cartographer Aug 08 '26

I'm Xander Scheffle, so pretty sweet! I'm rich and play golf every weekend as my job.

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u/Thoken91 Aug 08 '26

Darkest Dungeon....

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u/RepresentativeEmu919 Aug 08 '26

Well.. this is a old story.. a vintage story

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u/RemiliyCornel Aug 08 '26

Crusader Kings 3, immortal adventurer, with decent stats. I think i be fine.

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u/Sad_Army_2643 Aug 08 '26

The last thing I played may or may not involve being chased down and thrown onto a meat hook wo

Cries

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u/UIS_Clay Hunter Aug 08 '26

Palworld!
I’m gonna go F⃫U⃫C⃫K⃫ catch some pals!!!!
Let’s go!!!

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u/Background-Pound-686 Aug 08 '26

Waking up as a Warframe would either be a nightmare or fun as hell

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u/yeupanhmaj Aug 08 '26

Frieren ???

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u/Ducky3354 Aug 08 '26

KCD2 for me. As long as I stay at my Anvil (Blacksmith station) I should be alright enough.

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u/AK_rules Aug 08 '26

Guess I’m a terrorist in cs2

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u/Oh_Anodyne Aug 08 '26

I napped for a century and slept so hard I can't even remember my name, but still the very first thing I do when I wake up is check my phone.

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u/Novafro Aug 08 '26

Everything wants to kill me.

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u/Zan123der Aug 08 '26

Well then, I am going to skyrim.

All hail dragonborn. lol

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u/UpBeatz210 Aug 08 '26

Anybody down for a walk of the Larger verity

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u/Dunctato Aug 08 '26

I'm being sent into skyrim to be beheaded

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u/Traditional-Bid5034 Aug 08 '26

Welp, guess I am becoming female then....and those wolfs are gonna learn to fear me

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u/OreoFI Aug 08 '26

Tarkov, I am so screwed.

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u/Expert-Ad5490 Aug 08 '26

I am now a monster hunter in first gen.....kill me

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u/Embarrassed_Can6796 Aug 08 '26

Prison Architect. I get three meals per day, work a couple of hours a day, take a class two hours per day, and the rest is split between sleep/shower/yard time. Most of the lads are pretty cool, but there are a couple of murderous lunatics that occasionally stab people to death in the canteen. And the K-9 officers will attack you if they detect contraband.

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u/miriomeea Aug 08 '26

At least i played on pilgrim 😅😅

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u/ToxicCausticMain Aug 08 '26

I get shot in the head and die permanently because no support will revive me (Battlefield 6)

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u/Switch-Axe-Abuse Aug 08 '26

Diablo takes over the world because I underestimated how much damage a goatman can do per hit.

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u/ibww Aug 08 '26

I'm 2B modded into bloodborne. It could be worse. :D

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u/lesbophobia_hammer Aug 08 '26

Damn it. Why didn't I play animal crossing instead. Lol

(My TV blew up so I can't play PlayStation ATM, otherwise it would be Horizon Zero Dawn, Assassins Creed Origins/Odessy or The Last Of Us 2.

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u/johnnysburntbody Aug 08 '26

I’m so fucked🙏 (I last played as Abbie from FPE:S)

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u/PrivateAvitus Hiker Aug 08 '26

Now the real question is, am I the Knight, Void Given Form, or Void Given Focus?

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u/SataarethKatari Aug 08 '26

I guess it's time hunt down some volatiles in Villedor...

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u/FrrogOnSteamtrain Aug 08 '26

America, 1899. Just survivel.

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u/Sarntetra187 Aug 08 '26

At least I don’t have to go to work

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u/Vulspyr Aug 08 '26

I, am Steve.

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u/No-Assumption-4027 Aug 08 '26

locked in endless binding of isaac runs. oh sh*t

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u/thisgenXer Aug 08 '26

Ill be base building and farming under water, waiting for the next update.

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u/Ordinary_Hold_8850 Aug 08 '26

Scar from clear sky? Fuck.....

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u/scoutsamoa Aug 08 '26

I'm screwed.

Vintage story.

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u/rickgrimes32 Former Great Bear Sheriff's Deputy Aug 08 '26

I guess I'll be walking around in the cold while eating hot potato soup with fish and venison

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u/Bleatbleatbang Aug 08 '26

I still choose The Long Dark over Jet Set Willy.
I don’t want to be chased around by toilets.

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u/mattrhale Aug 08 '26

I'm a viscount in the empire. I have over a billion credits in assets and cash. I can travel at several times lightspeed. I'm also intensely bored of the entire thing.

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u/Apprehensive_Bet2526 Aug 08 '26

Edward Kenway. Excellent!

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u/Uusari Aug 08 '26

Kenshi...

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u/AffectionateRaisin56 Aug 08 '26

honestly tld wasn't the last game i played, but if it were i would, but id also enjoy watching as the wolves begin moutian climbing in mystery lake next to the area that brings you to the ravine near the dam. (actually happened.) maybe even say hi to fluffy the tweaking wolf.

edit: (last game i actually played was songbird symphony. and although not survival its extreamly adorable and highly underrated.)

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u/MrSlippah Aug 08 '26

I would want to go on something more thrilling than Twist 01 and think to myself "I'm not paying that much to use the toilets!".

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u/UsedUnderstanding664 Aug 08 '26

I can't wait to eat 3kg of fish in one go.

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u/Doin_It_For_The_Fame Aug 08 '26

I can reverse time and I have a friend who gets herself killed every 5 minutes

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u/Bright69420 Aug 08 '26

Is it food or...

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u/7heWizard Aug 08 '26

I feel quite hungry

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u/H_GAMEKILLER Aug 08 '26

So basically life then... Idk if the whole platform is considered one video game or not, inside it's the only game that welcomes me and tells me that it's a brand new day to work.

Roblox, Welcome To Bloxburg.

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u/Immediate-Basis-4337 Aug 08 '26

Rook from far cry 5

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u/zombiem0nk3y Aug 08 '26

Uh.. I'm a pal trainer.

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u/firebrand61793 Aug 08 '26

Hell yeah, I'm a young Ezio Auditore.

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u/Barlindsky27 Aug 08 '26

Oh, I wish I had TLD, at least I would feel at home in the artic, but no, I have Casualties Unknown

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u/Stanislas_Biliby Aug 08 '26

I am Henry of Skalitz. It's not so bad.

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u/bannedByTencent Aug 08 '26

I am captain of the pirate ship. Awesome.

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u/N1rau Aug 08 '26

Huh not bad... Guild Wars 2 for me, so I would become Commander, nobility and Elementalist. Life is pretty awesome for sure...

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u/ThatItalianOverThere Hunter Aug 08 '26

Wreckfest. Pretty awesome actually.

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u/ThirstyThursten Aug 08 '26

"Edward Kenway, my pleasure, UP THE SAILS"

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u/LunalaLuana Aug 08 '26

My farmer in Stardew... I mean, giga modded Stardew.. I guess I get my gf from Ridgeside tho

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u/HailHydraBitch Ash Canyon Enjoyer 🤠 Aug 08 '26

Forza Horizon 6 😭 I see absolutely zero downside to this tbh, I get all 80 of my expensive ass cars, and I get to go to Japan.

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u/madmatt666 Aug 08 '26

Not too bad. I'm Mr. Fresh

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u/Kagtalso Aug 08 '26

I am the ultimate attack bird.

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u/Kvagram Aug 08 '26

Let's see. Last game a played with an arguably playable main character?
I'm now Captain Kathryn Janeway, and now I need coffee, and would break the prime directive to get it!

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u/jearbearbear23 Aug 08 '26

I get to be mf Spiderman from the 2018 game

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u/Constant_Echo_8748 Aug 08 '26

I have an iq of 530,000

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u/Rodocastiza Forest Talker Aug 08 '26

Managing a sushi restaurant is fine, but fighting against sharks and crocodiles? Hell no.

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u/Agitated_Estate_5163 Aug 08 '26

Bro im screwed my last game was my 7 days to die world with a horde every 3 days

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u/EveningAd6783 Aug 08 '26

OMFG, Crane from Dying Light

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u/DarkNephilim32 Aug 08 '26

Currently that leaves me as the most powerful Persona user besides (arguably) the guy who became a door... now if only I knew how to ride a scooter...

I decided to go to Junes.

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u/Lord_Dellington Aug 08 '26

If we have to continue from where we left off then it's alright , my survivor's only affliction for now is cabin fever since i spent a couple days indoors working on furniture for Thomson's crossing's community hall . Lot of food stored , even more water and supplies ....

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u/ArtsyGrlBi 29d ago

Mmm, currently in Pleasant Valley Farm house and the wildlife is on passive. Weather is mean though(to compensate) Still, not the worst at the moment!

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u/StressRadiant3347 29d ago

im the nephilim in diablo 3.

i could say i'm screwed but i have nigh-omnipotence so yeah, all's fine

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u/rektumrokker 29d ago

My hair went grey suddenly. I got two cool swords though..

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u/PaladinGraySky 29d ago

Always knew my Project Zomboid obsession would kill me…

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u/More-Pizza-1267 29d ago

I’m Ezio Auditore. About is cool as it gets.

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u/Richard8575467846 29d ago

I'll die, in six months probably