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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Into The Wild
 
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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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JiveHonky posted:

Finally watched this (tried to) on Amazon video.

I got about halfway through it, god drat its boring.

For those who havent seen it or dont know the story its about this young man who decides he wants to renounce his material life and wander out into the cold-rear end woods to commit slow, agonizing suicide. (based on a true story)

Dont get me wrong, i'm all for people having self determination and making thier own path through life but the way this guy did it just annoyed the heck outta me. He was obviously from a nice family and had everything he needed growing up, the story starts with him graduating from Harvard and in a pivotal scene at the family celebration dinner at a really nice restaurant his parents piss him off by telling him that they want to buy him a new car as a graduation present (the bastards!). This seems to seal the deal on his plans to drop out of society. He burns all his forms of ID and cuts up his credit cards. He sends his life savings to Oxfam (okay fine, its a good charity at least), packs a backpack, jumps in his car and drives off to his new life as a homeless tramp so he can "find the truth about himself". gently caress his poor family, they never see his dumb rear end again as far as I could tell.



Above is the last known photo of a spoiled rich kid (the real one, not the movie one) before he died from eating poison berries.

Am I wrong? should I have more empathy for this guy?

nope. the stupid rear end in a top hat made his way to the bus in Alaska, learned nothing on the way and died alone anyway

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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I have no idea why anyone would respect him

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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Blue Train posted:

He was an idiot bitch and thinking he embodies the individualistic spirit or whatever outs you as basic as gently caress

he was Bill Gates, without all the good parts.

Or the interesting parts

Or the smart parts.

He was just a stupid rear end in a top hat who died in a bus less than a mile away from help, because he didn't do any research about going to live in Alaska

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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Machai posted:

how did the bus get there?

Bigfoot

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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Rutibex posted:

yeah its almost like, if you see a bus in the wilderness you can assume a road or something might be near by and maybe look around? i donno i guess thats crazy, better to starve to death :shrug:

he really was dumb as poo poo wasn't he.
I'm not going to find the road this bus came from I'm just going to sit here and die because I can't survive on my own

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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I pissed off everyone to get here. no one will like me if I survive

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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cool new Polack jokes posted:

I also am curious about the bus

some other retard off roaded it for a while. It was a bus. There has to be a road near by.

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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it was a loving bus.

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Aug 11, 2008
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Blue Train posted:

The converted bus where McCandless lived and died has since become a well-known destination for hikers. Known as "The Magic Bus", the 1946 International Harvester was abandoned by road workers in 1961 on the Stampede Trail where it remains today.

McCandless was an rear end in a top hat idiot. Yeah

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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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scuba school sucks posted:

I feel like for the mentally ill guy who wants to do this, it helps if you're the kind of mentally ill where you stock up on survival gear. Go through like a month-long phase where you're a hoarder but all you hoard is copies of the boy scout manual. And maps. Just like an entire spare room of your house full of maps.

I would respect McCandles more if he had a boy scout manual when he died alone in that bus

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