• 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website
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    This made me look up the actual Predator code of Honor and I quote

    "Unarmed and/or “innocent” beings may be hunted if they:

    Are the specific objective of a hunt."
    

    Sorry Op, you’re still screwed.

    Jaws is objectively the best choice anyway. Just drive inland.

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    The predator does not kill children or pregnant women. Predator 2 showed that. A kid with a toy UZI spotted the predator with his light bending and as a precaution the predator armed his shoulder cannon, but upon sensing it was not a real gun he disarmed it.

    Also the subway showed he found a fetus developing in a woman and immediately released her.

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    Sadako. Her curse takes 7 days to take effect, assuming it’s gone once 24 hours are up. Else, Jaws can’t get you if you’re nowhere close to the sea.

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      It says 24 hours of being chased by the villain. That means the timer won’t start until they start chasing you.

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        That’d be a good Monkey’s Paw style answer if James Bond was anywhere near horror. People thinking they can kick back and sleep off a day just to end up with a big guy with metal teeth that can chomp through frigging steel cable busting in their door.

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      So theres a lot in the books that never comes up in the film. She can impregnate you and make you give birth to a clone of her.

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        Well that’s got to take longer than 24 hours, surely? Or is the speed of the pregnancy part of the horror? Can she mpreg!?

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          No, the pregnancy is accelerated, but I think it takes longr than a day, but it might be faster in some circumstances. Even if you get 3 billion dollars, it doesnt really matter if you’re going to die giving birth to a hermaphroditic hybrid of homosapian and smallpox days later.

          As far as mpreg goes; we dont know. Do you want to take that risk?

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    I wanted to say Freddy, because 24 hours without sleep would be easy-peasy. …then I realized Im not a teenageer anymore and would probably take a nap anyways.

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      This would work with a small investment in hard drugs before hand. Depends on how much prep time and street cred you have.

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        I’m an old boring dude, but if I got off caffeine for a week before hand, I’d have no trouble stay awake after my second cup that day.

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      Yeah it’s early afternoon here and I just realized that I someone told me I had to stay awake for the next 24 hours, I wouldn’t make it.

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              Actually physically addicted? Probably not. And you’d only need one, maybe two hits (assuming oral consumption, not smoked or IV) spread out over your 24 hours to get through it. However, the euphoric rush from the Meth would be pretty intense (the dopamine release is 5x-10x that of Adderall) and most of the dangers are from chronic use, so if you’re the kind of person who’s prone to risk-taking, it’s possible you could wind up rationalizing the risks away and continuing to use it, and wind up truly addicted down the road. This is basically the route most addicts take. There aren’t any substances that are so addictive that one use gets you physically hooked.

              It might be especially easy to fall down this path if you’re now a multi-billionaire and no longer have a need to work and thus need to find something new to occupy your time.

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                Just buy three pills of Adderall XR. I’m sure you would be able to get someone to sell you three pills in exchange for $1,000,000-$10,000,000 the day after tomorrow.

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      weather alert, there’s a tornado on your way…

      hope it doesn’t launch a weird franchise

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    The Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park because first of all, I’m actually pretty sure I’d be fine so long as I can get in my car and drive away at a reasonable pace. Secondly, just think of the absolutely incredible collateral damage. Even if I get killed, it would be one of the most talked-about and confusing incidents in American history for the rest of time.

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    Freddy Kruger, as long as I have prep time. Get a good night sleep the night before? Staying awake for 24 hours is pretty trivial. I can get up at 6 one morning and stay up til 6 the next morning. I’m willing to screw my sleep cycle up for a few days in exchange for 3 billion dollars.

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    I’d go with Hopper from A Bug’s Life. I’m sure he’s a huge threat to Dave Foley and Julia Louse-Dreyfus, but I ain’t worried about no grasshopper, even one voiced by Kevin Spacey.

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    Prompt says you’re being chased but nothing about the quality of the chase. I like the image of the predator being obligated to chase them but feeling kind of ashamed of it so they don’t really want to get the kill.

    Hunted: ‘*puff, wheeze* Just… gotta… get to the top… of the hill.’ Predator: *walks calmly up to just behind the hunted and makes a predator noise, then sits to wait for them to scramble the rest of the way up while the predator plays space-solitaire*