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You are going to be stuck in a room for 24 hours with no internet access and you can bring one item, what do you bring? (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Food, water and electricity will be provided so the answer isn't just a fuck ton of food+water

I'd bring my retroid, have a fuck ton of games on it, would prolly spend a while playing xmen vs street fighter

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

answer isn't just a fuck ton of food+water

3-3-3 rule of thumb: 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.

Some people can do 5-5-5, but if they weren't going to give you anything... the answer would be: scuba diving gear with 24h worth of air.

Other than that... what are the walls made of? Can I draw on them? Can I carve them out? Can I bring a nice machete, then either draw, carve, or have a stab at decapitating whoever forced me in there? 😈

PS: After a surgery, I've been stuck in a room for 2 months with no internet access. There was a TV on the wall...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its just a stone room, you are not in any danger

If you can break limestone bricks go ahead. The point of the question is how would you spend 24 hours lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, then I'm in the smartphone/laptop camp.

Preloaded with either the Wikipedia via Kiwix, or a few dozen GB of Project Gutenberg, and some software/apps for writing, drawing, math, coding, etc.

Give me a place to sleep, air, water, food, meds, a toilet, maybe a change of clothes from time to time, plus stuff to read, learn, and experiment with, and I could easily stay in a room "off the internet" for waaaay longer than 24 hours. Probably closer to a year... or ten.

Some time in the future, I'd probably say portable VR computer (bonus for no internet, so no ads, and no tracking).