• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      Except water becomes incredibly hard if being hit with too much speed. If there’s vegetation next to it and you’re at (or close to) terminal velocity you might want to land there instead. There are confirmed cases of people surviving a fall into vegetation after their parachutes didn’t open.

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          20 hours ago

          Because responding seriously to a comment that is obviously tongue in cheek is annoying.

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            19 hours ago

            Thanks for explaining - seriously.

            As a neurologic divergent I literally do not see it that way. So I would now criticize the tolerance of neurotypicals and get me downvoted. 😁

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        I just watched the new Jurassic Park movie yesterday and a guy falls 500 feet into a shallow river and is completely unhurt so now I don’t know who to believe

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        1 day ago

        You won’t fool anyone mate, I know it for A FACT that you don’t take damage if you fall in water from ANY height! I’ve done it countless times in Minecraft!

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          6 hours ago

          Even non-cartoony, somewhat serious games do it.

          Horizon Zero Dawn does it. Even has a few spots where you’re supposed to jump semi-blindly into dark pits because you can vaguely see a body of water deep down.

          Even ignoring the fact that anyone but a olympic-level diver would just crash against the surface and die horribly, has Aloy considered that for all she knows it could be a 10cm deep puddle?