Alone airs tonight, lets get the seasonal thread going as they are some of my favorite comfy threads. This year its "Alone: World Championship" This season, survivalists from seven different countries are represented including the United States x3 kek, Canada, Wales, Australia, Slovenia, Portugal, and New Zealand. It is set within the Arctic Circle along the rugged Richardson Mountains in the Northwest Territories of Aklavik, about 150km from where they filmed Season 11Hopefully its more interesting as I found the last few seasons lacking
>>2872257And here is the list of people. Only one female this time, 3 people from United states despite saying its a world championship which is odd, but maybe some people backed out
>>2872257The Aussie guy is owned, honestly im betting on the two alaska guys
>>2872257Once again the only woman on show is unbearable and terrible to watch, cried in the first day.
Fella lasted 2 whole days, maybe 3. Before going MUH KIDS and leaving
>>2872257Oh, does it? Sweet. I'll tune in. Hope its good, though nothing can beat the 100 day king.
just starting 1st episode now! hopefully this season is better than last year. last year was such a disappointment
>>2872367typical. they almost always do that. >i'm all alone on a showed called alone and i don't like being alone. how could this happen to me?!
Where do I watch this? Don't have a TV anymore.
>>2872489The Gulf of Buccaneers
>>2872257>Before The Drop>Producers all standing around talking about how they tear up watching the showFUCK!!!! God damned Faggots ruin everything!!!!
>>2872480she fell over and screamed like a banshee, I legit thought she broke something, but no she was just having a melty
>>2872494Waman moment
>>2872402There's always one who realizes they're just not cut out for it
What a bunch of simps they gathered for this season!! I don't see a single one I want to pull for. I don't see any winners let alone "the one". I predict a very short season. I'm not expecting it to go over 30 days at this point.
>>2872667wtf are you talking about Will is clearly a survivalchad
>>2872672Unless he was faking for the camera, Will will tap out because he misses his family. I predict 1-2 weeks at the most before he taps.
I’m betting on that dude from Portugal to win. He seems to have his shit together.
>>2872790I also like that guy. Long life of choosing hardship seems to have given him a great attitude. He'll stumble over and over but won't fall... barring some disaster
>>2872480Most women are like that, especially at certain points of the hormone cycle. Imagine crying because you bought the wrong flavor of coffee by accent.
>>2872969I hate that, last week I accidentally got New Zealand instead of Irish. Tasted like rotten kiwis, sounded worse.Also LOL at the guy who spent most of his life in high school but never learned how not to leave his gear in a fire.
>>2872975Fuckin guy didn't even try to make a friction fire despite being in good health with lots of early game energy. Smells like bitch in here.Last American remaining has a good chance from what I've seen, dude seems to have his shit in order.
>>2872257I'm surprised nobody has been keeping wood and starter tinder underneath their tarp to keep it out of the water and rain (that area is as swampy as the atchafalaya or okefenokee).
>>2873022yeah he had days to work on getting a friction fire going yet seemingly did fuckall about it.
>those euros better gear up bc they're playing with the big boys now>AAAAAAAHHHHH MY FERRO RODThe editors really clowned him on that one
>>2873235No, he did it to himself. It was his choice.
>>2873238This board is so autistic
>>2873240Yes that’s what makes It brilliant
>>2872674Well he literally admits in episode 3 that he had a bit of an absent father, so I'm guessing he's not gonna tap because muh missing his family. >>2872790>>2872922Clearly a psychologically fragile guy relying a ton on positive reinforcement. I also think he just doesn't have the metabolism for endurance starvation like some of the others do. My guess is he won't tap, but they'll medically evac him later on in the game. My money is on Will. Does anyone know how feasible it is to use the gillnet on the river in winter, or will rivers like that actually freeze over as well?
>>2873635>how feasible it is to use the gillnet on the river in winterDepends on how deep it is. Contestants in previous seasons have used them in winter. IIRC Clay Hayes was cleaning a fish he'd just pulled from his (made from scratch) gill net when the tv crew showed up to tell him he'd won.
>>2873635>I'm guessing he's not gonna tap because muh missing his familyWe'll see. I liked him better in episode 3 than episode 1. But he's still one of the most effeminate indians I've ever seen, probably due to lack of a father figure growing up, now that we know that.>will rivers like that actually freeze over as wellYes, I'm pretty sure, at some point, they will have to stop fishing for a couple weeks to let it freeze over before they can begin ice fishing.
The woman is very unlikable. Not at all like callie or that one older season six girl who kept stabbing herself.
>>2873635>I'm from the Inupiaq tribe>uses Inupiaq wordswe get it bro, let's move on.
>>2873804She's fucking insufferable!! Twice now that dumb cunt has screamed like she was dying, for no fucking reason. She's a fucking child. I can't wait for her to tap the fuck out!
>>2873861She's on the rag, please understand.
>>2873853>i'm from New Zealand>uses New Zealand wordswe get it bro, let's move on.
>>2873892New Zealand words and slang are probably used and understood by millions of people. Some long dead language used by a couple injuns is understood by no one and no one cares
>>2873981They have to have translation notes sometimes with Kiwis and Aussies because they use words no one else knows the meaning of. It's exactly the same
>>2874020>using a dead language is exactly the same as using your local vernacular
the first half of every season of this show is unwatchable because of how much time they waste on telling me about some dudes family whose going hope at the end of episode 2 anyways. i want to see people surviving, building stuff, hunting
>>2874255yeah i can't remember when this dynamic creeped in. I think it's fairly new as they used to show all kinds of little tips about what the contestants were doing. Now it's just>muh fee fees >muh family>muh keedsthey must have hired a shit ton of woman producers or something.
>>2874261I fucking hate women and families
>>2874261>they must have hired a shit ton of woman producers or somethingWorse, a bunch of film school faggots. Watch Episode 0, before the drop. They go on an on about how they tear up watching the show.
>>2874255I hate how true this is, I make the threads almost every year but everytime now I get 2 or 3 episodes in and rather wait until I can binge the show since nothing fucking happens. We got some bitch screaming, and people moping about their families
God we will never get the peak that was season 7 stabbing a muskox all in first person camera view
You'd think after 13 seasons someone would've been devoured by wolverines or mauled by a bear or fallen into the water and turned into a contestantcicle by now. Every season has some crazy dangerous moments, I'm genuinely surprised there've been no deaths, particularly with some of the retards they recruit.Maybe there has and they've carefully edited those people out.
>>2874281I can't remember the season, but the one fella when pulled out almost died due to organs almost failing. People assumed he ate fox when he shouldn't and picked up something. His final days were also suddenly fine to illness
>>2872257Looks like the Welshman won.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADNb9MBkPIo
Aaron is kino
Why did Poldi turn into a woman at the end of the episode?
>>2874319It was her time of the month.
>>2874277Is it me or are they also making the episodes longer? A 30 minute action-packed episode would probably be favorable over this. >>2874278Roland was such a fucking beast. >>2874293There's no way he won. He's barely caught anything. It's either gonna by the Injun or the Canadian, probably. Maybe Žiga, because he actually seems smart and also brought a gill net. >>2874319Maybe you missed the part early on where he said he still lived with his parents.
>>2874456Remember when Clay Hayes made a gill net from scratch out of paracord fibers in season 8?
>>2874468Yep, but seeing how successful it has been this season I'm thinking it was a smart move to take one as an item.
>>2874474NTA... Still a waste of an item post Clay Hayes season. Gill nets are easy to make. If it's a game winning item it'll only be because no one else made one, like they tended to do after that season.
Damn, the gods sent our boy Žiga a moose! A fucking big one too!! That first shot looked really good. But damn that was one stubborn animal! Good thing žig was persistent and didn't give up.Gay indian calls caribou by his muh ded language but not moose. Fake indian is fake. Insufferable cunt nearly cried, she's not long for this show. Hury up and tap. Fuck I hope she gets mauled by a bear but I know it's too much to ask for.
>>2874742It's funny that he lost a whole day and his pants and shoes chasing a completely different moose, because he didn't bother thoroughly check the area after letting it die.
>>2874795>chasing a completely different mooseWere we watching the same episode? He was chasing the moose he had injured, that is all. Very lucky he managed to chase it back to his peninsula. You also forgot to mention he literally wasted 2-3 extra arrows on it.This guy is definitely not on the same level as Roland Welker, but his odds of victory have improved regardless.
>>2874795That was his moose, not another. Go back and compare the antlers if you think they're two different moose.>>2874823I'm not sure he "wasted" at least one of those arrows. That moose was still standing the next day. It was clear that he wasn't doing well as evidenced by him just standing in the same spot over night. But he wasn't down. It's not clear, to me at least, if it was one of those two additional arrows he shot or the exertion of swimming back across the water or a combination of the two that finally did him in. And he may be able to recover one or two of those arrows now that he has the animal in hand. But I do think those two he shot the second day were rushed and sloppy, nothing like his first shot.>Very lucky he managed to chase it back to his peninsulaI was thinking the dame thing! DAMN lucky he swam back over to his piece of land so that zig didn't have to pack the animal all the way back to his camp. I'd have put money on him losing at least half the moose to a bear if it had died across the water.
>>2874831I thought all those additional arrows he shot on his second go were missed, and therefore probably lost since he was shooting the moose while it was in the water. I just rewatched the sequence and it almost seems like he shoots 3 arrows.But maybe 3-4 arrows in exchange for a whole moose is a pretty damn good deal.
>>2874832I just rewatched too, to make sure I wasn't crazy and that it was the same moose. He shot twice and knocked a third, but didn't shoot it. The very first one he shot, I didn't see where it hit, but the moose's broad side was to him at least. It might have hit or might not have. The second shot he took when the moose was mostly underwater. All he could have been aiming for would have been the head or back. I'm not sure what he was aiming for, but it was defiantly not a good shot. Then he went a bit further along the beach with a third arrow ready to go, but he never shot it. The moose was already swimming too far away and it was his last arrow.
>>2874823>He was chasing the moose he had injured, that is all.Nope. The moose he had injured was laying dead on the peninsula where he shot it (probably obscured by a tree or some brush from where he was standing), and where he found it the next day after chasing the wrong damned moose.>>2874831>compare the antlerswe never get a good enough look at the antlers of the 2nd moose.>exertion of swimming back across the water and somehow magically getting back to the exact spot where it collapsed after being shot the day before. very helpful of that moose. suspiciously helpful, almost like there was a 2nd moose around playing decoy.
>>2874841It's the same moose
>>2874841Also, notice how it's soaking wet...from just having swam across the water.
>>2874888From laying on the ground for a day and a half in the drizzling rain.
>>2874887Your own picture proves that it's a different moose though.
>>2874891That's angle and clarity. They're the same shape and number of tines. The chances of two moose having that close of a set of antlers is nearly impossible.
>>2874892>They're the same shapethey aren't though>number of tinesthey aren't though>The chances of two moose having that close of a set of antlers is nearly impossiblethey aren't that close, and the chances of the one moose managing to swim a mile away and then swim a mile back only to suddenly and conveniently fall over dead in the same spot that it was shot is infinitely more impossible.
>>2874894Not sure if you're trolling ort just that low IQ...
>>2874894It swam back because Ziga chased it back you moron
>>2874895this board has lots of browns shilling. probably a jamjeet
that moose looks tasty
>Ziga got a moose>Nero murdered two beavers>There might be another moose kill in the next episodewild
>>2874903It didn't swim anywhere because it was laying there dead the whole time.
>Pedrosa medically evacuatedCalled it.>>2873635
>>2875564So this is what you think happened>Ziga shoots a moose and it dies nearby>but he is bizarrely unable to locate this gigantic dead animal>shortly after he spots entirely different moose across the lake>moose is for some strange reason moving slow as if it is injured(but it's not)>then randomly lays down as if it is injured(but it's not)>waits overnight and the next morning it's still in that same spot as if it is injured(but it's not)>also he STILL can't find the moose he shot near his camp>walks 3 miles to the other unrelated moose that is acting injured even though it isn't>it swims away to an unknown location>Ziga walks back and magically finds the dead moose that he somehow missed before>it's wet despite being dead overnight and also happens to have very similar antlers to the other unrelated mooseYeah makes perfect sense
>>2875634>>2875634>Ziga shoots a moose, sees lung blood but doesn't recognize it or its significance.>Hears it dying nearby, waits till nearly dusk to go find it.>Doesn't immediately see it due to the fading light and brush.>Sees a moose across the lake and jumps to the conclusion that it's his (despite having seen the lung blood, despite hearing it die earlier, and despite the distance and lack of binoculars for a good look)>Moose lays down for the night, Ziga who is watching from several hundred yards away and already convinced this is his moose assumes this means its weak and injured.>Waits overnight, comes back the next morning and from the shore near his camp watches the moose wake up and start moving down the bank.>Doesn't bother walking the 50 yards to where his moose died and look some more because he's fixated on this other moose.>Walks 3 miles to the other unrelated moose that is acting like a moose that can breathe just fine despite supposedly having a thoracic puncture and being short a lot of blood. Ziga assumes this means it's weak and injured.>It being a non-injured moose, swims away faster than Ziga can keep up.>Ziga fetches his shoes and walks back 2 miles around the lake and finds his moose dead on the ground where it's been the whole time>It's wet because it's been raining which is why the ground is also wet>Ziga starts skinning moose and some viewers who have never killed and gutted large game in the field don't notice the lack of rigor mortis (which sets in within 2 hrs and goes away after about 12) or the lack of steam coming off the carcass despite the near-freezing cold.
>>2875634Meanwhile this is what you seem to believe>Ziga shoots a moose through the lungs and hears it die nearby>Waits till near nightfall for it to die. Moose gets tired of waiting and despite its a punctured lung and inability to breath, decides to go on a trip.>Ziga goes to look for it near the bank of the lake and somehow completely fails to notice the massive moose swimming away across the lake in full view.>Suddenly spots "his" moose only after it was on land on the other side, which had somehow not actually died despite having swum several hundred yards without being able to breathe due to punctured lungs.>Sees moose laying down for the night and somehow "knows" despite the lack of optics and the lack of sunlight that this can only mean that its injured and not just doing moose-like things.>Waits overnight and the next morning to see moose waking up and just "knows" that it's injured and not just waking up as mooses do in the morning.>Chases moose for 2 miles and can't catch it, despite moose being unable to breathe due to punctured lung.>Moose swims 2 miles back the other away and miraculously comes to the exact fucking spot where it had so nearly died the night before, realizes it's been off-script for the last 24 hrs, and suddenly expires, its last thoughts no doubt filled with hopes that this time Ziga will find it.Yeah makes perfect sense
>>2875634>>2875646>>2875647Holy autism. (didn't read that btw)On another note, my predictions are still Will and Ziga to win the show. Ziga's odds have gone up massively with the successful harvest of the moose. Will's odds went down after he lost consciousness, but it seems he's still extremely successful at snaring and fishing, and his shelter is probably the best insulated of the show. Nero and Andrew are probably gonna starve slowly (though I suspect Andrew will tap because muh health and muh family). Jacks will probably tap soon too.The only enigma is Aaron.
>>2875670>his shelter is probably the best insulated of the showThis is one of the largest predictors of late-season success, if only because you can use a smaller fire to keep warm so you're less likely to burn your shelter down during a snowstorm.
>>2875688His fireplace looks like a potential game ender if it catches fire. I don't like it.
>>2875670I don't know about Nero starving. He's done pretty well with the beaver so far.I want to like will, I really do. But I just don't. I think he's mentally weak and will tap. I haven't seen him getting an abundance of food compared to any of the others that are snaring and fishing. Ziga is the only one with a food advantage at this point, assuming he can preserve it and it doesn't spoil or get stolen by an animal.
>>2875735He's from Agnes Hailstone's tribe, from Life Below Zero, they're all really low-key types. They talk a bit odd which makes them come across as slow but they are solid survivalists. I wouldn't count him out.
>>2875733did we see the same thing? it looks like his fire is surrounded by wood. seems like a disaster waiting to happen
>>2875764Yes, that's what I'm talking about.
>>2875764>>2875766>>2875733Agreed. He coated it in a kind of mud cement, which seemed to me like it wouldn't do much to prevent the sticks from eventually catching fire. For now I'm just giving him the benefit of the doubt and assuming this is muh traditional Indian fireplace design and it just works.
>>2875771It may well "just werk". The mud provides a small amount of insulation, but I think it mostly keeps oxygen away from the wood. Wood can't catch fire if there's no oxygen. It can get extremely hot though and will likely turn to charcoal, but won't actually catch fire. He will need to keep that mud coating maintained though, repeated heat expansion and cooling may cause it to crack badly enough to catch fire.
Seems like it's finally worth watching again after those initial garbo episodes are out of the way.I just wish that 'lady' would fuck off and then it'd be comfy viewings for the rest of the season.
>>2875806Honestly she has gotten very little screen time so far. Which could actually be a bad sign: it might mean she's going to last a long time and feature more in the later episodes.
>>2875810That's my worry as well. She's got a lot of fat and women that 'do well' tend to just starve veeery slowly by not doing anything.Which, of course, is the perfect opportunity to blog about their life when they're lying about doing jackshit.
>>2875810I'm hoping for a brief cameo near the end where they flashback to her dropping out. Sometimes they fuck with the chronology like that.
I find it quite insufferable how many of the competitors always go:>Oh, I am so blessed.. Thank you, thank you.. Whenever they get a fish or squirrel or whatever.Of course, it dies down the later on as it becomes routine and I guess they don't feel as blessed any more, but fuck me is it bad. Thankfulness and gratitude should not be expressed in such a situation as it implies the averse too: why not then curse the world if you miss that shot or don't catch anything? That sort of "conditional gratitude" has me extremely peeved, even though, of course, it's just people venting out their adrenaline and happiness in a way that makes them feel good.Actually, another fucking peeve I have is how so few of them actually take the competition seriously: why, fucking WHY wouldn't you go in fat as fuck? There should be a distinct difference between the person in the video applying and the guy on day 1. It's been 12 seasons and we know that having fat reserves is a good fucking advantage as you'll shed the weight anyway. I can't take these people seriously going all>Yeah, I'm in it to win it, I'm taking this 110% seriously, I've done my research, I feel ready..!When clearly they're just ego tripping, not wanting to take the easiest advantages because they're tough boys that don't need no fat (but will drop out because being alone is lonely or because medical check says they're a walking skeleton).
>>2875821This. The easiest way to win is to go in fat as fuck, build a double insulated shelter the first week, stock up on some firewood, then go into hibernation for the next few months.
>I love eating beaverwhat did he mean by this?>>2872367>>2875806>>2875810the preview for the next episode sounds like she's afraid of lynx. Idk, maybe that's just stupid bait editing in the preview. How can even a woman actually think of a fucking lynx as a scary dangerous predator?
>>2875970A lynx could fuck you up if you're not careful, dude. Lynxes are as big as wolverines.
>>2875975>How I would deal with a lynxps ps ps ps...here kitty kitty...ps ps ps ps
>>2875975lol imagine being scared of a lynx. Has there ever been a single recorded death from a lynx?
>>2875980Supposedly there have been numerous attacks on children in Russia, but lynx will avoid altercations with adult humans due to their size. You sound like an armchair warrior. Do you know how vicious animals can be if they are put in a self-defense situation where they think it's life or death, to protect their young, etc?>>2875979>his expression when you do this
>>28760051) Eurasian lynx are significantly larger than Canadian lynx2) LMAO at you trying to call me an armchair warrior. You said it yourself, lynx (even the larger Eurasian ones) will avoid humans. You're not going to just randomly corner a lynx to the point where it attacks you. If you actually went outside you'd know that. And she specifically said she was scared of "predators." If you're worried about animals attacking you in self defense then obviously the moose would be a far greater threat. Unlike lynx, moose have actually killed people. But it doesn't happen often, because it's basically impossible to accidentally provoke an attack even from an animal as large as a moose, let alone a lynx which is the big scary predator she's afraid of.
>>2876005>>2875975if you're scared of a lynx then you have absolutely no business being on this show. Lynx are about the size of coyotes, and I've been camping with coyotes a lot. Never once was scared of them.You go onto this show knowing that there will be grizzlies, moose, wolverines, cougars, wolves, etc. And she's scared of a fucking lynx? Compare that to male contestants like the one who killed a wolverine because it was stealing his food. Or the guy who shanked a fucking musk ox.I hope for her sake the clip was edited, and she was actually referring to bears or something.
>>2876066>killed a wolverinefunny way to say "chopped it to death with an axe in the dark"
it's too bad that the guy with the worst shelter and no way to preserve his kill landed a moose. I hope the majority of the meat won't spoil. Also, that chimney is a joke. It's only a mater of time before his entire shelter goes up in flames.
>>2876122>wood chimneys>wood doors>6 million moose diedkek
Ep 7 spoilers:Kind of a nothingburger episode but tapping out because no poopies is always funny.Also the next episode preview:>The moose meat spoiledOopsie!
>>2876066>>2876005>Male contestant finding bear tracks: "Wow this is great I hope I find the bear so I can kill it and eat it!">Female contestant finding lynx tracks: "OMG I need to find a way to protect myself from this scary dangerous predator!"
>colonization resulted in the dispossession and and deaths of tens of thousands and first nations peopleomg SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU BIG NOSED FREAKS. do I even need to check the early life of the producers?
Shame about Will having to tap because of his guts. He had a good shelter, a good attitude, and a good reason to be participating. I would have expected someone from his tribe would be well versed in how to deal with constipation. I wonder if he was just dehydrated.And the producers attempt to stack the deck of a "world championship" season with 5 americans backfires again, the sole remaining US participant is Jacks, who never in a million years would I have predicted would be the last one standing in that group. I thought for sure she would be a week 1 tapout. Shows what I know.At least it's an even playing field now.
>>2876152Absolutely insufferable, had to skip that part.
>>2876153Jacks was pretty obviously going to stay for a while simply based on her build and style: Fat and slow starvation.As long as she didn't spook or injure herself.
>>2876157>muh rape muh traumaThe producers are just picking people with what they deem to be acceptable back stories and probably just teaching them some basic survival stuff at this point, right?She’s probably a hard core libshit
Hah!!! All the Will shills can suck it!! I KNEW he'd tap! It wasn't the "I miss my family" tap I expected. But it was a tap none the less. Overall a very whiny cunt episode...ugh!
Aaronbros I don't feel so good.....
>>2876199If Aaron wins I'll lick a skunk's anus.
>>2876218see >>2874293
>>2876238The contestants have a contractual obligation not to reveal what happened on the show until it airs. Just because Andrew has a Youtube channel and posted his 10 items doesn't mean he won. That's retarded.
>>2876241I don't understand how it can stay a secret though, especially the early taps. All of your friends, family, co-workers etc don't have the contractual obligation and all of them see you back whenever you tap.And most contestants have some sort of social media that you could check, if you see them posting anything on Instagram from like September then they obviously didn't win.Since the winner and runner-up return at basically the same time, I guess that part could remain a secret, but everybody who already tapped on the show should have been easy for the public to figure out.>>2876157>As long as she didn't spook herselfshe was afraid that a lynx was going to come into her shelter and eat her while she slept.>injureI have no idea how she hasn't injured herself yet. She definitely strikes me as the type who would cut herself while batoning or just fall down and hurt herself.>>2876161for me it was the way she told the story in third-person. Holy fuck what a narcissistic drama queen. I get that it's a serious event, but no man would ever talk that way. Just say what happened and how it made you stronger or some shit. Not the fucking>21 years ago, there was a 19-year-old girl blah blah blah
>>2876242>for me it was the way she told the story in third-person. Holy fuck what a narcissistic drama queen. I get that it's a serious event, but no man would ever talk that way. Just say what happened and how it made you stronger or some shit. Not the fucking>>21 years ago, there was a 19-year-old girl blah blah blahyeah it's terrible and everything, the (((producers))) have feminized the show so hard for quite a while now. it stopped being about the survival aspect and is now about character exposition. as a viewer, i don't give a shit about these people regarding who they are or their backstory other than the skills they have relevant to the competition. it's like the show is catered to women now which i'd wager is not a huge component of the audience and never will be. I bet all this interest in survival was a unforeseen side effect of globohomo and Alone just happened to be a big success. Once too many goys became interested in learning how to escape globohomo, it needed to be subverted.
what was the last ep that aired? i saw will go home and the other guy start butchering the moose
>>2876153Girls pretty typically last a while, there have been several seasons where the runner-up was female, they need fewer calories and store fat better, plus they're more connected to the Forest Mother spirit
>>2876253>>2876242See>>2872493
>>2876261Moose butchering was last week, Will tapping was this week's episode.
>>2876269>girls starve longerFuck off with your hippy dippy forest spirit fagotry!!
>>2876291How else would you explain it when a female snares a medium sized hare? It's the universe(she/them) providing.
>>2876289fuck, i missed that detail. well, that explains everything
>>2876316Most of the time, you're setting these snares on pre existing game trails. It's not a miracle that a hare eventually hops through it, it's an inevitability, if you've set your snares right.
>>2876334Bless your autism
Looks like all the loosers itt are alone
>>2876380:(How are there only like 5 anons watching this show? It's pure /out/kino, this thread should have a lot more activity.
>>2876383How do you view the number of posters in the thread? I thought that feature was removed.
>>2876383Uh, you know, /out/ is a slow board...And I don't think /tv/ cares.
>>2876397You can't view the number of posters but based on activity there are probably 5-10 anons ITT
>>2876397It wasn't. It's just not the default anymore.
Any other media scratch this same itch? I'm gunna watch Derzu Uzala and Alone in the Wilderness. Been watching some Greg Ovens on YouTube not bad.
>>2876414then how do you see it?
>>2876427i like watching some jew tubers like clay hayes and joe robinet, both former alone contestants. although sometimes it gets repetitive
>>2876490Most of these guys are good outdoorsmen, but they're not good entertainers. They'll never reach the level of comfy of the Outdoor Boys for example.
>>2876427For me, only wilderness cabin building/homesteading stuff like Wild Homestead. Short term survivalism with too much good gear/no fear of running out of food and water gets dull pretty quick no matter how cool the landscape they're moving through looks but someone developing a piece of property stays cool and gets cooler the more they do. With the added bonus of them being outside the whole time, seeing wildlife and swimming in the river and catching drone shots of the mountains.
>>2876427there are a few Alone spinoffs. The only one I watched was a few episodes of the one where they send 3 people into the wilderness together and give them a kill (eg, a moose, boar, etc) but otherwise they have fewer supplies than in Alone. They have to survive 30 days. IIRC they don't even win a prize, it's just for fun. The episodes I saw were okay but it was definitely different. And idk about the other spinoffs.
>>2876610i also like homestead rescue. it's different than Alone but they come up with some pretty interesting and creative solutions to getting fresh water, building different chicken coops, and making different types of gardens and greenhouses. It has cheesy reality tv moments but i enjoy it
They should have gone back to Africa. Last season was a dud but that was on the contestants. Give new contestants another season to learn from the mistakes of last season. It was a new environment with new challenges and new animals. This season is just a repeat of previous seasons.
>>2876783>that was on the contestantsThe location deserved a lot of the blame. A desert where there's plenty of water and the high temperatures are 80's is never going to be interesting.
jacks is the worst holy shit
>>2876811why not? The fact that the winner only lasted 30 days means that it's a great location for a survival show. And it gave different challenges (like a lack of wood, different food, heat, etc). What does the current season have that we haven't already seen before?
>>2876829>What does the current season have that we haven't already seen before?Nothing. It's also a boring season.>heatThere was no heat. Had they lasted for months they would have seen decently high temperatures, but they didn't, so the highest temperatures they experienced was in the upper 80's. There was plenty of surface water (so no need to dig wells or capture atmospheric water). There was plenty of game but either nobody figured out how to bag them consistently or the rules forbade them from doing the things (e.g. kites) to make it easier to bag them consistently. Boring, boring, boring. And yes this season is boring as well. Alone is done, it's run its course.
>>2876822I think she might actually be my least favorite contestant out of all 13 seasons.>I didn't come into this as a big hunter or trapper or fishermanactual quote from contestant on a show based on hunting, trapping, and fishing.And she's afraid of being eaten by a lynx.And she breaks down crying like a hysterical drama queen.How the hell did she even make it 2 weeks? She doesn't even sound like somebody who could handle normal camping let alone a survival show like this.
>Wahhhh I'm gunna dismantle my beaver traps because what if I killed a poor beaver!!!
>>2876902>>2876961jacks is the embodiment of why i'm losing my patience with the show. it isn't just her, but she's the most vocal this season. it feels like over half of all the camera time people get is muh kids, muh family. we get it, its lonely. that might even be related to the title of the show. but its the editors fault mostly for shoving this in our faces trying to make us care about people so much that we forget what they're there to do which is survive, trap, build shit, hunt. they need to make it so only 10% of all screen time is muh family and the rest is strictly them surviving.what a frustrating show that i want to like. i will not be back next season if something doesn't change.
>>2876980See>>2876152>>2876253>>2872493
>>2876982i've seen them. i'm just now getting fully fed up myself after complaining a few times. they've turned this into a girls show. i started watching around s3 or so and it was pretty cool, but now i think i'm hate-watching it. after this season i'm definitely done if nothing changes about it. you gotta know when to cut your losses and i should have probably done that 2 seasons ago
>>2876980I just watch it to laugh at the people getting attacked by injured squirrels, or burning their huts down trying to keep warm, or barfing/shitting their guts out because they failed to boil their water or cook their food long enough.
>>2876991all that is what i want to see and what most of the show should be about
>>2876985Unfortunately I will probably do the same thing
>>2876858>There was plenty of game but either nobody figured out how to bag them consistentlythen do another season. People learn from previous seasons. The fact that South Africa was a difficult environment to survive in, despite the food, makes it an interesting location. People survive 2-3x longer in the Arctic than they did in South Africa, so put them back in South Africa and see if new contestants can learn to survive better there.
>>2877065The problem with that is that heat and lack of water are *much* more dangerous than cold and the occasional bear, so the show's producers have to be much more cautious with the scenario, which is why they were put into a desert with surface water everywhere and daily high temperatures in the 70's rising to the 80's after a month or so. For legal reasons any desert show is just going to be boring af.
What kind of a faggot do you have to be to get butthurt about contestants in a WORLD competition using words from different languages. Shut the fuck up you pussy
I blame this disaster of a thread on how bad the last couple of episodes have been. God please get rid of Jacks.
>>2876383>It's pure /out/kino,It's been shit for a good while...
>>2877240lol she's gonna win. She will be the first female winner. And we'll have 4 more episodes of her crying hysterics to get there.
nothing else to do today so i'm watching the rerun eps. beer helps
>>2877281that would be a horrible thing. there have been some great waman in past seasons that were so close to winning and way better than jacks
>>2877446the one woman came really close some seasons ago and it was like day 100 but the douchebag guy decided to just hibernate in his shelter all day every day and she eventually called it quits
I am liking Andrew but more than anything I am a Jacks hater
>>2877448callie i think her name was came real close with the season with roland but got frost bite on her toes so they pulled her. psychologically she was doing great. she's waifu material
>>2877516i also think mommy nicole would have had a good chance if her MS didn't flare up. she seemed highly knowledgeable but she also had some of the muh keeds problem going on too.
>>2877516i think thats her, sounds familiar but i'm not even sure what season it was. i liked that she was actively doing stuff right til the end while the guy had given up on eating or even moving and was just hiding away in his shelter all day. that shit would have got anyone else medically extracted
>>2877478Same. Andrew is starving though. Can't see how he will last much longer.
>>2877529Callie was cool but don't you be dissing the 100 day king, the man built the most kickass shelter to date and finished off a musk ox with a pocket knife. That he was healthy enough to endure was the product of his own ability.
>>2877585>Andrew is starving thoughThey're all starving though.
>>2877627You saw the most recent episode, right?
>another week, another episode of Alone featuring Jacks crying and being dramatic and annoyingWhy is she still there? Just tap already. Fuck, I'm honestly shocked that she lasted this long.is this the first season to have 5 different contestants last until day ~50?>>2877448>douchebag guy>built a kickass shelter AND shanked a musk oxkys, Roland is the Alone GOAT
No.. SMOKE.. AND.. STEAM.. My greatest.. Enemies!
>>2877681Women get regular food/tampon deliveries
>>2877716>tampon deliveriesPrevious contestants have talked about how they wipe without toilet paper. Has a woman ever talked about that?
>>2877721Pretty sure they just stop menstruating because of starvation.
I went to reddit because I wanted to see what they thought of Jacks, since her overly dramatic crying seems like the type of thing redditors would eat up. Like 75% of them think she's so strong and brave and inspiring and shit, but about 25% think she's as cringe and whiny as we do.But, what I found is that she's a redditor lol. A couple other contestants post in the threads too but they just give basic responses to questions about the show. Honestly curious to see what they have to say once the show is over and the NDA is lifted
>>2877853fucking hate jacks so much this season. it always, always irriates me when the contestants turn it into a therapy session (the women seem far worse about this); i get being isolated and alone can play tricks on your mind, but can you please keep your rape trauma to yourself, national television is not the appropriate venue to dump that out.after her little melty i was hoping she had a nightmare about being gangraped by a bunch of dudes in lynx fur suits.
>>2877903You just know that she votes for infinite jeets and rapey mudslimes
>>2876783This. They should also do another season in Australia but instead of Tasmania they should drop the contestants in a tropical swamp up north
>>2877951all that picture needs is a giant spider attacking the alligator to make it the most australian picture ever.
>>2877951>>2877967Needs more mud crab
Andrew's given it a proper go, don't see him making it but he tried, man
oh thank goodness
>>2878058>>2877853>>2877903LET'S!!FUCKING!!!!!GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!WE DID IT ANTI-JACKS-BROS!!!!!!
so happy to see jacks gone. i had already started skipping all of her segments
>oh no I can't get any fish because the beaver keeps stealing them>oh no I accidentally the beaver woe is me I can't live with my crime>why am I suddenly getting fish it's a total mystery>burn green wood to boil water in muh tiny shelter>why is it so smoggy in here its a total mystery>tap out due to smog blindnessjacks had the funniest failure arc this season
>>2878058>>2878088>>2878093Jacks in this episode reach caricature levels. I think some of the editing crew must have been in on it. Jacks screams with reverb just before she tapped out? Lmao.
>>2878093it's legitimately amazing that somebody as whiny as her, who cried every episode and seemed to have no idea what she was doing, somehow made it 62 days. What did she even eat? Or did she just live off of fat reserves?>>2878094I don't think beavers eat fish do they?>tap out due to smog blindnessthis was pretty funny not gonna lie. Previous contestants have dealt with some smoke in their shelters too but nothing like this, and she didn't even attempt to fix it.
>>2878108>I don't think beavers eat fish do they?They're obligate herbivores, but she obviously didn't know that.
>>2878108She was pretty fat going into this, so I think she just lived off her hips and ass.That bit at the end where they showed her cutting green branches off a tree to burn in her fire was peak burn by the producers.
Are the latest seasons any good? I started watching the show because I caught it on TV, it was an Alaska season, the one where Roland endured 100 days and I really liked it, and every contestant was great.Now I'm watching an Australia season and half of the episode is people talking about their personal life and issues, which personally I don't give a fuck, and the other half either doing nothing, trying to fish or just sitting around.I wish they focused more on the survival aspect and I'd really like to see the 10 items each on of them carry.
>>2878117>half of the episode is people talking about their personal life and issuesyou're late to the party fren. i can't remember when exactly this started but this is what the show (((focuses))) on now. producers are women and probably have tiny hats and big noses. they don't want goyim knowing how to survive good
>>2872367>2 months agolol, if only we knew how much worse it would get.>>2872402I don't get this. I understand after a couple of weeks you miss your family, but 3 days? Plus a few travel days I guess but still it wouldn't be much more than a week. Even if he got to that point and realized that he would have to tap eventually and had no chance of winning, why not just stay out there for a couple of weeks for fun and then go back?
>>2878228Do you not watch the pre-show episode? They've been at the showrunner base camp for at least two weeks before they get dropped off innawoods. They get a thorough medical workup, training on hunting, trapping, fishing and lumber laws, training and practice on how to set up their cameras to maximize usable footage, training on dealing with local dangerous species, etc.
>>2878228>I don't get this. I understand after a couple of weeks you miss your family, but 3 days?deep down, he wanted to tap out, and was just looking for an excuse. the mind can play tricks on you like that, rationalizing things you know you shouldn't do, in order to satisfy some base desire. it's a bit like quitting smoking/drinking; your rational brain knows you shouldn't give in, but your lizard brain is experiencing severe cravings; and to satisfy them will trick you into rationalizing caving in >it's just one, what's the harmor>thanksgiving is next week, i'll quit after thatSame concept.
>>2878230>watch the pre-show episodeno. But I did know they spent some time training. So 2 weeks. Still doesn't make sense.>>2878232but how could anybody have any interest in this show and tap after only 3 days? I know I wouldn't win this contest and I'm ashamed that fucking Jacks lasted longer than I likely could, but I would still want to spend a couple of weeks innawoods doing actual survival before I tapped. If you know you're going to tap anyway it would actually be fun because you can just screw around without caring about long-term survival. You can't do that normally because the amount of supplies they take would require a car, so you'd be limited to campsites you can drive to and your car would also be right there the whole time.And all the permits and regulations to be able to hunt for food.And the fact that your wife wouldn't let you just disappear with no contact for 2 weeks unless it was for a chance at money.And normally you don't have the ability to just radio in for help if you actually get into serious shit, so trying to do this outside of the show means you're actually risking your life.This show is the only real chance to actually be alone surviving in the wilderness like this, and this guy taps after 3 fucking days?
>>2878247It's the producers, they seem to select for contestants that will give them drama, not based on their survivability. They don't want to watch 10 contestants thriving out there for 100+ days. They want early quits. The longer the contestants are out there, they're out there at base camp too. Everything bad about the current state of the show can be laid squarely on at the feet of the producers. Go back, find and watch episode 0, before the launch, and you'll see them going on and on about film school, how they tear up watching the show and other fagotry, and you'll understand why the show is the way it is and the contestants are who they are and not better.
>>2878269To be fair, seeing a grown man burn his ferro rod in a fire then cry like a bitch for a day before deciding to give up is pretty funny.
>>2878298I also very much enjoyed seeing Jacks suffer due to her immense retardation.
>>2878298Even funnier is that he waited a week before trying to make a friction fire, until he had some game that needed cooking. I would have started building a pump drill within minutes of fucking up my ferro rod.Still hoping for a cabin fire and a vicious bite from a not-quite-dead rabbit, either of those would make this season complete.
>>2878311Just checked. 4 days. He burned his ferro rod on day 1, and bailed on day 4. He had four days to figure out how to friction start a fire, and did fuck-all with that time.
>>2878312And he talked mad shit about his skills.The editors made him look really bad, and deservedly so. That dude was a total clown.
>>2878269>They don't want to watch 10 contestants thriving out there for 100+ daysgod dammit, that's exactly what I'd want to watch. I can't stand the cheap drama soap opera bullshit they keep putting out. As a rule I hate reality TV, and unfortunately this show just keeps towing the line between watchable and unwatchable.
>>2878430>towing the linetoeing the line
>>2878472Sigh.Yes. today, I am the offensive ESL Jeet.
>>2878430>>2878131>>2878117>>2878104>>2877903modern TV shows are targeted to fat feminists and weak simps. And they love the therapy shit and think Jacks is a strong brave hero who only misogynists hate (if a man was an obnoxious crybaby with bad camera work, surely nobody would ever criticize him!)in other words: Future seasons will look like this. Producers will specifically look to cast more women like Jacks. The editing will focus even more on therapy shit, and survival will become just a small side part of the show. I don't think I'll even bother watching next season.
>>2878497As obnoxious as she was, she does get a bit of respect for how long she stayed out there, but fuck me was I glad when she finally tapped. Nero was a bit nauseating as well, but no where near as annoying.I do have to wonder though if the producers really, really want to see a brown or a woman win and give them preferential treatment. Jacks came into the show a bit of a unit, but given how little food she had, and how long she was there, you would have expected a bit more fat loss. Did the producers help her out on the sly?
>>2878504That Pablo guy did win a couple years back. That season was interminably boring though, he just napped in his hut all day, doing the absolute minimum to get water, didn't bother hunting or trapping either. It was boring as fuck but it worked.
>>2878497these people are so insufferable oy gevalt
>>2878108She did not make it 62 days, she just did not. She hardly even lost any weight. Editors kept her in till day 62 while in fact she tapped two weeks in and/or they returned her to basecamp every 2-3 days for a hot meal, warm bed and therapy session.
>>2878504>how long she stayed out thereI don't think she did. We got precious little video of her actually doing survival stuff.
>>2878566>>2878569honestly wouldn't be surprised in the least. all (((media))) is propaganda at this point and fake and gay.
finally an episode i wont have to change the channel when jacks comes on
Has anybody ever tried *unofficially* tapping out?
Went out with dignityRespect
>>2878664like faking an injury or something? there was one guy who slipped on a log that looked pretty fake
>>2878667Nope. Going out with dignity means getting medevac'd after doing your best. He fucked around too long without getting his gill net into action. Instead he tried one spot then gave up on the net for over 2 months.
>>2878691Eh, dude was out there over 70 days, his shelter was good, he just couldn't harvest enough food to keep going. The showrunners bless and curse people with their locations, location is fuckin everything.Shallow river/lake? you're fuckedhills with unproductive forest? you're fuckedthey choose to run the season in africa? lmao you're turbofuckedHonestly I thought he did fine, he tried, didn't melt down constantly, wasn't annoying in his narrative bits. He's got my respect.
>>2878695>he did fineHe didn't though. He completely ignored his gill net after the first few days instead of trying to find a better spot or putting it out in deeper water. And he managed to break/lose all but one of his broadheads on squirrels (lol) in his first two days (lol again), then completely missed a 20yd shot at a moose with his last broadhead and broke that one as well. The complete inability to hit the broad side of a barn with an arrow indicates he came into this completely unprepared to use a bow in anger. He repeatedly made extremely stupid decisions and I'm genuinely surprised he made it as long as he did.
Favorite Alone moments?>starving lady decides to put a net out into near freezing water>makes a dogshit "boat">puts on her lifevest and takes the net out into the water>somehow falls into the water, lifevest pops while she's tangled in the net>nearly drowns/ freezes to death>first episode>billy badass says how cool he is>stabs himself within the first hour
>>2878721Are we talking about the same person? I was talking about the welsh fellow. The canadian guy missed a moose and kept fucking up shots on small game with his bow. He also gave up on the gill net until things iced over.When did the welshman miss a moose? I don't remember that happening. I'm not saying it didn't, I watch the show but I don't always give it my full attention.
>>2878725That time when Jordan Jonas killed the fat-stealing wolverine. Thing had a vicious death snarl.Forget what season it was but one contestant had their shelter surrounded by wolves at night. Very spooky.
>>2878734I also liked the early seasons>black army guy>freaks the fuck out the first night>convinced bears are going to get him>calls immediately>the retarded teams season>fat boomer gets off the helicopter, takes ONE step and shatters his ankle>meanwhile two retards get the god spot and cruisecontrol the winthe padagonia ones were funny too. loved the one girl(?) who was on the wrong side of a lake/mountain so she was in perpetual shade and she was eternally seething about it
>>2878725The nigger who saw bear poop and got scared and quit on the first day. First or second season I believe
S13 has been a good season, good shit.
>>2878760This shit is really close. Still no idea who's gonna win of the three. I can definitely see it going long, maybe past 90 days.
who's the dude with the circle door? Is there really just a large air gap at the top of it that he doesn't seal up? I noticed when he first built it but I assumed he would do something about it by the time weather got this cold, but it looked like there's still a gap that doesn't get covered.>>2878725this >>2878734 and also when Roland shanked a musk ox. Would have been great if those two were in the same season going against each other.>>2878743I liked the early seasons because everything was new. That season 1 contestant who built the nice shelter and boat. Now everybody builds a nice shelter and 1-2 people every season build a boat, but when he did it it was so novel.
>>2878762Nero and Ziga have a food advantage over Aaron. Nero had those two beavers early on and Ziga got his moose. That said, I think Ziga is going to end up doing something that forces him to tap, like burning down his shelter. He's just to absent minded and lackadaisical. He'd have been out a long time ago if he hadn't lucked out on a moose walking up to him and laying down on his plate. And Nero's small, early, food advantage isn't likely to be a game changer at this point. It's hard to say which of them will be the winner at this point.
>AndrewMan, I liked that guy. Despite not winning, I think he's in my top 3 contestants (Roland obv and Jordan being the other two)Never bitched, never whined, not a single complaint his entire time out there.Took losing like a man, and knew when it was time to tap out.I liked Pe(sl)drosa as well, I think in previous seasons they wouldn't have yanked him so quickly. Overall though this season hasn't been too bad, getting real sick of muh drama and feels monologues though.
>>2879027>getting real sick of muh drama and feelsI feel like this season would have so good if they just had better editing. You have multiple contestants lasting a long time and getting food including a moose. If they focused on that instead of muh drama (and if they cut out Jacks' crying) then this could be one of the best seasons.
>>2879038>(and if they cut out Jacks)
>>2878812Nero, he didn't even bother insulating it. Its just a tarp and a massive hole seperating between him and arctic winter
