r/HolUp Sep 14 '22

peak ingenuity

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u/monnnstella Sep 14 '22

Whoa man... brilliant.

Fucked up...

But brilliant.

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u/SB6P897 Sep 15 '22

Can you imagine some fucked up government or wealthy billionaire using this to persuade the natives to flee their homeland and join urban civilization so that they could turn their jungle into precious real estate?

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u/DeMonstaMan Sep 15 '22 edited Sep 15 '22

Using this idea to write a book and become the next Steven King

Esit: Just realized RDR2 has a side mission with the exact same plot

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u/RossOfFriends Sep 15 '22

I don’t even know who the first Steven King is

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u/spiritjex173 Sep 15 '22

Maybe it's Stephen King's long lost cousin.

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u/RossOfFriends Sep 15 '22

see now THAT guy has some cred.

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u/DeceiverOfNations Sep 15 '22

Nah I think it's an Steve/Stephan Urkle situation.

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u/HilariousScreenname Sep 15 '22

I think you mean Stefan Urquelle

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u/DeceiverOfNations Sep 15 '22

My mistake, you're totally right.

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u/slabby Sep 15 '22

He's gotten a lot more famous since he bought that Czech beer company, so more people get the name right.

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u/slabby Sep 15 '22

It's his pseudonym for when he wants to write in other genres

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u/Chillchinchila1 Sep 15 '22

Kephen Sting

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u/snuff3r Sep 15 '22

The one that wrote his own books, silly.

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u/pincus1 Sep 15 '22

Some day poor Stephen will reach a level of fame where 60% of people don't spell his name wrong.

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u/Qweerz Sep 15 '22

Steven King bapa. Great author, never read him

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u/omart3 Sep 15 '22

Read that as R2D2 from Star Wars ... lol

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u/sheen1212 madlad Sep 15 '22

Just don't forget to credit me for it

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

You mean you're going to write the next Bible?

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Sep 15 '22

I've got the protagonist lined up for you. So, obviously you have the face up there and it's fantastic, but you need a voice of god as well. It's not going to be coming from the wee drones. You'll have a separate setup on the ground to blast the sound at them.

One kid notices the voice isn't coming from the face, and how super sketch that is.

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u/tamethewild Sep 15 '22

Feels more Critchon than King

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u/thefourthreich42 Sep 15 '22

You just gave me another plan to make. Thanks!

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u/Rybitron Sep 15 '22

Now we just need a billion dollars.

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u/PressFM80 Sep 15 '22

Get this man a billon dollars

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

I’ve read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I know what this is about.

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u/SB6P897 Sep 15 '22

Holy fuck so Willy Wonka was one of the efforts to relocate and urbanize natives huh?

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u/kamelizann Sep 15 '22

Cargo cults in WW2 were wild. Us soldiers island hopping in the pacific set up military bases, traded and interacted with the natives, then bailed leaving some of their equipment behind. That one is the most famous, where a soldier named "John Frum" (as in "John from America") became a prophet to them that would return with riches. [This is a great video on it.](https://youtu.be/xVD8eLvig_I\)

They viewed the soldiers almost as a race of demigods with infinite resources that would come back to save them one day. They even built landing strips to encourage aircraft to land in hopes they would bring riches. It's crazy.

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u/Due-Implement-1501 Sep 15 '22

Isn't this just the modern version of the "March 1504 lunar eclipse" story?

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u/25_M_CA Sep 15 '22

At first it was funny now its sad

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u/Sipas Sep 15 '22

imagine some fucked up government

No need to imagine, just look at Bolsonaro. This would actually be much more humane than what's happening there now but at this point native tribes have had enough interaction with the rest of the world to more or less know what drones are.

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u/dmk2008 Sep 15 '22

That is like the 21st Century version of The Most Dangerous Game.

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u/pb_nayroo Sep 15 '22

How did you find bezos notebook?

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u/XxOneWithSlimesxX Sep 15 '22

That's actually a good business plan

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

You're late to the party. This kind of thing is already going on with modern people here, and instead of god-face-in-sky, it's flat-earth-on-internet. People will believe anything, you don't need to go to the jungle to do your con.

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Sep 15 '22

Are we trying to trick the flat earthers into walking off the planet to solve global warming or something? I feel like that plan might be somewhat flawed.

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u/PicaDiet Sep 15 '22

It's just a new take on the infomercial.

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u/WeekendWarior Sep 15 '22

Or doing it so they could take a few clay pots and bone tools to put on their shelves

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u/aoxit Sep 15 '22

*Emerald mine

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u/TriLink710 Sep 15 '22

Yes I can imagine. Since the current standard is mercs and guns. This seems easier.

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u/carriesonfishord Sep 15 '22

Next on Mr Beast...

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '22

It would be doing good. Ridding them of their female circumcision, fire ant self-mutilation, addiction to hallucinate drugs, tribal war violence, starvation, death from Australian-like critters, dangerous body modifications, pedophilia, infanticide, death from child birth, shamen authoritarians, etc.