Was he as stupid as the movie made him out to be?

Pretty much, he exiled himself in a place he knew nothing about, and died from eating strange plants

Are you retarded? They pretended like he was Hawking and Ghandi all in one and he never even graduated high school

>>1080435
He got a college degree, what are you talking about?

>>1080374
Stupider. In the book he mixed up moose and caribou. You gotta be retarded to move somewhere alone in the woods and not know basic fauna

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>>1080439
A degree from Emory, which was a good school at the time but the student body has always been prone to hysterical behavior.

>>1080652
Whats the difference, I thought they were the same with the exception that moose's are in Canada and caribou is in the arctic

>>1080652
>You gotta be retarded to move somewhere alone in the woods and not know basic fauna

Hey retard, you didn't finish the book... obviously. Might want to pay a visit to your dog ear

>>1082141
You're thinking of reindeer and caribou. Moose are quite different.

>>1082141
wat

>>1080374
Why do we have this thread every month?

>>1080652
>>1082185
Moose, caribou and reindeer are 3 distinct species. I've seen all 3 in the wild.

Based on this thread I can only say it's likely we all are as stupid as we seem.

>>1080665
The offer of counseling only means the school is paying some lady to sit around all day with nothing much to do.

>>1080374
He wasn't stupid IRL, he had some sort of mental illness. He became so paranoid he started stealing food and supplies instead of just going into town and buying shit at the store.

>>1080652
Moose and carribou both coexist in the same habitats in the wild though. They also coexist with elk and deer. And in the more mountainous regions wild goat and wild sheep.

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>>1080374
>Was he as stupid as the movie made him out to be?

Let's pretend his passion was Nascar driving...

Christopher McCandless sets off, from California in an old car he rebuilt himself (he replaced the fenders and painted it), on a trip to the Daytona 500. He only gets across the state line when he runs out of fuel because he forgot to fill it up. Instead of simply walking to the nearest gas station or flagging down help he decides to push his car over an embankment and set it on fire. He then proceeds to walk on foot to the nearest car lot (which happens to be in Mexico for some reason, mostly because he burned up his map in the car and he's been taking backroads.) He finds an old bicycle in a garbage dump and uses that.

He finally gets to the car lot and buys a fixer-upper for $50. Before leaving the car lot he has to change a tire, which he replaces with the solid rubber donut. He buys fuel and heads off to the Daytona 500 again. Only he's heading deeper into Mexico and eventually ends up broken down in front of, "Autodromo Internacional de la Jolla" due to no water in the radiator. The engine block has seized up. Luckily, there's a race about to start. Christopher...er "Alexander Superspeeder", who changed his name, pays the $125 entry fee for the race.

Unfortunately, Alexander Superspeeder doesn't have a race car. He does however have an old bicycle still. He uses the bicycle to race. He makes it only 3 laps before he is too tired to steer straight and veers off into a race car and is killed.

Some Jew picks up his story and writes a book about his life and how he followed his dreams. Another Jew makes a movie about it. Armchair racers around the world adore him.

The End.

>>1082344
this is the best post ive ever read

>>1082272
There are two species in what you just said.

>>1082344
Dubs for repost.

>>1082631
It's copypasta. Fresh spaghetti is still noodles. But yeah, it is a good pasta.

>>1082649
It's still pretty fucking funny

>>1082650
I think it kind of puts things in a more relatable perspective.

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He didn't die from eating the seeds. He died from starvation.

>>1080374

He was a pampered child of semi wealthy parents that traveled into the wilderness with no experience or even basic equipment and starved to death because of it.

>>1082344

This pasta should really mention that he had also been offered assistance by other experienced racers and ignored them because he clearly knew better.

>Bitch ass didnt even make it to winter.
>Dealt with the easiest temperatures and weather possible in a survival scenario
>Had endless amounts of wildlife to hunt and plenty of ammo
>Dies of starvation when it had been high of 75 every day and surrounded by endless amounts of food with plenty of ammunition to survive the summer/winter/next season

>>1082704
He would have probably got rabbit starvation thinking fat is unhealthy
Ahahhahahaha

>>1082709

Fucking niggers in africa survive in 2000 degree weather with zero water and extremely depleted food from poaching and over hunting.
Area of Alaska he was in was hardly touched by man and he only got stuck out there because a FLOOD of summer water. Fucking nigger couldnt even fish for salmon like a billion fucking shit animals out there and he is trying to hunt a fucking moose by him self

>150 lb liberal college graduate vs 2500 lb limp moose body

Would of been much smarter for him to set up many fish traps on that stream that stranded him there, he would have plenty fish and he could of just used the gun to protect himself from bears and wolves. School bus was a good idea but I would of stayed out of there in the summer and insulted it for the harsh cold ass winter coming. During winter in Alaska you could hunt larger game and not have to worry about food spoiling since you know its cold as fuck out there after october

>>1082344
fucking epic post

>>1082806
>150 lb

He was about 120lbs by that time.

>>1082816

imagine how lame and boring his book would of been if he hadnt been quite so retarded, went to alaska to explore endless untouched territory.

>Finds old broken buss beside road
>>Fuck exploring this is my home

>>1082834
He beyond a doubt is the perfect example of what /out/ should never be ,

> oh let me tell the peoples who have been doing this for 25 years to go fuck themselves
10/10

>>1082806
>>1082834

First, I want to say that I agree with your sentiments. The guy was an idiot. Second, I want to say that I typically don't get triggered by spelling/grammar mistakes.

But for God's sake the phrase is "would HAVE" or "should HAVE". "Would of" is flat incorrect and is easily corrected.

Just trying to be helpful, my man.

>>1082938
It's would've,;ain't it?

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>>1082938

>>1082971
>>1082938
Yeah, it is "would've" (contraction for, "would have") that they are saying out loud and think it is "would of", since that is what it sounds like to them. It is a typical redneck thing where I live.

>>1080374
Nah, after reading the book things seems a bit more complicated. He was certainly way more competent in most /out/ ways than anyone on this board but then again he was also not very cautious.
Anyway try to give the book a read. It's quite informative and is not built up like a story with McCandles as a main character like the movie is - it's a more like an investigation into his life, death and motives.

>>1082272
>caribou and reindeer
these are the same thing bud

Shiiiettee...
Checked wiki article out of curiosity.

> Remington Nylon 66 semi-automatic rifle with 400 rounds of .22LR hollowpoint ammunition

How the fuck does one starve himself to death in 2 months with that amount of ammo.

>>1082272
Literally the first sentence on Wikipedia:
"The reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), also known as caribou in North America..."

>>1083220
OP doesn't mention the book. He was asking about the movie's portrayal.

>>1083260
>>1083261

Speeding of Wikipedia, I feel down a rabbit hole from that page and ended up on Black Bear Ranch.

Look it up, shits hilarious.

>>1083260
.22LR is basically useless for hunting anything except small game

>>1083299
I know, and he even managed to kill some small game, and, a moose, that supprised me. Must have been lucky. I'll go ask /k/unts.

>>1083295
Lost it at the name of one of their companies, "Ent Forestry".

>>1083299
Plenty of people use 22lr to hunt smaller breeds of deer, bullet has plenty of velocity to puncture anything alive's lungs if the bullet is put in the right place. He dropped a 1500lb moose with it, pretty sure he could of killed many deer and also elk

/k/ on 22lr vs moose

>>>/k/34890880

>>1082344
Kek

>>1083311

My favorite was the STD outbreak.

Also checked.

>>1083254
I think the problem stems from the fact that "caribou" is an umbrella term for many subspecies of "reindeer" which is another umbrella term. One of which has the scientific name of "Rangifer tarandus caribou". Compared with others that have names like, "Rangifer tarandus granti". So, you have people who go, "Only 'Rangifer tarandus caribou' is a true caribou and the rest are just reindeer."

>>1083328
>>1083299
>>1083344
I've killed several whitetail deer with head shots using rimfire .22 Short, getting them with head shots while they looked directly at me only about 30 feet away, but I really seriously don't recommend doing that outside of a survival situation. There's too much room for error and when looking back I can safely say I was just stupid and lucky I didn't maim one. All the skulls were blown to bits behind the eyes and none of the bullets exited. All rounds entered directly between the eyes. There was almost no sound and the deer simply looked like they were laying down so shooting them didn't spook the rest of the herd.

>>1083295
>STOP TURNING THE FUCKING HANDLE ON THE CREAM SEPARATOR REEEEEEEE

Everyone in this thread is basing their assumptions on their belief that he was trying to survive, but that simply wasn't true. He gave up on society and knew that he was going into the woods to die, he just wanted to see and do some fun shit first. He accomplished everything he wanted and died without regret, most of you fuckers could never be as lucky.

>>1082344
godly. i think im going to stay on /out/ for a while now

and the name alexander superspeeder was a race name he gave to himself instead of traditionally being given one on the track

>>1083269
Yes, and after having read the book I have a feeling that he wasn't as stupid as the movie made him out to be.

>>1083698
>>Pretentious douche alert

>>1083732
The movie actually changed the wild plants guide book so that it omits the toxin information about the plants. Thus, making him seem less stupid. Not that it matters since there's a tribe of Eskimo people who eat the seeds and roots of Hedysarum alpinum on a regular basis. Even eating it raw, you can't get enough L-canavanine from Hedysarum alpinum to harm you since eating a shit ton will make you vomit and shit out due to other quite normal plant compounds that make you nauseous in such massively high quantities. It is only a danger for grazing animals because they it a literal ton of it. A 150-pound human would have to consume 14,000 milligrams of canavanine all at once for it to be toxic at the same level it is toxic in mice.

It is literally the media going "MUH WILD POISONOUS TOXIC PLANTS BOOGEYMAN!" As they do with everything.

>>1083698
If you read his diary, you know that isn't true.

>>1082806
He was a conservatard actually, not that it really matters.

>>1083698
He deff didnt want to die, he feared death and said he regretted everything

>>1082971

I prefer would'st'd've myself

>>1083502
A .22lr will kill the fuck out of a white tail deer. I shoot for the neck or back of head. They won't stare at a spotlight continuously. They glance behind themselves periodically, like a furry paranoid tweaker while being spotlighted. Offering a shot at the cranial gspot.

>>1082268
>every month
u mean every day

>>1082704
im pretty sure he shot an elk or some other large game and didnt butcher it fast enough and all the meat spoiled.

>make sure that them flies don't land on your meat. Because once them flies start shitting out larvae and them maggots, you know, those creepy crawlies, it's too late. It's too late.

t. zach galifianakis

>>1082673
Why are there all those fucking wiggles on the chart? How many possible data samples of this niggers weight were being taken as his ass starved to death in isolation?

LMAO

>>1083220
>way more competent in most /out/ ways than anyone on this board

>Public forum open to the entire internet with no registration

>Guy who died due to no knowledge and sorry was better than *.*

Yeah no

>>1083780
Wasn't the problem that he stored the seeds in a plastic bag that grew mould, which was poisonous? The seeds were fine to eat, he just stored them improperly and ingested poisonous mould

>>1085179
No the problem was he was a SJW who rejected his father (and Western Civilization). Once you can no longer distinguish between girls and boys and cats and dogs you start believing that things like food and clothing and not dying of hypothermia are social constructs. Then you get to the point that you will kill a moose or porcupine because you are hungry but you don't eat the meat because meat is evil. The unexplored question is who put that poison and self hatred in his mind

>>1085224
>SJW
He was a Republican shill when he wrote for his college paper, you fucking knob

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>>1083658

>We made up a chart with who slept with who, just go down and put a little "X" on it, and it turned out that I think we had to treat everybody. But the funny thing was, people would look at the chart and say "Joe, you bastard, you cheated on me with that bitch?" And I remember coming up and going, "Look at that son of a bitch Michael, he screwed everybody! And look at me, I got no marks next to my name!

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>>1085179
If that happened, there's no evidence any thing like that actually happened, the worst he'd get would be cancer...a couple years later.

>>1085224
This shit,

https://matadornetwork.com/pulse/books-chris-mccandless-cheryl-strayed-took-road/

>>1085238
>Everything to the right of Karl marx is naziism

Sure thing toadie

>>1080374
>as stupid as the movie made him out to be
Nigga you wut? The movie made him out to be some kind of savant explorer and basically did everything in its power to NOT make him look like the bumbling retard he actually was.

>>1085306

McCandless worshipped the commies

>London had a varied and contradictory social/political philosophy, characterized mostly by his commitment to socialism.

>>1085224
You realize that he was repuplican right?

His sister wrote a book better explaining their family life. "The wild truth"
It kinda makes his rebellion more understandable, his parents were fucking psychopaths.

>>1085867
Nice try shill, he was a socialist

>>1085224
imagine being this fucking delusional

>>1085883
Only she's a liar, so there's that I guess.

>>1085883
They were drumph supporters?