Random Incident While Hunting


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So, my current playthrough (in Pleasant Valley) saw me scrounging for food as I tried to get to Cinder Hills mine to cross into CH...with my current home being the rural store, I headed upriver to try and tag myself a deer from the field north of the crossroads.

 

I get there, end up getting a little too close, and two of the four deer shoot off. So, I crouch and wait, and eventually, one gets fairly close, then stops. So, as most people might, I take the shot.

 

However, that shot goes somewhere that probably wasn't even in the same post code as where I aimed it. As the deer runs off, I try for a second shot (a blizzard is closing in at this time), and somehow, I manage to hit it.

Somehow, with a perfect shot, I can't hit anything, but with a moving target, having just repositioned and firing at range, I manage to score a clean shot to take the animal down...I was chuckling.

 

Also, why was Pleasant Valley named as such? I've had multiple back-to-back blizzards yet again, which have kept me from going anywhere...I think it ironic that Pleasant Valley has dome of the worst weather in the game still.

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I had similar experiences with shooting. Sometimes i manage somehow to miss perfectly aimed shot, while other times it hits fairly random potshot. Feels like im playing online game with 100ms lag.

And Pleasant Valley is names this way because when those friggin blizzards pass, it sooo damn pleasant.:P

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Places aren't always named for what they are.  My brother lives north of Seattle in a little town called "Warm Beach."  

If you have ever been swimming in the Puget Sound, you know for a fact that there are no warm beaches near Seattle.  Warm Beach is no exception.

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Apparently Iceland is so called because the Viking explorers who found it thought it was a great place to settle, and didn't want too many other people coming and spoiling it for them. 

Conversely, Greenland was so inhospitable that they again used a misleading name to encourage settlers.

(Or that could all be bollocks. I tend not to trust memories of my undergraduate university lectures, for a few reasons.) 

But there could be some of that going on in the naming of Pleasant Valley. Maybe. 

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13 hours ago, Pillock said:

Apparently Iceland is so called because the Viking explorers who found it thought it was a great place to settle, and didn't want too many other people coming and spoiling it for them. 

Conversely, Greenland was so inhospitable that they again used a misleading name to encourage settlers.

(Or that could all be bollocks. I tend not to trust memories of my undergraduate university lectures, for a few reasons.) 

But there could be some of that going on in the naming of Pleasant Valley. Maybe. 

Well, since its quite possible that those discoveries(or at least naming) were made centuries apart and climate is in constant state of change, when Greenland was discovered, then world was doing thru warm phase. Similarly, when Iceland was discovered, it was the other way around.

Those things happen in waves, several centuries apart, warming up followed by cooling down.

I find this deceitful naming theory to be unlikely, as there was no internet, so how would vikings keep their communications secret to preserve this information. Develop secret handshake or something ? But then how other vikings were supposed to know what this handshake means ?

Too confusing with fairly little sense to it. Feels more like an anecdote.

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