I would wait and hide, allowing the T-Rex to tire itself out. Then one night, when the T-Rex was especially tired and soundly asleep, I would carefully climb into the T-Rex’s cloaca. There I would stay for the rest of the month.
That’s it, you can keep the 500 million. I’ve already won.
Prose so beautiful it brought a tear to my eye.
Literally why humans (and our ancestors) were able to put themselves at the top of the food chain.
Strange, I don’t see the part about hiding in a prey’s cloaca for an entire month. 🤔
It’s heavily implied.
Clown in ambulance style? How big is a T’s asshole for a grown ass man to fit in??
I’m so flattered that you you see me as a grown ass man <3
Its not much of a leap to assume you’re an ass man
That is just disrespectful. They could be a General Manager, District Manager, or Regional Manager. You don’t know.
This is easy.
We’re locked in the arena. I’m safe in my indestructible hut. I also get food. So all I have to do is sit there and wait for the t-rex to starve to death and/or die of dehydration.
With literally zero expenditure of effort I’ll make the $500mm in like two weeks.
If you’re fed, it’s highly likely the T Rex is also fed.
your hut is in the middle. the food delivery is at one end or the other because you
don’tcan’t tip enough (weren’t given any money) for the dashers to risk their lives delivering a sack of soggy tacos.If you have to walk through trex territory to get food/water then it’s much harder…
The correct answer is to befriend the t-rex and then team up to kill the multi millionaires caging up people and extinct animals for violent entertainment.
Poop on the knife, stab it anywhere I can reach when it is inevitably near the hut trying to get me. Repeat until infection does its work.
Is that what a poop knife is?
Sadly no
Apparently T-Rex can live up to a couple weeks without food.
So I would spend most of that time pestering it, throwing rocks and stuff just to keep it awake and agitated. Ideally get it to chase me back into my indestructible hut.
After week 3, if it isn’t dead, it will be so lethargic and ill that I could hack away at it’s tail until enough bleeding finishes the job. It says I have food, it does not say he has food.
Research suggests a T-Rex would need 50-100k kCal/day. Even if it ate a whole cow before starting, it would be hurting a week in.
Maybe it could survive the month, but would probably be severely malnourished at that point.
In any event, there is no mention of what happens if I fail to kill it. Does the experiment just end and I go home empty handed, or does the magic hut disappear and we fight it out to the death?
Can I keep the hut?
A hut, in this economy?
The only reason they can offer 500 million is because of the crypto sponsorship
All right, we’ll keep the sponsorship. I’m fine living in the Cypto.com Arena('s Previously Magic Hut).
“Yes, Richard, you can keep the hut.”
I also immediately thought of ayoade on taskmaster when I read that comment. I see you prole.
Surely the T-Rex also gets food and a hut
Seems like a reasonable assumption is that it gets 90-95% of its BMR per day; that is, its fed enough to stay alive for a long while, but it us on a duet and chronically hungry.
If you fail to kill it and survive, yeah seems like going home empty handed is the safe assumption.
Yeah that was my thought, just let it starve.
That’s assuming it doesn’t have the capability to go into torpor.
Guys I just checked t Rex extinct easy money they already ded
Never saw the jurassic Park sequels huh? There are islands with dinosaurs on them.
no mention of the T Rex being provided food, so
I wait in my tent until it is practically dead of hunger or thirst, then I stab it
No mention of you being provided food either…Nevermind I’m blind sometimesYeah this seems easy. Chill out in your indestructible hut and eat some hot Cheetos for a month, wait for the T-Rex to starve to death. Come out a millionaire.
The T rex must sleep at some point. Find a big artery close to the skin surface, sever it. Watch it bleed out to death.
Or just stay in the hut and enjoy one month of free food and rent.
I would be very surprised if a T-Rex had any major artery close enough to its skin to get pierced by a standard hunting knife. That would’ve been a major evolutionary flaw considering the other animals they were up against.
Find a big artery close to the skin surface, sever it.
Have you seen a headless chicken freaking out and running around before bleeding out and dying? Now imagine that, except the chicken is 12 m tall, weighs 8 metric tonnes, still has its head, and that head is full of teeth the size of a kitchen knife.
When was the last time it ate before going into the arena?
Keep feeding the t-rex with my unlimited supply of food. It will overeat and get lazy.
I’ve seen it happen with birds. If they eat too much you can just walk over and pick them up.
Humans used to hunt mammoths, and these fuckers don’t even have a thick layer of fur armor. We used to hunt mammoths, because we were so fucking good at it we killed every last one of them.
I’m using my knife and making an atlatl, some spears smeared in shit, and I’m going hunting. Every time this bastard goes to sleep, he’s getting a spear with a side of gangrene lodged in him. Fucker’s missed out on 60 million years of techtree development, and has no reply to ranged strikes.
It’s always funny when people overestimate their own ability to fight an animal.
Yeah bro i could fight a gorilla.
I don’t think i could, honestly, but spears and shit from the hut would be my best guess. Or wait until it sleeps and ram it through the eye with full force and run like a motherfucker. In movies they often spear big animals and they live for a long time and cause havoc, i would assume a spear through the brain isn’t good no matter the size.
There’s a fossil of a t-rex that’s believed to have been very old when it died (like, 28ish). It had evidence of injuries all over it, including having been stabbed through the back of the skull and into the brain by another T-rex’s tooth (the scar was old and healed, so it survived being bitten in the brain)
I wouldn’t bet on anything but a long drawn out campaign against it
I like the ideas here but I fail to see where you guys get the spears from. We only get a knife and food, which presumably doesn’t come with a long stick.
I’d order marshmallows and hope for the best. Honeatly in my brain i just found a stick an the knive is magically attached to it.
A band of hunters was needed to take a mammoth down. Not a single person. And frequently they used traps to immobilize the animal before killing it from some distance with spears and stones.
I have a month, a place to avoid retaliation, the target can’t run away or effectively hide, and no creature in its entire evolutionary history has ever seen a ranged attack before. Each time I hit it, it weakens snd slows as it bleeds, expends energy, and fights infection.
I like my odds with the sleepytime atlatl poo-spear better than being 1 of 20 guys trying to peel a mammoth off from a herd in random terrain.
The real problem is we dont know what a live T-Rex looks like. It could have fur or feathers, it could have wings or wild talons on its hands. What are the odds their arms are as useless as we think they are for real?
I don’t care if is has feathers, or long grabby arms, I’m waiting for it to fall asleep, and chucking a spear at it, and running, every single time until it dies of bloodloss, gangrene, or exhaustion.
Does the T Rex even understand what I did? Ranged attacks didn’t exist for 65 million years after it went extinct, does something that evolved to hunt slow, armored herbivores have any response to ranged hit and runs? The many species of megafauna humans hunted to extinction before the invention of writing suggests no.
Well you’d only have a knife based on the post, so you’d have to throw it and retrieve it, and it wouldnt stay sharp forever. These are all issues with a spear too. I’m sure a T-Rex could out run you as well. Best bet might be to conserve energy and hope the dinosaur starves first.
Whenever the trex is far from the hut, taunt it into charging me, then run to safety. Do this all day, everyday for a month. Let it exhaust itself. Consider dirtying the knife and planting it blade pointing up outside the hut door as a makeshift infectious caltrop. Either it dies of exhaustion or infection.
Consider dirtying the knife and planting it blade pointing up outside the hut door as a makeshift infectious caltrop
That’s how I start out in Rimworld
Wait can a T-Rex go an entire month without food? Are they feeding the thing while I am in there?
As always, the T-Rex also gets fed, an indestructible shelter, and a hunting knife.
Id be more worried about the hunting knife if he didnt have such tiny arms
Or thumbs
As is tradition.
Smear the yogurt!
Somewhat related comment. Is it possible to kill a human with a thumbtack?
I imagine an infection would be the most likely killer. Maybe eventual bloodloss? Though that would take quite some time.
You can kill a human with a well place punch or just a chokehold.
So yes, you can also do it with a thumbtack.
Yes, you just have to be patient
Get him to swallow it, and maybe.
