Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You’d need to print them out for reference on the journey.

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Look at Mr. Moneybags with a printer.

    My parents would make me copy down directions by hand.

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• runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  and even then it was early MapQuest days and I’m sure Odysseus “knew a shortcut”.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Only the best navigators could hold the map quest printout up at dashboard height with one hand and simultaneously watch the road signs, the road, and the turn by turn instructions simultaneously. Many failed and simply drove off the face of the earth.

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  • jrubal1462@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh God that anxiety when the printed directions tell you to turn right in 3.5 miles, and you feel like you’ve gone about 5 but you’re not sure, and maybe that slight split in the road counted as a right turn, and now you should be moving on to the next step but you’re not quite sure…

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I used to have to do food deliveries in a van this way. Just thinking about this still elevates my heart rate.

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• arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also taking a boat overland takes forever, they don’t sail well on land

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• helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  maps.app.goo.gl/PQcdE14Z7A4WwdVk6?g_st=ac

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