North is W
West is A
South is S
East is D
… unless you hit Q or E and rotated the camera, in which case you’re fucked.
I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.
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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Deepus@lemm.ee 2 days ago
…help… Im fucked.
superkret@feddit.org 2 days ago
Just walk up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, then jump and shoot someone.
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
OK but no you know where the sun rises and sets if youre in a familiar place atleast
donuts@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Do I look like the person who would get lost in a familiar place?
Actually, don’t answer that.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
It hurts me that people don’t realise you know where the sun rises and sets (roughly), anywhere, by looking up and roughly knowing what time it is. Other than midday, then fair enough.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No. I keep trying to go but its always too far!
bluewing@lemm.ee 1 day ago
What? You don’t have an internal compass that keeps you oriented? For some reason I seem to be a lucky person that just knows which compass direction I’m going no matter where I am. And it’s a very weird and frightening feeling if I do get disoriented. I had some pain meds after a surgery that did that to me. Flushed them damn things down the toilet after the first 2 I took.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That sounds really nice. I’m sure I could develop the skill, but I have to check the Sun
bluewing@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
While I’m sure there is learned effort, I do feel like there is something inside my brain that just has a connection to north somehow. Kind of like how ducks and geese know which way to travel when migrating. I can’t really explain it well.
gnu@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
And it’s a very weird and frightening feeling if I do get disoriented.
I know what you mean, there has been a couple of times in my life where my internal idea of direction has been turned off course and it is a very weird feeling indeed trying to reconcile the direction you internally believe you’re facing against the different direction a map or compass is telling you is actually true.
As a kid I also once spent a weekend in Melbourne feeling somewhat disconcerted due to not being . I’d never been there before and flew in on an overcast day which never ended up letting up until I flew out so never ended up getting my bearings while we were down there (didn’t help that this was before the smartphone era so maps weren’t available at the drop of a hat).
bluewing@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
I have a similar experience when I go a city in my state - St. Paul. If I go downtown for any reason, I always feel a bit uneasy walking about and I didn’t know why for the longest time. I finally found out that the streets in the downtown aren’t laid out on the cardinal points-- They were laid out on a slight bias due to being right up against the Mississippi river. And that makes me a little uncomfortable when looking down a block of buildings or from one street to the next at an intersection. It’s always a little bit wonky feeling.
ATDA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m with you. Short of that one day dead noon Hawaii or the middle of a forest I feel like there are clues to approximate North and South even when I’m discombobulated.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Your phone is a compass
Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One time I called 911 because I was following a drunk driver that had collided with multiple vehicles and kept driving. The operator asked me what direction so I looked at my maps app and it said I was going west so I told them west and they said “Sir that street doesn’t run west.” I was speechless after that.
Emerald@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
So you might’ve been going west, but not westbound. Roads curve often in the USA at least (i’m guessing you are from the USA because 911)
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
This is the best part about growing up in Colorado. The mountains are west. It’s like having a cheat mode compass enabled all the time.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Or… the sun is south at noon. Where is the sun at noon? That’s south.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Lol this guy over here using the stars to navigate.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
You should probably mention which regions this advice is limited to, to avoid confusing people from outside those regions who see your advice and misapply it.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Same but reversed in the SLC area, mountains mean East. Having lived on both sides, West is definitely better
RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 2 days ago
East? I thought you said Weast.
superkret@feddit.org 2 days ago
No I said yeast.
dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Boyle is that you?
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
No I said geese
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 days ago
M for Mancy
lugal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If I learned anything in geography class than that west is on the left
zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And North is in space
raynethackery@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Go west. Life is peaceful there. Go west. Lots of open air.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What, doesn’t everyone have a haptic compass belt?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Should’ve just put one motor on each nipple and to direct you if north is left or right.
x00z@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No but I do have something haptic in the back.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That one’s for chess moves.
Reyali@lemm.ee 1 day ago
At one point in my childhood, my dad made the comment, “Women don’t know compass directions.” I took offense to that and made a point to learn them to prove him wrong.
I felt vindicated in high school when he was coming to pick me up from a friend’s house and said, “I’m at the gas station. Do I go left or right?” I told him there were several gas stations on the way, and asked which direction he was facing to figure out which one he was by. He couldn’t tell me and finally hung up on me in a huff.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The brainrot is strong in that one.
frostysauce@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What are you on about? Try making sense next time.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean their profile pic is them outdoors on a paddle board, so first impressions is yea maybe you do know cardinal directions? Anyone who spends extended time outdoors should.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Coloradans be like “just look at the mountains smh”
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
how do people not orient themselves?
lauha@lemmy.one 2 days ago
Everytime I grt lost I just return home to get my compass and get on with my day
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 days ago
The birth of the GPS. Basic navigation is a dying skill, a lot of people don’t even know what to do with a map without a big blue dot showing where you are
Noved@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Legitimately, how do you? Without prior knowledge of the direction you are facing and the sun is right about you.
Cardinal directions have always been hard for me and I’m only now just starting to use them out of job necessity.
Left and right takes a second most of the time, ask me to look north and it’s going to be a long while.
If I’m somewhere new or lost like op, it’s just cruel to say “go west”
hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Not trying to be facetious, but you just kind of do it. I think it might be something that you just subconsciously keep track of once you really become aware of it. I remember it seeming like magic until I was maybe 15 or so, and then I had landmarks for each direction in my mental map and could figure things out in reference to them. After a bit of that, I could mostly stay oriented when traveling by land, and now it’s not an issue even when I fly somewhere. I went to England for the first time last year, and I had the cardinal directions sorted probably by the time I’d walked from the train to my hotel.
Once you’ve got it down, you just sort of do it on autopilot.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think it helps that I’ve been a pilot since I was a teenager. Spend some time where you can see a third of a state at a time you’ll just develop this sense. You get a bigger picture of how things are oriented relative to each other that’s sort of like, wherever you are in your home, you can probably work out which way the road outside goes, likely parallel to one of your walls. I can do that over much greater distances. If you’ve ever stood in the middle of a parking lot in a strip mall, and gone “the highway is over there, the Belk is over there, the J.C. Penney is that way, the furniture store is down on that end and I know the Red Lobster is just on the other side of it though I can’t see it from here,” I can do that with the major cities in my state.
Orienting yourself if you’ve gotten turned around is another habit to build up. Yes “the afternoon sun is in the West” but also if you’re in the Northern hemisphere, your shadow will point North at noon. I also have a pretty good picture of the highway system in my head and can orient myself by knowing the general heading of a nearby highway.
From both my time as a pilot and as an amateur radio operator I’m familiar with the various towers across the state. I’ve used those to work out my approximate location and heading both in the air and on the ground. In medium sized cities often there’s a city center with a few tall buildings that can be seen for several miles around, orienting yourself to them can help you develop a sense of direction. I’ve started doing that almost subconsciously.
Now if I were to wake up in a cave my gyros would be tumbled until I managed to get out. I don’t have an actual built-in compass. But it wouldn’t take me long to orient myself seeing how the daylight hit the cave entrance.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You track you direction throughout the day. My road runs east/west. If i leave my house and turn left, I’m going west, turn right im going east, I keep this in mind as often as I can.
I also know my general area pretty well and what direction each town/city is in relative to my home, which helps me find my direction if i lost it. I also like to remember which direction each major intersection goes as that helps me keep track as well.
centipede_powder@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Just always walk twords the sun
iamnotme@feddit.uk 2 days ago
What have the pop band from the 80s got to do with the direction? Is there some code in their lyrics that will point her the right way?
evening_push579@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Village people intensifies
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 days ago
Petshop Boys actually.
evening_push579@feddit.nu 2 days ago
Which one is the cover? m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc-AQJ2MYo
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 days ago
East? I thought you said weast.
fixerdude2@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Left.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Or just ask them which is west and they can point you towards it? Your not a compass needle lol, what is that assumption.
flicker@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you are confused, check with the sun. Carry a compass to help you along. Your feet are going to be on the ground. Your head is there to move you around.
Stand in the place where you live. Now face north.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Think about direction, wonder where you are because you remember dumb song lyrics and not navigation skills.
gnu@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Listen to reason, reason is calling on the same handy device every man and his dog has which will provide a north oriented aerial view of the area in question and even a compass display if the map isn’t enough to orient yourself.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Opposite to the east.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I have problems telling right from left. At least I’m the moment, if I take my time I can tell.
But I almost always know my cardinal directions
brey1013@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you extend your thumb and first finger, the L shape that is the correct way around is on your left hand.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Yeah I know when I have time to think about it.
It’s just when people say: ‘go left here’ or me throng to indicate direction in a split second that my change of getting it right reduced to 50%. My brain doesn’t grok that left right isn’t absolute but related to orientation.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Do you “write” with your “right” hand? That’s how I remember.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Like I said repeatedly. If I get to think about it I know what side is what. It’s only in the moment when I falter
Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All roads lead to East New Westersouth.
Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s easy, the sun rises in the… oh wait no it sets in the… erm… so what time is it?
nnullzz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Noon 😏
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Just think of the beauty and the beast song. I’m not even joking thats how I do it
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Never
Eat
Shredded
Wheatsuperkret@feddit.org 2 days ago
Go downhill, or downstream, until you reach the sea, or a McDonalds.
WereCat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s easy. When you imagine south as an north being on the top then west is on the east side from it.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 day ago
If it’s before noon: Go away from the sun.
If it’s after noon: Go toward the sun.
If it’s night… Wait for morning, and go away from the sun.
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Instructions unclear, I’m at the north pole
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 day ago
If you’re at the pole, just walk due south.
gnu@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
If it’s night and you can see both the Southern Cross and the Pointers it’s pretty trivial to determine south; if you’re in the northern hemisphere you get it even easier with Polaris to mark north.
lowleveldata@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The moon would like a word
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 day ago
There’s no idiom for which way the moon rises and sets so you SOL.
chrizzly@feddit.org 1 day ago
My initial thought when reading your comment was a response about differentiation of both hemispheres, but the way you wrote it was actually quite clever, so kudos for that! :D
Routhinator@startrek.website 1 day ago
*Advice not applicable if you are north or south of a given latitude.