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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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Deepus@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …help… Im fucked.

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      • superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just walk up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, then jump and shoot someone.

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  • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OK but no you know where the sun rises and sets if youre in a familiar place atleast

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    • donuts@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do I look like the person who would get lost in a familiar place?

      Actually, don’t answer that.

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. I keep trying to go but its always too far!

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Instructions unclear, I’m at the north pole

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      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you’re at the pole, just walk due south.

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    • lowleveldata@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The moon would like a word

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s no idiom for which way the moon rises and sets so you SOL.

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    • gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • chrizzly@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *Advice not applicable if you are north or south of a given latitude.

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or… the sun is south at noon. Where is the sun at noon? That’s south.

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      • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lol this guy over here using the stars to navigate.

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      • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same but reversed in the SLC area, mountains mean East. Having lived on both sides, West is definitely better

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  • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    East? I thought you said Weast.

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No I said yeast.

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      • dabaldeagul@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Boyle is that you?

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No I said geese

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      M for Mancy

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The brainrot is strong in that one.

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    • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What are you on about? Try making sense next time.

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your phone is a compass

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know why, but the phone compass is always so shit.

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      • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it depends on how you hold it.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What, doesn’t everyone have a haptic compass belt?

    www.instructables.com/Haptic-Compass-Belt/

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    • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Should’ve just put one motor on each nipple and to direct you if north is left or right.

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    • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No but I do have something haptic in the back.

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      • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That one’s for chess moves.

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If I learned anything in geography class than that west is on the left

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    • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And North is in space

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  • raynethackery@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Go west. Life is peaceful there. Go west. Lots of open air.

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  • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That sounds really nice. I’m sure I could develop the skill, but I have to check the Sun

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      • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • ATDA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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).

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      • bluewing@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how do people not orient themselves?

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    • lauha@lemmy.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everytime I grt lost I just return home to get my compass and get on with my day

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    • Noved@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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”

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      • hraegsvelmir@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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  • evening_push579@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Village people intensifies

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Petshop Boys actually.

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      • evening_push579@feddit.nu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Which one is the cover? m.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc-AQJ2MYo

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  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    East? I thought you said weast.

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)

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  • iamnotme@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • flicker@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Think about direction, wonder where you are because you remember dumb song lyrics and not navigation skills.

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      • gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Coloradans be like “just look at the mountains smh”

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  • Rade0nfighter@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s easy, the sun rises in the… oh wait no it sets in the… erm… so what time is it?

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    • nnullzz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Noon 😏

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    • SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just think of the beauty and the beast song. I’m not even joking thats how I do it

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never
    Eat
    Shredded
    Wheat

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    • okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Stop v Wanking < November ^ Embargo >

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s was also what my fifth grade teacher taught us. But we got a new teacher shortly afterwards.

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Go downhill, or downstream, until you reach the sea, or a McDonalds.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you reach an Arby’s, you’ve gone the wrong way, crawl back into the wilderness, it’s safer there.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s that way right where I’m pointing

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looking North, West and East spell “we”.

    Sorted.

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  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I only started remembering which side west is (relative to north) when I started thinking of “the wild west” and then thinking of where the wild west was. Still can’t use it in the real world for anything though. At most if I’m at my own town I know approximately where north is, but anywhere else I’ll quickly lose the sense of which direction is which.

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  • fixerdude2@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Left.

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  • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Opposite to the east.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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