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

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  • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Reminds me of this cdebd838-092d-4c11-9c58-9eeab8d4c63e

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    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Sam, you’re breaking the car!”

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    • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I am going to downboat you because I’m a Subaru fan not because you are incorrect in your choice of vehicle.

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      • ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        When I first saw Subaru impresa back in 1998 I was a child, but I could see how special the car was. In fact, during late 90s and 2000s we had some very special cars coming out of rally.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most movies would end faster if the main character was driving a Lancer.

      • Little Miss Sunshine
      • Driving Mrs. Daisy
      • The Brave Little Toaster
      • Planes, Trains, & Automobiles
      • Homeward Bound
      • Speed…
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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The exorcist would be a VERY different movie though…

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      • turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The new testament

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    • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ok I’ll throw in mine too, SHERP!Image

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      • Juvyn00b@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is actually the correct answer. The journey to and within Mordor would be nothing for a SHERP!!

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    • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When I see a rally car, I see a Lancer careening through a missed curve at high speed and flying off into the forest only to get wraped around several innocent trees.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol. Reminds me of Moses wondering the desert for 40 years to go like 400 miles.

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    • theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know not sure there is usable road? And this isn’t quiet the nazgul would be waiting for them and an ambush would be easy to set up.

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    • omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One does not simply drive into Mordor…oh hell you have an Evo? Go on you’re good

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    • Gwot@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Idk, maybe one of those Dakar cars could take gnarlier shortcuts

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  • rem26_art@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Odyssey happened a long time ago. Before Google Maps. Those were the MapQuest days so things weren't so accurate and they probably got lost

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Look at Mr. Moneybags with a printer.

        My parents would make me copy down directions by hand.

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rome and Syracuse causally chilling in there…

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  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Turn off highways and watch what happens.

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    • tmyakal@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pretty sure you can still take Rt 13 and Rt 20 most of the way. Going through each town and hitting lights will add some time, sure, but we’re talking an hour, maybe 90 minutes. Odysseus has no excuse.

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      • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I did it by accident. It was interesting.

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      • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        20 goes coast to coast still i think

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  • anguo@piefed.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Wait. France is the land of the dead?

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      • FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Always was.

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      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        [Land of the dead](https://nourishingdeath.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/lower-brittany-the-land-of-the-dead/)

        [Empire of the deadl](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/empire-of-the-dead-1-63434391/)

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks like the good old “Didn’t took a right at the crossroads and continued forward instead and then kept on insisting ‘I know the way’” driving problem.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This guy was so bad at sailing, it’s astounding.

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      • anguo@piefed.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean, he was a victim of the wrath of Poseidon, not that much you can do about that when at sea.

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      • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Seems to be decent at the sailing part. Navigation doesn’t seem to be even a minor part of his bailiwick

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    • spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Most of the bad stuff happened in Italy

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    • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s… a creative attempt at the traveling salesman problem.

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  • gray@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It was back in the days before cars

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also probably not in New York

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      • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Probably? Do you have proof it wasn’t?

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      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        New Amsterdam?

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  • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ohio’s is 35 mins

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t eat the lotuses in Schenectady.

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  • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Were they stupid?

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    • cannibalkitteh@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, they were just drawing it out for the Odysseus Cinematic Universe.

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    • Fishy@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They took a boat, clearly a detour

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      • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They used Bing maps.

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      • late_list@piefed.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That explains it. No direct water route. The Erie canal hadn’t been dug yet.

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  • spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That was the whole point, wasn’t it?

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  • Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honda Odyssey is a good choice for that type of trip, but I’m more partial to a Crystler Pacifica, my self.

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    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I prefer the Christler Pacifica, personally

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    • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have one of those I love that thing

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • myster0n@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, but once you factor in traffic …

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  • TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just off the upper left of the map there’s Greece, NY. It’s a Rochester suburb. Just throwing that out there.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If there’s a new York, why not also a new Greece?

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    • SpacePanda@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks like Rome is right there too.

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      • jrubal1462@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Also Syracuse. And Marathon is in the map area but not labeled at this zoom.

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  • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Everyone’s talking about driving… but you actually can take a boat from Troy to Ithaca. Just take the Erie Canal west until you reach Montezuma, at the confluence proceed to the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, and continue south through Cayuga Lake, and at the end you’ll reach Ithaca.

    Easy enough and only takes a couple days at the most. I have no idea why they needed to make some movie about this.

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  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I noticed when he finally stepped back on his land again, he brought milk, because he told Telemachus back then that he was stepping out to get some milk. /s

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  • No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As I probably will never see either: are any of the places on the map, especially itaka and troy (us) worth a visit?

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    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve been through booth, Overall nothing I’d ever plan a trip specifically for.

      Ithaca - the town itself; no. There’s a lot of cool hiking trails, and some water falls/scenic views nearby if you’re into that. Cornell University is also there, if you like exploring old architecture there’s some neat buildings.

      Troy also no, unless you want to visit a town that looks like it hasn’t changed since 1980. It is right next to Albany, the state capitol, so there’s that.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you don’t get much fall foliage that drive can be majestic in autumn. Otherwise maybe

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    • Triasha@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Neither are well known enough that I, a resident of Texas, knows anything remarkable about them. I’ve heard if Ithaca New York, never heard of Troy.

      There are things to do and see in any city or town in America, but I expect that kind of travel is an aquired taste.

      (By comparison: the small towns around my city boast things like: peanut festival, strawberry festival, highland games. I expect you could find similar events in Ithaca or Troy, but you would need to enjoy that kind of ‘state fair’ atmosphere. These are things I would drive an hour for but wouldn’t travel out of state unless I was there incedentally already)

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      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I grew up in that area as a kid.

        Troy is part of the Tri-city Area of Albany/ Schenectady/ Troy, so it is really part of the State Capital. If you are into state capitals, which generally have a mild historical interest, then there you are.

        Ithaca is just another small central NY city. Central NY is one of the most beautiful parts of America to drive through, with old stone houses and rock walls dividing farm fields. It’s not really known for some big historical event or location, it’s just one of those old historical areas where you hit the antique stores, and have meals at quaint little cafes, and stay at a B&B somewhere.

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    • revelrous@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ithaca is sort of a charming college town, a lot of art/nature/hippy vibes. If you had to be in central ny for some reason it wouldn’t be a bad place to spend some time. I would not make a special trip for it tho.

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  • Kcap@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re making this arduous journey, I strongly recommend stopping by the Hi-way Dairy Bar in Candor on 96B. Grab a Berry Twist, you won’t be disappointed.

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  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Most of that time was just hanging out on an island not traveling

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Still accurate if you’re in the Russian army

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  • Bakkoda@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The problem is they turned onto Chrysler Ave instead of hitting 890 on crosstown and once you get on Chrysler Ave it’s impossible to get off and then you’re just stuck at Schenectady.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s not the most unrealistic part, unfortunately…

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Troy NY is a fucking psychotic place

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s easy to lose track of time when you’re having fun.

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  • azimir@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s with a car, is it’s totally different.

    If you had to push a Greek penteconter the whole way down that freeway, with occasional side trips for special requests, it might take you a long time too.

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  • skvlp@lemmy.wtf ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, now show me the trip estimate for making that trip in a big boat…

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  • ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now you try rowing a boat on the highway!

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t do it during fall colors or you’ll be going 25 down one-lane roads.

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