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You get one month to prepare. For the geese, you only can use your bare hands and all three will come at you at the same time. For the bear, you can use any one weapon invented before 500 AC.

You receive $100,000 for each goose killed, or $10,000,000 if you kill the bear.

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[–] guy@piefed.social 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Geese for sure. They're made of bird and thus have hollow bones that easily breaks when kicked. Hell, give me 10 geese at the same time
What kind of bear are we talking? If it's a sun bear sure, anything other no.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] guy@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

They can run about 60 km/h so even if I get a bow they'd fuck me up in an instant. Geese it is

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Crossbow was invented in the BC's. Or a solid spear really.

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess this is probably stretching the definition of a weapon but I have to imagine there's some sort of snare or net trap that I could learn to set up effectively in a month. From there either the bear starves or injures itself in such a way that it's not a big risk to me

That's an innovative idea.

In my mind you both were released into an arena so its funny imagining rushing to set up a net in a hurry

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

I'll take both, set the bear on the geese and reap the rewards. The bear gets to live too, and gets lunch!

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eh, that's still a wide range of weaponry there.

Not gonna fuck with a bear at my age and health level though. Geese all blood raged would be doable at least. Not easy, but at least when a goose lands a hit, it isn't going to leave you crippled and fucked.

Yeah geese are much easier to fuck up

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 months ago
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I will take the bear and spend the month digging a pit which the bear must cross to reach me, and filling that pit with a mixture of sulfur, pitch and oil which will stick to the bear and catch fire quickly.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining you both being released into a gladiator style arena

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

Oh, well even easier then. The Colosseum's floor is already hollow, and at one point in its history they removed the floor panels and filled it up with water to re-enact naval battles. All I need to do is prep a line across it as a moat, fill it with the flammable mixture, then chuck a torch into it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hmm, bear. With a month of preparation and a sturdy spear I think I can do it.

I've fought enough chickens to fucking fear three geese at once. I think people are underestimating that. And also, money.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had retired fighting chickens that I kept.

One filled the heart out of the other in a fight...

They are unbelievably violent.

(Later ate them although their heirs survive to this day) also ate some of their heirs 😭

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yep. Did they ever manage to break your skin? A wing to the face is also way more uncomfy than I think Reddit/Lemmy ever anticipates, and geese are much bigger and built to actually fly. I don't know if they could actually kill me, but they could shred me to a bloody pulp and there's not much I can do to stop it.

I guess I am assuming they're seriously trying to kill me back. If they act like normal geese I might change my answer, since just splitting them up should be doable.

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They did. Hand and arm only, but those fucks were not kind.

I still think you are underestimating the strength and violence of an average Joe. And the usefulness of thumbs

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, it's about me specifically, not someone else. I know if I stomp on a goose hard it's going to do damage, but then again I can only attempt it so many times before exhaustion, and there's the whole issue of what the other two are doing during that movement. If I grab a part and bend it a way it doesn't go, that's more reliable and repeatable, but I'd have to have the chance.

My actual plan would be to not stop moving, bat away the attacks I can, protect my eyes, and take any opportunities as they come.

With the bear, I spend the month training with the spear, and wait for the bear to come to me. If it impales itself it's a matter of strength, weight and technique to keep myself on the not-deadly side. The thing I fear most would be it managing to swipe the spear out of the way and then close on me, in which case I die painfully. If it goes well, I come out unscratched and set for life.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Bear, poisoned slowly over the preceding month, and then grab the geese by their necks and swing their bodies in a circle to snap their vertebrae. Done. Easiest 10.2 mil.

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Just give me the geese

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is this to the death or what? What's the win conditions of the flight?