Best HFY Reddit Stories: The Marathon (r/HFY)

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[@milohobo9186]

Persistent hunters make the most sense for a technological species. Who else would have the evolutionary tolerance for coding?

[@NovaGirl8]

or looking through piles of financial data looking for errors?

[@Tarik360]

To be priests, hand-copiers of books & manuscripts, farmers, traveling merchants, sailors, craftsmen... Lots of historical old jobs that, new and old that require patience!

[@firedirewolf]

That's a new one of the convergence evolution I haven't heard and highly suspect is true lol

[@dadudeme]

​@@Tarik360patience isn't what is needed. You need endurance. The ability to keep going because it needs to be done.

[@Tarik360]

@@dadudeme And a resolve to start doing it. Don't conflate patience with sloth please.

[@SpitfiretheCat16]

A fair competition demands all participants to be at their peak physical ability. The second an injury occurs, the game is forfeit, and no one wins.

[@gabef.218]

That makes me think, though. Would a person without any arms be better or worse at running? They are lighter so they can go faster and/or longer, but it would be harder to balance

[@babla69420]

@@gabef.218 Look ma, no hands

[@GoodlyData86596]

“Oh no, a tennis ball sized rock! Oh well I’ll just run over-“ -that one guy who is the reason the race was forfeited

[@JameSeraphim]

@@gabef.218 They'd also have less blood to circulate oxygen through

[@fungamer9425]

not relay if you cant pase yourself to last the race whiteout injury that's on you so the game wont be forfeit

[@beingsneaky]

As i said before. The idea behind persistent hunting is to see who can go the farthest, not to see who can get there that fastest.

[@TheMelbournelad]

*in a classroom 500 years later* And that children is how the Centaur/human alliance, begun.

[@dismaldimwit2200]

If my many hours watching hoof doctor videos has taught me anything, it's injuring a hoof is surprisingly easy, and incredibly painful.

[@truekurayami]

It's down right crippling, one of the main reasons why you should always shoe horses, as one bad crack or break and they might as well have shattered their leg.

[@kokofan50]

It’s a split nail that’s being walked on.

[@rockfan243]

Yooooo another enjoier of hfy stories AND the hoof gp. You have impeccable taste my good internet stranger

[@ALEXANDER1318]

This is one of the reasons that horses didn't replace oxen as work animals until we invented the iron horseshoe around the end of the viking period. Horses just couldn't work in wet soil for long enough with just bare hooves.

[@ladikthrawn7078]

Our thirst for war can only be matched by our wish and sense to do what feels right.

[@negate3]

And pity to he that allows us to quench that thirst for a cause that feels right.

[@Cemtexify]

Jesus fucking christ stop it with the edgy comments, you thirst for war? go sign up for the Ukrainian army, they're taking volunteers.

[@Shythalia]

But why would anyone have a thirst for war?

[@alexanderglass2057]

@@Shythalia to finally prove how strong you are to yourself, it doesn't have to be war against others, it could be what motivates people to pick fights with kangaroos, alligators, bears and lions.

[@GreenDude_Gaming]

This is something that happened in real life, it was in the Olympic races I think I can't exactly remember but the one who was in first place ripped the muscle and fell over and the one who was in second place stopped and carried him across the finish line

[@lazypizzaship8911]

Now that I think of it, the tortoise and hare story could have been created to teach young children of hunters and gatherers the persistence hunting strategy. I'm pretty sure I'm wrong but do we know when that story was made? And when you put it into the context of persistence hunting it really does add up.

[@Heidao623]

And so the two greatest persistence hunter races became friends

[@fireblast133]

The human basically saw it as friendly rivalry. When both are at their best the competitive spirit demands both give their all in the event, but go ahead and get drunk together after

[@loganshaw4527]

The human: we can race again when you are better, one needs a great rival to do better then thier best.

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Good sportmanship is worth more than a hundred gold medals.

[@dimanarinull9122]

what? just a single Marathon? people out here be doing 100Km races: slightly over a double Marathon at a jogging speed of 5Km/h it's about 20 hours so completely feasible, but most psychopaths that do this race are much faster. and people out there trying for longest distance are over 300Km over a 24 hour period(Aleksandr Sorokin 2022) and way over 500Km in a single run(Dean Karnazes 2005, over an 80 hour and 44 minute period of constant running around 560Km) which are absolutely bonkers insane.

[@theorangeoof926]

I remember a story like this that I can’t find about an alien being forced to write a horrible tragic story as a cover up to humanity as a way for first contact What he writes disgusts him but the contents of the book is basically an accidental tragedy about a few people comically falling off a skyscraper Then the alien bureaucrats come in and sit with him, and show him the unfathomable horrors of humanity that seem like Lovecraftian horrors to them while we accept them as tragedies Genocide, war, rape, incest, torture, sadism, terrorism are inconceivable to them He hands in his book as it is and gives up, stating that the entire galactic community would be bulldozed by these monsters when they learn the truth Leaving it to some other poor alien to write It’s hard to sift through and find this gem

[@thelaughinghyenas8465]

Nice, a hopeful, peaceful story.

[@Kez_DXX]

This is how you nurture a healthy rivalry.

[@tekhara]

Friendship and sportsmanship for the win! Side note: We invented shoes to protect out feet, I wonder if this hooved alien race invented horseshoe equivalent.

[@tomnorton8499]

If not I'm sure Nike or some other sports shoe company would create one shortly after this incident.

[@klausdalang4936]

Kool

[@scullcrusher3981]

Hi

[@jimmycoyote74]

For the algorithm

[@peterwall8191]

Well Tf you were doing running on bare hooves? There are hooved animals on earth too you know, no insult meant,they were used to carry burdens over broken terrain for millennia! We had to do something to protect our hooved partners from injury, so we invented metal hoof covers. They are shaped like the bottom part of the hoof, nailed in place(it does not hurt i swear, though it might take some getting used to) to protect the hoof. Really dude, you're competing against so many species, you'd think one of them would have some tricks you don't know about. BTW That was a foul deed, whoever committed it, should be ashamed of themselves! Injuring the obvious winner like that! Please! If you are of my species, i am ashamed for you. Clumsy obvious, crude! There are better ways , ways that wont get you arrested.

[@tylorbronson5349]

I’m confused, are you suggesting that someone sabotaged the pony?

[@marclytle644]

I can see Nike or someone doing shoes for that species now. Ohhh just think of how much he will make with endorsements! Not only will he makes lots of money, but all his species females will want him. Oh yeah, he is going to be put out to stud.

[@halogeek6]

@@tylorbronson5349 yeah I don't know about that. To me it seemed Luke he just cracked his hoof after too much strain while marathoners in an unfamiliar gravity well. Honestly so many paths that could have led to the injury I don't see how someone gets sabotage from this.

[@tylorbronson5349]

@@halogeek6 that’s why I was confused, I didn’t think anybody could sabotage him. But then the original commenter said “that was a foul deed…” and I was like “foul deed, The f*** are you talking about?”

[@halogeek6]

@@tylorbronson5349 I dunno man. English is clearly not his first language feel Like something got lost in translation here.

[@WiredTurkey316]

For the algorithm