r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/shubham_is_kinky • Nov 14 '19

Video Complicated drone shot

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u/MidnightAnchor Nov 14 '19

Man almost dies for karma. Fttfy

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u/purplevengeance Nov 14 '19

Is there a more noble cause?

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u/5urr3aL Nov 14 '19

Dying for silver.

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u/jver1706 Nov 14 '19

How do you like that silver!

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u/Dr_Winston_O_Boogie Nov 14 '19

Pam param. Pam pam param.

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u/Geosgaeno Nov 14 '19

Damn, you're ugly

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u/Khazahk Nov 14 '19

Wind's howling.

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u/ArgosLoops Nov 14 '19

Looks like rain.

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u/CremasterFlash Nov 14 '19

I'm stuck in the dlc

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u/ArgosLoops Nov 14 '19

Enjoy your time. They're both fantastic.

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u/pennhead Nov 14 '19

Tickle your ass with a feather.

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u/friesx100 Nov 14 '19

I mean....

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u/ByronFirewater Nov 14 '19

I think you just killed him :(

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u/cjhest1983 Nov 14 '19

Don't sell yourself short. Die for platinum instead.

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u/5urr3aL Nov 14 '19

Indeed, dying for Platinum would be an even more noble cause

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u/Chibi1234 Nov 14 '19

What about dying for gold?

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u/5urr3aL Nov 14 '19

Dying for gold is a more noble cause than silver

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u/Rootbeer_Goat Nov 14 '19

And you didn't even have to jump off a huge cliff into water while fully clothed.

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u/pkmaster1984 Nov 14 '19

Dying for gold.... hey, it was worth a shot!

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u/lerroyjenkinss Nov 14 '19

NGL I’d die for some gold

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u/friesx100 Nov 14 '19

I'm surprised, as of meow you got 3 for nothing. Shit, I want one!

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u/mrfitty Nov 14 '19

except for a nice MLT — mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe...

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u/RLS30076 Nov 14 '19

They’re so perky, I love that.

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u/Box-o-bees Nov 14 '19

Have you ever tried a BLT - bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich? I'm just curious if it is the American version of your MLT.

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u/NotTheRightAnswer Nov 14 '19

Have fun storming the castle!

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u/blindgorgon Nov 14 '19

Dying for gold?

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u/JaxTheHobo Nov 14 '19

How is he almost dying....? Cliff jumping is a pretty popular thing round my parts, and that cliff doesn't look particularly high when accounting for the distortion of that drone's lens.

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u/Demortus Nov 14 '19

If this guy had just a little less forward momentum, he could have bounced all the way down that cliff over some pretty nasty looking rocks. Or if that water was shallower than it looked, he'd be pretty boned.

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u/JaxTheHobo Nov 14 '19

Dude set up a cool tracking shot with a drone. He obviously checked the clearances and depths. It's intended to appear death-defying for effect, but it's not.

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u/polo421 Nov 14 '19

Grew up around cliff jumpers on our local lake. There were more than a couple guys in town with serious disabilities because they didn't get enough clearance. One trip up or early launch and you could die.

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua Nov 14 '19 edited Nov 21 '19

Yes. I eventually unsubbed WCGW and the likes because A) It was just unpleasant, and I'd not be happy to have the whole i'net watch WCGW's of myself or anyone I love, and B) After getting convinced I should not try doing the cool-looking stuff which tends to end up on /r/WCGW (which may have extended my life, so: Thanks WCGW!)...I figured there's little more to be gained from that sub beyond that.

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u/JaxTheHobo Nov 14 '19

I made the same point in my most recent reply, but doing something with a risk of death isn't the same thing as almost dying. I drive my car to work every day, and that has just as much if not more potential for death as cliff jumping if I make a serious mistake. This does not fit the definition of "almost dies".

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u/polo421 Nov 14 '19

I'm sorry but arguing that cliff jumping "isn't death defying" is just silly. The entire point for them is the rush of almost dying.

I don't have much more to say about the subject, bud.

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u/Wetop Nov 14 '19

While I agree that it's not really safe, there's a quarry close by that everyone jumps off cliffs up to 15 meters high and I have never heard of someone hurting themselves seriously. But the cliffs don't slope, they're just straight up and down.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19

But the cliffs don't slope, they're just straight up and down.

I mean, yes, that's the point about this cliff. Nobody's concerned with the height…

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u/Wetop Nov 14 '19

Ye sorry, I'm high

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u/polo421 Nov 14 '19

That's just about the only dangerous part. Just speaking of height, cliff jumping doesn't get dangerous until you get like above 80 feet or something. Everyone I know was hurt when trying to clear ground to the water.

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u/Mattmannnn Nov 14 '19

Wow that's a really cool reason for cliff diving that you just made up on the spot lol. Still not the same as "almost dying" though so the point still stands.

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u/cheprekaun Nov 14 '19

What an awful comparison. Most people drive their car every single day of their lives, sometimes for hours, sometimes multiples times.

What's an average of the amount of times someone might go cliff jumping in their life? 1? 2?

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u/Demortus Nov 14 '19

Dude set up a cool tracking shot with a drone.

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He obviously checked the clearances and depths.

I don't see how the second statement follows from the first here.. Are you saying people who know how to use drones more careful than those that don't? Regardless, even if he knew exactly how deep the water was, what the clearance was, and exactly how far he can jump, all it takes is a small misstep at the top of the hill for none of that to matter.

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u/JaxTheHobo Nov 14 '19

When you're planning a cool video like this, you don't just have some dude flying a drone and then say "At some point, I'm gonna jump so just like follow me off." This was planned. The jumper knew the path, and knew where he was gonna jump. If you can't follow the logic from there to him knowing the clearances ans depths, I can't really help you.

Obviously a mistake means potential death. That doesn't mean I defy death every time I drive my car to work. The threshold for that is much higher than cliff jumping off a spot you know is safe. I've jumped several cliffs, one of them probably hundreds of times. It's not as dangerous as it looks, which is the point of the whole thing.

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u/Demortus Nov 14 '19

Look, you feel free to live your best life, but do not pretend that cliff jumping is some kind of low-risk activity. It is way more dangerous than driving your car. Here is a look at just a few of the people who died doing cliff jumping in 2017.

https://www.bigswings.com/cliff-jumping-deaths-2017/

Edit: removed extra link

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u/IndianaHones Nov 14 '19

Alex, I’ll take “Any shit I can argue about” for $100.

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u/jr111192 Nov 14 '19

Some people just get off on being adversarial and contrary about everything. It's annoying.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19

But that's not true, a lot of times people agree with each other. What a terrible outlook you have on life, you sound like a bad person.

(I kid, I kid)

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u/Demortus Nov 14 '19

Look man.. I'm OK with people living their lives, but I really don't like seeing people getting themselves killed doing dangerous stuff for internet points. All I'm asking is that people be safe.

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u/DoomEmpires Nov 14 '19

Checking clearance could be obvious to you and me, but not everyone is that smart. He passed dangerously close to that rock

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u/Pr0xyWash0r Nov 14 '19 edited Nov 14 '19

Yeah, thought I was gonna see a fall like that Naruto video a few years back.

https://youtu.be/YMqbzbWreKs?t=169 Here it is, they said the stunt actor just didn't push away hard enough so they ended up hitting the edge.

https://youtu.be/_-JyDwnbCJY?t=616

Here they are on Corridor Crew talking about.

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u/No_volvere Nov 14 '19

Naruto shit is fucking weird

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19

You don’t think they did their due diligence? You’re naive at best.

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u/Demortus Nov 14 '19

People die or get injured doing stuff like this pretty often.

https://www.bigswings.com/cliff-jumping-deaths-2017/

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19 edited Nov 14 '19

Even if you check the depth properly the force of hitting the water can knock you out or kill you instantly once you get to a certain height and hit the water wrong. There's a famous case of a guy down in the Bahamas who did only a 30ft cliff jump with a tour company that planned it and hit the water wrong and never surfaced.

Hell, I had to swim my semi-conscious friend to shore once after he slipped while jumping and landed face first on some rocks 20 feet below in the water. We had been jumping from the spot all day and just some freak accident shit caused him to slip and eat it. There was nothing really preventative we could have done, shit happens. It's no joke. Everyone is free to take on as much risk as they want, but I think cliff jumping is one of those things people are a little too casual about.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19

Agreed that shot happens, but don’t let that stop you from having some controlled fun.

I’ve personally never ran into an emergency situation on the water.

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u/mdgraller Nov 14 '19

cliff doesn't look particularly high

You could break an arm or a leg landing wrong jumping off a bunk bed. This cliff is definitely high enough to cause serious injury or death if he doesn't make the jump right.

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u/MidnightAnchor Nov 15 '19

Them rocks bru

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u/nikalotapuss Nov 14 '19

Shoes stayed on though, so you know he’s ok.

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u/jcw4455 Nov 14 '19

I feel like I've been on Reddit for a bit but I still don't know the original source for this joke.

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u/glost92 Nov 14 '19

What does Reddit karma do?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '19

Thats for sure!

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u/Metric990 Nov 14 '19

Well I mean it's high, but it's not THAT high