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[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I have a hobby of doing the opposite: making undesirepaths.

During large snowfalls, I often need to bring out the shovel and make a path, both from my house and in front of it towards the main road. I like to add turns and bends, just enough to confuse and lightly annoy, but not enough for people to consider stepping into deep snow or making their own path.

[–] kerrypacker 32 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] LowtierComputer 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] SLVRDRGN 9 points 9 hours ago

My gosh this is such a funny premise.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

University of Maryland did this with their walkways for a while. They let the kids beat down paths for the year to make the sidewalks.

[–] naught101 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Makes heaps of sense, when you can. Still need something for people in wheelchairs and stuff early on though.

I've often thought painting lines across paths and then observing the paint wear off could tell you a lot about which paths could be removed, or where corners could be rounded off better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

They had regular sidewalks that the campus planners made. But they took a year to see what the students walking paths looked like.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago

I especially like when people do this in the snow and make big holes that I can easily step into

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

That hedge could actually be a gods windbreak behind the bench

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

Apparently when they were building the death star, they couldn't figure out where to put the vents, so they just turned off the gravity and threw a bunch of womp rats in the center and built out pipes along the vectors of where they died.

[–] TehWorld 77 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

In my junior high days (mid 80s) My friends and I found a machete in one of their dad’s stuff. We spent a weekend bushwhacking paths around some city-owned but undeveloped land near a lake. We ended up wearing them down pretty good into bike paths with some jumps and cool whoops. A few years later, the city turned it into a park and paved our paths.

[–] slaacaa 3 points 8 hours ago

~~desire~~ machete paths

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Thank you for your service 🫡
(like unironically. that rules)

[–] naught101 5 points 11 hours ago

Fuck yeah, awesome :)

[–] BoxOfFeet 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Those fuckers. Maybe instead of the bush fence, it should have been a wrought iron fence. With spikes on top.

[–] Dozzi92 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

With auto targeting tranquilizer dart firing turrets, of course.

[–] FlyingSquid 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You don't want turrets when you can send out the flamethrower drones once the proximity sensors are triggered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That's a great point. And come to think about it, the flamethrower drones may work better alongside the attack dogs.

[–] Tikiporch 18 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

These are called desire paths.

[–] naught101 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tikiporch 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I saw that, hence where I got the very idea!

[–] some_designer_dude 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Shardikprime 1 points 5 hours ago
[–] SkunkWorkz 3 points 10 hours ago

Elephant paths in my country.

[–] some_designer_dude 1 points 10 hours ago

Goat paths here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

No way there is no desire path Delta at the end of the main path where it officially meets the pavement.

[–] jimerson 28 points 20 hours ago
[–] Joelk111 109 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I've heard a story about a college campus that didn't install any paths, waited for natural dirt paths to form in the grass, then installed paths there. Neat idea.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] SkyezOpen 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Makes sense for a college campus where everyone has a different schedule. Just draw a line between every building and there's your pathways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

And then some people just like walking in grass instead of cement

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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Ah the ol' desire path strikes again!

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 9 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

For the life of me, I can't figure out what changes between panel 10 and 11.

[–] naught101 5 points 11 hours ago

I figured that was just the pause before the punchline. Like, the city almost got it, but they still fucked it up a bit.

[–] JustZ 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Zoom in. The path is starting to show.

[–] Landless2029 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Correct. Couldn't see it at first. Just thought it was a pause for dramatic effect. Felt fine as a clone.

[–] JustZ 1 points 9 hours ago

Me neither. I had to look very close. First I noticed some of the little dots representing grass were a little faded.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Faint path from frame 12 if you push your nose to the screen glass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You can't really see it that way, it's better push it against your tongue and taste the difference

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Are you a snake? Or some kind of cold blooded reptile?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

You sound just like my ex-wife

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