Alaric Posted September 20, 2017 #51 Share Posted September 20, 2017 On 9/18/2017 at 4:02 AM, Hawkin said: Zombies represent mindless consumers with no regard for long term survival other than consumption of mass quantities in the here and now... when you look at it that way, the likelihood of a "Zombie Apocalypse" just got quite a bit more likely. We've had spot outbreaks already...what else would you call it when they burn and loot their own neighborhoods at the slightest provocation? What do you think will happen in certain urban centers when government and law breaks down? We saw it during Katrina and again during Harvey/ Irma. When resources dry up, not only had you better be stocked up with your own... but you better be prepared to defend yourself and your loved ones against the mobs of "Zombies" that show up to "redistribute" your stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFOwatcher Posted September 28, 2017 #52 Share Posted September 28, 2017 I would out-walk them... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlatti Posted November 9, 2017 #53 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Change TV channels because it's boring rubbish that has been done to death. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanltzw Posted November 28, 2017 #54 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Avoid cities and towns, stick to secluded areas like forests or mountains, prepare lots of dry packed foods and fruits, Prepare clothes for various seasons, stock up on fuel, get on a truck, pray for the best. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Walker Posted December 5, 2017 #55 Share Posted December 5, 2017 On 18/09/2017 at 2:15 AM, Orphalesion said: I never understood the fascination people have with Zombie Apocalypse scenarios, or zombies in general. If such a thing were to happen it would be an mind-crushingly horrible situation so I don't really get the excitement and glee some people (includign some friends of mine) have when making fantasy plans for it. Though gotta critique the wording here a little bit, "Answering that they would do some pretty logical, intuitive things (they have seen people do in movies) when directly questioned what they would do in a Zombie Apocalypse" is NOT the same as "actively preparing for a Zombie Apocalypse" I doubt many people actively prepare for something as ridiculous as a Zombie Apocalypse. It'd be like preparing for Cthulhu's awaking... I think that it is the fact that it is total fantasy which allows us get enjoyment glee and excitement from it I've never watched a zombie movie per se although a couple of A movies I've watched included zombie scenarios as a part of the story line Maybe i was already too old by the time they became popular. Now vampires? Oh yes, love them, but the good guys have to win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Walker Posted December 5, 2017 #56 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Given that zombies require human flesh/brains? to survive, one only has to be able to wait them out, until the y all die from lack of a food supply. My all purpose underground bunker wouldn't even require positive pressure air supply to survive zombies. Just a few years supply of food and accessible water/sanitation, and an off the grid power source A few terabytes of stored movies and series. Lots of online reading and enough nubile young women to repopulate the earth, and we are good to go. It is the morons who actually go out among the zombies for cinematic effect who end up getting themselves dead. Ps i would locate it underground, somewhere like cooper pedy, where the natural distances from population centres, and the climate, would minimise the number of zombies in the local area to start with, and prevent reinforcements from arriving. Also a good source of solar power, although water would be more problematic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted December 5, 2017 #57 Share Posted December 5, 2017 1 hour ago, Mr Walker said: I think that it is the fact that it is total fantasy which allows us get enjoyment glee and excitement from it I've never watched a zombie movie per se although a couple of A movies I've watched included zombie scenarios as a part of the story line Maybe i was already too old by the time they became popular. Now vampires? Oh yes, love them, but the good guys have to win. Vampires I understand, they can be quite hot (and no not talking about the sprakly kind) funny, interesting and scary. Drusilla from Buffy, for example, is one of my all time favourite characters in television. As I wrote above I just don't get what is so enjoyable, gleeful or exciting about this particular fantasy. It's a thoroughly awful scenario without any desirable aspects to it. And unlike vampires, Zombies are just boring and disgusting, due to not having any personality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illyrius Posted December 5, 2017 #58 Share Posted December 5, 2017 something interesting about zombies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Walker Posted December 5, 2017 #59 Share Posted December 5, 2017 10 hours ago, Orphalesion said: Vampires I understand, they can be quite hot (and no not talking about the sprakly kind) funny, interesting and scary. Drusilla from Buffy, for example, is one of my all time favourite characters in television. As I wrote above I just don't get what is so enjoyable, gleeful or exciting about this particular fantasy. It's a thoroughly awful scenario without any desirable aspects to it. And unlike vampires, Zombies are just boring and disgusting, due to not having any personality. My wife and i watched every episode of Buffy, and later Angel, with great delight. However, due to another commitment, we could not watch the very last episode of Buffy so I taped it on VHS. Somehow it got taped over before we could watch it, and it was a decade before i was able to download and watch it, to find out what happened ( i refused to ask many of our buffy friends, as i wanted to watch it for myself) I think the success of Buffy was in large part down to Josh Whedon, a brilliant producer He also made what i consider one f the finest series ever made ie Firefly Of course the hot male and female leads did not hurt either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticwerewolf Posted December 5, 2017 #60 Share Posted December 5, 2017 On 9/17/2017 at 8:51 AM, UM-Bot said: A new poll in the UK has revealed that some people may already be preparing for such an eventuality. my cousin is or at least says she is prepared for one, I on the other hand would be one of the first ones bitten. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piney Posted December 5, 2017 #61 Share Posted December 5, 2017 What do you think.......... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Hammerclaw Posted December 5, 2017 #62 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I'm the guy that comes along at the end of the movie and shoots the good guy, thinking he's a zombie. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orphalesion Posted December 6, 2017 #63 Share Posted December 6, 2017 52 minutes ago, mysticwerewolf said: my cousin is or at least says she is prepared for one, I on the other hand would be one of the first ones bitten. See I always look at the question that way: would I even want to survive for a long time into a Zombie Apocalypse? I'm not a martial person, I don't enjoy fighting. I get annoyed to no end if I can't have my daily cup of Chai Tea or am denied a hot shower for any amount of time. My aspirations and life goals depend on the continued existence of at least a certain level of a reasonably peaceful civilization and I am so afraid of warfare that I can't even watch war movies. Yes, I admit it, the only thing in this or any other world that truly scares me is the idea of living through a modern war. I'd rather face demons or the biblical concept of Satan or go-face-to-face with all monsters from Greek mythology than be in a city during a bombing raid. And that's the reason I don't like zombie apocalypses, because they are basically a state of modern warfare....a million times worse. You'd basically be permanently hungry, cold, dirty, and constantly afraid because horrible, horrible, painful death (or worse!) can come form any direction at any minute. And stuff like Walking Dead show that an event like a Zombie Apocalypse wouldn't just be over in one night of bashing in zombie heads. They'd go on and on and on, all the while you have to endure cruelty and danger and pain and deprivation as you humanity is slowly eroded away bit by bit with each new horror. I don't think I'd be able to or would even want to live through something like that and I have high respect of people like my grandmother who managed to endure such horrors (extended modern warfare, ot zombie Apocalypse, though from her tales there's really not that much of a difference). That's just the sort of stuff I can't switch off when engaging in Zombie media. Hence why I don't have any interest in it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDocMartens Posted December 6, 2017 #64 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I have a farm, 107 acres and a barn with an apartment upstairs. The barn doors lock with chains and padlocks, You can see for a quarter mile in any direction, and I have a generator, tractor, and storage area for more food than I could eat in a lifetime. Bring it! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorizBadinov Posted December 6, 2017 #65 Share Posted December 6, 2017 7 hours ago, Orphalesion said: And that's the reason I don't like zombie apocalypses, because they are basically a state of modern warfare....a million times worse. I believe many people would rather prepare for zombies than a nuclear holocaust, although they are quite similar in nature. Avoid contamination, have clean food and water reserves, secure protected hideaway, stockpile weapons to keep away starving creatures (survivors) that want something you have and might try to kill you for it... Zombies being fictional perhaps don't carry so much realistic fear as thinking about a disaster that is very possible in our world right now. Survival is a choice with a side of luck. Some people choose to hope it won't happen and like you stated perhaps hope they don't survive the initial calamity, and some choose to prepare in case something happens. Making it about zombies probably takes the edge off. Then some of them might be looney too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccr8 Posted December 6, 2017 #66 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I've always wondered why do people always run up the stairs to the rooftop? And how does a slow lumbering zombie seem to keep up with someone running full out? These are the reasons that I don't watch zombie movies, too much work to suspend disbelief. Not even entertaining. jmccr8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHaYap Posted December 6, 2017 #67 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I'll just go get myself another beer ... did anybody mention getting another beer ? Okay then ... go get another beer ... ~ 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticwerewolf Posted December 31, 2017 #68 Share Posted December 31, 2017 On 12/5/2017 at 4:03 PM, Orphalesion said: See I always look at the question that way: would I even want to survive for a long time into a Zombie Apocalypse? I'm not a martial person, I don't enjoy fighting. I get annoyed to no end if I can't have my daily cup of Chai Tea or am denied a hot shower for any amount of time. My aspirations and life goals depend on the continued existence of at least a certain level of a reasonably peaceful civilization and I am so afraid of warfare that I can't even watch war movies. Yes, I admit it, the only thing in this or any other world that truly scares me is the idea of living through a modern war. I'd rather face demons or the biblical concept of Satan or go-face-to-face with all monsters from Greek mythology than be in a city during a bombing raid. And that's the reason I don't like zombie apocalypses, because they are basically a state of modern warfare....a million times worse. You'd basically be permanently hungry, cold, dirty, and constantly afraid because horrible, horrible, painful death (or worse!) can come form any direction at any minute. And stuff like Walking Dead show that an event like a Zombie Apocalypse wouldn't just be over in one night of bashing in zombie heads. They'd go on and on and on, all the while you have to endure cruelty and danger and pain and deprivation as you humanity is slowly eroded away bit by bit with each new horror. I don't think I'd be able to or would even want to live through something like that and I have high respect of people like my grandmother who managed to endure such horrors (extended modern warfare, ot zombie Apocalypse, though from her tales there's really not that much of a difference). That's just the sort of stuff I can't switch off when engaging in Zombie media. Hence why I don't have any interest in it. my problem would be I would be to civilized for to long after it Started in the hopes that someone would find a cure. and someone or something would be chowing down on me long before my hopes of a cure came true, if they ever did. Once upon a time I could have gone there and cleared a couple ( ten or twelve or twenty) square blocks for myself but I am not as militant as I once was. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony96 Posted January 6, 2018 #69 Share Posted January 6, 2018 I would build a underground bunker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daughter of the Nine Moons Posted January 27, 2018 #70 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Make friends with people who run slower than me 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeplid Posted March 1, 2018 #71 Share Posted March 1, 2018 I would definitely do it like how they do it in The Walking Dead. That's what the show is created for! Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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