A Zombie Apocalypse: How awesome would this be?

[Ghengis John]

Fourth off, it'd be incredibly relaxing. Great way to vent frustrations, fun to visit.

You know what they say. It's a nice place to visit... But I wouldn't want to live there. What could be more relaxing than constantly watching your back for flesh eating monsters right? You asked people for their opinions and surprisingly some people have a different opinion than you do. Welcome to planet earth. You should just be happy people are having an honest discussion in your thread instead of getting bent out of shape because you don't like some of the answers.

I for one am delighted to see this didn't turn into the usual "omg that would be so awesome!" thread. You people have brains! Congratulations. And that's why I like it here... Your delicious braaaaaaaaainsss....

Oh this? It's just a scratch. Honest.

Kinda like why Omega wolves that just take it never get laid.

Wolves and people are two very different species. Despite what that chimera you call your avatar might say. Furthermore you are confusing "nice guy" with "wuss". No self-respecting woman ever liked to be mistreated. That doesn't mean that being nice requires you to be a doormat or never take the initiative. You can be nice and be confident and that works great.

Second off, yeah, society does kinda suck. Needs a revamp. What better way than to bring back zombies?

I dunno, grass roots reform? Something like the Arab Wave? Hey look, suddenly there's a bunch of democracies in the middle east and it happened without zombies. Also, [fashion guy] you want to bring back zombies? Sweetie, zombies are DEAD! [/fashion guy]

First off, loved ones suck. Gunning down zombified abusive mother or zombified drunken father? Awesome.

Most people, love... their loved ones. I know, weird right? But the name isn't actually used ironically. It might seem like some kinda tautology but just let me walk you through this... "love"-ed "one".

Your truth bombs appear to have missed their mark, probably because you're a little crazy. Not that that's a bad thing. But you are.

 

[Sandytimeman]

If you thing about it though. Zombie attack plans could easily be adapted to pandemic survival plan. My plan? Drive out to my families farm in the middle of nowhere Kansas. I would have an easy to defend, easy to grow my own food, has a well with drinkable water. I could easily live there and defend there. Plus any of my family that made it, we could build incasing fences and boobie traps / advance warning traps. Good times.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

That's going to be my first run with a zombie. I don't got anymore continues in real life T^T

So I'm going to one terrible survivor

 

[TilMorrow]

Also I believe Bioshock isn't a zombie game.

The splicers were fairly mindless, to be fair, attacking anyone on sight, and it definitely gave a feeling of "this civilization got fucked up" akin to that of zombie movies.

They weren't mindless, they were out of it or insane due to Adam addiction and how constant splicing warped their brains. An obvious point is that unlike zombies, splicers are alive and thinking people albeit mad but they are still able to do complex things like operate machinery and use guns and think for themselves and fight tatically when they see a chance to do so whereas zombies don't think (most of the time), try to rush and horde people and devour brains. Also the feeling of a civilisation being messed up in Bioshock is different from zombie movies. We know in Bioshock that Rapture's civilisation got f'd up due to wars over who controlled the city and Adam and in zombie movies and games it's usually an infection or curse that caused the civilisation to become f'd up not the fall of the actual civilised nature of the city.

 

[Fawcks]

Your truth bombs appear to have missed their mark, probably because you're a little crazy. Not that that's a bad thing. But you are.

Crazy like a FOX (Zing)!

 

[artanis_neravar]

I have never met a girl who actually likes to treated like garbage

Have you ever actually met girls?
They are always in Relationships that we both know are bad.
Their Boyfriends are big hulking Flat faced monsters. who's life goal must be to either win 1st place in the ugly completion.

Have you ever met girls? very few are ever actually in bad relationships, those are just the ones that are seen most.

 

[Ghengis John]

Your truth bombs appear to have missed their mark, probably because you're a little crazy. Not that that's a bad thing. But you are.

Crazy like a FOX (Zing)!

Touche'.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

As long as it's not an instant Zombie takeover, I'm gonna be ok. My girlfriend and I have a plan.
1) Identify warning signs (new "rabies" strain, cover ups, placebos for it, etc)
2) convince everyone we can.
3) Pool or resources together and buy a house up in the arctic, hopefully near a power plant.
4) Get the hell up there before the panic starts.
5) Hopefully we can build a greenhouse so we can grow some crops round the clock.
6) Sit back and survive.

Now, if the takeover is instant (IE, only takes a few days), then the plan is this:
1) RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!
2) Get to safe zone and survive.

And if it's left 4 dead zombies...
1) ...hold each other tight and wait for the end. (hey, this is CANADA man. We don't have guns all over the place to use to defend ourselves with!)

 

[Seanfall]

I forget where I saw it but... Basically it was a scientifically minded point by point column of why a zombie invasion wouldn't work.

The weather would either freeze or dry them out, they can't heal even basic wounds, Bacteria would destroy them, Wild animals would destroy them (humans have no natural weapons and the slow shuffling of zombies makes them easy prey for faster larger mammals) of course the animals thing is dependent on whatever caused it to be limited to humans.

So...even if a lot of people were killed in the initial wave. Survivors wouldn't have to wait more then a year or two for the zombies to die out...again.

Is this it?

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html

OT: If the zombies were actually a viable threat, I would die in five minutes flat.

Yeah that's it.

@artanis_neravar: Granted but we do know how dead bodies react. And a zombie is, in theory a moving did body.

Except that we don't know what's keeping them alive, parasites are extremely adept at keeping the host in a position to survive. Don't get me wrong though, I don't think a zombie apocalypse would or could ever happen

Wait...parasites...Hmm...Zombie Causeing Parasites...I was thinking of 'disease' type zombies. But...A parasite that makes zombies...that's a fucking awesome idea.

 

[Dom Scarff]

is it just me or would you go out get high on pot grab a shotgun and blast the bastards heads off? i know i would but if i didnt have any pot i'd grab a sniper ( probably the
Kallos-TT9 from gldeneye wii ) and go to a tall building and then blast the bastards heads off!!!

 

[artanis_neravar]

I forget where I saw it but... Basically it was a scientifically minded point by point column of why a zombie invasion wouldn't work.

The weather would either freeze or dry them out, they can't heal even basic wounds, Bacteria would destroy them, Wild animals would destroy them (humans have no natural weapons and the slow shuffling of zombies makes them easy prey for faster larger mammals) of course the animals thing is dependent on whatever caused it to be limited to humans.

So...even if a lot of people were killed in the initial wave. Survivors wouldn't have to wait more then a year or two for the zombies to die out...again.

Is this it?

http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly.html

OT: If the zombies were actually a viable threat, I would die in five minutes flat.

Yeah that's it.

@artanis_neravar: Granted but we do know how dead bodies react. And a zombie is, in theory a moving did body.

Except that we don't know what's keeping them alive, parasites are extremely adept at keeping the host in a position to survive. Don't get me wrong though, I don't think a zombie apocalypse would or could ever happen

Wait...parasites...Hmm...Zombie Causeing Parasites...I was thinking of 'disease' type zombies. But...A parasite that makes zombies...that's a fucking awesome idea.

Yeah parasites are experts in changing the host to suit there needs. Since biting tends to draw a lot of attention it could it could make itself sexually transmitted and stay dormant until enough people are infected that biting becomes a viable transmition option again.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

It would be fun... for the first few days. But when food gets scarce, the power grids shut down, you can't even use toilets properly, you'll begin to hate it and miss your old life.

The Zombie apocalypse would be a great place to go for a holiday, but I don't think anyone would want to live through it.

 

[Alucard788]

Ugh if we were to have one I'd rather just join the ranks of the infected or undead. Being a fella who loves other fellas I'd be SOL when people decide to 'rebuild humanity', (either imprisoned,killed, or enslaved... despite my relative faith in people I have a bad feeling that would happen. extreme conditions can bring out the worst in humanity.).

So I'd rather just mutate and hope around on the tops of buildings...and perhaps if I retained my own mind, I'd try and save my female friends from a doom of constant baby production.

No it would not be 'fun'. >_<