Are you apocolypse ready?

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Mr.Mattress

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I haven't been apocalypse ready since 2012, and I probably won't ever be Apocalypse ready again until there's signs of an impending doom.
 

happyninja42

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lechat said:
Just wondering who here has thought out contingency plans in the inevitable event of the likely apocali? Just the likely ones will do like asteroid, nuclear holocaust zombie apocalypse etc.

I work with food so I had a decent idea of where to go for a few hundred years supply and I have a nice little spot fairly close in case we only get a few minuets warning of impending asteroid.
No I'm not ready for the apocalypse, because I don't see any significant evidence that it's actually going to happen, so I'm not wasting my time preparing for something like that. People have been harping about the end of the world since the dawn of man, and guess what, tens of thousands of years later, we're still here, doing just fine, living day to day. So yeah, not bothering with it at all. The only apocalypses I've ever prepared for were Werewolf: Apocalypse, and Fallout 4.
 

Muspelheim

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I'm quite prepared for a zombie incident, having a reasonably sturdy front door and everything. Those poor things wouldn't stand a chance in a universe where people are the slightest bit genre-savvy.

If they somehow manage to spread, it'd be a matter of hours until a host of nerds and survival enthusiasts roll up and wipe the buggers out. Honestly, people have been hankering for a zombie outbreak for years, the poor zed-heads won't last the night.

As for real apocalypses, as it were, I do keep a small supply of drinking water and tinned food around. Just as a general emergency plan, like they used to recommend at the back of the phone book. I'll be signing up with the civil defence or home guard when I can contribute some more. If luck isn't on my side, I hope to die at once or at least while doing something useful.

If Judgment Day or Ragnarök arrives, well... Keep calm and carry on. Fight and die usefully, like any good mortal should.
 

viranimus

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I am prepared in the sense that preparing for what is impossible to predict is counter productive and knowing that regardless of what fate becomes this world if it is enough of a catastrophe to undo civilization and reduce the population by several billion there is little chance for me to survive for very long, if at all beyond the initial cataclysm. So I am prepared in the sense that I understand the realities of such a situation and my place in such a world.

Outside of that, should I survive, I am fairly confident I would be able to continue on as I have the most important things to surviving such a thing. A diverse volume of knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, natural adaptability, and a desire to keep living. So long as you have such traits you can find ways of living, surviving and eventually thriving.

But yes, all that aside, I do still have


and have added quite a few more weapons and resources to go along with it since 2010.
 

bartholen_v1legacy

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Well our family's summer home could be made almost entirely self-sustaining, with food, shelter, fuel (in the form of firewood and lots of it), storage space and water all being already there. There's also a hefty array of very sharp tools so I guess some sort of ranged weapon would come in handy, but in almost all other respects I'd almost be set.
 

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I'm emotionally prepared for being part of a PA motorgang all clad in S&M leathers and join the great hunt for the last bottles of make-up, hairspray and dye left on the blasted planet. Bring it on already!
 

Xeros

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I've a feeling I'll probably just die, so I haven't really bothered prepping. I've got a comfy bed to go out in on my own terms if that counts.
 

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It wouldn't be an apocalypse if a lot of people were going to make it. Everybody has heard the adage of how a plan only survives until the first contact with the enemy. Add to that all of the other people with the same plans and priorities as you. No water or food supplies for you because others got there first. All the boats are already gone. All the gas already siphoned. The only way to survive an apocalypse is to accurately predict it and already be living in your cabin innawoods with your crops and farm animals when it starts.
 

CaitSeith

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I have a quote that fits exactly what I think about this:

Ahem... I have no illusions of my usefulness in an actual apocalypse. The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.
 

Fox12

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Sure. I've got a pizza and my limited extended edition copies of Lord of the Rings and End of Evangelion.

I'm ready to let it all start tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling doooooowwwwwwwn!

CaitSeith said:
I have a quote that fits exactly what I think about this:

Ahem... I have no illusions of my usefulness in an actual apocalypse. The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.
 

ecoho

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so yeah live in a state that has a plan for this sort of thing(civil collapse, zombie, and such.)also I live in a small city which has a 20-1 gun to people ratio, so I think im good:) also former army with combat experience.
 

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Fuck no! And, even if I did, I would then probably be shot by someone who was "standing their ground" or some shit like that...

Other than that, fuck the apocalypse because I would be begging to Glob to send me to Mars if it even came to that![footnote]Even if [REDACTED] happened...[/footnote]
 
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Dagra Dai MC. VSO. said:
I really question what people would be living for. By definition the apocalypse is the end (at least) of human civilization. Do you really want to live through that? Either we're truly mortal and that would be inviting pain for nothing, or you'd be delaying an afterlife. Either way, it seems crazy to want to exist in the corpse of the world. The only sane response is to hope you're dead before you're aware the "end is nigh".
Honestly? Instinct. When you know nothing else, you know Instinct. Instinct tells you that you are to live as long as possible. When I die, Humanity was going to continue anyway. Why should I cut my natural life short because Humanity died before me?
 
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Dagra Dai MC. VSO. said:
I want to live as much as anyone, and I don't believe in an afterlife. I also don't have any illusions about what "living" would be in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I'd rather avoid the terror and anticipation in favor of the inevitable a little sooner. It is after all, a very extreme scenario.
Actually, that depends on the apocalypse. Biblical? Shit's fucked and woe unto you if you're still around. But hey, you have now concrete proof of heaven and Hell. And if one of the tenets is that if you off yourself, you go straight to the bad place.... maybe stick around to see if you can earn a ride to the good one.

Zombies, well depends on the zombies. We all know enough about zombies that we know how to deal with them. Hell, if it happened worldwide and they were just Walkers, I'd probably still be fine. I live in America. Enough guns that it will look like the end of Night of the Living Dead more than The Walking Dead.

28 days later zombies, well... they aren't zombies. Just humans with a rage virus that leads them to lose all reason. In fact, after a month, they starve themselves to death. The world will be livable once the last ones die out.

World War Z.... Nah man, not messing with that. Hide and pray. I'm not sure if they were dead zombies either. But a swarm of people running towards me in waves is like literally pulled from my nightmares.

Aliens? I think we're pretty much screwed if they want to war. They've mastered intergalactic travel. We can't move around our planet without killing it. I doubt we'd have anything other than germs to kill them.

But that means their germs can kill us.

Disease depends on the disease. If it's simple as avoiding x, y, and z, there's a chance. Make a beeline to the woods and don't think about cities any more. The amount of dead piling up will breed other diseases.

Nuclear? If it ever comes to that, we are a species are done.

There are chances with everything. Some are stacked against you, some have wiggle room. Yes, we are talking about extreme circumstances, but that doesn't mean insurmountable. This is it. This is the only time I'm going to be me. That I'm going to be. I just find that always worthy to fight for.
 

Elfgore

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Fuck no, mostly because I wouldn't want to live in a post-apocalyptic world and the rest because that sounds like a lotta work to prepare.
 

Fijiman

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Not really, but I've been thinking about "what crap is there around the house that I could use in the apocalypses" since middle school so I could probably cobble some basic stuff together in a decent amount of time. Now that doesn't guarantee the longevity of my survival, but if I died then at least I'd have some decent gear gathered for someone less shit at surviving than me to use.