ElephantGuts said:
Eclectic Dreck said:
ElephantGuts said:
Nukes, because trying to survive from an actual undead horde would scare the shit out of me.
Atleast radiation isn't scary. Plus it can't be everywhere, and doesn't spread from its original location (which would probably be cities that were nuked).
Other than the unpleasant fact that irradiated dust and water are perfectly capable of travel, I suppose it is rather stationary, assuming you can tell those pesky winds to stop blowing (all you have to do is put out the sun!)
Well surely God would be watching over me and I would be upwind of the cloud of radiation.
If for some reason God failed to protect me, hopefully I would be far enough away from major cities to allow the radiation cloud to disperse enough to not be deadly by the time it reaches me.
Sure it isn't perfectly stationary but it's safer than an ever-growing horde of zombies wandering wherever they want.
I'll give a real answer to the question I suppose, since someone replied to me.
I'd take zombies, and it has absolutely nothing to do with my presumed martial talents or any of that nonsense that people cite. The reason I'd pick zombies is because the problem would inevitably go away.
You see, this is what I've never liked about most zombie films/games - there is no basis in reality and zombies remain a persistant threat that essentially last forever and require being dispatched in incredibly specific ways. Unless god himself somehow convinced the laws of physics (and from there biology and chemistry) to turn on their head, zombies simply aren't really all that scary of a proposition in the long run.
The first point of failure in the basic scenario is the assertion that zombies don't actually need to eat. Unfortunately, unless somehow zombies are capable of breaking the second law of thermodynamics, they require a substantial source of energy to continue moving about. This simple fact alone means that as a potential food supply depleats (i.e. uninfencted humans) zombies would inevitably starve to death and/or turn upon each other.
The second point is the assertion that zombies are nearly indestructable outside of a bullet to the brain case. Unless magic is somehow involved, the zombies physical shell is vulnerable to the same problems any normal person is. Shatterd bones and torn muscles preclude movement no matter how determined, ruptured and destroyed organs rapidly result in death, and the host tissue still requires air, waste disposal and whatnot to stay functional. A bullet to the brain would certainly do the trick (because you need that lower brain to keep all those organs running) but a round through the heart would work just as well.
Surviving a zombie apocolypse would be difficult in the opening weeks and months, but it would rapidly become easier as the zombie population depletes itself. What's more, I don't actually see the zombie apocalypse scenario working out because I completely fail to believe that a simple "infenction" is capable of overpowering the combined martial might of humanity in short order.
The premise of the zombie apocalypse relies too heavily on some sort of "magical" solution to the problems I've stated. Without some sort of divine intervention here, I'm just not terribly afraid of the idea of a zombie apocalypse. And, let's face it, if god himself is willing to break the rules of the universe in order to create an undead scourge with which to wipe humanity from the universe, it doesn't matter if I survive initially or not. If god's got me on his hit list and I evade his minions long enough, I'm sure he isn't above throwing a meteor at me to finish me off.
