Poll: Choose your Apocalypse: Zombies or "The Change"

[james0192]

The Change.
Mainly because of the fact in a zombie apocalypse you'd pretty much be living in constant threat for the rest of your life and fighting would be guaranteed.
Not to mention the main threats of the change would be predictable. Disease is avoidable with common sense and caution and bandits are human, that means that they are predictable and rational - you could try and bargain your way out of a fight with a bandit but that's not going to happen with a zombie!
Finally it comes down to what skills I have. In a zombie apocalypse fighting and survival skills are everything, any other skill is secondary. in a world were you can still form communities and stuff like that other skills such as intelligence (outside of survival), ingenuity and people skills would all be much more useful - lets just say fighting isn't my strong point!

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

Zombies. Purely because I cannot get over how scientifically ridiculous the Change is. Fast combustion is gone but slow combustion isn't? that doesn't make sense. Also all of electromagnetism is inexplicably different, so as to still allow nerves and sunlight, but not wires or streetlamps.

I know that animating corpses is just as stupid biologically, but its a stupid I learned to deal with. this new stupid took me completely unawares.

 

[viranimus]

My thinking is, It really depends. If we are talking the highly rigid and focused on this exact narrative interpretation, it might play out and weigh differently than other worlds in the "After the end" type Post apacolyptia.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AfterTheEnd

However many of the root issues were presented in other offerings with similar motifs, and some divergent concepts.

If I were to live in a world where technology simply cannot and will not exist, Honestly Ill prolly just off myself anyway because I have put a lot of prep work into post apacolyptia entertainment.

If It were the "Book of Eli" world, where Knowledge was merely condemned? I would likely have bit it over heat exhaustion.

If it were the "There is nothing left" world of "The road... I might attempt to exist in that, as I am perhaps as highly adapted to solitude as any one modern man can be.

However, I think it isnt exactly a matter of choice so much as it is a matter of logical practicallity. There really is no rational explanation as to why all essential forms of technology would become 100% ineffective. Things like EMP are far far away from being all consuming and even then, as the EMP dissipates, the technology not effected could resume and new technology could be built to replace. I mean Im all for the suspension of disbelief and all but full and complete elemental eradication of both electricity and combustion is honestly a pretty tough sell, and pretty hard to get over to get to the enjoyable narrative. So trying to make a call based off those exact criteria Zombies without a doubt. Mideval times were cool in some respects and all, but killing unending random hoards with unquestioned impunity is entirely too much fun to pass up when you present an alternative that really seems like it is bleak and boring, just for the sake of being bleak and boring. (not the narrative... living in a world devoid of all basic tech)

 

[madster11]

Why the hell would i want to live in a world where one of the most basic of laws of physics is fucked up?
No explosions? So suddenly 1/2 the universe doesn't work anymore?

Zombies, thanks. At least we'd still have a fucking sun.

But if it's like the Dawn of the Dead, Walking Dead, 28days later (but applied globally). And there's like a few hundred out of every million still alive is society ever going to get to the point where we can get it working again?

It never would get that bad, assuming normal zombies. And remember, let's say 90% of the human race is gone.
We still have 700,000,000 people on the planet.