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

[Matt King]

well i think the change would be more bearable because there's less change of complete isolation
also how the fuck do trillions die, there's only like 7 billion of us

but zombies wouldn't last too long they'd decompose etc, it would depend of the severity of the zombie situation, are they fast or slow? is it airborne? is everyone who dies infected or is it just like 10% of the population whereas everyone just dies

 

[snagli]

Now that radios and electricity and stuff like that doesn't work anymore, I get that, that could happen, but gunpowder not being able to combust? Did this "Change" also change fundamental properties of elements or something?

I'd go with zombies. Zombie movies and series never take into account all the decay and heat and cold and inability to repair damage and complete lack of intelligence a zombie should have. There's a reason rabies isn't widespread, infecting by biting is silly, that article someone posted here has got it right. Realistically (if the zombies are realistic in a scientific sense, that is), it should not be hard at all to keep the zombies in check.

 

[exessmirror]

zombies, everything i know works around modern tech. i wouldn't survive 1 year in the change. where i would give me a pretty big change to outlive a zombie apocalypse. i cant use a bow for shit. a crossbow is ineffective and the dark ages where called that for a reasom

 

[Jedoro]

Zombies

The human body will die if it goes three days without water. Assuming zombies don't drink water, and instead get all their nourishment from eating people, they'd dehydrate fairly quickly and would hardly be considered a threat after a few days.

If zombie magic lets them last longer, I'm sure we can find well over 300 million rounds of ammunition in the US.

Fucking Zombies. If the Change were to happen, the laws of physics would have broken and it's the precursor to the end of all things. Zombies we can deal with. Besides, I still hold out hope for moon bases.

Also, this. If physics is fucked, nothing can save us.

 

[Aerosteam]

Comparing to the amount of people that know don't how to deal with zombies to people like myself:

I would not survive a zombie apocalypse, there's too many people that would turn into one because they know fuck all about them.

For The Change, however, we have specialists on medicine and swinging a sword isn't too hard, I'll go with that.

That's the case when it comes to surviving. When it comes to living, I'll go with zombies. I need my Internet, okay?!

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

So anything that relies on electricity or combustion doesn't work anymore. No cars, no guns, no radios. You are pretty much back in the Dark Ages. Except for 1 important thing, modern medicine.

Let me put it this way:



You don't get modern medicine without electricity. Granted, you'll have the benefit of antiseptic techniques, but just off the top of my head, a lot of vaccines and antibiotics require refrigeration, for instance. Also, you won't have heart monitors, or dialysis machines, or laparoscopic surgery tools, or defibrillators, or X-ray machines (much less MRI machines), or...the list goes on.

At best, you'd be able to practice a late 19th century version of medicine with ether, carbolic acid, morphine, and penicillin. I'll stick with the zombies, thanks.

 

[kommando367]

The change. I always wanted to go on a killing spree with a melee weapon.

 

[KhaoticOne]

Zombie Apocalypse all the way for me. Despite how beaten the topic i always have a soft spot for killing the undead.

Based of your list it seems The Change is going to medieval times without progression, no thanks.

Besides the zombie will be easy (hopefully) and it be like going on those Safari hunts the Rich get to do (wish i could do it =p).

 

[WolfThomas]

You don't get modern medicine without electricity. Granted, you'll have the benefit of antiseptic techniques, but just off the top of my head, a lot of vaccines and antibiotics require refrigeration, for instance. Also, you won't have heart monitors, or dialysis machines, or laparoscopic surgery tools, or defibrillators, or X-ray machines (much less MRI machines), or...the list goes on.

At best, you'd be able to practice a late 19th century version of medicine with ether, carbolic acid, morphine, and penicillin. I'll stick with the zombies, thanks.

And you'll get all that in a zombie apocalypse? Where there a couple of dozen of you holed up and surrounded by the undead?

If somehow physics can be magicked away, we're counting on hugely impractical undead infestations.

At least in the changed scenario we have a foundation of science, medicine and technology to work from and try to see what works.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Trillions of people will die in The Change?

Either this is a typo, or it's implied that The Change will go on for hundreds of years. Anyway, I would definitely prefer The Change because there is still a possibility for civilizations to continue and the only thing people will have to worry about are bandits and cannibals, both who could feel pain and therefore, become totally expendable.

 

[Araksardet]

Cracked ran an article on reasons why a zombie "apocalypse" wouldn't be so bad. I'd take the zombies.

Captcha: rack your brains.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I go with the change. I'm pretty sure I would survive more in that scenerio than the zombie setting.

 

[zerragonoss]

this the change sound an awful lot like the one from Aerial by Steven R. Boyett. without the magic or mystical creatures, and I don't understand why you would go with any physics changing apocalypse without getting access to some kind of magic. seriously people should broaden their apocalypse horizons, zombie is one of the most boring ones. Except for its vaguely possiblish set up without needing a change in physics which well fully possible, as we have no idea why they work the way the do, is still hard to comprehend. you have elder gods (both mythological and Lovecraftian), ancient evil, collision with a magical universe, aliens, nuclear with radiation based mutation (think fallout), robot, heck even mole-people are almost interesting as zombies and gears of war is the only franchise that has used those recently.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Pffff... I refuse these options and instead posit that my Apocalypse would involve several major cities being flooded by some sort of extreme circumstances, leading to societal disruption but not collaspe.

And then, the games begin...

 

[Dangit2019]

Zombies. We'd kill their asses in a heartbeat, and we know exactly what to do after watching all those shitty meta-humor movies.

 

[Buzz Killington_v1legacy]

And you'll get all that in a zombie apocalypse? Where there a couple of dozen of you holed up and surrounded by the undead?

In the height of a zombie apocalypse? Probably not. You could at the very least fire up a generator to, say, take an X-ray if you had to, though, and after the zombies were cleared out enough to enable rebuilding society, getting all that stuff functioning again would be much, much easier than in a world where electricity doesn't work any more.

So, yes. Still sticking with zombies.

 

[WolfThomas]

In the height of a zombie apocalypse? Probably not. You could at the very least fire up a generator to, say, take an X-ray if you had to, though, and after the zombies were cleared out enough to enable rebuilding society, getting all that stuff functioning again would be much, much easier than in a world where electricity doesn't work any more.

So, yes. Still sticking with zombies.

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?

I guess it's weighing up access to technology versus knowledge. I guess I'm optimistic that we'd get to some point where we'd function relatively normally versus the zombie scenario.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

The change. I'm already a fencer, so I think I would make a rather good bandit. Sure, it would take a bit of a transition, but it's better than being torn apart by zombies.

 

[Insanity'sHelper]

I would have to go with Zombie Apocalypse, since you would have at least some form of useable technology. And you could also completely avoid the Zombies if you go on the assumption that they're rotting quickly, especially if you live in a moderately warm place. If they rot quickly they wouldn't be much of a challenge really.