Whats is your Apocalypse of choice

[jimahaff]

So Whats is your Apocalypse of choice? Cthulhu? Robot uprising? Zombies? Aliens? Natural disaster? Nuclear war? Anything goes, just describe the basics of your apocalypse, how you want to go out, and why you choose it. The only rule is that you and pretty much everyone else on the planet has to die, no getting out of it. Some government people might hypothetically survive in a bunker depending on what your apocalypse is, but not you.

As for me I would choose a Meteorite that destroys the entire planet. Why? Easy, no pressure, no stress, no worry. With a meteorite your just screwed, plain and simple. You can't fight it, you can't run away from it, you can't protect your family and friends from it. Everybody dies and there is nothing anybody can do. There is a certain amount of peace that comes with knowing that there is nothing you can do, and peace is good.
I would go out sitting on the roof of my house with my cat and the people that I love. We would sit there eating cookies and popcorn and talk as we watch the meteorite come.

 

[gabe12301]

Bacon falls from the skies slowly covering the earth's surface. A delicious end to humanity

 

[theSHAH]

I'm fascinated with the idea of a zombie apocalypse, but I feel an invasion of hostile aliens provides that "the sky if falling" feeling you look for in an end times scenario.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Fallout nuclear, or zombies. I'm a lot more likely to survive zombies, but then again I live in Canada which has maybe 3 nuclear targets for someone with bombs to spare. Actually, I find myself analyzing escape routes, firing positions, and hiding places whenever I'm in any large building like a mall or school. Maybe a revolution or invasion.
Edit - I suppose if I do have to die I agree with OP. Meteorite. You can see it coming for some time. It becomes a joke at a point.
"Hey Fred. End of humanity's gettin' bigger. Maybe we should get some sunglasses for when it hits the atmosphere?"
"Sure. I've got to go get some bread from Wal-Mart anyway. The End of Days can't stop that juggernaught superstore."

 

[dyre]

An airborne toxin is released that creates infinite pleasure in its victims. Everyone stops working and starves (or rather, thirsts) to death in their paralyzing state of ecstasy.

 

[zachariah1688]

I would choose an economic fall-out that would toss the world into complete chaos and in the result of the break down a "Mad Max" scenario arises. With the world's current situation this is closest to happening.

 

[Astiahl]

Some men just want to watch the world burn...I'd prefer it freezing. Not wussy "100 feet of snow" freezing from the day after tomorrow. More "a sheet of ice as deep as most skyscrapers are tall" across the planet. Naturally it wouldn't be as sudden as a giant chunk of flaming rock suddenly hitting the planet, the longevity of it would ensure even the bunkers inside the middle of mountains die out. Even with fully contained systems that grow food, generate power, etc. Those systems only last so long, even the most maintained systems and machines eventually fail. Leaving those that "escaped" to die an even longer slow, cold, death than those who subscribed to their fate and let go.

I sound like a certain batman villain now, don't I? >.>

 

[Dags90]

I believe Robert Frost said it best.

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

 

[SquirePB]

Something that lets me go out fighting. I hate the idea of not being able to do something to make a difference. Though I can appreciate the advantages to something like a meteor

 

[instantbenz]

Ragnarok! fuckin enormous snake covering the earth with acid while a wolf eats everything ... holy shit that is brutal

 

[Phasmal]

Kittens take over the earth and we embrace our new fluffy overlords.

 

[DesiPrinceX09]

Something that involves a quick and painless death, so likely the meteorite.

 

[Don Savik]

Something involving sex.

Or in a true blue apocalypse sense, zombies.

LIKE CHILDREN OF MAN WHERE WOMEN BECOME INFERTILE AND EVERYONE SLOWLY DIES OF OLD AGE

thats actually a good doomsday.

I wouldn't like nuclear fallout, as Metro 2033 and STALKER has told me, radiation sickness would suck. We don't have vaults or rad-away so....it wouldn't be as fun as Fallout makes it out to be. Also zombies would be bad if you contracted the disease and someone chopped your head off.

I would say alien overlords HL2 style. I could do well in that scenario.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Gay marriage. It'd totally be the end of civilisation, but has the advantage of civilisation not actually ending.

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I've been reading up on it, and while cancer rates would go up following a nuclear war, apparently if wearing hats were to become fashionable, skin cancer might well go down the same amount.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

The government fucks something up, just something, I don't know, but they fuck it up. I'm not even some kind of right-wing conspiracy theorist...

 

[TorqueConverter]

I prefer not to know like in the The Road. Finding out what caused it adds some purpose to the post apocalyptic life hum drum.

 

[bulbasaur765]

I probably would desire to watch the whole world burn, or hear the news that "World War III" has been declared. (The war to end all wars!!!)

 

[Alaster Angelo]

"I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against me... and be broken!"