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Alexthegreat



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Am I weird?
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It sounds odd but I think I would have fun in the Zombie Apocalypse. I see all these errors on the shows and think proactively how I would run things. Granted, in the moment I may feel differently. It's easy to speculate and hypothesize different ways of success when you don't have an army of undead coming at you. I just feel me and mines would have a great chance of success. Anyone else have confidence about survival during the Zombie Apocalypse?
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Scenario: Zombie Apocalypse starts in your city. Military blows up bridges and roads out of the city and shoots anyone seen trying to leave. You have no weapons and a regular amount of food. A hoard of 100 zombies is sweeping through your neighborhood. What do you do?
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Alexthegreat



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Stealth is key. And that all depends. Are they walking through or is there something keeping them there? Also, since we are being hypothetical, do flares and fire distract them? Does the covering yourself in blood like on TWD work?
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I think i would be able to survive for quite a while but i wouldnt enjoy it. Im going to get a greenhouse attached to my house one day so ill be able to grow food and medicinal plants like poppies and maybe kratom as pain killers, cacti and mimosa hostillis to trip, weed for nausea, i will brew and possibly distill alcohol. and i will try to stockpile as much water, medical supplies, shrooms, weed, nitrous, supplements, dried food, vitamins, coffee, kratom and other drugs as i could and not dip into it as long as i could incase something happend, even if its not zombies.
If i have to run away suddenly or if there is a disease outbreak or anything like that. I doubt it would be zombies. it sounds way less likely than something else bad happening that would make me have to fend for myself.
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Without extensive stockpiling and preparation well in advance, there will be no fun to be had trying to survive any catastrophe .
Unless you have thousands of litres of drinking water and thousands of meals of freeze dried food and thousands of rounds of ammunition, you are doomed .
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Moonshoe said: Without extensive stockpiling and preparation well in advance, there will be no fun to be had trying to survive any catastrophe .
Unless you have thousands of litres of drinking water and thousands of meals of freeze dried food and thousands of rounds of ammunition, you are doomed .
On the contrary, it'll make survival that much more exciting if you're starting with nothing.
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Alexthegreat said: Stealth is key. And that all depends. Are they walking through or is there something keeping them there? Also, since we are being hypothetical, do flares and fire distract them? Does the covering yourself in blood like on TWD work?
They're staying in the neighborhood and about to surround your house. No blood, it will infect you if you rub it on yourself. Not the dying kind of zombie virus like in the Walking Dead.
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Do you realise how many people think this way OP? You realise that Zombie based story lines are as popular as they are for a reason, right?
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What is their movement like? Fast or slow?
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I know many people think that way. I know this dude who buried a stash of drugs that keeps you up for days or some shit like that for the supposed impending apocalypse. Although his brain was fried from doing a shit ton of drugs, I still found entertainment in his proactive action. What reason do you believe they are so popular? Because they inspire people to speculate what they would do if they were a part of it?
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PatrickKn said: Scenario: Zombie Apocalypse starts in your city. Military blows up bridges and roads out of the city and shoots anyone seen trying to leave. You have no weapons and a regular amount of food. A hoard of 100 zombies is sweeping through your neighborhood. What do you do?
I would immediately enlist and serve my country. Sounds like a grand old time.
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That's a good idea. I never thought of that.
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PatrickKn said: Scenario: Zombie Apocalypse starts in your city. Military blows up bridges and roads out of the city and shoots anyone seen trying to leave. You have no weapons and a regular amount of food. A hoard of 100 zombies is sweeping through your neighborhood. What do you do?
I would immediately enlist and serve my country. Sounds like a grand old time.
YES.
That would be HELLA fun! And dangerous 
A zombie world would be very stressful to say the least.
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More than likely it will be a mutated airborn virus where we are all fucked.
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No, none of that is weird.
People love Zombie Apocalypse, that's why we have so many Movies, T.V shows, Video games and Books on the subject. Its a pretty "normal" thing if you ask me or anyone else in western society.
As far as surviving the apocalypse, that depends on lots of different variables.
Type of Zombies. Way infection is spread. Location at the beginning of outbreak. Can animals, fish, insects be infected. Does it affect plants, trees, etc. Are you in America where weapons are abundant. Do the dead become zombies or only the living. Can the zombies starve.
The list goes on, I think most people believe that they would be in the survivor group but most will die within the first 48 hours, your starting location will play the greatest role in surviving the immediate fallout.
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Re: Am I weird? [Re: TNK]
#23674823 - 09/24/16 06:28 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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This was brought up in conversation with with a friend of mine that I recently visited. How it came up... we were on a walk late at night and he said something like, "if zombies were taking over the city right now what would we do?" We came to the conclusion after much thinking and many what-ifs that we'd probably be goners considering we had no fort and basically no real weapons. Just kitchen knives that were back at the house, which was a good 15 or so blocks from where we were at. I think the zombies would get us before we made our way back. Even if we did get back to the house we couldn't stay trapped inside.
I'd probably stay on the highways most of the time if zombies were taking over. But then how would or where would I get gas? Surviving a zombie apocalypse would be very difficult.
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Remember in the aftermath of such an event, roads, highways and freeways will almost certainly be congested and blocked from people fleeing the more densely populated areas, and a block starts it will turn the entire highway-freeway into a grid lock.
You're best hope is that you are already out of larger, more densely populated areas before something like this would happen. Otherwise whole cities would become infected in a matter of hours, a result of nobody being able to flee and or getting stuck attempting to flee.
Up until recently I was living off of th Grid in desert, solar power, water well, water run-off storage and recycle, wind turbines and surrounded by 15-25 foot ravines and cliffs, it would've made a great fort in a zombie apocalypse. I even had several firearms, a thousand or so rounds of ammunition as well as archery equipment.
If such a thing were to ever happen in my lifetime, I would haul ass down there and kill anyone/anything that got in my way. It's far enough off of the highway and civilization that one could be there for months without ever seeing another soul. The abundance of wild game and fishing is a nice bonus too.
I use to spend a decent amount of my free time fantasizing and contemplating this subject, lol.
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I personally think a zombie apocalypse is for the most part impossible or relatively easy to survive if it was possible. Maybe I'm completely wrong but I'll explain my theory on why. There's two types of "zombie" apocalypse that can be considered, undead zombies and living zombies.
Undead zombies are IMO completely impossible, if you die, your organs are no longer functioning, your brain starts to decay within 8 minutes of being oxygen deprived. So the organ that makes movement possible would be quickly decaying or as being dead suggests, it would be completely not functioning making movement impossible. Other then that, within hours of being dead all the bodies would enter the stages of rigor mortis and make them extremely stiff and hard to move around. Even if they could move around temporarily, they'd have no sense of pain and would be walking around aimlessly wearing and tearing a body that isn't healing itself and be ultimately degrading in the weather like any rotting meat does and would very quickly decompose and be very little to no threat in a short amount of time. Even if they did eat people, their organs wouldn't be functioning so it still wouldn't be providing them with the energy they need to sustain themselves and their bodies. There's obviously way more reasons I find it impossible but I'm pretty confident these ones by themselves are more then enough to prove my point.
Now the other type, living zombies, let's say a virus takes over the brain and makes people act uncontrollably and violent. Just stay inside for a little bit, by that point a significantly large portion of them would most likely end up just killing one another. Aside from that, with no sort of real intelligence because they're acting based off how the virus effects them, maintaining themselves in any type of coordinated or sustained way would make survival for them very hard, probably would run out of water and die, run out of food and die, it's not like someone who had a virus take over and has no control over themselves will know to go to the store and get some water bottles to drink.
While it's just guesswork, I'd guess that a brain taken over by a virus would be mainly acting on impulse, you'd literally be out of sight, out of mind in some way. As long as you're not in plain view they're not going to round up together and start going door to door looking for people, they'd be walking around aimlessly waiting for something to "trigger" them so to speak. If anything as I said before I doubt they'd be able to distinguish from one another and just end up attacking and killing off a large portion of themselves within a limited amount of time.
My theory on living zombies could be totally wrong, but I still think it's impossible or would be a rather insignificant threat after just a few days to a week maybe. In both scenarios the only real problem would be how the virus would spread, if it's spread through the air or some other way that isn't from a bite, there's probably nothing you could do to avoid it. My thoughts on undead zombies though, I'm completely convinced that isn't possible in any way, shape, or form.
But whether I'm right or wrong, no, you're not weird, it's still a pretty cool thing to think about, I've obviously thought about it a lot to come up with these theories on it lol. But putting yourself in that position and what you would do, that's mainly why I watch those shows just so I can critique them on everything they fuck up when it comes to survival and what i'd do different lol
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SirShroomsAlott said: I personally think a zombie apocalypse is for the most part impossible or relatively easy to survive if it was possible. Maybe I'm completely wrong but I'll explain my theory on why. There's two types of "zombie" apocalypse that can be considered, undead zombies and living zombies.
Undead zombies are IMO completely impossible, if you die, you're organs are no longer functioning, your brain starts to decay within 8 minutes of being oxygen deprived. So the organ that makes movement possible would be quickly decaying or as being dead suggests, it would be completely not functioning making movement impossible. Other then that, within hours of being dead all the bodies would enter the stages of rigor mortis and make them extremely stiff and hard to move around. Even if they could move around temporarily, they'd have no sense of pain and would be walking around aimlessly wearing and tearing a body that isn't healing itself and be ultimately degrading in the weather like any rotting meat does and would very quickly decompose and be very little to no threat in a short amount of time. Even if they did eat people, their organs wouldn't be functioning so it still wouldn't be providing them with the energy they need to sustain themselves and their bodies. There's obviously way more reasons I find it impossible but I'm pretty confident these ones by themselves are more then enough to prove my point.
Now the other type, living zombies, let's say a virus takes over the brain and makes people act uncontrollably and violent. Just stay inside for a little bit, by that point a significantly large portion of them would most likely end up just killing one another. Aside from that, with no sort of real intelligence because they're acting based off how the virus effects them, maintaining themselves in any type of coordinated or sustained way would make survival for them very hard, probably would run out of water and die, run out of food and die, it's not like someone who had a virus take over and has no control over themselves will know to go to the store and get some water bottles to drink.
While it's just guesswork, I'd guess that a brain taken over by a virus would be mainly acting on impulse, you'd literally be out of sight, out of mind in some way. As long as you're not in plain view they're not going to round up together and start going door to door looking for people, they'd be walking around aimlessly waiting for something to "trigger" them so to speak. If anything as I said before I doubt they'd be able to distinguish from one another and just end up attacking and killing off a large portion of themselves within a limited amount of time.
My theory on living zombies could be totally wrong, but I still think it's impossible or would be a rather insignificant threat after just a few days to a week maybe. In both scenarios the only real problem would be how the virus would spread, if it's spread through the air or some other way that isn't from a bite, there's probably nothing you could do to avoid it. My thoughts on undead zombies though, I'm completely convinced that isn't possible in any way, shape, or form.
But whether I'm right or wrong, no, you're not weird, it's still a pretty cool thing to think about, I've obviously thought about it a lot to come up with my these theories on it lol. But putting yourself in that position and what you would do, that's mainly why I watch those shows just so I can critique them on everything they fuck up when it comes to survival and what i'd do different lol
LOLOOLLOL so hard at this, you've given it so much thought. If I could give 220x+1's I would
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yeah I was like 11-12 when I watched dawn of the dead and immediately became petrified that shit would happen, spent a lot of time afterwords studying anything and everything relating to the subject in case it ever did, after enough time invested in it I eventually found comfort in the thought that it most likely never would 
Had a survival bag in my closet and everything in preparation for it
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Yea... millions of people thought World War 1 was going to be fun and over before christmas
Look how that turned out.
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So war, something that has been around since the start of humanity, is somehow comparable to something that has only ever existed in fantasy?
I'm not saying you shouldn't be ready for shit to hit the fan, I'm just saying this particular reason almost definitely won't be why it does.
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SirShroomsAlott said: So war, something that has been around since the start of humanity, is somehow comparable to something that has only ever existed in fantasy?
I'm not saying you shouldn't be ready for shit to hit the fan, I'm just saying this particular reason almost definitely won't be why it does.
yea... but like in reality a zombies would be fucking awful... pure survival, you would need to grow food, live in fear constantly. Yea it might be for like a week. But after that... pretty sure you gunna want out.
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You're all a bunch of weirdos
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