Out of Pod Experience

Don't have to kill - merely cripple. Limbing pole-saws are a good choice - you can hamstring the zekes all day long, at a distance, from behind a simple barricade of shipping pallets. Don't even need to modify them (the saws). Doesn't require great strength, the motion mostly involves using your strongest muscle groups, it's cheaper than ammo, and damn-sight easier on the ears, too.

The cripples can then be easily dispatched with a framing hammer.

(gah, forums are eating my posts like Zed in the brain buffet)

Take two.

Because if they did, there would be no story, no industry in the Zombie genre.

(I see someone else has given this some thought.)

89.9%

although more than aspirin i'd prefer motrin, for its anti-inflammatory and intipyretic properties. I said I'd pick up the acetaminophen, but in retrospect it would probably be better for the purpose of the quiz to leave it unchecked, due to aspirin's anticoagulant property.

I left the drug I didn't recognize, which turned out to be prozac.

and just so you know, i'd pose more of a threat to the living than the zombies.

I'm sure my chances of survival are good in residential los angeles, as is my ability to last until an outbreak runs its course and the infected wither away. altered mentation is one thing, but there's no way around cellular respiration. zombies would need a way to sustain their diet and their chances of success are slim without the ability to farm.

lack of zombie communication and teamwork is another reason we can all calm down. in the case of an infection that reduces brain function and looks a lot like rabies, the infected will probably attack each other. the zombie non-aggression pact lol. furthermore, even when they're able to consume each other, their fate is still cellular death from malnutrition and dehydration.

the safest place to wait out an infection would be the desert, and for me it's the mojave. (new vegas what?) as mindless foragers, they won't get very far in the heat, or even at night across those distances. it would be creepy as ****, but the calico ghost town would probably make a nice fortification. it's near the solar power plant, and I don't see why zombies would go chewing on solar reflectors.

lastly, zombie-on-zombie violence would be very entertaining to watch.

I clicked all the options in the pharmacy raid question. If you have an older party member that has BP problems, aspirin could mean the difference between life and death via heart attack/stroke. But, if I had to drop something due to weight constraints, the aspirin would be the first thing I dropped off that list.

As for the rest of the post, that is basically the angle I take with my friends that are infatuated with the Zombie Apocalypse. In reality, the Zombie Apocalypse will really occur when the Industrialized worlds loses their power production capabilities and the masses turn on themselves. The 'zombies', in reality, will be all of us 'normals' trying to survive in a post apocalyptic setting.

I think that is why horror movies never bothered me as a child. I was always like, "why the **** would you even think about doing that you moron." Next thing you know they were dead


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I also have to actively keep myself from breaking down the stupidity during the movies. Sometimes it is physically painful

Basically that is what the Walking Dead is trying to do. I feel that comic/tv series is an experiment in the sociology of the human condition in a post apocalyptic setting. I believe there is a post apocalyptic movie, that will be similar in taste, coming out soon.

EDIT: FUBAR quote

if you have a horde of zombies in front of your house, clawning at your barricades, there's only one thing left to do

blast the dubstep

"metal ain't got **** on me"

How_______bout_____________Metal Dubtep


Wub wub wub GRRRR wub wub grraraawubbawubawubaLAAAAAGRRRRR


EDIT: The how bout is supposed to sound like my daughter thinking out loud the next animal she wants me to sing Old McDonald to

Also, that could be one of the easiest and more innovative defenses. Set up a sound system, over as large an area as possible, with speakers on separate channels and then direct the zombies away from your location with varied sounds in different areas.

I figure I lost points, or at least didn't gain any points, by choosing 'other' on that question.

Ues the pipe to wedge the door long enough to use the chainsaw to cut-away the stairs, then use the chainsaw again to cut a hatch up through the floor in another location. Strip some wiring to tie to the pipe, climb up on the chairs to gain the hatch, shooting any zekes as are in my way, taking the gasoline with me, and kicking the chair over as I go. Pull the wire, thus yanking the pipe, and letting the zekes tumble through the door into my nifty new Zombie Pit™. Pour gas down hole, throw a match, take a hike, shooting any stragglers that pay more attention to me than they do to my lovely Zombie Bake™.

See, that's what happens when you give a Nuc options and tools: Rube Goldberg Zombie Immolation schemes!


Oh, and my daughter wants a DubStep Gun. Yes, a weapon that fires DubStep. I figure we might be able to re-purpose an LRAD.

Yeah that one too. The one I mentioned was where the 12 zombies had a car surrounded and screams coming from the car (woman screams?). Obviously, if they are your typical zombie and I have a semi-auto shotgun, no zombie is going to stand in the way of repopulating the human race, right?!? Of course if I rescue her, there is always a chance she'll steal my zombie-mobile and speed away thus dooming the human race... but what is life w/o taking a few risks?

But the whole basement question had me thinking the longest, yes. Exactly, the stealth issue. The bar is quiet, and no knowing how many zombies are upstairs. But then will they even come down while I can just snuggle over in the dark corner with the gun. Of course the chainsaw... the chainsaw! That's just too messy... all that infected blood squirting around. But went with the gun, I mean if things start going bad, I can always use a twinkie power-up.