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Yet another one of my threads...

This time...I think I'll make a more interesting...if somewhat far fetched question...

If there were a Zombie Viral Outbreak (i.e. Dawn Of The Dead)... What do you think would happen? Would the world survive? And last one...How would you deal with the situation and survive?

This should be interesting...

Yet another one of my threads...

This time...I think I'll make a more interesting...if somewhat far fetched question...

If there were a Zombie Viral Outbreak (i.e. Dawn Of The Dead)... What do you think would happen? Would the world survive? And last one...How would you deal with the situation and survive?

This should be interesting...

1. It would be stopped.

2. Yes.

3. Walk faster and shoot at their heads.

So, the zombies are the new school kind (i.e. really fast and smart)? There is little chance anyone will survive. I think I can make it though. I have watched quite a few zombie movies to know how to survive.

I would take to the hills with a 12 gauge, and hope someone else takes care of it.

So, the zombies are the new school kind (i.e. really fast and smart)? There is little chance anyone will survive. I think I can make it though. I have watched quite a few zombie movies to know how to survive.

No...I meant to use the Dawn Of The Dead example of the Original 70's version... Or Resident Evil I guess would be a good example of the kind of Zombies I'm talking about...

They are slow moving but their viral infection pass on REALLY quickly and a person will "re-animate" in about a minute to 1 hour... They are immune to any kind of damage to their bodies as long as their brain stays intact...

That's the kind of Zombie I'm talking about...

No...I meant to use the Dawn Of The Dead example of the Original 70's version... Or Resident Evil I guess would be a good example of the kind of Zombies I'm talking about...

They are slow moving but their viral infection pass on REALLY quickly and a person will "re-animate" in about a minute to 1 hour... They are immune to any kind of damage to their bodies as long as their brain stays intact...

That's the kind of Zombie I'm talking about...

Well, as long a I keep away from big groups I will be unstoppable then. It might even be fun to go against old school zombies.

Hey, I hope this isn't just a copy of the thread I made. Personally, I'd kill as many of those "things" as possible and try to stay alive as long as possible. Cricket bats to the head also work well :D.

Why even worry about it? The way those things move, i could knock one down with a punch, and stamp his brains out on the floor, without any weapons at all. If i managed to get my hands on a gun (obviously from one of the dead policemen i kil.. er.. i mean, killed by the zombies...) then id be laughing. its a win-win situation mate! :D

Lives in rural area + has lots of guns/ammo = survives zombie apocalypse.

This is a perfect time for this question as I am currently taking a class on surviving zombie attacks. Yeah, I know that I go to a weird school. I would avoid all population centers and carry some sort of blunt object with me everywhere I went...unless I have something a little more powerful. :D

FINALLY! I have a use for the homemade flamethrower and potato cannon.

Well, there's no problem if I don't come out of my bunker, right? I mean, those of us who neve see living human beings don't need to worry about dead ones.... hell, I might sleep through the whole Apocalypse

Every time I see a zombie movie, I get this thought in my head...

I always wonder what it would be like, and what I would do...

No other horror movie gets that reaction out of me... Mostly because I don't view the "bad guy" of most horror movies to be much of a threat... But zombies? Especially these "new school" ones (which I prefer to the old "stumble around and moan" kind)? Now, there's an incredible threat... Even the old, dumb, slow ones would eventually become a threat (even if you can out maneuver and outrun one or even a handful of them, what're you going to do when you're in the middle of a circle of a few thousand?)

The sheer numbers alone are enough to pose a threat... Not to mention the psychological distress it would cause (imagine being chased by a close friend or relative who had been zombified? or what about the sheer trauma of realizing that you're all alone in the world?)... Other horror movie bad guys might be frightening, incredibly strong, and nearly invincible killing machines, but you can still run away, or turn and fight a one-on-one battle... When you've only got one enemy, even if you can't defeat it, at least it's easier to keep an eye on, and remain out of the way...

But zombies? You're S.O.L.... There's nowhere to run, and you can't hope to defeat them in a head-on fight... Sure, you can take them out one by one, but when 5 more arrive for each one you pop, you simply can't win...

So, it becomes purely a matter of keeping alive and hoping for an end to it... Which isn't likely to come, unless they've got some time limit that makes them all (really) die, and you've just got to last until then... Otherwise, as time goes on with only you surviving, eventually, everyone else will be a zombie, and you're screwed... Even if it's like the movies, and there's a small group of you, you're still far too vastly outnumbered to do anything...

And even if you do survive them, what then? How do you get food (sure, you can scronge, and try to "live off the land", but it's probably not as easy as it sounds, especially with no training... you probably couldn't even farm your own food without knowing how... and add to that the fact of having to constantly look over your shoulder, and any other direction around you...)? How do you live your life? Why do you live your life? There's no more entertainment (no electricity, no TV, no video games, no movies, no operating theme parks, no one to talk to, and on and on), there isn't even any purpose, like a job, or a family to care for, or friends to hang out with... You wind up just living to live, which would end up losing its appeal pretty quickly...

But, it isn't human nature to just give up and die (well, at least in my romanticized view of humanity, it isn't)... So, I'd do my best...

How would I do it? Mostly avoidance... I'd arm myself, but I wouldn't bother to fight them... The weapons would only be for those instances where I was trapped, or ambushed, or whatnot...

If at all possible, I'd find some form of bite-proof body armor and put it on... After all, these guys are still human beings (in terms of physical strength and such...), and since their mouths are really the only dangerous part, all you've got to do is protect yourself from avergae bite strength of a human being...

And then, well, I'm off to the least habited area I can get to... Somewhere extremely open, though, not a forest... Somewhere with lots of fields, where visibility is as far as possible... Avoid most existing structures, since you never know what's lurking inside, and find a way to build my own shelter... Or, if that's not possible, find a building with the fewest windows and doors I can spot, and use my weapons to clear the inside... Find whatever food and water I can, and horde as much as possible... And then, it's bolt everything, and wait it out... Live out the rest of my limited time under siege conditions (it'd probably be pretty short before I was completely surrounded)...

Basically, I think I could survive, as long as I knew what was happening before it was too late (I mean, if I woke up one day to find zombies in my bedroom, then oh well), and had time to work... But after that, it's a miserable existence until the end (starvation or dehydration, if I manage to last that long)...

What?

Ah, the many hours me and my friends have discussed zombies. Survival, best zombie-fighting weapons, who it be the end of the world.

that sounds like a good time to hijack a cruise ship and set sail for about a year.

I would:

Get a .357 Magnum gun and an SMG.
Get loads and loads of ammo and Dr. Gordon Freemans suit.
start to shoot as many of them as I could.

why seek them out when you can wait a year until they've all eaten each other, then come back and re-populate the planet.

Well, all the zombie scenarios start from america so i guess that
theres high possibility that i would only watch news from it.

Edit: still voted : i'd live longer than most people.

Well, all the zombie scenarios start from america so i guess that
theres high possibility that i would only watch news from it.

Edit: still voted : i'd live longer than most people.

not true. "28 days later" was a british thing.
i think.

Well, in all the zombie movies, you notice that the army and police force is ususally stupid:

Ie: Hey, these shambling things look like they're dead but still moving... I've seen this type of thing somewhere before.. Hmm.... Ah FuK it, I'll shoot them in the chest somemore.

In real life?

I'd try and get to my armory and see who else gets there.

maybe find myself a nice sword and hack off some heads.

I would see the first one outside of my residence. You always see the first one by itself. It would shamble towards me. I would run inside, retrieve the sword, kill it. I would gather my roommates. Becky would be naked. Mmm, Becky. We would barricade the windows and block the doors. Zombies are too stupid to open doors. We have been planning for a Zombie Apocalypse for a long time now. We have stored food. We know more are coming. We will hole up instead of the house. We will go onto the roof nightly to look for signs of life in the neighborhood. It will be boring. There will be nothing to do. No electricity. We will probably have alot of sex. We will start to run out of food. I have been eating secretly. I will accuse Steve of eating the food. Becky and I will have to kill him. After that there will be even more sex. Then she will accuse me of cheating even though there's nobody left here. The zombies will not go away. We will run out of food. And then we will die.

I would attach bigger grenades to the tripwire boobytraps around my home.

I tend to think constantly of good places to raid in case of sudden apocolypse. An armored truck I think would be quality. Military stuff would be pretty hard since the army guys probably want to keep it. My friends parents have a claim somewhere that they say if I can get to them fast enough they'll take me to when they retreat there. I live three hours away, and even then they just moved very far north, so thats out. I'm not resourceful, so unless I pair up with a resourcefull person, I'm bone.

This is a perfect time for this question as I am currently taking a class on surviving zombie attacks. Yeah, I know that I go to a weird school. I would avoid all population centers and carry some sort of blunt object with me everywhere I went...unless I have something a little more powerful. :D

I am very much wondering where you go to school? :)

...and why would a blunt weapon be better than a sword? Dismembering and decapitation are very good tactics. Suppose you get one that's particularly strong and fast... maybe a zombie of an athelete. You can try to bash his head but what if he grabs your weapon? If you've got a sword you still get his fingers off.

We will run out of food. And then we will die.

Because Becky's eating for two!

no... they would never survive me.

first, i would realize that there is a huge fight upcoming, and that i would be permitted to kill things, many of them without the risk of legal punishment. so i would just go out with bare hands, psycomaniacs and zombies don't match up well... :mp5:

by the way i like the repopulation thing :rolleyes:

Because Becky's eating for two!

Naked AND pregnent! :D That's my kynda girl! :missing devilgrin smiley:

http://www.zombiesurvivalguide.com/