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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #30 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 6:39pm
 
Conor147 wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 2:19am:
in order for a zombie outbreak to be viable, the zombies must kill AT LEAST one person for every one among them that falls while attacking the uninfected.

for example, i have a 2 1/2 lb hand axe in my room. if i hear a zombie outbreak has started, i will grab it and kill zombies that try to attack me. i could kill at least a few before i make a mistake or get charged by a massed group of zombies and become infected myself. if everyone is as physically awesome as me, then a zombie outbreak wouldnt work because it wouldnt convert enough to make up for its failed conversion attempts.

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Is a heavy, unwieldy chunk of sharpened metal your only defense against zombies? Bladed weapons get blood and bits of flesh stuck to them- that spells infection. As mentioned above, people overestimate their abilities. Just because a zombie goes down with a hit of a crowbar in Left 4 dead 2 doesn't stop zombie chunks from infecting you.
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Reply #31 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 6:41pm
 
What about a bo staff?
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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #32 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 6:50pm
 
picklepie159 wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 6:39pm:
Is a heavy, unwieldy chunk of sharpened metal your only defense against zombies? Bladed weapons get blood and bits of flesh stuck to them- that spells infection. As mentioned above, people overestimate their abilities. Just because a zombie goes down with a hit of a crowbar in Left 4 dead 2 doesn't stop zombie chunks from infecting you.


it weighs 2 and a half pounds. i went camping with it and chopped down about 10 trees. about 20,000 strokes. this axe is a part of me.

with this axe, i can rape face.

empires are built on unwieldy chunks of sharpened metal.
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Reply #33 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 7:07pm
 
Conor147 wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 6:50pm:
[quote author=picklepie159 link=1286078601/30#30 date=1286577587]
with this axe, i can rape face.



Huh
You whodawha?
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Reply #34 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 7:10pm
 
with this axe, i can inflict pwnage*

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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #35 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 8:29pm
 
Jabames wrote on Oct 6th, 2010 at 9:11pm:
im getting tired of watching zombie movies,  too gory,  there's a point where u say enough is enough



I have grown even more weary of VAMPIRE movies.

ESPECIALLY the ones that are based on the idea that vampirism is caused by a "VIRUS."
The implausibility factor goes WAY off the scale.  I mean, if you accept that vampirism is a CURSE, then you can accept that it can make a person transform into a bat, or have hypnotic or telekinetic powers, etc.

If it's a VIRUS causing it, though, how the hell can a virus cause someone's teeth to change shape at will?  How can a virus enable someone to move so quickly he can't be seen?  (I'm thinking specifically of the "Blade" and "Underworld" movies.)  I'm sick of the writers just using "virus" for every damned thing.
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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #36 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 8:31pm
 
Conor147 wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 7:10pm:
with this axe, i can inflict pwnage*

apologies.


Also, the usual spelling (at least, the one that seems to be offered as "preferred") is "ax" without the "e."


I have a small Gerber Camp Ax.  It has a plastic shaft that they say is "unbreakable."  I have it in the side case of my motorcycle.  In a pinch, it could be used in self defense, or to clear a path, or as a hammer.  I put a nice edge on it, too.
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Reply #37 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 8:46pm
 
and in dawn of the dead that news man gets stingy of the mall and doesnt listen to that black cop and goes nuts when those biker dudes invade the place,  gets himself killed and turns into a zombie;  and since in that movie they say that zombies rememver certain things,  that news guy remembers their hideout and goes upstairs with all those other zombies.
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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #38 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 10:31pm
 
Jabames wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 8:46pm:
and in dawn of the dead that news man gets stingy of the mall and doesnt listen to that black cop and goes nuts when those biker dudes invade the place,  gets himself killed and turns into a zombie;  and since in that movie they say that zombies rememver certain things,  that news guy remembers their hideout and goes upstairs with all those other zombies.


since you probably use some million cells for just a few thoughts in one second, and there are quite a few receptors as well i guess theres a low chance a full thought might be recalled.

if this does happen i think i would be best off with a spear as self defense, then to a gun. a spear is just for reach (why even let them get close enough to attack you), because otherwise anything that cuts and you can use is fine.
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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #39 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 10:37pm
 
peacefuljeffrey wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 8:31pm:
Conor147 wrote on Oct 8th, 2010 at 7:10pm:
with this axe, i can inflict pwnage*

apologies.


Also, the usual spelling (at least, the one that seems to be offered as "preferred") is "ax" without the "e."


I have a small Gerber Camp Ax.  It has a plastic shaft that they say is "unbreakable."  I have it in the side case of my motorcycle.  In a pinch, it could be used in self defense, or to clear a path, or as a hammer.  I put a nice edge on it, too.

those camp axes aren't unbreakable,  I had one and the handle near the axe-head chipped and then there was a hole in it,  soo its no longer usable
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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #40 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 10:39pm
 
Believe me, I don't believe that anything is "unbreakable."
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Re: How would ppl react to a zombie infestation?
Reply #41 - Oct 8th, 2010 at 11:51pm
 
depends... i assume we would have the "rage: type zombie or something similar (perhaps a parasite that lives in ones brain and keeps it's eggs circulating in your blood), and would have greater strength and speed than normal people ( because their bodies would be running at near 100% capacity when hunting, I assume).  




I believe that, if it were only Me, 2-4 friends/certain family members, i would be fairly well off, only because i have a 12 gauge and am a good shot when moving targets are involved. I would stay at my house, move all supplies upstairs. I would seal all doors with wooden boards and plywood in our basement, close all curtains, bolt all doors.destroy the staircase and hopefully most of the floor of the ground level. seal all the windows, pad everything with blankets and sheets, creating a sound-proof, smell-proof barrier, while maintaining surveillance with some video equipment i have lying around powered by a small dynamo ( i have the supplies to build one in my room). we would wait for several days until the hysteria died down. depending on the level of infestation, be send out parties to systematically clear our area of those infected, or if it reaches large-horde level, blare an evacuation message any means possible, and burn the city to the ground piece by piece.

If possible, best solution is to wait it out until the zombies starve from exertion ( higher metabolisms, would die quicker if starved).
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Reply #42 - Oct 9th, 2010 at 12:05am
 
honestly I wouldn't know what to do,  I'd be pretty scared,  but i have a lot of guns,  at the most right now I have 1050 .22 rounds,  should be enough at close range,  I have 3 .30 cal rifles one of em is scoped,  I can hit stuff at 500m no sweat,  prolly better to shoot at closer range,  no wasting ammo;  but Id be happy to have 100s of rounds of ammo and go to a tower or some high place and pick em off,  hopefully they wouldnt be super-human like,  or smart,  id be happy with romero style zombies;  dumb, slow etc...
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Reply #43 - Oct 9th, 2010 at 12:09am
 
Jabames wrote on Oct 9th, 2010 at 12:05am:
honestly I wouldn't know what to do,  I'd be pretty scared,  but i have a lot of guns,  at the most right now I have 1050 .22 rounds,  should be enough at close range,  I have 3 .30 cal rifles one of em is scoped,  I can hit stuff at 500m no sweat,  prolly better to shoot at closer range,  no wasting ammo;  but Id be happy to have 100s of rounds of ammo and go to a tower or some high place and pick em off,  hopefully they wouldnt be super-human like,  or smart,  id be happy with romero style zombies;  dumb, slow etc...


i'd be happy with no zombies, but if i were to have zombies i would hopefully be able to find on single partner who could pull his act together, because honostly, to some of my older friends i sound slightly gory and deranged (murderous humor, evil laugh occasionally, perfectly normal looking kid with textbooks in his hands for free reading), i'm really a sentimental kid. and some else taking watch while i sleep, then trading off isn't too bad either.
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Reply #44 - Oct 9th, 2010 at 12:15am
 
me too,  I hope there really is no outbreak like that any time,  id much rather forget about the whole thing;  watching movies and reading books like that makes me paranoid,  I dont wanna worry all the time.  but if it were to come to that,  id prefer the slow zombies to the fast ones  Undecided
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