What kind of apocalypse are you hoping for?
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Jiarn
How do you figure?
I know at least the Zombie Survival Guide types will do everything in their power to avoid confrontation. Seek the most common sense styles of travel and avoidance. Finding secure shelters and sustainable living means.
Yeah, they're totally among the first.
I know at least the Zombie Survival Guide types will do everything in their power to avoid confrontation. Seek the most common sense styles of travel and avoidance. Finding secure shelters and sustainable living means.
Yeah, they're totally among the first.
All those douchebag zombie apocalypse "fans" don't realize that 99% of them will have no ability to stay calm and collected and follow the rules from their favorite book or movie if people are eating their friends and family and the world is ending
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Jiarn
Funny thing is, I think the Hipsters would be the first to go.
Wow, I just had a thought of Hipster Jesus "I was rising from the dead before it went mainstream"
Wow, I just had a thought of Hipster Jesus "I was rising from the dead before it went mainstream"
I have to agree with LB though.It's one thing to imagine what will happen and what you would do if such an event would ever occur,but totaly another if almost every person you know is dead/undead.
Unless they really trained for that event (planned escape routes,which have been tried and tested repeatedly,several hideouts,etc) they are gonna panic and forget everything they read.
Unless they really trained for that event (planned escape routes,which have been tried and tested repeatedly,several hideouts,etc) they are gonna panic and forget everything they read.
I think people like the zombie apocalypse because zombies are easy. They're stupid, slow, and incapable of using anything above simple tools at best. No matter what you do to a zombie, it's a monster, so it's sort of justified - hell, they're dead, so they can't even hurt. So zombies are a good outlet for sociopathic fantasy. Anyone who isn't brain damaged and at least moderately physically capable can outwit and outfight a zombie.
Now if it was a bearpocalypse, we'd all be screwed.
Now if it was a bearpocalypse, we'd all be screwed.
This is why I feel that the most staunch zombie fans hate the fast moving zombies. They know they're fucked when it comes to a fast zombie, so all their hindsight bullshit goes out the window. There was a computer model run at some university where every scenario of an uncontained zombie outbreak ended with every last human being gone.
It's easy to imagine what you'd do. It's another thing to stare down a hoard of zombies and not panic your ass off. That's why I love the Walking Dead series.
Except for Madagascar.
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I never liked the fast zombies because I feel like they take part of the dread away from the movie. In a real life situation, they'd probably be more terrifying, but in a movie, I find them less so. They're more like animals than the slow, inevitable, plodding onset of (loosely) metaphorical death. Animals just aren't as scary.
On topic, I would chose outbreak, since I'm a survivor. Then you just have to deal with asshole survivors.
It seems to me that the fast zombies need to be filmed differently than slow zombies. It needs to be more like Alien and less like a Zombie movie. Of course, they usually aren't filmed that way.
I've always enjoyed zombie films because I enjoy the tension you get from the "many vs. few" scenarios, coupled with the unstoppable nature of a zombie horde. It's fun to watch, but I wouldn't want to try and live through it. I'd be the first to admit that I would not last long, despite my "training" watching zombie films. 
I'm stealing this idea.
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Philosopher B.
Grue. I'll just remain in the light.
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