when the end comes !

[Russell Nash]

They do seem to be ignoring any help that having more than one person in a group might bring. Especially loved ones, who might place your survival over theirs.

Yeah, it didn't once ask me if I had a Green Beret for a friend.

[Rigger]

caring about others.  That takes you from 83% to 71%.

True. I found myself wishing there was a "Run from your loved one and freak out for a little while, before returning to blow their head off with a shotgun."; so I just went with "Run away and hope they are a slow zombie."

[Heradel]

Seriously. They need this question:

Are you friends with the following?
A. GI's
B. MacGyver
C. A girl that often goes on at length about hand of blue and how long it takes to drain the human body of blood
D. A man that works in a tech store who lives at home with his best friend and this other guy and who recently broke up with his girlfriend
E. James Bond

In order to accurately gauge your ability to survive.

[wakela]

I haven't taken the quiz, but in almost every zombie scenario the humans are undone by a "friend," not a zombie.  There is always some jerk who eats all the food, leaves the door open, doesn't admit when he's been bitten, etc.  So I think the betray factor may outweigh the teamwork factor.

[oddpod]

bollx
37%

[Bdoomed]

ehh, 45%... so if im lucky, i could survive, but probably not.  maybe i should move into the middle of nowhere. or a private island.

[Leon Kensington]

Well, just saw ResEvil 3.  If we have a TVirus scenario, none of us may survive.

[bolddeceiver]

Well, it's not necessarily "zombie," but since I was pretty young my father and I, mostly from his cold-war childhood, have played a game of if civilization's infrastructure were to collapse, could I survive?  Seriously, though, I feel like it has made me a more balanced person to look at every skill I gain from that perspective.

[Bdoomed]

Well, just saw ResEvil 3.  If we have a TVirus scenario, none of us may survive.

i saw it earlier today... soooo good.  and by good i mean entertaining.  wasnt the best movie ever but it was fun. pretty damn scary at parts too.

i dont understand how the t virus could do all that tho.

[Leon Kensington]

I'm just pisssed that (SPOILER) had to die!  Even though it was a huge explosion.

[Bdoomed]

SPEAKING OF ZOMBIES.....
Ummmm i was talking to my friend recently
and he was talking about a book he's readin, Rant by Chuck Palahniuk.  He was telling me how there is an outbreak of rabies, which led into the symptoms of rabies.

rabies makes brain function erratic, makes people impulsive, aggressive, etc.
sometimes people limp and jerk around because of messed up brain function.
sometimes, they dont notice when they are shot.
people with rabies bite other people, transferring the disease
If we had an outbreak of a very agressive, fast spreading rabies... doesnt that sound a LOT like a zombie outbreak?
might this be how the zombie story first originated? a large outbreak of rabies?

anyone wanna make a dangerous rabies virus with me and release it into new york?
comeon itll be fun, grab a sword, a shotgun, a chainsaw, and we'll have a blast!

food for thought. thats all.

[Russell Nash]

anyone wanna make a dangerous rabies virus with me and release it into new york?
comeon itll be fun, grab a sword, a shotgun, a chainsaw, and we'll have a blast!

Is New York the right city for that?  I like New York.  What about D.C.?  Lots of side benefits there.

[Bdoomed]

anyone wanna make a dangerous rabies virus with me and release it into new york?
comeon itll be fun, grab a sword, a shotgun, a chainsaw, and we'll have a blast!

Is New York the right city for that?  I like New York.  What about D.C.?  Lots of side benefits there.

true true... but i kinda have a soft spot for DC in my heart, bein born in Maryland and all...
tho i WOULD like to hack down a zombified Bush... ooh that would make my day!

[Thaurismunths]

Though NY and D.C. sound like a lot of fun, I think the best bet would be to infect an isolated but population dense city with out too many important residents that no one cares about... so basically pick a city in Michigan.

In other zombie news, this came from a fellow zombie afficianado:
"Zombie insects might sound like a B-movie plot device (quicktime video) but to the emerald cockroach wasp (Ampulex compressa ), they're a tried and tested way to provide food for their hungry larvae. The wasp relies on cockroaches for its grisly life cycle but unlike many venomous predators, which paralyze their victims before eating them, the wasp's sting leaves the cockroach able to walk, but unable to initiate its own movement. Researchers have discovered that the wasps sting the cockroaches once to subdue them, then administer another, more precise sting right into their victim's brain. The venom works to block a neurotransmitter called octopamine with a similar action to dopamine, which is involved in preparations to execute complex behaviors such as walking. Then the wasp grabs the cockroach's antenna and leads it back to the nest 'like a dog on a leash', says one researcher. The team found that they could restore spontaneous walking behavior in stung cockroaches by giving them a compound that reactivates octopamine receptors in the insects' central nervous system. Researchers were also able to create their own zombies by injecting unstung cockroaches with a compound that blocks the receptors producing a similar effect to that of the venom."

[Bdoomed]

oooh zombie slaves.

[Russell Nash]

oooh zombie slaves.

Now you won't have to sweep up anymore.

[Thaurismunths]

oooh zombie slaves.

Now you won't have to sweep up anymore.

But who will clean up after the zombie slaves? More zombie slaves?
You'll have to have zombie slaves cleaning up after zombie slaves. You'd have a mobius strip of zombies sweeping up after each other!

[Heradel]

Being reminded by the weather one thing New York does have going for it is that during parts of the year the zombies would freeze/freeze to things if once left the buildings, which would make the whole beheading bit a lot more safe. Large cities in warmer climes would be much more screwed. Plus, one wonders if the zombies would be able to efficiently lurch up the stairs. And if they could maintain the necessary lethality to prevent a small group of defenders beheading them one by one as they lurched up until there was quite a nice dead twice around zombie barrier built up.

Tricky bit with the city would be keeping supplies flowing. Subways would have to be shut down as they're pretty likely zombie gathering places, but they flood easily (actually, their default state would be to flood) and that would help take care of that. Especially if the surface froze. Granted, they'd defrost eventually, but by then teams of beheaders could be rounded up. Or we could just seal off the entrances and wait for them to come out at the tunnel exits.

A zombie invasion would only really work well if it's during the summer, they're quite a bit more mobile than your regular lurcher, and the population is caught totally by surprise and that surprise lasts for longer period than imaginable. 

Problem with DC being invaded is that the population is spread out, and, well, guns aren't exactly scarce. NRA HQ is only a few miles down the road, and there are how many military/police/FBI/CIA/NSA/Black Three Letter Agency installations within 50 miles?

[Thaurismunths]

Well, just saw ResEvil 3.  If we have a TVirus scenario, none of us may survive.

Just saw it myself.
It was my favorite zombie movie of all time... then she did the thing with the birds... then the thing in Vagas... then the guy at the end... *sigh* Well, I guess that's what you get for making a video of a video game.
In the end I really enjoyed it, and it will still be one of my top zombie movies.

Did anyone notice this little beauty tucked under "Special Features"?
It comes out March 11.

[CammoBlammo]

tho i WOULD like to hack down a zombified Bush... ooh that would make my day!

I just can't help thinking there would be more than a few who would take Homer Simpson's approach to zombies:

Zombie Flanders: Hey Simpson!  I'm feeling a mite peckish. [sinisterly] Mind if I chew your EAR?

Homer wastes him.

Bart:  Dad, you killed the Zombie Flanders!

Homer: He was a Zombie!?

[sirana]

Did anyone notice this little beauty tucked under "Special Features"?
It comes out March 11.

Hehe, it seems to be the season for Zombie Stripper Movies .

[Russell Nash]

Did anyone notice this little beauty tucked under "Special Features"?
It comes out March 11.

Hehe, it seems to be the season for Zombie Stripper Movies .

Tits and decapitation.  What more could you want??

Ladies send your complaints to me personally instead of derailing the whole thread.

[Thaurismunths]

Did anyone notice this little beauty tucked under "Special Features"?
It comes out March 11.

Hehe, it seems to be the season for Zombie Stripper Movies .

MOFG!!!!!!1!

[shwankie]

Did anyone notice this little beauty tucked under "Special Features"?
It comes out March 11.

Hehe, it seems to be the season for Zombie Stripper Movies .

Tits and decapitation.  What more could you want??

An invite to the party?

[Russell Nash]

Did anyone notice this little beauty tucked under "Special Features"?
It comes out March 11.

Hehe, it seems to be the season for Zombie Stripper Movies .

Tits and decapitation.  What more could you want??

An invite to the party?

OK, it's at my place on saturday.  Leave Thaur at home.