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How Long Would you Last in a Zombie Apocolypse?

#45
I got 54 days, but I attribute my score entirely to my complete lack of patience when taking stupid tests rather than any actual survival skills per se. (I used that same excuse to justify my SATs fwiw.)
 
#48
Brother Goose said:
Don't forget the 12 gauge!
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Don't forget the zambies love it when you make loud noise.

I got 92 days. I have no idea if that would be true or not...

But I don't buy zombies.
Minimal breathing and minimal brain activity = No or very reduced ability to move, cells/muscle break down.
Once there are too many zombies, they won't all be able to feed either and will subsequently die. An outbreak would almost be a self-resolving problem.

At least, that's my take on it.
Edit: would the charged caps from our amps do anything?? :D
 
#50
I think its funny that the last decade has been infatuated with Zombies in the George Romero sense, but the REASON why it picked up about a decade ago in the first place was in reference to the more traditional Haitian term and geo-politics used by conspiracy theorists and "bug-out" survivalists as someone under the mind control of another. A "Zombie" was a person who bought into whatever they were told by the mass media and therefor the 1% who own and control them. Saying that you were gathering supplies and ammunition for the zombie apocalypse was a way to talk about about the possible threat of a one world government, dictatorship, or coup and how to plan for such things without being labeled a terrorist. So, A Zombie in the last 10-15 years was intended to be any soldier, law enforcement, radical, blue hat, non-oath keeper military, or easily persuaded madmen in the case of a mass attack or round up of US citizens, firearm confiscation, etc. If this happened, I'm sure Id be killed before Day 0 :)

If we were to have Romero Zombies, I don't think a whole lot of people would die due to rotting mindless humans anyway, but more likely gangs, hoarders, and people with starving children to feed when they know you have something to eat. :help:
 
#54
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#56
Boom762 said:
I think its funny that the last decade has been infatuated with Zombies in the George Romero sense, but the REASON why it picked up about a decade ago in the first place was in reference to the more traditional Haitian term and geo-politics used by conspiracy theorists and "bug-out" survivalists as someone under the mind control of another.
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About 20 years ago the term started to get a lot of traction in the neuro-psychology world; cognitive scientists started to use Zombies a useful representation in thought experiments about what it means to be "conscious" [edit: the experiment/debate specifically being whether or not Zombies are truly "conscious"]
 
#57
It says I'll last 72 days, but it didn't give me "Tele Bass" as a weapon option. I don't think that's entirely fair. A Tele Bass is practically made for clubbing the crap out of zombies. I'm pretty sure that's what Leo had in mind.
 

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