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For the sake of the plot, choose whichever zombie type fits your plans the best.

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[-] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 43 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm of the firm "no magic zombies" camp.

If the zombies aren't magic, they aren't going to last long, whichever form of zombie they are. Wait inside a few days, most of them should be dead or immobile.

If a zombie loses blood, they aren't going to keep walking, their muscles won't work without blood.

If you have a strong door, zombie arms will break before the door breaks.

Dehydration. Organisms need water to function at all, let alone move, and zombies aren't big on water fountains.

I see zombies as dangerous for a few days, with their senses failing so they can't track you effectively for the majority of the outbreak, then it's over.

Anything other than that scenario is a magical zombie, who can move without energy, function without a body, or unrealistically mutate.

I love zombie movies and comics, but for real real, no magic zombies.

update: I'm going to do a podcast episode about magical zombies now.

[-] Libb@jlai.lu 3 points 1 month ago

If a zombie loses blood, they aren’t going to keep walking, their muscles won’t work without blood.

Isn't that the whole idea behind zombies: they need no circulating blood nor an heart pumping it? Soulless and heartless bastards, you know.

If you have a strong door, zombie arms will break before the door breaks.

One zombie no doubt, but like we all know those assholes are often moving in hordes.... Sure, the first zombies squashed against the door won't like that very much but then neither will the door and once it breaks under the weight of all the other zombies... Or if it is not the zombie-proof door, they will inadvertently press too hard on one of those nice large windows we often see in the hollywood type of houses, a window that isn't zombie-proof obviously and then... bon appétit, like we say in my country ;)

The only kind of zombies I really worry about is the quickly and very much non-fictional ramping up illiteracy among younger generations. To me, this kind of cerebral death is much more worrying than hordes of dead people suddenly wanting to take a bite of my sorry ass. That said, maybe I should see that as the latest kind of zombification? Pure brain rot instead of flesh rot?

So, what would I do if illiterate zombies were to try to eat me or turn me into one of them? I would be throwing all the books from my personal library at them, knocking them off one by one with some (not always that) serious knowledge I suppose :p

Or maybe it's time I learn how to pray? Because if those illiterate zombies become dominant we'll all be screwed once and for all I'm afraid.

[-] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"they need no circulating blood nor an heart pumping it?"

yup, those are the magic zombies. real complex organisms whose muscles won't function without energy/water/bodily structure are much more demanding.

and keep in mind that every moment after death those bodies will be decomposing, that that body is not living, then it is decomposing a piece of steak left over from a picnic in the forests decomposes.

All of the dead soft tissue is going to break apart very quickly and won't be able to hold the body together.

"moving in hordes"

a horde could be a problem for the few hours that they are coordinated enough to move until dehydration sets in.

"Pure brain rot instead of flesh rot...what would I do...I would be throwing all the books from my personal library at them"

this is a great idea, very poetic retaliation.

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