What's your plan for the Zombie Apocalypse? (lemmy.world)

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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.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Have you read Mira Grant's Newsflesh series? It's the ultimate realistic zombie story.

[-] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 month ago

ooh, no, thank you very much, I'll check it out now.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If memory serves, she actually collaborated with the CDC to create a disease model that could realistically exist.

So every time I came up with a new iteration of Kellis-Amberlee, I would call back and say, “If I did this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And every single time they would say, “No.” And I’d say, “OK,” hang up, and go back to working. After about the 17th time, I called and said, “If I did this, this, this, this, this, this and this, could I raise the dead?” And got, “Don’t . . . don’t do that.” At that point, I knew I had a viable virus.

[-] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 month ago

very cool, I found it, I'll be reading it after a couple books I'm working through right now.

thanks!

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