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Frazzled wrote:How are zombies going to get a horse? They can run like mothers and a kicking horse will kick your arse hardcore.
Besides I thought zombies were after people? If generic mammals we need to get a cctv of the lion den at the local zoo, this could be good (but make some very very fat lions).
Well...in TWD the horse panics,topples over and is basically swarmed by a huge hoard of walkers.
In the other example of zombies munching a horse that I saw ( Romero's "Survival of the Dead"),one of the protagonist is attempting to get the undead to eat something other than people,blah,blah,blah,the zombies end up eating his Daughters (who is now a zombie) horse.
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Monster Rain wrote:I was really reluctant to watch this and be disappointed.
As I respect FITZZ's opinion on this subject, I will now give it a try.
Appreciate it MR,and as I posted earlier in the thread,give Dead Set a look as well.
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I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
Well horsies get scared, so presumably if the horse was out of its preferred environment (like say, I dunno, a city for example) and got surrounded, it'd get munched down pretty fast.
And yus, Lion vs zombie would make for some pretty grrreat action!
ghosty wrote:Well horsies get scared, so presumably if the horse was out of its preferred environment (like say, I dunno, a city for example) and got surrounded, it'd get munched down pretty fast.
And yus, Lion vs zombie would make for some pretty grrreat action!
If you said zombie vs killer shark however....
I've actually seen that as well...in an old Fulci zombie flick..a zombie at the bottom of the ocean goes one on one with a shark...neither wins.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
ghosty wrote:Of course, if you wanna play Cheesy shark film game, Beat this!
I giggled.
You definitely win with that ghosty,in fact the only film that I can think of of the top of my head that comes close to the awfulness of "megalodon" is an old Roger Corman film called "Up from the Depths"...but I can't really count it because the "shark" isn't really a "Shark".
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I live by Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide. Essential reading for the Zombie apocalypse. According to that Zombies only attack humans.
TWD zombies vary only in two ways: they'll eat horses and a normal person can be a carrier for the virus, still rising from the dead despite not being biten by a zombie.
KamikazeCanuck wrote:I live by Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide. Essential reading for the Zombie apocalypse. According to that Zombies only attack humans.
If you read the second book (World War Z) - Max Brooks' zombies will actually eat any animals. It is just many are too fast for them to catch. It mentions instances where zombies will dig pits while attempting to catch animals such as rabits which have underground burrows.
I also dislike his survival guide and WWZ for being too "American" in their outlook. They do not really give many tips which would benefit people living in a nation without guns. It also leaves out many ways in which you can lure zombies away from where you are hiding, etc. WWZ also mentioned the UK using "fortified motorways" several times in relation to the successful campaign against the zombies in the UK but gives no indication as to what they were or how they worked which, given how MB makes them out to have been a fantastic idea, is somewhat annoying.
@snurl - most sources (excluding Resident Evil) seem to suggest that the virus only affects humans.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
I wish I could agree :( I mean, she's attractive and all but she doesn't do it for me.. nor do any of those anorexically-thin actresses. I like gals that aren't afraid to have a little meat on their bones.
Yeah, I got pissed they just took down a horse. I've lived around them all my life, and in thats situation i'm willing to bet the horse would go schizo and take out a couple of zombies at least.
Loved the first episode though, especialy the very end.
snurl wrote:So.....theoretically speaking....if the zombies get into the zoo and bite the elephants - will there be zombie elephants walking around?
No, only humans can carry the virus.
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SilverMK2 wrote:
KamikazeCanuck wrote:I live by Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide. Essential reading for the Zombie apocalypse. According to that Zombies only attack humans.
If you read the second book (World War Z) - Max Brooks' zombies will actually eat any animals. It is just many are too fast for them to catch. It mentions instances where zombies will dig pits while attempting to catch animals such as rabits which have underground burrows.
I also dislike his survival guide and WWZ for being too "American" in their outlook. They do not really give many tips which would benefit people living in a nation without guns. It also leaves out many ways in which you can lure zombies away from where you are hiding, etc. WWZ also mentioned the UK using "fortified motorways" several times in relation to the successful campaign against the zombies in the UK but gives no indication as to what they were or how they worked which, given how MB makes them out to have been a fantastic idea, is somewhat annoying.
@snurl - most sources (excluding Resident Evil) seem to suggest that the virus only affects humans.
What are you talking about? If anything the survival guide strongly recommends not using guns period. Even hammers and shovels are stressed as being more useful.
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snurl wrote:So.....theoretically speaking....if the zombies get into the zoo and bite the elephants - will there be zombie elephants walking around?
No, only humans can carry the virus.
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SilverMK2 wrote:
KamikazeCanuck wrote:I live by Max Brooks' Zombie Survival Guide. Essential reading for the Zombie apocalypse. According to that Zombies only attack humans.
If you read the second book (World War Z) - Max Brooks' zombies will actually eat any animals. It is just many are too fast for them to catch. It mentions instances where zombies will dig pits while attempting to catch animals such as rabits which have underground burrows.
I also dislike his survival guide and WWZ for being too "American" in their outlook. They do not really give many tips which would benefit people living in a nation without guns. It also leaves out many ways in which you can lure zombies away from where you are hiding, etc. WWZ also mentioned the UK using "fortified motorways" several times in relation to the successful campaign against the zombies in the UK but gives no indication as to what they were or how they worked which, given how MB makes them out to have been a fantastic idea, is somewhat annoying.
@snurl - most sources (excluding Resident Evil) seem to suggest that the virus only affects humans.
What are you talking about? If anything the survival guide strongly recommends not using guns period. Even hammers and shovels are stressed as being more useful.
So whatever you're sourcing is crap then, gotcha.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
KamikazeCanuck wrote:What are you talking about? If anything the survival guide strongly recommends not using guns period. Even hammers and shovels are stressed as being more useful.
Aside from many points during the guide where firearms are mentioned
Yes, the guide suggests that other weapons are great for silently killing zombies, but throughout the book it has a very American-centric viewpoint which does not lend itself to survival in places such as Europe which are very densely populated and lack significant numbers of firearms.
So you're a hand to hand specialist now, thus increasing the likelihood one of the buggers is going to bite you? Just get in a car, preferable a double dooley with big bumpers. You'll never worry about a zombie again.
Also guns have finite ammo.
Only in canada.
-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
The survival guide which I will stress now, was a fun bit of fiction, annoyed me a lot. It didn't say enough about what to do if you didn't own a gun, which has been previously stated, but it was really uppity about what type of weapon you had. It said ideally you needed some sort of glaive polearm found exclusively in china or somesuch.
"Noo, you cant use a morning star ( I dunno how you would find one in the first place) because swinging it will tire you out, and you'll die horribly as a consequence..."
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So you're a hand to hand specialist now, thus increasing the likelihood one of the buggers is going to bite you? Just get in a car, preferable a double dooley with big bumpers. You'll never worry about a zombie again.
Also guns have finite ammo.
Only in canada.
Fighting a Zombie is not a Kung Fu movie. Zombies move at a "shambling" pace and are quite slow. Hence you can just go ahead and hit them in the head with a hammer. The main thing that's stressed is to stay calm and keep you wits about you..
Automatically Appended Next Post: As for the American centric view. The top two zombie killing weapons are The Katana Blade and the Shoalin Spade. Last place on the list was the M-16.
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KamikazeCanuck wrote:Fighting a Zombie is not a Kung Fu movie. Zombies move at a "shambling" pace and are quite slow. Hence you can just go ahead and hit them in the head with a hammer. The main thing that's stressed is to stay calm and keep you wits about you..
And throughout the book it suggests that you keep zombies as far away from you as possible as the closer they get the less calm your are and the harder it is to keep your wits. It suggests that at whatever range you feel comfortable shooting a head sized target at, halve that distance when under the stress of a zombie attack.
As for the American centric view. The top two zombie killing weapons are The Katana Blade and the Shoalin Spade. Last place on the list was the M-16.
I'm not going to argue this too hard, as you yourself have a more American view of the world than I do (I would imagine, as you live in America's hat), not to mention we are discussing a work of fiction on a fictional topic The top rated weapons were indeed non-American in origin. However, and here I speak as someone who has lived on 3 continents and visited countries in a further 2 - a lot of the less general advice in the book is not all that practical if you don't have guns and lots of ammunition
However, as I say, it is a fictional work about fictional things
I understand Silvers point,even though the survival guide does encourage the use of weapons other than firearms,and indeed points out that several are preferable to firearms...it does operate from the premise that one can simply pick and chose from an array of pistols,riffles and such as well...which while very true here in the good ole U.S of A,isn't the case for our brothers and sisters across the pond.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
