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Hey there dakkanauts. I've got a question for you - what's your favorite apocalypse scenario? What type of destroyed world do you like the most?

Being of less survival oriented nature I want a meteor crash. Then im dead and so is everyone else.

Reign of Fire is one of my favourite movies in all its terribleness because of its depiction of a Dragonpocalypse.

Aliens because then I'd at least know there's Aliens before I die

Mad Max or Fallout.

A tsunami of naked women?

I picked environmental, but it was tied with nuclear fallout. I have always been fascinated with what parts of the world would survive and how people would rebuild the parts that didn't.

Yay for Fallout. I have been saving up bottle caps.

I always like the nature apocalypse, although you don't see it too often. Stuff like Nausicaä or Origin. Where the planet's life had brought humanity to the brink of extinction. It's usaly tied with themes of environmentalism, and it's often caused by humanity in the beginning.

Zombies of course. To a Texan, thats not apocalypse, thats just the opportunity to start your own business.

"My business is killin zombies, and business is GOOD"
-Frazzled


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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
A tsunami of naked women?

Now here is someone who has taken the advanced course in apocalypse thinking.

Zombie Apocalypse please. I'm fast, strong, got survival skills and proficient with weapons. Bring it on.

...goddamn, I have a small child T_T

Rise of the machines. It may not be the real one, but I am going to meet Schwarzenegger before I go down.

The one that happens long, loooong after I've lived a good full life. That's my favourite kind of apocalypse.

Failing that, Aliens. Because assuming we somehow don't get wiped out, that's the one that the most good could come out of for a rebuilt human race.

While not an apocalypse, I also relish the idea of some kind of global upheaval that reduced the 1-percenters down to the level of the rest of us when their money can no longer save them, and maybe then humanity can start to get over its greed and nonchalance towards the suffering of those with nothing.

While not an apocalypse, I also relish the idea of some kind of global upheaval that reduced the 1-percenters down to the level of the rest of us when their money can no longer save them, and maybe then humanity can start to get over its greed and nonchalance towards the suffering of those with nothing.

Thats called revolution. Get out your AK boyo. Be part of the solution!

My vote would be for Yellowstone to hit the reset button.

 Frazzled wrote:

While not an apocalypse, I also relish the idea of some kind of global upheaval that reduced the 1-percenters down to the level of the rest of us when their money can no longer save them, and maybe then humanity can start to get over its greed and nonchalance towards the suffering of those with nothing.

Thats called revolution. Get out your AK boyo. Be part of the solution!

Cool! I'll bring the red flags, someone else provide the revolutionary songs this time.

You missed massive EMP strike/Solar Flare event. Its capable of wiping out more than half the population of the Western world depending on the size, and probably a chunk of the undeveloped world due to lack of aid to them,

 Iron_Captain wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:

While not an apocalypse, I also relish the idea of some kind of global upheaval that reduced the 1-percenters down to the level of the rest of us when their money can no longer save them, and maybe then humanity can start to get over its greed and nonchalance towards the suffering of those with nothing.

Thats called revolution. Get out your AK boyo. Be part of the solution!

Cool! I'll bring the red flags, someone else provide the revolutionary songs this time.

As long as someone brings the vodka. We've got to have the vodka.


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And the revolution babes.

Snu-Snu apocalypse, Amazon women Snu-Snu me to death

Werewolf apocalypse. I could then join the winning team!

I've always liked the idea of a zombie apocalypse...

 Chute82 wrote:
Snu-Snu apocalypse, Amazon women Snu-Snu me to death

Broken hips everywhere...

Alien invasion. I find most of the others ludicrously implausible. Especially dumb zombie apocalypse scenarios.

Siberia Exploding. End Permian FTW.

I wrote a weird mix of one (while there were only 3 aliens) and they raise a bunch of armies and terrorists and such to... well cause mindless chaos since they're dicks.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:
Siberia Exploding. End Permian FTW.

Or Yellowstone.

It's really just a matter of time.

Really any apocalypse will do, it's about the story you tell around it. If your apocalypse is something we stop at the brink through a group effort, that's the best. If the apocalypse happens and people do their best to help each other and rebuild, that's good. If your apocalypse happens and a nasty sort uses the opportunity to gain and abuse power, but we focus on those that retain hope for better times that's OK. If your apocalypse happens and it's just and endless stream of people being nasty to each other under the guise of survival, then count me out.

If we must judge an apocalypse by how it happens I like aliens, natural disaster or a total mystery. I could go my entire life and never see a single thing zombie-related again and be totally happy.

Warhammer 40K apocalypse.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Zombie Apocalypse please. I'm fast, strong, got survival skills and proficient with weapons. Bring it on.

...goddamn, I have a small child T_T

A small child? Well, thats your dramatic opening/reason for rampage of revenge sorted out then.

As for me, also zombie apocalypse. Id like a fighting chance. (besides, Ive got lots of castles and mountains in my area. Perfect for fending off the infected. )

Wait, I came up with a better one.
Earth is actually an egg for a giant celestial butterfly.