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ZOMBIES!!!!

 
  

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grant
12:53 / 17.06.04
If you ever wanted to know how long the lights would stay on after a zombie outbreak, well, The Straight Dope has the answer.

You won't like it.
 
 
grant
01:41 / 31.12.04
OK, I'm bumping this topic to invite the Barbelith Zombie Consortium to discuss some matters of scientific import regarding the reanimated dead over in The Laboratory.
 
 
Shrug
19:15 / 28.03.05
Has anyone done hive mind zombies?
My favourite Zombie movie slides somewhere between Cemetary Man, Brain Dead and Return of the Living Dead 3.
I always thought Freddie and Jason verged on Zombie flicks too in a way.
 
 
Sax
11:37 / 06.04.05
Take the Zombie Plague survival test. I am gratified to learn that I am an Official Survivor, with 65 per cent of something or other
 
 
Katherine
11:50 / 06.04.05
Official Survivor
Congratulations! You scored 73%!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:51 / 06.04.05
69%. An Official Survivor is ME!

And I can't even fire a gun...
 
 
Chiropteran
12:10 / 06.04.05
78%, baby.

Eagle Scout and all that, you know? And some healthy paranoia.

~L
 
 
Mike Modular
12:13 / 06.04.05
Official Survivor: 77%

Take that zombies! Blam! Blam! etc...
 
 
Sax
12:18 / 06.04.05
I obviously spent more time trying to help my fellow remnants of humanity than you lot.
 
 
A0S
12:18 / 06.04.05
68% Not too bad
 
 
Saint Keggers
12:45 / 06.04.05
79%!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:07 / 06.04.05
70%! Ha!
 
 
Liger Null
13:27 / 06.04.05
Haha, chumps! I scored a big 86%

WooHoo! I am the champion, my friends...

(hint: you can't go wrong with "all of the above")
 
 
Liger Null
13:30 / 06.04.05
Wait, I misread that...I only scored 77%

Fuck, do I look stupid now
 
 
Chiropteran
13:53 / 06.04.05
Fuck, do I look stupid now

Well, it's better than looking eaten or infected.

For reference, here are some safety tips courtesy of Max Brooks (this may already appear somewhere upthread, but it's always important to keep these things fresh):

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!

2. They feel no fear, why should you?

3. Use your head: cut off theirs.

4. Blades don’t need reloading.

5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.

6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.

7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.

8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!

9. No place is safe, only safer.

10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

And remember, folks: the wages of sin may be death, but the wages of paranoia is survival.

~L
 
 
bitchiekittie
14:17 / 06.04.05
grant - thanks for the links. I've only read the power one so far, but the water and power questions are always in my mind while watching those films. and, based on the number of horror/sci fi movies I have watched in my lifetime, that's a lot of guessing finally put to rest!
 
 
grant
19:00 / 06.04.05
Go nuclear!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
19:17 / 06.04.05
92% !

I've missed my vocation in life, clearly.
 
 
grant
19:21 / 06.04.05
Hmm.

on the test I tried to answer as honestly as possible and got:
You made it. Barely.
Congratulations! You scored 44%!



At the bottom, though, it says I got 99% "survival points." What're those?

Anyway, I know I could've gotten higher if I wasn't such a sucker for tossing people guns and stuff.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
19:42 / 06.04.05
Tt. Well as long as you learned from the experience...
 
 
Chiropteran
20:00 / 06.04.05
Has anyone actually managed not to survive (on the test)? I've gone back a couple times to see what the other results look like, and so far I haven't been able to get killed, even making deliberately bad decisions.

Anyone? (Someone raise their hand for them, will ya? Or what's left of it.)

~L
 
 
charrellz
04:37 / 07.04.05
79%

I'd like to thank long nights of video games and D&D. When the undead rise, the gamers will rise back.
 
 
Chiropteran
12:34 / 07.04.05
When the undead rise, the gamers will rise back.

Pity the would-be clerics: *presents prop relic* "I dispel you!" *CHOWMP*

~L
 
 
grant
20:05 / 09.05.05
Land of the Dead!

It's in production! There's a cast list!

According to the "trivia" page, Dario Argento's daughter's in it!

They say: George A. Romero was so impressed with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) that he asked them to appear in this, the fourth part of his "Dead" series, possibly in cameos as zombies.




AAAAGH!

THE DEAD ARE RISING AGAIN!


THEY HAVE A WEBSITE!!
 
 
grant
20:22 / 09.05.05
There's an interview with John Leguizamo here.


On the subject of whether Romero's zombies will be running in "Land of the Dead" like they did in the remake of "Dawn of the Dead:
No, no. He’s really against that. He’s offended by that. He’s half Cuban, he’s from the Caribbean – George Romero – so he knows his zombies. Zombies came from the Caribbean, they came from West Africa, and they’re supposed to be the undead coming out of graves. They’ve got rigor mortis, they’re rotting. They can’t run that fast.


Dennis Hopper's also in this thing.
 
 
lekvar
20:51 / 09.05.05
73% on the zombie surviva test. This is clearly not accurate. I should have gotten a 99%.

If you're needing to waste some zombies but can't be bothered to wait for them to actually rise from the grave, please allow me to recommend Zombies!!! the Board Game. Huge fun, great art, and 100 little plastic zombie figurines for your little bait, err... figure to run from.

Zombies!!! puts you in the middle of the action as you try to escape the ever advancing zombie horde. Players must use a combination of wits and brawn to be the first to the heliport and certain escape. The only problem is, the zombies are everywhere, they appear to be very hungry and your opponents would really prefer if you didn't escape.

(Please don't take this to be spam. I am in no way associated with Twilight Creations Inc., and merely wish all zombie enthusiasts to share my simple, childish joy of slaughtering the undead.)
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
03:58 / 10.05.05
Zombies, Dennis Hopper and Asia Argento? This HAS to be good.
 
 
grant
16:32 / 10.05.05
And, on the "hive mind" tip, the zombies are apparently "evolving."

In the preview on the site, one of the characters refers to them, like, figuring things out. Getting smarter.

Aw, yeah.
 
 
grant
16:37 / 10.05.05
Has anyone ever done a zombie infection patch or mod for Sims? I was just reading about how some guys in, ummm, California, I think, were using Sims as a modeling tool for a smallpox outbreak.
Programmed the progress of an infection into the game system, by introducing one infectious, sick guy into as real a city as they could make.
(Apparently, the deciding factor isn't how extreme your quarantine measures are, but how fast you are in recognizing what's going on -- not what you do, but how fast you do it. Remember that the next time you see some stiff guy shambling across the park, lunging at joggers and moaning.)
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
18:28 / 10.05.05
Not only zombies, but LOVECRAFTIAN ZOMBIES!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
02:30 / 11.05.05
Nice one, Withiel! That zombie game's wicked.
 
 
grant
15:42 / 31.07.05
Best flash mob ever.

With one version of events written up here. The bit about the police is especially glorious.
 
 
grant
16:18 / 31.07.05
Oh, and the home page for the zombie mob. Brains!
 
 
Benny the Ball
16:25 / 31.07.05
I'm about to start writing a zombie script, how does everyone prefer their undead? Slow and overnumbering, or fast and furious?
 
 
Mistoffelees
16:55 / 31.07.05
Slow and with guts hanging out like in the walking dead comics.
 
  

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