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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #80 on: October 15, 2008, 01:51:10 AM »
Yeah, mediocre physicals here.

I've got:

I have a pretty decent understanding of genetics, so optimal planning can keep our minimum starting population lower (so we're likelier to start a thriving society). Also, given the appropriate grasses, I can breed wheat from scratch.
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I know how to skin small, furry animals.
Pretty decent at strategies. Would favor mostly terrain-based advantages (pit traps and the like), so good for planning defenses when we encounter the inevitable other human groups.
My metabolism kicks ass, especially when it comes to keeping warm, plus I'm accustomed to eating 1 meal per day, allowing me to move over long distances efficiently.
Also, I walk significantly faster than most people, despite a recently broken leg. I might make a decent scout if it weren't for the fact that my Spot check sucks.
I can function without my glasses, for the most part (reading fine print at a distance may be hard, but that's about all).
I've devised a diet that covers all necessary human nutrients, meaning I can set us up with an adequate food supply once we arrive. And I can cook pretty well, too.
I spend time coming up with contingency plans to various scenarios. One of my guiding principles is, "There's always a way out." That could be useful.
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #81 on: October 15, 2008, 08:31:54 AM »
I enjoy hunting so that has to count for something.  ???

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #82 on: October 15, 2008, 10:43:58 AM »
Pretty decent at strategies. Would favor mostly terrain-based advantages (pit traps and the like), so good for planning defenses when we encounter the inevitable other human groups.
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I spend time coming up with contingency plans to various scenarios. One of my guiding principles is, "There's always a way out." That could be useful.
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #83 on: October 15, 2008, 03:18:42 PM »
Oh, don't I wish I were that smart. Or had supernatural powers. Or both. :P
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #84 on: October 15, 2008, 04:46:16 PM »
Does Geass work on zombies? :P

I doubt it... but maybe you could geass other people around you to do what you don't want :D

Now that everyone is talking about their stuff...

-I have average strength (except at mid school when I carried 10 people trying to stop me from beating the crap of some random bastard... but that's another story)
-average intelligence
-average dexterity

Meh, I guess this is it.

And just to ask: who is gonna pick me (I'm in Brazil, btw)?  :D

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #85 on: October 15, 2008, 05:03:59 PM »
I work in a government research facility on a military base. So I should be safe, unless the apocalypse starts here, in which case I'll be one of the first to go.  :D
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #86 on: October 15, 2008, 05:21:58 PM »
I work in a government research facility on a military base. So I should be safe, unless the apocalypse starts here, in which case I'll be one of the first to go.  :D
I figure the government is researching methods of creating the Zombie apocalypse at the very moment I'm typing this.  Probably as a weapon to use against the [insert 'evil empire' de jour]. 
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #87 on: October 15, 2008, 05:26:48 PM »
I work in a government research facility on a military base. So I should be safe, unless the apocalypse starts here, in which case I'll be one of the first to go.  :D
And they always do! You had better post a warning here when your mates are gnawing your legs.

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #88 on: October 15, 2008, 08:15:02 PM »
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #89 on: October 15, 2008, 08:19:10 PM »
I think we all have a policy of ''other BG members are quite decent folk'' already.  So let's move on to plans, anyone knows of a decent enough town in alaska/british columbia that we could go to?

remember it has got to have:
-Boats
-Supplies
-A Cold climate
-Not a major city.

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #90 on: October 15, 2008, 08:56:11 PM »
Bullshit, we want a major city so we can cause some ruckus.

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #91 on: October 15, 2008, 09:13:53 PM »
We'd probably raid major cities later on, once the zombie populace has dispersed. Once food becomes less common in cities, they will likely diffuse randomly throughout the countryside, so we can probably raid large cities for supplies.
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #92 on: October 15, 2008, 09:58:51 PM »
Nobody likes dwelling on their punative and crushing weakness.

I would like to bring up blimps. Amusingly ponderous and outdated to mordern warfare, their ability to remain aloft with limited expenditure of energy would be amazingly useful in a post-Z world.

Also: Blimp is an amusing word to say. I endorse all opportunities to have it used more frequently.

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #93 on: October 15, 2008, 10:00:35 PM »
What is a blimp? Something like a zeppelin?

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #94 on: October 15, 2008, 10:04:01 PM »
Yes.  They are zeppelins.  I do actually support this idea, but there is a problem: resources.  How do we get the resources to run one?  I mean, live on one?  I suppose we could do Crimson Skies sort of deals, with planes to go get stuff and the zeps stay up.  Just one thing about that: I don't think we'll be able to make a Tesla Zep.  Or any armor plated one.  Or that we'd want to, but still.  Those things were preposterous.
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #95 on: October 16, 2008, 10:40:58 AM »
As a certified zombologist, I propose that he key to survival boils down to one thing: already be somewhere safe when the zombie plauge is unleashed. As to the boat and island theories, the pitfalls of both of these are coverd in Max brooks's book World War Z. I prefer the live on the road theory, keep moving strike fast and fade away. I also modify it with the boat theory, keep to the rivers and move move move. ( all of this will be covered in my as yet unfinished novel  To Help Other people at All Times.)
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #96 on: October 17, 2008, 01:54:12 AM »
Can I write a sequel entitled, "And then loot their bodies"?
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #97 on: October 17, 2008, 01:15:37 PM »
no, the working title for the sequel  is Mentally Awake and Morrally Straight. I know you were joking but anyone who can tell me where these quotes come from gets a pickle.

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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #98 on: October 17, 2008, 04:13:59 PM »
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Re: How unprepaired are you for the impending zombie apocalypse?
« Reply #99 on: October 17, 2008, 04:26:35 PM »
It shall be so.