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Why don't flesh eating zombies eat each other?
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barsoomcore
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Wicht: good point. Regular bathing continues.
ThoughtBubble: Right. Zombies just have misdirected social skills.
Dirigible: People like you give me hope for the human race.
Drakmar: People like you take that hope and crush it into a cruel, twisted mockery of what might have been.
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LIVELIEST threads ever.
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Wicht: good point. Regular bathing continues.
ThoughtBubble: Right. Zombies just have misdirected social skills.
Dirigible: People like you give me hope for the human race.
Drakmar: People like you take that hope and crush it into a cruel, twisted mockery of what might have been.
ThoughtBubble
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barsoomcore said:
Well, some of the people I went to school with certianly qualified as social zombies.
shilsen
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Dirigible said:
No, no, no - that's necrosarcophagal! See what happens if you don't eat enough fresh brains? Then you can't spell properly. Why, back in my day, you shambled miles through driving snow just to get your teeth into a fresh, juicy, oozing new brain. And you liked it!
Tetsubo
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I think that zombies just follow a simple set of programs:
1) Consume living humans.
2) Avoid obstacles.
3) Return to Number 1.
Fellow zombies aren't living humans so they are just obstacles. These simple lines of programming give you th zombie "horde".
And 28 Days was a well executed film that had major plot holes. The "virus" behaved in a way contrary to living virii. If it was a virus it would need an incubation period. If it was a poison the infected would need time to process more of the poison so that they could infect others. In the film you were converted in about 30 seconds. And were able to infect others as soon as you were converted. A "disease" that spread that fast is just silly. Not to mention how did it spread to other cities? Once infected you become an enraged ape. Enraged apes can't work cars, trains and planes. the authorities just set up perimeters outside of a city. Anyone that doesn't speak gets shot. Phone calls and radio waves move faster than enraged apes. Not to mention that the uninfected can use firearms. Which is why this film was set in England and not the US. Far too many firearms in the US. I personally could have stopped most of those infected attacks with what I have in my home.
Sorry if I hijacked this thread...
1) Consume living humans.
2) Avoid obstacles.
3) Return to Number 1.
Fellow zombies aren't living humans so they are just obstacles. These simple lines of programming give you th zombie "horde".
And 28 Days was a well executed film that had major plot holes. The "virus" behaved in a way contrary to living virii. If it was a virus it would need an incubation period. If it was a poison the infected would need time to process more of the poison so that they could infect others. In the film you were converted in about 30 seconds. And were able to infect others as soon as you were converted. A "disease" that spread that fast is just silly. Not to mention how did it spread to other cities? Once infected you become an enraged ape. Enraged apes can't work cars, trains and planes. the authorities just set up perimeters outside of a city. Anyone that doesn't speak gets shot. Phone calls and radio waves move faster than enraged apes. Not to mention that the uninfected can use firearms. Which is why this film was set in England and not the US. Far too many firearms in the US. I personally could have stopped most of those infected attacks with what I have in my home.
Sorry if I hijacked this thread...
AFGNCAAP
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As per Night of the Living Dead, the incident that created them reanimates the cadaver by a sort of "rebooting" of the central nervous system. It's just enough to activate senses, movement, and apparently the digestive system (in order to truly consume material). The Zombies didn't eat just brains--they ate anything & everything that was living animal matter--bugs, birds, mice, people, etc. If the heads/brain matter was relatively undamaged/intact, a cadaver could reanimate as a Zombie--thus a severe head wound (like a gunshot to the head) "killed" the Zombies.
Typically, it seems to be the concept of a "life force" that makes us so delicable to the living dead--kind of like vampirism, but to a greater extreme (any body part of the once-living, and not just the blood).
Typically, it seems to be the concept of a "life force" that makes us so delicable to the living dead--kind of like vampirism, but to a greater extreme (any body part of the once-living, and not just the blood).
Altalazar
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I think it is just one of those things nobody ever really thought about - they are just "scary dead people" that are out to get you. If it were "realistic" odds are, the "fresh" zombies, if nothing else, would be consumed immediately, and they would be fighting each other.
Plus it is more "scary" if it is like they all work together to go after living flesh.
Plus it is more "scary" if it is like they all work together to go after living flesh.
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