Zombie Survival: Do's and Dont's

Malefic23 said:
Consider a newly risen zombie to be like a newborn human in some ways. Instinctive drives are the only ones really present, and the only ones generally followed. However, the equipment for higher brain activity is more delicate, and has been damaged, or mostly destroyed before the Z can re-animate. They may form new ways to work around the damage and get some thought processes back, but it's unlikely they will ever return to something approaching normal mental capability. For evolution to take place, multiple generations are needed to grow and shift into a new form or pattern. Zombies don't reproduce, and cannot have sucessive generations. Now you're talking about changes in human populations to make the human a better Z. That's just creepy...

For busting Zombies I keep a small claymore near the bed, a yugoslavian war axe with spike pommel in the closet, and I'm looking for a good mace or morningstar. My motorcycle leathers do double duty as anti Z body armor, and I always keep hammer and nails in the house. I've also got a .22 caliber pistol, loaded with "popcorn" subsonic bullets.. Quieter, so you don't draw a chain swarm when you have to take a Z down! Know your escape routes folks. Zack is out there, and he's always hungry!
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a zombie genious!
 
Fungi said:
Or a genius zombie in disguise... how else does he know them so well?!
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a zombie using a computer??!, and disguising itself as a human?!

brb, i have to go call George A. Romero!
 
We're onto you Malefic, hand yourself over to our experiments and you won't feel any pain (that is IF you can, only one way to find out!)
 
Heh, thanks guys... I love this thread, it's great fun to "what if" the zombie problem.

Go check out "The book of the Dead". It's a collection of zombie short stories put together with many different themes, including a few told from the Z point of view.
 
Malefic23 said:
It's not really a question of weather or not they can learn, or have some trace of memory. For all it's campy humor, Shaun of the Dead was mostly based on a friendly version of the early infection Romero Z. Within seven years of primary outbreak, Romero Z's were displaying behavour patterns from their former lives. See refrence to "Bub" in the original Day of the Dead. Bub would press a razor to his face, hold a phone the proper way, could be trained to listen to the radio, and even handle a firearm. The dis-orientation of dying, with the con-cominant brain trauma seems to cause long term memory lapse, an erasure of most personality traits, and a destruction of communication and fine motor skills. The only strong drive remaining is hunger, and the best recognized source of food is the most familiar. People. Advanced neurological autopsy from the same film showed the only fully functional portion of the brain was the Rhinencepholon, or R complex. This is the primordial central portion of the brain we inherited from the reptiles, and as the dominant portion of the Z thinking process, it's mostly used for instinctual behavours. "Bub" also did'nt treat the scientist training him as food, and would wait for his reward "treats" instead of attacking. However, despite his civilized appearing behavour, the treats had to be human flesh.

It's interesting to note that tool usage is still present even in fresh Z's. The original Night of the Living Dead showed one Z, less than two days risen, picking up a heavy blunt object and using it to attack a barracade. That displays at least some small critical thinking skills, and does not bode well for the survivor in a fortified location.
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In the orig NotLD the Kid killed her mom by stabbing her with a spade, I consider this a minor contradiction in early zombie films. Prehaps they retain some intelligence, but enough to use tools? Maybe over time when they improve, but i doubt a freshly reborn zombie will recall anything. If you subscribe to the idea that the zombie mind is wiped when they first turn then having them use tools and acting human so soon seems like a contradiction. I guess you could say it's a slow decline but none of their action suggest a slow decline of humanity, instead it appears to complete reformat.

Malefic23 said:
Consider a newly risen zombie to be like a newborn human in some ways. Instinctive drives are the only ones really present, and the only ones generally followed. However, the equipment for higher brain activity is more delicate, and has been damaged, or mostly destroyed before the Z can re-animate. They may form new ways to work around the damage and get some thought processes back, but it's unlikely they will ever return to something approaching normal mental capability. For evolution to take place, multiple generations are needed to grow and shift into a new form or pattern. Zombies don't reproduce, and cannot have sucessive generations. Now you're talking about changes in human populations to make the human a better Z. That's just creepy....
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I would consider a reborn zombie to be less then a human baby, even a human child has some experiance and thought process. A newbie zombie on the other hand is wipped clean and is driven by complete instincts. Well you might say if that is true then why can they walk? recognize objects? mostly because of their subconcious wasn't destroyed......

well i gotta stop typing i have a plane to catch, hope you guys post lots of good stuff ill be looking forward to it when i get home monday. Have a great memorial day.
 
KingOfTheDeep said:
lol, check this out..for any of you Simon Pegg, or Nick Frost fans (Shaun of the Dead).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ynXBMgLEbM
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I liked their range of melee weapons but I can't see myself using a screwdriver, baseball bats may splinter with stress so I'd go for an aluminium one over a wooden one, axes and hammers seem to be logical and common around the house. Great to see Simon Pegg imitate an Australian accent too! Wouldn't have many zombies out in Woolongong...
 
This thread is important to us all, lest we become 'one of them' due to lack of preparation.
 
Fungi said:
This thread is important to us all, lest we become 'one of them' due to lack of preparation.
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lol..that would'nt be to good


any of you guys ever walk in a town's "zombie walk"?, there was one here in cinco de mayo but i missed it
 
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