1

You had me at "annihilated".

Fucking Zombies

2 I just finished reading World War Z.  And now I can't help but scope out buildings for their defensive value against potential zombie attack.  Cause I'm in South Carolina, not much chance of a hard freeze down here giving me a season to set up good defenses.

3 This is stupid. It assumes zombie movements are completely random, which is not the case. A zombie, upon locating a source of living flesh, will attempt to get to it relentlessly. Zombies also have a tendency to follow one-another. So, once you have a zombie that spots you, you will end up with a metric shit-ton of zombies trying to eat your brains.

The key is to kill any zombies that have spotted you. If that is not feasible, the next best solution is to get the fuck out of dodge and set up a compound with the other survivors away from any of the old population centers. This minimizes the risk of random zombie encounters.

4

Agreed: distance yourself from population centers. Establish clear lines of fire for all approaches. Stockpile lots of ammo.

I favor an easily defensible redoubt based in the southwest; preferably Canyon de Chelly or somewhere similar.

5 Single best piece of ZA survival advice - edge weapons don't need reloading.

6

Yes, but Alex, the major disadvantage of edge weapons is that it allows - no, requires - the attacker to be within biting distance before you can off it.  It also requires no defensive bulwarks be between you and the zombie hoard.

I feel very confident in saying that edge weapons should be a last resort in any real zombie attack.  I think flame throwers would be my first choice, because I just can't get over how fucking awesome it would be to see the undead fuckers burning like crispy critters. 

7 Exactly. Swords are a last resort.
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to spend gun money on a sword, you need a last resort item and my 1911 only has a 7 round mag.

1

Oh, sure, Left For Dead is a wholesome, cheerful tale.  Full of rainbows and butterflies.  Seven?  Hell!  Shoulda played it at 6.

2 I cannot endorse a 7 year old playing any game that promotes the absurd notion that there are fast zombies. Or anyone else for that matter.

3 Man, I need to get that wireless adapter for my XBOX so I can lay waste to 7 year olds in Left 4 Dead.

But, on topic, that is probably one of the stupidest forum questions I've ever seen.

Is there a website that documents stupid internet questions?  I'd like to read that.

4 NO WIRE HANGERS FAST ZOMBIES!!!!

5 Some of the idiot commenters are just as bad.

But I think this was totally a planted troll-like question.  I mean, I might ask something like that just to watch all the reprobates of the game-playing society crawl out of the woodwork and to voice their relativistic amorality.  Not sure if that even makes sense, bu it sure seems like there were more than a few people commenting that said something to the effect of, "It depends on the 7-yr-old."

No wonder some of my middle school students are so messed up.  Actually, the wonders cease once I talk to their parents for the first time and get an idea of the kid's boundaries, or lack thereof.

6 Man, I need to get that wireless adapter for my XBOX so I can lay waste to 7 year olds in Left 4 Dead.

Or you could play me.  I suck on an epic level.

Purrrrrrrrrrrrr.

1 OMG, did you see Lieutenant Hottie last week?

Bunk.

2 I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking at here. Is it a picture of someone who is angry because an explosion left him with no eyebrows? Because I think I would be pretty pissed off if that happened to me.

1 See, I like the idea of zombie clowns.

People tend to frown on shooting live clowns.

If alexthechick were in the town that was attacked by Killer Klowns from Outer Space she would have survived.

I could just see the interview with the news crew in the morning,
atc:"Wait, they were from outer space? I'm not going to jail? Woo-hoo!"

2 Oh.  Yay.  Now zombie clowns can pwn me.  Yaaaaaaaaaaaay.

1 Eh, we didn't need alexthechick comments for a week or so anyway.

2 *cries and cries*  I haven't done anything that anyone can prove in the last few minutes or so to deserve that!

I demand Robogeisha to make it up to me. 

3 I've been keeping an eye out for new stills, but there haven't been any in a while.  I thought I had found someplace to buy the movie posters from, but it turned out all they were selling were 11x17 size.

1 Romero's biggest problem has ALWAYS been that he insists on making political points in his films, and does so in the most ham-fisted way possible, and it becomes an annoying distraction.

2

I have to admit, from what I've read I'm all fer it.

Imagine you're sitting in the audience watching this, one guy says,"Let's kill all the zombies before they eat our brains!" while Mac guy smugly tells us, "No, we can save them!".

I'm with the guy who wants to pop a cap in their heads and I bet a lot of normal people will be too.

This might make them realize that such thinking happens in real life and maybe they'll rethink their stand vis-a-vis dead jihadis.

 

As for the your question, I assume you're talking about George Lucas.

He was never visionary, he cobbled together a cheesy story line from some cartoons he watched that Saturday morning, stole his costumes from ancient Japan and anime and paid some guys to do the special effects.

He did put out a great movie, but he then spent 5 movies raping it and pissing on it.  

And part of the reason they sucked was because he did so many stupid things in the first one. Look at what happened with his throwaway reference to the "Clone Wars", it gave us the crappiest movie in the series.

The only thing he did right in the last 5 movies was putting Carrie Fisher in that gold bikini/chains outfit.

He wasn't a visionary, he was lucky and he had no idea how to recreate that luck.

That's why we have 4 foot tall teddy-bears with sticks and rocks beating technologically advanced Storm Troopers who could take out America in about 4 minutes. That's why we have Jedi Knights, the smartest, bestest, coolest warriors ever to use a light saber, using tactics that soccer hooligans would be embarassed to use.

I liked  the first one a lot, but all the rest have been teh suck.

3

Romero's biggest problem has ALWAYS been that he insists on making political points in his films, and does so in the most ham-fisted way possible, and it becomes an annoying distraction.

Romero only started in with the political shit after people started making connections to it in his work that were not originally intended by him (in, say, Dawn of the Dead), which makes him something of a libtard poseur.

1 Oh yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.  Because L4D doesn't already freak me out.  Odds of evil clown zombies?  I'm guessing 1:1.

2

It's set in Louisiana.  At the least, there will be Mardi Gras revelers, many of whom dress like clowns.

Ugh.  Imagine a zombie outbreak in the middle of Mardi Gras.  That would be so the suck.

3 Wait, carnivals and grenade launchers?
I can finally win a goldfish.

1

Kids in the Hall is still on?

30 Helens agree, that show could be pretty darn good.

2 No, the Kids in the Hall has been off for quite some time.  WTH?  Is he tweeting from 1997?

1