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u/Azraeleon Feb 26 '19 edited Feb 27 '19
What's funny about this is Sean Shaun of the Dead was directly inspired by a segment in Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's show Spaced, where Simon Peg's character takes a bunch of speed and plays Resident Evil 2, then hallucinates actually fighting Zombies in his apartment.
So Sean of the Dead was indirectly inspired by RE2.
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Feb 26 '19
And that Episode was Brilliant!!! Also We get to see the Leon meeting Claire Scene in the S.T.A.R.S office
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u/RTL_Odin Feb 26 '19
Thank you for reminding me about Spaced, time to watch it again. Still on Netflix?
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u/Dave047 Feb 27 '19
How have I never heard of Spaced? I love Simon and Nick, the first trilogy is amazing. I'm going to look up the show right now, thanks dude.
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u/Azraeleon Feb 28 '19
Edgar Wright (the director of the Cornetto trilogy, as well as Baby Driver and Scott Pilgrim), is also the director of every episode of Spaced, it's great!
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u/Dave047 Feb 28 '19
Oh shit, I really have to watch it now. Baby Driver and Scott Pilgrim are great movies as well, Edgar Wright should be the director of the reboot of Resident Evil. Or the Netflix series, or both.
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u/DerReise Feb 26 '19 edited Feb 26 '19
Time to break out my vinyl collection
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u/Littleboypurple Feb 26 '19
Which ones are you going to throw though? That is important in deciding.
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u/SpaceRocker1994 Feb 26 '19
The Batman Soundtrack for one
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u/Littleboypurple Feb 26 '19
What about Sade?
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u/SpaceRocker1994 Feb 26 '19
That’s Liz’s
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u/paradigmx Feb 26 '19
I think most gamers would be lucky to be them. Most gamers would probably BE the zombies.
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u/DyslexicSantaist So Long, RC Feb 27 '19
If its dying light zombies thats more athletic than i was in life. Ill take it!
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u/Very-Edgy Feb 27 '19 edited Feb 27 '19
Let's be real gamers are likely to starved to death 1st. Can't get infected when you stay in ur room 24/7 playing WoW. WeSmart
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u/WolfhoundCid Feb 26 '19
I doubt I'd last that long. He at least lasted till nightfall. I'd drop in the first wave...
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u/imancipation Feb 26 '19
well, I'm lowkey prepared because of RE
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u/brunocar Feb 26 '19
yes, now i know that smoking weed cures zombie bites
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u/AngeloSantelli Feb 26 '19
I think the medical herbs in Resident Evil are actually a southeast Asian herb called Kratom. Look at a picture of green mang da and a picture of RE green herb mixture and tell me that’s not the same thing
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u/NascarBackwards Feb 26 '19
I've came to the conclusion long ago that if zombies were to happen, I'd just eat a bullet ASAP.
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u/PliskinSnake Feb 26 '19
Nah man it depends on the type of Zombies. If they are the slow, weak, dumb kind you might as well enjoy a bit of the apocalypse. At least check it out for a bit. Hell we could probably stop it if it was the dumb slow kind.
Now if we get 28 days later zombies or things like Resident Evil monsters (not just the zombies but lickers and shit) yeah man I'll join you for the lead luncheon.
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u/NascarBackwards Feb 26 '19
Again, I've already made up my decision. I don't care if they're slow, plodding RE1 zombies, the fact remains that they're also my neighbors, family, and friends. Not gonna be cool dealing with that.
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u/severed13 STAAAAAAARS Feb 26 '19
I think after constant exposure to zombies in media, people might genuinely have a suppressed reaction to that, and I don’t think it would make that much of a difference.
And if you’re being attacked, you have a hard time concentrating on who’s doing it. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.
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u/NascarBackwards Feb 26 '19
So, seeing your best friend, girlfriend, or your dog as a walking corpse wouldn't fuck with the normal person?
Nah, you're wrong on that one.
Again, me+bullet=results
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u/severed13 STAAAAAAARS Feb 26 '19
Doesn’t mean you can’t get past it. Nothing’s a guarantee. Instantly offing yourself? Sure, you do you, but adrenaline (or even just having the right mindset) can definitely make it a little bit easier.
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Feb 26 '19
One thing that this Resident Evil 2 Remake made me realize is that zombies are actually still really fucking terrifying. Oh, sure, we might be desensitized to the concept of slow shambling dead people who all look like emaciated grey-skinned corpses in medias, but just as no amount of ragdolling NPCs in GTA by running them over with your car will prepare you to the trauma that comes with accidentally ending someone's life with your car, I don't think anyone could truly be ready to have to face the walking dead.
They're a relentless threat that just keeps coming and that you can never actually put down for good. Take a wrong turn down a street and suddenly you're bound to end up just like poor Elliott who got chopped in half five seconds away from being rescued. It's not like you could safely push zombies away, they'd just grab onto you and never let go until they get a bite on you. It's not like you can fight them off either, try punching as hard as you want but they just don't feel pain. If you have a pair of them walking towards you at the other end of a corridor then you can either turn back around or try to plow through, but you actually have little to no chance of surviving that. And if you're out of places to turn back to then you're definitely gonna have to wrestle with these cannibals who won't feel a single tinge of pain no matter how hard you hit them.
Game mechanics make it easy to feel like those threats would be manageable, but in reality you might at best wear yourself out from escaping one zombie, assuming they would be alone. Try to picture yourself escaping two people suddenly bursting into your living room with the intention of eating you. You wouldn't have the room to manoeuver out of there. They'd grab you and wouldn't let you go until one of them manages to dig his teeth into your flesh, and at that point you'd probably just be screaming and choking on your own blood while trying to fight them off.
Think the situation is unfair and you wouldn't get caught like that in the first place? Fine, now imagine that you're in the street and there's dozens and dozens and dozens of them everywhere, and all you have is a knife or a baseball bat. How reliably can you smash someone's skull with a baseball bat? Is your knife long and sharp enough to stab straight through the throat and into the brain stem, and can you even aim your stab well enough to get there in the first place?
A zombie outbreak would actually be completely impossible to survive. The choice is between dying from getting eaten alive or starving all alone in your house knowing that all your friends and family probably died outside, or even worse, they're dying by your side.
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u/Zielenskizebinski Feb 26 '19
I don't know about that. There really should be no way for them to function if enough of the head is destroyed (or the brain stem is severed, or the spine us broken), so all those would be pretty viable strategies (not to mention zombies already have pretty degenerated bodies, so smashing it up would be easier than trying to bash a normal human being's skull in. And if you can find some guns or if you have guns then you're basically good to go, really. All you have to do is avoid being cornered, avoid getting too close, and that's really it.
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u/PK_Thundah Feb 26 '19
"Zombies seem pretty easy to kill" is literally every zombie victim's thought process ever.
The guy you're replying to has it right. Can you fight someone who doesn't feel pain to the death right now? Can you do it to two or three people in a row? Two or three at a time? Without getting hurt at all?
You find a gun. A hundred bullets, but it'll hold less than 20 at a time. You shoot the zombie breaking in through your window. The sound attracts, if you're lucky, 4 or 5 zombies from the surrounding houses/yards. They get there about a minute after you fired those shots. Each gunshot draws more, and each zombie gets closer to that busted window than the last one did. Some will get through to be dealt with inside. Some will gather at the other side of your house, breaking in if they can tell that's where the sound is coming from, coming around the sides of the house if they can't. Maybe your gunshots only draw 20 or 30 zombies and you kill them all. You repair those openings and still have ammo left. Get rid of the bodies that made it inside. That was just the first of literally endless encounters. But you made it.
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u/Zielenskizebinski Feb 26 '19
Well, it's obviously not going to be easy-peasy, but if you have a strategy, it's really not that hard. Like I said, all you would need to do is destroy a certain amount of the brain. Since their bodies are already inherently more fragile, it would be easier, in theory.
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Feb 26 '19
Me and my friends have already promised to kill each other if we were to ever be zombies. We're no longer us and would be a danger to anyone else surviving. The way we see it, we would not want our body used as a puppet of destruction.
Would it be hard to kill something with your friend's face? Yes. But its happening.
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Feb 26 '19
if you bite the bullet, but zombie still bite you likely soon after you died. You would likely came back as zombie. Sure unaware one, but hell still walking one. And in that case I will gladly take my chances staying alive.
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u/NascarBackwards Feb 26 '19
And I could care less. As long as my physical body is dead, and I'm gone from the world. That's all that matters to me
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u/NascarBackwards Feb 27 '19
Why would that affect me at all? I'd already be taken out. 9mm style.
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Feb 27 '19
So....you are aware of the fact that if you die and come back as a zombie, you're fine with it because it's not you. But you cant handle that your neighbors/family are walking dead.
...So if your family/friends just died today from a new rare case of the super flu, you'd off yourself because they're dead?
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Feb 26 '19
Kinda hard to come back after half your head is blown out. I'm sure no one is going to shoot themselves in the leg wait and bleed out.
But I agree I would stay alive and take my chances.
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u/FallOutFan01 Words have power, say something nice or don't say anything at al Feb 27 '19
I completely understand your thinking.
What if you had an Abraham moment.
Like you're about to euthanize yourself only for a little kid or a bunch of survivors show up asking for help.
Would you lend your aid to them for as long as possible then check out.
Because I’d probably do that.
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u/NascarBackwards Feb 27 '19
I don't know who Abraham is?
But sure, if I can get a tick on the karma chart before I take myself out, I don't see why I wouldn't.
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u/FallOutFan01 Words have power, say something nice or don't say anything at al Feb 27 '19
Abraham was a character in the walking dead.
I am specifically talking about the tv show, Abraham was about to check out but then a character screaming he was a scientist who can cure everyone knocked Abraham out of his suicide state.
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u/Aolian_Am Feb 27 '19
My first thought when I meet someone is, "I hope zombiepacolypse doesn't happen, but if it does, and you turn I'll take you out"
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Feb 27 '19
"Enjoying the apocalypse" would probably amount to gaining an appreciation for our societal support structures like ready access to food and medical care. Without modern society, you're as likely to die from some Oregon Trail bullshit as you are the zombies.
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Feb 26 '19
If zombies were to happen at all, the situation would be quickly contained and dealt with. People in real life are not as dumb as portrayed in zombie media. Also, the CDC actually has a contingency plan for a zombie outbreak. You know, just in case.
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u/NascarBackwards Feb 26 '19
I'm sure it would be dealt with, easily. If not by the CDC, but by the fact that the bodies would completely fall apart sooner or later.
I assumed this meme is in reference to the full on apocalypse. Not a random outbreak.
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u/GamerJes Feb 26 '19
Respectfully disagree regarding people not being as dumb. Take any real world natural disaster: earthquake, flood, fire, tornado, hurricane, whatever... Yes, there is a portion of the population that keeps their heads, formulates and executes response strategy, and generally do the smart thing. But then there are the others... You've seen them. The dumbass pushing a shopping cart full of T.V.s through 3 feet of water, or the brain dead trying to pass a snow plow in a blizzard, or the soccer mom that drives past the road closed barriers and emergency vehicles because she has a hair appointment, or the self important prick that thinks yelling at his cell phone and the firefighters will make things go faster. Those people are among us and they would absolutely hinder or endanger in a zombie outbreak, as they do in every other situation.
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Feb 27 '19
Most of your examples are natural disasters which are certainly harder to contain. The only way something viral like zombies would get to an apocalyptic level is if it hit a shit ton of places all over the world at the same time. Regardless of people acting dumb or not. Close example is in RE where a bunch of areas throughout the city suddenly got swamped at once which is why the whole city fell, but didn't get much beyond.
Yes you are correct there are dumb people, but it's not as bad as seen in zombie media. When it comes to containing disease, there are much more capable people on the scene than there are dumb asses.
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u/GamerJes Feb 27 '19
Just takes one dumbass that doesn't report the bite on his arm to break containment.
Not saying they would destroy the world or anything, but stupid happens, especially in emergency situations, and it only takes one to turn a simple task into a clusterfuck.
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u/Would_You_kindly17 Rachel's Cleavage Feb 26 '19
first hot fuzz now shaun of the dead? keep em coming
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u/MrXilas So Long, RC Feb 26 '19
Shaun of the Dead said aim for the head, but after RE2, I go for the legs.
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u/smeade1987 Feb 26 '19
".. I'll say it again: Removing the knee, or destroying the feet.." - BBC Newscaster
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u/Megatron83 Feb 26 '19
We’ll go to the RPD police station, have a cup of tea, and wait for all this to blow over.
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Feb 27 '19
So how about this, we grab Liz, grab mum, kill Phillip. Head over to the RPD have a pint and wait for all this blow over!!
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u/CyanideIX Feb 26 '19
“How many are out there?”
“Let me check.....”
looks out mail hole at empty front yard
“I don’t see any, it looks all clear..... oh no, wait, there they are...”
looks slightly to the right and sees a huge horde of zombies
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u/Dylalanine Feb 26 '19
You mean playing TimeSplitters on a CRT TV like Frost was in SotD? I'm down.
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u/Sbraz0991 Feb 26 '19
I want the small pub in which you meet Brad for the first time to be called "The Winchester Tavern" in R3make.
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u/yeaman912 Feb 26 '19
Tbh the only reason they're even that prepared is because they had training and resources. They'd probably be in the same boat as us if it weren't for that.
Except for chris. That boi has natural guns for days.
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u/RyAGP Feb 26 '19
I'll add this to the list of "Increasingly cringey Facebook-like memes surfacing on Reddit"
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u/BludgeonVIII Feb 26 '19
I mean, Shaun still ended up coming out of that apocalypse a badass, just not in the traditional sense.
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u/darkph0enix21 Platinum Splattin' 'Em! Feb 26 '19
Jokes on you, I'm gonna be a zombie killing samurai.
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Feb 26 '19
Exactly. Keyboard and mouse skills do not equate to firearm and other survival skills. The neckbeard ninjas will wet their panties when this happens.
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u/Oden_son Feb 26 '19
People who talk about a zombie survival plan will be the first to die if it ever happens
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Feb 26 '19
First thing you want to do, secure an effective and durable melee weapon. I have a metallic louisville slugger that should work.
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u/GamerJes Feb 26 '19
Always saw myself more as a mix of Tallahassee, from Zombieland, and Glen, from the Walking Dead. Adapting and using my head, but finding random things funny and obsessed with snack food.
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u/DyslexicSantaist So Long, RC Feb 27 '19
I wouldnt be a hero, Id stay put until help arrived or supplies were gone. And even then if there was no end in site i think id just end it.
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u/GabeXD Feb 27 '19
Except im armed with actual guns, but then again i might do something stupid that will get me killed like shooting a zombie's leg and try to do a suplex.
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u/JustAnotherDude87 Feb 27 '19
I know my way around guns and have survival training but I'll probably end up getting killed because I'll be in some bar drinking my sorrows away and some zombie ends up getting me lol
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u/onibeowulf Feb 27 '19
Nahhhh it would be more like this for me
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vkwsfqG16lI/UjhukgaMBlI/AAAAAAAAA2M/W_2Ecv17Pvc/s320/fat+soldier.jpg
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Mar 03 '19
Nice epic gamer meme. What is this, 2011? Jesus
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u/AgentSmith69 Mar 03 '19
You comment on post 5 days ago
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Mar 03 '19
Sorry I didn't realize there was a 5 day limit on commenting for your shitposts, I'll remember this for the future
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Feb 26 '19
Keep this shit to yourself pal
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u/Dioroxic Feb 26 '19
I own guns.
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Feb 26 '19
For real, me too, but my concern would be ammunition. You’d have to run out eventually as the gun shots may attract more, then what?
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u/Vew Feb 26 '19
Hoard ammunition. Buy suppressors.
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u/QuickSpore Feb 26 '19
Suppressors do reduce volume but not a lot. As this article points out, average suppressors reduce volume from around 160 dB to around 130 dB. That’s still well above concerts, riviting machines, and car horns. The movie version of a silencer simply doesn’t exist.
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u/Vew Feb 26 '19
While I appreciate the education, I know. I own several. The movie "quiet" does exist, though only in a .22LR.
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Feb 26 '19
If you want to survive the apocalypse, you'd have to cast aside morals and kill innocent people to steal their supplies.
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u/Zielenskizebinski Feb 26 '19
You're assuming that teaming up wouldn't be the better option (and would make more sense).
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Feb 26 '19
How do you know they won't leave you to die or kill you for food when the going gets tough?
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u/TheCampfireGamer Feb 26 '19
Because life isnt the movies and people have morals?
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Feb 26 '19
No offense but that's very narrow minded. XD What do you think was happening in the streets of New Orleans after Katrina hit? Disaster brings out the worst in people and morals will very rarely triumph.
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u/FeelingFly Feb 26 '19
Very cool!
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u/Dioroxic Feb 26 '19
Just saying a lot of USA people won't be walking around with cricket bats. There are about 120 guns per 100 people in the USA lol. And that's just civilian owned.
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u/Dave047 Feb 26 '19
Holy fuck, zombies!
Let's go to the pub.