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  1. Silent Hill 3 bothered me because you're given a knife and 3 bullets early on, then a swarm of really tough monsters.
  2. I honestly hate you. That game is staring at me right now asking me to play it. plaaay eeeet But, I want to build a module! *cries*
  3. All the more reason not to underestimate them!
  4. Spoken like a true rookie. Speaking back to a couple of years ago when the zombies infested campus. I heard the screaming from my apartment, it woke me up. I had decided to skip class and get extra sleep. But, I am only a block from the campus. So, with the screaming I naturally went to see what was going on. And apparently my neighbor had the same inclination. When we saw zombies, my neighbor, damned if I can remember his name now, thought it would be terrific fun to take his louisville slugger and go zombie hunting. The first campus invasion of the undead I experienced I spent the entire time defensive, so I decided I'd join in as well, get some offensive practice. Heck, it could be fun, just like a video game! I got two of my katanas (cheap katanas, bad idea, fyi) and went with him. As we approach campus, we encounter two fresh undead free of packs and decide to get our first shots in. He goes to club one, I try to cut off the head of the other. He swings and hits the first in the head, it goes down. I swing to cut the other's head off and I end up with a shambling, decaying, pez dispenser. He swayed as he moved and after each of his steps forward, his head would flap. So, he was still moving and a danger. I look to my neighbor, we shrug in unison, he pulls back the bat to make a swing at my unfinished zombie and then he starts screaming. The first zombie he hit on the head wasn't out of commission, he just knocked it down. It takes a lot more than a simple bonk to finish off most zombie, especially converts. Decaying corpses it can work on, but the problem with infestation is that the decaying corpses got a hold of fresh meat that doesn't fail as easily. You have to swing hard. And you can tire fast. I won't go into detail about what happened to my neighbor. But, I will say I know how easy it is to tire when you swing that bat like you mean it. I picked up his bat took out three.
  5. That depends on the size of the outbreak we are talking about. If we are talking about just a few zombies it's safer to hole yourself up somewhere that they cannot reach you. Preferably within your compound surround by a ten foot re-inforced concrete wall. You did remember to build that wall right? If you try and leave, you'll only get stuck on the roads as everyone else attempts to flee from the zombies. If you really must leave, the best mode of transportation is a good mountain bike. It's quiet so it won't attract zombies and it doesn't need to worry about gas. It may not be as fast as some other methods of transportation, but it can go a lot of places that a car would never be able to get to. The main problem with this is it is incredibly hard to judge the size of an outbreak during the outbreak. They gain reinforcements the same way you lose them. And then sometimes, they just gain them anyway!
  6. Not all religion. The Japanese do have religion, y'know. Shintoism actually encourages it in some situations and some suspect that Christianity encourages suicide in Japanese culture through guilt.
  7. I'm creating this so we can stop derailing Aram's thread. This is for general discussion about zombie combat, planning, and the future of the war on the undead. I said in the other thread that we had a manageable zombie encounter here a week (and a half) ago that turned into tragedy. It wasn't someone's use of fire that caused that tragedy. No, it was lack of education. My college teaches no courses on zombie survival or combat. We have attacks occur every year and a half to two years, but we treat it like fire safety. With guns in cabinets and diagrams. But, we don't educate, the most powerful tool in dealing with zombies. It's kind of ridiculous. The outbreak we had two years ago pretty much eradicated the entire student body, but the biggest prevention step we take is to arrest kids with incense in their dorms because they might be performing voodoo. For crying out loud! We need real education courses. We need the school and governments to sponsor and encourage these courses. I've tried holding a few free courses to teach those that I can, but the only people ever interested are the handful of survivors of recent attacks, and even they are only interested for a limited time. It's because zombie attacks are always dismissed as flukes. But, then a year and a half later another pops up. I've been here five years and a half and I've encountered three such attacks. People are so uneducated about the dangers of these things that at every single attack, the local fraternities start thinking it's a great hazing opportunity. And then our football team suffers.
  8. But a flame-thrower is prettier and would get more. All you need is a bit of gasoline and some styrofoam and a pressure sprayer. Flamethrowers are one of the worst weapons you can use against the living dead. Not only do zombies take a long time to burn completely, but in the meantime, instead of having a horde of man-eating zombies trying to break down your gate, you have a horde of flaming man-eating zombies trying to break down you gate. That's genuinely one of the most common rookie mistakes when dealing with zombies. I've seen quite a few guys go down that way. Just last week during finals, there was a zombie outbreak on campus. Someone decides to use a zippo and some hairspray! The one benefit of being attacked by flaming zombies is you're less likely to come back as a zombie yourself if you catch, too. I've also heard reports that some students where holding the stairwell in our GAB building. It wasn't a giant outbreak and I think they could have held there, but not so much when the flaming zombies enter the building. One person turned a manageable zombie encounter into a tragedy just because he insisted on using fire.
  9. We either swear on the bible to not make a fuss or just pass up on religious texts altogether.
  10. You can have it. Good luck conserving ammo and getting headshots with that thing. Even if you saw a zombie in half, you've just made the zombie harder to see.
  11. I saw first 30 minutes of it. It was enough. I read the wiki on it, should have stopped there.
  12. Saw Eragon, if there's been a more forgettable flick this year I don't remember it.
  13. Obviously you know nothing of zombie survival. Guns are nice and all for killing zombies, but they're loud. That thing will just draw more zombies! Guns are the only way to kill zombies. If you get close enough to melee them, they're close enough to melee you. And zombies don't get tired. Yes, but you do have limited ammo. Is it really wise to kill a few zombies with a gun, when you're going to attract 10x their number? First choice is always escape. Since it sounds like Aram lives rurally, it might be a better idea to shack up at his house than I initially presumed. Okay, so in case of zombie attack, we're all going to Aram's house.
  14. I heard about a Progress Quest sequal for the PS3.
  15. Obviously you know nothing of zombie survival. Guns are nice and all for killing zombies, but they're loud. That thing will just draw more zombies!
  16. I have X3 and love it. Can't wait for enough free time to finish the new Bali G missions and get all my nice new ships and headquarters! I need to figure out where I'm going to place that dang thing. Somewhere out of the way I can claim as mine or somewhere public that is well protected. Probably Argon Prime.
  17. Survival but not always mine.
  18. Star Wars Galaxies was great once upon a time for the reasons that EVE is considered great now. The community and its interactions. There was spies and intrigue. Fame and infamy. Politics, griefing, a mass of stories to tell from characters across the galaxy. The kind of thing that turns a game into a world of its own. A world that you could be a part of, that you helped to build in more ways than just dropping down a house. A world with a developing history. Technical flaws aside, it was great for its time. That time is gone.
  19. I want to go on record saying thank you, Nartwak. I'm already on Trilby's Notes.
  20. I knew this had to be tied to the woot offer.
  21. Steam is really hitting it off.
  22. Free point and click adventure games? Don't have to beat me over the head. You can and that would be okay, but you don't have to.
  23. Sure, you can. You can blame anyone for anything. War in Iraq? *points at Spider* Let's give it a try. THOSE GS BASTAGES ARE RUINING THE CONCEPT OF RPGS! rabble rabble
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