Orogun01 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 Does anyone know the difference between zombies and ghouls? I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skarpen Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Orogun01 said: Does anyone know the difference between zombies and ghouls? Depends on the setting and rules, but if we talk origin then Ghouls are from Arabic folklore and they eat corpses, Zombies are from Haiti (?) and they are eating the living. So basically they differ in diet. Edited August 7, 2020 by Skarpen 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 23 minutes ago, Skarpen said: Depends on the setting and rules, but if we talk origin then Ghouls are from Arabic folklore and they eat corpses, Zombies are from Haiti (?) and they are eating the living. So basically they differ in diet. So ghouls are vegan zombies? Aren't they corpses also? Do they eat each other? 1 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skarpen Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 3 minutes ago, Orogun01 said: So ghouls are vegan zombies? Aren't they corpses also? Do they eat each other? As far as I remember ghouls are not reanimated corpses, but rather a race of demons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 As I recall, the ghūl in the Arabic tradition was a shapchanging Jinn who, usually in the guise of a pretty woman, would meet travelers and when they'd dropped their guards, kill and eat them. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 2 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 I don't think zombies ate people before Romero. I want to say they were just like flesh puppets or something similar Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 2 hours ago, ShadySands said: I don't think zombies ate people before Romero. I want to say they were just like flesh puppets or something similar IDK, there were enough pulp comics back in the day about the undead. At least one of those reanimated corpses had to have taken a bite out of someone. I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted August 7, 2020 Author Share Posted August 7, 2020 Most early comic book zombies existed as instruments of vengence and typically just killed (or were like the will-less living dead). I seem to recall reading at least one comic story from the 1950s where there was implied cannibalism from the undead, but without going and reading a bunch of horror comics again, I can't confirm. That said, if memory serves me Ishtar threatens to raise the dead and send them to eat the populace in Gilgamesh. If that is correct, the idea has been percolating around for awhile but Romero really brought it home. I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted August 7, 2020 Share Posted August 7, 2020 24 minutes ago, Amentep said: Most early comic book zombies existed as instruments of vengence and typically just killed (or were like the will-less living dead). I seem to recall reading at least one comic story from the 1950s where there was implied cannibalism from the undead, but without going and reading a bunch of horror comics again, I can't confirm. That said, if memory serves me Ishtar threatens to raise the dead and send them to eat the populace in Gilgamesh. If that is correct, the idea has been percolating around for awhile but Romero really brought it home. Well, cannibalism and the undead are mentioned in the same sentence within the comic book code. There's probably a correlation, I mean Romero's definitively a pioneer when it comes to zombies in film but this stuff was probably done before. I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 3 3 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 6 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknoman2 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 i miss those times 3 1 The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilloutman Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 (edited) warning, adult language * too bad title spoils it Edited August 8, 2020 by Chilloutman 1 I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilloutman Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 man i am on the weird side of internet today 1 3 I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, and freedom of choice. I'm the kinda guy that likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecue ribs with the side-order of gravy fries?" I want high cholesterol! I wanna eat bacon, and butter, and buckets of cheese, okay?! I wanna smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section! I wanna run naked through the street, with green Jell-O all over my body, reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly may feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiene" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 "Don't worry I got a good look at the bomb." "So you can disarm it?" "Uh.. No. However, I can make a shaped charge that will blow it." "..... Wait. Your plan is to... blow up the nuclear bomb?" "If I do it right, we'll get a run of the mill explosion. Not the whole, you know, mushroom cloud thing." 2 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gromnir Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 The White House Has ‘Asked About the Process to Add a President to Mount Rushmore’ with any other President, one would think we were linking an onion article. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 48 minutes ago, Gromnir said: The White House Has ‘Asked About the Process to Add a President to Mount Rushmore’ with any other President, one would think we were linking an onion article. HA! Good Fun! 1 6 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Advice For Trumptard: If you gotta invent or give yourselves awards, you likely don't deserve them. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teknoman2 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 (edited) but this why we like Trump. with him the memes write themselves. politics is a joke so may as well have a joke as president Edited August 9, 2020 by teknoman2 1 The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orogun01 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 6 hours ago, teknoman2 said: but this why we like Trump. with him the memes write themselves. politics is a joke so may as well have a joke as president So Dave Chapelle 2024? 1 1 I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"* *If you can't tell, it's you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skarpen Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Orogun01 said: So Dave Chapelle 2024? I would illegally emigrate to US to vote for him for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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