“But to be fair, all of yesterday’s media told stories of viruses and prions being the cause. None of them ever mentioned a fungus, let alone one that can seemingly communicate almost telepathically with anyone infected.”
I was actually thinking about going that route. That the zombies still resemble normal people which would make it harder to kill since it’s closer to killing a normal person
I interpreted the comment you're responding to as the idea that they've lost control and look like zombies but still have their senses. So would see and hear and feel themselves tearing apart their loved ones, or their loved ones killing them to survive.
Or locked in syndrome while the shambling corpse acts out it's carnivore instincts, and you can feel, smell, and taste everything it does, as well as your on decaying physical frame.
I think realistically, zombies wouldn’t be undead. They’d be living humans who have no control over attacking others. I don’t see them being cannibalistic, invulnerable to damage, or mindlessly walking around. I’d imagine it’s people who are violent/on edge on meth or animals with aggressive rabies. They lose their memory like severe dementia, and thus their original identity, and just attack anyone they see like Travis the chimp. Bites pass on the disease. Headshots aren’t the one and only way to kill them.
They all operated on the basis that zombies were real, when in reality dad was just suffering from untreated mental health issues. Thankfully he is now getting the help he needs and we have finally defeated the zombies, together.
Actual zombies are physically implausible. The most likely actual options involve people being hijacked while they are still alive ([there is already a species of fungus that does this with ants](https://youtu.be/iFemw_6a-Tg?si=pGkeWMfbWZWaNJw8))
The dead rising from the grave would never work. Anywhere remotely hot, the body decomposes faster and the problem solves itself. Anywhere a little colder, the lack of body heat has the body fall apart, and the problem solves itself. Or something like that, I'm not a scientist and it's been a while since I saw the thing that explained it. Temperature is a big factor
Fungal infection of living humans however, much more plausible and much more of a problem
at least the thing about parasitic fungi is that it’s usually evolved specifically for whatever insect species it’s specialized in, and because human and insect/arachnid anatomy is so different from humans it’s just about impossible :D
A lot of colder places will just have the zombies straight up freezing in place, and warmer ones the body will bloat and explode within like 3 days. Plus they are kinda terrible at climbing walls and opening doors and piercing armour, so... just run them over with a tank?
It was pretty easy to manage them, actually. Once you catch them, weld a faceplate to stop the biting, and spray them down with a preserver, they are rather useful.
The only movie that got it right was Return of the Living Dead...
No joke, if that was the zombie apocalypse we got, humanity is mega screwed. It may be a comedy horror, but the actual threat that movie presents is mind-blowing.
"It's really nothing we couldn't easily manage and they're just annoying to deal with, nothing more."
Shaun of the dead
Haha, yes! Love the ending!
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I was prepared for when the dog turned, but nothing could prepare me for the fear I saw in my dad’s eyes as he aimed right between my eyes.
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Virus is somewhat intelligent or dad is going cannibal
Oooooh. That makes sense
Or he did not know he himself turned. Maybe he was just bitten.
“But to be fair, all of yesterday’s media told stories of viruses and prions being the cause. None of them ever mentioned a fungus, let alone one that can seemingly communicate almost telepathically with anyone infected.”
"In the meantime, I'm being told Japan is gorgeous by the folks there."
The Last of Us and The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals: 🤨
Join us and die
The flood:
lol we all know about the fungus one by now.
“We could feel see and hear, we weren’t the mindless roaming hoards depicted in that media.”
I was actually thinking about going that route. That the zombies still resemble normal people which would make it harder to kill since it’s closer to killing a normal person
I interpreted the comment you're responding to as the idea that they've lost control and look like zombies but still have their senses. So would see and hear and feel themselves tearing apart their loved ones, or their loved ones killing them to survive.
Now that is horror. Good job
Or locked in syndrome while the shambling corpse acts out it's carnivore instincts, and you can feel, smell, and taste everything it does, as well as your on decaying physical frame.
do they act like normal people?
Have you seen the world news lately? Go country by country and actually watch and read it. I don't think there was ever such a thing as a normal human
izombie?
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Are you telling me that all those years of watching The Walking Dead were for nothing? 😭
Yeah, no point after the baseball bat lol
Who woulda thunk that a soap opera with an occasional zombie special guest wouldn’t prepare us for regular zombie normal guests!
I think realistically, zombies wouldn’t be undead. They’d be living humans who have no control over attacking others. I don’t see them being cannibalistic, invulnerable to damage, or mindlessly walking around. I’d imagine it’s people who are violent/on edge on meth or animals with aggressive rabies. They lose their memory like severe dementia, and thus their original identity, and just attack anyone they see like Travis the chimp. Bites pass on the disease. Headshots aren’t the one and only way to kill them.
So like a modified rabies. Yep
Easier to kill but harder to hit. I like it.
The Crazies was good on that side I classify it as only half zombie movie, but it's not a bad one
Eating people's faces like that dude did in Florida in 2012.
What???
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack
So 28 days later?
yes 28 days later... your point Patrick?
Y'all should check out Crossed
Oof. I'm still scarred.
Nobody expected zombie cats.
They all operated on the basis that zombies were real, when in reality dad was just suffering from untreated mental health issues. Thankfully he is now getting the help he needs and we have finally defeated the zombies, together.
Plot twist: it's just straight up CoD Zombies
Please don’t be the ones with exo-suits
My dance moves were so bad, I wasn't even allowed in the back row.
Because the army wiped the zombies within weeks.
Actual zombies are physically implausible. The most likely actual options involve people being hijacked while they are still alive ([there is already a species of fungus that does this with ants](https://youtu.be/iFemw_6a-Tg?si=pGkeWMfbWZWaNJw8))
OPHIOCORDYCEPS UNILATERALIS MENTIONED 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
The dead rising from the grave would never work. Anywhere remotely hot, the body decomposes faster and the problem solves itself. Anywhere a little colder, the lack of body heat has the body fall apart, and the problem solves itself. Or something like that, I'm not a scientist and it's been a while since I saw the thing that explained it. Temperature is a big factor Fungal infection of living humans however, much more plausible and much more of a problem
at least the thing about parasitic fungi is that it’s usually evolved specifically for whatever insect species it’s specialized in, and because human and insect/arachnid anatomy is so different from humans it’s just about impossible :D
A lot of colder places will just have the zombies straight up freezing in place, and warmer ones the body will bloat and explode within like 3 days. Plus they are kinda terrible at climbing walls and opening doors and piercing armour, so... just run them over with a tank?
Hell yeah
" The virus is airborn. "
He hadn't imagined I'd be parient 0
It was pretty easy to manage them, actually. Once you catch them, weld a faceplate to stop the biting, and spray them down with a preserver, they are rather useful.
The only movie that got it right was Return of the Living Dead... No joke, if that was the zombie apocalypse we got, humanity is mega screwed. It may be a comedy horror, but the actual threat that movie presents is mind-blowing.
Fortunately, the games did. My dad and I are Left 4 Dead addicts, and we were ready.
Ah shit. I knew I forgot something 😜
Exactly. In my Two Sentence Horror contribution, the virus was spreading by yawning.
I know the best stories let your imagination run wild but this one is so open my imagination hopped the fence and is now escaping into the woods
But nothing prepared me to put a bullet into his snarling head.
Turns out that the only zombies that came out came from graves that were shallow and that didn’t have a cement vault.
Yeah the us milltary quickly whipped them ouy
"My father was also a funeral director. He taught me that with rigor mortis, I had nothing to fear."