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I'm of the firm "no magic zombies" camp.

If the zombies aren't magic, they aren't going to last long, whichever form of zombie they are. Wait inside a few days, most of them should be dead or immobile.

If a zombie loses blood, they aren't going to keep walking, their muscles won't work without blood.

If you have a strong door, zombie arms will break before the door breaks.

Dehydration. Organisms need water to function at all, let alone move, and zombies aren't big on water fountains.

I see zombies as dangerous for a few days, with their senses failing so they can't track you effectively for the majority of the outbreak, then it's over.

Anything other than that scenario is a magical zombie, who can move without energy, function without a body, or unrealistically mutate.

I love zombie movies and comics, but for real real, no magic zombies.

update: I'm going to do a podcast episode about magical zombies now.

For me that's a no-brainer.

Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this to all blow over.

Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/599/

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Honestly? Probably die

My plan, in its entirety:

BRAAAAINS!!!

Die, I guess. On the off chance that I survive the first few days, try to build a civilization.

Hoard toilet paper.

My friends have had plans for this situation since highschool. We meet at our buddies house in the woods. We commandeer one of his neighbors tanks (his neighbor has one of the largest private collection of tanks). We take said tank (which can run off pretty much any liquid that burns) and drive it to SF where we then forcibly take control of a ferry and drive ourselves and the tank with enough supplies to sustain ourselves for at least a month on Alcatraz.

We figure by the end of the month most zombies will have decayed beyond mobility and should any other humans attempt to join us that we don't want on the island with us.... Well we have a tank.

Realistic zombies: do nothing, it will pass quickly, or I will catch it too. If I don't catch it I shelter on place for a few days

Movie zombies of any kind: kill myself, I'm not delusional, that world sucks and my chances are tiny

Devouring as many brains as possible, I guess.

I'm not telling you my plan zombie, but rest assured, once you're defeated, we'll all get taken out by some zombie-denier anyways.

!zombiesurvival@sopuli.xyz

Probably start eating brains. Too close to a major population center to think I'd get out and away without being bitten at least once or twice.

Popcorn, in general. But recently I don't watch that many of these movies anymore.

Once we start to hear about the zombie outbreak I will go door to door on my street and form a militia. Arm everyone with pike and spear to fight and practice fighting in formation. Picks and shovels to make earth barriers and spikes to slow and funnel the zombies.

Hope they are vegan zombies.

https://lemmy.ml/post/6635488

I plan to go insane and live in the woods with a bone in my hair

Assuming i had prepared a few weeks of instant noodle and food and cat food, and the zombie are just evolved rabies that's also slow, just don't open my front gate, stay indoor with my cats and lock my front door. They're not gonna breach my window because of grille. Wait a week or so before going out. My home is in a residential area that's quite far away from the city, so i guess most people around me just gonna stay at home and be fine.

Suicide.

I have no desire to live in a world without modern amenities and technology.

Zombies?

Look around. We're in an apocalypse right now.

You need zombies to make it real?

Questions (because I have different answers based on their responses).

• How much heads up do I get
• What type of zombies, do they run or shamble? Infection or magic?

For the time based one, if you have enough of a heads up or are ahead of the panic, go north (does not apply with magic zombies). In America, get your ass to Calgary or Edmonton, for europe Helsinki. Zombies would freeze or slow down in the weather would prevent the majority from reaching your base. If those arnt options, find a location where the enviroment does most of the zombie killing for you.

If you dont have the heads up, you need to find a place to hunker down and set up a base quick. You need to pick a place you can get to without roads, and wont be on less prepared peoples high priority lists. If your in a city, get out, if your in the burbs, you got options, rural people can take their time, but also have the most work to do.

Personally, my zombie plan is to use a local 2-story school, they are designed in such a manner that they wont be broken into easily, you can secure the second story by knocking out the stairs, the field may be enclosed and they will have a nurses office, cafateria and woodshop.

All these preperations mostly apply to Infection zombies and are fine so long as they cant climb. Magic zombies are really going to be situational and surviving them will require knowing their rules. Survival is the name of the game, you cant fight the horde, so again, try and let the eviroment do that for you.

Wall of my parents' tiny neighborhood and use it as a compound. They have major river access and there are plenty of big yards for agriculture. There's also plenty of blue collar workers to do a lot of hands-on stuff. I'd be in charge of animal husbandry since I'm really good at it. My mom would do plants.