Listen up, /zom/. I've noticed an excess of weapon threads on this board. While some of these offer useful information and good insight, many have nothing whatsoever to do with this board. The posters of these threads should take note that we have a /w/ board. In the future, all threads discussing weapons and nothing else will be deleted and bans may be handed out. Please keep in mind this is /zom/ and all threads should contribute zombie-based content.
I am so sick of these "You guys wouldn't survive any kind of apocalypse!" threads. From now on, users starting threads in this vein will receive a one week ban.
Ok /zom/ let’s talk money, no not dollars, or euros, but what will become currency after z day? Personally I think that the forms of money will be cigarettes, salt(for food preservation), protein shake mix, and ammo. Possibly fuel like gas as well. Cigarettes I think will become money because a lot of survivors will be smoking and they will be willing to trade just about anything for what they need. In this though I think that other drugs might be useful as money as well. Salt has throughout history been used as currency off and on, and will be rare enough and useful enough after z day that people would be willing to use it as currency. Protein shake mix is basically the most concentrated you can get food, and so could be a rather simple currency, with everyone needing food, and it being the smallest amount of material for the most food energy. Ammo is rather obviously useful to survivors, if you run into someone who has the ammo you need I would be willing to bet you would trade just about anything for it. So onto the possibility of fuel, I am iffy on this, as there will be plentiful gas for about a year, after a year the gas will begin to gel and become useless, but before this time every car you come across will have some in it. Though after a point all of this gas will have gelled, and only stabilized gas will still be around and it could be rather useful to anyone using vehicles. There is one other possible currency, and that is jewelry, though I would not be willing to accept it as money from people, I do realize that many people may be willing to, thus giving it value. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>34358 Bottle caps? Oh yea because no one will be able to get their hands on a plastic injection mold machine, I would have to travel a whole five miles. The reason why bottle caps are valuable in the fallout universe is because they were made out of medal, and no one could just make more. Modern plastic bottle caps are far easier to produce. >>34352 I hadn't really thought about batteries, but I understand. And to everyone who has said water, really? I know that drinkable water will be a bit harder to come by, but all you would need is a pot, some sheet metal, and the ability to produce fire, quick evaporative purification. Or fine grit sand, a wide pipe, and a cotton shirt, and a bit of purified water to make sure the sand is clean, to be extra sure it is good add a UV light and a small clear glass tube to kill any biological contamination, and if you want a hand pump to increase pressure and thus the speed the water goes through the sand. Or your average water filter from any outdoor store. Or for drinking you could add some rum, or other alcohol of your choice, or just boil it. Ok now if you live in a desert and don’t have much water in the environment you would have a hard time producing purified water, as the water would be harder to come by. But that would only apply in such areas, and I think that if you have an issue with a lack of natural water, and you don’t leave the area, you are an idiot. I'm sorry about the rant on water, but not really.
Hmmmm, what keeps our money valuable now? The concept of currency is only kept valid by how we ally with it. I am trying to move entirely from the grid, ironically I need to save money and buy land and so on to do it. When I have reached this goal, I will almost certainly always have to deal with money in some form or another after. I think there would be no certain form of it (currency) in an "aftermath", as our social idea(l)s are what keeps money at the value it is, however it ends up fluctuating. This means that we are more or less being told how much money is worth and concurrently accepting it. This would likely not be the case with out government(s). Our barter systems would be as fluctuating, but based on need to want more directly. These relationships would dictate what is "valuable" from interaction to interaction, I mean why would I need to barter with someone if I could just take from them (I mean this as a juxtaposition, not me stating that I am so bad ass that I can just bully my way around.)? Ownership would also be governed from interaction to interaction as well, meaning something is yours only as long as you can successfully fend for it. I do not mean this to depict that we ARE hostile as much as encapsulate how much we CAN be, especially in the scenarios we muster here. I think "safe" sex, "safe" booze, and safe food/clothes would be the most bartered, as they seem to have been what was previous to "our" economic normalcy/conditioning.
water canned goods and sexual favors /thread
So Z-day happens. Will humanity as a collective band together to fight this menace or will society collapse in an orgy of selfish violence? Pic unrelated
Orgy of selfish violence, definitely. Though there will be a few places where survivors will group together and try to fight the menace, but mostly orgy of selfish violence.
Yeah orgy of violence at first then eventually banding together into small pockets of surviviors.
Hey /zom/, what vices do you have that would make life hard during the impending doom of the zombie apocalypse? I would really, really miss coca cola.
Watching Jane and the Dragon and smoking drugs
Pepsi, but I can lose that, my real issue is that I can't seem to manage without drinking something sugary. I need my sugar, and I need it in liquid form. Past that, video games, and tv.
I'm rather fond of my taking naps with my headphones on listening to music. I'm going to go ahead and guess that all 3 of those things would be a no go in the post-apocalypse.
/Zom/ I got a question for you I went through the pages and haven’t fiund a thread like this. My question is If you were a Sentient Zombie, i.e. Stubbs the Zombie, and had powers to control the zombies you created and the zombies that your zombies created. Would you kill yourself and your horde, try to rule the world, or try to live peacefully with the humans? Me I would strive for number 3 but if that fails id try to rule the world. Also if you had powers to go along with your sentience what would it be? Mine would be to be able to make different types of zombies at my choosing like other sentients or ragers, spitters, shamblers and so on Pic Related
Ok /zom/, here is a scenario. You wake up, and something is off, something in the air, you can smell something isn’t quite right. Over the next twenty minutes you are given proof that Z day has come, and it infected and turned just about everyone over night through unknown means, though you may have known someone or a large number of people feeling ill the night before. It has just killed some, some people have turned into/are turning into horrible monsters, but the majority of people are a combination of slow and fast zombies(note zombies are slower than the person they were). What do you do in the first few hours? How do you treat people who have been bitten? Knowing that this didn’t spread through bites. Also you come across someone who is mutating, but they are in complete control of themselves and are apparently sane, well as sane as someone who just survived z day can be, what do you do? Alternatively, you are mutating, how do you act around survivors?
survive for as long as possibletake as many people as I can with me until I die or join them
>>34300 you forgot either barry or chris i dont know which one are you in this scenario
>>34323 you are a huge faggot 7 chan is gay
So there you are, driving down the road, when all of a sudden, you hit somebody. You're freaking out, you actually killed someone. You get out and narrowly miss getting your ankle bitten. Holy shit, this is clearly a zombie: decaying flesh, moaning, complete disregard for car injury, the works. What do you do with it? Me? Oh I'll be tying that sucker up. See what fun is killing ONE zombie? You might as well incite a catastrophe. So who will I unleash my zombie pet on? The next group of people to attend an ICP concert. That way we get to kill all the worst people in the world first, and there's a good chance somebody will get to smash a zombie clown's head in. Everybody wins.
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>>34223 Instead of getting mad, you could just not listen to their music. As for the ICP, I've actually met someone in the Army (basic training) who was a super pretend bad-ass claimed to be in a gang (Insane Clown Posse). He had all sorts of wild stories of how awesome cool badass hardcore he was. He pissed me off and I punched him in the face as his friends warning me about how crazy killer he was (they truly believed it) and he did nothing. Dude was scared to make eye contact with me later on after he talked some shit about how it didn't hurt and he only sat their like a pussy because he was so cool. I was in his face glaring and he looked down the whole time because he was a giant bitch. Would have done it again, if he had a smug look on his face. Don't think I'm trying sound cool by half telling my little story (notice how I don't have a name), I have no problem admitting to being a giant pussy who never leaves the house. I just wanted to tell about my little run in with an ICP fan. Also, the army is full of pussies and women who think they are hardcore because the joined a pretty soft branch of the military that doesn't even allow them to take up combat positions. On a lighter note, you get to shower with men and gets pretty friendly every single night.
OP here, thanks gang.
Are firearms really nessasary? I mean doesn't it attract attention and possibly do more damage than required? For example since most of us aren't exactly TACTICOOL SUPER MARINE FROM VIDEO GAMES, and don't have crosshairs in the middle of your sights irl,we're not exactly the best shooters now are we? Also the amount of ammo and friendly fire? Consider it.
silencers dont realy work like the movie magic they are more supressors than silencers there are multiple noises made by firing the pop from the firing, the round going supersonic, and the action cycling the next shot subsonic munitions can eliminate one noise, this can help with the second as for the third a chute lined with spongey material helps I found that if you bend the baffles into a V shape it helps a hell of alot
>>34344 the red dots are silver solder and the yellow is epoxy if anyone cares to seek florida after zday ill be shure to mill a few of these out for you
>>34008 The issues you bring up are valid. However, firearms aren't just the best option: they're pretty much the only option. If these zombies are even remotely dangerous, then engaging them in melee is a recipe for disaster. All they have to do is nip you just once and you lose.
Hello /zom/, I haven't submitted a new thread here in quite a while. I realise that this (to an extent) has been done before, but I think it would be interesting to discuss the weaknesses we have and what we have that balances out that particular/those partcular weaknesses. Me: I currently have poor circulation to my feet and hands due to being outside in the cold/rain too much lately (it happens) My strength(s) that counter-act this are that I am very strong and tall, I don't need to eat much and I am quite smart. Go. (Pic unrelated)
I scare easily. That'll probably be my downfall unless I start building character the minute /z/day happens. My strengths would be that I'm good at setting up barricade and I'm a Martial Arts Black Belt. So I'm ready to run long distances, think outside the box, etc.
weakness- kind of overweight, glasses strengths- great shot, good at planning/strategy, willing/able to kill at the drop of a hat.
My hand has some kind of muscular injury lately, I can shoot but I can't use my sword.
You have 1 year and 1 million euros and knowledge that z-day is coming. The infection will start in your home town. What do you do?
>>34317 WHAT THE FUCK WAS THIS SHIT? AND WHY DO I FEEL LIKE SOME SORT OF HUGE FUCKING WEABOO.....FUCK!
>>34335 porque...?
>>34324 After reading first two paragraphs: hmm, we could work together... After reading the whole thing: fuck you.