62%
Woot? :)
ID:39734
 Feb 29 2008, 3:01 am
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Ahah. Lucky you :P
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I got %80
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34% chance, but at least I'd go down in style.
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Ahaha Foomer. Maggeh/SuperAntx are lucky, I'm probably going to die, 38% against me :P
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SuperAntx wrote:
You Have a 92% Chance of Survival! One percentile less than you. I'd imagine the probability of us small towners all banding together and fighting them off while fortifying ourselves would make us a 99.9%, but I guess I'm wrong. | |
Too bad the test is pretty dumb and not very good!
In a zombie invasion one of the last things you would do is fire a gun. Sure, you might kill a zombie, but in return you draw the attention of 1,000 other zombies, and you have no chance of winning against that many zombies. In short, the moment you fire a gun is the moment you have resigned yourself to death. As such questions about guns should be irrelevent unless asking whether you would use one of not. Secondly, one question mentions the use of weapons such as crowbars and baseball bats. Though better than nothing they are still not very good. They are not guaranteed to kill in a single hit, and wasting too much time would almost guarantee your death. A more effective weapon would have both range and be fatal in a single hit. As for where the best place to go during a zombie invasion. That is a no brainer, as far away from zombies and people as possible. You don't stay in a city full of zombies unless you are in some sort of nuclear bomb proof bunker with an unlimited supply of food/water. Because otherwise you will die before long. The best location would be a farm in the middle of nowhere, you have access to a renewable supply of food (provided you grow it) and it does not need to be secure because chances are there will be no zombies around for miles. The use of home made explosives is stupid too. Again they would attract way to much attention. But they are also very dangerous to make and even more dangerous to use and chances are you will end up killing yourself by using one. (Using something like a Moltov Cocktail is stupid, the fire could accidentally and very easily spread and burn down buildings which you could be in or could possess valuable supplies and shelter) | |
The Magic Man wrote:
The best location would be a farm in the middle of nowhere, you have access to a renewable supply of food (provided you grow it) and it does not need to be secure because chances are there will be no zombies around for miles. Your farm might as well be a neon sign flashing the words EAT ME. You would attract all sorts of zombies with your livestock. If the farm has a corn crop or something rather than animals it's equally bad since it's a huge waste of resources. Not to mention you still have to actually go out into the field to collect the corn. Talk about scary shit. The house would also have to be completely self-sufficient because it's not like you can hop rooftops to the nearest store. You would be seriously fucked if something broke. As for the whole bomb thing, they can be very useful. You can do more than just blow up random zombies and catch shit on fire. Say if you're driving through town and you have 50 zombies behind you. That's a good time to chuck a bomb out the window. Or how about using the bombs as a distraction? Got too many zombies at your front door? Blow up a house down the street. Some goes for guns. If you're in a situation where you need to fire your gun, then attracting more zombies would be the least of your concerns. | |
SuperAntx wrote:
The Magic Man wrote: Heavily fortified fortresses (IE: castles) can have mocolov's thrown out the windows to burn the incoming undead. It would be a good idea if you used them as distractions to escape. | |
Your farm might as well be a neon sign flashing the words EAT ME. You would attract all sorts of zombies with your livestock. If the farm has a corn crop or something rather than animals it's equally bad since it's a huge waste of resources. Not to mention you still have to actually go out into the field to collect the corn. Talk about scary shit.Way to totally miss the point of living IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. Tell me, how many people live on a deserted island or in the middle of nowhere? And where do zombies come from? The answers are none and people. If you put two and two together you will realise that there will be NO ZOMBIES because there is no people. At you are at zero risk from being killed by zombies if they are nowhere to be found. The best place to hide in a zombie invasion is a place with no zombies, such as miles from any civilization. A farm in the middle of nowhere would be ideal because you are self sufficient and don't have to worry about zombies (provided they are tens of, maybe even hundreds of miles away). Unless the zombies have some sort of super sense that lets them detect people from so far away you have no risk of attracting zombies, and even less risk of them attacking or killing you. I know that I would personally rather be protected by flimsy wooden walls with no zombies around than be protected by brick walls but surrounded by 120,000 zombies (which is the rough population of the town I live in, which is pretty small by the way). As for the whole bomb thing, they can be very useful. You can do more than just blow up random zombies and catch shit on fire. Say if you're driving through town and you have 50 zombies behind you. That's a good time to chuck a bomb out the window.Like I said, you first have to know how to make said "bombs" and make them without blowing yourself up. Even something as simple as a molotov cocktail is dangerous to even use. You have to know proper throwing techniques and posture, otherwise they are dangerous to use and practically ineffective. A molotov cocktail out of a car window is dangerous (very high chance of accidentally setting it off, even higher chance of dropping it out of the window and having it burn the car your in) and useless... If you are in a car and have zombies behind you why risk killing yourself to kill them? Why not just... Drive off and leave them alone? It's not like they'll catch up to you. As for more complex bombs, unintentional detonation is very common when making them. It is pretty much safe to say you will never make 5 bombs because one of them will have exploded and killed you before then. Is it making a bomb really worth the risk? And as I said. In a zombie invasion the last thing you should do is fire a gun. Even if it is to "save" your life. Because once you do fire a gun you've more or less limited your life and will almost guaranteed be death within the next 5 minutes. The rules of combatting a zombie in an invasion are simple. Avoid it when possible, otherwise quickly and silently kill them (decapitation with a military shovel is quick and easy to do with a single thrust). :[ Seriously. The key to surviving a zombie invasion isn't the base you've got, or the number of guns and bombs you have. It is your brains and how you use them. You need to think about every action you make, because chances are it will have a consequence, which is usually your brutal and painful death. And... Heavily fortified fortresses (IE: castles)Hahaha. Tell me, where would you be likely to ever find a castle? I live in England, which has quiet a lot of castles. Most of them are in the middle of nowhere, and falling to pieces. For countries with castles... It is pretty much the same story. As such there would be no point in throwing bombs out of the window of a castle, because there most likely wont be zombies anywhere near it. | |
Magic, you're really stuck up on the whole faulty bomb thing. Despite what you may think, not all of us are idiots posting videos of our "bombs" on YouTube. Some of us actually do know what we're doing.
When someone makes a noise, they don't have to stay there. If you shot a few zombies you were probably on your way somewhere else anyway. All the zombies within an ear shot will be running to where they heard it, rather than where you're already going. | |
SuperAntx wrote:
Magic, you're really stuck up on the whole faulty bomb thing. Despite what you may think, not all of us are idiots posting videos of our "bombs" on YouTube. Some of us actually do know what we're doing.Obviously you don't know what you are doing. If you did you would realise that it is not a matter of being an idiot or not, or knowing what you are doing or not. It is a matter of home made bombs are much to unpredictable. Sometimes they will explode when you don't want them to, othertimes they simply wont explode. Go and read any book, look it up on Google or talk to a real expert. They will all say the exact same thing, that making bombs is very dangerous and regardless of who you are there is a very real chance of it prematurely exploding and injuring or even killing you. When someone makes a noise, they don't have to stay there. If you shot a few zombies you were probably on your way somewhere else anyway. All the zombies within an ear shot will be running to where they heard it, rather than where you're already going.You again fail to see the point. You fire a gun and run somewhere. Fine, but while you are running there is a much larger (almost guaranteed) chance you will run into zombies along the way because they will be moving to where they heard the noise, which means they will be running in the direction you've just come from. You fire a gun to kill one zombie. Then run but end up running into 5 more zombies. Run again only to run into 3 more zombies, run again only to realise that you are now surrounded by 50+ zombies. You could have obviously shot zombies you run into along the way, but that wastes valuable ammo, and attracts even more zombies to your location. You can run around throwing bombs and shooting zombies as much as you want in an invasion. But sooner or later you (most likely sooner) will get yourself killed. It might be more fun running around shooting and blowing stuff up, but it is by no means a good method of surviving during a zombie invasion. | |
The Magic Man wrote:
Obviously you don't know what you are doing. If you did you would realise that it is not a matter of being an idiot or not, or knowing what you are doing or not. It is a matter of home made bombs are much to unpredictable. Sometimes they will explode when you don't want them to, othertimes they simply wont explode. There you go again spitting up what others have fed you like a perpetual propaganda machine. The term "military grade" is actually quite silly and it doesn't make a bit of difference if you know what you're doing. I'm willing bet all your experts would, by a strange coincidence, tell you a puff of marijuana would turn you into a raving lunatic. That or they simply don't exist and you're making it all up as you type. It's a safe bet either way. You know how to tie your shoe right? Say your shoe lace came undone and you tied it back up. Now, if some shoe expert came and tied their shoe in the exact same way, would that make your knot any less of a knot? Would their knot have some sort of mystical powers that kept it from coming undone? No, it's a fucking shoe. For some people, making a bomb is as easy as tying a shoe. | |
I got a 72% chance of survival. Heh, better than nothing I suppose.
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lol better then just half 50% ^.^
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Yes, I have weapons around and I know how to make bombs. I actually do have a lot of non-perishable food along with a deep freezer. The town I'm in isn't too dense, and everyone here has several guns too.
Considering that last fact, the score should have been a little higher. =/