If that were true then there wouldn't be zombie outbreaks.There'd just be one or maybe two if someone really tough escaped from them with only a bite or a scratch.
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gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:49,
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Vector could be airborne.The damage they do may be just an after effect.
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Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:52,
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Here's my big issue: Any zombie film/story that tries to explain zombies using science is completely missing the point.Zombies are at their scariest when you can't understand them. Zombie study is a big part of my story, but more about severing limbs and fucking with the tendons to make machines rather than trying to understand why they became zombies.
( gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:55,
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this is trueever read Death and Suffrage by Dale Bailey? Best zombie story i ever read and nobody ever explained that shit.
(also they didn't bite people, everyone who died of anything just turned into a zombie for unknown reasons - so see, you CAN mess with the canon. whatever the canon actually is, if you wanna get right down to it the canon OUGHT to be voodoo zombies which is completely different)
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:58,
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(also they didn't bite people, everyone who died of anything just turned into a zombie for unknown reasons - so see, you CAN mess with the canon. whatever the canon actually is, if you wanna get right down to it the canon OUGHT to be voodoo zombies which is completely different)
I know what you're saying about the voodoo zombies but that was research to validate the stories rather than the other way around.Papa Gede doesn't have much influence outside of haiti.
( gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:14,
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stillwhat would you consider definitive zombie canon?
Just romero? Cos like I said, he left enough gaps that you've got plenty of wiggle room.
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:24,
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Just romero? Cos like I said, he left enough gaps that you've got plenty of wiggle room.
Zombie canon is what zombie afficionados consider to be canon when it all boils down to itI want people to truly recognise my dudes as zombies.
( gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:45,
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that would be no fun thoughwhole planet would be zombified in no time flat, and you couldn't have any close escapes from being eaten because just breathing the same air would kill you anyway.
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all the zombie flicks I have seen , the one impulse shared by the zombies is to feedstagger about a bit and then be shot.
not once have I seen one think about wanting to infect people...well there was that smart one from day of the dead but that was more revenge.
(not once have I seen one think about wanting to infect people...well there was that smart one from day of the dead but that was more revenge.
Tyronne Get To Falkirk,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:56,
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I'm a fan of the World War Z universein which they do exactly that, and it's the ineffective feeding instinct that spreads zombieness, so it's an adaptive trait for the actual virus rather than the individual zombie.
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:02,
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As mentioned above - why don't they eat each other's brains? gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:04,
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because they like their food freshnot dead.
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:20,
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lemme tell you when a zombie goes for your throatyou don't spend very long being not dead
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:24,
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That would still be an exponential increase, though.I like the idea that they eat each other, too. That would mean the oldest surviving zombies are the most aggressive, and older populations are more problematic.
...they must be able to identify and prefer fresh humans, though, or you wouldn't get the scenes with a horde of zombies all homing in on the one non-zombie.
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:24,
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...they must be able to identify and prefer fresh humans, though, or you wouldn't get the scenes with a horde of zombies all homing in on the one non-zombie.
That scene won't happen.The panic (and moral dilemma) comes from humans relying on them for free work and the zombies eventually decaying.
Also - PLAGIARISTS: I've just started writing again and this conversation has date and time stamps all over it.
(Also - PLAGIARISTS: I've just started writing again and this conversation has date and time stamps all over it.
gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:42,
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whilst this in no way detracts from your ideaI have read several short stories which involved elements of this plot, including the make-zombies-work-for-us thing.
Hopefully yours will elevate itself not through innovation, but through aceness.
(Hopefully yours will elevate itself not through innovation, but through aceness.
Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:52,
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It's ok, I've been directed to short stories beforeI've had my idea independently and don't want it to get sullied by other stories so I'm going to plough on.
( gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry,
Wed 18 Feb 2009, 9:12,
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alsothe whole point of zombies is the numbers. They represent inevitable mortality, and they create terror through sheer force of FUCK THEY'RE FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
The oldest/most aggressive thing is pretty much straight from the vampire section, where cunning and stuff come into play.
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Wed 18 Feb 2009, 8:49,
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The oldest/most aggressive thing is pretty much straight from the vampire section, where cunning and stuff come into play.