[ SECRET POST #3035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3035 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

09. http://i61.tinypic.com/2i1mcfr.png

[ill_omened]

God WWZ and everything spawned from it is just awful.

It's less realistic than Resident Evil, yet has the presumption of someone who's read What the Bleep do we Know and thinks they get it, and can lecture down to you ignorant sheeple about the ~reality~ of things and your silly misconceptions.

[ariakas]

I honestly thought I was all but alone in geekdom in being less than impressed with WWZ. It was the worst all possible worlds: woefully unrealistic yet deadly serious, featuring other nations yet painfully Ameri-centric and slotting the rest in with merry band of stereotypes, features only two chapters from a female perspective - both of whom are of course utter cliches.

[ill_omened]

There are literally tens of us.

You've hit on my major peeves with it pretty well, though in a more general sense it encapsulates everything about a certain type of nerd culture that irritates me. As you said it's both ridiculous whilst attempting to be incredibly po faced, and from a certain libertarian american perspective.

[(Anonymous)]

And every single character talks exactly the same way. Oh, some of the "tough" characters might throw in a couple extra swears or "Look! Look! I did my research!" military terms, but they've still all got the same vocabulary and diction.

It's almost entirely a local pride thing, but the thing that annoyed me the most about the parts I read -- I bounced around to the chapters that looked the most interesting and realized quite quickly that none of them actually were -- was that the military character who was talking about everything in footnoted jargon referred to the aircraft storage facility at the Davis-Monthan Air Force base by its official name. I've lived near it my entire life and never heard anyone not call it "the boneyard."

[(Anonymous)]

A day late in replying? It's never too late to join the "WWZ wasn't that good" club/support group.

The parts set in the Middle East were agonizing. And I'm not sure it's possible for the author to let a woman so much as be mentioned in the story without being called a bitch (or worse) at some point. Especially the newsanchor who was supposed to be the one who blew the lid off the whole thing. A veritable Murrow, and all we know about her is that she's a "cunt" for doing what she did? Meanwhile, have another chapter about the soldier. Great decisions, book.

Slightly OT, slightly creepy

[feotakahari]

I feel like furries have the right idea with all their different settings that use animal-people as zombie equivalents. (Yes, this is a really common thing.) Zombie apocalypse is mostly slow, boring corpses, with maybe a few "special infected." With an animal basis, you have tons of variety right off the bat, plus weird hybrid monsters for special infected.

Re: Slightly OT, slightly creepy

[(Anonymous)]

I'd rather just move off zombies completely.

More ghost stories pls. Ghosts are best monsters.

Ghosts > wolfmans > draculas > zombies

Re: Slightly OT, slightly creepy

[ill_omened]

Vampires have a kind of timeless appeal, with tried and tested themes and asthetics which will always be relevant so they're always going to come first.

Correct tier is

Vampire > Werewolves > Ghosts > Zombies

Re: Slightly OT, slightly creepy

[(Anonymous)]

No. No no no.

Wolfmen/Wereanimals > Everydamnthing.

Don't mess with my woof-woofs. :D

Re: Slightly OT, slightly creepy

[lb_lee]

I'd never heard of that! That's actually pretty cool and might make me more interested in zombies.

--Rogan

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: cover art for The Land of the Dead

Text: I played the original RE in 1996. I loved everything about the genre and watched/read/played everything I could. I made up survival scenarios for me and my friends.

By the time I read WWZ when it was published in 2006, I was already becoming sick of zombies. Now I’m so sick of them I could scream. Everything that comes out with zombies in it is an automatic pass.

I judge anyone who still likes them and isn’t a teenager or child.

tl;dr zombie hipster

[nanslice]

I watched the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead in 1990 when I was four and I haven't looked back; my love of zombies is beaten only by my love of werewolves. So...judge away, bro. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[hamimi_fk]

AGREED. I was a little older when I watched that film though, like 7ish, but still I'm with you. Never looked back and zero regrets.

But demons are the only thing that beats zombies for me. XD

[(Anonymous)]

I judge anyone who still likes them and isn’t a teenager or child.

I don't like zombies and never have (ghosts are my horror creature of choice), but that part seems a little weird. What are you judging them for? Starting their zombie craze later than you, or getting burned out on them less quickly? Those hardly seem like terrible crimes to me.

[ariakas]

I don't mind zombie-related media provided someone actually manages to put an original spin on it. "Rag-tag group of survivors in a First World suburbia slowly learn that other humans are the real enemy!!!!" gets a pass from me every time, now.

No, making them fungus zombies instead of virus zombies does not count as an original spin.

[(Anonymous)]

As time goes on, I'm less interested in originality and more interested in execution. If I used originality as my metric, I'd have to stop consuming media altogether.

[lb_lee]

One of my favorite zombie stories actually involves the Haitian kind. It's in a comic book about supernatural law, and the zombies strike against the boko using them for sweatshop labor.

Among their signs are, "Pay the Voo-dues!"

*happy sigh* Why can't I have more zombie stories like THAT?

--Rogan

[(Anonymous)]

I judge everyone who judges strangers for their choices in fictional entertainment. Just because you're sick of a media genre doesn't mean everyone else who enjoys that genre is a loser unless a child or teenager.

[otakugal15]

And a hearty FUCK YOU, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Well aren't you special for not liking something anymore. Go fuck yourself.

[were_lemur]

I'm just way too amused by the mental image of a zombie hipster.

"I was eating brains before it was cool."

[diet_poison]

"I judge you for not disliking a thing I now dislike even though I used to like it. You must like and dislike things at the same times as me!" Seriously, this takes "stop liking the thing I don't like" to a whole new level.

You judge people for not being as oversaturated in a genre as you are?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure there is only one person who you should be judging. Can you guess who?

[(Anonymous)]

lmao wow RE in 1996! you really were on the cutting edge of zombie fandom, way before anyone else! as we all know, zombies started with Resident Evil...