The most random thread ever!!!

[Maudie]

Elantris is really cool. It's not as good as most of them, but I like it.

[Aimless Gallivanter]

Well that's understandable, seeing as it is Brand Sand's debut novel. You can tell he hasn't quite caught his rhythm yet. Honestly it's been difficult to get through for some reason.

[Feles]

Zombie realism

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#1. Weapons and the People Who Use Them

If Homo sapiens are good at one thing, it's killing other things. We're so good at it that we've made entire other species cease to exist without even trying. Add to the mix the sheer number of armed rednecks and hunters out there, and the zombies don't even stand a chance. There were over 14 million people hunting with a license in the U.S. in 2004. At a minimum, that's like an armed force the size of the great Los Angeles area.
Remember, the whole reason hunting licenses exist is to limit the number of animals you're allowed to kill, because if you just declared free reign for everybody with a gun, everything in the forest would be dead by sundown. Even the trees would be mounted proudly above the late-arriving hunter's mantles. It's safe to assume that when the game changes from "three deer" to "all the rotting dead people trying to eat us," there will be no shortage of volunteers.
Plus, if we look at zombies as a species, they are pretty much designed for failure. Their main form of reproduction is also their only source of food and their top predator. If they want to eat or reproduce, they have to go toe to toe with their number one predator every single time. That's like having to fight a lion every time you to want to have sex or make a sandwich. Actually, it's worse than that: Most top predators are only armed with teeth and claws, meaning they have to put themselves in harm's way to score a kill. Humans have rifles.

The zombies have no choice but to walk into bullets. And all this isn't even counting all the other household hand guns in the world, nor the fact that zombies also have to contend with IEDs, Molotov cocktails, baseball bats, crowbars and cars that the general public will no doubt be using to cull their numbers.
And that's just from the civilian population; counting the military and police, we have another three million or so armed people, and instead of just handguns shotguns and hunting rifles, they have machine guns, combat shotguns, sniper rifles, assault rifles, sub-machine guns, grenade launchers and the occasional taser, not to mention the training to use them effectively. But why would they even bother? When they could just roll over swaths of zombies in tanks, blast them with cluster bombs and MOABs and mow them down with miniguns from the god damn Air Force that every zombie flick seems to forget about.

Really, even if zombies existed right now, the whole concept of a zombie apocalypse is just laughable. Now robots, on the other hand...

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I have no idea why it says ferret sapiens

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[Maudie]

Filter?

[Feles]

forgot to check it for language 
hope James doesn't gag me for it

[Maudie]

He wouldn't. That's why there's a filter, so we don't have to worry about that.

[Banya]

You just put all of my zombie-related worries at ease.

[Lady Ashenwyte]

Spess

[The Skarzs]

For the love of. . .

[LT Sandpaw]

Wow look at all them Ask threads. Heh who besides me doesn't have one yet?

[Tam and Martin]

I just got one like three days ago.

[Hickory]

You just put all of my zombie-related worries at ease.

Zombie.... Worries.... *wink wink*

[Tam and Martin]

BOSS BROUGHT DONUTS TO WORK!!!!!!!!!

[Jukka the Sling]

^ Cool!

I'm just gonna leave this here...

[Groddil]

BOSS BROUGHT DONUTS TO WORK!!!!!!!!!

Did YOUR boss give you an Easter bonus? Mine did. Although it was kinda an accident due to stupid banking websites, but whatevs...