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| 27-12-2009 12:34 PM |
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The definitions are plenty, popular fiction such as Romeros, Resident Evil and 28 days later movies have different takes on it. So does computer games - Left4Dead vs. Dead Rising for instance. But how would you define zombies? |
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Seth Myrrh
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| 14-01-2010 10:10 PM |
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There are a lot of people who argue what a zombie is. I say if they have lost there mind entirly and all they want to do is kill people who arnt like them, there a zombie. 28 Days Later running zeds are very scary, but so are the shambler zombies from the old Night of the Living Dead. Id say a perfect medium is needed. I still havnt see a game or movie that had some of each in it. |
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Odigo
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| 18-01-2010 06:07 AM |
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A zombie to me is a person once deceased, but then re-animated through undefined means. These undefined means do not revive the person in any sense, and instead somehow gains rudimentary control of the carcess of the deceased, manipulating the various functions of the brain accordingly. Then by methods typically assumed to be the exchange of fluids, it propegates itself. |
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TheBeanBurrito
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| 19-01-2010 04:15 AM |
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If it was once normal, and is now trying to kill me then I consider it a zombie. |
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Odigo
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| 19-01-2010 03:57 PM |
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[QUOTE]TheBeanBurrito wrote
If it was once normal, and is now trying to kill me then I consider it a zombie.
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Well, that could be anything now really.
A crazed ice cream truck driver, a chainsaw-juggling clown, cancer cells, Ms. Pac-man, the list goes on. |
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Sascha Vykos
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| 24-01-2010 05:32 PM |
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To me the zombie is a human that died and got re-animated through a virus. Means of death could be plenty but if the person was infected it will stand up as an undead critter. The body of the zombie will decay like any other dead body, but maybe a bit slower. They're driven by one instinct and one instinct only: Feed from living flesh, and so they infect more people, a virus doing it's job. ;) The virus is 'controlling' the dead body from within the brain, the rest of the body is just a tool. Destroy/damage the brain,.. zombie goes down permanently.
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Syke
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| 29-01-2010 07:05 AM |
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a zombie to me is a creature that feeds of the flesh of living creatures that acts like any other common virus, which spreads by direct contact and all that other happy stuff. and also has lost all basic motor functions except movement by walking, or like a slight jog. |
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Matt Aries
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| 01-02-2010 09:32 AM |
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My personal definition of a Zombie is, anything that was living that, physically died, then returned to a primal state of movement where their only desire is to kill or maim me or others alive. |
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Zed Rayadon
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| 25-02-2010 07:44 PM |
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A zombie wants to eat you. End of story, rawr.
Now gimmi' your brains. |
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Shiriru
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| 25-02-2010 08:14 PM |
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Yeah simply anybody who wants to taste your skull insights or belly and with whom you cannot reason is a zombie. |
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Vishnja
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| 26-02-2010 01:23 AM |
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Well zombies are people who were thought to be dead but they actually fell in a death-like state induced by a mixture of herbs ( such as tatula an some other that contain deliriant chemicals like TTH ), and were later re-animated and kept under the influence of similar drugs by shamans ( or" bockors" in Haiti,where zombie culture is widespread ). These "zombie" ( zonbi, nzambi ) people were used as cheap labor, since they had no memories and not much of free will or consciences. The zombies as we know them are a product of pop culture, mostly affected by Romero's movies. I red an article about the subject today, it came handy pretty soon  |
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Meowerine
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| 17-08-2010 02:41 PM |
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The combination of self-moving rotting meat, bone and skin. |
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Charlie Cross
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| 19-08-2010 12:33 AM |
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I don't know if people have noticed already, the "zombies" in 28 Days Later aren't truly zombies, they are just "infecteds". That's why they are super fast and not as zombie like as in other movies for example, like Resident Evil where zombies are relentless and unstoppable death.
For me, something that is key for a something, is that, the speed at which they move. Zombies are rotten beings, and unless they died very recently, they shouldn't move really fast. Ah, and I forgot, the fact of the "Headshot=Insta-kill". |
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CarlBreder
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| 19-08-2010 10:46 PM |
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Its nice when a headshot isnt a must, but ofc, headshot that penetrates head = instakill
AND if they like raisins AND humans, i will get verrrrry angry, cause i like raisins. |
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Shiriru
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| 19-08-2010 11:06 PM |
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Raisins +chocolate are FTW if u ask me. |
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Nashkir
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| 02-06-2011 07:32 AM |
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Technically for me all we know for sure about zombies is kill it by destroying the brain, because a virus is controlling it or possibly nanobots. |
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Arcangelus
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| 02-06-2011 09:42 PM |
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Nanobots? That new. Technically, Zombie is a term of voodoo origin used to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie But if we are talking about the living dead zombie, then my definition of zombie is anything that "return" of the dead and want eat me. I prefer the zombies of biological origin (via virus, like resident evil) cause with them I understand how kill them and how avoid become in one of them (also, I can understand they behavior and I can predict it) . With the others types, is more complicated. |
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Lord Simon Cross
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| 06-08-2011 03:33 PM |
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There are as many different takes on Zombies as there is on Vampires.
I think it the old literal sense something has to literally "die" and be "dead" to be a zombie. I myself see and enjoy there are multiple variations of Zombies with different reason for existing, different origins, different skills, abilities, limitations, and life spans.
You have Zombies created form dead tissues. Theses can be fresh dead to thousands of years old. They can be brought into existance by magic spells, witchcraft, possessions, demonic spirits, etc.
You have Zombies that must be freshly dead as in still have tissue, not skeletons. These can be from reasons above or can also be from viruses, cosmic rays, or anything else that alters tissue. The true nature of any of these Zombies is the fact in Humans the brain controls everything. In zombies there is no "brain" per say, the thing is just driven by the basic desires of life, to feed and to procreate. You can also have freshly dead people brought back who retain their mental facaulties but these normally require something to sustain them such as vampires.
To me anything that can move that has no "soul" meaning there is nothing "human" left in it is a Zombie. I see no reasons a freshly dead or freshly turned Zombie has to be slow. Thats why I liked 28 days so well.
I personally think all different variations are acceptable
Fresh Zombies should be rather fast and can use basic tools to bludgeon but not suffistacated tools. After the blood starts to dry and it is "hungry" and weak due to lacj of substinance then they grow slow and become more basic, all the way down to when legs or arms rot off and fall away, and when entrails fall out it can no longer accept substinance and will eventually "die" from decomposition.
This is just my take on Zombies. |
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ZKillerCoker
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| 07-08-2011 07:02 PM |
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I personally like the Fast Zombies, fresh dead muscles, as long as they are still intact, should be able to work just as good after as they did before death. So many places a Zombie can take a chunk out and really slow ya down after you come back...it really depends on the infection site...if they gnaw your legs off you wont be running after People, if they ripped your arms off you won't be grabbing anyone. As long as rigor mortise hasn't set in, decay hasn't taken it's toll, and injuries aren't debilitating then Zombies should be fast. Which should account for about 75% of all infections, making most of the Hoards fast allowing the infection spread as fast as it does. If all Zombies were slowed down to a crawl after infection I believe it would be all to easy to put down the problem before it became a world wide epidemic.
Zombies are sweet, and I love spending my days with them and thinking about their undying hunger for grey matter and tasty flesh. I know if I ever get my chance...I will become one, unless they are slow lame Zombies, then I will just have to enjoy de-re-animating their corpses, which I guess would be fun too! |
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Lord Simon Cross
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| 07-08-2011 07:48 PM |
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very good point on the speed of the spread. Makes perfect sense actually. I mean slow zombies can be killed in mass with melee weapons with minimul losses. Throw in ranged weapons with a low miss % due to their slow movements and even if an entire town turned at once they couldnt spread far before being contained. |
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MOnk
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| 08-08-2011 09:52 PM |
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Even if zombies could run, they'd have to have spatial awareness and preferably some notion of pain, or they'd quickly trip over, break their legs and become fairly useless. Even if they had all these qualities if they were rotting, they'd be gone within a few weeks. So long as you had a few cans of food, some bottled drink and a loft you could probably sit it out. |
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Broberg
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| 28-08-2011 09:25 AM |
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Anything dead that walks and wants to eat the living.
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