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Also, with the disease killing off society basically overnight you probably wouldn't have to scavenge so hard. Everyone died before a long dwindling period of resources would even happen.
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Attog
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This. I don't know how long canned goods last but if 97% of humanity died off, there would be a shit-ton of canned goods and baby food around. Not to mention the deer population would explode. There would also be guns aplenty and enough ammo to kill the remaining population a million times over.
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Canned goods usually last for 2-3 yrs, maybe a bit longer if you take care of the cans and dont mind the shits. All other packaged food lasts way less unless its dry shit.
And if you guys think that some supper duper commie commune would form instead of warlordism? I mean who the fuck knows, but Im still betting on the strong taking from weak. Even if there was plenty. Its humanity brought down to its lowest caveman settings.
And if you guys think that some supper duper commie commune would form instead of warlordism? I mean who the fuck knows, but Im still betting on the strong taking from weak. Even if there was plenty. Its humanity brought down to its lowest caveman settings.
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Cybsled
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Realistically, if there was an ultra virus that wiped out most of humanity, the survivors are going to be chalked up to 2 main categories: immunity and avoidance. The 2nd only lasts as long as you can avoid sources of the virus. In that situation, being a raider would actually be a pretty risky thing (especially early on) because you are putting yourself into a situation where it becomes harder to avoid the virus and increases the risk you get it. Raiding also is a limited skill set, in that it is only viable so long as there is a sustainable source of supplies they can plunder. Raiders might be an early thing, but would die out or fizzle out as time went on I suspect.
A warlord situation would really only be viable once you obtained a measure of stability in the various communities OR you can offer that stability and know-how to communities to make them more viable. Then you're moving from warlord to a king, so to speak.
With immunity, the pool of people is a bit more random than it would be with avoidance, so you're going to get a mix of different types. Non-raider mentality people can still use weapons and presumably "lone wolf" situations would get weeded out the further into the apocalypse you got (early human success was because of clans/communities). I think more realistically, you would see a community get powerful over time, then once they hit a certain point of sustainability, population, resources, and have other communities dependent on them, then they might evolve into an entity that goes out and starts to conquer and control nearby settlements/etc.
A warlord situation would really only be viable once you obtained a measure of stability in the various communities OR you can offer that stability and know-how to communities to make them more viable. Then you're moving from warlord to a king, so to speak.
With immunity, the pool of people is a bit more random than it would be with avoidance, so you're going to get a mix of different types. Non-raider mentality people can still use weapons and presumably "lone wolf" situations would get weeded out the further into the apocalypse you got (early human success was because of clans/communities). I think more realistically, you would see a community get powerful over time, then once they hit a certain point of sustainability, population, resources, and have other communities dependent on them, then they might evolve into an entity that goes out and starts to conquer and control nearby settlements/etc.
spronk
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Wife read the books so we binged through the season, final episode 10 dropped today.
Wife loved it, got all emotional and shit. I felt a minor bit of happiness in one scene in the finale but 99% of the time I just kept thinking to myself "this shit would NEVER work this way, first there is no way the pilot would have his phone on, accept a random unknown number, blah blah blah blah".
It was more interesting from a perspective standpoint I guess. This show is written from the perspective of a group of people who view art, literature, Shakespeare, etc as one of the highest callings of humanity and a reason to exist. I've never seen it that way, if all artists vanished from the Earth tomorrow I would not give a single fuck (well, maybe porn stars). Neither opinion is right or wrong, just 2 perspectives.
So its interesting to see a show from a perspective other than mine, but for me it was pretty boring. Great visuals, acting is out of the park, but this is NOT a post apocalyptic show. This is a show about trauma, relationships, how art can fix people?, yadda yadda. Don't come in here expecting The Road or The Last Of Us or anything like that, the world is pristine and a Hollywood "I don't know much about how the real world works" writers version of post-apocalypse. To put it in vidya game language, the entire show felt like 10 side quests you do on prologue island before you hit-up the main quest.
I wouldn't really recommend this show to any man
Wife loved it, got all emotional and shit. I felt a minor bit of happiness in one scene in the finale but 99% of the time I just kept thinking to myself "this shit would NEVER work this way, first there is no way the pilot would have his phone on, accept a random unknown number, blah blah blah blah".
It was more interesting from a perspective standpoint I guess. This show is written from the perspective of a group of people who view art, literature, Shakespeare, etc as one of the highest callings of humanity and a reason to exist. I've never seen it that way, if all artists vanished from the Earth tomorrow I would not give a single fuck (well, maybe porn stars). Neither opinion is right or wrong, just 2 perspectives.
So its interesting to see a show from a perspective other than mine, but for me it was pretty boring. Great visuals, acting is out of the park, but this is NOT a post apocalyptic show. This is a show about trauma, relationships, how art can fix people?, yadda yadda. Don't come in here expecting The Road or The Last Of Us or anything like that, the world is pristine and a Hollywood "I don't know much about how the real world works" writers version of post-apocalypse. To put it in vidya game language, the entire show felt like 10 side quests you do on prologue island before you hit-up the main quest.
I wouldn't really recommend this show to any man
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Ossoi
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I only ever see you post in the movies/TV forums.
You literally go see the same film at different cinemas to get as diverse experience as possible. You're talking out your arse, again.
kaid
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It is an interesting show. I do like how the main character from a really young age was way more realistic about what the world had become and what she would have to do to survivve. Teaching herself how to throw knives and fight when the adults were still moping about what had been lost. She loves doing plays and the arts but she also will FUCKING KILL YOU if she even gets a wiff you are dangerous. She won't ask questions or hesitate just right to the stabbing. The other artists I think realize they need her to be like that and don't really seem shocked or give her shit about it.
