Are you apocolypse ready?
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No I'm not ready for the apocalypse, because I don't see any significant evidence that it's actually going to happen, so I'm not wasting my time preparing for something like that. People have been harping about the end of the world since the dawn of man, and guess what, tens of thousands of years later, we're still here, doing just fine, living day to day. So yeah, not bothering with it at all. The only apocalypses I've ever prepared for were Werewolf: Apocalypse, and Fallout 4.lechat said:
I'm quite prepared for a zombie incident, having a reasonably sturdy front door and everything. Those poor things wouldn't stand a chance in a universe where people are the slightest bit genre-savvy.
If they somehow manage to spread, it'd be a matter of hours until a host of nerds and survival enthusiasts roll up and wipe the buggers out. Honestly, people have been hankering for a zombie outbreak for years, the poor zed-heads won't last the night.
As for real apocalypses, as it were, I do keep a small supply of drinking water and tinned food around. Just as a general emergency plan, like they used to recommend at the back of the phone book. I'll be signing up with the civil defence or home guard when I can contribute some more. If luck isn't on my side, I hope to die at once or at least while doing something useful.
If Judgment Day or Ragnarök arrives, well... Keep calm and carry on. Fight and die usefully, like any good mortal should.
If they somehow manage to spread, it'd be a matter of hours until a host of nerds and survival enthusiasts roll up and wipe the buggers out. Honestly, people have been hankering for a zombie outbreak for years, the poor zed-heads won't last the night.
As for real apocalypses, as it were, I do keep a small supply of drinking water and tinned food around. Just as a general emergency plan, like they used to recommend at the back of the phone book. I'll be signing up with the civil defence or home guard when I can contribute some more. If luck isn't on my side, I hope to die at once or at least while doing something useful.
If Judgment Day or Ragnarök arrives, well... Keep calm and carry on. Fight and die usefully, like any good mortal should.
I am prepared in the sense that preparing for what is impossible to predict is counter productive and knowing that regardless of what fate becomes this world if it is enough of a catastrophe to undo civilization and reduce the population by several billion there is little chance for me to survive for very long, if at all beyond the initial cataclysm. So I am prepared in the sense that I understand the realities of such a situation and my place in such a world.
Outside of that, should I survive, I am fairly confident I would be able to continue on as I have the most important things to surviving such a thing. A diverse volume of knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, natural adaptability, and a desire to keep living. So long as you have such traits you can find ways of living, surviving and eventually thriving.
But yes, all that aside, I do still have
and have added quite a few more weapons and resources to go along with it since 2010.
Outside of that, should I survive, I am fairly confident I would be able to continue on as I have the most important things to surviving such a thing. A diverse volume of knowledge on a wide variety of subjects, natural adaptability, and a desire to keep living. So long as you have such traits you can find ways of living, surviving and eventually thriving.
But yes, all that aside, I do still have
and have added quite a few more weapons and resources to go along with it since 2010.
My Apocalypse plan is to be patient zero! Muahahaha*cough*...
Uh-oh.
In other words no. I personally doubt I'd survive anyways, being handicapped and all.
Uh-oh.
In other words no. I personally doubt I'd survive anyways, being handicapped and all.
Well our family's summer home could be made almost entirely self-sustaining, with food, shelter, fuel (in the form of firewood and lots of it), storage space and water all being already there. There's also a hefty array of very sharp tools so I guess some sort of ranged weapon would come in handy, but in almost all other respects I'd almost be set.
It wouldn't be an apocalypse if a lot of people were going to make it. Everybody has heard the adage of how a plan only survives until the first contact with the enemy. Add to that all of the other people with the same plans and priorities as you. No water or food supplies for you because others got there first. All the boats are already gone. All the gas already siphoned. The only way to survive an apocalypse is to accurately predict it and already be living in your cabin innawoods with your crops and farm animals when it starts.
also former army with combat experience.
Fuck no! And, even if I did, I would then probably be shot by someone who was "standing their ground" or some shit like that...
Other than that, fuck the apocalypse because I would be begging to Glob to send me to Mars if it even came to that![footnote]Even if [REDACTED] happened...[/footnote]
Other than that, fuck the apocalypse because I would be begging to Glob to send me to Mars if it even came to that![footnote]Even if [REDACTED] happened...[/footnote]
Honestly? Instinct. When you know nothing else, you know Instinct. Instinct tells you that you are to live as long as possible. When I die, Humanity was going to continue anyway. Why should I cut my natural life short because Humanity died before me?Dagra Dai MC. VSO. said:
Actually, that depends on the apocalypse. Biblical? Shit's fucked and woe unto you if you're still around. But hey, you have now concrete proof of heaven and Hell. And if one of the tenets is that if you off yourself, you go straight to the bad place.... maybe stick around to see if you can earn a ride to the good one.Dagra Dai MC. VSO. said:
Zombies, well depends on the zombies. We all know enough about zombies that we know how to deal with them. Hell, if it happened worldwide and they were just Walkers, I'd probably still be fine. I live in America. Enough guns that it will look like the end of Night of the Living Dead more than The Walking Dead.
28 days later zombies, well... they aren't zombies. Just humans with a rage virus that leads them to lose all reason. In fact, after a month, they starve themselves to death. The world will be livable once the last ones die out.
World War Z.... Nah man, not messing with that. Hide and pray. I'm not sure if they were dead zombies either. But a swarm of people running towards me in waves is like literally pulled from my nightmares.
Aliens? I think we're pretty much screwed if they want to war. They've mastered intergalactic travel. We can't move around our planet without killing it. I doubt we'd have anything other than germs to kill them.
But that means their germs can kill us.
Disease depends on the disease. If it's simple as avoiding x, y, and z, there's a chance. Make a beeline to the woods and don't think about cities any more. The amount of dead piling up will breed other diseases.
Nuclear? If it ever comes to that, we are a species are done.
There are chances with everything. Some are stacked against you, some have wiggle room. Yes, we are talking about extreme circumstances, but that doesn't mean insurmountable. This is it. This is the only time I'm going to be me. That I'm going to be. I just find that always worthy to fight for.
Not really, but I've been thinking about "what crap is there around the house that I could use in the apocalypses" since middle school so I could probably cobble some basic stuff together in a decent amount of time. Now that doesn't guarantee the longevity of my survival, but if I died then at least I'd have some decent gear gathered for someone less shit at surviving than me to use.
Yep. My plan is to die.
Assuming I'm not one of the 90%+ to die in the immediate onset, which is highly unlikely since I live in a city and those places always get fucked the first and the hardest, I'm just gonna kill time wearing out the batteries of all my handheld games, then reading whatever books I can find until I starve/dehydrate. I don't have the guts to off myself, so that's my most direct method to take the easy way out.
I don't have any skills to be useful in society today. And I certainly don't have any survival skills, so I'm dead on my own, and no group of survivors will keep me around longer than a few weeks at most.
Plus, I'm a nerd that spends all their time dicking around on the internet and playing video games, if the world were to run out of electricity I would find that alone an unbearable hell, never mind all the unpleasant crap you'd have to do to survive once society is gone. What's even the point of working my ass off absolutely constantly just to stay alive, only to be more miserable than I've ever been in my entire life the whole time? "Congratulations! You ate maggots out of a rotting body so you have enough protein for another day! Hope you enjoy not having fun or being able to trust people not to kill you on sight ever again."
Assuming I'm not one of the 90%+ to die in the immediate onset, which is highly unlikely since I live in a city and those places always get fucked the first and the hardest, I'm just gonna kill time wearing out the batteries of all my handheld games, then reading whatever books I can find until I starve/dehydrate. I don't have the guts to off myself, so that's my most direct method to take the easy way out.
I don't have any skills to be useful in society today. And I certainly don't have any survival skills, so I'm dead on my own, and no group of survivors will keep me around longer than a few weeks at most.
Plus, I'm a nerd that spends all their time dicking around on the internet and playing video games, if the world were to run out of electricity I would find that alone an unbearable hell, never mind all the unpleasant crap you'd have to do to survive once society is gone. What's even the point of working my ass off absolutely constantly just to stay alive, only to be more miserable than I've ever been in my entire life the whole time? "Congratulations! You ate maggots out of a rotting body so you have enough protein for another day! Hope you enjoy not having fun or being able to trust people not to kill you on sight ever again."
