Ride Out the Apocalypse in the World's First Zombie-Proof House
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Actually what are the practical real world applications of that house? Do they expect riot in the street or something? Who designed and ordered that house. This has to be the most paranoid guy in the entire country.
To be protected against the zombie apocalypse, you need to go up, down, or fold into a concrete box. This is now doctrine, amend your books.
I'd more trust the Japanese "Anti-Zombie fortress", however a missile silo (with the top closed and hatches shut of course) would also be pretty good if there was plenty of space underground (e.g. something like how Division is presented in Nikita).
I'd more trust the Japanese "Anti-Zombie fortress", however a missile silo (with the top closed and hatches shut of course) would also be pretty good if there was plenty of space underground (e.g. something like how Division is presented in Nikita).
PROBLEM!
There was a bit in World War Z about this. Great freakin' compound guaranteed to be defensible against zombies with on-the-spot mercs with guns. The issue? PEOPLE. If it's not poeple-proof, and especially desperate-people-who-might-wreck-stuff-in-the-process-proof, it's not zombie-proof.
There was a bit in World War Z about this. Great freakin' compound guaranteed to be defensible against zombies with on-the-spot mercs with guns. The issue? PEOPLE. If it's not poeple-proof, and especially desperate-people-who-might-wreck-stuff-in-the-process-proof, it's not zombie-proof.
I'm sure I'm not the first to say this, but glass. Glass isn't the best anti-zombie material and most of this house is made of it. Nice view of the zombies though.
The biggest problem I see for this is food and energy. One, you'd have to constantly keep several years worth of food and water on hand, and constantly replace some yearly so it all doesn't go bad. That would cost a shit ton. And the energy requirements? Geez, I can't even imagine how much it would suck to lose complete power and the entire place would just be closed.
Until the power goes out and you bake inside of it...Cipher1 said:
or the raiders come and take your flimsy drawbridge apart...
There's too many design flaws in this house to good enough for a zombie apocalypse. If you want zombie proof, you go Vault-Tec.
This isn't just an escapist thing, this is an Internet/nerd thing. Period. Maybe because it gives all survivors carte-blanch to kill things with guns. Slow moving things, that don't shoot back, yet still involve considerable danger and risk. Yay, you shot a monster's head off. Way to go, hero!Judgement101 said:
I believe Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation wrote a pretty good article on this. Hmmm, Ah! Here we go. He explains it far better than I ever could.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/8387-Extra-Punctuation-Why-We-Love-Zombies
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Falloutjack has a point. Anyone ever watch a good zombie movie? There always comes a point where the survivors have a perfect, or near perfect safehouse, then the dumbass of the group wrecks it in less than five minutes and lets the zombies in because he thinks he should be in charge. People are as much of a threat to your safe-house as zombies. Fortunately, this was advertised as a "Zombie-proof house". Not an "idiot-proof house"FalloutJack said:
Even better, one that uses decellerating energy fields to raise itself off the ground would be better for zombies, and if you could find a way to disperse the landing force throughout the entire length of the impact structure it would work for tornados too (because if instead of applying a flying house worth of force to a roof, you apply it equally to an entire section of land and the earth beneath it, it shouldn't collapse the structure, nor would it bury an undamaged structure 10 feet underground, though in theory, it would collapse structurally weak things (like a tin roof, or rotting zombie flesh, meaning it also works for zombie tornadoes).spectrenihlus said:
EDIT: Give me a pitfall that leads to an incinerator just inside the garage door and the only structural weakness becomes a heat and power supply as well as a zombie trap (because the best defense is burning zombies for fuel).
Absolutely, it looks like an incredibly zen place, lots of place to move around and very little clutter.Tempest13 said:
I was kind of confused by the first pictures, but then they started to show it transforming and I must say it's a pretty damn spanking place. If they have a sick underground they're set for a fair while in style.
Looks like something I made in Minecraft minus the furniture and including lots of liquid hot magma.