Season 2 has just started. Let's get another thread going for ranting and raving. I recall last season brought plenty of ranting, from me at least. For those who aren't aware, The Colony is a non-game reality show on Discovery where they loosely simulate post-apoc conditions for a group of 'survivors'. There is no goal, no stupid voting, and no instructions, they just 'deal with it' as stuff happens. (After the first few episodes you can usually see the cheesy/acting folk realize they are being dumb and then it gets more hardened and focused and less showy.)
>>62 Interesting. I was kind of thinking the opposite about skills. I liked that they went with some lower skilled persons this time, but now I am concerned that they are out-performing their skillsets. For instance, with the electrification activities, no-one there really has the background to be setting up their grid, but there is the disclaimer at the start that experts are on hand to prevent them from killing themselves, so I am suspecting that there are some cases where they are all like "we want to do X to get Y" then they half-ass and attempt to do X and then have the experts come in and actually fix it up properly. For the electrical situation I could see them routing cords and putting equipment together, but I bet some outsider actually made the inverter connections to the junction box as well as arranging their battery / trickle charger array for the vastly different load needs of basic power tools vs. welding etc (at least until they got the independent welder/genset). That's where I'm seeing a disconnect, it seems they are doing things too easily with no struggle of hashing out the details to get things going. Any engineer or inventor knows that all the real work comes at the final stage at the end, as things never work out so perfectly from design as they seem to have been here.
>>14 For anyone left in the dark: 2x01 - http://www.megavideo.com/?d=D9HBWTUX 2x02 - http://www.megavideo.com/?d=WAU40ILP 2x03 - http://www.megavideo.com/?d=1M25E1MX 2x04 - http://www.megavideo.com/?d=SNILULO3 ..... 2x06 - http://www.megavideo.com/?d=S9XX8VGX (my source for 2x05 is down, anyone else know one?)
the big raid reminds me of getting attacked by 3 goblins ambushes in DF at one time
The end time comes, and you're away from your cabin, home, or gear stash. You only have what you have on you...how prepared are you? Mine is two-part post. pen, comb, lighter, flashlight, keys with handcuff key and small very sharp blade, 8gb mp3 player, pay as you go cellphone, single layer leather belt, very well made, leatherman Pulse, gum, wallet.
Perhaps some clothes, perhaps not depending on the time of day. Other than that, maybe a cellphone. There might be a blunt object near me.
Where are my paranoid psycho /apoc/ natives?
Moving house... everything is packed up or I'd do this.
it has begun this apocolypse yoda y/n tallahassy y s plisken y/n
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>>25 what sort of arches are they apocalype=no mac d
>>27 newfag! this is a pot-apocalypse fred
Ok, well this board tends to focus on a bit more IRL panic than /cy/ so I thought I'd bring the tone up a bit and ask for /apoc/'s favourite novels... Obviously there's a lot out there with so many subtypes of world-ending events, but I'm quite partial to Oryx and Crake (and the Year of the Flood), with the biological manipulation goes wrong angle. There are also some novels that deal with the longer term survival, such as... well I can't remember the name, but it follows many generations culminating with the grandchildren deifying the last remaining 'American' as they return to tribalism. Very interesting, as it deals with the earth taking back civilisation.
It struck me that this template, with a little rejigging, nicely fits /apoc/ for one of those tinfoil hat fantasy threads about your own plans for the End. Try and keep it real though, no 'I have a tank' posturing.
>>53 Those are some cute dogs. Shame she'll have to eat them.
I'ts post apocalyptic party time
>>55 Enjoy your nuclear level sunburn... I never got the fetishist costumes in so many post-apoc films.
Let's return to an age-old question: Zombie apocalypses. Are they, in any way, possible? Theoretically, a pandemic of rabies could cause zombies, but they'd die too quickly. CJD could do it too, but you're more in danger of zombie cows than actual zombies if that happened. As for actual resurrection of the dead, there's no biological means I could think of. Nanobots could work, but zombies, by definition, are biological. Anyone have any ideas?
Outside of some sort of supernatural source, I don't really see a zombie apocalypse happening. "Zombies" can really just be split into two categories: "infected" individuals who are still alive but develop hyper-aggressive tendencies, and reanimated corpses. In the first scenario, infected individuals would probably neglect to continue feeding themselves or attending to regular, everyday needs. They would die off in days or possibly weeks, since they forget to drink/eat/etc. Reanimated dead are unlikely to even occur; if they did, the bodies would probably continue to decay until eventually, motor function would become impossible (due to deteriorated muscles/tendons/etc.).
http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html
>>4 The way I see it, there's more like five categories Infection Parasite Chemical VooDoo (they DO exist) and Supernatural. The Infection is pretty straightforward. Much like the Resident Evil zombies (I'm pretty sure. Never actually played the games, so...) The Parasite is like the Flood in Halo. The Chemical zombies are like the ones in the Day of the Dead movies, where chemicals get absorbed by a person or a body, and they are brought back to life. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.
Goddamn the apocalypse link is tenuous in this thread. Fapping to Haruhi porn now...
Haruhi porn is werid. It always seems to be Haruhi X alien X esper X time-travellers!
>>49 Usually I find it relates to the computer club, actually. Also aliens all the way. Nagato Yuki <3
Post-apocalyptic music, anybody? My personal favorite is need(le)wire. Website here: http://www.needlewire.de/ Music can be downloaded for free here: http://mp3.de/trendschmiede/genre/band/060500/254426/1
Sounds pretty cool. Sounds a lot like industrial music though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJq8g7XWzo pic not related
what? this is stupid...
I know it's comedy but it's still apoc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7kSm9cVIjQ&feature=related
Nice.