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36 No. 36 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
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.
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>> No. 1347
The spinach is brown because it's the post-apocalypse and even canned food has a shelf life. So, risk food poisoning or go hungry... these are your options.
>> No. 1348
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I figure not that the Apocalypse is over, why not live it up a little.
>> No. 1349
>>1348
Sounds about right. Maybe if we'd all had monkey butlers, dat apocalypse wouldn't have happened in the first place~


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1315 No. 1315 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Civilisation collapses - let's not quibble over how it happens, other than supposing that it does not destroy absolutely everything. The post-apocalypse is wild, dangerous. It's forever likened to the Wild West or prehistoric times, or a world where a few Roman-styled democracies hold out against the ravages of barbarism. But what of technology?

In The Postman scientists recognise the sway that technology holds over people's minds. They pretend to have a working AI. It allows them to build a small world around it, and gives people hope.
In Fallout, rogue AIs plot to rule and robots roam the ruined landscape. Technology, military, medical and information technology, is sought after by the Brotherhood of Steel.
In When Sysadmins Ruled the World, which got me thinking about this, dedicated cadres of sysadmins in small pockets around the world keep the internet up even as the world crumbles around them. Google is kept alive, and social networks become places for users to share survival tips, locations of safe areas. Eventually, the servers become the basis of a new government, computers used to keep records, a holdover from the previous era that might not serve an overt purpose, but inspires people.

I wonder, in a P-A scenario, how modern technology would fare? Would a curious survivor with bio-diesel to spare boot up an old computer and find to their shock that the flow of data was still alive and well? Could we see new communities built through surviving computer networks, and the few who rejected such things post-collapse emerging over time like the Japanese holdouts from WWII to find that a new world had been built without them?
And what of other technology, from medical equipment like CT scanners and MRIs to construction tech, water pumps and beyond? What do you think we would forget, and what, if anything, do you think we could remember? I have no real answers cause this has really only occured to me, but it seems interesting.
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>> No. 1342
>>1341
You don't pay enough attention to human nature, let alone post apocalyptic fiction.
>> No. 1343
>>1342
Dunno, I've seen humans perform amazing heroic acts in the face of danger and I've also seen them pull the smeggiest cowardly shit on friends, neighbors and family. Not sure I believe in so called "human nature" at this point but I'd rather take my chances by casting my lot in with a few strangers than face the apocalypse alone.
>> No. 1344
It's probably a decision you could only make at the time. I think just saying 'human nature' is reductive though, because there are two sides to it, and we're not all always bad (or good). You could at least end up with someone to travel with for a bit.


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1187 No. 1187 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
So, a few other anons and I are working on a project known as "Project Agartha" that aims to found a town. We'd like the town to be self-sufficient and secure just in case SHTF, and since many of you seem to know a lot about survivalism, I've come to you for advice.

My question is, what locations in the US are the safest from natural or artificial disasters? I think that nuclear fuckups, erupting supervolcanoes, or out-of-control global warming are probably the most likely end-of-the-world scenarios, but feel free to include locations safe from zombies or whatever else if you'd like.

Land that is inexpensive, arable, and/or not in the middle of nowhere nets you bonus points.
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>> No. 1279
>>1277
true. I was paying more attention to the "self sufficient" part and not the "my question" part, my bad.
>> No. 1324
Okay, I'm going to risk sounding stupid and ignorant by not reading through the whole thread, but from what I've seen here and in a thread on 4chan's /b/ earlier on the same topic, I've never understood why you haven't contacted the people behind the earlier (similar enough) project Anononia. Those guys wanted to make their own damned country on an island in South America and have already managed to get some planning done (although it seems by now they've succumbed to apathy/lack of time/interest).

You should be able to find something on the topic from the following links, a way to contact them, at least:

http://anononia.wikispaces.com/
http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=7152&language=th
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=110662318952868

Also what seems to be a guide for the potential military/guard of the nation:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/33138960/D1The-Anononian-Defence-Force
>> No. 1332
>>1324

We have actually talked to some of their members over our IRC channel, although I don't think I mentioned it in the thread. It was enlightening, to say the least.

Thanks for the links, though - I didn't know about most of those.


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1286 No. 1286 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films

I hadn't really thought of it, but it seems a lot of dystopia fiction is also post-apocalypse (PA) fiction. I mean there's a lot in the PA list,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_films#Post-apocalyptic

It makes me also wonder how many PA movies there are where the remaining society is not dystopian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_music,_TV_programs,_and_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_and_post-apocalyptic_fiction
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>> No. 1311
Dreamsnake isn't all that dystopian. There is a city of the rich who won't let anyone in, but the towns and villages outside it get by just fine. Sex isn't anything to fight about, people can control their bodies to prevent disease and pregnancy. There are areas of intense radiation that can kill, but overall for an atomised, tribal society, things are all very good. I would happily live in the world of Dreamsnake.
>> No. 1312
>>1311
>Dreamsnake

I read a synapse of it and i'll be keeping an eye out for that one. Thanks.
>> No. 1314
>>1312
Better yet, scroll down to the P-A book download thread I made a while back. It's in there.


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1204 No. 1204 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Since it's done so well elsewhere on the boards...

What in the world of post apocalyptic fiction makes you go crazy? What tropes and over-used catechisms have been played to death?

For me, first off, is from The Road. The concept that any disaster can happen that is so bad that all plant and animal life is destroyed...yet humanity is still plentiful? This is nonsense. Humanity would die out long before all plant life and animal life. If the event only kills beings that are not indoors, any number of window sill gardens, greenhouses, grain silos full of viable seed grain, and cars with grass growing in the back seat would still be viable.
For reference, look at Chernobyl. Massive property damage, massive loss of life. Now, there are wild animal species thriving there that are nearly extinct throughout the rest of the region. That disaster has created a wild life sanctuary where few humans dare to venture.

So, what about you lot?
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Assuming zombies eat people but not other zombies, how do you end up with a plague of zombies roaming the streets? Wouldn't they, as a group, just gobble up every living human they met? I mean, once the horde reached a certain size, wouldn't they just overwhelm and devour any poor hapless live person they cornered, rather than merely infecting them and making another zombie out of them?

I'm thinking specifically of The Walking Dead which I don't think is very popular here but it's the most recent zombie media I've watched. The scene in Atlanta in particular, where there are literally thousands of walkers swarming one guy. It's one of the best parts visually but in retrospect, it doesn't make a lot of sense. Like, in order to become a walker you'd have to get infected, run away and die, become undead, then join the horde.
>> No. 1305
>>1301
Most likely, a few zombies can infect tons of people by running around biting many people before people realize what it really going on. By that time there's no big groups of zombies swarming, but there's already big groups of people infected. Later they turn into zombies and swarm. By that time, there's only x number of uninfected left who would get devoured.
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>>1305
Hm, yes I suppose this makes sense now that I think about it.


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1128 No. 1128 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Keep in mind that noise attracts zombies and the infection is spread via body tissues and fluid. Explosions and bullets can send a small mist of infectious fluids into the air. In close quarters, inhaling this would cause you to be infected. Secondary infection can also be spread by touching things with zombie blood and gore on them then touching your wounds, rubbing eyes, or contacting mucus membranes (nose.) The most logical course of action, for surviving a Zombie Apocalypse is to keep as quite as possible while maintaining zero contact with any zombie.

Primary: SV-99 Russian Sniper Rifle, .22LR, comes with pre-attached sound suppressor.

Secondary: Ruger Mark II Silver Slab .22LR, painted black with detachable scope and sound suppressor

Melee: 3-feet crowbar, painted black with rubber grip.

Throwable: Small speaker-equipped MP3 players with looping scream tracks.

All that is needed are head shots. .22lr does that very well, accurately up to 100M for the SV-99 and has been proven to kill living humans in many Russian skirmishes; though it is normally used for guard dogs, which normally have thicker skulls than humans, and lights prior to raids. The ammo is very light and is interchange with both weapons. The lower velocity helps cause a minor ricochet effect inside the human skull, helping to better destroy the brain. It will also not send out as much infectious tissue/blood mist into the air when used in close ranges. Magazines can easily be for 25 rounds instead of the standard 10 rounds. There is almost no noise made when firing a suppressed .22lr firearm; thus, you'd not attract more zombies to your position. The crowbar is an extremely useful tool in its own right. Using the rounded part as a blunt weapon ensures the claw will not get stuck nor produce excessive infectious gore. It's rubber grip helps protect hands when using it as a weapon. The MP3 players are for distracting zombie crowds.
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>> No. 1176
>>1167
> As for using silver...why.

Maybe because there's other things out there than just zombies. Like werewolves. And don't forget, a supersoaker and a LOT of holy water on standby in case it's vampires.
>> No. 1299
look think. What you would really end up doing is dropping half of that crap and using what projectiles you have on hand. unless you live in a steel treehouse with murder holes and a shitload of food, you are fucked . Hiding in your basement for a day is different than hiding for a year or more.
>> No. 1300
>>1299
What are you talking about and to whom are you replying? This isn't a bunker and food thread. This is a zombie weapons thread.


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What are other Apocalyptic events the supernatural/undead that aren't zombie pandemics? Maybe like a large scale haunting or something. Imagine the entire world consumed by the evil of Silent Hill.
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>> No. 1125
Here's a few media I can think of off handed, OP.

Killer Plants - "Day of the Triffids" - Movie
Giant Rabbits - "Night of the Lepus" - Movie
Radiation-Supernatural-Mutation - "S.T.A.L.K.E.R." - Video Game Series
Giant Killer Ants - "Them!" - Movie
Killer Avians - "Birds" - Movie
Interdimensional Monsters - "The Mist" - Movie
Interdimensional Monsters - "In the Mouth of Madness" - Movie
Non-zombie Mutations - "I AM Legend/The Omega Man" - Movie/book
Supernatural/Rapture - "Left Behind" series - Movie/book
Killer Angels - "Legion" (2010 version) - Movie
Supernatural-plague/Rapture - "Stephen King's The Stand" - Movie/book
Supernatural-magic/Unknown - "The Evil Dead" series - Movie
Supernatural-magic - "Black Easter/The Day After Judgment" - Book
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1181 No. 1181 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
The Anime Book Club on 7chan is currently watching a post-apocalyptic anime from the creator of Akira called Freedom. I'm halfway through and it's pretty cool, and well worth checking out (especially if you loved Akira), so thought you guys might appreciate a heads up. There's a download, etc: https://7chan.org/a/res/29795.html

The only thing I'm not a fan of is the creepy CGI animation... but judge for yourself.
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>> No. 1272
>>1257
Use Media Player Classic, it should run HD fair enough. VLC can too, but requires more fiddling.
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1287
This wasn't what I was expecting at all. It wasn't Akira-in-space, it was more "fun" than that, not to mention hopeful. I loved it though.

Funny thing is, while I was waiting for it to load I watched the trailer without english subs and it gave a very different impression (I guess "moonspeak" has a dual meaning here). Based on that I thought it was about a military base on the moon which gets attacked by aliens; the only survivors leave in an emergency escape rocket and land on Earth to find the aliens have already wiped out civilization; they follow the only lead they have and go on a massive roadtrip; further action of some kind ensues; etc. Guess I was wrong but I think I like my version better.

Some damn cool imagery at times though.
>> No. 1290
I think the anime had some pretty big failings, and could have been much better. It wasn't even the Cup Noodle advertising that annoyed me so much as the light-hearted tone vs. the actually pretty hefty subject matter...


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14 No. 14 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
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.)
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>> No. 1283
>>1282
On the first season of the MTV show, "The Real World", they constantly did things like buy alcohol for them, get them into idiot situations, and tried to get them to cause as much drama as possible. Since then they've been casting people that are as dramatic as possible and pairing them with some that are not in order to cause further drama and sensationalism.

I've never seen a single reality TV show that did not do similar tactics to make for "better" TV.
>> No. 1284
>>1283
I was horrified to find out that the Real World is still going. I thought it ended long ago. MTV is the best at creating reality shows that make me want to leave this planet though. My Super Sweet 16 is a prime example.
>> No. 1285
>>1284
I stopped watching TV programming around season 2 of The Real World.

>My Super Sweet 16

I'm not even going to google that.


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1120 No. 1120 hide expand quickreply [Reply]
Admit it. Some part of you sincerely wants to live to see an apocalypse.

You WANT to be the one riding that motorbike down an abandoned freeway with the last tank of gas and the last clip of ammo in the world, or living in a bunker in the hills, scraping and scrounging to meet your basic needs. Now matter how attached you are to the comforts of modern technology, you're a little bored with life on this planet in this age. When government and corporations have collapsed, when the cities have fallen silent and dark, in some way you'll be relieved. No more money or taxes, no more shitty jobs, no more nitpicky municipal bylaws, no more mindless entertainment. The only "gun control" will be the scarcity of bullets. After the majority of survivors are done beating and stabbing each other over what resources remain, after they've resorted to cannibalism and finally starved or died from drinking contaminated water or succumbed to radiation sickness, whatever is left of this world will belong to the quick and the clever. The ones who were prepared.

It's not realistic to believe so, to think that we are so special and important that we'd be spared, because it's certain that whatever the destruction that could topple civilization might be, it will leave nothing but pain and misery in it's wake for everyone who lived through it. But we've all daydreamed about it. Why do you think that is?
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>> No. 1232
>>1231
Fresh horse going into a garden can get to hot as it breaks down, though. If you let the mycelium digest the manure outside of the garden for a while, then till it in, it doesn't generate as much heat around the roots of the plants.

Not a bad haul...but how much of your family's food for a year is that? 1/2? 3/4's? more? Less?
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>>1232
>hot horse manure.

The hot stuff goes on my blackberries. Then it gets moved to the vegetable gardens. I have three blackberry patches. Here's a pic of the latest one I planted this past summer. The plants are cut off low about 1 week before transplanting. Then they are moved and watered. They are about 3 times as high now. Pic was taken in July I think. They won't have full crop production until about their 3th-4th year when the root masses are very large. The nice thing about these is that you can back a horse right up to them and spread the manure around. So long as the manure isn't pile up, the thermal heat is fine. The blackberries withstand the high nitrogen content better than most plants. Peach trees for instance will be killed right off if you do that. I have a friend that has a couple horses and I usually get a small pickup truck load once a month from horse that are only stabled at night, and I'm waiting in line for it. At the horse rescue stable, they get about 1 full-size pickup truck load every single day from about 20 horses.

>how much of your family's food for a year is that?

Not as much this year since I didn't have time to can the food when it needed to be canned. In a normal year, you can live off this completely. I also hunt. An example of how the food consumption is planed out, I did vegetable and deer stew this past week. I got 29 quarts of stew. 1 quarts is two big meals for me or 3 smaller meals. If I only have one jar a day it actually fills me up so much that I don't need much else. It would last about 29 days. Probably closer to 25 days. So, instead of eating stew every single day, you also can other ready to eat meals. There's 70 some pints of just canned venison with nothing else in it. That gets added to other dishes. Open a can of this and a can of that, put the left over in the fridge, etc. If you made 7 ready made meal plans you could mix and match during each week to eat those, one a day. 7 different
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>>1234
Here's an early pic of one of last year's garden. Note the fine row of mushrooms sprouting. Manure and straw covers most everything. I don't actively weed the garden, it seems to help keep pests from directly attacking the vegetable plants. Oh, that's tomatoes, peppers, and carrots in the pic.


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