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The discussion is kinda moot.... Its not a virus .... but at the same time, its not Black Magic, its not the Wrath of God, its not radiation brought back from the Venus probe.... its UNDEFINED Another thing that the zombie plaugue could be caused by is a fungus. The Ophiocordyceps unilateralis ( aka cordyceps, taken from the game, "The Last Of Us") is a fungus that hijacks an ant's brain and causes it to help the fungus to develop and reproduce. Perhaps a fungi mutated and instead infected humans ( and i know people are gonna be like "well why does it need flesh?". Truth really is no one will know unless something like this did occur). I'm not saying that this is the case for the outbreak, but I am agreeing with the statement that the plaugue can come from anywhere, that there are many reasons why something like this would occur. And remember, this is a fake game... not real life. Ooh and i somewhat got quoting to work yay!

So i am having trouble quoting, it just does not want to work... so imagine if this was all quotes here As far as why a disease that turns people into corpses kill plants it's pretty obvious. The sole prerogative of the zombie virus to is eradicate mankind, one of the most effective ways to do this would be to kill off plant life. Zombies don't digest people since they are dead, and they don't have some sort of queen or society meaning the only thing that could explain their actions is that the virus goal is the extinction of mankind. Now if your arguing about scientifically how a zombie virus would kill plants then that would be pretty pointless. I mean there are multiple ways it could work in fiction and it already reanimates dead corpses so I think there is a good deal of arm room here. Diseases are not conscious entities, their goal is not to eliminate mankind. If anything their goal (although not conscious) is to survive long enough to reproduce. Didn't plan on responding to this but since thread was revive i'll go at it. The zombie plague is obvoiusly not about reproduction . Biting/scratching is pretty much the worst transmission method possible for a disease, and zombies don't care about their own well being. These two facts combined easily shows that reproduction is not their prerogative. With normal animals, the only thing they put above their own survival is that off their offspring seeing that their most important prerogative is to the continuation of their species. Which zombies don't have, they literally just crave killing humans. Also note that the zombie species are not even sustainable so it makes no sense for them to crave reproduction, the majority of all zombies will be gone in 3-5 years from rotting away completely; regardless of the amount of humans they kill. If we assume that it is a disease and the spreading mechanism is biting and scratching, isn't it quite effective if it can turn the world populace to a spreading host in a matter of months? Also diseases as said aren't thinking entities, they don't know that there's a limit of how many it can affect. They just repeat the process until there's nothing more to do and then they die. It's simply how most diseases work. This is where i begin typing Well actually a virus' goal is to reproduce their offspring. Looking at a majority of viruses that exist today that infect humans, they generally "hijack" a cell in your body. Say they just hijacked your red blood cell. What they typically do is inject their DNA into your cell, killing the virus in the process. The cell, now with the new DNA, will start to produce more and more viruses, and unleash tons of them to go infect more cells. Ultimately their goal is to reproduce. However, not everything is sustainable. According to Darwin's law of survival of the fittest, the animals/plants ( or in this case biotic/abiotic beings ), the ones with the best traits, survive. However, Darwin's theory does not happen over night. It typically takes many many years. This zombie virus, although effective at first, will soon be eradicated due to Darwin's theory, because it will not be able to effectively reproduce, and will effectively become extinct (most likely). I am agreeing with you on the zombies rotting away part, but i disagree with your saying that the zombie virus is not about reproducing. However, this game will not likely introduce the idea of zombie corpses rotting away, otherwise the game will obtain a basic end goal of surviving the virus. Although it would likely happen if there was a real life zombie virus, The devs would not include it due to them not wanting an end game.

depends on your definition of friend If by friend you mean friendly with and talk on occasion... lots! like about 20-30. if you mean good friends, ones that you fool around, joke, and talk with... about 10-15 If you mean best friends, 4 (used to be 5 but not as of recently). What was the biggest bullshit lie that you have made up and gotten away with (or not gotten away with )

*sigh*... this will never end (or will it? >: D )

Watermellons... Good for eating, smashing, and throwing at other people. Would you rather sit in a booring 6 hour art lesson or watch Miley Cirus twerk her flat ass for 6 hours.

So I tried Westpoint. Lol its funny because i had a huge horde in the same area, right in front of the giga mart... But like derek said you just need to go into the gun store, get tons of shotgun ammo, and the horde is nothing... I like west point because the city has good loot throughout the building, instead of just one house and go to the next, but it comes with the price of tons of zombies. the gun store kinda makes it too easy though

I tried doing this before... until i climbed up a sheet rope, and didnt stop... and kept climbing up and up and up on nothing until i lost my character :/

Biggest horde for me, well took about 80 shotgun shells... luckily i looted about 250 shells from the gun store. And i did not waste shotgun shells on just one zombie...I only use them on groups of zombies. Lets say i killed at least four with each shot (although i killed about 5-7 per shot), then we are looking at 320 zombies. (480 is six were killed per shot). I was freaking out for most of it. I carried about 25 shells with me (31 if included in shotgun). I ran out, ran to my safe house nearby, and grabbed another 50. My computer is having issues with screenshots, I'll post one soon once i get it working

After looting the gunstore and hoping to establish a safe house there, I go outside and down the road to the giga market to see a huge horde waiting there. About 80 shotgun shells later the horde was dead and a HUGE mass grave of zombies litter the parking lot. A few days later i'm leaving my safe house and running over the dead zombie bodies to have a random zombie laying on the ground lunge right at me, scaring the shit out of me. Luckily i didn't get scratched. Now i never run over groups of zombie bodies.