Duffusmonkey
Jun 1st, 2013, 06:07 AM
There are certain things that are never mentioned in the story that bug me because I am familiar with them.
None of this adds any to the story but realism and too much realism is not always good. I am a little Obscessive compulsive and even if nothing changes if I say something about it I might stop thinking about it
1. Reloading. Any gun guy like Burt would have reloading equipment. If I was a survivor I would be taking car batteries for the lead plates in them. Casting bullets is not hard, Burt should have had mold if he had a gun shop. When I was a kid my dad would melt lead on the stove in a steel can then pour in into my pinwood derby car for ballast, so melting lead isn't a problem. Ammo is going to get critical they should be collecting brass. After the tower was destroyed Saul said the mallers took everything, even the brass.
2. Ham Radios. Ham radio users have a annual FIELD DAY, where they practice setting up a communications network for national disasters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Day_(amateur_radio) During 911, Katrina and other national disasters Amature radio user have been used for critical communications because Ham radios will work when there is no infrastructure for power, cell phones or telephones. Ham Radios can also cover 30-40 miles easily but with the right radio and weather distances you can communicate around the world. I would expect there to be more Ham radio operators in the survivors because they would get the best information and in remote areas would have had more time to prepare. Glen should know all about ham radios, the only reason I can think for not using them is that they are not encripted.
3. More homemade weapons! If I was a survivor I would be obsessed with having as many weapons as possible. Now that the survivors are going on the offensive I would be making Fertilizer bombs (Timmothy McVeigh style). I would be making more traps. Get zombies to follow you into a warehouse, close the outside doors then light it on fire.
3. Add a dog a Cat and a Gorilla with a baseball bat! Never mind, cool idea but already taken.
I am sure I will think of more later
Another thing that would be worth mentioning in the story would be nature triving now that humans lost the ability to efficently control them. There is a awesome documentary about how wolves are thriving in the radioactive area around Chernobyl. The radiation causes what humans would consider a unacceptably high birth defect rate but its not a problem for wild animals.
It would be cool for survivors still in boulder to trapped by a small group of zombies and be saved by a mixed pack of wild dogs and wolves.
4. I would expect flying animals to really be thriving, The California Condor was barely saved some extinction, there were only 22 alive in 1987, estimated 400 alive today. Being a scavenger that eats dead animals I would expect that they are thriving. California Condors are HUGE 9ft wingspan. If the survivors saw one othe these they would comment on it. Vultures may even be a way to spot the zombie nests because of all of the bodies stored there.
http://documentaryheaven.com/wolves-in-chernobyl-dead-zone/
None of this adds any to the story but realism and too much realism is not always good. I am a little Obscessive compulsive and even if nothing changes if I say something about it I might stop thinking about it
1. Reloading. Any gun guy like Burt would have reloading equipment. If I was a survivor I would be taking car batteries for the lead plates in them. Casting bullets is not hard, Burt should have had mold if he had a gun shop. When I was a kid my dad would melt lead on the stove in a steel can then pour in into my pinwood derby car for ballast, so melting lead isn't a problem. Ammo is going to get critical they should be collecting brass. After the tower was destroyed Saul said the mallers took everything, even the brass.
2. Ham Radios. Ham radio users have a annual FIELD DAY, where they practice setting up a communications network for national disasters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Day_(amateur_radio) During 911, Katrina and other national disasters Amature radio user have been used for critical communications because Ham radios will work when there is no infrastructure for power, cell phones or telephones. Ham Radios can also cover 30-40 miles easily but with the right radio and weather distances you can communicate around the world. I would expect there to be more Ham radio operators in the survivors because they would get the best information and in remote areas would have had more time to prepare. Glen should know all about ham radios, the only reason I can think for not using them is that they are not encripted.
3. More homemade weapons! If I was a survivor I would be obsessed with having as many weapons as possible. Now that the survivors are going on the offensive I would be making Fertilizer bombs (Timmothy McVeigh style). I would be making more traps. Get zombies to follow you into a warehouse, close the outside doors then light it on fire.
3. Add a dog a Cat and a Gorilla with a baseball bat! Never mind, cool idea but already taken.
I am sure I will think of more later
Another thing that would be worth mentioning in the story would be nature triving now that humans lost the ability to efficently control them. There is a awesome documentary about how wolves are thriving in the radioactive area around Chernobyl. The radiation causes what humans would consider a unacceptably high birth defect rate but its not a problem for wild animals.
It would be cool for survivors still in boulder to trapped by a small group of zombies and be saved by a mixed pack of wild dogs and wolves.
4. I would expect flying animals to really be thriving, The California Condor was barely saved some extinction, there were only 22 alive in 1987, estimated 400 alive today. Being a scavenger that eats dead animals I would expect that they are thriving. California Condors are HUGE 9ft wingspan. If the survivors saw one othe these they would comment on it. Vultures may even be a way to spot the zombie nests because of all of the bodies stored there.
http://documentaryheaven.com/wolves-in-chernobyl-dead-zone/