Something tells me this idiot has never seen the Romero trilogy of zombie movies because the whole point of those movies is about how people relate in a crisis. The zombies are hostile scenery.
These kinds of dorks are always illiterate in the genres they try to police.
i still remember when he was trying to make the racist argument that rap wasn't music by using a12-tone equal temperament western music theory as an arbitrary benchmark. huge dork energy
how people relate in a crisis.
The first three seasons of Fear the Walking Dead were really good in this respect too. Lots of moral grey area making you wonder what you would do in the same situation.
It's a shame that Gimple got his grubby hands over the series and completely fucking ruined it in S04 onward :bawllin-sad: It was fr some of the best TV I've ever seen, really careful and fleshed out character development.
I actually heard the bassline in this post, it felt so authentic to DotD.
Sorry but do you mean Dawn or Day by DotD. They have the same acronym lol, and both have great soundtracks
I thought you meant that, the soundtrack by Goblin was a banger, it's probably my favorite movie of all time
I'm not even that super big on zombie lore and media and fell off the wagon on the walking dead after like 2 seasons, but whenever anyone says "the zombies aren't really a threat" you can immediately assume the person speaking is an idiot who knows nothing about what they're critiquing.
The entire point of the zombie genre is that the zombies are never the scariest monster!!!!
:gun-shapiro: saw the ending of Night of the Living Dead and came in his pants
By contrast, when he saw the original Dawn of the Dead, that was when he resolved that Hollywood is full of communists
Whenever there are no zombies onscreen, all the other characters should be asking "where are the zombies?"
They should look at the camera and say "Well, looks like this is the last of us." :so-true:
It is about two gay dudes who meet and have a relationship in which one grows strawberries for the other
Cool, sounds rad as fuck.
It was honestly the best episode of the series and rather heartwarming. There was also a zombie briefly in the episode, which makes me think shapeeno didn’t even watch it.
If you write zombie fiction and it's actually about the zombies you have failed as a writer
yeah zombies are boring vilains on their own strength. They are only good at creating a background of constant danger to highten the rest of the story
as an example of a story I would love to read. What if a classic murder mystery but they can't leave or get help because there are zombies outside
It's like if you wrote a story that takes place in a hurricane and it's just about how the hurricane's really bad and does a lot of damage to stuff and also someone died from the hurricane.
That's just the news. The zombies are there as an existential threat, but more than that as a catalyst for the end of the world, and a reversion to a more directly brutal social order, where people are being executed because it's the preferred alternative to sharing food with them. That's where the good shit is. People senselessly carrying over grudges from the old world, or using the collapse of the status quo as an excuse to run free as monsters. It's about the people who are just stuck in that shit. Regular people, without elite military training, because if they're just hyper-competent and can deal with this new world like they were born for it it's a boring-ass story with no emotional stakes.
Also I do like your story idea, i envision a guy giving the big reveal of who did it at the precise moment a zombie breaks in through the window and he gets dragged out and torn to pieces and everyone has to run but they're also piecing together the clues that guy just laid out and figuring out who they can trust
40% of the angry reactions is due to them fetishizing Nick Offerman as a tradcath libertarian blue collar worker from blue curtain memes and now they’re disappointed he’s not
I think the other 60% is simply that its beautifully executed, and Ben has an inferiority complex the size of Wyoming.
Ben's probably fuming most of all because he thinks he can do better and yet nobody will give him an A-lister budget to make an 80s zombie grind house film.
They really do fetishize him. It's like that episode of American Dad where Stan writes a play about Abraham Lincoln and the entire gay community loves it and reads it as gay-coded
episode 3 spoiler
The funniest part is that a lot of these fuming right wingers see the first act of that episode, all the stuff about a libertarian prepper with a gadsden flag in his gun-filled basement homesteading in a post-apocalyptic world where he gets to live out the fantasy of living only for himself and not having to give a single fuck about anything, basically living the ancap dream, and then after they've all gone "fuck yes finally TV stopped being woke and shows us a man after my onw heart!", all of a sudden that guy they just lived vicariously through turns out to be gay, not with some super hot femboy twink but with another beardy, graying, completely normal dude, and prepper guy just keeps getting gayer and gayer for over 15 years and it's shown as the best and most wholesome thing that has ever happened to him
and it's filmed so well that by the end of the episode everybody is crying their eyeballs out over what's most likely the best tv romance of this year. It's such a perfect setup to own the chuds and they all walked right into it.
Or Romeo and Romeo, in this particular case
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In that moment, after typing that out, he was euphoric. :expert-shapiro:
imagine having so little wit that you arrive at narcissism before "Romeo and Julio" or something.
Dude just play Left 4 Dead. Just play a zombie video game, that's literally the only kind of zombie media where it's actually about the zombies.
But even left4dead is about the standout characters and the team cameraderie more than just zombies - wouldn’t be half as interesting if they were all silent. Zombies almost always have to be the obstacle or backdrop to emphasize characters, even in a lot of silly mechanics focused games. IMO of course
Valve does voice acting and casting right. Unfortunately they don't know a number beyond 2. I heard their Steam deck is ok. GabeN is incredibly humble / DGAF / 3phobic
All of the L4D characters are dear to me. Except Rochelle, she's pretty bland compared to the rest of the cast.
L4D will melt his brain because L4D has Louis and Zoey and L4D2 has Rochelle, no politics in my vidya!!!!111
I've recently reinstalled it and am getting great mileage out of all the "I hear a boomer" voice lines
OG bomer. Fat, nasty, get's it's interalized shit on everything.
Sauron never has control over any of the Rings after the prologue, 0/10.
Pretty certain the walking dead had episodes that didn't feature zombies and had gay men and the baying hogs didn't squeal and moan over that shit.
If I wanted to seem like a smart Logic Man I would refrain from talking about the zombie show at all.
Yeah, why hasn't he cured cancer or invented an unlimited source of clean (or dirty, if clean is too woke) energy by now? According to nonpolitical "Rationalist" types, that's what the big brains are doing when they're not getting paid for Harry Potter fanfiction.
And if you're a fraud don't draw attention to it this is the internet, you can cherry pick your posting to be strictly stuff that doesn't make you look like kind of a dumbass. Thinking the zombie show based on a video game had a bad episode cause there wasn't no zombies in it makes you look like a dumbass.
Imagine watching "television". I only read books and watch films and theater.
Being more into movies than shows is cool because while doing the same thing I can feel smarter.
But there was a zombie?
A very brief scene of it getting its head blown out via a trap, but still.
There was also one in the store basement that was pinned down under rubble
Exactly. There were several zombies in that episode as well as a visceral action scene with Bill blowing away maurading raiders with a rifle and setting them on fire with flamethrower traps.
But they don't even remember that because they were too busy crywanking while peeking through their fingers as they performatively covered their eyes to shield them from the sweetness and romance of an earnest, honest relationship that they'll never feel.
Also one of the characters was a philosophical zombie, but I won't say which one and why.
"It's called game of thrones, right? But not once is there baseball, pinball, a video game, or so much as a round of patty cake. Checkmate, liberals." :expert-shapiro:
TLoU writers:
ep3 spoilers
write an episode about a closed off recluse creating a walled garden and having the time of his life in the conditions of a zombie apocalypse. Life is simple for him, but it becomes significantly more complex when Frank arrives and Bill has to finally reconcile the idea of “The Other” in his head, which turns into a loving expression of humanity when Bill let’s down his guard and let’s Frank into his life. And as an extension of it, Bill has to defend his resources from people who would kill him for it, much like how the zombies would like to kill Bill for control of his body. In this episode he transforms from having a black and white view of life to learning that it is much more complex and gray.
Bennie Shapiro: WHERE ARE THE ZOMBIES I WANT TO SEE THE ZOMBIES I CANT SEE ANY ZOMBIES
