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To survive zombies in Canada you just need to be able to survive one winter beyond about 52N inland. The zombies will be so freezer burned that they won't be able to function
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Saladman posted:A place they can just walk to? Better luck on Newfoundland, although I'm not sure about the canonical ability of zombies to walk underwater. I hear the place is a natural fortress. Protected from the NW - N - NE with cold. Protected from the W and S by mountain ranges. You would only have to build a large wall anti-zombies in the SE. You want to live in a place that is easy to defend against zombies, but not too cold. We need more Canada maps, to study this.
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Remember about 15 years ago when zombies were real big and the idea of society collapsing was still comfortably in the realm of fiction?
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And most of the yellow section's population is in the Great Lakes area of Ontario, too.
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Arglebargle III posted:Remember about 15 years ago when zombies were real big and the idea of society collapsing was still comfortably in the realm of fiction? I really hated that phase. Partly because you couldn't talk about societal collapse without people talking about their zombie apocalypse bug-out bags with duct tape and a flashlight and their elaborate plan to travel 5km to get to this totally cool house with plenty of weed plants.
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My plan was to head to an old Spanish fort on the coast
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I found a new thing on wikipedia. International presidential trips of Barack Obama  International presidential trips of some other jerk  International presidential trips made by Benigno Aquino III, former president of the Phillipines  International presidential trips made by Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran
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Lakes, rivers, coasts...people tend to congregate around them.
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Spazzle posted:Egypt is striking, but I wouldn't be suprised if California was roughly equally skewed. Or Canada. I found a couple maps with size buckets that almost match.   I tried to recolor CA to match Egypt:  Of course "roughly equally skewed" has a lot of wiggle room but looking at these I lean nah.
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California isn't all that interesting, because it's a bunch of random spots rather than a nice continuous string.
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Sax Solo posted:I found a couple maps with size buckets that almost match. What's up with that line out in the western desert in Egypt? There's no road or oasis anywhere near there. It's also oddly missing some other oases between Bawiti and Mut, namely Farafra and Abu Minqar. Neat map, weird phantom populations. There are a lot of desert tracks out there, probably by military? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Egypt/@23.8110091,25.2749788,8161m/ Cave of Swimmers has been closed access for a decade unless you work for National Geographic and have exceptional government access. I couldn't find any military settlements in the Western Desert although presumably there are some. Definitely no road out there, so the lines suggesting continuous low-density habitation are odd. Saladman fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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Zerzura.
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It might just be a geotagging error, but I like the idea of there being one Dutch teenager just hangin' in the western desert for some reason: https://www.google.com/maps/@23.077...!7i10752!8i3486
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Sax Solo posted:Oh my reaction was how the path of I-5 is pretty easy to see. That’s state highway 99, not I-5. Fresno is the largest city not served by an interstate.
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Count Roland posted:I really hated that phase. Partly because you couldn't talk about societal collapse without people talking about their zombie apocalypse bug-out bags with duct tape and a flashlight and their elaborate plan to travel 5km to get to this totally cool house with plenty of weed plants. If you weren't a total waste of carbon it was a fun little thought experiment to make non-idiots realize just how fragile modern civilization is and also think about things like disease vectors and stuff like that. Most people just wanted to jerk off to how rugged they pretended they were and often did so as an excuse for very thinly veiled racism. I'm glad the fad seems to have mostly passed
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The only way I take my zombies nowadays is korean. They've put out a ton of good zombie stuff in the past five or so years.
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Count Roland posted:I really hated that phase. Partly because you couldn't talk about societal collapse without people talking about their zombie apocalypse bug-out bags with duct tape and a flashlight and their elaborate plan to travel 5km to get to this totally cool house with plenty of weed plants. I really hated it too because I was into zombies before it was cool, and then suddenly every rear end in a top hat who didn't even know who Romero is was talking about them. Well, anyway. Of course it mostly turned into masturbatory survivolist nonsense rather than what zombies were really about.
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CommonShore posted:And most of the yellow section's population is in the Great Lakes area of Ontario, too. not as much as you would think. the majority is, certainly, but you've also got nova scotia, new brunswick, new foundland and labrador, and PEI.
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I think my favourite book of that phase was definitely World War Z, which had characters heap scorn on the survivalist wankery, referring to them as LaMOEs (Last Men On Earth) who mostly just ended up being an obstacle to society getting back on its feet. I did also like The Knowledge, which came out at the very tail end of the fad and was something of an antidote to it in my view; highly focused on advice on how to rebuild society after a hypothetical collapse, it underscores heavily that any hope for a future would lie in the people who could work together, not the people who sit in their bunkers with nothing to do but jack off for the rest of their lives.
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There's an incredible misanthropy to zombies too. Like not just in the way that zombie defense plans could easily be repurposed towards mass murdering unarmed crowds, but in the way that when zombies are metaphors for something else, it's often something more directly misanthropic like the unthinking masses. I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of zombie media portrays postapocalyptic humanity as a wreck that's unable to get along, just killing eachother in the ruins. But anyways, map 
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Kennel posted:California isn't all that interesting, because it's a bunch of random spots rather than a nice continuous string. It isn’t really random - the <10 and <1 density is basically mountains and desert and the former break up the urban and main agricultural areas.
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Looking at the New Jersey Map: you can pretty clearly see the I-80, I-95/Turnpike/Northeast Corridor and Parkway corridors. Highways: New Jersey's Niles.
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 As far as US states go, Colorado is pretty linear. Not Egypt but most of the population lives right on the line between the flatlands and the mountains.
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SlothfulCobra posted:There's an incredible misanthropy to zombies too. Like not just in the way that zombie defense plans could easily be repurposed towards mass murdering unarmed crowds, but in the way that when zombies are metaphors for something else, it's often something more directly misanthropic like the unthinking masses. I don't think it's a coincidence that a lot of zombie media portrays postapocalyptic humanity as a wreck that's unable to get along, just killing eachother in the ruins. Edgar Allen Ho posted:The only way I take my zombies nowadays is korean. They've put out a ton of good zombie stuff in the past five or so years.
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The original World War Z mostly felt like it was being very critical of capitalism, globalisation, and American exceptionalism and imperialism, even if it made a few naive slip ups here and there, and ends quite optimistically, although I believe the author has said some things to the contrary, but hey, reader response takes primacy and all that. The whole 'battle of Yonkers' sequence was a very obvious critique of American military conduct, where all the wizzbang murder toys are meant to produce 'shock and awe' but that doesn't work on zombies.
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 Percentage of ICU beds occupied per state Elections, consequences, etc.
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RoastBeef posted:Looking at the New Jersey Map:  Connecticut is pretty similar - you see I-95 running along the coast east to west, and I-84 coming diagonally from the southwest and I-91 coming up from the middle, with both passing through Hartford and into Massachusetts, leaving a whole lot of not much in our northwest and northeast corners.
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Connecticut is an apt name for a strip of land whose entire purpose basically is connecting New York and Boston.
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The only show that treated the zombie scenario with thought and a willingness to explore its implications was Z Nation VVVV Indeed steinrokkan fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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steinrokkan posted:The only show that treated the zombie scenario with thought and a willingness to explore its implications was Z Nation Z Nation owns
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Bodyholes posted:
The Front Range really is fairly narrow. If you go 30 mins east of the city limits of Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo it turns into Kansas really quick. Map of European surnames that mean smith. 
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frankenfreak posted:Connecticut is an apt name for a strip of land whose entire purpose basically is connecting New York and Boston. It's the opposite of this, it's to keep them away from killing each-other.
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Soviet Commubot posted:The Front Range really is fairly narrow. If you go 30 mins east of the city limits of Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo it turns into Kansas really quick. Just checked and there are about 220 people with Smed as their last name in Sweden. Ive certainly never heard it spoken as a name in my life. Its no Smith or Schmidth thats for sure! In fact occupational last names are rare as hell come to think of it. Its more meadows and trees and flowers and valleys etc
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Just checked and there are about 220 people with Smed as their last name in Sweden. Ive certainly never heard it spoken as a name in my life. There's about double the who are named Smeds. But they're both dwarfed by the 2 358 Schmidts. Something something snow Germans.
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According to wiki all the top 20 swedish surnames are patronymics so
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Threadkiller Dog posted:Just checked and there are about 220 people with Smed as their last name in Sweden. Jasper Tin Neck posted:There's about double the who are named Smeds. Mr. Smeds' only claim to fame is that time he sold a hat to a certain Mr. Spats.
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