• toofpic@lemmy.world
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    1. Everything went to shit anyway
    2. I have higher than average survival skills
    3. I am a cyclist in an area with alot of trails and not so many people
      I’d say I would give an IRL Zomboid a try
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      Not me. I played “what if zombies” a few times in my head, and have come to the conclusion the best place to be is the factory I used to work at, and I fucking hate it there with every fibre of my being.

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      IRL zomboid is worse because there are less offline resources available now than the 90s, gun ownership and reliability depend greatly on where you are in the world and what laws restrict you, population is exponentially greater, the environment is much more toxic (UNICEF doesn’t even recommend you try to boil rainwater anymore), and extreme weather makes survival in the absence of modern technology extremely difficult.

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        and sorry, I’m living in Denmark, so only type of noticeable pollution here is from farming

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          Lucky… you only have a fraction of PFAS you need to test for…

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            Yes, I know there is some stuff which is already everywhere, I just meant that in The Scenario i wouldn’t have to worry much about local rainwater quality, even if I was picky like that:)

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        Fuck guns - super dangerous iterms of attracting ALL kinds of attention at once. branch saws as spears ftw!

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          A home improvement box store (in a non-crowded area) is not far from me, and there are multiple bike lanes leading to it. So, tools, pickup trucks, generators, everything

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          Yeah, and plumbing into a filtered sink from the rain collectors too

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            This is for the time before you will have a safehous with everything powered by readily available commercial solar cells.
            (just in case, anything I comment about here would only work in “everyone is a Zed but you”, because otherwise survivors, and more importantly, surviving people in power, will fubar each others and everyone else’s lives, and no long-term idea will reliably work)