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Florio
Federal Defence Union
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Posted - 2009.01.11 03:12:00 -
[31]
i watched a couple of episodes of Survivors and own a katana.
bring it on! |
Karrade Krise
Galatic P0RN Starz
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Posted - 2009.01.11 03:28:00 -
[32]
I'm in the military, I am the Preperation.
Last name start with H...
So therefore I am...
Preperation H. Able to manhandle any emergency.
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Cmdr Sy
Appetite 4 Destruction
The Firm.
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Posted - 2009.01.11 03:29:00 -
[33]
 Originally by: Dr Slaughter
Yeah although it would be quite hard at the moment with wife plus 1 year old.
Originally by: Florio
i watched a couple of episodes of Survivors and own a katana.
bring it on!
For the benefit of readers, by means of comparison I illustrate the concept of self-selection. Luck and preparedness must be accompanied by an appropriate attitude to risk for them to mean anything beyond the opening moves. |
Cyprus Black
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.01.11 03:56:00 -
[34]
Wow, judging by the answers so far, you're all screwed if something major happens. |
Super Whopper
I can Has Cheeseburger
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Posted - 2009.01.11 04:25:00 -
[35]
Edited by: Super Whopper on 11/01/2009 04:25:35
Only three things you need to survive as has been said before.
Crowbar
HEV suit
Gravity gun
And the wall devices that allow you to recharge your HEV suite.
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Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.01.11 08:01:00 -
[36]
Originally by: Cyprus Black
So I see all these horrible news stories about natural disasters and such. It makes me wonder just how prepared people are for such emergencies.
Do you keep food/water storage?
Do you own a gun (n/a for the UK I suppose)?
Do you have emergency supplies and adequate training?
Are you prepared in case society collapses?
Could you survive on your own without stores and supermarkets?
You could have saved yourself alot of time and effort if you just asked everyone if they had a Zombie plan.
And yes, yes I do have a zombie plan. |
Super Whopper
I can Has Cheeseburger
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Posted - 2009.01.11 08:20:00 -
[37]
Originally by: Jacob Mei
And yes, yes I do have a zombie plan.
Zombie plan only delays the inevitable. |
Sakurako Kimino
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Posted - 2009.01.11 10:21:00 -
[38]
Originally by: Super Whopper
Edited by: Super Whopper on 11/01/2009 04:25:35
Only three things you need to survive as has been said before.
Crowbar
HEV suit
Gravity gun
And the wall devices that allow you to recharge your HEV suite.
there are four things, all you missed was a nun for shield
Originally by: Cyprus Black
So I see all these horrible news stories about natural disasters and such. It makes me wonder just how prepared people are for such emergencies.
Do you keep food/water storage?
Do you own a gun (n/a for the UK I suppose)?
Do you have emergency supplies and adequate training?
Are you prepared in case society collapses?
Could you survive on your own without stores and supermarkets?
Do you keep food/water storage? no but as long as the water it not tempered with by say a chemical bomb then i can make it safe to drink.
Do you own a gun (n/a for the UK I suppose)? no
Do you have emergency supplies and adequate training? no but can make the stuff needed and if not i know where to get it.
Are you prepared in case society collapses? i plan to run the world once this happens
Could you survive on your own without stores and supermarkets? there a field theres cow and sheep there food.
remember if the world does come to an end look out for your own 1st. |
Radoslav Pirs
Cruoris Seraphim
Exalted.
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Posted - 2009.01.11 11:20:00 -
[39]
My answer to all those questions = no
Is that a problem? Nope, not really.
Originally by: Cyprus Black
Wow, judging by the answers so far, you're all screwed if something major happens.
That "if" is quite unlikely, and I don't live my life worrying about highly unlikely scenarios - it's just not worth the time or the trouble.
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Vabjekf
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Posted - 2009.01.11 11:26:00 -
[40]
I have enough stuff on hand to see me through any disaster up until my medication runs out, that will kill me anyway so there's no point in being prepared past the couple months i could survive.
Hopefully the disaster is a zombie apocalypse so i can get some fun in and then live on as the undead.
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Marisal
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Posted - 2009.01.11 12:31:00 -
[41]
I always have to chuckle at these kinda threads in reality no one is prepared for a major disaster that affects world wide.
For a start no matter how much water or food you store is will never be enough to last you to the end of the crisis if society collapses your on your own don't expect help in your lifetime unless you've got enough to last your entire natural life and have a fortified bunker at which point your no longer part of the equation.
A gun... just funny assuming you actually get to the point where your ammo runs out a gun is not 100% protection lets list the ways this can turn negative for you,
-someone's bound to come along with a gun themselves at some point reducing your advantage to nil.
-faced with impending death the gun is less of a deterrent.
-guns don't work very well if there's a horde of looters charging you with more ppl than rounds in the clip.
-gun won't protect you if someone just decides to burn your secure location to the ground.
-you've just given someone a weapon if they managed to get it off you making those that you may have been protecting even more vulnerable.
-you stand guard 24/7 and do you really trust the guy taking the other shift not to kill you while you sleep when he thinks he can last longer without having to share out the supplies with you.
Emergency supplies see above can never store enough.
Adequate training.... rofl basic survivalist training is ok but all survivalist training assumes at some point you'll be returning to civilisation ie theres a time limit on how long you'll be using that training and therefore doesn't have to consider certain factors malnutrition is a good example of this, your unlikely to have a balanced diet while attempting to survive leaving you prone to many diseases. Then you have to consider what type of disaster this is if its a biological attack or simply a natural biological disaster very very few ppl will ever have the training to cope with this so all your survivalist training is for naught.
You can never be prepared for societies collapse simply because no one can ever make a guess at how things would happen what the results would be there can be good guesses these can be seen at your local cinema with fairly good regularity.
No one really could survive long term without stores or supermarkets unless their already existing as such and have another infrastructure to support themselves such as the tribes in the world that have never had contact with humans outside their tribes, and for the majority of society long term survival if society were to collapse would be to return to that style of living basically taking us to where the human race was last iceage.
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Vabjekf
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Posted - 2009.01.11 12:41:00 -
[42]
we would still have technology and machines and such.
What would happen is individual communities/towns would become their own sort of city states. They would generate their own resources if they could (the ones that cant the people would disperse/die off, but agricultural communities produce more than enough food for themselves, they would become rich).
Even in the 'civilized world' there are plenty of places where the only real impact of such a world collapse would be limited entertainment options.
Lots of places get their tap water locally, ive already mentioned food.
it would not be that hard for people to construct basic generators from wind and perhaps running water. not enough for our current lifestyle, but enough that they could have some form of lighting in the night and keep their required electronic devices going (pumps and such).
hell, even i could build a small steam engine out of junkyard parts. Maybe its not very efficient, but small things like very simple computers don't need that much energy, just being able to calculate math problems is enough to do all sorts of things.
The worlds civilization would be screwed, we would lose our infrastructure. Big cities would become impractical and useless and be abandoned (takes too much energy and resources), but 'civilization' in general would be fine. In fact im sure innovations would come out of it since people are forced to directly work and think to improve their immediate situation again.
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Akiba Penrose
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Posted - 2009.01.11 15:11:00 -
[43]
5 Cases of canned white kidney beans in tomato sauce - check!
Rambo knife - check!
iPod full of pron - check!
Im ready!
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Kazuo Ishiguro
House of Marbles
Zzz
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Posted - 2009.01.11 17:54:00 -
[44]
Originally by: Abrazzar
No, but I have a crowbar.
No, but I have a crowbar.
No, but I have a crowbar.
Yes, I have a crowbar.
Of course, I have a crowbar.
A crowbar.
What else do you need to survive?
Pfft, who needs crowbars?
This probably needs a bit of explanation for those who aren't familiar with speed-runs:
Quote:
Q.) Hey, wait just a minute! He skipped the crowbar... What gives?
A.) We saved quite a bit of time skipping Barney's dialogue, and as you'll see later, we didn't need it anyway. Besides, I have yet to see Gordon put that crowbar to ANY industrial use, and frankly, I don't trust him with it.
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Taua Roqa
Minmatar
Silhouette Soliloquy
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Posted - 2009.01.11 18:49:00 -
[45]
b-b-but you need the crowbar to dislodge the barrel to make the thingy drop if you don't have a grenade or rpg handy in the building on the waterhazard map where you see g-man standing.
so as you can see it's clearly essential.
btw i did HL2 on hard last night and the first turrets bit in entanglement is a *****. god damn shotgunners. |
Kazuo Ishiguro
House of Marbles
Zzz
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Posted - 2009.01.11 22:11:00 -
[46]
They skip that entire section by 'flying' across most of the map on random bits of debris  . It's a fun video to watch if you've played through the game.
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20:1 mineral compression
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Minmatar
MasterBlasters Inc.
CORPVS DELICTI
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Posted - 2009.01.11 22:45:00 -
[47]
I got my Mosin Nagant and a daypack full of ammo that was dug up on some farm in the Ukraine in the '60s.... I'm set 
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Putting the sensual in nonconsensual
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Phantom Slave
JUDGE DREAD Inc.
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Posted - 2009.01.12 00:42:00 -
[48]
Yes I'm prepared for a natural disaster.
I own a gun, my neighbor doesn't, and he's been preparing for WWIII for years. Plenty of food, water, and medical supplies over there. |
Jacob Mei
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Posted - 2009.01.12 00:59:00 -
[49]
Originally by: Vabjekf
I have enough stuff on hand to see me through any disaster up until my medication runs out, that will kill me anyway so there's no point in being prepared past the couple months i could survive.
Hopefully the disaster is a zombie apocalypse so i can get some fun in and then live on as the undead.
Heh, you and I are in the same boat. Diabetic?
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To borrow a phrase:
Players who post are like stars, there are bright ones and those who are dim.
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Vabjekf
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Posted - 2009.01.12 08:16:00 -
[50]
Originally by: Jacob Mei
Originally by: Vabjekf
I have enough stuff on hand to see me through any disaster up until my medication runs out, that will kill me anyway so there's no point in being prepared past the couple months i could survive.
Hopefully the disaster is a zombie apocalypse so i can get some fun in and then live on as the undead.
Heh, you and I are in the same boat. Diabetic?
since i was 9 (24 now) |
Reven Cordelle
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2009.01.12 09:48:00 -
[51]
Not any more than the usual household.
Not personally, have the means to acquire a single shot 12 Gauge however. (In the UK)
No.
Probably, All for one and none for all. The first few weeks will be spent armouring my Mustang and adding some spikes to it.
If all the stores and supermarkets ended up being emptied out, I guess we'll all have to learn how to hunt.
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annoing
Fallen Angel's
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Posted - 2009.01.12 10:04:00 -
[52]
No to all.
If such a disaster did happen, that society broke down completely, the government collapsed and all that, i'd rather my family and I didnt survive. My children are too young to survive on their own, so it would be better for them to die in the initial disaster tyvm.
I'll leave the world to all of you survivalists out there 
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jason hill
Caldari
Clan Shadow Wolf
Sylph Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.12 15:27:00 -
[53]
big packet of smokes ..."check"
beer fridge stocked up .... "check"
yup im pretty much sorted for armageddon 
destroy everything you touch |
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