Weren't some of those shitty WW2 swords fitted with real blades under the mass-produced hilts? I don't know if it was real but I think I read something at some point to the effect of inter-family disputes between the families of American soldiers who brought back officers' swords and the families of the former officers who want their ancestral sword back. Not sure about the hilt-swap, might be they just took the whole thing off to war and lost it.
Wasn't sure if trying to turn bedsheets into climbing ropes was anything but an elaborate form of suicide but no,
people have actually done that successfully.
Still, even at face value. Trying to fight zombies with a katana seems like an extremely terrible idea.
Also the old man, that seems... idk the language exactly but it feels like the Daredevil thing where people try to turn disabilities into superpowers. Feels kind of sus.
I haven't read the book in like 15 years or smth, and never been one for the sorts of analytical dissections some people do, and haven't been reading it independently now either, and I'd forgotten most of it, but my recollections of this section were actually fairly positive (probably from having forgotten lmao) in that it's IIRC the only part of the book that talks about the experience of someone surviving inside a city. If very vaguely.
Was going to say something about how the reviewer sometimes seems to read interviews maliciously re: the guy not sleeping but then I looked up the actual interview and no, he does say that or near enough, it just isn't quoted here.
You're talking about « The way is shut » or something like that? I liked that fic.
IIRC there's at least two. There's that one, and then there's another without the occult stuff where I think it's just filled with water or smth.
OOC:
Since the topic of most zombies depicted in the media not actually having the ability to collapse society realistically keeps coming up, how would you folks rate Walking Dead style Zombies given the whole "you die (and have most of your brain intact) you're just going to become a zombie, period" thing?
Noting that I haven't actually watched that: IMO that sort of thing, or CDDA's blob, are much better, yes. The zombies being symptoms of the infection rather than the vector means it spreading and causing societal damage makes a lot more sense than shamblers somehow spreading out of control. Cataclysm also has the feature I like in that the zombies themselves aren't (zombie) infectious, so them biting you is just a regular horrible sewer-mouth human bite. More of an environmental/combat threat than the fear-of-contagion thing.
CDDA/Project Zomboid also have the parent infection already widespread before the game itself starts and the majority of afflicted people just simply die outright and stand back up, so it really
is 'one day all hell breaks loose', instead of the plague spreading from a handful of shamblers.
Of course, it's entirely possible other, better-known media has done that already and I just don't know the reference, because I've never watched a zombie movie to begin with.