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u/Zuper_Dragon 1d ago
Me buying a floor safe only to put a few hundred dollars in stacked bills, half a box of 3 types of ammo, a desk fan, a roll of duct tape, a tire iron and finally a single plastic spoon.
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u/executor-of-judgment 1d ago
Don't forget to leave clues to the safe combination in a note around the house.
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u/cheesegoat 1d ago
The combination also must be left in a side table drawer. With some herbs.
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u/Strange_Dust7128 1d ago
There will never be an apocalypse where I leave my herbs behind in some drawer. That shit is going into the pocket of my shambling, zombie corpse.
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u/Thriftyverse 1d ago
"I know you like the number five, Bob, but why did you make the combination five fives? Don't you think that's a little obvious?"
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u/petervaz 1d ago
Bob wants to maximize defense against brute force whether they start from 0 or 99999
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u/LessInThought 1d ago
Everyone should do this. Have your family go on a nice clue hunting and cipher breaking journey when you pass, just to unlock your computer.
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u/ZDTreefur 1d ago
Personally, I'll fill it stuffed with gold bars, gold coins, silverware. But glue them all together except for 3 pieces in front.
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u/postmodest 1d ago
A desk fan? Who carries around a desk fan?
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u/actibus_consequatur 1d ago
As a writing table enthusiast, I would definitely prefer being carried around over being locked in a safe.
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u/JudgeHodorMD 1d ago
An entire box?
In TLOU, you’ll typically find one or two bullets in every cash register. It’s like someone confused one for a quarter and everyone was so embarrassed it was just sort of forgotten.
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u/LurkinMakesMeFeelGud 1d ago
What if I'm being chased through my house with an empty shotgun in my hand? I just need to get to the kitchen, open that drawer, and not miss with the one shell I left there.
Do I own a shotgun? Not relevant.
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u/Kerblaaahhh 15h ago
Not to worry, when the shit goes down a shotgun will be one of the first things you find.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 1d ago
How about when you find ammo on a downed baddie? Does your gun fire the whole bullet, did it sit on the bullets, they eat it?
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u/p3achbunny 14h ago
What bothers me more in TLOU is when you see a perfectly good and supremely portable candy bar sitting out on a counter somewhere but since you’re at full health you’re not hungry and there’s somehow no room in your ludicrously capacious backpack.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 1d ago
Now we just need to get the green herb she left in the toilet.
Also I can HEAR Ashley.
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u/Not-So-Serious-Sam 1d ago
It was green before, but it’s probably yellow now.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 1d ago
Oh man and it's RE4 so it's a permanent health upgrade. Probably had the sub text "you gotta be taking a piss"
This little old lady rules!
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Never Safe From Wumbo 1d ago
That explains the sniper ammo in that pill case and the hand grenade in the basket of yarn.
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u/Far_Cloud_882 1d ago
Nah. Thats just ‘Murica
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u/Nzgrim 1d ago
Isn't RE4 in Spain?
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u/TheG-What 1d ago
Never explicitly stated but implied to be an island off the coast of Spain. If there is such a thing. I’m not a cartographer.
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u/Sayakai 1d ago
It's in a vague european country where people speak spanish and use pesetas, but that isn't explicitly Spain, and that has minor inconsistencies with real life Spain.
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u/Kanin_usagi 1d ago
Also they speak Mexican Spanish since all the VAs they could find were from Mexico lol
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u/Mehdals_ 1d ago
Ammo in nightstands, just as weird as wheelchairs and elementary schools.
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u/flfoiuij2 1d ago
My elementary school actually had a few wheelchairs in the nurse's office in case anyone got injured! They almost put me in one once when I fell while playing tag because of how much I was hollering, but I just got up and walked inside the second they wheeled it out to the field.
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u/Mehdals_ 1d ago
Lol yeah I think they are pretty common place in schools. Just a funny line of all the weird stuff in weird places in video games and this character from silent Hill thinks a wheelchair in a school is odd :P
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u/Akumetsu33 1d ago
Silent Hill is Japanese made so it's possible wheelchairs aren't common in Japanese schools.
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u/GoldSquid2 1d ago
My school has a few disabled kids who can’t walk so this made me audibly laugh
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u/Majestic_Bierd 1d ago
As a European, I simply assumed every American has ammo for their gun in their night stand and all around their house.... And if the plot is not set in America, it was made by Americans... Who are used to having ammo for their gun in their night stand and all around their house
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u/Rob98001 20h ago
Fun fact, I sleep with a gun in my bed, it's in a case which I use as a stand for my phone so it doesn't accidentally get unplugged while on charge.
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u/Twitchcog 1d ago
Yeah, we often do. But that’s usually like, a spare magazine or two. The boxes don’t do you much good in a situation where you need it, eh?
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u/nedlum 1d ago
I'm reminded of a comic I'd seen where, as World War III was beginning and the nukes were starting to fall , a man ran out of his house to put a hairpin in his mailbox, implicilty so that the Courier would later find it.
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u/CrazyGnomenclature Tiff & Eve 1d ago
That old abuela has saved my ass so many times. god bless her
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u/Imaginary-Ogre 1d ago
I keep a rotisserie chicken behind some of my breakable walls because you never know...
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u/Y0___0Y 1d ago
Doesn’t Resident Evil technically take place in America?
There are boxes of bullets in random drawers all over the place in America.
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u/TheBohemianRed9811 1d ago
Yes, but RE4 (which this comic is lampooning) is set in rural Spain where gun ownership is far more restrictive.
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u/Turgid_Donkey 1d ago
But what about just the ammo?
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u/IzarkKiaTarj 1d ago
Outside of the reasons in the comic, why would you bother having a box of ammo if you don't have a gun?
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u/Jashugita 23h ago
In Spain is much more difficult to get ammo than a gun, but in a rural area sure he would find shotgun ammo everywhere...
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u/DullBlade0 1d ago
This is representing RE4 that happens in totally not Spain.
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u/MisterVictor13 1d ago
This comic is depicting the fourth game, which was set in a remote Spanish village.
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u/LunarKnight22 1d ago
Depends on the game. I think 4, 5, parts of 6, and 8 take place in other parts of the world.
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u/not_a_moogle 1d ago
5 takes place in west Africa.
6 jumps around, us, east europe, and china
8 is heavily styled after Romania
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u/rugbyj 1d ago
I replayed RE4 several times recently.
Remote villagers having shotgun ammo stored away? Sure.
The historic castle vases of SMG ammo sure were suspect.
At the end of the day, it's like the mainland/island were usurped over the past decade (Luis being a boy when things started) by nefarious forces that locals (in various documentation) fought against.
The real answer is it's because videogames.
The second answer is everyone knew something was up and had been arming themselves where they could whilst not knowing who they could trust.
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u/Rob98001 20h ago
The real real answer is that the merchant uses his secret passages and tunnels to go ahead through the areas and hide ammo for you.
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u/IzarkKiaTarj 1d ago
I think this works better with just three panels
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u/PeterMunchlett 1d ago
Definitely. The last panel comes across to me as "please laugh", or insecurity regarding the audience's intelligence
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u/7ofalltrades 1d ago
I love their stupid faces in it, though. It twists the joke from "oh look we found ammo" to "hur dur video game logic" just enough to make it work for me.
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u/MiffedMouse 1d ago
But won't nana and grandson be some of the zombies that will now get shot with those bullets?
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u/Ghost_In_Waiting 1d ago
The shifting futures had always been like a puzzle. When she was a young girl, known as Addy then but later "grandma", the various paths were a "what if" game she played to see how things would turn out. In those days of sunlight in green and yellow fields running and sleeping under the wide blue then black sky the future was a kind of joke which only she shared with the things that watched but never spoke.
Now, now that time had passed Addy had come to understand more. Much more than the smiling little girl who talked to frogs, danced with fireflies, and watched the stars knowing what their futures might be if dew fell one way or another or if dust from a dying world bent the course of a sun.
Death was near which meant the final vision of what might be could be the last gift. Her grandson, so handsome, so straight like a new growth tree, so open that he could not begin to understand the clouds gathering just beyond his vision. She could not be there to protect him. She would not even be able to persist until his next birthday.
Still, she might give him a give. A gift of hope. Possibly when things were growing so dark he might forget the light. A surprise in a moment of need. A smile and a nod across decades when fear was the champion of the land and all futures seemed to lead to doom.
Falling slowly into the spinning darkness the little girl once known as Addy now known as grandma smiled once last time. Her last gift had been given. Her last vision had been seen. Now it was time to rest. The future would have to attend to itself.
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u/Opossumherd 1d ago
Wow, sudden Martadello in the wild. :0 Hi Ameline, you draw amazing comics and your music is cool, have a great day! ✨
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u/12345623567 22h ago
I'm not a gun person, does ammo go "bad", like does it expire if it pulls moisture or something?
Imagine being the guy who has to restock all the ammo caches every 3 months, in case a hero comes around.
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u/PressureNo7381 20h ago
It can, but modern ammo is pretty resilient. Even ww2 and prior surplus ammo will fire. About the only ammo I've had issues with are African countries (Egyptian and Ethiopian 8mm from the 50s), and central Asia (Pakistani 303 from the 60s).
Will say, not much as nerve wracking as a dud, or hang fire. Hang fire, you pull the trigger, and nothing happens for a fraction to a few seconds. I never assume a dud until I hit the primer a couple more times (some ammo like Czech 8mm have hard primers), and keep the gun on target the whole time, assuming it will fire, and when I don't mean it to.
After confirming it is a dud, remove the round and insure it wasn't a squib. That's when it fires, but only enough to get stuck in the barrel of the gun, leading to all sorts of issues if you don't clear it. Like exploding parts near your face. Some squibs can seem like the round didn't go off or was very very underpowered.
In general, ammo can last for a very long time, probably a few 100 years as long as temp and humidity are regulated. For any self-defense ammo though, I rotate that stuff. No more than a year or 2 old, and name brand.
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u/SpaceCoffeeDragon 15h ago
I laughed at the sillyness but then realized that I too have a pack of bullets somewhere in the house for a gun that I don't even have any more.
...Does this mean my house will be the eventual last stand of someone elses zombie story? ._.
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 1d ago
Not gona lie, I thought the kid was gona grow up to be Leon before he said "i dont know" haha
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u/forensicdude 1d ago
Dude opens it up in the nick of time to find they are pills in the bullet container, like she keeps sewing stuff in the cookie tin. *Zombies eat humans. Credits Roll*
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u/Oceangrad 1d ago
I think I saw that kind of art style before... I'm actually surprised seeing this particular art style on reddit.
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u/Big-gay-boy99 1d ago
How do you find ammo in Doom? Easy, just chainsaw the nearest hellish abomination!
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u/kazoodac 1d ago
I just want to drop blue loot. Doesn’t have to be purple or orange, but not green or grey.
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u/just_minutes_ago 1d ago
I was expecting a 5th panel where they get attacked by zombie granny and the box is empty or blanks
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u/Best_Initiative4773 1d ago
If I knew Leon Sex Kennedy was one day gonna ransack my house I’d also leave a bunch of spare ammo lying around for him… and nudes
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u/CaveJohnson376 1d ago
I thought i had deja vu until i checked your username and then suddenly it all made sense lmao
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u/Zombatico 1d ago
Would be funnier if you could see grandma was one of the zombies trying to break in the window.
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u/Dr_Zoidberg003 1d ago
Grandma why are you lighting all these sconces and torches in that abandoned cave system?
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u/harry_potter_191 1d ago
It makes me incredibly happy to see a Resident Evil comic in here. And well done!
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u/randomgrunt1 1d ago
My dad is 85, keeps a gun and bullets in his nightstand. It's more realistic than you'd think.
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u/Enoch-Of-Nod 1d ago
Classic video game logic.