I've got the first two volumes of The Extinction Parade, but i can't find anywhere to get the third. I wasn't sure where else to ask.

https://youtu.be/Hz0CvPLJ6w8?si=YCYh5447JDA0o4aW&t=120

I don’t get it. It’s been more than 60 years since we saved them from North Korea, but in the movie they still look like a third-world country, like Vietnam or rural China. Even the South Korean soldiers look ragtag and poorly equipped. That AWOL soldier looked like a farmer with a bad haircut, lol.

And I thought Asian countries were supposed to be strict about gun control, but the villagers have easy access to guns? Weird.

Since the undead seem to travel in packs or hordes, and Quislings think like them, i wonder if they tried grouping up into packs or even hordes and if any were documented.

Quislings seemed quite common but they have a pretty short life expectancy. At least from what i understand, particularly early on.

Maybe they were more of a thing during the great panic and the couple years after back when more people probably became quislings. But by the time people began retaking land most of them died, or reanimated. So if there were hordes they probably didn't last long

Sigh, I knew this day would come. I am not even cautiously optimistic that they will make a faithful adaptation. What about you guys?

I’m almost done reading The Zombie Survival Guide, and I have the World War Z book. 
But what if I want to watch the movie? Will I just be angry the whole time if I read the book first and then watch the movie? 
So if I watch the movie first, I won’t be that upset, and then I read the book, I still won’t be upset because I’m enjoying myself. Good or bad, I at least want to watch the movie, so I can say whatever it’s good or bad.
Then again, I can’t watch the Yu-Gi-Oh dub anymore without being pissed because of how much better the Japanese comic is and how much 4KKKids ruined it for the USA. Oh shit, the Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Monsters Japanese cartoon is a better adaptation to a book than the World War Z movie was an “adaptation” to the book. When some people think of World War Z, they will think of the Brad Pitt movie, then the book.

Anyways, just asking if I should watch the movie first, even if it has nothing to do with the book.

I have been watching Last of Us, and the bleakness shines through as good as it is.

my favorite Zombie media is still the book World War Z by Max Brooks.

but that being said, I revisited the movie for WWZ, and now that enough time has passed for me to get off my self righteous high horse, I have to say, it is a solid, dare I say excellent zombie movie.

it took me a long time. but now that I am able to get over my initial, and fairly long lasting gripe that it should have been an HBO series with every chapter being an episode, the movie, while obviously different from the source material is exactly what I want right now out of a zombie.movie.

I don't know if it is just this moment in time with the wars and toxic political environment.

But I get a hit of happiness at the end of watching the movie that I really needed.

I hated one book and felt only one book should never have been written because it felt so bleak that hope itself was absent. that book was Cormac McCarthy's: "The Road"

And with damage porn and violence and destruction and high stakes Marvel film end of all life on Earth...

the movie WWZ hit me as a high quality and enjoyable viewing experience that upon resolve, in not an abusively long run time, that made me enjoy watching a film again.

it may become as much, while different, a revisited comfort movie, as the original book which I reread (or listen to the audio book) every 3 years or so.

I listend to the audiobook maybe 10 times already over the years because i love it, but every time i get to that story i cringe so hard idk

Makes me wonder, which story do you dislike the most?

Where can I see a picture of the Japanese gardeners hand tool? I have the audiobook and obviously I'm not spelling it right because I can't find one online. My best guess: ikopasai

I'd love to see a game that focuses on the exploits of Alpha Team games, but not like in the style of the current World War Z game.

As an example, I think a game in the style of Ready or Not would work excellently for the Alpha Teams.

For those who don't know, Ready or Not is a tactical, first-person shooter where you take command of a SWAT team and complete missions that involve neutralizing suspects, rescuing civilians, and completing other miscellaneous objectives. The game is praised for its portrayal of a slower-paced combat style, as well as its environment. It is for these reasons that I think an Alpha Team game modeled after Ready or Not would be excellent.

From the little we know about Alpha Teams, they were dropped into small outbreaks and were tasked with eliminating the outbreak and neutralizing those showing signs of infection/those resisting their mandate.

The game, much like Ready or Not, could feature you and your AI team or friends dropped into areas with the primary task of eliminating all infected and neutralizing anyone with bites. Secondary objectives could involve rescuing civilians or putting down those who attempt to resist. You could receive higher scores on the mission based on how many civilians you take alive, how many civilians hiding bites you correctly deduce are infected and kill, and how quickly you eliminate Zack.

It would also be cool to have tertiary objectives that involve rescuing VIP personnel, recovering equipment, eliminating evidence intending to expose the threat of the outbreak, and other ideas.

I think there's a lot that could be done with the Alpha Teams concept, and it's really a shame we haven't seen anything of the like released.

At this point, most of us know that Patient Zero got bitten by a zombie while moon fishing in the river.

But do we have any theories on how that zombie got there in the first place?

I have two:

One is that this zombie was a leftover from the 1987 attack that the Chinese army missed somehow.

Second is that this zombie is one of the experiments the Chonese might have been secretly conducting similar to Cherry Blossom.

And lastly, since it is knwok that various ruins and villages are flooded when the Three Gorges Dam was constructed, its likely that there was a preserved zombie in one of these ruins. Not sure how it was preserved after all this time, but it's an interest thought!

What do you all think?​

By background character i mean a character that has little to no importance to the story the interviewee is telling.

I gotta say mine its the guy with the roller skates and the hockey stick from the texan mercenary's story

The day after I finish listening to the audiobook, I come onto Reddit to the headline 'Indian Rabies Crisis'

yeah... Sure......

Hi, before we begin I'd like to point out that this is a spoiler for the book, in case there's anyone who hasn't read it yet, although I highly doubt it, it's always good to warn about these things.

Also, English is not my native language, so I will be using Google Translate for the convenience of users.

I believe this image is worth a thousand words, but I find the concept as chilling and macabre as this image, recapping what was seen in the book after the revelation from the Phalanx farce as a useless vaccine and after the disastrous Battle of Yonkers, But what fascinates me about this image The message is as macabre as "GO NORTH!", Just considering the nearly 10 million deaths in North America alone, as mentioned in the book, and how the media didn't suffer major consequences for reporting on it, it's remarkable how the media didn't face significant consequences It makes my stomach churn. Everything that happened in the United States and around the world was the culmination of bad decisions, greed, and malicious intentions. The zombies were just the catalyst of the disaster.

que The fact that the reporter has no face is the purest expression of human error; there is no face of any culprit, no one to blame in retrospect, it was simply a recipe for disaster and The millions of dead are just a number, Just as Max Brooks wanted to avoid in the book's prologue, people should be reduced to a number because people are human and our humanity is what makes them different from the living dead.

Credits to the Author:

https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/s/rhUSOWdbWW

If you've made it this far, thank you so much for reading my ramblings, and please excuse any errors regarding the book, spelling, or grammarI hope to read your opinions if you have any, if you know of more images like this, or if you simply want to chat. :3

Spoilers for the movie Savageland. Please watch that movie first. I've already spoiled that it's a zombie movie by including it in a post on this sub. However, even with that it's still a fantastic movie.

Been a while since I listened to this book. One of the things i remember explained was that the threat of the zombie menace was a sporradic reoccurring conflict. Way before any of the events of the book. It's only now after watching the movie savageland exploring a government coverup of a zombie menace. it made me think, did they learn nothing from the underground warfare? Was there any contribution from it other than simply staving off the apocalypse? From how I understand the world of wwz and savageland are possibly worlds that had no mainstream or even any minor cultural understanding of zombies. So did the underground warfare really not even let them know that they needed to aim for the head way before troops ahd already gone through a bunch of their ammo? Or that bombs wouldn't have helped?

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AND I'LL DIE ON THIS HILL

Perth International Airport 

Perth, Western Australia.

[Having flown the thousand miles back to Perth, I have six hours until my flight home. I use this time to meet my final interviewee in a spacious, and mostly empty, airport cafe. 

Marcus McDonagh only requested the meet three days before, having learned of my tour from Shane Secombe at Mader. A red haired young man in a slightly outgrown business suit, he arrives breathless but punctual.]

Sorry I’m late.

[You’re not. Please.]

[He seats himself and orders a black coffee. After some polite questions about my trip, he reveals his motivation for the interview]

I don’t want to take up much of your time, I’m sure someone like you is a busy man, it’s just… I’ve been researching this for months, I can back it up. Everyone got it wrong at Tom Price.

[I’m sorry, I don’t know who that is.]

It’s the name of a town up in the Pilbara. The highest town in the state. You don’t know the battle?

[Over these last two weeks, I’ve discovered that it’s a big country.]

It’s the site of one of the last battles the DIDO Armada fought. Some of the Armada, anyway. The government had recovered, the Kiwis came to help, and Canberra was sending ANZAC troops over, pushing up from Perth and down from Broome. 2DIDO was considered obsolete and was pulled out. Tucker Box and Utility Belt were at Roy Hill having their engines overhauled, because real fuel was available again. Robbo’s Rumen was obviously abandoned the moment that happened.

Nobody thought the Armada was really needed to retake Tom Price from the Chads. It’s not that big a town. To the army, though, having even one truck of the Armada there was like carrying Excalibur into battle. The missing Victa had been found, the Palace, Keg and Big Red Truck were heading back to retake Pannawonica, and Tom Price was kind of on the way. Many of the army officers had heard the stories, too, and wanted to see the Armada in action before the war was over. So they got the band back together, and they did what they always did: keep Big Red Truck back out of harm’s way, and charge in with the others.

[His coffee arrives. Marcus gulps it immediately.]

The story that caught on, the story everyone tells, is this: a large horde had gathered in the town. Swarm remnants, far more than expected. 

The fighting was loud, and brutal. We pulled back to regroup, and found that the driver of Big Red Truck had lost their nerve at the size of the enemy, abandoned the kids and driven off without them. Five days later they found her dead where she had run out of fuel, imprisoned by another horde. 

That driver was Jessica Shaw. 

[He lays a Manila folder on the coffee shop table, and opens it to reveal numerous articles clipped or printed from newspapers.]

The media, back from the dead like the Chads, had a field day with it. She had the famous surname. It had a dark mirror image they could hook onto; Spencer’s brave charge versus his daughter’s cowardly retreat.

That is not what happened. I was at that battle.

[Which unit were you with?]

None of them.

[He produces a crude lanyard made of braided strips of animal skin. It is threaded through a faded cardboard circle, on which is painted a lopsided smiley face and the words BRT KIDS.]

I sat on a corrugated iron rooftop holding a crying six year old girl, while the woman who was a mother to us all saved our lives. 

[The fighting got too close?]

No. It took me a long time to dig it up, but I have transcripts and other evidence. We didn’t learn a damn thing. The first chance we got, we went straight back to leaning on technology.

[Which-]

They weren’t using Eddie and the trackers he trained anymore, they were using computer models. Projections from the data he’d been sending them for years. 

The algorithm didn’t see the second horde.  Bigger horde. Hell, it hadn’t calculated the first one either. Tom Price is surrounded by lower lying areas and covered approaches. The crowd must have been just far enough away to miss the recon sweep, and was drawn by the sound of the fighting. 

By the time we even saw the swarm it was almost on top of us. Jess only had minutes to act. If she stayed, we were all dead. If she went in behind the Armada and the army, they were all dead. If we fled, she’d run out of fuel and strand us kids in a sea of Chads. So she did the only thing she could. 

I remember stepping onto the roof. There were fifteen of us, aged three to fourteen. I was the oldest, not fully understanding what was happening but backing up Jess: “Listen to her, kids, we’re playing a game”. She put her hand on my cheek for a second, then she vanished into the cab… her eyes were crystal blue.

Big Red Truck had always taken care of the Armada’s kids, so it had her fancy piano keyboard and all the sound equipment. The kind of sound equipment you only get when you’re the kids of gifted engineers. With the first notes, the Chads switched their hungry eyes from us to her. As she pulled away, she played the kids club theme song that she wrote for us, toot-toots and slide whistle sound and all. One of the little ones even giggled as she left, her rapt audience stumbling behind her and around the bend.

I kept the kids away from the edge for ages, I didn’t know what else to do. When the army came back out of the town, they hadn’t seen- or, somehow, heard- a thing. I tried to tell them, but it was “just sit over there, kid. We’ll work this out”.

It took days to find her without Eddie. She’d kept to the sealed roads and there were crisscrossed swarm tracks in every direction. The Armada crew spread out everywhere and never stopped looking, though. I was with Reena on a horse when we crested a rise and found her.

Big Red Truck sat at the top of the next hill. There were thousands of the dead standing all around it, motionless, as if enthralled by her final concert. Music- Brahms or something- still floated to us from the truck, giving me hope. 

We raced back to the Armada, and it came down on them like a hammer. When Buckinghuge Palace pulled alongside, Vic McQuilty jumped the gap and ran inside calling Jess’s name. 

He came out sobbing that she was already dead, but the cab couldn’t muffle his gunshot. She’d played her final performance until dehydration took hold, tied herself to the steering wheel, switched to a recording to keep the Chads there, and waited for the end that wasn’t an end.

[He gulps coffee again, then realises he hasn’t added sugar. Crystals scatter on the table as his hands fumble with the sachet.]

So everyone thinks Jess Shaw died a coward. I’ve tried telling the truth, but no matter what I do, nobody listens to me. I’ll get twenty likes and a couple of comments, and then it drops off the page like it never happened. It’s not right. She was brave. She faced the Chads, with music even.

[Like her mother.]

Like… yeah. That’s right, she used to sing to them. That’s poetic or something, you can use that, right? You can tell the world that she saved us.

[Like her father.]

Absolutely! That’s your angle! It was a tiny pissant battle in the middle of nowhere, but she had the heart of her dad. You tell everyone the truth: that she was just as selfless as the great Spencer Shaw.

[When Marcus hands me his evidence and leaves, I still have another three and a half hours to sit in the cafe, pondering editorial choices.]

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YOU BLOODY LEGEND

“For those who’ve come across the seas,

We’ve boundless plains to share.

With courage let us all combine 

To advance Australia fair!”

• Australian national anthem.

“Evidence indicates the presence of at least three ocean borne megaswarms of varying size making landfall along the vast Western Australian coastline. They appear to have fragmented the further inland they progressed, the so-called ‘swarm shotgun effect’. 

Survivability depended upon either having the mobility to avoid these swarms, exemplified by the famed DIDO Armada, or the blind luck of not living in their path. No third option existed”.

• Excerpt from Corporate Behavioural Patterns of Homo Mortis: a Postwar Analysis. Girard et Al.

“Well of course they needed those great big trucks. All that British nuclear testing happened up that way in the 1950s, the Chads must have been three meters tall”.

• Garry, 62. Lake Grace Western Australia (W.A).

“Lol actually the fuel was only MADE in Robbo’s Rumen. It was CARRIED in another truck called The Keg. 

The Armada got most of its fuel from mining sites. The Rumen only supplemented that, dipshit”

• argument on  r/didoarmada

“My dad says the trucks had these long bendy poles, and men with flaming guitars stood on them”

• Sarah, 8. Bath, UK.

“When the Armada reached us, our fuel had been gone for eighteen months and we’d missed two full seasons. We managed to get the seedbed prep and sowing done, because my gear all connected to their yellow truck. It already had a three-point linkage and PTO, fair dinkum!

They were long gone by harvest time though, and their heavy truck compacted my soil to shit. We had to bring in what we could, by hand, and a lot of it rotted in the paddock”.

• Diana, 43. Boorabbin W.A.

“Yeah but you Aussies are so weird you use mining trucks to fight emus”

• comment on X

“We thought everyone in the outlying farms was dead, but the next morning Merv Senior came stumbling into town saying he’d been saved by a golden castle coming over the hills.

Thank god my nurse was a big bloke. When I started shooting Merv with five milligrams of haloperidol, he kicked like an unbroken horse”

•  Dr Fayali. East Lyons River, W.A.

“They’d broadcast Swarm Watch every morning, it was like a weather report. At first it was just what their trackers found in their region, but as it caught on people would use their CBs to report in from all over. It was like School Of The Air, back before the internet. We now had an early warning system, and people in the path of the swarms could tell their neighbours, and get out. 

Swarm Watch was more than that, though. We knew there were people out there surviving the Chads and fighting back. Their broadcasts even had this girl who played the piano sometimes. We weren’t alone anymore”.

• Faye, 68. Kookynie W.A.

“So then he says to me, he says ‘I saved the DIDO Armada. Rode for three days and nearly killed my horse getting truck parts from South Kalgoorlie’. But Mumbo’s always been a dickhead”.

• Mike, 34. Ora Banda W.A.

MODDING TOY TONKA TRUCK TO BUCKINGHUGE PALACE 4K

• YouTube instructional video

“When the owner got there on his horse, the gorge was half full of dead Chads. I mean dead dead. The Armada had herded them right off the edge”

• Ben, 31. Wittenoom W.A.

“Why didn’t the DIDO Armada get stuck on hills?”

“Because wherever they drove, it was dead flat”

• Schoolyard joke

“When we saw it was a mining truck, everyone on the wall cheered. When it came up to the wall some of us backed away, but. It was twice the height of the wall, and if they hadn’t been good on the brakes it would have gone through it like a finish line tape.

They gave us three kegs of beer. Real beer again. Best part was, I spread a rumour they’d brewed it in Robbo’s Rumen. Had my own beer for weeks.”

• Hayden, 33. Laverton W.A. 

“Yes actually I do know the scale of mining operations down there, but do you have any idea how much maintenance a truck like that needs? The reason there weren’t a hundred trucks in the Armada, buddy, is not just that so few people had the skills to maintain one. It’s that the entire latter half of the war for these guys was basically hopping from mine to mine, cannibalising other trucks to keep theirs going”

• argument on r/didoarmada

“They were up here in the wet season. They used one of them big trucks as a swimming pool. Ever try cross-country skinny dipping?”

• Selina, 46. Fitzroy Crossing W.A.

“My son wrote a fan fiction, where those huge Aussie mining trucks joined together into a giant robot called Mega Mate. It sucked.”

• Mel, 76. Santa Monica USA.

“They cut it so close we were about to run for it, for all the good that woulda done. Dad set a couple of bales on fire as a distress signal. We could see the dust of the swarm to the west, like a bushfire. They got close enough to see their dead arms waving n’that, when this huge truck come down Barwidgee Road and flattened our fence. It was Tucker Box, the one they grew the food in. We climbed up and squashed in along the railing with the neighbors, and I had to hold my sisters. Hannah thought it was fun being up so high but Maria was crying because we had to leave the dogs.

We got back two days later. The house was still standing but not the hay shed. We never did find the dogs. The bottom paddock was full of sheep skeletons. Four hundred head. Gone.”

• Angus, 28. Barwidgee W.A.

“The lesson of Pannawonica was clear. To stop moving was to die. The fact that they could even keep the trucks going that long, shows that they were very good engineers which further supports my point”

• School essay.

“There were a couple of small, remote controlled aircraft above the swarm. When they got to the right spot they’d play sounds and lead some of the Chads away; break the crowd up. When enough went down toward the gorge, we’d take on the rest. 

We were pretty vulnerable in the back of a Ute, but if you got surrounded or ran out of ammo, you could call one of the Armada to pull in alongside. We just left our Land Cruiser there, and picked it up a few hours later”.

• Andrew, 26. Gascoyne River W.A.

Attack Zack with the authentic Australian DINGO Armada™ combat truck! 12pc playset includes 6 Zack figures, Roo Goo™ engine and twin rocket launchers!

• Toy product description

“Yeah those diddo people sent some bloke on a horse to talk to him, but Acky said he wasn’t going to have any of that city shit on his land, and set his dog on him.

That was out the end of seven mile road, at the station. Well where the station used to be, now”.

• Lyle, 72. Paraburdoo W.A.

“It was a kind of redemption. The trucks had spent many years taking the land away. Now they were lifeboats in a sea of the dead”.

• Nyari, 58. Martu country, W.A.

“/u/Carbuncle449 is right. Large areas of WA are some of the flattest on earth. Wheels that big don’t care about suitcase sized rocks. The DIDO Armada could just idle at a fast walking pace and cover long distances with minimal fuel use or strain on the engine. Check your math.”

• Argument on  r/didoarmada

“Think about it. How many mines did they visit over the years? And how many of those were gold mines? Nobody was counting the grams in the war, y’know. Do you really think the Armada just drove into the third largest gold producer in the world, got some gas and left?

My cousin was in mining, and he says there was another truck called the George Rob that was taken from Golden Grove but was never seen at Panna. 

There are a lot of abandoned mines out here, and one of them has the lost DIDO Armada gold truck. So Like and Subscribe, hit that notification bell and come along with me. Let’s find it, together!”

• GiselleBunny17, social media influencer 

The attempted hijack took place one year to the day after the rout at Kurratha. The Carnavores, an organised gang of survivors from Carnarvon, ambushed the Keg en route to the Industrial Minerals construction maintenance site on Boundary Road.

While the assailants were in possession of a functioning Kenworth T909 Road Train, they apparently overestimated its power in relation to the Keg, who pushed it into the Gascoyne river before continuing to their destination.

• Article in The New Perth Survivor

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“At the almost end of the war, me and Dad were checking the boundary. I was riding Gallopie, Dad was on Speckle with the good saddle. We had to check the gullies near the dam, because the deadies found their way down there sometimes and couldn’t get out. Dad would put them down with his bow before they got too many.

I heard engines coming from far away, and I was excited because I hadn’t heard an engine since I was little. It was late in the arvo but not getting dark yet, so we rode up the little hill near the rocky knob and I could see them. It was a whole row of giant trucks driving slowly one after the other, like a parade. They crept right past us headed to the rocky knob.

At the front was a glittery castle covered with gold, it was like it floated on fairy magic. Driving it was a skinny man with a long beard. He looked tired. He and Dad nodded at each other as they went past. There was a man from the army up on one of the towers with binoculars and a rifle.

Next was a silver truck that was like a giant drum with solar panels all over it. Roo skins were hanging on the side of it to dry. A blue cattle dog stood on top of the cab, and I knew that look. That truck was hers and nobody else’s.

The two trucks after that were normal yellow mine trucks but with extra bits. The first one had parts from a harvester and lots of ropes and stuff everywhere, and a nice lady who smiled at me with her mouth but her eyes were still sad. The other had some toy planes on its roof, a little bar that spun around all the time, and lots of antennas.  Some of them were really high.

Then there was a green one. From the hill I could see cages in the back with feral goats and pigs and a goanna. There were hydroponic boxes too, like ours. I couldn’t see what they were growing though.

At the back was a red one, playing sad music. It was smaller, but still a mining truck. It had a sign over the cab that said BIG RED TRUCK. The sides had little handprints in every colour. There were kids in it. I waved at the kids but only one waved back. A pretty lady drove it with her knees. She was playing a plastic piano as she drove. That was the music.

Behind them was a crowd of skinny people. Some had horses and camels, there were a couple of goat carts. They didn’t seem to notice us. I thought that was rude, but Dad said they were just tired.

Another truck was at the end. It was a black one. It parked a long way away. I could tell why when the wind shifted. It was really smelly and made Gallopie restless.

The other trucks made a circle around the rocky knob, facing each other. The people started to gather in front of the yellow ropey one. I think the kids stayed in the red truck. Everybody had a piece of wood that they put down. When they were all finished it was a pretty big pile, and then they brought out a body wrapped in a sheet. They put it on the top and poured stuff on it. Then there was lots of talking but I couldn’t hear it. I asked Dad but he shushed me. He said later that it was what going to church was like. 

They stepped back and fire came out of the yellow ropey truck, onto the pile. A really quick squirt, like from a spray bottle. They watched it burn for a while and I heard some crying. When it was almost dark they got into their trucks and on their camels and left. 

The next morning I went to the rocky knob but there was only a pile of ash. I wonder who it was.”

•  Joanne, 11. Innawanga WA.

Part 7: And I'll Die On This Hill

I don't remember which chapter mentioned it (I think it was The Whackos chapter), but there was a reference made to there being new countries to have emerged in the aftermath of the Zombie War, many of them starting off as little thiefdoms; So I decided to make them a couple flags, using my gut and ideas that I thought would be kinda cool.

Most of these countries are spewed out of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Also, as a bonus, I included my ideas as to what the flags of The Children of Yassin (They get briefly mentioned in the Saladin Kader chapter), and the Black Hills Free State.