GrogNerd
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Did you know that the Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was based on a story he wrote For Doctor Who when Tom Baker was The Doctor?
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Did you know that the Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was based on a story he wrote For Doctor Who when Tom Baker was The Doctor?
I don't know why everyone keeps whining about the shooting accuracy. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than an zombie head.
I have to doubt the nerdity of anyone who didn't understand what Malfet wrote!
MalFet said:I don't know why everyone keeps whining about the shooting accuracy. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than an zombie head.
I don't know why everyone keeps whining about the shooting accuracy. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than an zombie head.
I had no idea zombie heads were nearly 6 feet across. That being the case I totally withdraw my skepticism of the shooting accuracy of the show.
I think bobbrews was sexually assaulted by a whining zombie...
I think bobbrews was sexually assaulted by a whining zombie...
I just thought of something that mad ethe accuracy agu,emt a moot point.
If we all watched the episode with Jenner in the CDC, he explains how the zombie brain works.
He said something to the effect of it reanimates the brain stem, which is the part of the body that controls movment breathing and unconcious functions. Now we hsve seen several instances with melle weapons where they would have damaged the major parts of the brain, but not the stemm itself [located right above the spinal cord, think directly behind your pallete] In order to damage it for example by cleaving the head in half, you would have to cut down past the the pallet nearly to the esophogus
my spellin sucks i know
Weirdly enough, I've never read zombie fiction that addressed the brain stem/main lobe issue.
Let's address the basics first. Can you read?
Ah! The root of the problem...
Reading disabilities are directly related to brain stem damage
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Since we're discussing the accuracy of the shooting doesn't it just seem that the group has much better accuracy towards zombies than the guards at Woodbury? I think the massive headshots is simply amp'ing up the thrill of the zombie kill, after all there are alot of zombies out there so they can afford to make killing them much more theatrical.
I wonder if it doesn't have something to do with the limits of what they can show on cable TV. Perhaps there is some magic line that says gratuitous zombie head shots are fair game, but head shotting real people is a no-no.
Or it might just be the fact that if the prison gang one-shot killed all the Woodbury people we couldn't have an extended smoky, dimly lit fire fight....
I hope that wasn't whiny.
no "magic line" - didn't Rick kill Shane/Not-Shane with a headshot?
Carl headshotted zombie Shane if I remember correctly.
Rick stabbed live Shane in the gut.
no "magic line" - didn't Rick kill Shane/Not-Shane with a headshot?
I watched it again and I guess he did?
Initially I thought it was a chest shot because his face is intact with a smear of blood on it, but looking at again the only blood I see is on his face so I guess it was a head shot. I'll spare everyone the rant about the amount of damage Rick's hand cannon would do to a face...
None of this bothers me. I think in the big scheme of things it doesn't detract from the show. It's no different from the cowboy pulling out his six shooter and knocking a guy off of a moving horse at 75 yards in a western. You know that it is damn unlikey, but you also know that it's a TV show.
It doesn't bother me that they can plunge a knife into a skull as if it was made of plastic either
Maybe he re-barreled/chambered it for .22 LR rounds? You know, more readily available during the zombie apocolypse. Seriously though, where is he finding all the ammo for his pistol (.357?), I get that the other weapons they come across have had some ammo or if they found the armory in the prison, but .357 isn't exactly standard issue stuff. Curious if he carries the hog leg as much in the comic?
None of this bothers me. I think in the big scheme of things it doesn't detract from the show. It's no different from the cowboy pulling out his six shooter and knocking a guy off of a moving horse at 75 yards in a western. You know that it is damn unlikey, but you also know that it's a TV show.
It doesn't bother me that they can plunge a knife into a skull as if it was made of plastic either
Maybe he re-barreled/chambered it for .22 LR rounds? You know, more readily available during the zombie apocolypse. Seriously though, where is he finding all the ammo for his pistol (.357?), I get that the other weapons they come across have had some ammo or if they found the armory in the prison, but .357 isn't exactly standard issue stuff. Curious if he carries the hog leg as much in the comic?
Correct me if I'm wrong... a bullet that size (9mm if Im not mistaken, I dont think it was the .44 hand cannon) would make a yittle bitty hole in the face, and blow the back of the head off in the goriest way imaginable, right? The face would be intact...
Yes, small entry wound and large exit wound. As to the knives stuck in heads, I would chalk that up to decomposition. Kind of like Glenn ripped that walker's arm off to give the bone/knife to Maggie (ah, love).
To be honest, how fragile the zombie skulls are is more of a stretch to me than the shooting. I just ignore it and enjoy the show.
To be honest, how fragile the zombie skulls are is more of a stretch to me than the shooting. I just ignore it and enjoy the show.
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