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Naturally the ZRC disagrees with a great deal about the ‘Humans vs Zombies’ nerf game of tag that’s sweeping college campuses across the nation, starting with the title, which clearly promotes the nonsensical idea that Zombies are not people.
“We go to class and go through our normal day and try to avoid becoming a zombie,” Lewis said.
Every night the humans get together for missions to stop the zombies. Sometimes throughout the day they have mini missions such as escorting another human to class.
“The ultimate reason for playing the game is to have fun and survive. The winners get to say we win, we’re awesome,” Lewis said.
And as always, the impact of such a game on current or prospective Zombie students of Texas Tech is neither mentioned or examined. Talk about creating a hostile environment for learning!
Zombies being made unwelcome at our institutions of higher learning? Now that really is tragic. For shame.
Well, ok, it’s hardly an exciting time to hang out with the ZRC alone (unless you’re just that enthusiastic about Zombie Rights and Undead Equality, in which case, we love you) but the ZRC is definitely taking Chicago FearFest up on this deal:
With the fear fest coming up very soon, we got a special offer for you!
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We only have 3 of these, so act fast. Grab an all access ticket HERE and forward your receipt (so we know you actually bought one!) to us here: info@chicagofearfest.com and you will be entered to win 1 of 3 Google Advertising Certificates good for $100 in free advertising.
The All-Access pass gets you a lot of fun special stuff along with admission to all the critical Anti-Zombie cinema you need to make yourself aware of (including the especially-hateful-looking ‘[REC 3]‘:
ALL ACCESS WEEKEND PASS : $60.00
Access to all movies, panels, Q & A’s, and special events
Admission to Friday and Saturday after-parties presented by FEARnet and hosted by Zombie Army Productions. Mingle with the celebrity guests and film makers!
Official CHICAGO FEAR FEST 2012 limited edition T-Shirt
REC 3 Chicago premiere – See SCHEDULE page for time/date.
FRIDAY ONLY : Reserved VIP seating area for ALL ACCESS ticket holders.
SATURDAY ONLY : Seating in Muvico Premier auditoriums; an exclusive 21+ balcony theater with ultra-plush oversized theater chairs with easy access to Muvico’s upper-level bar and restaurant.
Gift bag from FEARnet
The ZRC has seen a movie from the special balcony seating (‘X-Men: First Class’, nothing Zombie-related per se) and it is pretty swanky.
So if you get one of these passes you can sit with the cool kids (I delude myself into thinking I am one of those) and glower at the Living Supremacism along with the professionals.
And hey, booze! Keep that in mind.
Full Disclosure: Telling you about this contest only worsens our odds, so there’s nothing to actually disclose here. I just like footnotes.
Two new, obviously vicious Anti-Zombie games are out this spring and the reviews are mixed, and unfortunately, miss the Zombie Rights angle entirely. Example:
Play enough games and you learn some universal rules. An enemy’s weak spot is marked in red; purple items are poison; and zombies make any scenario better.
It’s fact. The undead are like the bacon of gaming. Toss them in an open-world game, and zombies add a refreshing twist. Make them the villains of a twin-stick shooter and that tired formula becomes compelling again. The idea has produced hits like clockwork, but two new releases test the limits of this notion and show that perhaps you can have too much of a good thing.
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Although that experience challenged my zombie-bacon premise, “Yakuza: Dead Souls” restored my faith in the concept. The series has always tried to capture the hard-boiled seriousness of the Japanese Underworld. Usually set in modern times, “Yakuza” games are realistic and expansive, focusing on detailed neighborhoods and combat.
Those same ideas are carried over in “Yakuza: Dead Souls,” but this title has more humor as players take on the role of four characters who must survive a zombie outbreak and rescue friends and underlings.
I understand that a review of a videogame should probably include details of its gameplay system and the enjoyability of participating in said system, but at what point do we see a little social responsibility come into play? Zombies are people too! They’re not just ‘bacon’, seasoning to make your idle hours of virtual carnage a bit more enjoyable.
And it might be worth asking yourself why targeting a particular, sadly oppressed class of people makes virtual carnage more enjoyable.
I think it says something about you, Gieson Cacho. I think it says something about you.
A weird disease spreading in Africa has health officials baffled—and the symptoms may sound a little too familiar to fans of George Romero’s work, or of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
Called nodding disease, the zombie-like disorder has spread to more than 3,000 children in Northern Uganda, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) are scrambling to figure it out.
Which should pose a problem for Zombie-haters, since by definition the one thing Zombiism doesn’t do is permanently kill you.
Well, it would if they were paying attention and not out for cheap sensationalism, anyway.
As for the ‘outbreak’ part (and the apocalyptic subtext of the Blastr article), Nodding disease has spread further than previously documented, but on the other hand, it’s been around since the 60s at a minimum. Hardly a great substitute for Solanum from ‘World War Z’.
No, this is just another case of ‘here’s something I’m afraid of, let’s say it’s Zombie-like for page views and exploit the story of a real world tragedy to bash Zombies’.
It may seem odd that running is required to escape “the walking dead”, but an engaging story provides a better reason than most to hit the road – until of course the zombies actually rise and provide some truly deadly motivation.
Yes, the interactive Anti-Zombie experience is all the rage these days, and there’s money to be made peddling real life terror to Zombiephobes who find the mundane, peaceful co-existence thing so much less entertaining than violent fantasies.
But did The Guardian have to indulge these sad, sad people? We don’t think so.
Or, and this is most likely, there will be a zombie apocalypse and the zombies will chew through all the charger cords to all our electronic devices (these will clearly not be brain-sucking zombies, but electrical-wiring-nibbling zombies along the lines of rats. Rats can be a huge problem. So can zombies). Then we’ll all be sorry Encyclopaedia Britannica went exclusively online way back in 2012 because that will be the moment we’ll need to look something up. Like how to kill zombies.
Zombies.. chew on power cables? Since when? When is that even a thing?
Good grief. For every stereotype we debunk someone out there just *has* to come up with another one, don’t they?
It’s a sad statement that much of the populace today lives in constant fear of a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. You almost can’t blame them; the media feeds our society a constant diet of Anti-Zombie terror and prejudice, from ‘The Walking Dead’ to ‘World War Z’ to an entire gamut of videogames, novels, comics and more.
Still, there’s a slight problem with sustaining that fear when the much discussed Apocalypse never materializes. How do you keep up the tension when the Zombie Community refuses to play along and rise up, destroying civilization?
Well, you could adjust your worldview, gain some empathy, repent for your offensive behavior.
Or you could stage a Zombie Apocalypse for cash:
And no, it won’t be playing on a big screen at the mall’s cinema – participants will be living it. Production company Zed Events has created a totally-involved zombie experience and you can take part for just 119 British pounds, or $189 U.S.
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According to information from Zed’s website , the four-hour interactive occurrence with the undead is split up into two rounds: A full-on battle with zombies and then a video-game like mission that participants must carry out.
Yes, the UK is once again Ground Zero for an innovation in Anti-Zombiism: the staged Zompocalypse theme park.
Players are trained in the use of airsoft rifles (to simulate firearm violence against Zombies) and then run through a series of ‘missions’, or perhaps more accurately, simulated pogroms against actors portraying various Zombie stereotypes.
All in all, a grisly and unfortunate spectacle.
Zed Events also has an outing set in a Zombie-populated mansion, showing their Resident Evil roots pretty prominently; all that seems to be missing is an underground military facility, but hey, there’s always next time.
Ugh.
Also tragically, this same sort of public misbehavior for profit is coming to the United States in the fall:
Atlanta’s Zombie Apocalypse will open this fall and give visitors a chance to take up to 20 shots at “a live undead zombie.” Zombie Manor in Arlington, Texas, also gives visitors an interactive run-in with zombies during the Halloween season.
If you’d rather be a zombie than fight them, it might be worth your while to visit Junction City, Kansas. Zombie Toxin Haunted House is looking for a few good ghouls to frighten visitors this fall.
Although it’s often overlooked these days, Anti-Zombie prejudice in America was long associated with Zombies of a supernatural or religious origin rather than the Zombiism of a biological or chemical nature that so paralyzes the public consciousness lately. Zombies were supposedly a symptom of the dangerous Other, a spiritual or cultural affliction, one that presumably could be cured with our own, allegedly superior one.
Apparently these beliefs did not die out entirely, as this unfortunate Youtube video ‘Mormons vs Zombies’ highlights:
Now, longtime readers will know the ZRC is generally opposed to a ‘cure’ for Zombiism, since being a Zombie is a positive, Unlife affirming thing, not a disease or plague. Still, seeing this video reminded me that the line between ‘Zombie’ and ‘Demon’ is hazy indeed, and Zombies are quite likely to face religious persecution for their mere existence.
Can you imagine how discouraging it would be to have missionaries show up your door to refute your very Unlife, rather than just try to push some literature on you?
Very droll. We’re looking forward to it; Zombie protagonists are hard to come by on television after all.
Second up is Sankarea, based on the manga of the same name, which concerns a young Zombie fan who apparently takes a bold step into necromancy after his cat dies.
Could this be a more positive and uplifting Pet Sematary? Oh I hope so. Zombie pets need love too.
The ZRC blog will keep you posted on further developments.
Fear Net has a review up of a new Anti-Zombie game for the 3DS called ‘Zombie Slayer Diox’, and it’s not pretty:
Zombie Slayer Diox, on paper, sounds like a hell of a lot of fun: a portable title for the Nintendo 3DS that casts you as a headbanging hunter of the hungry dead that lures his postmortem prey in with shredding guitar riffs before dicing their decaying bodies into a morbidly melodic mess.
Of course, a lot of things sound good on paper…like communism…and trickle-down economics. And we all know how well those turned out.
The game also apparently dabbles in the 3DS’ three-dimensional display trickery, but badly, causing a confusing and difficult to watch game experience. Sort of like how Anti-Zombie violence, but with eyestrain.
From the ZRC’s perspective, of course, the main problem with this game is that it’s overtly Living Supremacist, and that its cartoon-like graphical style could lead unwary parents to purchase it for their children, thus indoctrinating the next generation against the Differently Animated.
Which is just wrong. We need more Zombie Friendly games, blast it!
The ZRC could really go for one of those about now.
