Why Are Zombies So Popular!? "Reply 4 Sub"
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BunnyoftheSea
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Its the closest thing to killing humans and the general feeling of zombies is just frightening, and people love fantasizing about what they would do in a zombie apocolypse, and it could happen someday, its not to far off to think about a pharmaceutical company make a re-animating tissue stuff or potion lol
Salis
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zombies are popular for a simple reason gamers love killing things obviously killing humans has its consequences but with zombies hacking them apart with a chainsaw, which has now been used more against zombies in fiction than wood in real life, is consequence free its kill or be killed theres never only one so if you take one down 3 more pop up to take its place, plus theyre already dead so it would jusrt be laying the dead to rest in a bloody graphic messy way which plays to the animalistic blood lust within humans.
firehot12
I've Got It
This pretty much sums it all up. It's like killing humans but technically they're already dead, and they're suppose to be dead. So killing them has no real consequences like it does with killing a live human being.
Also because that feeling of freedom you get during a zombie apocalypse. No paying taxes, you don't have to work, no going everyday doing the same thing over and over!
Great video by the way.
Tyler Gemler
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very educational video about zombies bat you do know those are all opinions
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Retr0mance
GAMING WITH HEART!
Hey hey, here are some of my thoughts.
You mention that the origins of Haitian voodoo as the first recorded iteration of the zombie but it is interesting to note that the reports are not laced with fear and horror but of wonder and of mysticism. It comes from our fascination to manipulate life and bend the will of death. However the zombie began to take on a more menacing tone thanks in part to emerging cinema which depicted the zombie as a mindless and unearthly strong figure (Film -White Zombie). What was at first a "miracle" of re-birthing life into a corpse now became fearsome because of the changed nature of the human it once was. All this without the mention of flesh eating and replication (through infection)
Skip forward a decade or two and the zombie is now emerging as something we still see today. Flesh eating, rotting and in much greater numbers. Socially speaking you could say that the change in them was because of a change in collective fears, that we as a society now feared something much closer to home than Haitian rituals. The changed flesh. Through infections, diseases, immigration and integration of different social and racial groups we became more afraid of what horrors the human body expressed. We didn't need a swamp monster or King Kong to be afraid of when our very neighbors were growing more strange.
So why has this transitioned so well into gaming? because we are in a society so very connected and yet very alien to one another that our projected desire to individualize is encapsulated within this enemy. The zombie can be read as the conformist state of our society, of our desire to be individual against a tide of identical people. It effectively feeds us the escapism that we ARE different as we are the survivor, we are the hero and more importantly that we are alive.
Or something....whatever....I'm going back on Tranzit
You mention that the origins of Haitian voodoo as the first recorded iteration of the zombie but it is interesting to note that the reports are not laced with fear and horror but of wonder and of mysticism. It comes from our fascination to manipulate life and bend the will of death. However the zombie began to take on a more menacing tone thanks in part to emerging cinema which depicted the zombie as a mindless and unearthly strong figure (Film -White Zombie). What was at first a "miracle" of re-birthing life into a corpse now became fearsome because of the changed nature of the human it once was. All this without the mention of flesh eating and replication (through infection)
Skip forward a decade or two and the zombie is now emerging as something we still see today. Flesh eating, rotting and in much greater numbers. Socially speaking you could say that the change in them was because of a change in collective fears, that we as a society now feared something much closer to home than Haitian rituals. The changed flesh. Through infections, diseases, immigration and integration of different social and racial groups we became more afraid of what horrors the human body expressed. We didn't need a swamp monster or King Kong to be afraid of when our very neighbors were growing more strange.
So why has this transitioned so well into gaming? because we are in a society so very connected and yet very alien to one another that our projected desire to individualize is encapsulated within this enemy. The zombie can be read as the conformist state of our society, of our desire to be individual against a tide of identical people. It effectively feeds us the escapism that we ARE different as we are the survivor, we are the hero and more importantly that we are alive.
Or something....whatever....I'm going back on Tranzit