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Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by walls »

oneoff786 wrote: post #16

Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good. My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell t…

> The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly.

The hordes of lunatics already exist, and are just waiting for something to happen.

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by rospaya »

pjc50 wrote: post #10
nonrandomstring wrote: post #2

Just come to Birmingham in the UK. No need for any set building or CGI

Birmingham, city of the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoHVO1eSMFc "Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham", 5m, 1981. Note the use of shots of complicated motorway junctions to indicate modernity.

This could easily pass as parody, at this point I'm not sure if it isn't. Hilarious in any case.

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by KineticLensman »

O__________O wrote: post #18
JKCalhoun wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Cooperation is natural and good. I agree, but perhaps hard fought. "The Survivors", the 1975 TV series from the U.K. tried to do apocalypse more cleverly.

How so? Scanned the Wikipedia page for it and nothing popped out as notably clever: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series)

I don't know if I'd describe it's take as 'notably clever' but the focus wasn't on hordes of zombies / insane cults / etc but groups of people coming together and trying hard to rebuild some sort of life after a massive epidemic that kills most people. There were clashes between different groups, some resolved amicably, some with violence.

Re: Texas Has Always Been a Great Setting for the Apocalypse

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Post by taneq »

jason-phillips wrote: post #19
oneoff786 wrote: post #16

Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good. My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell t…

> Cooperation is natural and good. Recently, after seeing people from Dallas haul their trailers to my small Texas town's grocery store so as to pillage our remaining toilet paper stock, my faith in the rational ability of my fellow Man has been somewhat reduced.

The first time people got into literal fist fights in supermarkets over toilet paper, my faith in the rational ability of most humans was shaken. The third time around, it was gone. By now my expectations of humans are, sadly, extremely limited.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

O__________O wrote: post #18
JKCalhoun wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Cooperation is natural and good. I agree, but perhaps hard fought. "The Survivors", the 1975 TV series from the U.K. tried to do apocalypse more cleverly.

How so? Scanned the Wikipedia page for it and nothing popped out as notably clever: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series)

Actually depicted people trying to organize and cooperate, rebuild rather than running nitrous-fueled cars to trade petrol with the Bullet Lord or whatever. (I like those films too though.)

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Post by Loughla »

jason-phillips wrote: post #19
oneoff786 wrote: post #16

Apocalypse stories don’t often make sense. The energy and fuel situations are usually bonkers. The hordes of people who turn into lunatics is silly. Cooperation is natural and good. My favorite post apocalyptic cult is the one featured in A Quiet Place 2. This world features aliens that will kill anyone who makes a sound. The protagonists are captured by this cult of like 30 people with little intro to who the hell t…

> Cooperation is natural and good. Recently, after seeing people from Dallas haul their trailers to my small Texas town's grocery store so as to pillage our remaining toilet paper stock, my faith in the rational ability of my fellow Man has been somewhat reduced.

My take is that local cooperation is natural and good. But, the roving bands of marauders will absolutely be a thing in an apocalypse scenario.

We had TP when no one in our state had it locally, because people didn't lose their minds. Then people found out and drove here. The day I saw a literal armed guard for a pallet of toilet paper was the day I realized that in a true SHTF scenario, there is nothing you can do. If you live within 4 or 5 hours of a road, you will be inundated with refugees/robbers/marauders. It will happen, I am convinced.

As dark as this is, I believe the best thing you can do is plan a safe and painless exit for you and yours when things get really bad.

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Post by dylan604 »

Slightly disappointed in this being fiction. There are a few different religions that focus on end times that have decided that Texas actually will be a safe haven for biblical apocalypse. Based on the post's title alone, I was hoping this might be a deep dive into these groups or something similar.
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