Be Excellent To Each Other

Why is the middle definition more valid that the other two?

Where do you draw the line? Original Haitian meaning was a reanimated corpse under the control of a sorcerer. The deathly pallor and the slow moving bits were there.

Romero and the Italian exploitation flicks added the "destroy the brain" and flesh-eating aspects and removed the sorceror.

28 Days Later and Valve removed the slow motion and the destroy-the-brain.

Why is the middle definition more valid that the other two?

It matters because Dimrill's gay for Romero.

Shut. Yowm. Fucking. Hole.

What the fuck have you done, Gaywood?

Can someone go and get some camomile tea and a 2x4, please?

It makes no sense for them not to be able to run, though. If they're so weak they can't run, they're not going to be strong enough to stop me from pushing them over and stealing their lunch money. Running zombies are more realistic.

If you people don't stop it, I won't be held responsible for the entire collapse of Dimrill into interdimensional space and the resulting creation of a portal to the 5th level of hell somewhere in middle England.

The zombies in Dead Rising so far are completely fucking dull. Complete pushovers unless you get absolutely swarmed through your own incompetence.

Complete pushovers unless you get absolutely swarmed through your own incompetence.

know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can't fly; zombies do not run. It's a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render the inconceivable conceivable. The speedy zombie seems implausible to me, even within the fantastic realm it inhabits. A biological agent, I'll buy. Some sort of super-virus? Sure, why not. But death? Death is a disability, not a superpower. It's hard to run with a cold, let alone the most debilitating malady of them all.

More significantly, the fast zombie is bereft of poetic subtlety. As monsters from the id, zombies win out over vampires and werewolves when it comes to the title of Most Potent Metaphorical Monster. Where their pointy-toothed cousins are all about sex and bestial savagery, the zombie trumps all by personifying our deepest fear: death. Zombies are our destiny writ large. Slow and steady in their approach, weak, clumsy, often absurd, the zombie relentlessly closes in, unstoppable, intractable.

However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you're careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them - much as we strive to outstrip death. Drink less, cut out red meat, exercise, practice safe sex; these are our shotguns, our cricket bats, our farmhouses, our shopping malls. However, none of these things fully insulates us from the creeping dread that something so witless, so elemental may yet catch us unawares - the drunk driver, the cancer sleeping in the double helix, the legless ghoul dragging itself through the darkness towards our ankles.

Where's the fucking blink tag?!

They're only dangerous in groups.

That's the whole point though, there's never just one lurking around - there's always hundreds of them!

And human teeth can't tear raw flesh. And you can't break into a rib cage using just your fingers. Your point, science boy?!

And human teeth can't tear raw flesh.

Okay, go and try to bite a chunk out of a cow.

Finally! SO STOP CALLING THE LEFT 4 DEAD SHITBOXES ZOMBIES!

The "fun" does not come because you do call them zombies. Calling them "infected" results in the same fun, yes? YES! Not zombies. *puts foot down*

But as Dimrill himself has said, Romero's zombies wouldn't work at all in a game.

Using 'zombies' as a catch-all description for all varieties is just lazy. Don't forget ghouls, ghasts, and revenants folks - they more than cover your undead-describing needs.