FearTWD, Survival Rule Of The Week: Things You DON’T Need

1) Fancy Electronics

Have you ever noticed that when people are looting, they often take things like HD TVs and other high-end electronics? I have. Would you like to know what video game systems, TVs and computers will do for you in a zombie apocalypse?

Slow you down.

This is the primary reason I always say that looting is a stupid thing to do once there are zombies because people will do it, and if they’re going around grabbing things like electronics, they’re probably not going to live for very long.

The thing is, once the outbreak starts to spiral out of control, electricity and internet access will cut, mostly because the people needed to run them will either be dead, or they will have abandoned their posts to tend to their loved ones. This means that the two things needed to run such machines will no longer be available.

Sure, you may be able to get electricity again, eventually, and play your video games to keep your mind off of the dead for a little while (If you have nothing better to do with the electricity, of course), but at the beginning? Yeah, that shit’s gonna weigh you down so, carrying them around with you is just a waste of effort, energy, and space.

On top of that, the dumbasses going around trying to loot them from stores will make a great target for zombies, more so than other looters or rioters that may be around them. If they’re lugging a PS5 or an HD TV in their arms, what the hell are they going to do when confronted with a zombie?

Are they going to drop whatever they’re carrying to fight or run? Maybe, if they realize what they’re dealing with, but if they’re stupid enough to go looting as reports of crazed cannibals all over the place are coming in in the first place, they probably won’t care. Even if they did realize a zombie was a threat (Not necessarily realizing it’s a zombie, just thinking it’s a crazy person), they might think they already risked too much getting the thing they’re stealing to destroy it by dropping it on the ground, or risk someone else stealing it from them by putting it down and leaving it unattended while they fight off their attacker.

“What if they decide to run?”  Okay, there is that possibility, but how effectively do you think a person would be running when they’re carrying something big and cumbersome like a TV in their arms? This would make them front-heavy, probably throwing off their balance, all while trying to avoid hitting whatever they’re carrying-off, trying not to drop it, and being slowed down by the extra weight?

If your answer to that question is “Not very”, you’d be right! If a person in such a scenario managed to escape without getting bitten and without damaging the item they were carrying, I would consider it a miracle because barring that, either the person or the thing they stole would be toast.

P.S. This picture of Lennie next to a big ass camera is probably the fanciest electronic device I had a picture of, so that’s why it’s here.