The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Bad Deals

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As The Walking Dead sought to remind us, sometimes in a zombie apocalypse, the only deals you’re left to make are bad ones.

This portion of this season of The Walking Dead (And most especially this week’s episode), has been building to the potential alliance between the Virginia communities — Alexandria, Hilltop, and Oceanside — and the Commonwealth, ever since we saw the flash-forward showing us that that alliance will not end well, with the Commonwealth attempting to exert authority through the threat of force.

Because of this, I’ve started thinking about the deals that other groups in an apocalypse will likely present with you. This has made me realize just how bad deals you might be presented with will be and just how often you may be presented with bad deals. Whether those deals will be lopsided, tenuous, exploitative, staggeringly brief, whatever the case may be, there’s a good chance they’ll be bad.

So, for this week’s The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week, I’m going to cover some of the deals you might be presented within a zombie apocalypse, why they might be bad, and, hopefully, a few pointers on how to approach such deals, assuming you have the option of resisting them at all. With any luck, should you be presented with any of these kinds of exchanges, you can recognize them for what they are, and either avoid making them, or at the very least, get the best deal you can get out of them.