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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Unlike those times

Okay I will update.
It has been quite sometime since I find enraged serenity and divine manhood by killing blood-sucking zombies on the screen of a computer game. ''Left 4 Dead'', a game developed by Valve Software created a year ago, is a first-person shooter sci-fi which consoles the player of a world taken over by the undead. The story is common - government controlling virus, people infected, turn into zombies, wreck havoc and bla bla bla. The game allows you to be a part of the remaining survivors, who have to fight their way out of the god forsaken place, and find somewhere safe. Not known to them however, nowhere is safe! Which brings the fun. You'll get unlimited bodies of zombies rushing at you like mad, and you just have to keep killing them. How I wish the game has modern warfare involved, don't you think so too?
Hmm. But does it occur to you that someday, somehow, this sort of unimaginable hell would be unleash on Earth, and all your love ones will end up either trying to kill you, or taste your brain? That's what I ponder on nowdays. Okay not really.
But. I’ve been giving this a lot of thought. I think that, in preparation for the inevitable zombie apocalypse, we need to establish a password that both identifies us as humans, AND allows us to differentiate and detect potential zombies. So here’s my thought:
Once the dust settles from the “zombiepocalypse,” the world will be a barren hellscape, inhabited by roaming hordes of the undead, searching to feast upon the flesh of the small bands of surviving humans who somehow escaped the initial carnage. Upon encountering another person/zombie, using “The Amine Technique,” one issues the challenge: “STOP!!” The correct response from the other subject to this challenge is “HAMMER TIME!” Then (and this is VERY IMPORTANT) BOTH PARTIES must perform the entire dance from the “U Can’t Touch This” video. If either party cannot complete the ENTIRE DANCE, beware! They’re obviously a zombie. Avoid them at all costs. Do not trust them, do not give them shelter, do not offer them a spot in your fantasy Universal Studios, and do not invite them over for Hari Raya celebrations. They’re the walking undead. Wandering with a bloodlust and unquenchable desire for human flesh and brains. And when they overrun your stronghold, devouring the skin from your bones, destroying everything you’ve ever known or loved, they’ll take your cellphone and run through all of your “free outgoing” minutes calling their zombie buddies back home. The beasts! They have no soul!
So can we all agree on this technique of challenge/response? We need to think of these protocols now, people, before it’s too late. The “Hammer Dance” may well be our only hope of survival…