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Posted: 1/18/2022 2:28:42 PM EDT

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Who decided that lime green was the official zombie color?

Can you imagine a real zombie apocalypse with dudes running around in a bunch of lime green gear?

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:29:59 PM EDT

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I have a Spikes Zombie lower from 2013. Think that's when it slowed down.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:30:00 PM EDT

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The most cringy thing is Zombie stickers on Jeep wranglers. It's still very much alive and just as retarded.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:30:09 PM EDT

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It would be real interesting to watch a trial from the outside, like Rittenhouse, where zombie ammo was used, and hear what the DA would concoct up to demonize the accused.

And since people are talking about it, here is the reticle.
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Gross.

I bet the person who bought one, on average, has a neck beard, weights well over 300lbs, and smells like a gun show.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:38:01 PM EDT

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Heck yes! I have a box of 45 and 308 of the stuff.

Just looked at GB too... heck yes.. good investment!

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DAMMITT MAN! I haven’t priced it since I packed it away years ago. A new corvette, jorts and some fresh Reebok’s are in my near future.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:38:22 PM EDT

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I'm ashamed to say I have some posts in there.

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Avatar checks out

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:39:19 PM EDT

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Yup was as in past tense a huge zombie fan from Ramero and the serpent & the rainbow type stuff.

Bailed fast and hard as soon as it went mainstream.

Same with the vampires was a huge Bella Lagosie fan until true bood and twilight.

Now im all vamp who? Zombie what?

Everything woke turns to shit and the vampire & zombie crazed are proof of that shit.

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Zombies are woke now?

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:40:07 PM EDT

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I bought a zombie green/orange ESEE knife because I dropped a regular knife one time climbing up a steep hill while out searching for morels and had an awful time trying to find it in all the leaf litter.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:40:22 PM EDT

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The zombie eotech with that retarded reticle

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I missed that one. Had to google, actually think it's kind of cool...

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:42:27 PM EDT

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And "Deadworld" in tv or movie form will probably never happen... Fuck what the walking dead has become...

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:42:43 PM EDT

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Why is neon green the Official Color of Zombies™?

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if I had to guess, its because its the same color as trioxin 245 gas

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:42:56 PM EDT

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Still relevant today if you keep in mind who the real Zombies are.
ATF, FBI, Co-vid officials, just about any 'woke' politician, LE, or DemoNazi.

Basically, who ever will carry out orders with total disregard to whether it's right or wrong.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:43:15 PM EDT

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One of my local shops still has (last time I was in) several thousand of the 50 grain 223 V Max bullets on sale.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:45:14 PM EDT

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I missed that one. Had to google, actually think it's kind of cool...

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The zombie eotech with that retarded reticle

I missed that one. Had to google, actually think it's kind of cool...

I regret not getting one.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:46:06 PM EDT

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The "Dawn of the Dead" remake by Zach Snyder kicked things off. Imho

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I would say, while not technically zombies, "28 Days Later" kicked off the zombie craze revival, along with **douche chills*** Resident Evil. Both of those movies preceded Dawn of the Dead 2004.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:49:29 PM EDT

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if I had to guess, its because its the same color as trioxin 245 gas

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Why is neon green the Official Color of Zombies™?

if I had to guess, its because its the same color as trioxin 245 gas

I blame Herbert West.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:50:32 PM EDT

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I blame Herbert West.

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Why is neon green the Official Color of Zombies™?

if I had to guess, its because its the same color as trioxin 245 gas

I blame Herbert West.

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Posted: 1/18/2022 2:50:37 PM EDT

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I blame Herbert West.

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Why is neon green the Official Color of Zombies™?

if I had to guess, its because its the same color as trioxin 245 gas

I blame Herbert West.

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Barbara Crampton was fucking HOT!!!

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:52:32 PM EDT

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I would say, while not technically zombies, "28 Days Later" kicked off the zombie craze revival, along with **douche chills*** Resident Evil. Both of those movies preceded Dawn of the Dead 2004.

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The "Dawn of the Dead" remake by Zach Snyder kicked things off. Imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j69OPw9nFHw

I would say, while not technically zombies, "28 Days Later" kicked off the zombie craze revival, along with **douche chills*** Resident Evil. Both of those movies preceded Dawn of the Dead 2004.

Even if zombies are cringe now, 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead 2004 are still two of my favorite movies.

Both have absolutely fantastic soundtracks.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:55:11 PM EDT

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Who decided that lime green was the official zombie color?

Can you imagine a real zombie apocalypse with dudes running around in a bunch of lime green gear?

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IDK for sure. But things that glow in the dark put off that weird green light. So that color has been associated with radioactivity. Most modern Zombie stories involve radioactivity as a plot device.

Lime green is reasonably close to the weird green that glow in the dark stuff produces.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:56:30 PM EDT

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Those eotech's with the biohazard reticle are gonna be collector's items one day. Change my mind.

Posted: 1/18/2022 2:59:43 PM EDT

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BRAAAAINS

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:02:09 PM EDT

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It was gay as shit then and it still is today.

Fucking dumb.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:12:40 PM EDT

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I would say, while not technically zombies, "28 Days Later" kicked off the zombie craze revival, along with **douche chills*** Resident Evil. Both of those movies preceded Dawn of the Dead 2004.

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Came to say this.

2002 - 28 Days Later, Resident Evil
2004 - Dawn of the Dead, Resident Evil 2, Shaun of the Dead
2005 - Land of the Dead, Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis & Rave to the Grave
2006 - The Zombie Diaries
2007 - 28 Weeks Later, Diary of the Dead, Resident Evil 3,
2008 - Day of the Dead,
2009 - Zombieland, Survival of the Dead, Dead Snow,

There were "zombie" movies all the way through the 2000s. IMO 28 Days & Dawn '04 were the best films of the decade, w/ Dawn being maybe the best zombie film ever. Honestly, I'd say The Walking Dead was when the genre really went mainstream though. After it everything was zombie this & zombie that.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:21:55 PM EDT

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It was gay as shit then and it still is today.

Fucking dumb.

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Yes, that's the theme of this thread.
Good job.

We're here to mock it. I mean just look at this shit:

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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:22:47 PM EDT

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Something had to replace the Aliens of the 90's. 9/11 killed off the alien threat. People realized that there are worse enemies on Earth that need taken care of.

Then, when people got over the shock of the war, and it became mundane, people went to zombies. Now that is played out, people are beginning again to focus on aliens.

And just like in the 1990's, the democratic government is playing it up.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:23:47 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/18/2022 3:28:24 PM EDT

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Got a zombie KaBar folder somewhere.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:31:12 PM EDT

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I didn’t realize it was over.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:37:59 PM EDT

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Now it's just cringe.

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It was then also.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:39:40 PM EDT

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early 2000s, that was 5-10 years back.

walking dead didnt start until 2010.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:40:01 PM EDT

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That whole fad was cringe AF.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:40:20 PM EDT

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I remember there was a VERY long thread in GD about catching and keeping a female zombie as a "companion"

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:46:43 PM EDT

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I didnt buy into any of it. Except that Dem politicians are zombies and always will be. Nothing will change that.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:48:13 PM EDT

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The best part was Day by Day Armageddon by JL Bourne

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:49:47 PM EDT

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I didn’t realize it was over.

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Zombie mutated into a euphemism in common usage today.

Posted: 1/18/2022 3:52:46 PM EDT

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Brownells zombie squad.

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Is that dude on the left carrying AOWB? Is that a thing now?

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:00:27 PM EDT

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I loved "28 Days Later", "The Dawn of the Dead (remake)", and "28 Weeks later". "The Walking Dead" and even "Fear the Walking Dead" were good at their start.

I loved the endless "what would you do during the zombie apocalypse" discussions. They were great.

However, the Zombie tactical products went too far. Those were cringe.

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:10:35 PM EDT

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I also have some of the zombie ammo. Bought a few zombie novels. as far as TWD, I checked out about half-way through season 2.

For me, the zombie stuff ended when I started see stuff like Gardening Tools in Bright Green with blood splashes. Seriously? And for me it really ended when Relatives started buying Zombie stuff as gifts. Holy shit. Peak Zombie Crap! (And that was what...10-12 years ago. I'm pretty surprised that Zombie Stuff is still apparently quite the Trendy Fad.

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:12:10 PM EDT

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That whole fad was cringe AF.

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When it first hit I was like "pretty cool"

Then it became

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:15:17 PM EDT

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I have a ZMB Mossberg lever action tacticool .30-30 rifle

No joke. Its fun to shoot suppressed, though.

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:16:02 PM EDT

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V-Max, not A-Max

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I bought an absolute shitload of the z-max projectiles when midway started clearing them out

They were a-max bullets with a green tip. Shot a few thousand blackout reloads with that and still have at least 2k loaded up for blasting

V-Max, not A-Max

This.

That said, the 110 gr. V-Max is a great Blackout bullet.

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:18:38 PM EDT

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The Cranberries - Zombie (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:19:57 PM EDT

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The zombie eotech with that retarded reticle

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The worst part about that optic is they will all prematurely break sitting in safes and the next generation of shooters will never know how truly stupid that optic was.

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:31:17 PM EDT

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Zombies were cool, The Walking Dead hadn't started sucking, and gun companies had gotten on the band wagon producing Zombie themed stuff.

I remember Zombie ammo from Hornady, Zombie themed lowers, and even Zombie Eotechs.

But what was the absolutely most cringey, lamest, wtf, Zombie themed item produced?

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I’ve got some of that hornady zombie max ammo. I bought a box just to have.

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:32:02 PM EDT

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I still have a crappy plastic “zombie” ammo box somewhere. It was a gift, I promise

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Those are different in appearance only compared to without Green Swirls. They make good small Tool Boxes or Ratchet Strap storage. Zombie label peels right off with a little heat from heat gun. best part is Getting 20 on clearance for $100 after the fad wore off.

Posted: 1/18/2022 4:33:59 PM EDT

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That whole fad was cringe AF.

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yup. for a couple years my family got me zombie stuff for gifts. Green knives, Ammo boxes with zombie shit on it, zombie targets. took me forever to get them to stop.