'Oh my god, I’ve been shot! Good thing I’ve been hanging on to this ham I found in the sewer!"
In Skyrim and Oblivion, you open a millennia-old ancient tomb which is filled purely with Draugr, and the barrels are full of fresh tomatoes, potatoes and apples. What gives?
Or in Fallout, where Vaults that may have been locked for centuries have either a) a bunch of ancient skeletons, or b) very fresh corpses. Or feral ghouls, but that’s a different issue.
Skyrim’s fricking cold, man. These tomatoes aren’t fresh, they’re frozen.
One thing that bugs me in many “zombie apocalypse” media is : why don’t the zombies ever attack each other ? Sometimes this is implicitly addressed in setting (e.g. when they were raised and under the loose control of a magician, or as in Resident Evil 4 where the zombie bug is actually a hive-minded parasite) but even in stuff like The Walking Dead, where it’s explicitly stated that the dead’uns are barely aware of their surroundings and made of pure (albeit lethargic) aggression, they just don’t munch on living-dead brains. They’ll eat bona fide corpses, and they’ll shamble at the living to try and turn them into corpses to munch on, but never beat each other up. What’s up with that ?
It gets even weirder with the more creative zombie outbreaks. Like in The Last of Us : the Clickers are blind as their heads turned into a mass of oogy fungus, and they have to use echolocation and their acute hearing to find prey. If you move around them, they go apeshit. But they don’t go apeshit on each other, ever.
Now, you might say “aah, but they keep making that creepy-ass clicking sound, so they can recognize each other as already infected by sound, and since the infection is really a living organism that seeks to spread it makes sense that they wouldn’t attack other, known hosts”. Well, yeahbut they don’t attack the infected that haven’t made it to the Clicker stage either, and those look and act more or less like regular humans with fucked up faces. Clickers only go nuts on regular humans. How do they tell which is which ?
Pheromones?
Draugr gotta eat too.
The latter, actually. It’s a well known fact that conventional healing magic does not work well as combat healing. You’re generally safer if you devote yourself to defeating the enemy and then heal once the dust has settled than if you try to heal while the enemy is alive to take advantage of the reprieve.
(finds dead body) “Oh, ugh, yuck, covered in worms, and bugs, that is just disgus- HEY, CAKE!!” gobble gobble
What sort of economy did Columbia have in Bioshock Infinite that people kept literally throwing away money?