I hate Play.com

[erastes]

I shall never ever be using them again. “Delivered on Release Day” was the boast. What is the POINT of pre-ordering something (that I could have gone to the SHOPS to get at 8am) for delivery and it doesn’t BLOODY ARRIVE.  I’m so angry. I’ve been waiting months for this game, and it was one of the most expensive I’ve ever bought, and now it’s not here. If it’s delivered tomorrow I can’t be playing it until the evening.

The Walking Dead! Argh!  Note to self. Do not watch three episodes of this before what will then be laughingly called “sleep.”

I have to say though, that I had to keep closing my eyes. I’m just capable of watching that kind of violence and gore!  But it’s watchable (in bits!) and I’ll be interested to see if the plot line regarding the zombies goes in the direction that I think it might be going.

However, I am rather baffled at the whole “oh noes, we don’t have much ammunition/tools/guns” – AMERICA IS STUFFED FULLER OF GUNS than it has zombies. This plotline works better in England where we don’t have many guns, but I’d head straight to the gun club. I wouldn’t have to go simply from house to house to find guns. Also – some kid asks “how do we know which mushrooms are safe to eat?” and the adult says “I only know of one sure way.” – er. SCUSE ME? Get a fucking book and read about it!

Question – why is Captain America’s uncredited Mexican Gardener the “bravest person from the Marvel Universe”? (from Big Bang Theory)

 

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Comments

[moons-storm.livejournal.com]

I'm quite angry with our GameStop. I preordered a game that was released Nov. 16th. One of the most expensive games I've bought, and it was a gift for my husband's birthday--on the 16th. They shipped it on the 15th. It's now the 19th and still no game. It would have been easier and faster to go to the local branch, but I thought, hey, preorder it and it'll be a surprise. I'm rather put out of it all. He was really looking forward to playing it.

Mmm. The Walking Dead. I can't wait for the next episode tomorrow. It's sparked my desire to write my own zombie apocalypse and have it illustrated. ^_^ I do agree about the ammunition thing, but I can believe there is a lack of ammunition due to the fact that most of our gun shops are located in larger cities. I'm pretty sure that's what those raiding parties are for that dare to enter places like Atlanta. You only have as much ammunition as you can find, and it looks like they've chosen to stay in uninhabited areas, which would make the ammo thing an issue.

Second reason, I think, would be the whole 'sound draws the zombies', so they try to not use the guns even when they do have bullets just to avoid drawing the zombies towards them.

It makes me want to actually pick up the comics this is based on and give them a read. :)

[kerri]

^-- I agree with this comment about the scarcity of ammunition - and it would explain why they don't have books, either. Libraries are in the cities where all the zombies are.

[moons-storm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'd go crazy without SOME books. I was marveling, though, at last week's episode and how clean and sparkly everyone was. I suppose soap and toothpaste are easier to come by than books and ammo? ^_^

[mysid.livejournal.com]

AMERICA IS STUFFED FULLER OF GUNS

Although this may be true where this girl lives, it certainly isn't true in my little corner of the USA. We'd be zombie-chow if the zombie apocolyose were to come to my town.

[kerri]

Hahaha, that sort of thing I'm generally willing to handwave because most shows don't ever show their actors as dirty as they actually would be. Though they do have their camp near the water... *g*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

All libraries? Don't the Americans have libraries in small areas? I suppose I must be spoiled by us having libraries everywhere!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

No guns shops at all? That does surprise me - the coverage we get over here, it looks like you can just about buy them in any high street! or supermarket!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

LOL yes me too - and washing on rocks without soap? For goodness sake. There's soap everywhere. And everyone is so nicely ironed too.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

The only gun shops around here are in the big cities, and very tiny, scruffy and down-at-the-heel they look, too. I've never seen a gunshop anywhere else--certainly not at the malls hereabouts. I wouldn't know where to get a gun if I had to, and I certainly couldn't fire it properly.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

well there's a big one in Newington, and that looks like it's fairly rural, it's certainly not in a city!

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Newington's a town. Parts of it are rural--there are dairy farms, for example--but other parts are hugely citified. Hoffman's Gun Shop (which is in Newington) is on the Berlin Turnpike, which is an eleven-mile-long four-lane/six-lane highway with large stores, discount outlets and hotels on either side. It's extremely fast and very dangerous.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

well exactly - that's my point - it's not in a big city, and in the series these areas are pretty much deserted, as for some reason the zombies have all gone to the big cities and people are saying they don't have any guns - even though there are deserted cars EVERYWHERE. it seems very wussy of them, but i suppose i'm raised on a diet of english post apoc. series where people tend to be more organised.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

Nope. No gun shops--and I live in a very large town. Although just down the road a bit is a city with an incredibly high gun-crime rate. The drug dealers there would probably hold out against the zombies a bit longer than us unarmed suburban dwellers.

Of everyone I know, I know of three gun owners. One is a avid deer hunter and a gunsmith. The other two are my brother and his wife--and they only bought guns because they own a pizzeria and often have large amounts of cash that they have to take to the bank.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

Mushrooms>>> Or ring Dave in Poisons, lol. He'll bore yer arse off explaining about the toxicity effects of the Death Cap. ;p

[erastes.livejournal.com]

It just amused me that they were obsessed with washing (and apparently, ironing, going by the state of their clothes) and not getting BOOKS to help with the self sufficiency. As I said elsewhere on the thread, it's probably because the British suvivalist serieses are more "let's find a decent farmhouse, lots of guns, some horses and books" rather than having fab hair.