Amps
AppleAmps
For thousands of years people hunted faster, more dangerous animals by walking in a straight line until their quarry was too tired to continue, and what is a zombie if not a slow, lurching predator that constitutionally can't run out of stamina? In a way, zombie media is about the horror of being turned into prey by something more human than us.
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Amps
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lunchy
lunch@tilde.zone@AppleAmps the eating brains thing adds to it, since that's the main other thing we have over wild animals
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downwardly mobile mer ䷔
mer@yourwalls.today
No persistence hunting was never the main hunting meta. It specifically happened in open environments where tracking is easy and animals lose stamina quicker.
Most of the megafauna hunting was done by stampeding animals into cliffs or ditches.
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AppleAmps
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That's really interesting! I think the point still stands, though, especially with how ingrained persistence hunting is in the cultural imagination.
Also being chased into a ditch or dead end by a stampede of creatures is a classic zombie setup, anyways.
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shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)
shroomie@AppleAmps for me the horror of zombies has always been losing your sapience and becoming a monster
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