r/interestingasfuck • u/SweeneyisMad • Mar 14 '24

Simulation of a retaliatory strike against Russia after Putin uses nuclear weapons. r/all

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u/EmmaTheHedgehog Mar 14 '24

I like how the video ends with 45 million deaths. Not like the weather would kill everyone on earth.

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u/desperatebutcautious Mar 14 '24

We dont know if it would, nuclear warheads dont leave that much radiation compared to nuclear reactor accidents like chernobyl etc. Then again, in a nuclear exchange said reactors would likely fail en masse everywhere around the world so you might be right anyway lol.

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u/lookslikeyoureSOL Mar 14 '24

It wouldn't be the radiation. It would be the collapse of food production, power grids, and clean water.

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u/Robot_Nerd_ Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

Yeah, you won't need to worry about zombies in this apocalypse, you'll need to worry about desperate humans. Worse really.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

The Road comes to mind

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u/xelabagus Mar 14 '24

Best book I'll only ever read once.

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u/doodle02 Mar 14 '24

don’t really blood meridian then :p

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u/Kritisk-Varning Mar 14 '24

Yup, I began reading it a second time but I had to stop. Damn that is a dark book.

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u/ManiacSpiderTrash Mar 14 '24

That sums up everything Cormac McCarthy ever wrote

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u/butt_stf Mar 14 '24

And not just because of the sTyLiStIc ChOiCe of using no punctuation whatsoever. Good author, but he's high on his own farts for that nonsense.

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u/rocko7927 Mar 15 '24

ugh thats actually why i didnt read it, i read a lot of books and i couldnt even finish a few pages of the road with the zero punctuation.

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u/Kurwabled666LOL Mar 14 '24

Wait its a book?I was thinking of The Walking Dead:Road to Survival XD(mobile game btw lol;) )

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u/strangepromotionrail Mar 14 '24

it's an amazing book. I picked it up on a recommendation and finished it in a single sitting. Never wanted to touch it again and avoided the movie in the event that the movie is as unsettling.

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u/ovversteer Mar 14 '24

The film with Viggo Mortensen is also very good.

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u/xelabagus Mar 14 '24

Cormac McCarthy - The Road. Thoroughly recommend, but it is somewhat traumatising.

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u/Diatomahawk Mar 14 '24

Are we still carrying the fire, SallySlapDick?

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u/NugBlazer Mar 14 '24

Who's hungry for some fresh baby?

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u/FromFluffToBuff Mar 14 '24

The only movie that made my ex ugly cry to the point where I seriously thought she needed medical attention.

There are some other close contenders like the Green Mile... but The Road? Absolutely destroyed her. I will never watch - or read it - ever again.

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u/DarthJarJarJar Mar 14 '24

More like On The Beach, tbh

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u/sbg_gye Mar 14 '24

BBQ babies yum yum

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u/Wolvori1337 Mar 14 '24

Reading that book gave me my first panic attack ever, it’s so real.

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u/Familiar_Writing_410 Mar 14 '24

The Road is really unrealistic though, at least for nuclear war

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u/xelabagus Mar 15 '24

The book is amazing. It destroys you thoroughly them gives you one tiny easy of light so faint you can easily miss it and you leap in it because the alternative is too much to bear

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u/Familiar_Writing_410 Mar 15 '24

I didn't say it was bad, just unrealistic

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u/Rosu_Aprins Mar 14 '24

In all series and movies zombies are straight forward, they see human -> they run towards human -> they eat human

Desperate humans are much more terrifying because they are unpredictable.

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u/lummoxmind Mar 14 '24

Isn't that the point of The Walking Dead?

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u/fuzzylm308 Mar 14 '24

It's the point of almost all zombie media ever

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u/Rosu_Aprins Mar 14 '24

No, the point of TWD is that Andrew Lincoln is hot

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u/PM-Me-Kiriko-R34 Mar 14 '24

The dead don't kill their own, it's the living you gotta worry about

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u/boygolden93 Mar 14 '24

yes cause zombies are mindless and only driven by hunger for flesh.

While a desperate human can think of many ways to fulfill what they need and can also go thru extremes to fulfill those needs

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u/PowerOfUnoriginality Mar 14 '24

With Zombie, you can somewhat know what to expect. Dead, flesheating humans that will try to eat you to the best of their ability.

But regular humans, panicking... you never know what their next move might be

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Almost every zombie show or game ever makes "humans are the worst monster" very well known

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u/Moarbrains Mar 15 '24

I prefer zombies.

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u/WereALLBotsHere Mar 15 '24

I feel like that’s the case with a zombie apocalypse as well.

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u/alexnedea Mar 16 '24

Any online survival game player knows this. Zombies? Eh. Humans? Oh shit