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[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Mischief Maker"][quote name="Author Max Brooks"][Zombies] scare me more than any other fictional creature out there because they break all the rules. Werewolves and vampires and giant sharks, you have to go look for them. My attitude is if you go looking for them, no sympathy. But zombies come to you. Zombies don't act like a predator; they act like a virus, and that is the core of my terror. A predator is intelligent by nature, and knows not to overhunt its feeding ground. A virus will just continue to spread, infect and consume, no matter what happens. It's the mindlessness behind it.[/quote] There's nothing more depressing to me than dudes prominent in the media whose knowledge of science comes from from Agent Smith's evil monologue in "The Matrix."[/quote] World War Z was terrible. I'm unclear on why anyone thinks there's any talent involved there at all. Let's see, zombies are scary because they are like a virus. OK. Everyone in the world has the virus for the common cold. It sort of became the opposite of scary at that point. ... Also, you have to go looking for a werewolf? What the fuck is that supposed to mean? I don't want to judge the guy by one out of context quote, but that's terrible. I remember reading something in college that said that werewolves were man's attempt to explain serial killers before that was a term. Nobody goes looking for serial killers. I do like how he says that zombies "break all the rules." If a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, ghost, wight, spectre or wraith kills you, you become a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, ghost, wight, spectre or wraith. How lucky we are that when a zombie gets to your brain, you become a shitty author. ICJ[/quote]