Comments on: And underground

By: Adam

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:52:13 +0000

Brilliant Robert, brilliant.

I think you’re right, that must be a typo, and what’s worse it could have led to people with an excess of useless sandpaper instead of cloths.

If we gave out awards for genius in the face of the internet, you’d be walking away with a trophy.

By: Robert

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:57:03 +0000

You have no idea how much time I’ve wasted trying to find out what item 13 could be:
“dry sand cloth or tissues”. In the states, “sand cloth” is used by plumbers to clean fittings prior to soldering them and “sand cloth” is commonly called “sand paper”. Then it hit me- it’s a typo!

“A box of dry sand cloths or tissues” should read
13 A box of gry sand
14 Cloths or tissues

The internet: source of endless frustration and information (and some of the info is almost correct sometimes).

By: Ben

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:20:54 +0000

Yes, you need to ditch the granite jocks.
But, I hear that asbestos is a great fiber to make undies out of.

Stalker is not great. Poorly made. Long load times, glitchy graphics, it often freezes for no reason, chews massive resources. I bought a top of the line laptop so I could play games alot more demanding then this, so I am somewhat disappointed.
It does have reasonable AI and it is very addictive, faults not withstanding.
Stalker has nothing on other FPS’s, like FEAR (another game I bought on the same day) or Call of Duty 4. It is a good cross genre (twice I typed gender) game, taking alot of elements from games like Fall Out Tactics, MorrowWind and fusing them with the key elements of FPS.
Having never played a game like this before, I’m not sure what I should expect. I did expect faster game play with more action and less adventure. Going on missions to obtain monies/goods to trade with and upgrade your character is new for me, tho it isn’t overly endearing.

I’ll be happy when the bugs are patched and I can play the game smoothly.
Long load times and freezes do give me time to brew coffee, but I don’t need more then one an hour, certainly not every ten minutes.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:58:46 +0000

I think a towel is implied. This list is clearly for people who know where their towels are.

By: Brandy

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:33:40 +0000

If I’d been holed up alone, I would have been fine with no power and television. But my father nearly didn’t make it out of that week alive due to our being trapped together in a small house. So another tip for Panic Room survival: select your company wisely.

By: J Gray

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:14:55 +0000

Life is a sexually transmited disease?

By: Adam

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:07:56 +0000

ha, Sylvester style.

By: Adam

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:07:13 +0000

How else would one reserve a sun bed?

By: Adam

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:06:42 +0000

*use some one elses old t-shirt… preferably whilst they are not wearing it*

Good point… stock up on tissue, or learn how to make it from the charred remains of civilisation.

By: Adam

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:03:28 +0000

eh?

By: Adam

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:03:14 +0000

Indeed, living is the primary cause of death in most organisms.

In the others, it is drowning is shallow waters.

By: Adam

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:27 +0000

My hands are my weapons – they detach at high velocity….

That and a boomstick.

You’ll have to let me know what you think of Stalker…

Oh noes, that means that I need to lose my granite underwear, doesn’t it?

By: Adam

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:57:07 +0000

I gather from the protect and survive campaign that ‘survival’ isn’t really the purpose of it… I think it was designed to placate people into thinking that in the event of a nuclear holocaust there is actually something that you could do.

Including KI in the list of things to have would just encourage people to bother their pharmacy for no real reason (if bin bags are your first line of defence against the actual blast).

By: Ben

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:33:16 +0000

Eaten….

By: Ben

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:32:10 +0000

I think you would care if you were dieing from lung cancer caused by Radon poisoning.
I doubt a granite bench top would emit enough radiation or Radon to hurt you tho, which was the point I was making.
I know it can cause problems for ppl who have basements set into granite bedrock and for some mine workers.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:39:54 +0000

Yeah, I remember all that with the ice but I don’t remember much else since while the power was out I couldn’t sleep without A/C and I couldn’t think without TV.

By: Brandy

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:17:00 +0000

My family was always pretty good with keeping the basics on hand. But our town narrowly avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Charley and we were without power for over a week in the middle of August (most of the deaths were from heat stroke). After that, I started filling a large plastic container full of water and freezing it when a hurricane started to come in. Ice is great for keeping food cold and cooling yourself off but (as I found out during Charley) it can also be traded for other supplies (including gas). Ice became like gold after the hurricane hit. Stores had cardboard signs in their windows after a couple of days that said “No Ice Here!!”.

By: The Great Joe Bivins

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:01:42 +0000

I also live in Florida, and I always got the impression virtually nobody actually kept that stuff on hand, they just panicked and cleaned off store shelves if a hurricane came near. I’d stock up on that stuff but I don’t have any money.

By: J Gray

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:12:01 +0000

Also, if you eat pop rocks and drink a carbonated beverage at the same time your stomach will explode! Its true. Happened to that Mikey kid. The guy they show sometimes? He’s a fake the big food industry cartels parade around to HIDE THEIR CRIME!

By: Eldan

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:45:24 +0000

Actually, as an inhabitant of bunker country (swizterland) I can tell you why magazines are so high up: people usually start to kill each other after a week max in a bunker. Literally.

By: Seraphine

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:44:38 +0000

you forgot the canary.
or did they die off already?

By: golfwidow

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:38:37 +0000

How did “a towel” NOT make this list? These people clearly are not cool froods.

By: Brandy

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:35:46 +0000

That list is essentially the same items we (I live in Florida) keep on hand in case of hurricanes.

My apocalypse prep plan includes mastering various fighting styles. It couldn’t hurt and I might be able to get a job as an assassin in the reformed society. That’d be pretty sweet.

By: Ti

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:33:20 +0000

You’re probably thinking of Radon – UK HPA page on Radon: http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&Page&HPAwebAutoListName/Page/1158934607718?p=1158934607718 )

Seems silly really. If you didn’t know about it you wouldn’t care. Another one to add to the list of things to avoid if you don’t want cancer – Guardian article ‘Everything Gives You Cancer’: http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/medicalscience/story/0,,547672,00.html

Oh, and make sure you don’t eat apple seeds, they contain cyanide and a tree will grow in your stomach and make you explode. Also, avoid anything with more than two inches of water in it – YOU’LL DROWN!

By: Seraphine

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:04:07 +0000

i couldn’t live without tissues.
i suppose i could use an old t-shirt,
but that can get quite gross, especially
when one runs out of toilet paper.