I Dream of Zombies...
Nov. 26th, 2009 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6So last night, bored, I decided to DL the demo of Left For Dead 2. Surprisingly, it worked quite well on my computer (that's the thing with computers, I always worry about whether a game will work). More surprisingly, you could play online multiplayer (only the demo levels, but still). Which I accidentally did when I started the game, and wound up joining a game in progress with no idea how to do anything. Luckily I got out quick before I embarassed myself too badly.
Anyway, it's mildly fun, though I could see how it might get repetitive, although undoubtably funner with others (after I practiced a bit on single player I played multi a few times including one with other players who played zombies... don't know quite how that happened, I guess the demo link with the non-demo players too as long as they're only playing on the first 3 levels), and it was a little more fun (I think when playing single player your allies help each other much faster than you can so by the time you rush to one's rescue, they're already saved).
Anyway, since I happened to be playing shortly before bed, it's no surprise that I had a dream involving zombies last night. I wasn't in the zombie movie, alas. I was watching it (and later, discussing it with other people, mostly unknown although, oddly,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
argaud was one of them.... don't know why him particularly). The movie was, supposedly, Resident Evil 4, but since I know next to nothing about the RE series it was probably just plucked out of my subconscious as a random example of a zombie movie.
All I can really remember of the movie was the end. Where, while fighting zombies, the heroes knocked over or shot a container of 'zombie-making gas' (the zombie infection started with a gas, I don't know why), which started to hiss out, and everything faded to white.
What happened next was not what I would have expected...
Everybody there were sort of in top hats and tails. The women were dressed up something like Zatanna from the comics... sort of sexified. And all of them were sort of all in a big group, half dancing, half-making out, regardless of gender. Kissing, licking, even play-biting. No actual sex, but the sort of thing you might see in a movie where some of it might be happening tastefully off-screen.
That was when it hit me... that was what the zombies were seeing the whole movie. They weren't rushing up to people because they were angry and wanted to eat them, they were rushing up to people because they were in this blissed out state and wanted to make out with them. They were hallucinating... what they thought was dancing was shuffling and swarming, what they thought was kissing and playful groping was biting and clawing and spreading the infection. I'm not sure what they thought bullet wounds were, because nobody was left to be shooting at that point.
Anyway, within the dream I thought it was a rather novel ending, and discussed it with a few people before I woke up.
Edit: Oh, and to all those on my flist who celebrate it at this absurdly late time of year (seriously, dudes, it was almost a month an a half ago!), Happy Thanksgiving!
Anyway, it's mildly fun, though I could see how it might get repetitive, although undoubtably funner with others (after I practiced a bit on single player I played multi a few times including one with other players who played zombies... don't know quite how that happened, I guess the demo link with the non-demo players too as long as they're only playing on the first 3 levels), and it was a little more fun (I think when playing single player your allies help each other much faster than you can so by the time you rush to one's rescue, they're already saved).
Anyway, since I happened to be playing shortly before bed, it's no surprise that I had a dream involving zombies last night. I wasn't in the zombie movie, alas. I was watching it (and later, discussing it with other people, mostly unknown although, oddly,
argaud was one of them.... don't know why him particularly). The movie was, supposedly, Resident Evil 4, but since I know next to nothing about the RE series it was probably just plucked out of my subconscious as a random example of a zombie movie.All I can really remember of the movie was the end. Where, while fighting zombies, the heroes knocked over or shot a container of 'zombie-making gas' (the zombie infection started with a gas, I don't know why), which started to hiss out, and everything faded to white.
What happened next was not what I would have expected...
Everybody there were sort of in top hats and tails. The women were dressed up something like Zatanna from the comics... sort of sexified. And all of them were sort of all in a big group, half dancing, half-making out, regardless of gender. Kissing, licking, even play-biting. No actual sex, but the sort of thing you might see in a movie where some of it might be happening tastefully off-screen.
That was when it hit me... that was what the zombies were seeing the whole movie. They weren't rushing up to people because they were angry and wanted to eat them, they were rushing up to people because they were in this blissed out state and wanted to make out with them. They were hallucinating... what they thought was dancing was shuffling and swarming, what they thought was kissing and playful groping was biting and clawing and spreading the infection. I'm not sure what they thought bullet wounds were, because nobody was left to be shooting at that point.
Anyway, within the dream I thought it was a rather novel ending, and discussed it with a few people before I woke up.
Edit: Oh, and to all those on my flist who celebrate it at this absurdly late time of year (seriously, dudes, it was almost a month an a half ago!), Happy Thanksgiving!
