Kids Playing Video Games

Since I have begun working for ZombiesAreComing.com I have had the opportunity to meet and speak with a large number of people in regards to zombies and survival thereof., online and offline. While there is a large number of people out there who have made serious preparation for surviving a zombie out break or other situations where society falls. There is also those who I have come to term, the “Armchair Survivors” who do not train, who never go to the range or the sparring room, those who think that videogames and movies will teach them everything they need to know.

It is a sad day when I meet someone who thinks that they know more than I do about something that I have been doing for more than half my life, be that martial arts or shooting. While I am more than open minded and willing to listen I truly can’t stand it when someone brings up a movie or video as “proof” that they are right. Example.

Ignorant scumbag: “Dude, like the D-eagle is the most powerful handgun ever, and you can snipe someone sooo easy with it!”

Me: “One, the IMI Desert Eagle is not the most powerful handgun ever. And two, this really being the most important thing, you aren’t going to ‘snipe’ someone with a handgun, especially not one weighing in at three pounds, and you sure as hell are not going to dump the magazine and hit anything that is more than ten feet away with any degree of reliability.

Ignorant scumbag: “You don’t know (Insert your choice of expletive)”

Me: “Where you getting your data points?”

Ignorant Scumbag: “I play (Insert popular video game shooter, I.E. “Modern Warfare,”  “Counterstrike” ect.) Where you getting your info?”

Me: “Military vets with twenty years of experience and personal testing.”

In the end I usually end up leaving with sore knuckles and they are carried away, but I digress.

For those of you who think I am completely mistaken please by all means pick a place, I’ll stand 400 meters away, I’ll even handicap myself and use my 5.56 and you can have your beloved .50AE Desert Eagle. We’ll see who draws first blood.

For those of you out there who think that you know something about survival but have never sweated in real training let me educate you on how things work here in the real world.

1. With some training you can actually run father than twenty feet at a dead sprint. Try it.

2. Running with a knife does not mean you run faster, it only means that you give me less stress when I have to shoot you.

3. While we are on the subject, knife fighting is high stress, high intensity. Slashing at me is not an insta-kill. A bullet in your brain pan is! :)

4. Sniper rifles are for long range, fifty feet is not long range.

5. Just because the gun is different does not mean that it does different damage.

6. There is a point to camouflage, other than trying to look cool. Red tiger strip is a target.

7. Gravity is a bitch! It pulls your bullet down. Where you aim is not necessarily where the bullet will go, especially at a thousand meters.

8. Throwing knives are useless! Lose the pig sticker and bring more bullets!

9. Do you really think you can shoulder a 28 pound M240B and hit anything while moving?

10. There is no radar in your HUD in real life. You will not know where I am at, only that your buddy is dead and you are alone.

11. Ever hear of back blast? No? Come here and stand behind this RPG while I fire it, I’ll show you.

12. You have to aim to hit a target that is more than ten meters away. That is what sights are for, use them.

13. You cannot mod in real life.

And last but not least

14. There is no restart.