In today's example of a garden path sentence ....
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Never heard of garden path sentences before. Very neat! I loved the examples on the Wikipedia page.
Eg. The old man the boat.
It's so short and I love it as the first example.
That's what irks me about this lazy dropping of the 'of' after 'couple'
"I saw a couple birds"
You saw them do what now?
I fail to see the path you took to OPs garden.
My first thought was 'zombie work' was a phrase for a job where you don't have to think at all while doing it. Say a factory job like picking up rolls of tape and putting them in the tape dispenser.
My response to your question, is another question:
what?
What zombie work, across all mediums, does it best?
Some punctuation and the proper superlative makes OP's title a bit more readable.
I think he means which zombie representation was the best among all media
My best guess is that they are asking that out of all of the zombie lore that’s out there – live action tv, cartoons, movies, comic books, etc – which does the community think is the best of the best.
I think they want to learn about people's favorite zombie stuff, and open it up to movies, books, games, songs, sculptures etc.
Something like:
What work in any medium, that is about/ includes zombies, is the best and why?
Shaun of the Dead, of course.
Agreed.
World War Z, the book not the basically unrelated movie, is definitely the best imo. As a bonus the audiobook has a full cast of narrators including Mark Hamil and Common.
I came to suggest this. The book is one of the best zombie media ever. The movie is one of the worst.
Early seasons of The Walking Dead TV show are also really good.
Minecraft. AFAIK, they're the most likely to drop gold bars.
Normal zombies drop Iron, drowned zombies drop Copper, and piglin zombies drop Gold.
George Romero's movies, of course.
ok hold on like why is everyone obsessed with zombies like come on slow shambling flesh eaters really?? have you SEEN a vampire? they're basically goth royalty with amazing cheekbones and they can turn into bats and compel you to do their chores ugh zombies are just like the participation trophy of the monster world and honestly vampires are the OG undead like have you read dracula that dude was basically a goth influencer setting trends for the afterlife and with the whole blood thing at least they have a semi-sophisticated diet unlike those braindead mcdonalds of the monster world like seriously gross and like super inconvenient plus vampires can like sparkle in the sunlight and have existential angst which is like the most relatable monster trait ever and zombies are just like mindless drones following the crowd
Points for zombies:
The isolation and dread caused by the entire world turning into flesh hungry monsters, including family and friends
The body horror of being bit and inevitably losing control of your mind and having your body decay (also you can perhaps hide your infection from the rest of the group?)
There are always more, they never stop. Basically turning human persistance hunting against ourselves
Also they just make a good excuse for an apocalypse, with humanoid things to shoot
Points for vampires:
Cash in on horny tweens.
Cash in on horny adults.
Point for vampires:
Not zombies
Are vampires