We see them have backpacks or bags but rarely do we see what’s inside. They definitely don’t have clothes since they don’t change into anything. Maybe food,water,ammo but they should have more. Or sometimes there packs are too light like they don’t have anything
A towel.
You can do a lot with a towel. Just have to be creative
You are one hoopy frood.
Yes, one should always know where their towel is.
Wanna get high…?
A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
You wanna get high?
I appreciate that in The Last of Us, they touched on the subject of menstruation. She had a box of tampons in her pack, and I think they scored some TP too at some point.
Also, these are great to stop bleeding and cover wounds in a pinch
Usually they carry some baby that they had during the apocalypse. For some reason people can’t be bothered to raid the abandoned pharmacies for free condoms or birth control pills.
Hey, did you hear — the zombies are attracted to loud sounds. Better bring some kids into this hellscape so they can scream their heads off and get us all killed!
Yeah its supposed to be a ray of hope. Like making sure humanity continues but that’s only good if you already have a base and supplies
Most of the time, plot armor. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a pack or bag in a movie or tv show that appeared to have what it should have in it.
I agree, this has been on my mind for a while. I think the only time I’ve seen a survivors pack was in sweet tooth and the last of us when they took out sleeping bags
Based on Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead right now:
- 9mm + spare magazine
- Ruger Mini-14 carbine
- mini acetylene torch
- multitool
- trauma medical kit with at least a couple doses of everything and antiseptic
- hack saw
- short rope
- entrenching tool
- crowbar
- couple lock picks
- binoculars
- mini lighter
- gas mask
- welding goggles
- headlamp
- earplugs
- hairpins
What’s cataclysm dark days ahead Also that’s a good list. I see list people use bit they have way too much to carry
Open source game: https://cataclysmdda.org/releases/
Sort of like the “Hollywood suitcase”, which appears to be just about big enough for some underwear and a hairbrush, when I’m lugging clean clothes, toiletries, shoes, pyjamas, all for a weekend away.
I don’t think I’ve seen any hard apocalypse content in the same way there is hard science fiction. Even in most zombie content the zombies are secondary to the human antagonists.
I think Cormac McCarthy’s The Road may fit the bill a little bit as far as “hard post-apocalyptic”. I can’t say for sure, as I didn’t finish the book. I found it to be too depressing at the time. Which, duh, but it goes to show that the author is uninterested in the power fantasy that often accompanies the genre.
I agree and it is worth finishing.
I think it depends on the series. Like the walking dead the zombies were a big the art until they learned how to deal with them. Then they became fodder and were only a the art when they had a huge wave of them.
Possibly sometimes they’re carrying it just in case they find something worth bringing along.
Could be, but they don’t always loot for stuff unless it for plot. They usually are given stuff from other survivors
True
Feminine products and Imodium. One of my biggest fears is being kidnapped and not having those things. They let you keep your backpack when you’re kidnapped, right? Chapstick would also be nice.
No chapstick but Eli uses cat oil and says it works the same way.
