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I mean, if you're starving badly enough you can sometimes completely stop having your period. So in a post apocalyptic setting that one could be kind of believable.
You can also be so stressed that you have multiple periods in a month! that would suck during the apocolypse.
I wanted to say ah I'll just let my period roll down my pants who cares, but then zombies might smell the blood so
The makeup is permanent. She has alopecia. And her father wore that jacket as he was wasting away in the last stages of cancer--everything else swallowed him up.
High stress levels on top of that would also have that effect.
But then they wouldn't look flawless.
See also reality TV shows like Survivor. Men all grow beards the women somehow still have a perfect bikini I line
Laser is a thing. I haven't had to worry about bikini lines in about 15 years...
Not sure why you're being downvoted because yeah laser and electrolysis both exist. I'm sure there is various hair styling too, both men and women to a degree because media, but like also people wanting to be on TV I feel are a demographic more likely to get their pubes zapped into shape.
I live off grid in the woods. Grew a full beard because shaving in the cold and the dark sucks. Always make time to keep the lower regions well managed though.
Also knowing several women that live similarly... They don't shave their legs but they do keep the rest of their hair very maintained.
Unrelated, but it's been recorded that some tribes, to avoid body lice, actively plucked body hair. Some south american indigenous even used oitments and other concoctions made from plants to delay hair growth.
And despite barely getting enough food to eat the men are all jacked bodybuilders with 2% body fat in perfectly fitting muscle tees. Nobody gets utis or fungal infections despite not bathing. No one has to deal either poor eyesight or healing loss (especially since they shoot guns constantly without protection) Nobody gets worms or other parasites from eating bad food. Or dies from dehydration due to diarrhea. Etc etc.
It's almost like the point of these scenarios is fun escapism and isn't about perfectly simulating an apocalyptic wasteland down to the most mundane and uninteresting parts.
Makes me appreciate The Road more cause everyone's body in that movie SUUUUUCKED
That book had more mentions of the word "grey" than anything I have ever read. I couldn't stomach watching the movie.
Never watched the movie, but the book made me thoroughly fear a post apocalyptic society. Tlou or Twd looks like a visit to Disneyland in comparison.
Nobody gets utis or fungal infections despite not bathing.
Not bathing is not a problem for humans, skin and hair need time to adjust, but after that all good.
Edit for idiots: Yes you are going to stink to ass and sweat but you are not going to die.
Also farmers baths are a thing. A little bit of water, soap, sterilizer in the form of alcohol or vinegar, and rags or baby wipes is all you need to stay clean.
See? I never have to bathe because women love my natural body scent. My mom still forces me to shower once a month despite any amount of facts and logic. No wonder I'm still single /s
Turns out it's an unpopular opinion, despite being true
My hair dresser doesn't like the fact I don't use shampoos or conditioners, but mostly because he can't sell me hair products
It's almost like the point of these scenarios is fun escapism and isn't about perfectly simulating an apocalyptic wasteland down to the most mundane and uninteresting parts.
Also, they time travel past going to the shitter, sleeping, most of the journeys etc. So unrealistic that it's literally unwatchable.
Right? Just aging will get you an infection at the slightest change in the wind. Slept wrong? Ear Infection. Used those eyedrops and accidentally breathed into the cap before using it again? Hello eye infection. Oops didn’t pee after sex? Hello UTI. Heck didn’t even have sex? Your biome changed? UTI anyways.
Oh and if your infection gets out of hand: not enough doctors and you run a high chance of dying in ER
There’s a reason why the life expectancy shot up after antibiotics were developed. The moment we go back into the apocalypse we’re gonna start dying before 45 again. And more gruesome and painful ways than a zombie attack. Heck that will be considered humane.
Made me want to get back into Sons of the Forest. Now those are my people.
It's not really fun escapism when it blatantly throws out verisimilitude for the sake of presenting the same trite, cliche propagandized rehashed garbage to us over and over and over again.
I'll take the realistic apocalypse movie that actually gets the little things right. The little things are what helps sell the big things, like, well, zombies.
What??
One of the nice touches in The Last Of Us was Ellie finding pads when they were in a shop.
That absolutely made the game. I can't tell you how happy I was to see a character in a post apocalyptic world address their menstrual cycle. Bravo.
I'm reading sarcasm here...
The discussion about the cup was also a good one.
The best thing I ever read on this subject in a zombie book:
"Why are you taking the jeans off that zombie?" "100% cotton; after boiled and washed, I can cut it up for pads."
Can't remember the rest of the book but this stuck.
By that logic, couldn't you just do the same thing to the used pads?
Most sanitary are made to be single use. Cutting one and breaking it apart to understand how those are made is an interesting experience.
Reusable, washable pads exist but, to my knowledge, are not that main stream. But should.
I grew up surrounded by women recalling the time before discardable sanitary pads were a thing and every single one remembered using home made cloths made of thick and absorbent cotton, capable of being washed again and again, even for a lifetime.
Soft leather would also be an alternative, being absorbent, durable and washable.
Hello, I'm a man in an apocalyptic wasteland that before the cataclysm did nothing more strenuous than adjusting my ergonomic chair at my cubical. Now, for some reason, I am able to hunt water buffalo while fighting off hoards of zombies with hand crafted firearms.
Me? No, I'm not a raider, I have a regular job at the clothing spike and hair dye factory. We're just down the road from the 17 garages.
In fairness, when is the last time youve taken a shit in a post apocalyptic videogame? Although I still think its cool if things like this are considered.
Fuck. They need to do this. Bladder meter . When it gets full you start losing health. But you have to let your guard down to shit or piss and it takes at least 30s.
Imagine scavenging for toilet paper
Fun fact: the time it takes to empty the bladder is consistent across all mammals. It takes, on average, 20-25 seconds. Species with larger bladders have a higher urine throughput to compensate for volume.
that would get so old lol. i would just be bored having to wait to take a shit when i already take enough during the day
I recommend searching up the game "Urge", best survival game to date.
Death stranding does this I believe....
Keep in mind that pretty much ever post apocalyps character would have horrible diarrhea.
Just imagine every sneaking mission in Last of Us, Joel trying his best not to unleash a dirty bomb. Or the courier confronting Lanius atop Hoover Dam, chocolate water running down both their legs.
That would be fucking hysterical and if you defeat a boss by shitting all over them, infinitely more so.
In SCUM you definitely have to crap and pee regularly and absolutely can get diarrhoea.
I died more than once from untimely diarrhoea.
It goes back a long way.
Death Stranding
If things like this would be considered, the outcry would be huge because female characters have this disadvantage...
That actually would be a pretty cool feature to have in a game. I'm surprised they don't. Also hunger and thirst.
Dude, they totally need to make a mod for that in fonv
Honestly, the one thing people should be disputing about post-apocalypse games is why it is people would even be scraping by to survive in the first place. We're social animals and would band together out of necessity, and knowledge and high technology wouldn't simply go away simply because half the population turned into zombies and started eating everybody else.
Just hike to the nearest town or something. Read a book. Build a cistern and some aqueducts or something. People have literally been doing just that for thousands of years so why would it be hard for people to do it in modern times?
You'd have to find people who knew how to do those things. Cisterns, aqueducts, and even farming didn't just happen, they developed over time of people figuring out small things, and passing on the information generation after generation and building on the knowledge slowly. For the vast majority of human history, we didn't do these things.
Take ten or twenty random people from modern society and see how many of them know how to grow plants in a harsh environment and good luck getting one who knows how to work with stone. Just look back into our past, even relatively modern history, how often groups of people who were experienced farmers with passed down knowledge were almost, or actually were, starved out by the environment. Surviving is hard, even for those who have practised it. Modern society has made us forget that. Nature is waiting to own us again, and when she does, it will be brutal and nowhere near as easy as you make it sound. There's a reason we almost went extinct numerous times.
If you could hand pick a group of survivors, sure you could make a community, but you don't get to hand pick. You get who you happen to meet out of those who happen to survive which means random, which means good luck keeping the required skill sets alive.
Because books don't exist, amirite?
hello I'm a woman in an apocalyptic society who regularly fends off gunfights and who needs kevlar when I got this lingerie bust
Hello I’m an aging woman in a post apocalyptic wasteland that before the shit hit the fan had a changing biome and an infection once a month but now I have all these cuts all over my body from fighting off raiders that magically heal in a day if I wrap a shit stained shirt around it and can get away with not changing my underwear in over a year and can actually sleep through a full night without any issue or needing to pee. No prescriptions needed.
F,M,K
Women's jackets have number sizes?
Yeah and they mean next to nothing because every brand decides what their numbers mean.
I've always heard other women have this problem, but I've personally only ever experienced it with expensive brands like designer stuff, which designers for some reason think all women are so tiny that their size 18 should only be just barely big enough to fit a middle school girl.
Cheap stuff, especially stuff I find at walmart and such, seems extrodinarily consistent, to the point where I just pick up my size or one higher if they don't have it, and don't even bother to check if it fits.
Shoe sizes however... I'm 99% sure those are supposed to be standard, and yet I've found size 9s and size 12s that were the same size. Got sick of it and now I only buy men's shoes unless I need something fancy. Even then, logger boots are fancy enough to me.
The more you pay, the smaller they'll pretend you are.
I'm told they do in America. But their sizes are weird.
Here it's just M, L, XL....
General Kenobi!
General Kenobi!
Oh lighten up, it's just escapist fantasy.