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out of control flipping!

Adeon Hawkwood

By Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-06-03 07:58 in The Market and Inventions

 

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Originally Posted by Pampl View Post
Sure, you wouldn't be able to buy a loaded shotgun with your shiny nuggets, but you could probably trade it for some non vital amenities with whoever has any extra. I'm assuming the end of the world won't entail the destruction of all cosmetics, entertainment, etc.
I'm assuming survival will be the only thing on people's minds.

 

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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
Unless you have an abundance of food and "security" then gold doesn't do you much good.
The way I see it, there's not much point in me keeping more than a month's worth of food in the house. I'm in the suburbs, and am well off. If food ever gets so expensive that I can't buy it for a month, then the food rioters will have already kicked my door in and ransacked the house. And if I'm foolish enough to try holding them off with a shotgun, then I'll get torn to pieces when I eventually need sleep or run out of ammo. Or they come in the *back* door.
The better expenditure of resources is to see too it that food riots never happen in the first place.

 

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Originally Posted by silas View Post
i once flipped a man in reno, just to watch casuals cry.

bahahahahahaha!

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Originally Posted by ThugOne View Post
If food ever gets so expensive that I can't buy it for a month, then the food rioters will have already kicked my door in and ransacked the house. And if I'm foolish enough to try holding them off with a shotgun, then I'll get torn to pieces when I eventually need sleep or run out of ammo.
Not if you kill them and put their heads on pikes in your front yard as an example to the others.

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Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
Not if you kill them and put their heads on pikes in your front yard as an example to the others.
That would just attract them; it advertizes that the place has lots of resources and weapons to be had.

 

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Originally Posted by Yomo_Kimyata View Post
If we go Mad Max level, I think a loaded shotgun is going to be worth a heck of a lot more than shiny metal.
I guess I should run down to the local Wall Mart and buy me a Shotgun and load it up to protect by 100*200 garden and my 500 gallons of fuel that I have in my back yard.

In fact if anyone wants to join in we can build us a high stone wall (have plenty of them in my back yard and really keep the hordes out.

 

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Originally Posted by Fulmens View Post
... traditionally, the heads on pikes went on the high, difficult-to-defeat wall around the place, it is true.
Good point. The rules would be different for a structure that is inherently defensible. My suburban house is not.