Watching the games of Lomo vs Calm in the Round of 64, I realized that it'd be interesting to bet on the players because the ranks of the players don't seem to matter. Very often I see younger players defeating high ranking seniors who've won at least up to the quarterfinals or one tournament or another. Take Lomo vs Calm for example. Lomo is a veteran of hundreds of official matches, winning more often than losing. Calm, on the other hand, is a relative newbie with only about a hundred matches in his records. Yet Lomo won the matches with a 2:1 score.
Maybe being in the prime age does matter and your micro abilities slide downward quite rapidly once you're past 20. I don't know, but it sure seems like it in the games I've seen. Like Boxer, who's supposed to be so freaking godlike in SC, losing in the Round of 64. C'mon, I expected him to at least reach the quarterfinals. It's like Brazil losing in the prelims of the World Cup tournament.
Since the results are so unpredictable, betting on the scores will be akin to playing Russian Roulette. Maybe they actually do that in South Korea. Who knows?
Some people obviously have been watching too much zombie flicks. Kinda like me at one point last year. I saw this discussion on what to do to prepare for a zombie invasion in real life once. They were talking about where to go to, what to take before they run to the safest shelter and what weapons they're going to use.
To be honest, I once did think about such things after watching all the "Dead" movies by Romero. In Singapore, it'd be quite hard to find somewhere to stay for a long time. High buildings are the best, but food will run out eventually. Food and water are the main problems. Plus firearms are extremely hard to find on this island and trying to hit a zombie head with a crowbar is inadvisable at best.
What to do? Swim to an offshore island? Theoretically, if zombies are possible, then they can probably walk underwater too. So, what then? The only way is to form a rudimentary community on a large piece of arable land with enough firearms to build and protect a society from scratch.
It will be the Stone Age all over again eventually, with zombies replacing the wild animals and technology being lost rapidly. A small community cannot support high-level occupations like scientific researchers. Heck, even libraries will be burnt sooner or later for fuel. Paper may be the most durable form of media apart from stone carvings, but it is also a wonderfully flammable material.
In the end, zombies may destroy all humans, but if people do survive, civilization will have to start again from an almost blank slate and will definitely be quite different from what we have now, with the zombies as a constant threat.
But then again, zombies cannot exist. First of all is their metabolism. Zombie can survive on nothing. So that's one reason. Second reason is that human bodies cannot survive with a dead brain. Nothing in the human body works without the living brain.
Oh wow, I just discussed what to do if zombies can exist in reality. Oh wow. A new low for me...
It is unfortunate how I felt so sleepy at 12am but could not make myself go to bed because the day felt incomplete. So I watched the SC games mentioned above and the fatigue went away at about 1am. Now it's 5am and I'm unable to sleep despite the fact that I need to wake up at 11.30am later.
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