Why are bears so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded?

[Maxdoom]

How come they are attacking me out of 30 zombies surrounding it?

[Cougarific]

Origineel geplaatst door OX4:

The whole idea of bear attacks is usually perpetuated by the media...

...and by this guy. Don't forget about this guy. This week:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-bear-attacks-california-man-on-his-porch/

or this guy. He perpetuated the myth by getting killed.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/13/yellowstone-park-officials-euthanize-bear-that-killed-hiker/

...June:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bear-attack-california-20150624-story.html

[YamaKami]

Origineel geplaatst door OX4:

The whole idea of bear attacks is usually perpetuated by the media and by people like your mom.

Ah no, it really is not. I take it you do not live in bear country so you think you are correct. I do live in bear country, and you are most certainly NOT.

[Zhorge]

Origineel geplaatst door YamaKami:

Origineel geplaatst door OX4:

The whole idea of bear attacks is usually perpetuated by the media and by people like your mom.

Ah no, it really is not. I take it you do not live in bear country so you think you are correct. I do live in bear country, and you are most certainly NOT.

lol. You're not only person who lived in 'bear' country. So I'll be blunt and point out that I lived there too and the ignorance of locals about bears and their actual danger is amazing. Well, bears and just about every thing else.

It's a silly a made-up/over-hyped shark-attack danger that so many scuba divers fall for. Some who go so far as to carry two knives in case a shark bites their arm/leg off and gets the first knife.

Anyway, the bottom line is that Bears do not go around attacking people 'just because' or to eat them. Bear attacks are rare and fatalities even rarer. There are entire years with no fatalities or attacks.

From 1900 to 1985 there were a total of 162 bear attacks in North America and for much of that time bears were much more common and hadn't been hunted out of many of their ranges like they have been today) .

162 attacks over 85 years. You have a better chance of being hit by lighting than being attacked by a bear. Further, in the past 115 years, 62 people have been killed by bears in North America. That's from 1900 to Date.

Last, almost all attacks are classified as 'self defense.' That is, stupid people get too close. Often hunters who have wounded the bear, but can also be hikers, tourists, etc. who ignored the very clear warnings bears give you before they attack.

And, having lived in the country and leaned so much of that 'country wisdom' (flat out ignorance disguised as knowledge) I'll go with the ACTUAL EPIDEMOLOGY on bear attacks over 'country wisdom' every day and twice on Sunday.

[Zhorge]

Origineel geplaatst door Cougarific:

Origineel geplaatst door OX4:

The whole idea of bear attacks is usually perpetuated by the media...

...and by this guy. Don't forget about this guy. This week:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-bear-attacks-california-man-on-his-porch/

or this guy. He perpetuated the myth by getting killed.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/13/yellowstone-park-officials-euthanize-bear-that-killed-hiker/

...June:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-bear-attack-california-20150624-story.html

Right. Three attacks. A bad year for it. And I suspect there was more to each story than reported by the lazy, incompetent press.

In the mean time 23 people were killed by lighting in 2013.

Get some perspective. Bear attacks are so rare as to be not even worth thinking about. You have a greater chance of being killed by a stranger for no reason at all than being attacked by a bear. Or hit by lightning.

[YamaKami]

Zhorge I live in a community that wins awards for being bear smart. So I'm not sure why you feel the need to consider locals ignorant of bears in general as that certainly is not the case here. Human bear conflict as we usually call it is very very common. The black bears here have had to be euthanized many times for becoming too bold and going into houses and vehicles sometimes even when occupied.

https://youtu.be/9Hqe012-yJI

That vid is the local pizza by the slice place around 2am, after the clubs close down in the resort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DjRxj-xjM

No attack occurred but this is a shot from the gas station less than a block from where I live.

Generally to provoke an attack you have to startle the bear, get between mom and cubs, or have food attractants on you. The other common reason (as seen in 7d2d) is you get into the bears territory and ignore the warnings to vacate it. So while bear conflict is super common, bear attacks are less so. Part of the reason for less attacks though is a bear smart community that has bear proof garbage bins) no curb side trash pick up, bylaws against fruit tress and similar types of attractants. So normally if given space bears are not a huge issue. To downplay how dangerous they can be and are at times is just stupidity though. May not be the most common cause of death but they are not nearly as rare as you seem to think. I reckon those stats are not very accurate simply based on how many "attacks" I am aware of in my area alone. More like those are the only attacks that the end result was death in. Many more minor incidents go unreported as well. I would like to see a link to where that data is from as I quick google resulted in no actual results as far as numbers go on the subject.

[Torriador]

Haha, I mentaly changed "bears" to "Humboldt squid" and the argument over facts and stats, pretty well mirror each other.

As far as the game goes, it's survivial in a (fictitious) scenario. While trying to keep a sembelance of realism, it does not have to be factual, just plausible.

you should be able to come up with any idea; to justify them being in the game.
Anything from hunger, increased agression, larger territory and populations due to lack of competing species; to outlandish reasons like they are being mind-controlled by the rabbits.

That being said; if I encountered something like "cyborg bears" or "laser pigs"; that would give me reason to be concerned about the level of realism in this game.

But, as the OP was only commenting on the bears targeting him to the exclusion of the zombies, I would have to say from a game standpoint, that maybe the bears need to be made a bit more retaliatory towards the zeds if they are in their territory zone.

[Vizor513]

I like to think that mutation has some type of affect on the bears making them a bit more feral than a normal (before the bombs dropped) bear. I mean hornets were increased in size and attack on site as well. While deer and pigs do not really have that "hunter" type quality and maybe that is why they are left without the need to hunt anyhting that comes near them.

My guess is the bears know what zombies taste like and perfer fresh, human meat over rotting, decaying flesh.

Also its much harder for a bear to get honey since the hornets can actually fight back. Poor pooh bear.....

[ChocolateTeapot]

But there's nothing funnier than watching a bear trundling off with half a dozen zombies trailing after trying to hit it. The bear's all "eff off I want a picnic basket", better still when he finally gets pee'd off, or they actually land a damaging hit, and he rounds and turns them into jam hillocks :) at which point, when he's feeling all uber, he gets a faceful of bolts or a 726.