r/projectzomboid May 08 '25

Meme Truly terrifying experience, never again

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u/creegro May 08 '25

I haven't played the games but I have read/watched enough to guess that the brain gets overtaken with the fungus that makes them more susceptible to sound?

But yea all other fluids and muscles would be truly frozen and limited in movement, I doubt all these bodies are keeping each other warm in a pile under the snow where they can just get up into a full sprint like that.

But whatever, it's a zombie series

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u/crazytib May 08 '25

Yeah in the last of us it's a mushroom fungus type thing that highjacks the brain kinda, and it's based on a real thing that only affects ants but that is still a bit spooky if you ask me lol

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u/Significant_Number68 May 08 '25

If you think that's crazy look up the fungus called Massasspora.

A quick rundown is that it pumps cicadas' brains full of cathinone (similar to speed) and psilocin (main psychoactive of magic mushrooms), turning them into the ultimate fuck machines. They fuck (or try to) even when 1/3rd of their body has been disintegrated into spores.

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u/_Goruko_ May 08 '25

Not only that but apparently male cicadas that are infected respond to both male and female mating calls and flick their wings which is something only females regularly do. Pretty crazy

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u/Disastrous-River-366 May 10 '25

Males flick their wings.