Lessons learnt from the Walking Dead.
I made this post to collect all the lessons you guys picked up throughout TWD games. If you have anything that you feel this game has taught you, please share it. 
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I made this post to collect all the lessons you guys picked up throughout TWD games. If you have anything that you feel this game has taught you, please share it.
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Sequels can disappoint
Apparently, eleven-year-olds are astoundingly useful in an apocalypse - even more so than adults.
Yes!
One of the things I learned was that a group that has little trust is bound to fail. Carver at Howe's Place had him and his group surviving fairly comfortably all things considered, it was the same with the Cabin group and Kenny's group as well. It was only when people stopped trusting that things went to shit.
You don't say...
Teachers can be badass. Hobos too.
Keep that hair short
Never leave your gun out and about for people to grab.
"Always keep moving" - Lee
Don't be afraid.
Only the good die young.
"Always keep moving" - Lee
The hottest character shouldn't be your favorite.
Yeah, the hottest character...
always ends up cold
don't u dare say this shit to me i will punt kick u into next week do u understand
You need to chill out man. There's no need to be so icy.
lee's dead
a joke about ice
Always aim for the head. And if its not a walker, anywhere including the head.
I just can't accept that Lee got bitten by a dem arse retarded walkers, goddammit ...the story would probably change if it were tho
Dont trust anybody
Every survivor group has at least one fuck up/shitbird. Quickly identify this shitbird. And if you can't identify the shitbird, you probably are the shitbird, and you need to fix that.
all your faves are dead
The quickest way to identify the shitbird is to hire Kenny
Homeless dudes save lives
I lol'd.
Doctors can't tell a dog bite from a lurker bite
This bothered me so much in the game, I mean come on!
Walkers can teleport and nobody notices them until they are up close.
In the game's defense, they still don't do this nearly as much as the show does
like seriously every season has had at least one ninja-walker, and every season has had someone die to one as well
Not getting attached to new characters because they will most likely die
Shooting the walkers in the head
Avoiding making too much noise (screaming, shooting, or whatever)
Kicking the walkers in the knee xD
To keep moving
To avoid sleeping with other people (unless you have a condom u___u I mean, taking care of a baby in this world is probably really hard at times)
And also:
Little girls can kick down doors xD
If you know how to pick a lock, that probably means you're... you know... urban?
I want to play devil's advocate here
Alright, so here's Clementine's bite wound:
Let's note something right out of the bat: this isn't a uniform bite. Not just a chomp and release. The dog was gnashing all over, which as you would expect, makes the wound larger. At a glance, this probably doesn't even look like a bite, more like a huge gash. The only clear giveaways we have to it being a bite is small indentations around the openings.
Now, note the general shape of that bite
Okay, so here's a picture of a human bite mark, just to get an idea here:
So these bites are obviously not as deep or serious at first glance. But, look at the general shape and curve, especially along one set of teeth.
If a walker bit into your arm, it would not be a simple chomp like those. It'd be a deep bite. They'd be trying to rip the skin off like it's an apple, right? But that's in the scenario that they bite an area where they can get both rows of teeth into you.
So what if a walker was only able to sink the top row of teeth into you? Take one of the above human bites, and remove one row of teeth from it. Now you have a deep, curved bite that looks more like a laceration than anything. Now imagine if the walker was gnashing around, and you were trying shake/pull it off of your hand. So the walker grinds a little bit to left, a little bit to the right, and it finally comes off.
What kind of bite would you be left with? A mangled gash like Clementine's. In fact, look at the second picture again:
Now look at Clementine's bite again:
Now look at the two side-by-side:
They have a very similar shape to one another. So imagine if that bite mark was stretched around a bit due to a struggle. Opens a bit wider and deeper. You now have a human bite that is almost 1:1 with Clementine's dog bite. Not something easily distinguishable, especially not off-hand.
There's one other thing to refute here, too. It is true that the shape of a dog's jaw is much more triangular in nature than that of a human's. However, that's under the assumption that it's a full bite on behalf of the dog. However, let's say the dog didn't get all of it's teeth into you.
Here's a dog bite:
Doesn't really look all that much like the dog bite you'd expect, right? That's from a dog that only managed to bite up to the canines, or there about. At a glance, you could potentially pass that off as a human bite. Of course, the curvature and shape isn't completely correct in that picture, it's damn close. However, that is a uniform bite. A normal, run-of-the-mill chomp. That same type of bite starts looking a lot different if the dog is thrashing all around. When a dog does that, you get a wound resembling Clementine's.
The point being, be it dog or walker, the bites lose a lot of their discernible details the more struggle is involved. Once you're thrashing around (or vice versa), trying to rip it off of you, they both start to look more like deep cuts or lacerations than actual bites.
Which comes down to a simple point: even from the perspective of a doctor, Clementine's bite could be the result of a zombie, a dog, maybe even another animal at that. It's too mangled to adequately tell what the hell it is, unless you're willing to clean it out and jump through the hoops of trying to cross-reference it with whatever off-hand knowledge and information you have regarding bite wounds and patterns. And given that they're two years into the apocalypse, I imagine it's been a long time since Carlos saw any kind of bite that wasn't from a zombie. Even if he's a doctor, if all you saw for a good two years and counting were various zombie bites and other assorted injuries, you'd probably be a little bit skeptical when a random stranger with a bite of some sort shows up on your doorstep, especially if said stranger was last seen surrounded by walkers before being rescued. In all honesty, what are the chances that two years into an apocalypse with zombies all over place, you'd be bitten by a dog, of all things? He could give Clementine the benefit of the doubt, but look how that turned out for them the last time.