^ With all due respect, please read the original post. They have to use whatever items happen to be to the immediate right and left of them at the moment.
Let's see…to my left is a laptop on a cushioned lap desk, and to my right is a GRE book sitting on top of my youngest brother's art album.
Hmm…
I suppose I could use the lap desk as a shield while I mesmerize the zombies with YouTube videos…I could probably scare some away with the prospect of having to study for a GRE

: …and if the zombies have any rudimentary respect for art, then I could probably show them my brother's cool drawings and they'd be too fascinated by them to attack.
(For the record, I don't take zombies very seriously, but this game is fun anyway.

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