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paxamericana:

The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.

Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]

During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]

The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]

please read the full wikipedia article

Orgrimmar during the incident.

This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.

This post leaves out the most incredible part, which is that the CDC straight up contacted Blizzard and asked for all the data they had on the Corrupted Blood Plague for the purposes of refining their models of epidemic behavior in real human populations. 

Is this a real life thing

Yup! Scholars still look at it to this day.

meeeedic LMFAO NOOOO ITS THE THING YOU TOLD ME ABOUT

legendary-emerald:

dammit-vaughn:

land-of-blitheness-and-catharsis:

WHAT IS THIS GAME

Sorry but there is no way I could have voice acted this and not lost my shit

WHAT GAME, WHERE BUY?

Looks very Tales of Borderlands

heylasfas:

Don’t worry about it, love!

.BL(BR) is the shorthand for .blessed(BREAKER), a visual novel and game series (if we don’t die while making the first one) that I and a small team of lovely individuals are working on.

The first entry is called 77 Days of Lily (which uses the #77days) and is about a young student balancing his life between his final year of school, his friends, and a mischievous girl that broke into his dorm and refuses to leave. She speaks a language you don’t understand and you have 77 days to convince her to wear pants. It’s gonna be a blast, and we hope for a 2016 release!

Thanks for asking and you can follow some of the development that isn’t secret on tumblr at blessedbreaker! Sometimes on Twitter too at @blessedbreaker!

superanimefucker is everything good and happy in the world and I’m very glad to know him

Don’t worry about it, love!

.BL(BR) is the shorthand for .blessed(BREAKER), a visual novel and game series (if we don’t die while making the first one) that I and a small team of lovely individuals are working on.

The first entry is called 77 Days of Lily (which uses the #77days) and is about a young student balancing his life between his final year of school, his friends, and a mischievous girl that broke into his dorm and refuses to leave. She speaks a language you don’t understand and you have 77 days to convince her to wear pants. It’s gonna be a blast, and we hope for a 2016 release!

Thanks for asking and you can follow some of the development that isn’t secret on tumblr at blessedbreaker! Sometimes on Twitter too at @blessedbreaker!

After getting fed up with our keyboard, we smashed it and the last words that it communicated were kinda inspiring

I really really really like the little pon too

Little Decibel always exists forever and ever!

I hope she’s cute.

She was drawn by my big bro at dontartallowed​!  (Lead Programmer and one of the few amazing artists on the .BL(BR) team!)

You’ll get to meet her soon enough, we’re aiming for a commercial release! There’s a lot of work to be done however, so look at the cute girl a little bit longer!

ailelie:

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“oh hey,” she said, “it’s a really touristy area, but since you’re gonna be passing through anyway, you might as well stop by pier 29, see the dragons. also, there’s a—”

“hold on,” i said. “i knew your city had mountains, but. dragons? uh, actual living dragons?”

“dude, it’s not a big deal. they’re there all the time. of course they’re majestic and everything, but they’re loud and cranky and mostly they lie around eating garbage. now and then the city council will talk about trying to make them roost somewhere else, but—”

“dragons,” i repeated. i knew it was making me sound like a rube, but it was a lot to take in. “you live in a city that has dragons.”

“no, it’s cool, we used to go see them when i was a little kid. it’s worth doing. but that whole area is mostly dragon-themed gift shops, and the commercialization is kind of a bummer. also, sometimes a dragon will melt somebody’s car and it’s a whole problem.”

“fairytale-style, giant scaly fire-breathing dragons.”

“honestly, i forget other cities don’t have them?” she said. “there’s a few other sites on the west coast where they gather. portland calls them wyverns, but that’s a portland thing.”

“chicago’s got, like, bunnies and songbirds,” i told her, “but otherwise it’s just your typical vermin. pigeons, rats, sphinxes—”

“sphinxes? what the hell.”

“oh, yeah, they nest in the el tunnels. sometimes a fucking sphinx will flap down out of nowhere, bring the whole train to a halt until the front car answers a riddle.”

“that sounds exciting,” she said.

“it’s the worst. your train winds up being twenty minutes late, and you just have to hang out hoping somebody up there read their mythology. there’s supposed to be a program where the conductors get trained in riddling, but i don’t know. rahm emmanuel keeps saying it’s not a budget priority.”

“huh,” she said. “guess the grass is always greener and all that. but on some level, it’s nice to remember that even with all these big box stores, the country still has some variety left in it.”

“yeah, did you know that in rhode island they call water fountains ‘bubblers’?” i said.

“whoa, seriously?”

“i read it somewhere. weird, right?”

“weird.”

this is like the antithesis of Regional Gothic

I like this even better.

Of *course* Rahm would decide it wasn’t a priority.

Actually. No.

Rahm would use the sphinxes as justfication to bring in some other transportation company to run the el. One that is supposed to be skilled in riddling. Only, they’re skilled in telling riddles, not answering them. And so the delays get even longer as the sphinxes see this as a challenge and demand matches.

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