Void Bastards is such a great game. Maybe cause I grew up playing those sprite shooters, but man the pacing and intensity is fantastic. And... you don't love it... i get it.
If there's anything I've learned from this pandemic, it's that when I complained about fictional characters doing something no human would ever do I vastly overestimated humanity.
A few days ago me and my friend were talking about that as well. I always got annoying when I see someone do something extremely idiotic in a movie, thinking how there is no way someone would do that. Then 2020 came and it proved not only that people will do something that idiotic, but also go way beyond in an attempt to make something even more idiotic.
I used to think ''This is unrealistic. People are not that stupid or heartless!''... Now I think '' This is unrealistic. People are not stupid ENOUGH and they actually show empathy''...
I remember watching the first couple episodes of 'The Strain' many years ago thinking 'no way would people be this stupid with safety procedures'. Re-watched it recently thinking 'without the zombie vampires, this could be a documentary'
Entitled Not only idiotic but spiteful and self destructive. People will literally cut their own arms off without even having a point beside "I was told not to". Like a monk setting themself on fire as protest I get, they are trying to show how dedicated they are to their message of non violence by giving a demonstration of how disgusting death and pain can get all while giving up their own life without taking other's. But these people are actively hurting and infecting others on the grounds of "No skin off my teeth and it makes you upset." Like. Holy fucking shit people. It is really revealing of the number of sociopaths amongst our culture.
@@bonogiamboni4830 That's even funnier because I'm pretty sure that area didn't exist when the Blood Plague happened. Whhiiich is fitting with conspiracy theories having super obvious holes in them.
2004: "No one would really do this in real life!" 2020: "What's that? I've actually done it three times while I was waiting for you to finish that sentence."
I'm truth, if you are under the age of 60 with no existing conditions, your chances are slim. As for those who are I have a solution; they can stay at home and we'll stay away. That's what should be happening at nursing homes where half of the deaths in Europe occurred. With the WOW plague, it wasn't so picky on who it killed so it doesn't really work.
Aeradom Well because it was a set damage condition it was mainly dangerous to and instantly killed killed low level players, aka a vulnerable population.
@@Aeradom2000 The numbers are still as high as 1 in 6 for serious complications. You might not die but it's certainly not preferable. Getting acute respiratory failure, pneumonia, ARDS, Acute Cardiac injury etc. The bigger problem is that we don't really know what the long term issues with getting the virus are. If it turns out you get seasonal pneumonia every year because you got COVID before we really knew how to treat it that would be pretty shit. You might not die from it, but unknown complications could really fuck you in the long term. Better safe than sorry, I'd rather not use 1 billion people as an experiment to find out if "oh, turns out only certain people die from it, but a good chunk of people now have a permanent disability."
@@Aeradom2000 Being under 60 with no existing conditions means you aren't likely to die of it, but you still spread it. There is a reason schools are closed even though few children have died. A bunch of under 60s spreading and mutating it like mad is dangerous, and thinking it's fine for younger people to be out and about shows the importance of educating people on this illness. For a fun side note, did you know that most of the deaths in Mexico currently are younger people? Don't be complacent.
@@Jeorin Why is it so difficult to understand? For those that are at risk they can stay at home in isolation! It's just that simple. And if you are in a situation where you are going to be around someone that is at risk, then you stay out as well, it isn't that complicated. But hey, if you want to bring up random countries, u suggest everyone that thinks that lockdowns are the only way to meet this crisis, go look at Sweden who didn't lock down their country and yet how lower per capita deaths than countries that did like Spain and Italy. Addendum: Yes they will spread it, to other people that are not at risk either. You know what will happen when enough of those people have come in contact with a virus? Herd immunity, the only realistic option for containing the virus as a vaccine is well over a year away even in optimistic scenarios.
Funnily enough, they actually teach about this incident in modern virology courses at some universities I've never touched WoW, but I already knew about this event from getting my masters in cell bio
I remember getting involved in the attempts to cure people escaping Stormwind while dickheads kept trying to spread it. There was a moment Horde was brought in to slaughter players trying to spread the debuff. And horde came in to attack the triage camp. And to spread it. And cunts on the Alliance kept trying to spread it. And huntards being either psychotic or too stupid to banish the pet so it doesn't get infected... It was fun for the insanity.
We studied it in epidemiology. It was argued that since WOW players get very attached to their characters and their online identity is so important that it did reflected real life. Until now there had not been a real highly infectious pandemic that could spread human to human easily. Ebola was a blood pathogen and would not spread in US like it did in Africa because our cultures are so different. SARS and MERS were not nearly as good at transmissions COVID. But studying it really didn’t prepare us for how real life people just reject what you say. Honestly I’m happy I’m in vet med because production farmers can be sooo much easier to work with. Did you know in March there was a bird flu outbreak in NC that no one knew about? It’s because the vets went in and took care of it immediately. Granted you are not allowed to depopulate human cities like we can animal houses.
I guess the moral of the story here is "human beings have a tendency to be irrational jerks no matter the setting, despite how self-destructive these tendencies can be."
human beings are beings of varied ideals and mentalities, which is our greatest strength that makes us achieve greatness, and our greatest weakness which makes us do stupid stuff. moral of the story: don't mistake recklessness with stupidity, and don't underestimate people's potential for greatness and stupidity.
@@shaesullivan And that got reinforced when you got stuffed into a locker or trash can at least once a month for each of the numbered grade years. And no, I am actually NOT talking about myself but of my classmate. Although, to be fair, he did stuff himself into a locker one year just to prove that he could do it and he was basically asking for someone to shut the door on him (and no, I'm not talking about me there either).
The only reason people are like that is (in Western countries anyway, but that's no to say countries outside the Western sphere of influence don't pull this shit either) because we live in a culture that through one means or another promotes the idea of exceptionalism, that we are all for various daft reasons (values, wealth, God etc) above everyone around us and moreover, that only we and our immediate family matter in the long run. The only thing is that in reality, no one is exceptional to the consequences of their actions, not even the rich. Consequences inevitably catch up with people and one or another, the ones who chose to flout quarantine, not institute the proper measures to save lives or just act like sociopaths will, in some form or another, get what's coming to them.
@@GallowglassVT i think it's also because the plague we are having is removing some privileges we used to have, and their loss is too much for us to handle. i miss going outside and walking around my village, but i can't do that as much as before.
Even the troll thing is becoming reality. In my country, some guy went out and started licking everything in a supermarket after he thought that he had the virus.
@@whatever8228 heck we knew about that kind of guy as far back as Possible the Black death 1100 or when it was, knew about them from 1920... why was sciences the spreader don't exist today, maybe they expected huamity to be so much better taught and good living standard that they would be removed or something. I dont know. But I did read about some gaming news talking whit pandemic researcher after the Corrupted blood incident and that it was like yes its useful data but things make it sort of not work as a legit full scale model but no researcher they talked whit was like yee we tossed the data.
I was really young when this happened and at the time I was a low level priest that followed around my brother and healed him and when the incident happened a couple of high level priests when to my brother and said they needed me and I went with them and I sat back and healed their debuff while they healed and revived others and it was this big group of these awesome healers that came together and fought the good fight and I remember that inspired me as a kid that after that I had made my choice no not to be a doctor or anything but to main healers in video games
I remember thinking "what? People are studying this? It's a VIDEO GAME! Don't they realize no one in real life would deliberately spread the plague?" Oh, poor, naïve younger me.
I was actually there when it happened, it took me a while to realise because I was a healer so I would just heal myself whenever my health got low. This was such a twitch reflex that it didn't click in my head to question "What the fuck was damaging me!" and it was only when I ran out of mana and died that I realised that something had got seriously wrong. We formed healing circles and helped shield noobs while spamming AOE healing spells and chugging mana potions as fast as the alchemists could make them. (Both mana replenishment and regeneration) The real MVPs though were the tanks who when into the towns to do recon and try to figure out what was happening as we were in the dark for the first day or so. I actually pocketed a tank on one of these recon missions and seeing all the dead player models was disturbing, I've seen some shit in my time on WOW but this was just...unsettling. The trolls were the fucking worse though, harassing tanks and their medics while they were trying to do recon or descenting on healing circles and messing up everything. The troll situation got so bad that the alliance and the horde put their differences aside and form "troll hunting parties" with their main goal being to trap trolls individually so they couldn't keep re-infecting each other. After the hard reset, we were all cautious but things got back to normal slowly over time and the war between the alliance and the horde started once more.
@randomguy8196 They're out there, but they are fighting a losing battle. I've got a few friends who are nurses and it's heartbreaking to watch them slowly begin to lose their shit as they have to hear "It's got over a 99% chance of survival lul who cares" and "masks don't work". Watched one of them just snap and unload on everyone they knew at the top of their lungs. Don't blame em.
Always seems to be the healers that suffer the worst of great tragedies. The victims die, the lucky avoid, but the healers watch the death unfold and give their all just to try and slow it down.
@@vaidenkelsier7757 just last night I saw someone griping about why they have to wait for a vaccine... I think it's rather simple, but tragic at the same time: docfors and nurses take years to train to even basic competency levels. A cashier or clerk can do their job competently in a few days, so when it comes to which of the two get a dose first, the choice should be obvious as it's the docs who are around it the most who run the highest risk of getting it. And while yes, healthy people have a high chance of survival (99.97%), they also have the higher chance of spreading it unknowingly to those who need to avoid this thing at all costs.
Ahh, the old "We'll put aside our differences when faced with a common enemy" thing. Sad that it happened in WoW but still hasn't happened in real life. V_V
The parallel I enjoy is actually to Majora’s Mask. As a kid I never understood how so many townspeople could be so stubbornly ignorant of the inevitable disaster hanging over their heads. Surely when your world is in danger of ending, standing at the epicenter of it all and saying “the world isn’t ending, you fools!” Would be completely unprecedented, right?
LOLquendoTV No no no, you see, think of it more like a sauna :D We're all at the mercy of our dumbest peers, and mark my words they WILL kill us all someday
@@malikoniousjoe nah....people arent that stupid. They will start changing ways when they start suffering for their mistakes. Just look at the pandemic. Our idiot peers didn t care but once doom was certain they did something about it. People will care and act once they start spitting blood. We just have to survive until then.
Reminded me a little, when in Star Wars Galaxy doctors started to sell buffs (absolute necessary to grind or high end content) more and more expensive, so i trained up to a B- level doc and started giving it for free. Still most people paid me, some just a little, some way more than buff were sold for. Sure, it was only in a videogame, but now there's Patreon, and Twitch subs, and i'm paying to see this video a bit earlier.
You can actually see this same thing occuring with Animal Crossing. People started charging for turnip visits, and soon after people started offering them for free instead, and tipping those free people instead, usually more generously than the cost of the ones who charged. why? because kindness is repaid the same way
Wonder what was more profitable in the end; random donations, above or below market price, or a steady stream of cash, the price of the latter being trodden down by market competition
@@beerglass2k Well i got around the average amount of what the buffs were before the "karteling" started, and about where it went back after a week or two. When i started this i used maybe C level buff packs i bought cheap from someone's vendor who was maybe grinding to be master doctor (and medical cupplier), and didn't use droid and drugs, so i have had better profit/buff. But then i started to grind up and sell better stuff since felt bad for getting paid for subpar buffs. :) And then we spent around the same and they got more money/buff. +they mostly used bots 24/7 while i was selling manualy for a few hours only every day. So they were much more profitable/day. But still it might have hurt the buffbots credit/hour when i was up since they lowered the prices eventualy. Or just more and more people got pissed with them - while everyone was really nice to me.
I definitely remember logging in to a massive pile of corpses in orgrimmar. Being in a guild that had already fought Hakar, I don't remember if we'd cleared him yet, I was struck by on odd juxtaposition. I knew exactly what I was looking at was but at a complete loss to explain it. How the fuck had Hakkar's debuff gotten out of the instance? The lowbies were the hardest hit. Not a lot of people other then those guilds who we're well geared enough to power through the zone's bosses had ever seen the debuff before. The vast majority of people literally had no idea what the fuck was going on. I remember me and some of the other healers in my guild trying to keep people alive and tell them to stay the fuck away from other people to avoid getting the debuff, cause that's how it worked and was actually central to the boss fight as well. We even escorted some people who were stuck and constantly dieing out of the city. The thing I remember most clearly though were the naked lunatics running around the city trying their hardest to spread the debuff to as many people as possible. There was really nothing that could be done about this since they were members of the same faction so the attitude was, trolls are gonna troll lets troll them back by getting those people who are logged off here safely out of the city when they do log in. Less frustration and less insanity all around.
@@theblackwidower I’m not a WoW player, but in ESO (which I do play) you can’t attack members of your alliance unless both sides consent to pvp outside of the war zone, so I assume something similar was going on there.
There's a quote that this whole incident reminds me of "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." The fact this not first time I'm reminded of it within the past week disturbs me.
"If you try desperately to foolproof something, the Universe WILL do its damnest to generate a fool capable of screwing you over anyway" I don't remember who that quote is from...
I’m currently studying biochemistry and as part of my coursework I have to take classes in immunology and virology, and we actually talked about this in class! The whole incident provided very useful data about how diseases spread, how to quarantine them once they’ve started, and the social aspects that come into play in pandemic scenarios (people lying to save themselves, incidents of selflessness vs selfishness, etc.). I have no doubt that somebody somewhere that is somehow involved with controlling this pandemic has drafted a memo to somebody that discusses how COVID-19 relates to the Corrupted Blood incident.
From what I've learned, there are two main factors that control how fast a disease is spread 1: how dense the population is 2: how dense the population is you can thank the english language for this
Wow, what a coincidence. I've been thinking about this exact thing for a while now. I remember how every article that took the event "seriously" for the purpose of simulating real world pandemics was always countered (i.e., laughed at) by all the other epidemiologists and scientists who swore blind that people would never perform the same negative actions in real life. Mannnnnnn, I'd love to interview some of those people to see what they think of current events. Although I'm sure my constant laughter at the inherent gallows humor would be considered highly unprofessional.
One thing that absolutely blew my mind when I heard about the corrupted blood event a month ago, was that after the event had taken place and was fixed the CDC The actual Center for Disease Control contacted Blizzard and asked if they could look over the raw data and actions that were taken during this virtual pandemic. They even told the company that such data would be very beneficial research, in the event of a picture actual pandemic but Blizzard turned them down because “it’s just a game“ so they were actual people looking at this event and thinking of the real world applications in the Game company it’s self was trying to downplay it.
"People would NEVER do that IRL" >People proceed to cough in others faces, on groceries, spit/lick things in public, and kill guards that tell them to wear a facemask Oh boi were they wrong. WoW got it soooooo right.
@@CyberLink70 There were a few local stories here in GA of workers getting shot or stabbed when telling customers they need to wear a facemask or leave
The most depressing thing about all this is how a lot of people, who just get there news from Liberal MSM and aren't getting the whole story. Or at times, just up and move the whole goal post. For instance, you remember how the term "Flatten the Curve" was drilled into our skulls? The point of that wasn't to eliminate all infection because you can't. In fact, California is proof this hasn't as we know there are hundreds of thousands who were infected despite being on the most stringent of lockdowns The point was to limit the number of hospitalizations so that the HC wouldn't be overwhelmed. You can do this without shutting down the economy by letting those with minimal risk go out (wearing masks) and the at risk stay at home. Simple enough. You should also know there were states and even countries that didn't lock down and they didn't breakdown either.
@@Aeradom2000 Or, and I'm just spitballing here, instead of going to news at all just listen to the WHO and your national health organization. Shouting at multinational news organisations like Fox and CNN for misreporting things will just tire you out. Because those fucking places misreport all kinds of shit. Ignore blogs, ignore youtube, carefully source traditional media, and go straight to the experts.
@@Deimnos China controls part of the UN and by extension WHO. That is why WHO representatives call Taiwan and Hong Kong "China". Because China thinks of them as controlled-territories, and what China says goes. Bill Gates has a lot of money tied up in different Medical Organizations (vaccines, etc). Therefore plays by WHO guidelines. (Not that this is a bad thing, but it should be kept in mind when Bill Gates advocates for something.)
@@gebs123 the US also controls part of the UN? It's sorta physically located in the US. What kind of mental Olympics do you have to perform to say "if China has 'controls' something (using the most broad definition of control you could possibly use) then it automatically means that you can't trust the people at the WHO who have directly contradicted Chinas original claims about COVID because...China controls them." I could use this logic to believe almost anything about anything. "A Dr. who has traded in stocks with VZW before says 5g is fine. Sounds pretty fishy..." "You know that guy posts videos on TikTok, TikTok is a Chinese data harvesting social media platform [probably true], so this guy is definitely working for the Chinese Government [Olympic level conclusion jumping]."
Early WoW was wild. My server never suffered a Corrupted Blood outbreak, but it's genuinely amazing how huge some of the events were back then. During the opening of the Ahn'Qiraj gates (which happened at 2am on my server), there were literally thousands of people online, all in one place, working together to take down giant raid bosses and shit. Battlegrounds like Alterac Valley used to go on for literal days, with both sides gaining ground in inches and organising tactical manoeuvres to try to get the jump on one another. Nowadays if you hop on that game, you're lucky to see another player outside of the capital cities. It's sad really.
@@TheDapperDragon Stupid complaint. Group finders actively help you interact with other players. People forget that the open world was becoming depopulated long before group finder just because the average person was getting a lot better at the game and there were a lot more resources online, so levelling was less and less of a challenge.
vanilla AV was best as you said battles would last for hours and you could get loads of honour kills the TBC came out and everyone said fuck it lets rush every match and AV was no longer fun i stopped playing in PvP after that
@@Aristaios Fun fact, that's exactly how original AV is also played today on Classic and private servers, people just sucked nuts at the game back then...
@@Bepples I did some dungeons in late Wrath and this was my experience (RP server, okey Cross server dungeons so YMMW). press find group bottom. Auto join group. IF gear score to low kick player. else do instant and kill boss. the first word in /s /e /y /p is said and its /p GG. Teleported out. Interaction sorry what interaction. in fact I for fuzziness after doing one dungeon 10 times or so decided to say at the start the run after the gear check had been done. /p Hello. 3 of 5 times gets a /p or /w 'Shut up' or something equal. and kicked.
"Turning all the major population centers into oceans of skeletal corpses, on a scale rarely seen outside fashion model conventions." Now that's a big oof.
I was there and online when this happened. My guild was running ZG since it had just come out, and so my character wasn’t at risk of dying. I tried healing the stricken for a bit, then gave up and Galted away from Ironforge to ride it out.
I remember being in booty bay on my half-way leveled (around 30 or so) dwarf Hunter. Place was a mess. The pre-wotlk launch event was pretty cool imo. In spite of what Yathsee says. Opinions will differ I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@jon9828 Most people liked the zombie event and had fun with it at the time. A particular Blizzard CM later claimed everyone hated it as a defence of the underwhelming Cataclysm event a couple years later.
Don't know if you are correct there. There sure seems to be a vocal subset of gaming culture that drank the Trump cool aid. Truth is that gamers are neither good nor bad. Just that its the worst of us that are often the most vocal with tantrums, or the most socially isolated that go full Incell (never go full Incell).
@@frederik7338 i am probably an unreasonable level of upset you spelled Kool-aid with a 'c'. But yes, in all cultures really, the worst minority often tends to be the most vocal or noticeable. "One bad apple spoils the bunch."
I'm wondering if something is hilarious enough, it eventually becomes horrifying... and vice versa. Never EVER underestimate stupid. Just when you think you've seen the most moronic behaviour imaginable, someone will come along and do something dumber.
Laughter is/was meant to be a social response to say "Things are okay" in a shocking or absurd situations. This is why people doing scary things, IE villains laughing is unnerving to us. We don't find world domination, death, destruction in reality funny, so when we see someone giving us the signal of "it's okay" and we know it to be false, we are very very uncomfortable if not scared. Smiles work the same. Some people also laugh or smile from nervousness or fear. The brain trying to tell them it's alright or self-soothe. It's why I'm always trying to keep an open mind when someone is laughing at something that is not an okay situation. They could be most often doing it as a response to the absurdity of the situation (A person being hit and flying through the air to silly music is a great example of this. The person being hurt/dying isn't funny, the absurdity is, that it feels unrealistic or off) or as a response of fear. Laughter can be triggered by a lot of things, but the most common I think s absurdity. A good offensive joke can still be a good joke when it acknowledges the absurdity of the situation. The Aristocratic joke does this pretty well, because it gets so extreme that it feels unreal. The problem is when the absurd is real. Like cases of abuse, loss or torture or even some conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Abuse is a really common one. A fantastic video is one where a guy slaps around a cartoon kid around and throws them down the stairs and the tag is "Real kids don't get back up." Humor is subjective because I think initially it's actually a fear response and people will find different things funny for different reasons, especially in processing tragedy, make-believe or real.
"The answer it turns out laid in the newly introduced raid instance called 'Zul'Gurub', which you'll notice is an anagram of 'bugerz up' if you spell it completely wrong" The funniest thing I have heard in so long
I remember those days... They were dark times. I was one of the tourists. Though I (thankfully) no longer play I still have the screenshots somewhere showing the massive amounts of corpses littering the main cities from both events.
@@cibo889 And that's why people like you are the problem. All the nihilists, misanthropes and people here for a laugh at the expense of others, even their lives are the people who are almost as bad as everything else. Either you don't understand suffering, or you are so bitter from your own suffering (and not getting the help you deserved during it) that you want to watch others suffer. Both scenarios are shitty. Though for the last one, I am both angry and empathetic to it. The more sadistic a person is, the more I wonder how badly they were hurt. Sadism takes empathy.
It doesn’t help when you have influential world leaders telling people not to follow common sense, especially in nations where the “with us or against us” mentality is so strong that all things must be made into a political stance
@@cibo889 you don't get pleasure from seeing people suffer...but you enjoy watching chaos. Ok, now decide which of your split personalities should be in charge.
"And then there`s the subject of today`s video, a suddenly relevant accident from 2005 in which World of Warcraft had to deal with an insidious globe-scarring plague other than itself"
Be honest, people: did you _really_ expect to come away from a _Zero Punctuation_ episode feeling a renewed sense of faith in humanity? No? Me neither. Welp, back to my busy schedule of panic attacks and grief-wracked sobs -- call me when it's safe to come outside again.
@@GeneralErlend Yeah, my best friend's in the same boat, albeit in a town of around 19K. Fingers crossed that both of you get through this mess unscathed (and hopefully with extra hazard pay, because if this doesn't qualify, _nothing_ does).
"After all, it’s not like people in the real world would just casually blow off an official quarantine order when there’s honest to goodness life and death on the line." Dominic Cummings has entered the chat
To people wondering: 260-330 damage per 2 seconds isnt a lot. Takes about 30-50 seconds to kill you, but obviously everyone had it and you couldnt get rid of it constantly
0:50 They actually tried and succeeded with a memorial for Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek Online and to the best of my knowledge (at least in the server i was on at that moment) it was completely unmolested by trolls.
When Carrie Fisher passed unexpectedly, a vigil began in the Republic starting area on Alderaan, in Organa Palace. There was a statue of a woman with a similar hairstyle to Leia's buns from A New Hope. Imperial Players killed the NPC guards, burst in...and joined in on the vigil themselves. out of respect. There were mourners in the Organa Palace for nearly three weeks.
While Yahtzee has covered most of it, he's left out a few things for brevity: * First off, the debuff was VERY sloppily coded. Any contact with any character passed it along. ANY character. Your trainer, the shopkeeper, the town guards, all served as asymptomatic carriers for the simulated plague. * As you might have guessed from the above, even hard resets didn't fix the problem. They finally wound up with a choice: Make NPCs immune to the plague (which would include pets) or roll back the entire version to before the new boss had been added. They finally set the plague to affect PCs only. * As trolly as trolls can be, they weren't in this for the lulz. Since WoW allowed corpse looting, setting off a mass death would leave the ground littered with lootable corpses, sometimes hundreds of them. Even if all they had was low-level gear, you could just pick it up, sell it to the unkillable merchant, and have a whole lot of virtual profit.
well, that last point just turns the seemingly chaos-hungry trolls into borderline sociopathic """""business start-ups"""""" aka the kind of people who'd buy all the hand sanitizer and toilet paper in a 500km radius and then try to resell it for exorbitant prices on amazon .....checks out
@@katsucandy No, those would be the people who charged for heal spells. The trolls are more like the people who follow the obituaries so they know whose house to rob during the funeral.
I remember playing WoW during this time and myself and the missus being among those that pretty much just headed into the hills and waited out the whole thing when it became apparent from the auction houses new skull and hip bone carpets that not much was getting accomplished in the capitals. Although even in remote places like the Hinterlands you'd have players riding around with the infection that would lock onto you like a guided missile on sight and try to infect you too.
Hey i was forced to be one of those emotionless npcs cuz i was considered "esstantial" (fast food) everyone else was bitching and all i wanted was to be quarantined.
I mean no offense when I say this, but the fact that fastfood or anything in that vein is considered essential baffles me. Economically I get it, in reality I don't. Essential to me would be people who keep a society running beyond economics. So anyone working in hospitals, teachers, scientists, engineers, technology, sanitation, government, general upkeep, food production, water distribution, internet/phone usage. Things we need in modern era to survive and continue living, things that keep people safe, healthy and connected. Nothing else seems essential to me. I have a family member who works at a wine distribution center and is considered an essential worker. I love them, but goodness me that is not an essential job in a world wide epidemic. Our economic structure just doesn't mesh with reality at all.
Wow I totally forgot this was a thing. It really is surprising how many parallels there were between it and our current situation, some I never even heard about when I read about this a few years ago.
The forntite kids don't believe that they invented irony lmao. But their sense of memes and comedy is far more ironic than the older gens, which is true.
I remember this well. It also happened on the EU server Aszune that I played on. It was absolutely incredible. Capital cities looked like warzones. Both Iron Forge and Stormwind were literal no go areas since Corrupted Blood could kill you in seconds at low levels. And yeah, the zombie plague during WotLK's opening was ass too. There's nothing like a fucking server wide pandemic to prevent you from enjoying the game you're paying to play. Then we have the Gates of AQ opening that crashed the server every five fucking minutes too as everyone poured into Silithus to join in the "fun."
Back in the incident, I told my guild I hadn't been infected cause I logged out and back into the game in my farming grounds out in the Plaguelands... oddly named, since I was hiding there to avoid a plaque. So from then until Blizz hotfixed the blood corruption, half the guild spent there time trying to track me down and get their infected pets to pounce on me. They failed, but geez my friends were being ****s considering they also wanted me to supply them with raiding materials the next day. Which I refused saying I didn't get a chance to cause of all their chaos they caused, then I posted all my mats for higher price on the Auction House and made a killing :P
5:03 - Surely people understand there are no hard resets in real life. Unless you count Tactical Nuclear Strikes. I would vote Yathzee for mayor or Raccoon City.:)
I recall the tales, I couldn't stop laughing due to how insane people where to purposely screw everyone over. I alsonplayed in the wrath event and at lvl max meh no problem, low level it was rage inducing to have a high lvl purposely fuck me over repeatedly. So yes seeing it from the context of history hillarious, seeing it done to you not as funny.
I was there for the Wrath plague... except I didn't actually experience it because I was lvling in the middle of no where on a small-ish server. Lots of yelling in guild chat, whilst I was just picking herbs... lol
There was a similar event with an explosive curse. Bad guy would curse you, you would explode dealing massive damage to everyone around you. People started getting their animal companions cursed, putting them back in storage, finding some nice public server full of defenseless unarmed people, and yelling "here boy, alah ahkbar mother fuckers." Cracked had entire an entire series of articles with stories like that called dick moves in gaming. Eve online usually made first place.
Those were college days for me. More than a few assignments almost didnt get turned in on time thanks to WoW. Was so funny looking back on it how we thought it was a live event and it turned out to be a glitch that literally went viral. Miss the game sometimes but I havent had time for that shit in nearly a decade. the whole paying to go to a second job was far too true when you were in a raiding guild.
I've seen a lot of academics talk about how the current pandemic was predictable from the perspective of cycles of disease every few years, but honestly, as far as the social aspects go, I think we're seeing something a lot more terrifying in people's attitude towards covid-19: the direct consequences of a society which, on some level, promotes the idea that everyone is exempt from the rules. This is something that has been happening in Western society long before capitalism (the ideas of elite social values, being Christian or just being rich), but it's only with us now being able to get a view into the lives of the super rich and powerful that this unconscious idea of being exempt from the consequences of our actions has leaked in. It's something that trolls online have been doing for years, but now, it's leaked into the public and has far more broad reaching consequences: it's leading to actual illness and deaths. So yeah, if you wanna know one of the biggest reasons why this pandemic is killing and will continue to kill so many, it's because people have literally been programmed into embracing the sociopathic values the rich have held for centuries. No one feels like the rules apply to them and no one cares about the consequences (unless you do care. In which case, you're the good kind of exception)
There are so many reasons why people are acting like this, and it cannot be explained in-full using such a one-dimensional explanation of “blame the rich.” Incentives, personal freedom, “me vs the world” thought processes, political influences, etc.
@@SomeFreakingCactus A lot of what you described is the direct result of living in a capitalist society (AKA, a society unofficially controlled by the rich for the benefit of the rich over everyone else). It breeds a me vs the world mentality as opposed to a sense of community and emphasizes personal freedoms taking priority over the rights, freedoms and SAFETY of the group. As for political influences, most if not all mainstream politicians (including so-called progressives like the American Dems who to those of us in Europe aren't much different to the Republicans) and certainly a lot of Western heads of state (Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and the like) have either been willfully ineffective or outright contemptuous of efforts to control the virus. The UK now has the highest death toll in the world thanks to Johnson and the Tory Party's abysmal handling of the situation combined with the exceptionalist attitude that's been cultivated in our citizenry..
Your videos are still how I remember them. Usually things from the Old Internet turn sour when brought to new light, but really, this is still just good stuff. Thanks.
One small difference I think is that the trolls re-infecting others in WoW was a bit different than the COVID pandemic, as the trolls were consciously trolling whilst conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers thought there was nothing to be afraid. Equally stupid, though.
Not really, considering the stuff the government was demanding us to do wouldn't and didn't actually help (you can compare it state by state with those who compiled and ignored it). Most of the stuff they were saying were pretty spot on in retrospect.
I actually was waiting for Yahts to do an episode on this since came around. It is sad that Gamers once again are discredited about something that could be a legitimate lesson for the world because the "Games are for Kids" Bullshit
My God, I can actually picture some utter planks in real life running around public buildings licking all the doorknobs. It's just too stupid not to be a thing.
Makes me wonder if it's mostly an era thing. People do a lot more things today that they wouldn't dared to have done a few decades ago, partly because there are retards out there who are popular for it. The internet is like grade/high school and it's very much about who has the most "friends" or most popular. If you're trying to be or emulate those people, you're going to probably be willing to do some very stupid things. See one stupid person do something you think is funny (or that others do) and you're gonna do something even stupider.
@@LordDeathwing17Love that quote and it’s so true. Some of the things I’ve seen during this "quarantine" have really made me think that having a vote shouldn’t be universal.
@@JoshSweetvale China is at least improving rather than going backwards like we are. Plus they are developing those molten salt reactors which would never happen here due to all the hippies crying anytime the word nuclear gets mentioned.
The way some people acted during the worst times of Covid is a prime example why I too often have to play Carmageddon to ease off my frustration about humanity.
I remember this! I remember the first time I logged in and had to go to stormwind to turn in a quest and saw nothing but dead people everywhere. I was so confused until I bleed to death . What a great day
I recently started playing again after a year off. Its alright, better than most of what passes for a game these days - at least you can just pay your money and play your game, and the micropayments dont foist themselves on you.
@@Bepples Like you legitimately have to know where they are and specifically go to the shop page in order to ever actually see them. You could reasonably forget they even exist.
The Zombie plague event actually happened first during the pre-release for Naxxramas (which would be around a year after the corrupted blood incident). They just re-hashed it for the pre-release of WotLK 2 and a half yrs later.
02:34 I fucking lost it. I don't know why but the blizzard employee explosion depiction showing how powerless they were against it was just so comically perfect.
3:42 I remember years later when they did a zombie event styled after this, but you turned into a zombie when you died and could corrupt other players intentionally. Nothing quite as satisfying as single-handedly taking over a low level questing hub as a max leveled Lich with your army of the damned.
And just yesterday someone was arrested for spitting in people's faces outside a grocery store after he'd tested positive for Omnicron. People cared more about their WoW characters than their real selves. Well, now that I say it out loud it sounds obvious.
LOLed at the people exploding in corrupted blood along with the imps, and the running gag of an imp saying "please buy some pants!" And also the imp clusters, especially in a line shouting "Lame"! So very funny! XD Oh, and the Noah's Ark reference! :D
As a Warcraft player for 16 years, I'll have you know that after 20 hours you upgrade from murloc bell ends to gnoll bell ends. And, if you're lucky by 70 hours you can level up to dragon ball fondling.
One of the biggest problems with the Corrupted Blood 'event' was with NPCs getting it. Because they were considered out of combat, they had huge health regen and would never die from it. If they had been able to die from it normally, I don't think it would've ended up being nearly as big of a deal because it just would've burned itself out really rapidly.
On the contrary: they're the perfect model for asymptomatic carriers. Someone who carries the plague, passes it along to others, and remains both symptom-free and clueless of what's happening.
Zero Punctuation indie rock track name of the week: Before Your Generation Invented Irony (sung by Imaginary Murlock Bellends) Runners-up: All This Interesting Carnage Global Plague Events Are Actually Kinda Lame No Hard Resets In Real Life (Unless You Count Tactical Nuclear Strikes)
This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviewed both Ion Fury and Void Bastards - www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/ion-fury-void-bastards-zero-punctuation/
Woah, ion fury! this is gonna be a great watch.
Void Bastards is such a great game. Maybe cause I grew up playing those sprite shooters, but man the pacing and intensity is fantastic. And... you don't love it... i get it.
one incident is just video game and one is real life... both can give you stress but one of them you are death for real...
@@liberalistbat6352 and all the world wide deaths that happen in countries with no Democrats
I take it you dislike Warcraft?
If there's anything I've learned from this pandemic, it's that when I complained about fictional characters doing something no human would ever do I vastly overestimated humanity.
It's exhausting isn't it?
A few days ago me and my friend were talking about that as well. I always got annoying when I see someone do something extremely idiotic in a movie, thinking how there is no way someone would do that. Then 2020 came and it proved not only that people will do something that idiotic, but also go way beyond in an attempt to make something even more idiotic.
I used to think ''This is unrealistic. People are not that stupid or heartless!''... Now I think '' This is unrealistic. People are not stupid ENOUGH and they actually show empathy''...
I remember watching the first couple episodes of 'The Strain' many years ago thinking 'no way would people be this stupid with safety procedures'. Re-watched it recently thinking 'without the zombie vampires, this could be a documentary'
Entitled Not only idiotic but spiteful and self destructive. People will literally cut their own arms off without even having a point beside "I was told not to".
Like a monk setting themself on fire as protest I get, they are trying to show how dedicated they are to their message of non violence by giving a demonstration of how disgusting death and pain can get all while giving up their own life without taking other's.
But these people are actively hurting and infecting others on the grounds of "No skin off my teeth and it makes you upset." Like. Holy fucking shit people. It is really revealing of the number of sociopaths amongst our culture.
I heard that the Corrupted Blood was actually created in a secret lab outside of Brackenwall Village.
Underappreciated comment
Let's call it the Orc virus.
You get a rare like.
Really? I thought it came from the Pandarin area.
@@bonogiamboni4830 That's even funnier because I'm pretty sure that area didn't exist when the Blood Plague happened. Whhiiich is fitting with conspiracy theories having super obvious holes in them.
2004: "No one would really do this in real life!"
2020: "What's that? I've actually done it three times while I was waiting for you to finish that sentence."
I'm truth, if you are under the age of 60 with no existing conditions, your chances are slim. As for those who are I have a solution; they can stay at home and we'll stay away. That's what should be happening at nursing homes where half of the deaths in Europe occurred. With the WOW plague, it wasn't so picky on who it killed so it doesn't really work.
Aeradom Well because it was a set damage condition it was mainly dangerous to and instantly killed killed low level players, aka a vulnerable population.
@@Aeradom2000 The numbers are still as high as 1 in 6 for serious complications. You might not die but it's certainly not preferable. Getting acute respiratory failure, pneumonia, ARDS, Acute Cardiac injury etc.
The bigger problem is that we don't really know what the long term issues with getting the virus are. If it turns out you get seasonal pneumonia every year because you got COVID before we really knew how to treat it that would be pretty shit. You might not die from it, but unknown complications could really fuck you in the long term.
Better safe than sorry, I'd rather not use 1 billion people as an experiment to find out if "oh, turns out only certain people die from it, but a good chunk of people now have a permanent disability."
@@Aeradom2000 Being under 60 with no existing conditions means you aren't likely to die of it, but you still spread it. There is a reason schools are closed even though few children have died. A bunch of under 60s spreading and mutating it like mad is dangerous, and thinking it's fine for younger people to be out and about shows the importance of educating people on this illness. For a fun side note, did you know that most of the deaths in Mexico currently are younger people? Don't be complacent.
@@Jeorin Why is it so difficult to understand? For those that are at risk they can stay at home in isolation! It's just that simple. And if you are in a situation where you are going to be around someone that is at risk, then you stay out as well, it isn't that complicated.
But hey, if you want to bring up random countries, u suggest everyone that thinks that lockdowns are the only way to meet this crisis, go look at Sweden who didn't lock down their country and yet how lower per capita deaths than countries that did like Spain and Italy.
Addendum: Yes they will spread it, to other people that are not at risk either. You know what will happen when enough of those people have come in contact with a virus? Herd immunity, the only realistic option for containing the virus as a vaccine is well over a year away even in optimistic scenarios.
Funnily enough, they actually teach about this incident in modern virology courses at some universities
I've never touched WoW, but I already knew about this event from getting my masters in cell bio
Yeah, didn't scientists study the incident or something like that?
I remember getting involved in the attempts to cure people escaping Stormwind while dickheads kept trying to spread it. There was a moment Horde was brought in to slaughter players trying to spread the debuff.
And horde came in to attack the triage camp. And to spread it. And cunts on the Alliance kept trying to spread it. And huntards being either psychotic or too stupid to banish the pet so it doesn't get infected...
It was fun for the insanity.
We studied it in epidemiology. It was argued that since WOW players get very attached to their characters and their online identity is so important that it did reflected real life. Until now there had not been a real highly infectious pandemic that could spread human to human easily. Ebola was a blood pathogen and would not spread in US like it did in Africa because our cultures are so different. SARS and MERS were not nearly as good at transmissions COVID. But studying it really didn’t prepare us for how real life people just reject what you say. Honestly I’m happy I’m in vet med because production farmers can be sooo much easier to work with. Did you know in March there was a bird flu outbreak in NC that no one knew about? It’s because the vets went in and took care of it immediately. Granted you are not allowed to depopulate human cities like we can animal houses.
@@carolbaker2773 I mean let's not take that option off the table yet.
Funnily enough, the idiots teaching about this incident have never touched WoW as well.
I guess the moral of the story here is "human beings have a tendency to be irrational jerks no matter the setting, despite how self-destructive these tendencies can be."
You learned that in kindergarten the first time someone knocked you
out off the swing.
human beings are beings of varied ideals and mentalities, which is our greatest strength that makes us achieve greatness, and our greatest weakness which makes us do stupid stuff.
moral of the story: don't mistake recklessness with stupidity, and don't underestimate people's potential for greatness and stupidity.
@@shaesullivan And that got reinforced when you got stuffed into a locker or trash can at least once a month for each of the numbered grade years.
And no, I am actually NOT talking about myself but of my classmate. Although, to be fair, he did stuff himself into a locker one year just to prove that he could do it and he was basically asking for someone to shut the door on him (and no, I'm not talking about me there either).
The only reason people are like that is (in Western countries anyway, but that's no to say countries outside the Western sphere of influence don't pull this shit either) because we live in a culture that through one means or another promotes the idea of exceptionalism, that we are all for various daft reasons (values, wealth, God etc) above everyone around us and moreover, that only we and our immediate family matter in the long run. The only thing is that in reality, no one is exceptional to the consequences of their actions, not even the rich. Consequences inevitably catch up with people and one or another, the ones who chose to flout quarantine, not institute the proper measures to save lives or just act like sociopaths will, in some form or another, get what's coming to them.
@@GallowglassVT i think it's also because the plague we are having is removing some privileges we used to have, and their loss is too much for us to handle.
i miss going outside and walking around my village, but i can't do that as much as before.
The academia part isn't a joke, I remember having briefly studied this in University. It's super surreal now.
Even the troll thing is becoming reality.
In my country, some guy went out and started licking everything in a supermarket after he thought that he had the virus.
@@whatever8228 heck we knew about that kind of guy as far back as Possible the Black death 1100 or when it was, knew about them from 1920... why was sciences the spreader don't exist today, maybe they expected huamity to be so much better taught and good living standard that they would be removed or something. I dont know.
But I did read about some gaming news talking whit pandemic researcher after the Corrupted blood incident and that it was like yes its useful data but things make it sort of not work as a legit full scale model but no researcher they talked whit was like yee we tossed the data.
@@whatever8228 I saw a video of some guy in Iran licking some religious wall that people touch. Not sure if he was sick or not.
@@AzureDrag0n1 idk about that, but the guy I'm talking about admitted to doing this.
Yeah we know
I was really young when this happened and at the time I was a low level priest that followed around my brother and healed him and when the incident happened a couple of high level priests when to my brother and said they needed me and I went with them and I sat back and healed their debuff while they healed and revived others and it was this big group of these awesome healers that came together and fought the good fight and I remember that inspired me as a kid that after that I had made my choice no not to be a doctor or anything but to main healers in video games
keep fighting the good fight jack, the world needs you now more than ever (since they're all inside playing video games)
I need healing
MEDIC!
Some heroes don't wear capes.
Odd question, did you ever consider being a medic/corpsman irl?
I remember thinking "what? People are studying this? It's a VIDEO GAME! Don't they realize no one in real life would deliberately spread the plague?"
Oh, poor, naïve younger me.
We have all grown wiser - except for those who have not - about the people who have not.
@@jb512137 those who did not grow wiser stoped growing.
@@mlpfanboy1701 Yeah, death will do that.
As a wise stickman once said: "If you give humans the benefit of the doubt, chances are, they'll prove you wrong."
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Spite is a very powerful emotion
What is this from?
@@jasonfrancese8359 Sam O Nella
I was actually there when it happened, it took me a while to realise because I was a healer so I would just heal myself whenever my health got low. This was such a twitch reflex that it didn't click in my head to question "What the fuck was damaging me!" and it was only when I ran out of mana and died that I realised that something had got seriously wrong.
We formed healing circles and helped shield noobs while spamming AOE healing spells and chugging mana potions as fast as the alchemists could make them. (Both mana replenishment and regeneration) The real MVPs though were the tanks who when into the towns to do recon and try to figure out what was happening as we were in the dark for the first day or so.
I actually pocketed a tank on one of these recon missions and seeing all the dead player models was disturbing, I've seen some shit in my time on WOW but this was just...unsettling. The trolls were the fucking worse though, harassing tanks and their medics while they were trying to do recon or descenting on healing circles and messing up everything.
The troll situation got so bad that the alliance and the horde put their differences aside and form "troll hunting parties" with their main goal being to trap trolls individually so they couldn't keep re-infecting each other. After the hard reset, we were all cautious but things got back to normal slowly over time and the war between the alliance and the horde started once more.
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@randomguy8196 They're out there, but they are fighting a losing battle. I've got a few friends who are nurses and it's heartbreaking to watch them slowly begin to lose their shit as they have to hear "It's got over a 99% chance of survival lul who cares" and "masks don't work". Watched one of them just snap and unload on everyone they knew at the top of their lungs.
Don't blame em.
Always seems to be the healers that suffer the worst of great tragedies. The victims die, the lucky avoid, but the healers watch the death unfold and give their all just to try and slow it down.
@@vaidenkelsier7757 just last night I saw someone griping about why they have to wait for a vaccine... I think it's rather simple, but tragic at the same time: docfors and nurses take years to train to even basic competency levels. A cashier or clerk can do their job competently in a few days, so when it comes to which of the two get a dose first, the choice should be obvious as it's the docs who are around it the most who run the highest risk of getting it.
And while yes, healthy people have a high chance of survival (99.97%), they also have the higher chance of spreading it unknowingly to those who need to avoid this thing at all costs.
Ahh, the old "We'll put aside our differences when faced with a common enemy" thing. Sad that it happened in WoW but still hasn't happened in real life. V_V
The parallel I enjoy is actually to Majora’s Mask. As a kid I never understood how so many townspeople could be so stubbornly ignorant of the inevitable disaster hanging over their heads. Surely when your world is in danger of ending, standing at the epicenter of it all and saying “the world isn’t ending, you fools!” Would be completely unprecedented, right?
Yeah, hows that Global Warming going for us right now?
I mean just the moon's face alone should incite panic
nah....people just get fed up when you try to limit them in general. Now if you excuse me im going out to buy some chips.
LOLquendoTV No no no, you see, think of it more like a sauna :D
We're all at the mercy of our dumbest peers, and mark my words they WILL kill us all someday
@@malikoniousjoe nah....people arent that stupid. They will start changing ways when they start suffering for their mistakes. Just look at the pandemic. Our idiot peers didn t care but once doom was certain they did something about it. People will care and act once they start spitting blood. We just have to survive until then.
Reminded me a little, when in Star Wars Galaxy doctors started to sell buffs (absolute necessary to grind or high end content) more and more expensive, so i trained up to a B- level doc and started giving it for free. Still most people paid me, some just a little, some way more than buff were sold for.
Sure, it was only in a videogame, but now there's Patreon, and Twitch subs, and i'm paying to see this video a bit earlier.
Good good! Dismantle the capitalist state!
You can actually see this same thing occuring with Animal Crossing. People started charging for turnip visits, and soon after people started offering them for free instead, and tipping those free people instead, usually more generously than the cost of the ones who charged. why? because kindness is repaid the same way
Wonder what was more profitable in the end; random donations, above or below market price, or a steady stream of cash, the price of the latter being trodden down by market competition
@@beerglass2k Well i got around the average amount of what the buffs were before the "karteling" started, and about where it went back after a week or two.
When i started this i used maybe C level buff packs i bought cheap from someone's vendor who was maybe grinding to be master doctor (and medical cupplier), and didn't use droid and drugs, so i have had better profit/buff. But then i started to grind up and sell better stuff since felt bad for getting paid for subpar buffs. :) And then we spent around the same and they got more money/buff.
+they mostly used bots 24/7 while i was selling manualy for a few hours only every day. So they were much more profitable/day. But still it might have hurt the buffbots credit/hour when i was up since they lowered the prices eventualy. Or just more and more people got pissed with them - while everyone was really nice to me.
This is basically why it's more profitable to let people sell their turnips at your town for free than it is to charge tips in ACNH
thats kinda racist to blame the trolls for it, i saw plenty of orcs and elves doing it
Don't forget the humans who were the worst offenders
Shut up and take my like!
lmfao
i laughed WAAY to hard at this
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I definitely remember logging in to a massive pile of corpses in orgrimmar. Being in a guild that had already fought Hakar, I don't remember if we'd cleared him yet, I was struck by on odd juxtaposition. I knew exactly what I was looking at was but at a complete loss to explain it. How the fuck had Hakkar's debuff gotten out of the instance?
The lowbies were the hardest hit. Not a lot of people other then those guilds who we're well geared enough to power through the zone's bosses had ever seen the debuff before. The vast majority of people literally had no idea what the fuck was going on. I remember me and some of the other healers in my guild trying to keep people alive and tell them to stay the fuck away from other people to avoid getting the debuff, cause that's how it worked and was actually central to the boss fight as well. We even escorted some people who were stuck and constantly dieing out of the city.
The thing I remember most clearly though were the naked lunatics running around the city trying their hardest to spread the debuff to as many people as possible. There was really nothing that could be done about this since they were members of the same faction so the attitude was, trolls are gonna troll lets troll them back by getting those people who are logged off here safely out of the city when they do log in. Less frustration and less insanity all around.
@@KokoroKatsura YATTA!
War... war never changes.
Why does being members of the same faction prevent you from doing anything?
@@theblackwidower I’m not a WoW player, but in ESO (which I do play) you can’t attack members of your alliance unless both sides consent to pvp outside of the war zone, so I assume something similar was going on there.
There's a quote that this whole incident reminds me of "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." The fact this not first time I'm reminded of it within the past week disturbs me.
Where's that quote from?
@@malikoniousjoe Friedrich Schiller, in his play Die Jungfrau von Orleans, "The Maid of Orleans."
subtlewhatssubtle Thank you, I'll give it a look later :)
"If you try desperately to foolproof something, the Universe WILL do its damnest to generate a fool capable of screwing you over anyway" I don't remember who that quote is from...
@@pierre-mariecaulliez6285 Wow, I like that quote. It's so good.
I’m currently studying biochemistry and as part of my coursework I have to take classes in immunology and virology, and we actually talked about this in class! The whole incident provided very useful data about how diseases spread, how to quarantine them once they’ve started, and the social aspects that come into play in pandemic scenarios (people lying to save themselves, incidents of selflessness vs selfishness, etc.). I have no doubt that somebody somewhere that is somehow involved with controlling this pandemic has drafted a memo to somebody that discusses how COVID-19 relates to the Corrupted Blood incident.
From what I've learned, there are two main factors that control how fast a disease is spread
1: how dense the population is
2: how dense the population is
you can thank the english language for this
Sabreman854 I was gonna do a rim shot, but this joke is just to good
"I assumed the virus went away because I was bored of it"
Wow, what a coincidence. I've been thinking about this exact thing for a while now. I remember how every article that took the event "seriously" for the purpose of simulating real world pandemics was always countered (i.e., laughed at) by all the other epidemiologists and scientists who swore blind that people would never perform the same negative actions in real life. Mannnnnnn, I'd love to interview some of those people to see what they think of current events. Although I'm sure my constant laughter at the inherent gallows humor would be considered highly unprofessional.
One thing that absolutely blew my mind when I heard about the corrupted blood event a month ago, was that after the event had taken place and was fixed the CDC The actual Center for Disease Control contacted Blizzard and asked if they could look over the raw data and actions that were taken during this virtual pandemic. They even told the company that such data would be very beneficial research, in the event of a picture actual pandemic but Blizzard turned them down because “it’s just a game“ so they were actual people looking at this event and thinking of the real world applications in the Game company it’s self was trying to downplay it.
"People would NEVER do that IRL"
>People proceed to cough in others faces, on groceries, spit/lick things in public, and kill guards that tell them to wear a facemask
Oh boi were they wrong. WoW got it soooooo right.
Wait, KILL guards?!
@@CyberLink70 There were a few local stories here in GA of workers getting shot or stabbed when telling customers they need to wear a facemask or leave
Personally I'm taking current events very seriously. I've been socially isolating since 1992.
The unsung hero
Noice
Same.
You are among the strong few brother.
so you avoided the zombie outbreak that came after Y2K?
I remember this being in the news and thinking it was fake. Wierd how people seem to almost imitate real life in games but just not quite enough.
The most depressing thing about all this is how a lot of people, who just get there news from Liberal MSM and aren't getting the whole story. Or at times, just up and move the whole goal post. For instance, you remember how the term "Flatten the Curve" was drilled into our skulls? The point of that wasn't to eliminate all infection because you can't. In fact, California is proof this hasn't as we know there are hundreds of thousands who were infected despite being on the most stringent of lockdowns
The point was to limit the number of hospitalizations so that the HC wouldn't be overwhelmed. You can do this without shutting down the economy by letting those with minimal risk go out (wearing masks) and the at risk stay at home. Simple enough. You should also know there were states and even countries that didn't lock down and they didn't breakdown either.
@@Aeradom2000 Or, and I'm just spitballing here, instead of going to news at all just listen to the WHO and your national health organization.
Shouting at multinational news organisations like Fox and CNN for misreporting things will just tire you out. Because those fucking places misreport all kinds of shit. Ignore blogs, ignore youtube, carefully source traditional media, and go straight to the experts.
@@Onikage55 so does Bill Gates run the WHO or does China own the WHO? DOES BILL GATES OWN CHINA!??!?! I NEED ANSWERS! :)
@@Deimnos China controls part of the UN and by extension WHO. That is why WHO representatives call Taiwan and Hong Kong "China". Because China thinks of them as controlled-territories, and what China says goes.
Bill Gates has a lot of money tied up in different Medical Organizations (vaccines, etc). Therefore plays by WHO guidelines. (Not that this is a bad thing, but it should be kept in mind when Bill Gates advocates for something.)
@@gebs123 the US also controls part of the UN? It's sorta physically located in the US.
What kind of mental Olympics do you have to perform to say "if China has 'controls' something (using the most broad definition of control you could possibly use) then it automatically means that you can't trust the people at the WHO who have directly contradicted Chinas original claims about COVID because...China controls them."
I could use this logic to believe almost anything about anything. "A Dr. who has traded in stocks with VZW before says 5g is fine. Sounds pretty fishy..."
"You know that guy posts videos on TikTok, TikTok is a Chinese data harvesting social media platform [probably true], so this guy is definitely working for the Chinese Government [Olympic level conclusion jumping]."
Early WoW was wild. My server never suffered a Corrupted Blood outbreak, but it's genuinely amazing how huge some of the events were back then. During the opening of the Ahn'Qiraj gates (which happened at 2am on my server), there were literally thousands of people online, all in one place, working together to take down giant raid bosses and shit. Battlegrounds like Alterac Valley used to go on for literal days, with both sides gaining ground in inches and organising tactical manoeuvres to try to get the jump on one another. Nowadays if you hop on that game, you're lucky to see another player outside of the capital cities. It's sad really.
@@TheDapperDragon Stupid complaint. Group finders actively help you interact with other players.
People forget that the open world was becoming depopulated long before group finder just because the average person was getting a lot better at the game and there were a lot more resources online, so levelling was less and less of a challenge.
vanilla AV was best as you said battles would last for hours and you could get loads of honour kills the TBC came out and everyone said fuck it lets rush every match and AV was no longer fun i stopped playing in PvP after that
@@Aristaios Fun fact, that's exactly how original AV is also played today on Classic and private servers, people just sucked nuts at the game back then...
Not to mention the fun they sucked out of the game with what they did to the leveling progression.
@@Bepples I did some dungeons in late Wrath and this was my experience (RP server, okey Cross server dungeons so YMMW).
press find group bottom.
Auto join group.
IF gear score to low kick player.
else do instant and kill boss.
the first word in /s /e /y /p is said and its /p GG.
Teleported out.
Interaction sorry what interaction.
in fact I for fuzziness after doing one dungeon 10 times or so decided to say at the start the run after the gear check had been done.
/p Hello.
3 of 5 times gets a /p or /w 'Shut up' or something equal. and kicked.
"Turning all the major population centers into oceans of skeletal corpses, on a scale rarely seen outside fashion model conventions."
Now that's a big oof.
are you there for the epic fam tea as well
I was there and online when this happened. My guild was running ZG since it had just come out, and so my character wasn’t at risk of dying. I tried healing the stricken for a bit, then gave up and Galted away from Ironforge to ride it out.
Nice war correspondence, mate
Same, except no healing and I think I dawdled around Orgrimmar or Undercity at that stage. So long ago.
Ps: For the Horde!
I remember being in booty bay on my half-way leveled (around 30 or so) dwarf Hunter. Place was a mess.
The pre-wotlk launch event was pretty cool imo. In spite of what Yathsee says.
Opinions will differ I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@jon9828 Most people liked the zombie event and had fun with it at the time. A particular Blizzard CM later claimed everyone hated it as a defence of the underwhelming Cataclysm event a couple years later.
Ironically WoW players would be incredibly resistant to an actual pandemic and *always* obey social distancing.
With WoW players, it’s just called distancing
Don't know if you are correct there. There sure seems to be a vocal subset of gaming culture that drank the Trump cool aid. Truth is that gamers are neither good nor bad. Just that its the worst of us that are often the most vocal with tantrums, or the most socially isolated that go full Incell (never go full Incell).
@@frederik7338 i am probably an unreasonable level of upset you spelled Kool-aid with a 'c'. But yes, in all cultures really, the worst minority often tends to be the most vocal or noticeable. "One bad apple spoils the bunch."
@@frederik7338 A statement that is true for every method of grouping of humans.
As a former WoW player, I can confirm this.
*Sees title*
*Checks upload date*
"Wait, I know what this is about, but why now-oh, nevermind, just got it"
I'm wondering if something is hilarious enough, it eventually becomes horrifying... and vice versa.
Never EVER underestimate stupid.
Just when you think you've seen the most moronic behaviour imaginable, someone will come along and do something dumber.
The barrel of stupidity has no bottom.
Me: There’s no way that humanity can get any fucking dumber.
Humanity: Hold My Fucking Beer.
Laughter is/was meant to be a social response to say "Things are okay" in a shocking or absurd situations. This is why people doing scary things, IE villains laughing is unnerving to us. We don't find world domination, death, destruction in reality funny, so when we see someone giving us the signal of "it's okay" and we know it to be false, we are very very uncomfortable if not scared.
Smiles work the same. Some people also laugh or smile from nervousness or fear. The brain trying to tell them it's alright or self-soothe.
It's why I'm always trying to keep an open mind when someone is laughing at something that is not an okay situation. They could be most often doing it as a response to the absurdity of the situation (A person being hit and flying through the air to silly music is a great example of this. The person being hurt/dying isn't funny, the absurdity is, that it feels unrealistic or off) or as a response of fear. Laughter can be triggered by a lot of things, but the most common I think s absurdity. A good offensive joke can still be a good joke when it acknowledges the absurdity of the situation. The Aristocratic joke does this pretty well, because it gets so extreme that it feels unreal.
The problem is when the absurd is real. Like cases of abuse, loss or torture or even some conspiracy theories that turned out to be true. Abuse is a really common one. A fantastic video is one where a guy slaps around a cartoon kid around and throws them down the stairs and the tag is "Real kids don't get back up."
Humor is subjective because I think initially it's actually a fear response and people will find different things funny for different reasons, especially in processing tragedy, make-believe or real.
"The answer it turns out laid in the newly introduced raid instance called 'Zul'Gurub', which you'll notice is an anagram of 'bugerz up' if you spell it completely wrong"
The funniest thing I have heard in so long
That's pretty sad bro
I freaking love that jingle...
“An insidious world scarring plague other than itself.” That line hits right every time.
I remember those days... They were dark times. I was one of the tourists. Though I (thankfully) no longer play I still have the screenshots somewhere showing the massive amounts of corpses littering the main cities from both events.
It continued to astound me how uncommon common sense actually is.
Not merely uncommon, downright mythically rare.
"My common sense is tingling" said spiderman, as he realized that injecting clorox into your veins is about as sensible as voting trump.
@@cibo889 And that's why people like you are the problem. All the nihilists, misanthropes and people here for a laugh at the expense of others, even their lives are the people who are almost as bad as everything else.
Either you don't understand suffering, or you are so bitter from your own suffering (and not getting the help you deserved during it) that you want to watch others suffer.
Both scenarios are shitty. Though for the last one, I am both angry and empathetic to it.
The more sadistic a person is, the more I wonder how badly they were hurt. Sadism takes empathy.
It doesn’t help when you have influential world leaders telling people not to follow common sense, especially in nations where the “with us or against us” mentality is so strong that all things must be made into a political stance
@@cibo889 you don't get pleasure from seeing people suffer...but you enjoy watching chaos. Ok, now decide which of your split personalities should be in charge.
"And then there`s the subject of today`s video, a suddenly relevant accident from 2005 in which World of Warcraft had to deal with an insidious globe-scarring plague other than itself"
"Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne. Let the Empire burn."
Cheers!
Milk for the Khorne flakes
Plagues are clearly Papa Nurgle's domain, though.
Yeah but the end result of blood bath seemed to go in Khorn's favor. Plus the numerous SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
If in case No One noticed. The chaos. Gods have officially crossed over into WoW to currupt the game.
Be honest, people: did you _really_ expect to come away from a _Zero Punctuation_ episode feeling a renewed sense of faith in humanity?
No? Me neither. Welp, back to my busy schedule of panic attacks and grief-wracked sobs -- call me when it's safe to come outside again.
Been working at a supermarket during the entire epidemic. Have still to be infected. Guess it helps to be in a city with a population of around 13k.
@@GeneralErlend Yeah, my best friend's in the same boat, albeit in a town of around 19K. Fingers crossed that both of you get through this mess unscathed (and hopefully with extra hazard pay, because if this doesn't qualify, _nothing_ does).
Oh
Still waiting on that call, huh? Yeah, be too.
*LETS ALL LAUGH AT AN INDUSTRY THAT NEVER LEARNS ANYTHING TEE HEE HEE*
2020 just got saved
Aleluya
LETS ALL LAUGH AT HUMANITY WHO NEVER LEARN ANYTHING TEE HEE HEE
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Oh my god, I need an mp4 of that soundbite.
@@yan4275 maybe thats too early
"After all, it’s not like people in the real world would just casually blow off an official quarantine order when there’s honest to goodness life and death on the line."
Dominic Cummings has entered the chat
Dominic Cummings has left the chat to go for a drive
@@HeroSword_P partygate springs to mind
"Let's all laugh at humanity, who never learns anything tee hee hee hee"
Yup, that's a line from the video we all watched
That's one too many hee's there.
*Cracks knuckles.*
To people wondering: 260-330 damage per 2 seconds isnt a lot. Takes about 30-50 seconds to kill you, but obviously everyone had it and you couldnt get rid of it constantly
The IRL parallels are no less depressing one year later. More depressing, actually.
Yeah the people who take it seriously are very sad
0:50
They actually tried and succeeded with a memorial for Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek Online and to the best of my knowledge (at least in the server i was on at that moment) it was completely unmolested by trolls.
When Carrie Fisher passed unexpectedly, a vigil began in the Republic starting area on Alderaan, in Organa Palace. There was a statue of a woman with a similar hairstyle to Leia's buns from A New Hope. Imperial Players killed the NPC guards, burst in...and joined in on the vigil themselves. out of respect.
There were mourners in the Organa Palace for nearly three weeks.
I know so little about warcraft that I thought this was a genuine review brought by release drought. I consider this an accomplishment.
While Yahtzee has covered most of it, he's left out a few things for brevity:
* First off, the debuff was VERY sloppily coded. Any contact with any character passed it along. ANY character. Your trainer, the shopkeeper, the town guards, all served as asymptomatic carriers for the simulated plague.
* As you might have guessed from the above, even hard resets didn't fix the problem. They finally wound up with a choice: Make NPCs immune to the plague (which would include pets) or roll back the entire version to before the new boss had been added. They finally set the plague to affect PCs only.
* As trolly as trolls can be, they weren't in this for the lulz. Since WoW allowed corpse looting, setting off a mass death would leave the ground littered with lootable corpses, sometimes hundreds of them. Even if all they had was low-level gear, you could just pick it up, sell it to the unkillable merchant, and have a whole lot of virtual profit.
well, that last point just turns the seemingly chaos-hungry trolls into borderline sociopathic """""business start-ups"""""" aka the kind of people who'd buy all the hand sanitizer and toilet paper in a 500km radius and then try to resell it for exorbitant prices on amazon
.....checks out
@@katsucandy No, those would be the people who charged for heal spells. The trolls are more like the people who follow the obituaries so they know whose house to rob during the funeral.
I don't remember there being any looting of player's corpses... sounds like a bunch of nonsense.
WOW was a buggy game.
@@N4rha Yeah. Pretty sure corpse looting wasn't carried over from Everquest.
I remember playing WoW during this time and myself and the missus being among those that pretty much just headed into the hills and waited out the whole thing when it became apparent from the auction houses new skull and hip bone carpets that not much was getting accomplished in the capitals. Although even in remote places like the Hinterlands you'd have players riding around with the infection that would lock onto you like a guided missile on sight and try to infect you too.
This aged like the finest wine
It's a fascinating story from gaming history that ended up hitting entirely too close to home.
“Ask your mums and dads what ‘poopsocking’ is” 🤣🤣🤣
Hey i was forced to be one of those emotionless npcs cuz i was considered "esstantial" (fast food) everyone else was bitching and all i wanted was to be quarantined.
I mean no offense when I say this, but the fact that fastfood or anything in that vein is considered essential baffles me. Economically I get it, in reality I don't. Essential to me would be people who keep a society running beyond economics. So anyone working in hospitals, teachers, scientists, engineers, technology, sanitation, government, general upkeep, food production, water distribution, internet/phone usage. Things we need in modern era to survive and continue living, things that keep people safe, healthy and connected. Nothing else seems essential to me.
I have a family member who works at a wine distribution center and is considered an essential worker. I love them, but goodness me that is not an essential job in a world wide epidemic.
Our economic structure just doesn't mesh with reality at all.
It is just a fast food job. You could've just quit.
underrated post
Hakkar The Soulflayer: I'd do it all again.
I loved the wrath of the lich King plague event lol
Fond memories going to booty bay as a zombie
Back when I was in high school, this was still a recent event. It was interesting to think about the possibility for epidemiological studies
4:14 Who thought a virus could be cute...
I wanna pet her.
Wow I totally forgot this was a thing. It really is surprising how many parallels there were between it and our current situation, some I never even heard about when I read about this a few years ago.
The Irony of generations truly believing they invented Irony, is just the best.
Ironic isn't it
No one truly believes that though.
The forntite kids don't believe that they invented irony lmao. But their sense of memes and comedy is far more ironic than the older gens, which is true.
@@huleyn135 It's formulaic. If this were history class, we'd be talking about baroque, rococo and mannerism.
As a fellow tea-downer, I must say your dry humour is simply marvellous 👏
I remember this well. It also happened on the EU server Aszune that I played on. It was absolutely incredible. Capital cities looked like warzones. Both Iron Forge and Stormwind were literal no go areas since Corrupted Blood could kill you in seconds at low levels.
And yeah, the zombie plague during WotLK's opening was ass too. There's nothing like a fucking server wide pandemic to prevent you from enjoying the game you're paying to play. Then we have the Gates of AQ opening that crashed the server every five fucking minutes too as everyone poured into Silithus to join in the "fun."
Back in the incident, I told my guild I hadn't been infected cause I logged out and back into the game in my farming grounds out in the Plaguelands... oddly named, since I was hiding there to avoid a plaque. So from then until Blizz hotfixed the blood corruption, half the guild spent there time trying to track me down and get their infected pets to pounce on me. They failed, but geez my friends were being ****s considering they also wanted me to supply them with raiding materials the next day. Which I refused saying I didn't get a chance to cause of all their chaos they caused, then I posted all my mats for higher price on the Auction House and made a killing :P
5:03 - Surely people understand there are no hard resets in real life.
Unless you count Tactical Nuclear Strikes.
I would vote Yathzee for mayor or Raccoon City.:)
I recall the tales, I couldn't stop laughing due to how insane people where to purposely screw everyone over. I alsonplayed in the wrath event and at lvl max meh no problem, low level it was rage inducing to have a high lvl purposely fuck me over repeatedly. So yes seeing it from the context of history hillarious, seeing it done to you not as funny.
I was there for the Wrath plague... except I didn't actually experience it because I was lvling in the middle of no where on a small-ish server.
Lots of yelling in guild chat, whilst I was just picking herbs... lol
There was a similar event with an explosive curse. Bad guy would curse you, you would explode dealing massive damage to everyone around you.
People started getting their animal companions cursed, putting them back in storage, finding some nice public server full of defenseless unarmed people, and yelling "here boy, alah ahkbar mother fuckers."
Cracked had entire an entire series of articles with stories like that called dick moves in gaming. Eve online usually made first place.
@@kyriss12 EVE online usually had *multiple* top spots in any list of 10. That's part of what made it amazing. I still tell people those stories.
I would have made a low-level build to specifically carry the disease to the starting areas
When I first heard of this incident, I thought it meant nothing, now looking at it, it's more similar to real life than any other time in history.
Except like, the Spanish flu after WW1. Or any other plague in history.
Yeah, that's pretty much how the video on the page goes but also it's funny and entertaining. You should watch it some time
Worst part is that its not only the industry who never learned.
I remember playing when this happened. It was all three things, hilarious, scary at a low level, and informative.
Its so weird to hear yatzee talk about something that I remember playing wow during, I mean I was 12 at the time, but still
Those were college days for me. More than a few assignments almost didnt get turned in on time thanks to WoW. Was so funny looking back on it how we thought it was a live event and it turned out to be a glitch that literally went viral.
Miss the game sometimes but I havent had time for that shit in nearly a decade. the whole paying to go to a second job was far too true when you were in a raiding guild.
I've seen a lot of academics talk about how the current pandemic was predictable from the perspective of cycles of disease every few years, but honestly, as far as the social aspects go, I think we're seeing something a lot more terrifying in people's attitude towards covid-19: the direct consequences of a society which, on some level, promotes the idea that everyone is exempt from the rules. This is something that has been happening in Western society long before capitalism (the ideas of elite social values, being Christian or just being rich), but it's only with us now being able to get a view into the lives of the super rich and powerful that this unconscious idea of being exempt from the consequences of our actions has leaked in. It's something that trolls online have been doing for years, but now, it's leaked into the public and has far more broad reaching consequences: it's leading to actual illness and deaths.
So yeah, if you wanna know one of the biggest reasons why this pandemic is killing and will continue to kill so many, it's because people have literally been programmed into embracing the sociopathic values the rich have held for centuries. No one feels like the rules apply to them and no one cares about the consequences (unless you do care. In which case, you're the good kind of exception)
There are so many reasons why people are acting like this, and it cannot be explained in-full using such a one-dimensional explanation of “blame the rich.” Incentives, personal freedom, “me vs the world” thought processes, political influences, etc.
@@SomeFreakingCactus A lot of what you described is the direct result of living in a capitalist society (AKA, a society unofficially controlled by the rich for the benefit of the rich over everyone else). It breeds a me vs the world mentality as opposed to a sense of community and emphasizes personal freedoms taking priority over the rights, freedoms and SAFETY of the group. As for political influences, most if not all mainstream politicians (including so-called progressives like the American Dems who to those of us in Europe aren't much different to the Republicans) and certainly a lot of Western heads of state (Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and the like) have either been willfully ineffective or outright contemptuous of efforts to control the virus. The UK now has the highest death toll in the world thanks to Johnson and the Tory Party's abysmal handling of the situation combined with the exceptionalist attitude that's been cultivated in our citizenry..
Your videos are still how I remember them. Usually things from the Old Internet turn sour when brought to new light, but really, this is still just good stuff. Thanks.
One small difference I think is that the trolls re-infecting others in WoW was a bit different than the COVID pandemic, as the trolls were consciously trolling whilst conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers thought there was nothing to be afraid. Equally stupid, though.
Not really, considering the stuff the government was demanding us to do wouldn't and didn't actually help (you can compare it state by state with those who compiled and ignored it). Most of the stuff they were saying were pretty spot on in retrospect.
@aWalkThroughLife except it worked while covid deniers kept dying even as they shouted covid doesn't exist.
I actually was waiting for Yahts to do an episode on this since came around. It is sad that Gamers once again are discredited about something that could be a legitimate lesson for the world because the "Games are for Kids" Bullshit
What's that? It sounds depressing.
@@merrittanimation7721 it's the TH-cam safe name for the Virus
@@Daluna13 I've heard "The Backstreet Boys Reunion tour" or some variation for that.
@@merrittanimation7721 Ah, Game Grunps.
Indeed
My God, I can actually picture some utter planks in real life running around public buildings licking all the doorknobs. It's just too stupid not to be a thing.
people filmed themselves licking stuff in supermarkets, so... yeah...
I just wanna say that this episode in particular is pure gold
"Let's all laugh at Humanity; we never learn anything, tee hee hee..."
When the tourist said "Cor moist doorknobs" I utterly lost it
Still playing WoW. Intermittently. Classic has been good fun, especially as a stand-in for actual social interaction.
Extra credits did a really good breakdown on this
And just when you think people wouldn’t POSSIBLY act as stupidly as they do in video games when a real crisis happens...
Firion Al'Hade
To quote Winston Churchill:
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Makes me wonder if it's mostly an era thing. People do a lot more things today that they wouldn't dared to have done a few decades ago, partly because there are retards out there who are popular for it. The internet is like grade/high school and it's very much about who has the most "friends" or most popular. If you're trying to be or emulate those people, you're going to probably be willing to do some very stupid things. See one stupid person do something you think is funny (or that others do) and you're gonna do something even stupider.
@@LordDeathwing17Love that quote and it’s so true. Some of the things I’ve seen during this "quarantine" have really made me think that having a vote shouldn’t be universal.
@@thunderbug8640 Not like _un_elected officials are any better. See China and Russia.
@@JoshSweetvale China is at least improving rather than going backwards like we are. Plus they are developing those molten salt reactors which would never happen here due to all the hippies crying anytime the word nuclear gets mentioned.
I will never stop being fascinated by the Blood Plague tbh.
Now this is something I might share with my friends that don’t even play video games
The way some people acted during the worst times of Covid is a prime example why I too often have to play Carmageddon to ease off my frustration about humanity.
"Where you have to pay to come to work" LOOKING AT YOU, BFA.
I remember this! I remember the first time I logged in and had to go to stormwind to turn in a quest and saw nothing but dead people everywhere. I was so confused until I bleed to death . What a great day
"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee." Always brings a smile to my face.
That little rhyme at the start tells me I'm in for a treat
I recently started playing again after a year off. Its alright, better than most of what passes for a game these days - at least you can just pay your money and play your game, and the micropayments dont foist themselves on you.
Agreed
Wow, we really have been broken.
@@elijahsmith4761 Why? He literally said you don't have to engage with the micropayments, which is better than many other games.
@@Bepples Yes, but it's like saying that the burglar last night wasn't that bad because he just robbed you and didn't also break your legs.
@@Bepples Like you legitimately have to know where they are and specifically go to the shop page in order to ever actually see them. You could reasonably forget they even exist.
Was anyone else ready to sing the theme song at the beginning after reading the title?
No, no one subscribed to this channel has ever heard the theme song
Can we have a playlist of 'Lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tehehehe?'
The Zombie plague event actually happened first during the pre-release for Naxxramas (which would be around a year after the corrupted blood incident). They just re-hashed it for the pre-release of WotLK 2 and a half yrs later.
02:34 I fucking lost it. I don't know why but the blizzard employee explosion depiction showing how powerless they were against it was just so comically perfect.
3:42 I remember years later when they did a zombie event styled after this, but you turned into a zombie when you died and could corrupt other players intentionally.
Nothing quite as satisfying as single-handedly taking over a low level questing hub as a max leveled Lich with your army of the damned.
Lesson Learned: Never underestimate one's capacity for stupidity.
Best episode of this series to date. Hell, this is probably the best video the escapist has put on their channel in years
And just yesterday someone was arrested for spitting in people's faces outside a grocery store after he'd tested positive for Omnicron. People cared more about their WoW characters than their real selves. Well, now that I say it out loud it sounds obvious.
It is still sweet the healers tried to help. Tis in our nature.
I feel like the relevance of this "event" cannot be stressed enough.
LOLed at the people exploding in corrupted blood along with the imps, and the running gag of an imp saying "please buy some pants!" And also the imp clusters, especially in a line shouting "Lame"! So very funny! XD Oh, and the Noah's Ark reference! :D
As a Warcraft player for 16 years, I'll have you know that after 20 hours you upgrade from murloc bell ends to gnoll bell ends.
And, if you're lucky by 70 hours you can level up to dragon ball fondling.
OMG I remember when this happened firsthand! Crazy how this is history now...
One of the biggest problems with the Corrupted Blood 'event' was with NPCs getting it. Because they were considered out of combat, they had huge health regen and would never die from it. If they had been able to die from it normally, I don't think it would've ended up being nearly as big of a deal because it just would've burned itself out really rapidly.
On the contrary: they're the perfect model for asymptomatic carriers. Someone who carries the plague, passes it along to others, and remains both symptom-free and clueless of what's happening.
Zero Punctuation indie rock track name of the week:
Before Your Generation Invented Irony (sung by Imaginary Murlock Bellends)
Runners-up:
All This Interesting Carnage
Global Plague Events Are Actually Kinda Lame
No Hard Resets In Real Life (Unless You Count Tactical Nuclear Strikes)
I'm older than Warcraft - what the heck is "poopsocking"??
Keeping a sock by your computer to poop in so you don’t have to stop playing to use the bathroom. It is variantly known as catassing.
@@fighteer1 wtf. Thank goodness i finished eating BEFORE learning that titbit about WoW addiction...
@@NekoiNemo In fairness, I suspect it's a term used to refer to those people negatively, rather than a thing that was actually done by many of them.
It is one of the reasons they added the "rested" mechanic, it forces you to log off for a while or else your XP grind comes to a near complete stop.
@@starburst98 The other reason was to keep your subscription going longer of course