bro after maining twitter for so long i kinda wanna come back to tumblr LMAO
twitter is a dumpsterfire compared to how it was back in 2016
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Thyrell did you remember to take your caffeine nicotine red bull taco bell ibuprofen and hate today? for the love of god PLEASE say yes
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@thyrell
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AAAAAUUUHGGUUHUUHGGHHH I FEEL THE CAFFEINE NICOTINE RED BULL TACO BELL IBUPROFEN AND HATE
I dont care about whats happening in this post at all but I want that dragon to rail me
you know what yeah me too
*sees a take* oh wow that is objectively bad
*sees my mutual agrees with that take* actually it’s uhhh it’s a complex issue. there’s room for— there’s nuance
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Paul justifying anything John says
5chan
this person is talking about the fucking beatles on an already kind of shitty tumblr post. where am i.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE
O_O you don’t know who Gerard way is?????
what is he some kind of politician or something..?
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yes. now let’s watch this episode of spongebob together
Zillow house listings
>go right
>go left instead (looks nice and fun!)
>…go back to the right
Go left
Go forward
> Ascend
Go right ->
Open the door! :3c
I wanna see what’s inside!
Congratulations! You Have Made It To The Ping Pong Chamber!
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Try to guess who these characters are supposed to be
butchflirt
You’re all wrong
thinking about that WoW epidemic
i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.
he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.
a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.
it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.
weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it
The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.
Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.
The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.
They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.
ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.
However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.
Think about that.
The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?
And we can’t time travel.
it’s so funny when youtubers/podcasts have a sponsorship and they introduce the company as if it’s this shiny new thing that hasn’t already been terrorizing me for years like shut up i already know that skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of classes for creative and curious people let’s keep it moving
me, in the year 2021, learning that audible is the leading provider in audiobooks with thousands of titles to choose from
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Some YouTuber: Before we begin this video, introducing Raycon, a brand new variety of earbuds
Me, who’s seen the exact same ad the past 6-7 months
just remembered last summer when one of our old lady neighbors realized i was on testosterone and asked me if i liked cars and when i said no she was like “oh haha you will”
hormone that makes you like cars
I’m going to go NUTS if there’s a chemical in your head that makes you understand the difference between a Ferrari and a Lamborghini
you don’t have to cancel everyone the second they misstep or do something dumb but you also DON’T have to defend everything that your fave does. you can say “hey this particular thing sucked” without getting into this all-or-nothing mentality. you are not an extension of the things you like. you can think freely and criticize the things (and people) that you like, and a criticism of something you like is not something that you should take personally or feel the need to correct/defend.
