Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident!

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• djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  everyone always overexaggerates how useful the incident was to epidemiologists. It was certainly an interesting novelty, and some cool studies were produced, but the issue was that there weren’t actually consequences for bad actors. It’s a lot harder for assholes to willingly catch a disease with the goal of spreading it when that disease can actually kill them.

  I’m more miffed that they never figured out a way to rerun the event for WoW Classic, if even for only 24 hours.

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  • Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    So like Covid

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• twykomantis@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For the uninitiated/lazy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident

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  • pemptago@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    After several failed hotfixes, Blizzard ended the pandemic by performing a hard reset, and a later patch prevented companions from contracting Corrupted Blood entirely.

    Note to the future: next pandemic, try a hard reset.

    Seriously though, it’s wild they couldn’t hotfix it.

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  • JakenVeina@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc

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    • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      That was highly entertaining, thank you

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Huh, TIL. Neat.

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Who else remembers learning this from Cracked articles (which they read at work)?

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• Daze@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  t… TWENTIETH??? 😨

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ohhh nooo. I was having an okay day, and now the inexorable passage of time is fucking it up again!

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• selkiesidhe@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Loved that event. Was a lot of fun.

  Too bad we can’t have that sort of fun in WoW anymore…

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• Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Did someone say Corrupted Blood?

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Did someone say Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?

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    • Dagnet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Anal [Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dammitalltohellinahandbasket.

  I feel old now. (I was there, Gandalf. I was there.)

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  that shit came in handy during the covid pandemic /s

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