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.
twykomantis@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
For the uninitiated/lazy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
pemptago@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Note to the future: next pandemic, try a hard reset.
Seriously though, it’s wild they couldn’t hotfix it.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s wild that they couldn’t change the spread property of the debuff to be deactivated if you weren’t in the boss chamber. That should not be a hard fix…
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Huh, TIL. Neat.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Who else remembers learning this from Cracked articles (which they read at work)?
thejoker954@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Man i really miss Cracked. It used to be so good.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
viruscomix.com/page599.html
you may or may not recognize the artist
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And who else didn’t need an article because they were there when it happened?
JakenVeina@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
Bosht@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That was highly entertaining, thank you