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Mass collection of some of my patreon comms from @abysmal0 <3

#abysmal0 #ocs #original character #original characters #oc #color splash

Showing off the bits. :3 Patreon commission for Aracthus! Want the naughtier bits? Check out more! :DISCORD: :NEWGROUNDS: :TWITTER: :PATREON: :REDBUBBLE:

#MY SON #Duncan my beloved #pinup #nsfw

voidsentprinces

Don’t ask why I do anything anymore.

#omfg #I love it tho #EW spoilers #Endwalker spoilers

fenrishion

Scions of the Seventh Dawn play multiplayer/co-op.

fenrishion

the stunning sequel, as presented by Alphinaud and Alisaie-

translation: YOU MOTHERFUCKING PIECE OF SHIT ALPHINAUD UNMUTE ME THIS INSTANT OR I’M BREAKING DOWN YOUR ROOM DOOR! ALPHINAUD!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

24ozsteak

thinking about that WoW epidemic

24ozsteak

swampgallows

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.

wheel-skellington

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-jellyfish-galaxy

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.

adobe-outdesign

i-wear-the-cheese

“They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.”

This is the most terrifying one. This is how the rich and healthy are acting about the poor and disabled.

nerdlordholocron

only the shittiest possible doodles for endwalker

sandmandaddy69

nightbringer24

Good example of directional lighting.

uncle-cazador

I kinda want to try carving this. I have the orb

qwertyu858

This looks so cool

miivahkiin

Nabriales: what are you pondering over

Elidibus: - stares at orb -

Orb: - dancing Emet-Selch in front of queue -

mageintime

None of these have good explanations either

catpunkcore

great-tweets

“Add more dragons” is always the best course of action.

cheshireinthemiddle

“Consider removing them”

“I’ll consider adding more”

koyblogs

Fuck the white evangelical shitheads. Dragons ARE the true meaning of christmas. (And I’m a golden dragon, so gimme gifts /j)

booty-uprooter

emet-selch: *does a gay little wave that pisses you off*

the players:

foreveriallyzombified

btw i found a lot of people who work private security literally fully think they’re cops. it’s really funny and sometimes disturbing

foreveriallyzombified

dewielas

oh lawd he comin’

ravietta

I painted Dorian Pavus in 2017 for a limited-edition hardcover art book FORTITUDO. You can now get a print of it from my Inprnt store. The art books have since sold out but you can still get the PDF of it. Check the details HERE