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hi everyone, just wanted to do a quick update
I don't see myself using tumblr a lot in the future so I'm gonna throw out alternate modes of contact for me/places where you can keep track of what I'm doing:
Twitter: @GEOSTlGMA
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feel free to follow, DM, email, whatever
if you're interested in RP, I help out at Aldebaran Sea - it's a forum-based, sci-fi & slice of life MFRP. ADB is my baby.
you can check it out at: aldebaran.systems
take care!
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hi I’m still terrible at tumblr. i’ll update info on this blog like….tomorrow
it took me many days. oh well
The epidemic began on September 13, 2005, when Blizzard introduced a new raid called Zul’Gurub into the game as part of a new update. Its end boss, Hakkar, could affect players by using a debuff called Corrupted Blood, a disease that damages players over time, this one specifically doing significant damage. The disease could be passed on between any nearby characters, and would kill characters with lower levels in a few seconds, while higher level characters could keep themselves alive. It would disappear as time passed or when the character died. Due to a programming error, players’ pets and minions carried the disease out of the raid.
Non-player characters could contract the disease but were asymptomatic to it and could spread it to others.[2] At least three of the game’s servers were affected. The difficulty in killing Hakkar may have limited the spread of the disease. Discussion forum posters described seeing hundreds of bodies lying in the streets of the towns and cities. Deaths in World of Warcraft are not permanent, as characters are resurrected shortly afterward.[3] However, dying in such a way is disadvantageous to the player’s character and incurs inconvenience.[4]
During the epidemic, normal gameplay was disrupted. Player responses varied but resembled real-world behaviors. Some characters with healing abilities volunteered their services, some lower-level characters who could not help would direct people away from infected areas, some characters would flee to uninfected areas, and some characters attempted to spread the disease to others.[2] Players in the game reacted to the disease as if there was real risk to their well-being.[5] Blizzard Entertainment attempted to institute a voluntary quarantine to stem the disease, but it failed, as some players didn’t take it seriously, while others took advantage of the pandemonium.[2] Despite certain security measures, players overcame them by giving the disease to summonable pets.[6] Blizzard was forced to fix the problem by instituting hard resets of the servers and applying quick fixes.[3]
The major towns and cities were abandoned by the population as panic set in and players rushed to evacuate to the relative safety of the countryside, leaving urban areas filled to the brim with corpses, and the city streets literally white with the bones of the dead.[7]
please read the full wikipedia article
Orgrimmar during the incident.
This is legitimately one of the most fascinating events in online and/or gaming history to date.
This post leaves out the most incredible part, which is that the CDC straight up contacted Blizzard and asked for all the data they had on the Corrupted Blood Plague for the purposes of refining their models of epidemic behavior in real human populations.
hi I'm still terrible at tumblr. i'll update info on this blog like....tomorrow
sorry for being terrible at tumblr
just started cackling like a witch because I realize I've reached one of the tumblr user final forms which is "canon URL on an abandoned blog"
im feeling like im 80 years old, sitting here trying to figure out how tf tumblrs mobile app even works
sorry for being terrible at tumblr
You seem to dislike Rick Berman. Based on what I can glean from fandom (I showed up at this party 20 years late), I strongly suspect he's the driving force behind everything that infuriated me about DS9, but I have no actual evidence to support that. Care to do a brief primer on Why Berman Sucks?
DO I EVER. you’ve come to the right place. so. ultimately berman spent the majority of his time with star trek being utterly regressive in all of his attitudes (ironically, considering he produced a franchise that’s literally all about a diverse utopian future) to the detriment of the actors and writers. some examples that make me want to fistfight him behind a 7-11 at dusk:
1. his treatment of terry farrell. she’s spoken many times about berman’s misogyny, how his major concern when it came to jadzia was whether she was attractive enough (he was the driving force behind the trill redesign iirc, because he thought the tng forehead ridges made her look ugly, which, come on, it’s terry farrell, how could she ever look ugly). AND he’s the reason she was killed off at the end of season 6 of ds9. farrell had asked to be in fewer episodes and berman’s response was essentially “you do all of them or none of them.” so instead of rationally negotiating with an employee he more or less fired her and forced the writers (none of whom were happy about this) to account for the sudden loss of a beloved character, which is imo why season 7 has a weird tone at times
2. his treatment of garrett wang. berman had a very weird and petty dislike of garrett wang from his first appearance on voyager, to the extent that he wanted harry killed off midway through the show. what saved wang’s job? the attention he garnered by being named one of people magazine’s most beautiful people of 1997. berman kept him on, but he made it clear that he wasn’t happy about it. wang repeatedly expressed interest in directing an episode of voyager, but lo and behold he’s one of the only cast members who expressed such an interest and who was always denied. here’s some more of wang’s take on berman. essentially we have berman to blame for the fact that the asian crew member who’s frequently written as a bit of a stereotype is never promoted past the lowest commissioned rank.
3. his homophobia. we have berman to thank for why there are apparently no openly gay people in the future, and for why the writers (of tng in particular) were prevented from addressing lgbt+ issues even behind the veil of that patented form of Solemn Trek Allegory. berman was so homophobic that everyone knew it. it was just a known quality the cast and crew had to work around. hear that? that bubbling sound? that’s my blood boiling.
anyway, there are a lot more examples of why rick berman sucks. i highly recommend the fifty-year mission for a few eloquent berman takedowns (and his very defensive responses), or anything the reigning king and queen of dragging berman (garrett wang and jeri ryan) have said on the subject. tl;dr rick berman is the reason why we couldn’t have bold unbridled social commentary in many, many, many episodes of trek.
That explains a lot actually.
I knew about the shit he did with Terry Farrell. You know how, in the last DS9 episode, we have all the flashback moments, but we only see Ezri Dax? Rick said Terry wouldn’t allow them to use shots of Jadzia. A few years ago, Terry heard that, and said on her Twitter that she EXPLICITLY gave permission to use shots of Jadzia for that part - Rick was just that bitchy, and used the opportunity to make her out to be mean.
WOOOOW. i never knew that. that is unbelievably petty and manipulative. i reiterate, rick berman sucks.
berman is up there with orci, kurtzman, and jarjar abrams, except he was the original.
part of what makes the situation around terry so bad, is that certain male co-stars (like colm meany) had already asked for, and received, a similar contract with fewer episodes/hours.
and the fact that harry doesn’t get promoted ever, always sticks out to everyone, even on their very first viewing of the series. he’s only the second prominent asian character since sulu in the 1960s*. at least sulu started on the show as a lieutenant, and his carreer shows progression from the motion picture onward.
*there are other asian characters (nurse ogawa, keiko o’brien spring to mind) on the various shows, but they were never part of the core crew, nor mentioned in the opening credits.
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Why I Refuse To Support PETA
As most of you know, PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals) produces lots of sexist, racist, fatphobic, and even ableist ads. Their ideologies match, unfortunately. They are incredibly unreasonable, too, and they effectively want to remove companion animals from human contact entirely.
Members of PETA have done the following to me.
Attempted to take my service dog’s leash
Threatened to take him away
Sent me death threats
Threatened to euthanize him out of “mercy”
Claimed that I am a “slavedriver” and “active participant in the speciesist h*l*caust” (Ah yes, please tell the romani-german-native girl that she’s basically a Nazi. Good idea.)
Left threatening voicemails on my phone.
Scared me so badly that I had to move house at one point
Grabbed my service dog
Tried to pry my hand off of my service dog’s harness
Threw paint on a faux fur-lined coat I was wearing (the paint got matted in my hair to the point where I had to shave my head)
Speaks openly on their hatred for service dog handlers.
Adding:
Their “Adoption” services are a complete lie. Do not bring an animal to a PETA facility or allow PETA volunteers or employees to take an animal. THEY WILL KILL IT.
Their own documentation shows that they euthanize approximately 90 - 97% of all animals they take in, on a yearly basis. This includes everything from seriously injured/ill animals, to healthy puppies and kittens.
They support Breed Specific Legislation, and call for the mass extermination of all “Pit Bull-type dogs”.
if there is anyone out there who doesn’t know this - this is really important. PETA kills and terrorizes animals. They do so for their own propaganda and in turn, profit. There is nothing ethical about their treatment of animals let alone other human beings.
Their position is, supposedly, that animals are equal to humans and as such use really ableist, racist, and wildly inappropriate metaphors that undermine real human oppression and suffering. Often just for shock value. If they applied their principle, then they are basically saying that mentally ill or struggling and homeless humans should be put to death on mass.
In addition to all of the above, they also promote the idea that dairy products cause autism.
Plus, they harassed Steve Irwin’s family while they were grieving his death. They’re pretty terrible.
The Humane Society of the United States and the SPCA are where it’s at, if you want broad, effective, and ethical animal rights organizations on a national scale, though you can be really effective seeking out your local no-kill shelter or wildlife refuge.
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