if i were making a list of gayest interactions between these two this would be very near the top of the list
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]
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.
History.
A horrible irl potraite of two swedish speakers stuck in a tack (=thank you) loop
Shop keepers, getting wares handed to them: Tack. Det blir 150 kr, tack.
Customer: Tack själv. Varsågod.
Shop keeper: Tack, här är växeln, tack.
*gives the customer the change*
Customer: Tack.
*Shop keeper puts wares in bag*
Shop keeper: Varsågod. Och tack så mycket!
*Customer takes wares*
Customer: Tack tack
Shop keeper: Tack själv!
Customer and shop keeper: *thinking. Oh no we are stuck in the Tack loop. Will we ever escape from this formal conservation?*
Translation notes
Tack = thank you (casual)
Tack så mycket = thank you very much (formal. Literally: thanks so much)
Tack tack = thank you (repeated in spoken language too make the word more noticable in the sentence)
Tack själv = thank you ( thank you with a direction. Points out the speakers is thanking the one they are speaking to)
Varsågod = your are welcome (literal translation: be very good)
Y'all talk a lot about us Canadians being too nice but I think the Swedes really deserve the award this year.
this be true. although, monolingual english speakers hardly notice, because we do not have a word similiar to “please” in swedish AND politeness in the swedish language is expressed differently than in english.
tourists from the angosphere will therefore sometimes call swedes “impolite” when visiting sweden. but its a language based communcation problem that makes some of us sound impolite in english!
in swedish, our formal language is waaaay more relaxed in modern swedish than in the past. the past version, the formal language before what is called the “du-reform” (thou = reform, referencing how we dropped formal you during this language reform, among things) in sweden, was complex, and i, being born about 50 years after this language reform, hardly masters it. BUT, some of its features remain in modern swedish too.
one of those, is the odd way to ask questions when one is being polite.
this is the classic example of this, still in use in sweden to this day (and my teachers in primary school wanted us too say in the 1990s! the entire damn sentence. its very long haha, you will see)
the examples are said as i was taught in primary school, by my teachers, to speak in a polite manner with my classmates and teachers.
when one want to someone to pass them the butter in a polite manner in english one says:
“pass the butter, please.”
*gets the butter*
“thank you”
in swedish one says:
“skulle du kunna tänka dig, att skicka mig smöret? tack.”
*gets the butter*
“tack så mycket”
english translation, with an attempt to show the literal meaning of the swedish sentences:
“would you consider, the concept off passing me the butter? thank you.
*gets the butter*
“thank you so much”
anyway!
different languages politness system works in different ways. us swedish speakers, gets called rude alot, without deserving it. like this “formal swedish manner” off speaking, were one asks lots and LOTS of questions, say long and comliplicated sentences with certain tenses on the words etc, is something i have a tendency to, without thinking about it, do in english.
and in swedish a do it all the time!
swedish speakers are ofcourse not alone with being misread as rude, when not speaking our native language, because of different language rules for how politeness is expressed. but… as a swedish speaker who speaks english as a second language, this one interests me!
also, about canadian english
this is just an educated guess, but can it be so, that canadian english as an influence from another non- english language which uses thank you more than “standard north american english” (idk what it is called, but..).
i suspect this, because swedish people will “over use” thank you when speaking english, because the swedish “tack” is used in WAY more places in sentences than in english. forexemple, what is going on in my original post, is this:
in swedish one can say tack (=thank you) when:
- you are asking someone to do you an service
- by employees of business to show they heard the customer polite question
- tack is also said, anytime someone gives you something (which is why i have written out everytime someone give eachother something in my original post)
- to express gratitude for someone doing you a service
- to express gratitude to a customer for using your services. to tell a a customer/ a shop keeper that your business exhange is over
and this is why one get stuck in the horrible
thank you loop of doom
the best/worst example of this is really stores, as in my example. like when one is buying something with cash, and the shop - keeper will thank you for giving them money, and you will THEN thank them for accepting your money. well then they give you change back, and one must thank them because they gave you something (in this cause your change).
then they put your item in a bag, and thanks you because you visited, and hand you your bought wares. well THEN, you will thank them because they gave you your wares (and ALSO thank them because they were polite.)
well, THEN they will often feel like they need to thank you for saying thank you. and then you are just stuck, saying:
1 person: tack
2 person: tack
1 person: tack själv!
2 person: tack tack
1 person: tack så mycket!
ONE CAN NOT ESCAPE THE TACK LOOP!
(worsened if both are going on autopilote, so both are just reacting by saying: tack, anytime the other one says tack, which is something that is easy to start doing if one communcate in formal swedish while un - focused)
tack tack tack tack tack
you make me wanna say ‘I do!’
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Cassini and Saturn Commemorative Poster!
So I’m super excited about this one! I’ve been working for a couple months on a series of space posters featuring planets, dwarf planets (yes, we still love you, Pluto), and spacecraft, and I’ve finally—finally!—reached a point where they’re about ready to be shown off. I’ll be posting them one at a time over the next several weeks as I put the finishing touches on each one.
A ton of time, effort, and love has gone into this series, and I hope that you like it as much as I do!
You can buy this design on shirts or (as it was meant to be seen!) on a poster
(but I know y’all like tshirts)
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