SWEATHEARTS

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]

AirBnB is allowing people to cancel reservations as a result of Covid-19 travel restrictions and the rats are screaming as their ships sink under the smothering weight of *checks notes* refunding people for cancelled reservations during a global pandemic.

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fanfiction.net crossovers

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ao3 tag again but using google translate to labor your way through the ones written in chinese

staring longingly at the previews of doujin involving your favorite character on japanese online stores that require you to pay money to see the full thing

hentai but your adblock blocks everything on the site so you turn off your adblock and regret it immediately

clicking a website that a korean artist linked in a tweet that screenshotted what was clearly a doujin picture but it has art of your favorite character so you cant not try and see it, but the website is in korean so you have to use google translate, and the art is marked adult so you have to make an account, but once you make the account, if you’re a citizen of korea you have to verify that you’re an adult to the republic of korea because thats where the website is hosted, and theres no option for if youre not a korean citizen, so you have to provide either your id or your phone number, so you try to put in your phone number but it expects 10 digits not 9 so you cant even use your mobile to try and prove that youre an adult and you made this account for NOTHING, and all you can do is sadly bookmark the work even though you have no way of seeing it in hopes that one day youll just be able to glimpse his face once more