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Offline Sandwich

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How stupid! This would NEVER happen in Commander Keen!
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Sandwich, have I ever told you that your Avatar always looks like a Wooly Mammoth out of the corner of my eye, as in while i'm reading what you've written. I know it sounds strange, but whenever I read what you've typed, I always see your Avatar as a Wooly Mammoth with big, red Tusks...strange...:shaking:

 

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Mefusie, my boy, you need to seek professional help. While the threat level of a Wooly Mammoth and a Browning 0.5cal pointed at you are approximate, they really have no visual similarity whatsoever.

Get help. :yes:
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill

 

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Duh-nah-nah, Duh-nah-nahhhhh.... Duh-nah-nah, duh-nah-nahhhhhh-duhhhh!! duh-nah-nah....duh-nah-nah..... duh.... nah-duh!

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Hahaha, quite interesting and hilarious indeed :lol:
Habeeb it...

 

Offline aldo_14

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Quality.  I love emergence like this; even if the developers must absolutely hate it.
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Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that 75% of all posts in that thread simply affirmed what page it was?


I'm disturbed that we don't do the same here. With punishment beatings for those who try to make the first page and fail :D
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My god, this is fantastic!
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Aww....I know some WoW players.

I'll have to squeeze in their funerals/mass burials into my time schedule. Sniff.

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Seriously this is (if real, and not a deliberate move of Blizzard) an amazing event in game development.
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Wouldn't it really suck for newbies? From some of the things I've read on Blizzard's WoW forum, some higher level players, who can survive the disease, infect their pets. They then dismiss the pet, so the disease counter is frozen (at max), and then go to an area with loads of people, and recalls their pet, which then kills everyone nearby.

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Offline aldo_14

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Originally posted by General Freak
Wouldn't it really suck for newbies? From some of the things I've read on Blizzard's WoW forum, some higher level players, who can survive the disease, infect their pets. They then dismiss the pet, so the disease counter is frozen (at max), and then go to an area with loads of people, and recalls their pet, which then kills everyone nearby.


:lol:

How good a tactic would that be for some form of PvP - ready delivered plague carcasses!

 
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Heh. ;) It's not good for the community spirit. But WoW is so large that a few 1000 players leaving it wouldn't actually hurt it very much.

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Heheh. That's quite awsome indeed. :lol:

 

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'The devs being stumped' seems kinda goofy, since they could easily fix things by removing the offending code, setting its damage to zero or modifying the effects.
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Except that server downtime and large-scale rollbacks are a bad thing in MMOs.  The whole persistant-world thing gets screwed over when you apply a patch that's retroactive.  The last patch was, to my understanding, an attempt to fix the problem without having to resort to such drastic measures, and it didn't work out.
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the end is nigh!

 

Offline aldo_14

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Originally posted by Shrike
'The devs being stumped' seems kinda goofy, since they could easily fix things by removing the offending code, setting its damage to zero or modifying the effects.


I'm (stabby stabby in the dark style) guessing its somewhat akin a property which is attached to the player character ala Decorator pattern, and it's impossible for them to check the entire world to remove the offending attached property code (because the player character 'object' won't know what properties are attached to it).  Or maybe they can remove the code from the codebase iself, but not the rogue bits of executing code that have somehow attached themselves to NPCs or players.

 

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Perhaps the "plague" spreads faster than they can remove it...

Seems to me that blizzard is trying to replace the undead. :p
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It is certainly true that this plague is something strange...
I mean a  weird patch bug...:lol:
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