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My favorite fact about this is that some players started selling supposed "cures" for the Corrupted Blood, which of course did nothing but made them a lot of money
Tell me about it. Today at work was the worst nightmare for me. I work in the public health sector in Europe.... I was genuinely suprised how doctors and other professinals, whom I always took for intelligent and educated lost all their common sense and thought that their own problem is more imporant than the problem of somebody else and kept on annoying me until I could not work at all.... No, I decided NOT to go back to this. I rather drink more beers now.
The fact that the players reacted like that is crazy. Higher levels looking for clues, lower levels standing guard, and healers being doctors. Never played this game but that seems cool af
Honestly my favorite game (on pc). Stopped playing because I don’t have the time I used to anymore, but my brother and I had a lot of fun in our guild!
It was eerie. I still remember how empty Stormwind's Auction house was... Our guild holed up at a farmhouse in Elwynn forest, away from everyone. Volunteers would run into Stormwind to get shit done, then run back out and had to be healed by Guild healers... It got even more intense because I played on an RP server, so it was treated as a pandemic!
Did people refuse to take precautions, refuse to acknowledge that anything was happening (or claim that it was a Worgen hoax), and complain that everything was shut down?
Skeletons everywhere, otherwise empty streets, they only place you'd find people was scattered around the world, trying to stay away from each other (or trying to purposefully get close to others while infected, like a deadly game of cat and mouse). Good memories.
This is just a clarification, "How the tables have turned." Not judging, just pointing out using turntables as a reference. People might think your a DJ who is famous, that has lots of unprotected sex with supermodels, does social drugs, drinks alcohol and wakes up at 3pm. But nobody wants that lifestyle?
@@burracing3742 Maybe that's what he intended. Like a "well, well, how the fallen have mighty..." While being ultimately right, still being wrong in delivery.
I lost my sh** when he said "It started the same way that so many infectious diseases have started throughout world history: with a blood God named Hakkar the Soulflayer." XD XD XD
This pandemic was actually cited as being influential on how human behavior is modelled in this kind of situation. I learned about it a week or two ago from articles bringing it up in the current context.
@@temporaneo617 It was fcking hilarious. Everyone talks about it so seriously, but half of the WoW community was having tons of fun using the disease to break the game. Only the lower level players who were taking the game more seriously and trying to get their quests done while all this was going on actually had any problems with it... them and the gold farmers. Most of the raiding guilds had players who took off their gear to avoid the repair cost from dying, and griefed lower levels in the cities by picking up the disease debuff on their pets, unsummoning the pets before they died, and re-summoning them in the middle of the Auction House or the bank, where all of the Chinese gold farmers kept their level 1 toons standing around so they could spam the chat channel with their ads. It pissed off the gold farmers more than anybody, and that's a hot take that nobody really talks about anymore. That's also why endgame players were having fun with it: finally, a tool to disrupt the annoying gold farmers letting people pay to win. But the key to all of this is a programmers' oversight... when you unsummon your pet, the debuff should be cleared. Normally, if you teleported out of the dungeon with the debuff active, it would be removed, to prevent exactly the sort of thing that happened. But that didn't happen with unsummoned pets, which let the debuff get out of the dungeon that it came from and spread around the rest of the game.
I was literally there as a kid. My dad was a higher level than me so he could heal himself and survive, but I was low level. There were bones everywhere and he would tell me to avoid other players and to stay out of the cities. I remember stepping in the city and immediately dying, there were piles of bones EVERYWHERE
I remember logging onto WoW when the Corrupted Blood issue was going on. At first I didn’t notice that I had a debuff on me, but then when my health started going down really quickly I panicked a bit, and like everyone else begged for a healer. The debuff was a damage-over-time debuff which meant that every 30secs or whatever you lost a bit more health until you kicked the bucket. Once I was dead I had some time to read the public and guild chat - and then I realized that I’d been infected in the Horde capital (Ogrimmar). I logged off and checked back each day until they fixed the prob. It actually got into mainstream media if you can believe it due to the interest of epidemiologists. There’s loads about this on the internet including a Wiki page. This video was a great reminder of a whole bunch of misspent time spent from days gone by.
@@kommentator1157 yes but the bridge we guard is to sanity, a fulfilling life, and having a clear conversation. if you can't pay the troll toll, you lose all rights to said above things.
It actually blew me away. People quarantined. People alerted others. Healers healed. And high levels looked for clues. Idk why, but that's so cool to me.
My character caught this virus in Ironforge a couple times. As a Warlock with a demon pet, I had the ability to get my pet infected, unsummon it, die from the infection, and then bring the pet anywhere in the game, summon it, and infect everyone nearby. Rangers could do the same with their pets. That mechanic was SO broken. Zul'Gurub was a fun raid though. Ahh, the good old days...
Reminds me of when I caused a bucket of water epidemic on a Minecraft server. Buckets were a banned item because of their griefing potential, so they weren't useable to low level players but they could infinitely duplicate because players could pick them up and they would stay on the ground. Therefore, walk over a bucket and it would fill up your inventory with buckets. If you dropped the buckets filling your entire inventory, it would spread to whoever picked it up, encouraging them to drop the buckets, thus allowing the buckets to spread and spread until you couldn't walk near spawn without having a full inventory of self-replicating buckets to throw away and inadvertently spread.
I wish they made this glitch a separate game! The CDC could collect covid 19 data, players could find the best course of action for covid 19, it would also be good if they coded a cure! It would’ve been an awesome infection game!
The problem is, in a game like that, there's no real risk to being infected or dying. You don't actually lose anything from dying, and just have to respawn. In WoW, dying has real consequences. You could loose items and loot that you spent a long time getting, and wanted to do everything you could to make sure you don't die. That's why it worked well in WoW, because people had good reason to avoid dying or being infected, whereas in a game like what you suggest, there's no stakes in it. A game over screen means nothing if all that happens is you have to respawn.
@@thqd9137 so if someone makes multiple jokes about black people and you are a black person and triggered beyond belief i could also just say "seems like you just feel personally targeted"? that's literally the logic that you want to put forward here... smh
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 jokes about your race and jokes about being a gamer are not the same thing LMAO. also, I'm fairly racist myself so that doesn't work with me.
I helped perpetuate this in vanilla. We figured out if a hunter dismissed his pet with the debuff on it and recalled it in town, it would spread. And boy, did it. This was a great time to be alive in WoW. ZG will be missed.
Yeah, another Warlock in my guild summoned his Felhunter, got it infected, made sure to tell us in Vent he was dismissing his diseased Felhunter, and then we all had a great time in Ironforge after beating Hakkar.
I remember it. I was young paladin. I logged in Ironforge and saw hundreds of dead bodies and skeletons everywhere. It was horroble. My and other paladins and priests worked non-stop trying to stop the disease, but the infection was spreading too fast....
I was playing WoW during this event. I wasn’t a high level character but my server was one that got reset. Half of my characters were infected, I downplayed the issue but my internet was so slow I was unable to enter cities anyway. I went to the least populated cities when necessary and that’s how most of my characters got infected. The only 1 off that happened for me was a small camp in a questing area had somehow gotten infected and when I entered the camp I was killed. Knowing I was a small part in that pandemic is fun to me, has absolutely has no effect on my life though. Hell I don’t even play the game anymore.
Oof this got 20 likes by the time i finished watching the video so i guess it'll become the top comment so lemme just say i saw this comment on another video before, before anyone points that out
hardcore world of warcraft nerd here. good take on the corrupted blood incident, I've seen this covered by actual world of warcraft RUclips channels a couple other times in lengthy, detail dense videos. very accurate info here, good comedic attempt. wish you would've included pictures of Orgrimmar covered in bones tho, since those pictures are infinitely better than what happened in stormwind
I remember that. I also remember when they try to introduce the 3rd expansion by infecting players and NPC which turn them into zombies. It was suppose to stay in the vanilla world but soon enough got into the 2nd expansion areas. Quests were not able to be done and lower level characters will die by high level zombies. Best time ever.
I just remembered this recently and it's scary how similar people acted to this like in real life. Similar to how only weaker players will die to the effect, Covid can easily kill anyone who has poor immune response, those being children, the elderly and people with a condition. And just like in real life, stronger players(people) act like jerks and just spread the infection on unsuspecting players. When I first heard this story I thought it was ridiculous for people in real life to act like this. Yet with what happened, it is not so farfetched.
I recall someone saying that using this information was a bad idea, because groups of people spread it intentionally. And now I see darn memes called the Corona challenge of people licking stuff in public. *Eyerolls*
it's just stock footage being stock footage... i saw one clip from a jim stirling video where a guy with a vr headset was bouncing on a gymnastics ball while holding his hands out like he's riding a motorcycle... two headphones seem pretty tame in my opinion :D
I use to play this game in the mid 00s. I think I stopped around 2012. The best moments in my life were in WoW. I’m now 35 with nothing to show for in life. I was feeling optimistic once again at the start of 2020 but the whole covid situation crushed that and now I’m stuck in a hole that I don’t know how to get out of this time around.
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 Atleast you were not online during the "Great Depression" Glitch, that caused many to lose all their money and the ingame economy broke
The players in WoW had some we were intentionally spread it. In the present, out of game with the Covid-19, some just spread it because they are douches. Especially during the spring break.
HAI? This was heckin' amazing interesting! I never played WoW so I never heard of this. Hearing the fact it made real world people use it for research was amazing. Great video!
HAI: We thought it would be nice to talk about something calm, relaxing, and in no way related to current events. Me: Ok cool HAI: an incredibly infectious virus Me: *banshee shriek*
I guess instead of trying to create a model that simulates how millions of humans interact in a pandemic you can just observe how humans behave in a virtual pandemic
massive jerks? dude this was hilarious! Wasnt the same thing but during the pre shadowlands patch, you could turn into zombies. Most cities and towns outside were infected. NPC's, players etc..hahah. It was only for like a week but it was so much fun.
@@aa01blue38 Nah man, vid quality has been going down. It's turning from short but cool topic with jokes and puns to vague topics where he shits on random people.
@@hkr667 yeah... the first "gamers don't have a life"-joke wasn't funny, but i could look past this since it wouldn't be that big of a deal... by the time he was doing the fifth one it got really annoying and insulting
Wow, that most have been so cool. They should have made it so players would need to gather resources to find a cure and ultimately develop some kind of vaccine to stop it.
I am curious about something: Why hasn't any health organization contacted Blizzard (or any other game developer of a major MMO) to re-do this experiment? (without the knowledge of the players and maybe again WITH). Seems like there's a HUGE amount of info you could recollect on pandemics basically for free (free from loss of life). Videogames are a huge pool of potentially useful scientific information waiting to be gathered. I'm curious as to why it hasn't been exploited.
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I'm pretty sure this is a topic I suggested to you, but I haven't been notified about my shirt :(
Before 100k gang
Half as Interesting
1. Fun Facts About Doorknobs
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lol im bored
My favorite fact about this is that some players started selling supposed "cures" for the Corrupted Blood, which of course did nothing but made them a lot of money
Quack doctors exist in WOW too. Wow who knew?
@@BleuSkies w-was that... a pun?
Fr
5G repellent sellers be like:
Ahhh, that's beautiful.
"People are dumb and do dumb stuff."
Economists: "Wait...wut?"
Trust me, economists know. A lot of the world's economy is RUN on people being dumb and doing dumb stuff.
I just watched an Economics Explained video before this one
@@paulomendoza5606 I'm off to watch one now, just did it in the opposite order.
@@QemeH ran by the few smart ones that knows how dumb ones will act. that's a better sentence
Tell me about it. Today at work was the worst nightmare for me. I work in the public health sector in Europe.... I was genuinely suprised how doctors and other professinals, whom I always took for intelligent and educated lost all their common sense and thought that their own problem is more imporant than the problem of somebody else and kept on annoying me until I could not work at all.... No, I decided NOT to go back to this. I rather drink more beers now.
The fact that the players reacted like that is crazy. Higher levels looking for clues, lower levels standing guard, and healers being doctors. Never played this game but that seems cool af
I saw this exact comment on the today I found out video
some high level players actually went around and tried to spread it more :P guess people really wanted their spring break
@@jbird4478 i heard there's no respawn points in RL though, so you can't be as brave
don't forget the little gnome shits running around everywhere and spreading the corrupted blood intentionally
Honestly my favorite game (on pc). Stopped playing because I don’t have the time I used to anymore, but my brother and I had a lot of fun in our guild!
“Morpig” Clearly this guy had friends in middle school..
godamn riajuu
Morpig, bestpig
Zoool goorooob
I apparently didn't because I didn't know what the heck he was talking about. LoL
I dunno, those no life jokes seemed resentful lol I think he's had experience
Half as Intresting: *Virtual Pandemic*
Me: _"Just like the simulations."_
That's another command post for the Republic
You are also on Dom’s vid lol
@@Berisophin I comment alot
All according to keikaku.
@Oscar Guerrero *_GENERAL KENOBI._*
It was eerie.
I still remember how empty Stormwind's Auction house was...
Our guild holed up at a farmhouse in Elwynn forest, away from everyone. Volunteers would run into Stormwind to get shit done, then run back out and had to be healed by Guild healers...
It got even more intense because I played on an RP server, so it was treated as a pandemic!
I’m hoping for wow classic to add the corrupted blood again on the new update for Zul’gurub
Did people refuse to take precautions, refuse to acknowledge that anything was happening (or claim that it was a Worgen hoax), and complain that everything was shut down?
@@ReyeS000Il if they do, I'm taking it to stormwind
sounds fun, too bad idk how to play games
Skeletons everywhere, otherwise empty streets, they only place you'd find people was scattered around the world, trying to stay away from each other (or trying to purposefully get close to others while infected, like a deadly game of cat and mouse). Good memories.
going outside would've fixed the WOW pandemic, so playing WOW now must fix the real pandemic
Sound logic.
This is actually surprisingly accurate xD
I mean, you’re not wrong...
The thing is, you actually arent wrong
The ultimate reverse uno card
2005: Go Outside and interact with people!
2020: *How the turntables*
This is just a clarification, "How the tables have turned."
Not judging, just pointing out using turntables as a reference. People might think your a DJ who is famous,
that has lots of unprotected sex with supermodels, does social drugs, drinks alcohol and wakes up at 3pm.
But nobody wants that lifestyle?
@@burracing3742 You're right, I did think that! Until you clarified everything, phew..... that was close, thank you 🤣 ha ha ha.
@@burracing3742 Maybe that's what he intended. Like a "well, well, how the fallen have mighty..." While being ultimately right, still being wrong in delivery.
@@burracing3742It's a reference from The Office mate.
@@burracing3742 omg, if it wasn't for you, we would never have known. Thank you so much for your wise words.
So a global pandemic is what was needed for HAI to tackle gaming content?
nah, he just wants to lose monetization. also nice seeing you here :D
I watch you
Note to self make new video game related virus
He doesn’t seem like a big fan of games considering how he dogged on WOW players half the video😂
I lost my sh** when he said "It started the same way that so many infectious diseases have started throughout world history: with a blood God named Hakkar the Soulflayer." XD XD XD
and then i found my shit when he got to the third "gamers don't have a life"-joke
Chris aka Schulbus and then I put the shit back into my ass
@@kuromifan10 and then i threw it up
Yeah I literally lol'd
Because it's so true though the government may try to cover it up
World: *Worrying about COVID-19*
HAI: Hey let's talk about World Of Warcraft pandemic
Its because mentioning the coronavirus would lead to demonetization.
This pandemic was actually cited as being influential on how human behavior is modelled in this kind of situation. I learned about it a week or two ago from articles bringing it up in the current context.
It's almost as though you got the joke.
same kind of pandemic..
Windows 10 Not funny didn't laugh
"I'm expecting a hard reset on Earth any day now..."
Somebody ask TierZoo if the devs are planning a patch for this or I'm quitting Outside for good.
Got the reference.
The way he pronounced MMORPG irked me in a way none of his other jokes in all his other videos have ever irked me before
MOR-PIG
More pigs
What? MMMORE PIG bothers you? MMMORE PIG? MuhhhOR-PIG!
That means he has got to you 😂😂😂 it's not him, it's you, something is going on and j hope you get better friend!
On an unrelated note, i love Emilia.
Talks about That WoW incident
Me: I was there........ 3000 years ago
How was it???
@@temporaneo617 It was fcking hilarious. Everyone talks about it so seriously, but half of the WoW community was having tons of fun using the disease to break the game. Only the lower level players who were taking the game more seriously and trying to get their quests done while all this was going on actually had any problems with it... them and the gold farmers. Most of the raiding guilds had players who took off their gear to avoid the repair cost from dying, and griefed lower levels in the cities by picking up the disease debuff on their pets, unsummoning the pets before they died, and re-summoning them in the middle of the Auction House or the bank, where all of the Chinese gold farmers kept their level 1 toons standing around so they could spam the chat channel with their ads. It pissed off the gold farmers more than anybody, and that's a hot take that nobody really talks about anymore. That's also why endgame players were having fun with it: finally, a tool to disrupt the annoying gold farmers letting people pay to win.
But the key to all of this is a programmers' oversight... when you unsummon your pet, the debuff should be cleared. Normally, if you teleported out of the dungeon with the debuff active, it would be removed, to prevent exactly the sort of thing that happened. But that didn't happen with unsummoned pets, which let the debuff get out of the dungeon that it came from and spread around the rest of the game.
MrPathorn ...I was there when the courage of man failed
nice matrix reference
S Edwards so does that mean this coronavirus is chinese revenge to the world for their innocent wow gold farmers?
wow there's some severe gamer-shaming on this video
wE lIvE iN a sOCieTy
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It's so funny
If you want a good and relaxing gaming experience I suggest you join the christian minecraft server of 2b2t.org!
@@Tom-0595 oH yeAh iSnt thaT whEre FooTmic liVes????
Rise up
I was literally there as a kid. My dad was a higher level than me so he could heal himself and survive, but I was low level. There were bones everywhere and he would tell me to avoid other players and to stay out of the cities. I remember stepping in the city and immediately dying, there were piles of bones EVERYWHERE
2005: *Virtual pandemic*
2020: "WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!"
okay it's DONE?
Hello I’m from the future it’s the year 2022 here
The statement, "I'm expecting a 'hard reset' on Earth any day now," sounds both cryptic and slightly threatening. 🤔 Thanks for the video, stay safe!
Shannon McDowell he’s part of the illuminati. All these bad jokes make sense now.
Comet, Nuclear War, Deadly Viral Pandemic....ohhh wait..
Two Tone you forgot volcano
@@alexbeerune I've visited Ashfall Fossil beds in Nebraska, and really that's more of a Game over than a reset for Mankind. I'll take the comet, TY.
can we somehow monetize the phrase "stay safe"? or "in these uncertain times", another good one
4:17 You forgot Mark Zuckerburg, who is a lizard person.
Lizards aren't myths, though, and lizard people are real.
NOT TRUE!
...he's clearly an android, not a lizard person. Racist....
Dont forget the queen of England who is immortal
Oy vey!
You must be a troll. It's common knowledge that he is an android.
I remember logging onto WoW when the Corrupted Blood issue was going on. At first I didn’t notice that I had a debuff on me, but then when my health started going down really quickly I panicked a bit, and like everyone else begged for a healer. The debuff was a damage-over-time debuff which meant that every 30secs or whatever you lost a bit more health until you kicked the bucket. Once I was dead I had some time to read the public and guild chat - and then I realized that I’d been infected in the Horde capital (Ogrimmar). I logged off and checked back each day until they fixed the prob. It actually got into mainstream media if you can believe it due to the interest of epidemiologists. There’s loads about this on the internet including a Wiki page. This video was a great reminder of a whole bunch of misspent time spent from days gone by.
"Trolls, which you find in the comments section"
Can confirm. Am troll.
We trolls give people purpose and direction. A noble job.
@@crab7405 Wait, I thought Trolls guarded bridges and demanded payment from people trying to cross.
@@kommentator1157 yes but the bridge we guard is to sanity, a fulfilling life, and having a clear conversation. if you can't pay the troll toll, you lose all rights to said above things.
so stupid. trolls are a fiary tale, not some guy on utube, get a life stupid
R. M. Tosh Get nae nae’d
It actually blew me away. People quarantined. People alerted others. Healers healed. And high levels looked for clues. Idk why, but that's so cool to me.
"Expect hard reset on earth"
Yellowstone supervolcano is "pulsing" in and out
Me: *Hold up*
There might actually even be worse vulcanoes then yellowstone. Something about Siberian plateau.
It seems 2020 is out to kill us.
@@greeniebug1938 hello
am from future
world no end
but humour degraded like fuck
everyone still dumb
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@@EmbeddedWithin don't worry, the queen hasn't died
@@tommerwooper9677 yes, queen no die!!!!!
Alternate title: roasting world of Warcraft players for 5 minutes straight 😂
Well to be fair the current expansion is fucking awful.
Haha, gamers have no life. Isn’t it funny? I’m funny guys! What was I talking about? Ad time!
DarkNinjaCorporation Yeah lmao. It was the same joke like 4-6 times lol
DarkNinjaCorporation salty
*If he finds a way to relate this to airplanes, I'm buying all of you a beer!*
Please don’t buy me a Corona
Oh no
Buy me a corona
Wendover already did it
He easily could, he chose not to.
My character caught this virus in Ironforge a couple times. As a Warlock with a demon pet, I had the ability to get my pet infected, unsummon it, die from the infection, and then bring the pet anywhere in the game, summon it, and infect everyone nearby. Rangers could do the same with their pets. That mechanic was SO broken. Zul'Gurub was a fun raid though. Ahh, the good old days...
So nobody’s gonna talk about him calling MMORPG “more-peg”?
Isn't that what it's called?
I am pretty sure that's how you pronounce it.
I'm pretty sure that was a joke.
@@TheRavenir it wasn't a joke. Wtf.
Because it's trivial.
Reminds me of when I caused a bucket of water epidemic on a Minecraft server. Buckets were a banned item because of their griefing potential, so they weren't useable to low level players but they could infinitely duplicate because players could pick them up and they would stay on the ground. Therefore, walk over a bucket and it would fill up your inventory with buckets. If you dropped the buckets filling your entire inventory, it would spread to whoever picked it up, encouraging them to drop the buckets, thus allowing the buckets to spread and spread until you couldn't walk near spawn without having a full inventory of self-replicating buckets to throw away and inadvertently spread.
I wish they made this glitch a separate game! The CDC could collect covid 19 data, players could find the best course of action for covid 19, it would also be good if they coded a cure! It would’ve been an awesome infection game!
The problem is, in a game like that, there's no real risk to being infected or dying. You don't actually lose anything from dying, and just have to respawn. In WoW, dying has real consequences. You could loose items and loot that you spent a long time getting, and wanted to do everything you could to make sure you don't die. That's why it worked well in WoW, because people had good reason to avoid dying or being infected, whereas in a game like what you suggest, there's no stakes in it. A game over screen means nothing if all that happens is you have to respawn.
@@Mr.Bimgus You dont lose anything in wow when you die other than some buffs btw no clue what you're talking about
@@Mr.Bimguswow isnt runescape
A good video, but once you got to the fourth "you had/you didn't have a life" joke they kinda stopped landing.
The first one didn't land.
It was Big Bang Theory bad....
@@myanrueller91 "bazinga" .... ahahahahaahahsshshs.... comedy gold 10/10... "knock knock knock, penny".... i can't breathe, it's sooooo funny
I think they all landed, it seems like you just felt personally targeted.
@@thqd9137 so if someone makes multiple jokes about black people and you are a black person and triggered beyond belief i could also just say "seems like you just feel personally targeted"?
that's literally the logic that you want to put forward here... smh
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 jokes about your race and jokes about being a gamer are not the same thing LMAO. also, I'm fairly racist myself so that doesn't work with me.
OMG They made the warcraft pandemic a real thing!!
I helped perpetuate this in vanilla. We figured out if a hunter dismissed his pet with the debuff on it and recalled it in town, it would spread. And boy, did it. This was a great time to be alive in WoW. ZG will be missed.
Yeah, another Warlock in my guild summoned his Felhunter, got it infected, made sure to tell us in Vent he was dismissing his diseased Felhunter, and then we all had a great time in Ironforge after beating Hakkar.
are you intentionally using the word pandemic in the title to get yourself demonetised? love it
my thought exactly
And now when this happens in real life, "some people are forced to stay inside and interact with virtual human beings until the problem is fixed."
The fact that it started from animals is so interesting they really accidentally modeled zoonosis
Lmao “sorry I made fun of you guys, but here’s an ad I put at the end of every video to make up for it”
Lol, right?
I remember it. I was young paladin. I logged in Ironforge and saw hundreds of dead bodies and skeletons everywhere. It was horroble. My and other paladins and priests worked non-stop trying to stop the disease, but the infection was spreading too fast....
I was playing WoW during this event. I wasn’t a high level character but my server was one that got reset. Half of my characters were infected, I downplayed the issue but my internet was so slow I was unable to enter cities anyway. I went to the least populated cities when necessary and that’s how most of my characters got infected. The only 1 off that happened for me was a small camp in a questing area had somehow gotten infected and when I entered the camp I was killed. Knowing I was a small part in that pandemic is fun to me, has absolutely has no effect on my life though. Hell I don’t even play the game anymore.
The last time i was this early airplanes still flew
Oof this got 20 likes by the time i finished watching the video so i guess it'll become the top comment so lemme just say i saw this comment on another video before, before anyone points that out
hardcore world of warcraft nerd here. good take on the corrupted blood incident, I've seen this covered by actual world of warcraft RUclips channels a couple other times in lengthy, detail dense videos. very accurate info here, good comedic attempt. wish you would've included pictures of Orgrimmar covered in bones tho, since those pictures are infinitely better than what happened in stormwind
He’s appealed to his viewers too much! He’s too powerful!
" im expecting a hard reset of earth any day now."
Jesus Christ: " Hold my commandments."
Man of culture.
Technically Moses wrote the commandments but yes
Go outside and have interactions with other people?
THE ULTIMATE HORROR
Hey, I can actually relate due to my anxiety
I remember that. I also remember when they try to introduce the 3rd expansion by infecting players and NPC which turn them into zombies. It was suppose to stay in the vanilla world but soon enough got into the 2nd expansion areas. Quests were not able to be done and lower level characters will die by high level zombies. Best time ever.
2:37 she is wearing 2 pairs of head phones, what a gamer
so is the guy sitting next to her lol
Do you know her name? Or the name of her team?
@@dionysus649 and people call us Indians horny
Just your typical stock footage. Like those pictures of people holding a soldering iron by the tip.
@@dionysus649
Rest of the world: M-M-O-R-P-G
Sam Denby: Morpig
why are you like this
I just remembered this recently and it's scary how similar people acted to this like in real life.
Similar to how only weaker players will die to the effect, Covid can easily kill anyone who has poor immune response, those being children, the elderly and people with a condition. And just like in real life, stronger players(people) act like jerks and just spread the infection on unsuspecting players.
When I first heard this story I thought it was ridiculous for people in real life to act like this. Yet with what happened, it is not so farfetched.
"let's make a video about a video game disease!"
*proceeds to make fun of gamers for 5 minutes*
Seeing the differences in how ZP and HAI covered the same incident in video form is super fascinating!
This channel should be named Twice as Interesting.
I am writing this from December 2020. We needed that hard reset back in March 2020! WE NEEDED THAT!!!
I recall someone saying that using this information was a bad idea, because groups of people spread it intentionally.
And now I see darn memes called the Corona challenge of people licking stuff in public. *Eyerolls*
and still, i'm not one bit surprised... humans gonna human, the first time i heard the words "virus" and "lockdown" i exactly saw this coming
2:37 someone tell me why shes wearing two pairs of headphones at the same time. is this a next level gamer strat i haven't yet uncovered
I don't need sleep, I need ANSWERS!
Probably alternating between two monitors
it's just stock footage being stock footage... i saw one clip from a jim stirling video where a guy with a vr headset was bouncing on a gymnastics ball while holding his hands out like he's riding a motorcycle... two headphones seem pretty tame in my opinion :D
I use to play this game in the mid 00s. I think I stopped around 2012. The best moments in my life were in WoW. I’m now 35 with nothing to show for in life. I was feeling optimistic once again at the start of 2020 but the whole covid situation crushed that and now I’m stuck in a hole that I don’t know how to get out of this time around.
I find it really cool that a game would let that happen. I mean it’s a big bummer, but it makes it feel more real
HAI: *Makes 3 jabs at gamers within the first two minutes.* I'm edgy.
How can you write so many jokes for not even one of them to land.
"I'm expecting a hard reset on earth, any day now"
[Insert Topical fanatical World Leader]: "I got you fam"
you mean nukes
just so you know HAI, a "hard reset" in the real world usually takes the form of a giant flaming asteroid.
I know right! When are they going to patch this “Virus” thing?
Therw stil many "glitch and bug" that need to fix without affecting "player stat and item"
Gods taking a break for a bit a patch is coming soon though I'm guessing and hopefully a new playable race
@@epicgirl3718 yeah, i am really pissed ever since he patched the money duping glitch
@@chrisakaschulbus4903 Atleast you were not online during the "Great Depression" Glitch, that caused many to lose all their money and the ingame economy broke
HEY!!! Sir, I am not a TROLL!!!! I am a hobgoblin.
"VPNs are gud"
- Sam (HAI/Wendover Productions)
"VPNs are mostly a scam"
- Tom Scott
as long as it's not raid: casino legends...
I clicked on the video wanting to learn a neat fact. Instead I got cyber bullied. You just earned my subscription good sir
The players in WoW had some we were intentionally spread it. In the present, out of game with the Covid-19, some just spread it because they are douches.
Especially during the spring break.
From Leroy Jenkins to the funeral raid to this. Wow never fails to disappoint
4:54 “A hard reset on Earth” sounds like an extinction-level event, such as the Chixulub impact.
well, why not eh? I see as a win-win scenario for me and the planet.
@@PotatoSmasher420 and i get called a psychopath when i say that humanity is the real virus and shouldn't infect other planets... smh
Chris aka Schulbus psychopath
1:43 wait so I can poison my own blood to fight that mosquito boss in my apartment
I was there and I helped spread it. It was a hilarious bug. One of the few things I miss from classic.
I remember just staying in ahn'qiraj for the entire stuff fighting bugs with very spine crawling music
HAI? This was heckin' amazing interesting! I never played WoW so I never heard of this. Hearing the fact it made real world people use it for research was amazing. Great video!
HAI: We thought it would be nice to talk about something calm, relaxing, and in no way related to current events.
Me: Ok cool
HAI: an incredibly infectious virus
Me: *banshee shriek*
Damn friends, missed out on this
I guess instead of trying to create a model that simulates how millions of humans interact in a pandemic you can just observe how humans behave in a virtual pandemic
This guy has something against WoW players...
Everything he's said has been echoed by players in the game since its inception.
One or two of those jokes were funny but it got pretty mean further on. 😕
Probably got ganked by a high level player and teabagged while they camped his corpse, now all WoW players are bad.
who doesnt?
Probably to broke to afford the $15 sub
I remember this. You couldn't go to any hub without seeing thousands of skeletons littering the ground lol
2:24 I thought this level of stupidity only occurs my country
Turns out it didn't
Human stupidity is in all countries.
massive jerks? dude this was hilarious! Wasnt the same thing but during the pre shadowlands patch, you could turn into zombies. Most cities and towns outside were infected. NPC's, players etc..hahah. It was only for like a week but it was so much fun.
It has turned from half as intresting to one third as intresting.
Jk Love your vids ❤️❤️
Just remove the bottom part and you're accurate
@@DelcoTrash here we have one of the trolls he mentioned.
In Hoc Signo Diliget
That's just one video close to a popular subject. The rest of the videos are completely normal.
@@aa01blue38 Nah man, vid quality has been going down. It's turning from short but cool topic with jokes and puns to vague topics where he shits on random people.
@@hkr667 yeah... the first "gamers don't have a life"-joke wasn't funny, but i could look past this since it wouldn't be that big of a deal... by the time he was doing the fifth one it got really annoying and insulting
Istg if I hear people pronounce MMORPG like Sam did in this video, I will lay all blame on HAI
Wow, that most have been so cool. They should have made it so players would need to gather resources to find a cure and ultimately develop some kind of vaccine to stop it.
Hai: insults me but apologizes
Me: no need.
Don't forget Mark Zuckerberg, who is a robot.
The delivery of the jokes make the video so much fun!!
Player: lmao I spread the disease to you lol
Researchers: *hmm interesting*
You're like Internet Historian but you're Half as Interesting.
The way he said Zul’Gurrub and MMORPG lol
The Zul'gurub one hurt my soul
This channel slowly became sarcastically humorous
I thought the title said “The Accidental Virtual Pandemic in the World of Minecraft”
It would have cost you $0.00 to not include footage of real, dripping blood, but you did it anyway. Fascinating.
Pretty sure introverts had more friends than extroverts because of wow
I am curious about something: Why hasn't any health organization contacted Blizzard (or any other game developer of a major MMO) to re-do this experiment? (without the knowledge of the players and maybe again WITH). Seems like there's a HUGE amount of info you could recollect on pandemics basically for free (free from loss of life).
Videogames are a huge pool of potentially useful scientific information waiting to be gathered. I'm curious as to why it hasn't been exploited.
i experienced this in wow. thats why my family and i got prepared when i first heard of covid. so playing wow made me a better husband 😂
Wonder when our good friends at Blizzard Entertainment will turn a similar pandemic into a yearly event
I'm not sure this video had enough "World of Warcraft players are losers" jokes, could you fit in a couple more next time?
This video has the best sarcastic undertones of any of the HAI videos... Absolutely loved it!! Keep up the amazing work..!
When this nightmare is over , I want to take a two-week leave to stay at the office to calm my nerves ...damn staying home is tough
I feel like this guy is a recovering WoW addict...
1:10 in and I feel attacked. Lol
Is nobody gonna talk about how smooth that dashlane transition was?