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In 2005, World of Warcraft accidentally caused a virtual pandemic when a boss fight introduced a disease called Corrupted Blood. Players unknowingly carried it out of the dungeon and spread it through crowded cities, killing low level characters in seconds. Some players tried to help the infected, others deliberately spread it, and entire cities became death zones. The outbreak caused so much chaos that Blizzard had to intervene with server resets and patches. Epidemiologists later studied it as a model for how real pandemics spread.

With the upcoming PVP tournament it's extremely clear that streamers will still be "buying" gold and ruining the economy in forever, unless blizzard actually shows they are serious about the commitment to ban gold buyers

Here are two clips of Ziqo being traded 380 gold and 175 gold from level 1 characters. All while just laughing about it, there is 0% chance that any of that gold was gained legitimately and they know it.

If you can skirt the gold buying rules by just having a lvl 1 character trade it to you what's even the point

https://www.twitch.tv/ziqoftw/clip/ColdbloodedBlazingMonitorRalpherZ-G-kGDsecnPTHCCjQ https://www.twitch.tv/ziqoftw/clip/TemperedBadSalamanderSwiftRage-GtZ7RhtpO-ecnta4

Blizzard needs to show that they actually care if it's already this blatant on the beta then it will be even worse when the game goes live

There is no proof that Ziqo himself bought any of the gold, but whether it's him or his viewers doing the crime on his behalf the effects are the same, and they should both be punished

Growing up, we had this thing called Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) where every day, our elementary school teachers would have us all sit at our desks, no talking, and read something (anything) for about thirty minutes from second grade until sixth grade.

I was telling this to my kid when he complained about having to read so much. I told him about how everyone always changed the abbreviation to mean "Sit down, Shut up, and Read" because that's essentially what they said for us to do.

But my husband, who was in the same school year as me but at a different school (he did elementary school in Germany and France), overheard and said that they didn't have that when he was in school and he's never heard anyone else mention it. Therefore, it was likely only a thing that my school's teachers did to shut us up for 30 minutes a day. And, as an adult, I wouldn't put it past them since 30 minutes of silence a day sounds amazing.

But this also got me wondering just how unique this actually was. So, was it only my school in South Central Pennsylvania? Was it just my state? Was it a country-wide thing? Was it a global thing that my husband ignored or repressed?

UPDATE: So it seems pretty international, but highly dependent on the school district or school itself. And it appears to have many acronyms or none at all. Thanks everyone!

i'm a teenage girl with the most teenage girl thoughts ever. i hate myself, teenage boys suck (like really) i feel unlovable, i feel lonely, i'm worried about my future...

its not like i'm ugly or a bad student. i maintained a 4.4 last year as a sophomore and i am in four AP classes now as a junior. i'm a grade above my age. i'm not ugly (i think..). i just cant stop thinking about how boring everything is and how much i want something to happen.

maybe later in life when i actually get a career or find a more mature man i'll feel like i have a fucking life bru😭

but for now i'm stuck in highschool having the worst years of my life. i like being young but i cannot stop thinking about how this cant POSSIBLY be the "best years of our lives" other people keep talking about.

maybe my 20s will be better? or my 30s? edit: i also have a job as a barista🫩 customer service drains me man yet another edit bc i have a lot to say apparently xd: ive heard people say the men get better..as in you'll find someone who loves you for you and not because youre the baddest girl in the eleventh grade👀😥 pls let it be true im soo mf done w boys