It wasn’t her dad. He might have been there, but he wasn’t logged on her character. The guild contacted blizzard and they put her character there. It was basically an npc.

She loved snow, fishing and pvp

Seth Green was involved?

I consider myself lucky to know about her. Even if the people who memorialized her were pieces of shit for crashing a funeral. I'm torn, entertained, and more than a little wistful at the thought. I hope her family and friends are well.

You're not truly dead, so long as someone still remembers your name... or, perhaps, the name of your WoW character.

This is so true. Had the funeral gone by, it would have been a small factoid that only the people there and a few players knew or cared about. This way, it's got a great story behind it, and can be told to our grandchildren. Like a mobster hit at a funeral, it has mass appeal (to us nerdy kinds at least)

I just wish there was a micro-holiday for that day, like they did for the March of the Gnomes. Wish they had granted the players request to place a NPC of her character at that location.

Yeah it sounds like people were mad at the time but if that statement is true, that amongst the things she loved in WoW was PvP... then yeah, a gigantic brawl in your honor is a cool send-off.

knowing the internet, it was probably still "worth it"

​@@preacher3958Learn a second word, you dolt.

It really shows there intent that they went for her character first for the video, its really nasty to think the items they cherished were taken after there passing.

When justice calls, there will always be people to answer because they want to. They desire to. 🤠

I love that even though it's a game, her memory was worth the time and the energy to uphold her honor. I think the western story set-dressing is perfect, considering this was an internet wild west moment. Yeehaw, cowboys.

He's being held hostage, not a standoff............ And it's a Western movie style. There are hundreds of them, it's a whole genre.

@dammer001I’m an EVE war veteran. I could tell you the thrilling stories of love, betrayal and adventure. But that’s just about all I could do, because visually, I was basically just clicking through some spreadsheets.

@@AngryBoozer that should be the tagline for the game

I mean thats basically what trailers do as well

@@AngryBoozer THEY WERE SPREADSHEETS OF LORE, OF LOVE!

Couldn't have said it better

"I'm not saying that the crashers would deserve to have their lives destroyed by the combined might of the Internet" I mean, I wouldn't be sad if that had happened either. Going on the news for your 15 minutes of fame over it is especially gross.

Their lives? no. As much of a bunch of jackasses these people were ... just being a dick to people isn't justification for ruining lives or death threats. But I certainly wouldn't be adverse to the idea of hackers nuking their accounts and just erasing the guild from existence. or an organized griefing of them that lasts so long they all quit because all their doing is watching their dead body all the time.

It's a PVP server. What they did to crash the funeral was 100% justified and in spirit of what a PVP server is. Also since it's a PVP server, guilds are 100% justified in enforcing civility. That too is in the spirit of what a PVP server is. You do a dick move like that, then bounties to ruin your game are also justified. Taking anything outside of the game is not justified.

@@ObadiahtheSlim So if the trolls had crashed a funeral IRL would that have also been part of the game? If it is ok to crash a funeral in a game, then is it ok to crash a funeral IRL? Why not? What's the difference between the real world and the virtual world? The problem with the "it's just a game, it's not real" way of thinking is that it justifies any virtual activity simply because it is virtual. Undertale made that point perfectly, when Sans berates you for doing something not out of any sense of moral compass, but just because you can. "And because you can, you have to." SAO, for all its faults, also made that point. Just because something is virtual doesn't mean it isn't real. The pain that the parents and friends of the dead player felt was real pain because of the real actions the trolls took in the virtual world. To say nothing of what they did in the real world afterwards. The book "The Cyber Effect" does a great job of pointing out why online actions are real world actions and why "it's just a game" is a very dangerous sentiment. Long story short, if you wouldn't do it IRL then you shouldn't do it online, and if you are able to do something to someone online you are equally able to do it IRL. Since the only real difference between the real world and the virtual world is accountability.

@@jamisonosborne It's a PVP server. Being a dick and suffering the in-game social consequences for being a dick are part of the PVP experience. If you find that unacceptable, don't play on a PVP server. All of that is enumerated within the PVP server's terms of service. Now I wouldn't crash an in-game funeral because I'm not a dick. I would also gladly go kill and camp some dick who my group of friends had declared to have broken the code of civility that we abide by.

Glad you’re enjoying!

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Yeah Yahtzee is great but ultimately he's mainly just game reviews. WHich are good but the nature of such limits the content in a way. These offer an entirely different kind of content and his delivery is top notch.

@@tayzers69 upgraded to the deluxe meal, Our boys are makin' moves 😢

Cold Take was a really good addition, and The Stuff of Legends is actively tied with ZP for my favorite Escapist content. This commentator is hopefully definitely going places if he keeps up with the great narratives.

It should have been the corrupted blood incident.

@@MarkPeckham The corrupted blood incident... The case study on the mentality of people who out of pure spite will spread a disease we could otherwise have stopped. Now we live in a world where that happened in real life. Proof that when humanity as a species inevitably goes extinct, we'll have had it coming.

Either or would be better than the current movie

If you watch the original leeroy jenkins video, you see the planning guilds go through to do raid fights. The game didn't use to have so many tools it does now, so tight coordination was needed

Probably helps that those funerals are not held in PVP zones.

"My dead son really loved just fishing near the chaos elemental, HE found the sounds of the damned calming"

Go go Good team! Fansy was a menace.

already did

Oh Jesus, I remember that one. Leading a conga line of Sand Giants on a path of destruction…one of the most infamous EverQuest moments of all time.

I never had the pleasure of running into Fansy. I was too busy leveling in other areas. But I had to respect the hustle of using the game mechanics for his advantage. Still I do blame Sony for allowing that sort of exploit to exist in the first place. It's a PVP server. Kill or be killed. Giving invulnerability to low levels is against the spirit of PVP.

Tarren Mill remembers.

They did. It mentions that they were facing a different direction and got caught unaware by an unexpected Flanking manuver.

From what I heard they did have guards. Its just that Serenity Now took an obscure route so they wouldn't get caught. Which honestly sounds in character for them.

When you say "Players had changed" I heard "Fused with and become indistinguishable from the beaniebags they were sitting in."

early wow was far worse in terms of grind because leveling was painfully slow, adhoc dungeon group finder didnt exist, getting money was insanely difficult and some of the zones were absurdly large with no real justification for their size the entire thing was fueled entirely by streamer delusion

I stopped playing before they actually added Classic, but before that whenever someone asked for early mode servers, I argued that early WoW wasn't actually hard, only that nobody really knew what they were doing and nostalgia was kicking in. The way Classic servers turned out, I'm pretty sure I wasn't wrong. (The way current WoW looks from other players, I'm not sure I could enjoy a raid ever again).

Yeah, as someone who has no will to go back into MMos and who was a runescape player way back when this does kinda show me blizzard at least respect the rules of the game, you build the mechanics and then leave the world to use them as they come, trying to enforce something as subjective as morality as a law is retarded in real life where there are actual stakes, in videogames it's a sign you have nothing but soup in between them ears... Planetside sounds like trash but I guess the space operas I crave are more the EVE stories anyway.

no lol those guys got banned for being insufferable racists in all chat, the developers really dont care if you airstrike a bunch of people willingly standing still their leader was buzzcutpsycho aka a massive loser who was so universally despised by everyone that certain clans kept tally of who made him screech in VC and ragequit the most

Didn’t they also semi-successfully patent loading screen games?

​@@darkmooink69that was namco

@@darkmooink69 Yes, yes they did

I don't think it's particularly worth a video, but there was also Bloober Team patenting dual-mode, which was definitely not a "Shit, we couldn't get this out in time for the Wii U, CYA on the game cost" move. Definitely not.

Yes. That was where they lured Lord Kaazak to Stormwind from the Blasted Lands (think luring something from Florida to Washington DC). I don't know if it was revenge for the funeral crashing, but I wouldn't be surprised.

There is also the infamous event when someone brought a plague from one location to a bank, which caused an actual epidemiological study. WoW players can get creative.

Well, yhatzee has been carrying them for awhile, but since they've gotten sponsors and more money do do things like animations. They have a lot more opportunities for new projects

Or very simply not enforce a god damn dress code. I'd imagine that this story would have played out differently if it was 1 guild vs 100 fully armored players.

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