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[Redzephyr01]

It's a reference to the game Plague Inc. It is very hard to get a disease to spread to Madagascar in Plague Inc.

[alway]

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything

[Tawa]

It's a reference to the game Plague Inc. It is very hard to get a disease to spread to Madagascar in Plague Inc.

Before plague inc it was pandemic.

Pandemic is the actual original reference, yeah. I heard Plague Inc. made it easier to get a disease to Madagascar. When I play Pandemic, I pretend I win even if Madagascar SHUTS DOWN EVERYTHING. And with New Zealand if it does too within the first week or so.

Either way, we all have to evacuate to Madagascar immediately.

[GavJ]

You're seriously being snobby about several year old browser game references?

...A completely shit-tastic browser game at that. I went and tried it out. Nothing made a scrap of sense. People stay infected forever somehow, microbes are telekinetic and can mutate simultaneously worldwide (wat), land borders are magical force fields by legal decree alone, doctors psychically know about infection rates of diseases with no symptoms (and care about them?), vaccines are 0% effective until they get the telepathic signal that everyone on Earth has one at which point they instantly become 100% effective, and you get evolution points by time passing instead of by infection numbers. (Gameplay also involves one linear valid strategy = boring + 90% luck = frustrating and boring)

It's almost like somebody set out with the express goal of making a game as unattractive as physically possible to an average dwarf fortress player.





It does sort of inspire me to consider making a not terrible version, though. Or if not a short story from disease perspective or something, so definitely glad I took the time to look into it for solely the core concept.

[10ebbor10]

Internet memes are serious business.

[miauw62]

You're seriously being snobby about several year old browser game references?

...A completely shit-tastic browser game at that. I went and tried it out. Nothing made a scrap of sense. People stay infected forever somehow, microbes are telekinetic and can mutate simultaneously worldwide (wat), land borders are magical force fields by legal decree alone, doctors psychically know about infection rates of diseases with no symptoms (and care about them?), vaccines are 0% effective until they get the telepathic signal that everyone on Earth has one at which point they instantly become 100% effective, and you get evolution points by time passing instead of by infection numbers. (Gameplay also involves one linear valid strategy = boring + 90% luck = frustrating and boring)

It's almost like somebody set out with the express goal of making a game as unattractive as physically possible to an average dwarf fortress player.

It does sort of inspire me to consider making a not terrible version, though. Or if not a short story from disease perspective or something, so definitely glad I took the time to look into it for solely the core concept.

It's an old flash game. If you compare it to a polished game it's pretty bad, sure, but by flash game standards it's a pretty good game.

[Loud Whispers]

You're seriously being snobby about several year old browser game references?

If you're honestly going to go out of your way to prove you have either not lurked the internet long enough or lurked it since the dawn of internet just to understand rather well known historical references you're throwing yourself under the bus.

In other news:


Ebola sparks panic across Nigeria as citizens scramble for salt-water bath “remedy”

[Sergarr]

This is why Africa was conquered by Europeans.

[scrdest]

This is why Africa was conquered by Europeans.

You got the causality backwards.

[Loud Whispers]

You got the causality backwards.

Europe conquered Africa for ebola salt?

[Culise]

You got the causality backwards.

Europe conquered Africa for ebola salt?

Yes, and it worked like a charm.  After all, how many cases of ebola were tracked in Europe during the Age of Imperialism? 

[scrdest]

You got the causality backwards.

Europe conquered Africa for ebola salt?

Yes, and it worked like a charm.  After all, how many cases of ebola were tracked in Europe during the Age of Imperialism?

And how many were documented in Africa before? CHECKMATE, ATHEISTS!

[BFEL]

You got the causality backwards.

Europe conquered Africa for ebola salt?

Yes, and it worked like a charm.  After all, how many cases of ebola were tracked in Europe during the Age of Imperialism?

And how many were documented in Africa before? CHECKMATE, ATHEISTS!

O RLY?
HOW MANY WERE DOCUMENTED IN JESUSLAND?
According to Christians: All of them.

[smjjames]

You got the causality backwards.

Europe conquered Africa for ebola salt?

Yes, and it worked like a charm.  After all, how many cases of ebola were tracked in Europe during the Age of Imperialism?

And how many were documented in Africa before? CHECKMATE, ATHEISTS!

O RLY?
HOW MANY WERE DOCUMENTED IN JESUSLAND?
According to Christians: All of them.

What are you guys going on about? Besides, ebola wasn't isolated until 1976 and the first recorded outbreak was in that year.

[Loud Whispers]

Liberia quarantines a third province to try and stem the ebola outbreak.