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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In unrelated news, several unpaid blizzard interns go missing

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CEO: those girls were not team players.

Reporter: We never said they were girls???

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Bobby Kotick keeps a close eye on all the girls at Blizzard.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is very cool apart from the body fluids in your prize thing, because that's fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Depending on whose blood it is, it could be pretty cool. Some rando’s blood? Gross. Gamer girl blood? Excellent heat conductor.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But if the gamer girl can't perfectly pass a True Gamer's exam of 125 extremely specific questions, then they are a fake gamer and the PC will burst into flames. /s

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never mind that 'infusing' can mean basically anything - I still think it reflects an off-putting attitude towards our bodies. The concept itself seems immature and gross. If it makes people donate blood, it's hard to actually oppose it though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Dollars to donuts, they're going to put a drop of pasteurized pig blood in the paint and then dye the coolant red.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It def seems like a bit of a biohazard, but what's off-putting about it otherwise? If the blood is sterilized well and there is not much of it its more of a cool talking point then anything

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not gonna lie, that sounds slightly illegal (likely isn't?) and also slightly disgusting. Like, I'd probably dig the esthetic, but I don't want random peoples blood in my PC.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I seem to remember something similar a little while ago except it was like a pair of shoes or something.

Edit: It was Lil Nas X and his Satan Nikes.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lil-nas-x-mschf-satan-nike-shoes/index.html

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

to be fair, every nike shoes already have children blood

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty sure that was his point right? Or am I making that up?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Kiss did something similar with a comic book back in the '70s.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blood-money/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well I guess you could use your own blood if you really want to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why not? How often are you taking your PC apart?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blizz, you throw in one of those breastmilk-dispensers you got strewn around the office and you got yourself a deal mister.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Blizz can't just give you a woman, they have rights now.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can’t wait to have the blood go rancid and spill everywhere

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Worth noting it is "infused with" i.e. probably a very small ratio of blood to water.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The blood drive is good, blood in the coolant not so much. Keeping a coolant line clean is very important, and taking it apart to clean it is a bit of a pain in the ass. Just use red dye instead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The wording is odd. I don't see "the coolant is infused with blood" in the article. Could just be in glass cosmetically.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Or just a drop or two added or some shit. I think they worded it that way so people think the coolant is replaced with blood, which it obviously is not.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its heartwarming to see that those idiots from acclaim's marketing team got a job again.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's with all the puritanism here? I don't even like Diablo but that's metal as fuck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is already old news. The Satan shoe already happened.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, I love when people do good, but giving few thousand bucks (and spending much more on marketing) so you can convincen others to do good and hide your fuck ups is not really "doing good".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't say anything about good, I said metal

The donated blood is just a bonus

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New fear unlocked: Somehow getting a blood transferable disease from working on my pc

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More likely than not, any BBP would die before transferring to you through an open wound months later. HIV can only survive outside the body for minutes. Not sure how long Hep C lasts, but I can't imagine it would be longer than a few days at most.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gross, but I don't imagine anyone would be doing a fluid swap before the one year mark (normally, without blood)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

"Your battery is low, please plugin AC adapter, or refill with type AB+ blood"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

...where did this blood come from, though!?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's liquid cooled with a big reservoir that uses all 666 pints

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

*quarts, so that's a bigass reservoir lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Probably just the people building the computer. Knicking your finger or scraping a knuckle while building a server is frequently called giving it a blood sacrifice, so anything custom is invariably going to have trace amounts of incidental human blood on some components.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I think that's actually some cool promotion. I'd love to have it. Well, US only. That's sad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But I want a computer with its processor tied to the power supply with strands of John Romero's hair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey everyone, look at the video essayist over here.

#FreeCivvie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Blizzard would really do anything to drive attention to their shitty games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago