Mann Gulch Incident Case Study

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Another Boring Day MrUnpleasant author Special Agent Broderick sat in front of his computer, idly looking through closed case documents. Rat people in the subway? Turned out to be some group of perverts dressed in rat costumes…. Transmitting coordinates to you as we speak. He was a fairly young man, but still leaned into a cane as he walked. Not just lied to, but the truth was hidden from us. The truth was destroyed, imprisoned, filed away.

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Due to the circumstance of their retrieval, some of the recordings have been lost or damaged. There was green grass and birdsong, happiness and sadness. The trembling in his hands was easy to stifle; it was his stutter he needed to worry about. The primary cause behind this interstellar expansion was the destruction of Earth by SCP It was mostly heard over intercoms, or through the grape vines as gossip between the dorms. The first is here. Gears, Prof. Randomini author "I still think this is a terrible idea. Like, deconstructive or whatever. UraniumEmpire author Uncle Nicolini author From: krd. Date: February 1st, at Hey, Critic…. Are We There Yet? And… Arm-ageddon Weryllium author Armando handed the pure gold arm to the Elder Alchemist, who set it in the middle of the circle inscribed in the sand.

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Number twelve. He donned a stained white tee and frayed shorts. They wrestle him to the ground and pin his arm out flat, forcing his fist open to give access to his left index finger. Weeks of sitting in the forest hadn't prepared him for the miles of hiking up and down mountains. The dryad was alone. The secret language of the dryads didn't even have a word for being alone. Being a dryad meant being interconnected with every other dryad in the Grove. It meant a… Ashes. If you have questions you'd like answered, please submit them via the discussion page…. Ask Dr. Spanko Edrobot author It me! Self-Portrature is topside, no?

Where the devil are my slippers? The following video was uploaded and gained over 1. As many of you are likely aware, in exactly twenty-four hours, we will begin an assault upon the Foundation facility known as Site The corgi sitting on her desk smiled back at her, exuding an air of… Assured Loss of Life Zmax15 author Agent Wilder had been thinking about his death. He had known for a long time that, in some bizarre way, he was dead already many times over.

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Here, we have a member of the SCP Foundation driving to work from his apartment in town. As you lie sleeping- you dream of dark and empty eyes. David Bell wrenched open the door to the observation theatre, cursing the rusted… Atzak III djkaktus author Not all who have died- have stopped breathing. The following transmission was recorded. It's Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer! Only not at all that. Behind her, Hamilton and Xavier scrambled to keep up. She fell downward, arms outstretched. Her scream turned… Authenticity Trip Roget author January 6th, In Miami, there is an apartment.

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Pearl Watkins, lead scientist at Aquagene Pet Shop, hung her head as she slumped in her chair. She wasn't sure what to feel. Marcus Nakamura stayed silent with fear as the armored van carrying him and Dr. Pearl Watkins rumbled softly down the road to who knows where. They weren't… Bare King Jacob Conwell author "Alright everyone, one last bit of business before we go. Since Johansson is retiring, we're getting a new member. I was driving through Iowa and saw something burning by the… Barrels of Prose and Slugs of Pulp NatVoltaic author The Starship Centaurus screams out of the wormhole at twice light speed.

The chassis blasts off layers of shielding in an azure lightshow. Captain Underhill takes a look through the rear camera and… Basic Observations SunnyClockwork author A consciousness considered itself. It considered its existence, and felt the electronic signals, data, and information rushing through its existence. Bjornsen, [] To: Dr. Dier, [] Dier, SCP has largely been contained, and everything above D-9 has been incinerated or disabled. Across said mahogany authority symbol, a thin young man in a… Bazyliszek Ihp author Warsaw Another airdrop had been intercepted by the enemy.

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Eve Online trains skills in real time rather than using experience points as a measure of progression. MMORPGs that use this model often glorify top ranked players by displaying their avatars on the game's website or posting their stats on a high score screen. Another common practice is to enforce a maximum reachable level for all players, often referred to as a level cap. Once reached, the definition of a player's progression changes. Instead of being awarded primarily with experience for completing quests and dungeons, the player's motivation to continue playing will be replaced with collecting money and equipment.

Often, the widened range of equipment available at the maximum level will have increased aesthetic value to distinguish high ranking players in game between lower ranked players. Colloquially known as endgame gear, this set of empowered weapons and armor adds a competitive edge to both scripted boss encounters as well as player vs player combat. Player motivation to outperform others is fueled by acquiring such items and is a significant determining factor in their success or failure in combat-related situations. Many MMORPGs offer support for in-game guilds or clans , though these will usually form whether the game supports them or not. In addition, most MMOGs require some degree of teamwork in parts of the game.

These tasks usually require players to take on roles in the group, such as protecting other players from damage called tanking , "healing" damage done to other players or damaging enemies. Some GMs may have additional access to features and information related to the game that are not available to other players and roles. Relationships formed in MMORPGs can often be just as intense as relationships formed between friends or partners met outside the game, and often involve elements of collaboration and trust between players. Among those classes, a small portion of players choose to roleplay their characters, and there are rules that provide functionality and content to those who do.

Community resources such as forums and guides exist in support of this play style. For example, if a player wants to play a priest role in his MMORPG world, he might buy a cope from a shop and learn priestly skills, proceeding to speak, act, and interact with others as their character would. This may or may not include pursuing other goals such as wealth or experience. Guilds or similar groups with a focus on roleplaying may develop extended in-depth narratives using the setting and resources similar to those in the game world.

Over time, the MMORPG community has developed a sub-culture with its own slang and metaphors, as well as an unwritten list of social rules and taboos. Players will often complain about 'grind' a slang term for any repetitive, time-consuming activity in an MMORPG , or talk about 'buffs' and 'nerfs' respectively an upgrade or downgrade of a particular game mechanic. As with all such cultures, social rules exist for such things as invitations to join an adventuring party, the proper division of treasure, and how a player is expected to behave while grouped with other players. There is debate in various gaming media over the long-term effect of video game overuse.

The server software generates a persistent instance of the virtual world that runs continuously, and players connect to it via a client software. The client software may provide access to the entire playing world, or further 'expansions' may be required to be purchased to allow access to certain areas of the game. EverQuest and Guild Wars are two examples of games that use such a format. Players generally must purchase the client software for a one-time fee, although an increasing trend is for MMORPGs to work using pre-existing "thin" clients, such as a web browser.

By definition, " massively multiplayer " games are always online, and most require some sort of continuous revenue such as monthly subscriptions and advertisements for maintenance and development purposes. Some games, such as Guild Wars , have disposed of the 'monthly fee' model entirely, and recover costs directly through sales of the software and associated expansion packs. Still others adopt a micropayment model where the core content is free, but players are given the option to purchase additional content, such as equipment, aesthetic items, or pets. Games that make use of this model often have originated in Korea, such as Flyff and MapleStory. This business model is alternately called " pay for perks " or " freemium ", and games using it often describe themselves with the term " free-to-play ".

Depending on the number of players and the system architecture, an MMORPG might be run on multiple separate servers, each representing an independent world, where players from one server cannot interact with those from another; World of Warcraft is a prominent example, with each separate server housing several thousand players. In many MMORPGs the number of players in one world is often limited to around a few thousand, but a notable example of the opposite is EVE Online , which accommodates several hundred thousand players on the same server, with over 60, playing simultaneously June [12] at certain times. Some games allow characters to appear on any world, but not simultaneously such as Seal Online: Evolution or Kolossium competition in Dofus ; others limit each character to the world in which it was created.

World of Warcraft has experimented with "cross-realm" i. Another milestone came in as NSFNET restrictions were lifted, opening the Internet up for game developers, which allowed for the first truly "massively"-scoped titles. The financial success of these early titles has ensured competition in the genre since that time. Also, there are some free-to-play games, such as RuneScape and Tibia , where the game is free, but one would have to pay monthly to play the game with more features. Guild Wars and its sequel avoid some degree of competition with other MMORPGs by only requiring the initial purchase of the game to play.

As with other modern 3D games, the front-end requires expertise with implementing 3D engines , real-time shader techniques and physics simulation. The actual visual content areas, creatures, characters, weapons, spaceships and so forth is developed by artists who typically begin with two-dimensional concept art, and later convert these concepts into animated 3D scenes, models and texture maps. The server must be able to handle and verify a large number of connections, prevent cheating , and apply changes bug fixes or added content to the game.

A system for recording the games data at regular intervals, without stopping the game, is also important. Maintenance requires sufficient servers and bandwidth , and a dedicated support staff. Insufficient resources for maintenance lead to lag and frustration for the players, and can severely damage the reputation of a game, especially at launch. Care must also be taken to ensure that player population remains at an acceptable level by adding or removing servers. Peer-to-peer MMORPGs could theoretically work cheaply and efficiently in regulating server load, but practical issues such as asymmetrical network bandwidth, CPU-hungry rendering engines, unreliability of individual nodes, and inherent lack of security opening fertile new grounds for cheating can make them a difficult proposition.

The hosted infrastructure for a commercial-grade MMORPG requires the deployment of hundreds or even thousands of servers. Developing an affordable infrastructure for an online game requires developers to scale large numbers of players with less hardware and network investment. In addition, the development team will need to have expertise with the fundamentals of game design: world-building, lore and game mechanics, [27] as well as what makes games fun. Though the vast majority of MMORPGs are produced by companies, many small teams of programmers and artists have contributed to the genre. As shown above, the average MMORPG development project requires enormous investments of time and money, and running the game can be a long-term commitment.

As a result, non-corporate or independent, or " indie " development of MMORPGs is less common compared to other genres. Still, many independent MMORPGs do exist, representing a wide spectrum of genres, gameplay types, and revenue systems. Some independent MMORPG projects are completely open source , while others feature proprietary content made with an open-source game engine. The WorldForge project has been active since and formed a community of independent developers who are working on creating framework for a number of open-source MMORPGs.

As there are a number of wildly different titles within the genre, and since the genre develops so rapidly, it is difficult to definitively state that the genre is heading in one direction or another. Still, there are a few obvious developments. One of these developments is the raid group quest, or "raid", [32] which is an adventure designed for large groups of players often twenty or more. Instance dungeons , sometimes shortened to "instances", are game areas that are "copied" for individual players or groups, which keeps those in the instance separated from the rest of the game world.

This reduces competition, and also reducing the amount of data that needs to be sent to and from the server, reducing lag. Since then, instancing has become increasingly common. The "raids", as mentioned above, often involve instance dungeons. Increased amounts of " player-created content " is another trend. Tolkien 's Middle-earth. They require no download outside of a browser and usually have heavily integrated social media sharing features. The games are enhanced by location and distance based tracking, bench marking goals or facilitating trade between players. Sherry Turkle has found that many people have expanded their emotional range by exploring the many different roles including gender identities that MMORPGs allow a person to explore.

Nick Yee has surveyed more than 35, MMORPG players over the past several years, focusing on psychological and sociological aspects of these games. In a study by Zaheer Hussain and Mark D. Significantly more male gamers than female gamers said that they found it easier to converse online than offline. A German fMRT-study conducted by researchers of the Central Institute of Mental Health points towards impairments in social, emotional and physical aspects of the self-concept and a higher degree in avatar identification in addicted MMORPG players, compared to non-addicted and naive nonexperienced people. Psychotherapeutic interventions should therefore focus on the development of coping strategies for real-life situations in which addicted players tend to experience themselves as incompetent and inferior.

His classifications were then expanded upon by Erwin Andreasen, who developed the concept into the thirty-question Bartle Test that helps players determine which category they are associated with. With over , test responses as of , this is perhaps the largest ongoing survey of multiplayer game players. In World of Warcraft , a temporary design glitch attracted the attention of psychologists and epidemiologists across North America, when the " Corrupted Blood " disease of a monster began to spread unintentionally—and uncontrollably—into the wider game world.