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* WithFriendsLikeThese: If one of the players has friends, expect them to play mean-spirited pranks on one another for personal amusement or to embarrass them, especially those in the Teenager stage of life.
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* Hospitals occasionally have to deal with these sorts of people in the real world --continually sick with some unknown illness which will almost certainly kill them (or believing themselves to be so). The term used for such unfortunate figures is GOMER, aka "Get Out of My Emergency Room".
* And even outside of hospitals, some people hold on surprisingly long before succumbing, whether to extreme old age, terminal illness, or injuries that are ultimately mortal but not quite severe enough to be quick about it.
* This can be very much TruthInTelevision with gunshot wounds, which can be a lot weirder and more varied in effect than most people think; you're just as likely to keep running around for hours, fully cognizant and capable of action, after being shot in the chest as you are to [[InstantDeathBullet die instantly]]. It all depends on a huge amount of factors like where precisely you were hit, the type of bullet or gun used, your own physical attributes, how deep the bullet goes, and more. As any cop, soldier, or gun-owner can tell you, there is no such thing in real life as shooting to wound; if you have to pull a gun on someone and shoot, you shoot until they are no longer a threat (i.e., dead). Failure to do so will probably result in the person you're shooting at dying anyways (it is all too easy to hit a blood artery or major organ, even when trying not to), but not before they take advantage of your restraint to shoot ''you''.
* And even outside of hospitals, some people hold on surprisingly long before succumbing, whether to extreme old age, terminal illness, or injuries that are ultimately mortal but not quite severe enough to be quick about it.
* This can be very much TruthInTelevision with gunshot wounds, which can be a lot weirder and more varied in effect than most people think; you're just as likely to keep running around for hours, fully cognizant and capable of action, after being shot in the chest as you are to [[InstantDeathBullet die instantly]]. It all depends on a huge amount of factors like where precisely you were hit, the type of bullet or gun used, your own physical attributes, how deep the bullet goes, and more. As any cop, soldier, or gun-owner can tell you, there is no such thing in real life as shooting to wound; if you have to pull a gun on someone and shoot, you shoot until they are no longer a threat (i.e., dead). Failure to do so will probably result in the person you're shooting at dying anyways (it is all too easy to hit a blood artery or major organ, even when trying not to), but not before they take advantage of your restraint to shoot ''you''.
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* TelecomTree:
** On school field trips, there's a very large web of people that would be contacted in case of an emergency. If something happens to a student, cue the telecom.
** Flash Mobs are created through ever-widening circles of text messaging.
** A man was arrested in a foreign country. He posted one message to Twitter, and the resulting response web alerted his bosses and got the problem resolved with the foreign authorities.
** Several companies with multiple retail locations have a phone tree set up with each store in a given area responsible for calling one other pre-designated store, so that (for instance) if an unsuccessful shoplifter successfully flees [[note]]Or secret inspections are being conducted in an area (you didn't hear that from me)[[/note]], other locations can be quickly forewarned.
** On school field trips, there's a very large web of people that would be contacted in case of an emergency. If something happens to a student, cue the telecom.
** Flash Mobs are created through ever-widening circles of text messaging.
** A man was arrested in a foreign country. He posted one message to Twitter, and the resulting response web alerted his bosses and got the problem resolved with the foreign authorities.
** Several companies with multiple retail locations have a phone tree set up with each store in a given area responsible for calling one other pre-designated store, so that (for instance) if an unsuccessful shoplifter successfully flees [[note]]Or secret inspections are being conducted in an area (you didn't hear that from me)[[/note]], other locations can be quickly forewarned.
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* TheWikiRule: [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} One of the more fleshed out examples.]]
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* WringEveryLastDropOutOfHim:
* Hospitals occasionally have to deal with these sorts of people in the real world --continually sick with some unknown illness which will almost certainly kill them (or believing themselves to be so). The term used for such unfortunate figures is GOMER, aka "Get Out of My Emergency Room".
* And even outside of hospitals, some people hold on surprisingly long before succumbing, whether to extreme old age, terminal illness, or injuries that are ultimately mortal but not quite severe enough to be quick about it.
* This can be very much TruthInTelevision with gunshot wounds, which can be a lot weirder and more varied in effect than most people think; you're just as likely to keep running around for hours, fully cognizant and capable of action, after being shot in the chest as you are to [[InstantDeathBullet die instantly]]. It all depends on a huge amount of factors like where precisely you were hit, the type of bullet or gun used, your own physical attributes, how deep the bullet goes, and more. As any cop, soldier, or gun-owner can tell you, there is no such thing in real life as shooting to wound; if you have to pull a gun on someone and shoot, you shoot until they are no longer a threat (i.e., dead). Failure to do so will probably result in the person you're shooting at dying anyways (it is all too easy to hit a blood artery or major organ, even when trying not to), but not before they take advantage of your restraint to shoot ''you''.
* Hospitals occasionally have to deal with these sorts of people in the real world --continually sick with some unknown illness which will almost certainly kill them (or believing themselves to be so). The term used for such unfortunate figures is GOMER, aka "Get Out of My Emergency Room".
* And even outside of hospitals, some people hold on surprisingly long before succumbing, whether to extreme old age, terminal illness, or injuries that are ultimately mortal but not quite severe enough to be quick about it.
* This can be very much TruthInTelevision with gunshot wounds, which can be a lot weirder and more varied in effect than most people think; you're just as likely to keep running around for hours, fully cognizant and capable of action, after being shot in the chest as you are to [[InstantDeathBullet die instantly]]. It all depends on a huge amount of factors like where precisely you were hit, the type of bullet or gun used, your own physical attributes, how deep the bullet goes, and more. As any cop, soldier, or gun-owner can tell you, there is no such thing in real life as shooting to wound; if you have to pull a gun on someone and shoot, you shoot until they are no longer a threat (i.e., dead). Failure to do so will probably result in the person you're shooting at dying anyways (it is all too easy to hit a blood artery or major organ, even when trying not to), but not before they take advantage of your restraint to shoot ''you''.
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* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler:If you're reading this and you know you've done some wrong, let's hope it's not too late for you to [[HeelFaceTurn change course]]]].
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* In World War 2, torpedo-bombers had to consider running time in their attacks and drop their torpedoes from a range that didn't give the target ship time to dodge. Japanese torpedo-bombers didn't have to worry about this as much as American ones, because the Japanese air-dropped torpedo ran about twice as fast as the American one.
* Modern torpedoes generally travel at around 50 knots. When launched at a target 2.5 nautical miles away, a torpedo will take 3 minutes to reach a target, allowing a sub time to "clear datum."
* Nuclear missile from the US to Russia, about half an hour. From Russia to the UK, about ten minutes. From Cuba to the southern US, under five. [[UsefulNotes/TheMoscowCriterion Welcome to nuclear strategy]].
* Modern torpedoes generally travel at around 50 knots. When launched at a target 2.5 nautical miles away, a torpedo will take 3 minutes to reach a target, allowing a sub time to "clear datum."
* Nuclear missile from the US to Russia, about half an hour. From Russia to the UK, about ten minutes. From Cuba to the southern US, under five. [[UsefulNotes/TheMoscowCriterion Welcome to nuclear strategy]].
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* VirusAndCureNames: Old-school hackers had a taste for the dramatic that actually made this sort of thing reasonably common, e.g. "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_virus Creeper]]" vs. "Reaper".
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* In World War 2, torpedo-bombers had to consider running time in their attacks and drop their torpedoes from a range that didn't give the target ship time to dodge. Japanese torpedo-bombers didn't have to worry about this as much as American ones, because the Japanese air-dropped torpedo ran about twice as fast as the American one.
* Modern torpedoes generally travel at around 50 knots. When launched at a target 2.5 nautical miles away, a torpedo will take 3 minutes to reach a target, allowing a sub time to "clear datum."
* Nuclear missile from the US to Russia, about half an hour. From Russia to the UK, about ten minutes. From Cuba to the southern US, under five. [[UsefulNotes/TheMoscowCriterion Welcome to nuclear strategy]].
* In World War 2, torpedo-bombers had to consider running time in their attacks and drop their torpedoes from a range that didn't give the target ship time to dodge. Japanese torpedo-bombers didn't have to worry about this as much as American ones, because the Japanese air-dropped torpedo ran about twice as fast as the American one.
* Modern torpedoes generally travel at around 50 knots. When launched at a target 2.5 nautical miles away, a torpedo will take 3 minutes to reach a target, allowing a sub time to "clear datum."
* Nuclear missile from the US to Russia, about half an hour. From Russia to the UK, about ten minutes. From Cuba to the southern US, under five. [[UsefulNotes/TheMoscowCriterion Welcome to nuclear strategy]].
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* TriageTyrant:
** In most hospitals in North America, emergency department presentations are assessed according to a 5-point scale called the Emergency Severity Index, which assigns a "priority level" based on the patient's chief complaint, vital signs and a few other factors. Priority 1 patients, such as CPR in progress, major trauma, STEMI (heart attack) and stroke, skip the triage queue entirely and go straight back to the Trauma/Resuscitation area ("Resus" in department slang). Non-emergent events, such as suture removal or medication refills, are classed as Priority 5. Patients are seen in order of ESI priority, ''not'' in order of arrival time and ''not'' necessarily in order of graphic or exaggerated symptoms (i.e. nausea and vomiting isn't usually an emergency[[note]]the exception comes when said symptoms have been going on for a long time, won't stop, and -- critically -- are causing serious dehydration and electrolyte imbalance[[/note]], respiratory distress is). Explaining the concept of triage to lay people without sounding like a petty tyrant is one of the hardest tasks of the triage nurse.
** By law in most countries, emergency department staff cannot turn any patient away until he/she has been provided a medical screening exam and, if necessary, adequate care to stabilize his/her condition. In the United States, this law is called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act EMTALA]]. If the patient isn't really that sick or injured, then they'll get the basic assessment and will be put in the triage queue to wait until the higher-priority cases are handled. Patients who are known to abuse EMTALA for drugs, attention, or other non-health-related reasons are much looked down upon by emergency department staff, as these cases are perceived as wasting time, staff, and bed space that could have been better used on a legitimately sick patient.
** One of the cruel realities of any mass casualty incident, such as a large multi-vehicle wreck in the middle of nowhere or something on the scale of Katrina or September 11th, is that not everyone can be saved, even with the miracles of modern medicine. Mass casualty triage rests upon providing the most benefit to the greatest number of people; if you expend all your resources saving one catastrophically injured patient, you may have just doomed ten more to die for lack of care. Enter the principle of Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment. If you can walk: Priority 3, help carry the person next to you over to the casualty collection point. If you can't walk, but follow commands, Priority 2: We'll get to you as soon as we can. On the other hand, if the only thing you do is breathe or babble incoherently, you get out of there pretty fast: Priority 1. Unsurvivable injuries, such as massive burns or amputations, no pulse, or no spontaneous breathing? Expectant/Morgue. See UsefulNotes/{{Triage}} for a breakdown of how this works.
** In most hospitals in North America, emergency department presentations are assessed according to a 5-point scale called the Emergency Severity Index, which assigns a "priority level" based on the patient's chief complaint, vital signs and a few other factors. Priority 1 patients, such as CPR in progress, major trauma, STEMI (heart attack) and stroke, skip the triage queue entirely and go straight back to the Trauma/Resuscitation area ("Resus" in department slang). Non-emergent events, such as suture removal or medication refills, are classed as Priority 5. Patients are seen in order of ESI priority, ''not'' in order of arrival time and ''not'' necessarily in order of graphic or exaggerated symptoms (i.e. nausea and vomiting isn't usually an emergency[[note]]the exception comes when said symptoms have been going on for a long time, won't stop, and -- critically -- are causing serious dehydration and electrolyte imbalance[[/note]], respiratory distress is). Explaining the concept of triage to lay people without sounding like a petty tyrant is one of the hardest tasks of the triage nurse.
** By law in most countries, emergency department staff cannot turn any patient away until he/she has been provided a medical screening exam and, if necessary, adequate care to stabilize his/her condition. In the United States, this law is called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act EMTALA]]. If the patient isn't really that sick or injured, then they'll get the basic assessment and will be put in the triage queue to wait until the higher-priority cases are handled. Patients who are known to abuse EMTALA for drugs, attention, or other non-health-related reasons are much looked down upon by emergency department staff, as these cases are perceived as wasting time, staff, and bed space that could have been better used on a legitimately sick patient.
** One of the cruel realities of any mass casualty incident, such as a large multi-vehicle wreck in the middle of nowhere or something on the scale of Katrina or September 11th, is that not everyone can be saved, even with the miracles of modern medicine. Mass casualty triage rests upon providing the most benefit to the greatest number of people; if you expend all your resources saving one catastrophically injured patient, you may have just doomed ten more to die for lack of care. Enter the principle of Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment. If you can walk: Priority 3, help carry the person next to you over to the casualty collection point. If you can't walk, but follow commands, Priority 2: We'll get to you as soon as we can. On the other hand, if the only thing you do is breathe or babble incoherently, you get out of there pretty fast: Priority 1. Unsurvivable injuries, such as massive burns or amputations, no pulse, or no spontaneous breathing? Expectant/Morgue. See UsefulNotes/{{Triage}} for a breakdown of how this works.
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** Very common in real-life codes of law. Laws are generally always referred to by number, so labels always have to be kept consistent. This will often extend to leaving sections reserved for future laws so that new statutes can be slotted in where they would logically go. This leads to a lot of lines saying nothing beyond the fact that the line doesn't exist or isn't valid.
** Question 17 of the 2011 British Census: "This question is intentionally blank"[[note]]In England only. In the Scottish and Welsh Censuses, Question 17 asked about proficiency in Scots/Gaelic/Welsh languages.[[/note]]
** There's a joke that goes "Rule 1: I am always right. Rule 2: If I am ever wrong, see rule 1."
** A similar joke has been put up in German workplaces at least since the 1960s: "Rule 1: The boss is always right. Rule 2: Should the boss not be right for once, then rule 1 comes into force."
** With a live-cast showing of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', this is often used by the stage manager when explaining the general "rules of behavior" in the theater.
** IBM manuals are infamous for pages stating "This page intentionally left blank". Similar to the other examples described here, this was done to keep page numbers consistent for cross-referencing even if information was added or removed.
** Military field manuals are also well known for this and the subject of much derision among service members. The truth is that chapters conventionally start on an odd-numbered page; therefore, if the preceding chapter happens to have an odd number of pages, a blank page is inserted at the end. Classified documents are also accounted for by the number of pages; this practice ensures that blank pages are not accidentally discarded.
** Common in IT. When automated, regular reports are generated and sent to distribution lists, a "No report was created / No data in the report" message is the best way to avoid users calling the helpdesk to say "they didn't receive the report".
** During one of the debates between candidates for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, Governor Rick Perry declared, "And I will tell you, it is three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, Education, and the... what's the third one there?" After an awkward pause (during which a few of the other candidates and the debate moderator tried to prompt him), he finally concluded, "I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops."[[labelnote:*]]He was reaching for the Department of Energy.[[/labelnote]]
** Until 2019, highway exits in Massachusetts were numbered sequentially. After the Central Artery Tunnel (aka Big Dig) project was done, the new design removed some exits, and the remaining exits were not (then) renumbered. As a result, the state DOT added signs to the highway e.g. "There is no Exit 11. Next exit is 12" after exit 10.
** Starting in 2020 the state is changing all highway exits to milepost numbers, due to a federal mandate.
** Very common in real-life codes of law. Laws are generally always referred to by number, so labels always have to be kept consistent. This will often extend to leaving sections reserved for future laws so that new statutes can be slotted in where they would logically go. This leads to a lot of lines saying nothing beyond the fact that the line doesn't exist or isn't valid.
** Question 17 of the 2011 British Census: "This question is intentionally blank"[[note]]In England only. In the Scottish and Welsh Censuses, Question 17 asked about proficiency in Scots/Gaelic/Welsh languages.[[/note]]
** There's a joke that goes "Rule 1: I am always right. Rule 2: If I am ever wrong, see rule 1."
** A similar joke has been put up in German workplaces at least since the 1960s: "Rule 1: The boss is always right. Rule 2: Should the boss not be right for once, then rule 1 comes into force."
** With a live-cast showing of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', this is often used by the stage manager when explaining the general "rules of behavior" in the theater.
** IBM manuals are infamous for pages stating "This page intentionally left blank". Similar to the other examples described here, this was done to keep page numbers consistent for cross-referencing even if information was added or removed.
** Military field manuals are also well known for this and the subject of much derision among service members. The truth is that chapters conventionally start on an odd-numbered page; therefore, if the preceding chapter happens to have an odd number of pages, a blank page is inserted at the end. Classified documents are also accounted for by the number of pages; this practice ensures that blank pages are not accidentally discarded.
** Common in IT. When automated, regular reports are generated and sent to distribution lists, a "No report was created / No data in the report" message is the best way to avoid users calling the helpdesk to say "they didn't receive the report".
** During one of the debates between candidates for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, Governor Rick Perry declared, "And I will tell you, it is three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, Education, and the... what's the third one there?" After an awkward pause (during which a few of the other candidates and the debate moderator tried to prompt him), he finally concluded, "I can't. The third one, I can't. Sorry. Oops."[[labelnote:*]]He was reaching for the Department of Energy.[[/labelnote]]
** Until 2019, highway exits in Massachusetts were numbered sequentially. After the Central Artery Tunnel (aka Big Dig) project was done, the new design removed some exits, and the remaining exits were not (then) renumbered. As a result, the state DOT added signs to the highway e.g. "There is no Exit 11. Next exit is 12" after exit 10.
** Starting in 2020 the state is changing all highway exits to milepost numbers, due to a federal mandate.
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** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: Allies vs Axis.
** The UsefulNotes/ColdWar: U.S.A. vs. U.S.S.R.
** Another Cold War related one: UsefulNotes/{{Capitalism}} vs. Communism.
** Triple Alliance vs Triple Entente.
** The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}) vs. the Warsaw Treaty Organisation (WTO), another name for the Warsaw Pact.
** The Russian Revolution: The Reds vs. the Whites.
** And prior to that the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks. Though those words come from terms meaning "Majority" and "Minority" respectively (based on which side they took in a particular crucial vote).
** In early [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Christian]] church history, two groups arose over what word best expressed the relationship between {{God}} the Father and UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ in their creeds: the ''homoousians'' (those who favored "of the same substance") and the ''homo'''i'''ousians'' (those who favored "of similar substance"). Yet another group didn't really see the point to all this arguing and called themselves the ''homoians'' (a deliberately vague compromise best translated as "alike"). For the record, the first group ultimately got their way.
** Rival college fraternities and sorority names will often have a similar number of seemingly random Greek letters, making them indistinguishable from each other to non-college students or anyone who just doesn't care about Greek life.
** The two leading Swedish parties for much of the 18th century were the Hats and the Caps.
** UsefulNotes/WorldWarII: Allies vs Axis.
** The UsefulNotes/ColdWar: U.S.A. vs. U.S.S.R.
** Another Cold War related one: UsefulNotes/{{Capitalism}} vs. Communism.
** Triple Alliance vs Triple Entente.
** The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (UsefulNotes/{{NATO}}) vs. the Warsaw Treaty Organisation (WTO), another name for the Warsaw Pact.
** The Russian Revolution: The Reds vs. the Whites.
** And prior to that the Bolsheviks vs. the Mensheviks. Though those words come from terms meaning "Majority" and "Minority" respectively (based on which side they took in a particular crucial vote).
** In early [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Christian]] church history, two groups arose over what word best expressed the relationship between {{God}} the Father and UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ in their creeds: the ''homoousians'' (those who favored "of the same substance") and the ''homo'''i'''ousians'' (those who favored "of similar substance"). Yet another group didn't really see the point to all this arguing and called themselves the ''homoians'' (a deliberately vague compromise best translated as "alike"). For the record, the first group ultimately got their way.
** Rival college fraternities and sorority names will often have a similar number of seemingly random Greek letters, making them indistinguishable from each other to non-college students or anyone who just doesn't care about Greek life.
** The two leading Swedish parties for much of the 18th century were the Hats and the Caps.
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Along with some other notes, apparently the worldwide average life expectancy is closer to 70.
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* TerminallyDependentSociety: The human race is basically helpless without technology. Take internet, electricity or water supply out of the picture, and a huge crisis would ensue. Still, the human race survived several disasters, and after the immediate shock, people will surely find a way to restore those things, or set up replacements.
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* TerminallyDependentSociety: The Many of the human race is are basically in trouble, if not helpless without technology. Take internet, electricity or water supply out of the picture, and a huge crisis would ensue. Still, the human race survived several disasters, and after the immediate shock, people will surely find a way to restore those things, or set up replacements.
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* TimedMission: Each human has, on average, 66.12 years to live. This time limit can be extended if you're healthy enough. Unfortunately, it's also [[LuckBasedMission luck based]], as your time limit can be drastically reduced depending on where your character lives; for example, a character based in Africa is likely to have a lower time limit than one in Europe. Sometimes your characters time limit is unexpectedly ended by [[YetAnotherStupidDeath just plain unfair things]], like being hit by a car. There are entire character classes (doctors, surgeons, etc.) dedicated to extending play time.
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* TimedMission: Each human has, on average, 66.12 around 70 years to live. This time limit can be extended if you're healthy enough. Unfortunately, it's also also, by a fair degree anyway, [[LuckBasedMission luck based]], as your time limit can be drastically reduced depending on where your character lives; for example, a character based in Africa is likely to have a lower time limit than one in Europe. Sometimes your characters time limit is unexpectedly ended by [[YetAnotherStupidDeath just plain unfair things]], like being hit by a car. There are entire character classes (doctors, surgeons, etc.) dedicated to extending play time.
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** Before that, the World War I arc. It started with the assassination of a particularly high ranking Austro-Hungarian player, which set off a chain reaction that dragged practically every faction in Europe into battle. The biggest problem everybody realised was that though successive updates and tech tree progress provided their respective military guilds with some fancy new weapons to use, they haven't updated ''their tactics'' yet. Cue the senseless slaughter of millions of players on the Western Front sub-arc. Later towards the end the Russian Empire server was taken down and replaced with the Soviet Union, to the annoyance of every Western faction since they withdrew from the event without finishing it.
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** Before that, the World War I arc. It started with the assassination of a particularly high ranking Austro-Hungarian player, which set off a chain reaction that dragged practically every faction in Europe into battle. The biggest problem everybody realised realized was that though successive updates and tech tree progress provided their respective military guilds with some fancy new weapons to use, they haven't updated ''their tactics'' yet. Cue the senseless slaughter of millions of players on the Western Front sub-arc. Later towards the end the Russian Empire server was taken down and replaced with the Soviet Union, to the annoyance of every Western faction since they withdrew from the event without finishing it.
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* WithThisHerring: Everyone starts off naked, with no equipment and no skills. If you're lucky, your parents may provide you with a few items to get started.
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* TheWikiRule: [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} One of the more fleshed out examples.]]
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* TheWikiRule: [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} One of the more fleshed out examples.]]
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** 2022 is shaping up to be this, what with [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem Partygate]] and the Ukraine arc sparking fears of World War III.
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** 2022 is shaping up to be this, what with [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem Partygate]] massive inflation rates and the Ukraine arc sparking fears of World War III.the 'World War' arc returning.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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** Taken [[UpToEleven to a new level]] with the sun itself, the sun occasionally sends out bursts of plasma that can severely damage our magnetic field which is our only defense against it and all the cosmic debris in space, yet the sun is our only source of outer warmth and is needed for life.
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** Taken [[UpToEleven to a new level]] level with the sun itself, the sun occasionally sends out bursts of plasma that can severely damage our magnetic field which is our only defense against it and all the cosmic debris in space, yet the sun is our only source of outer warmth and is needed for life.
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* WatsonianVsDoylist: In-universe known by the FanNickname Creationists vs Evolutionists. While the former insist on interpreting the work according to how the devs intended it, the latter argue that clues within the plot clearly point players to draw conclusions about the world-building that they can make use of in-game.
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* UnreliableNarrator: To many, the mass media.
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** To many, the mass media.
** To many, the mass media.
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** The Prison minigame.
** The Prison minigame.
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** 2022 is shaping up to be this, what with [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem Partygate]] and the Ukraine arc sparking fears of World War III.
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** In some servers, if you commit serious crimes you will have an enforced GameOver. These game overs are the subject of much controversy.
** In some servers, if you commit serious crimes you will have an enforced GameOver. These game overs are the subject of much controversy.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Some characters are depraved enough to hurt or even kill children. Thankfully, this is heavily punished in almost all servers with a lifetime of the Prison minigame or even execution.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Some characters are depraved enough to hurt or even kill children. Thankfully, this This is heavily punished in almost all on most servers with a lifetime of the Prison minigame or even execution.enforced GameOver.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Some characters are depraved enough to hurt or even kill children. Thankfully, this is heavily punished in almost all servers with a lifetime of the Prison minigame or even execution.
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* ThrowItIn: The series is an ambitious project, in that ''none'' of the actors are given scripts to memorize, and almost all of the dialogue is ad-libbed.
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* UrbanLegendOfZelda:
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' takes over your life and drives you insane (no more addictive than any other hobby).
** Related to the above, playing violent video games will cause you to become violent (only if you were already inclined towards violent behavior and even then, no more than any other form of violent media).
** Yukon Territory of Canada and Siberia are GrimUpNorth (rather pleasant in spring/summer, and polar bears hang around way farther north).
** Urban Legends, natch.
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' takes over your life and drives you insane (no more addictive than any other hobby).
** Related to the above, playing violent video games will cause you to become violent (only if you were already inclined towards violent behavior and even then, no more than any other form of violent media).
** Yukon Territory of Canada and Siberia are GrimUpNorth (rather pleasant in spring/summer, and polar bears hang around way farther north).
** Urban Legends, natch.
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* {{Vaporware}}: Fusion reactors, flying cars, nanobots, etc. The slower-than-expected development of some things, though, is counterbalanced by surprise inventions like cheese, nuclear bombs, the internet and lasers. Flying cars have been completed, but they turn out to be nothing more than AwesomeButImpractical gimmicks. They're still being worked on, alongside Orbital Tourism.
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*** TheReveal of The Holocaust event conducted by the Nazis, first discovered by soldier players of the Allied Powers. The German faction apparently saw it fit to try to eliminate every single player of Jewish heritage, and tallied off at six million players killed for practically no reason other than they were born with the Jewish trait. Needless to say, the soldiers that discovered this industrial scale planned killing were horrified.
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*** TheReveal of The the Holocaust event conducted by the Nazis, first discovered by soldier players of the Allied Powers. The German faction apparently saw it fit to try to eliminate every single player of Jewish heritage, and tallied off at six million players killed for practically no reason other than they were born with the Jewish trait. Needless to say, the soldiers that discovered this industrial scale planned killing were horrified.
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* WithThisHerring: Everyone starts off naked, with no equipment and no skills. If you're lucky, your parents may provide you with a few items to get started, but YPMV.
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* WithThisHerring: Everyone starts off naked, with no equipment and no skills. If you're lucky, your parents may provide you with a few items to get started, but YPMV.started.
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* WombLevel: The character design stage.
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* WordOfGod: Too many to count. For the Abrahamaic religions, the Bible (in whole or part, the Torah). For Catholics, also the Pope (under certain circumstances) and the Orthodox church has its Patriarchs. For Muslims, the Qur'an and Hadith. For still others, the voices inside their head. The difficulty of proving one knows the author(s) means that for all we know this is WordOfDante or even Fanon.
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* WordOfGod: Too many to count. For the Abrahamaic Abrahamic religions, the Bible (in whole or part, various scriptures are considered to be authoritative statements by the Torah).author concerning the world's backstory, the purpose and message of the game's story, and outlines of future story events. Of course, these accounts disagree with each other on a number of points. For Catholics, also the Pope (under certain circumstances) and the Orthodox church has its Patriarchs. For Muslims, the Qur'an and Hadith. For still others, the voices inside their head. The difficulty of proving one knows the author(s) means that for all we know this is WordOfDante or even Fanon.
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** The "End of Times" campaign event that's supposed to wrap up Real Life has been announced many, many times -- but never, and this is worthy of note, directly by the developers. Loudly announced release dates within living memory include August 8, 1988; December 31, 1999-2001 inclusively; and December 12, 2012. In general it's best to assume any new release dates for this event are FanWank unless you can get WordOfSaintPaul confirmation.
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** The "End of Times" campaign event that's supposed to wrap up Real Life has been announced many, many times -- but never, and this is worthy of note, directly by the developers. Loudly announced release dates within living memory include August 8, 1988; December 31, 1999-2001 inclusively; and December 12, 21, 2012. In general it's best to assume any new release dates for this event are FanWank unless you can get WordOfSaintPaul confirmation.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: On hot days, a common way for the characters to cool down is to visit a beach or a swimming pool. Once there, they have an aversion to wearing normal clothing but - to prevent them breaking rules regarding nudity - they wear clothing referred to as "swimwear". It is also possible for this to happen if a character is sunbathing away from a body of water.
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* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Server mods do their best to prevent this, but you can still suffer any number of bad breaks from crippling debuffs in character creation to a chance PVP encounter you're badly underleveled for to simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time when a disaster strikes. Any of these can permanently screw you out of a happy ending through no fault of your own.
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* UrbanLegendOfZelda: ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' takes over your life and drives you insane (no more addictive than any other hobby). Yukon Territory of Canada and Siberia are GrimUpNorth (rather pleasant in spring/summer, and polar bears hang around way farther north). Also, Urban Legends, natch.
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* UrbanLegendOfZelda: UrbanLegendOfZelda:
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' takes over your life and drives you insane (no more addictive than any otherhobby). hobby).
** Related to the above, playing violent video games will cause you to become violent (only if you were already inclined towards violent behavior and even then, no more than any other form of violent media).
** Yukon Territory of Canada and Siberia are GrimUpNorth (rather pleasant in spring/summer, and polar bears hang around way farthernorth). Also, north).
** Urban Legends, natch.
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' takes over your life and drives you insane (no more addictive than any other
** Related to the above, playing violent video games will cause you to become violent (only if you were already inclined towards violent behavior and even then, no more than any other form of violent media).
** Yukon Territory of Canada and Siberia are GrimUpNorth (rather pleasant in spring/summer, and polar bears hang around way farther
** Urban Legends, natch.
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** The planet is not small from the perspective of the player. It can take days, even weeks, just to circle the map and wind up where you began -- and that's only if you've maxed out your running/swimming/climbing/jumping stats. There are InUniverse transportation methods, such as planes and boats, to make the trip easier/more comfortable, but these tend to be fairly expensive and still quite time consuming, so using them to travel around the entie map isn't a practical use of the average player's resources.
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** The planet is not small from the perspective of the player. It can take days, even weeks, just to circle the map and wind up where you began -- and that's only if you've maxed out your running/swimming/climbing/jumping stats. There are InUniverse transportation methods, such as planes and boats, to make the trip easier/more comfortable, but these tend to be fairly expensive and still quite time consuming, so using them to travel around the entie entire map isn't a practical use of the average player's resources.
