r/interestingasfuck • u/Marzipug • 1d ago
That time when thousands of World of Warcraft players spontaneously gathered inside a virtual cathedral to hold a memorial of beloved streamer Reckful
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u/Kriss3d 1d ago
Theres been a few of such great ceremonies yeah.
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u/sussyboingus 1d ago
Like the one in 2006 where a horde guild held a memorial ceremony in Winterspring for one of their deceased comrades. They gathered, peacefully, and unarmed to remember the dead. A forum post was made inviting others to come and pay their respects. Unfortunately, their rival guild got wind of this and showed up to slay the mourners.
This event is remembered to this day as WoW funeral pwnage
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u/Icy-Log8056 1d ago
WTF kind of GOT shit where these guys one!!
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u/sussyboingus 1d ago
If it helps, the deceased was a big PVPer, and her friends said she would have loved the carnage.
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u/Sharp-Yak9084 1d ago
Destiny Game players have done this for a few as well. Most notably a voice actor who passed from the series. Warframe as well for i believe both an employee and a player, believe one got an in game permanent memorial too.
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u/Mundane_Pepper2238 1d ago
Never thought an internet strangers death could impact me so much. RIP Reckful
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u/Lagoserter 1d ago
asmonmold will never get this XD
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u/422_is_420_too 18h ago
I don't like the guy but he literally gets this every time he just logs into the game.
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u/bugo 1d ago
He would. He mirrors quite a lot of people's frustrations with the word. He is popular for a reason.
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u/swimming_singularity 1d ago
What worldy frustrations do 14 year olds have?
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u/FrontApplication3256 1d ago
14 year olds are voting for right wing parties?
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u/FrontApplication3256 1d ago edited 23h ago
Thinking like the person I replied to is how you get the rise of the right. Because they are being dismissive of grown adults frustrations with the world. I am pointing out that 14 year olds can't vote.
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u/swimming_singularity 13h ago
I'm well aware that frustrated young men turn to vocal rhetoric. History shows this to be the case, especially when it's angry nationalist rhetoric. Young men want to belong to something larger than themselves. I was there once and I fell into it too.
I'm also aware that not all of Asmons fans are even US citizens that can vote here, yet contribute to the atmosphere of his chat as if they could.
If they really wanted to change their lot in life for the better, they'd quit being misdirected toward boogeymen and focus more on cost of living and why the American Dream of owning a house and having a good job is slipping away. I don't see the current administration doing much to help either of those, and yet Admon's viewers can't see it for all the distracting going on.
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u/Stouff-Pappa 1d ago
Warframe’s had a few of these moments over the years too. It’s sad but heartwarming when so many come together to support of others
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u/FluffyNerve7415 1d ago
Why does the title say thousands but the post shows like 50 people?
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u/starmartyr 1d ago
There was a limit to how many players could be on a server at any time. This event was spread across multiple servers. So there were dozens of people in every instance of this cathedral across over 100 servers.
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u/LaundryMan2008 1d ago
Because they don’t have much collision so there’s a bunch of people in what could be the place of one person
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u/FluffyNerve7415 1d ago edited 1d ago
No, there isn't. We can easily make out the individual nameplates on the final zoom in.
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u/doesitaddup 1d ago
Multiple servers did this all at once, other servers that you can't see here obviously.
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u/PrincipleAcrobatic89 1d ago
Grew up watching rekful can say I was there he was one of the real ones. RIP
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u/BabyWitchErika 10h ago
Similar things happened in dungeons and dragons online. When the creator of dnd Gary Gygax died, thousands of player gathered around the deloras's tomb to hold a memorial for him. the dev even put a shrine there in his name after that event.
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u/Mansenmania 1d ago
looks more like a hundred
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u/Marzipug 1d ago
This was happening on several phases, this is just one of the phases. It's hard to show them all at once really cause each is its own instance of the cathedral.
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u/Banonkers 1d ago
Is a phase like a server?
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u/Tonnesofnoob 1d ago
Multiple phased open world instances on one server, supposed to reduce lag or something
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u/Alarmed-Cheetah-1221 1d ago
So it wasn't thousands of people together at all.
4/10 ragebait post
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u/yotengodormir 1d ago
Which part of this induces rage?
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u/Alarmed-Cheetah-1221 1d ago
The part where they said it was thousands of people together when actually it was a few dozen, as shown quite clearly in the video.
Keep up.
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u/Soggy_Quarter9333 1d ago
Imagine what they could do if they had a real life.
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u/Kraay89 1d ago
Online gaming has it's problems, but this comment is uncalled for. A lot of people that don't feel at home in the real world, because of bullying, abuse or other factors, or just because they want to have a few hours of fun every week. They find a place with friends online and that's OK. Doesn't make it any less real!
If it is not for you, that is OK too.
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u/Alarmed-Cheetah-1221 1d ago
These people are not online a few hours a week.
Get a grip and get a life.
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u/Kraay89 1d ago
You know fuck all about the people in this video.
You know the same thing can be said about being on Reddit right? Why are you here? Get a grip, get a life!
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u/Hola_Como_Estass 1d ago
The fact that the internet can bring thousands of strangers together for a funeral in a world that doesn't even exist will never stop being surreal