Ok I think im realizing this 5 years too late but in Avengers Endgame how the fuck was society relatively ok after 50% of ppl got snapped. Like I know the "logic" will just be "uhhh superheros and movie magic" but like irl things with 50% death rates (I think the black plague was up there?? Or it was around 30%) fundamentally shift the societies they occur in because they're that devastating
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you know what really tickles me?
when fer.al went down without warning and the assets were ripped and moved over to cinder (an nft-only version of the same game, but with less features), fer.al players warned the people interested in cinder that the company who created both would just do the same rug pull they did with fer.al: shutting the servers down without warning and leaving everyone who financially supported it in the dust
and i can't speak for everyone else but my warnings were just met with cries that i "just "didn't understand crypto/nfts/etc" and that the company would never do the same thing because the crypto tie-in would obviously make cinder outlast fer.al financially
you know what happened?
yep. the company pulled the same fucking stunt
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the nurse
thanks for the idea @ash-lash, @brainrot-goes-brrrrrr, and @piigeonss
The scrubs looked different. They were the same scrubs she wore everyday to work, but they looked like a mortician's uniform, something an undertaker wore as they prepared a body for their funeral.
Mariana loved being a nurse. She loved helping people, and the happy tears her patients' families shed after realizing their family member or friend was going to get better. She loved talking to her patients, about their interests, their families, their children. Her patients' kids reminded her of her own, of her darling twins.
When Ethan got sick, however, that's when things started to change.
She wasn't even assigned as his nurse. Instead, it was some other nurse, her coworker, somebody she talked to at rare times when she was on lunch break or just break in general. Honestly, she didn't even know the other nurse's name.
The nurse assured Mariana that Ethan would get better.
But was that the truth? She doubted it.
On the rare times that Mariana wasn't busy, she would visit her husband. He was bed-bound and never seemed to get better. He seemed to be getting worse. His hair was thinning, and he was getting thinner and paler.
Multiple times Mariana asked her boss to be assigned to Ethan, to help her husband personally, to just at least see him. He never really went home, because he was always in the hospital. If he ever went home, it was always to visit. He was always stuck in a wheelchair.
Then one day, both Mariana's and Ethan's world went dark.
During one of her lunch breaks, Mariana saw a body being brought to the morgue. The body was obviously covered by a sheet, but as soon as she saw, she knew.
Ethan had died.
And it was all her boss's fault, all the other nurse's fault.
Maybe if she had been to assigned to Ethan in the first place, he could've lived.
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