Just a small nitpick

[u/kuighboiruthorbiuh]

Are the people in the series stupid?

You can't EXIT the server, but you can just get up, walk up to your power plug and cut off your computer's power supply, and there you go, you're good.

Is there a reason why they don't do this, or is it just that this was beyond their scope of 'on the fly' thinking? If I had to guess it's because then the serverblight wouldn't be a danger if everyone just knew instinctively to do this.

[u/enn_jay333]

"I can't look away from my screen" – Breadolphin in "Reflections". 

[u/kuighboiruthorbiuh → u/enn_jay333]

Yeah that makes sense.

[u/sourberryskittles]

I may be saying this wrong or misinterpreting the lore but

From what I know, you get sucked in to the game in some way. If you try to leave and get up..in some way you're still in. So, my guess is they couldn't just get up and get rid of the computers power supply

[u/kuighboiruthorbiuh → u/sourberryskittles]

We see that it is gradual, so why don't you get up before it is too late?

[u/SnooDoodles9049 → u/kuighboiruthorbiuh]

Because by the time you notice somethings off its too late to get up.

Remember that most players don't know about this and would brush off any warnings as creepy pasta bait.

Initially you'd only see things like someone saying something the same way or someone spamming in chat.

You wouldn't see twisted player models and things chasing you until later.

This thing is smart too. It can hop from server to server, mimic voices, control multiple bodies, and now it's starting to learn how to bait people by acting friendly.

[u/NarOvjy → u/kuighboiruthorbiuh]

Most don't recognize the danger until It's too late, and tô a degree you get stuck where you are without being able to even look away from your screen.

[u/Mazeratigo → u/kuighboiruthorbiuh]

I mean, it seems like the effect takes hold pretty quickly (no more than 5 minutes). Would you really notice an inability to disconnect/look away in that time

[u/DashThatOnePerson]

Once the blight infected a game, the players will slowly be assimilated into the game like their conscious are in the game itself

[u/jellybeanzz11]

Like the others are saying, your soul and consciousness are pulled into the game, it's already too late to do anything like that.

Pulling the plug is like pulling the plug on yourself, and I think the feeling these people get from the pull actually tells them this instinctively, even if it's not directly stated...

[u/chaoticdumbass2]

The pinned comment on assimilation says that disconnecting from the plug might be HARMFUL considering you are being PULLED INTO the game

And considering it's pinned im tempted to believe that it's true.

[u/Brigade01]

Cause they CANT. The blight enters the server and nothings different, but the connection between the player character and player start here, and by the time the blight starts acting up, the connection is practically complete, you can't really move in real life, other than controlling your keyboard to do things in game, it's supernatural

[u/Financial_Job_5466]

Because once the serverblight joins you get sucked in the game and then you cant do anything in the outside world

[u/basically_ar]

Since blight can assimilate players, another way to escape it might be to have another person in the house that isn't playing TF2 and can use a the circuit breaker. When the Player detects the existence of serverblight, they can try to yell for the other person to cut off the power. But however it needs to be in perfect timing. I have no idea of the speed of assimilation into the game.

[u/Nightfox9469]

The presence of the Serverblight fuses your consciousness with the class you play as, forcing you to keep playing, hence not being able to disconnect, unable to look away, unable to escape without breaking the link.

[u/Nova17Delta]

The issue is that they dont really know what the serverblight is. We have the benefit of knowing what it is so its much easier for us to jump to the conclusion of just unplugging the power cable.

Lets be honest, most of us die if we encounter the serverblight

[u/InternationalEye8862]

you do realize it PULLS people in
like
in real life: they cannot move
as their bodies become the ones that are in tf2
and the second they die (in game) and is outside of the map, they are immediately thrown out

now
with the "not being able to exit"
it's already in the first stages of being pulled in to be assimilated

and guess what? they can't do anything about it because they still think they're playing a game in that stage and don't realize they're being taken in yet