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Snatch Duster posted:No offense but you come across like a petty dick. I can understand helping some one that is terrible at anything can be frustrating when they make no signs of progress, but gently caress. That goes beyond being frustrated straight into mean spirited with a hint of superiority complex. I WAS SO MAD I LEFT AND GOT A COKE. It is incredibly frustrating dealing with people who can't handle the one stick makes you move, the other makes you look concept, and parents are usually the worst offenders. It's like trying to coach a T-Ball team but the kid can't even figure out how to walk up to the plate. My wife's so terrible at using those controls, but for some reason she immediately picked up on WASD+mouse for Modern Warfare 2 despite never having played any sort of FPS before. Must be the superiority of PC gaming.
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coyo7e posted:Cute little vid and good soundtrack, but I really wish it had audio of you standing on that sniper's head. I actually don't have any bad rep for Communication, as funny as it would be. My avoid rating is like 78%. Of that, 28% Aggressive and 71% Unsporting. GetWellGamers posted:Isn't that the same goon that made Sefsan eat crow in front of half of goonfleet on ventrillo once? platero posted:That was Suas. Xachar also had a sig for a while that was a child's crayon drawing of an ear in a circle with a line through it. And yeah, I was Xachar in Eve-Online. That SUAS story is pretty funny. I didn't have the pleasure of listening to him, but his vitriolic diatribes on Teamspeak were legendary. EDIT: Chasing down quotes. Xachariah fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Jan 23, 2010 |
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The mw2 thread is turning into a trainwreck but sometimes good stuff gets posted. Like this:The Dissonant posted:I just had a hilarious night trapping pubby teammates in corners with the riot sheild. It's funny, I would spend almost entire games trapping people in corners, and then throw in some OMA tubing in the last 3-4 minutes and still come out with the highest number of kills on my team. Pubbies suck.
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My Dad occasionally tried my games when I was in late grade school/high school and I've just recently figured out that he was subtly greifing me the whole time. Whenever he'd try a game he didn't care about (anything other than a puzzle or sports game) in the N64/early gamecube era he would suck tremendously, spinning around in circles and asking me for the same explanation over and over. I think he knew I got really frustrated but put up with it because I wanted him to "learn." However, when we played a game like Blitz or a baseball game he figured the controls out nearly instantly and usually could destroy me before long. Smug bastard.
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Toussaint Louverture posted:My Dad occasionally tried my games when I was in late grade school/high school and I've just recently figured out that he was subtly greifing me the whole time. Whenever he'd try a game he didn't care about (anything other than a puzzle or sports game) in the N64/early gamecube era he would suck tremendously, spinning around in circles and asking me for the same explanation over and over. I think he knew I got really frustrated but put up with it because I wanted him to "learn." However, when we played a game like Blitz or a baseball game he figured the controls out nearly instantly and usually could destroy me before long. Smug bastard. My dad does this to me in any game with co-op and friendly fire, except when I put the controller down to take a sip of a drink or to explain something to him he just gets really good and teamkills me/kills every enemy before I get off a shot 
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Heintron posted:The mw2 thread is turning into a trainwreck but sometimes good stuff gets posted. Like this: The picture comes out really small. Any chance you have a link to the larger image?
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MageMage posted:The picture comes out really small. Any chance you have a link to the larger image? http://j883376.mirror.waffleimages.com/waffleimages/files/53/53770572174305ccc4c52b49b80bae74b0e85524.jpg#via=salr
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Heintron posted:The mw2 thread is turning into a trainwreck MW2 is a train wreck. Now goons are cheating and a few got VAC banned.
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Soulex posted:MW2 is a train wreck. Now goons are cheating and a few got VAC banned. Edit: Nevermind, it's all over the last four pages. Shumagorath fucked around with this message at 04:35 on Jan 24, 2010 |
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Shumagorath posted:Can you summarize or do I have to wade through the thread about that awful game? Just some posters finding excuses to hack, getting banned, and then trying to justify why hacking was okay. Nothing too funny, mostly pathetic.
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There are now several role-play areas in Second Life based on James Cameron's Avatar, so I decided to check them out. First, obviously, I needed a setting-appropriate outfit. Those of you who have seen the film might recognize this as the cartoonishly stereotyped military dude who is the main villain. In one area, I found three exquisitely-dressed aliens (Na'vi) who were trying to heal another one from near-death using the power of their nature god, Eywah. The injured Na'vi was lying on the ground under a tree, while the other three muttered things like "Eywah is here! I feel her presence, or else I am mad."  While this was happening, I was hiding a short distance behind and below them, trying to set up a screenshot. After a while, the injured Na'vi started to speak and stood up, and there was much rejoicing. At that point, one of the Na'vi called attention to me. I hadn't really planned on griefing, but I figured any chance of getting my screenshot was gone and I had better assert myself. I walked right up to the Na'vi who had been injured, shouted "Not revived for long!" and plugged him in the chest with my shotgun. He shouted "I'm bleeding!" and the others gasped, while I made my escape in the confusion. As far as I know, they fully accepted it as part of their roleplay.
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Let me get this straight. You showed up in costume to a roleplay session of Avatar, then behaved in character before fleeing the scene. I don't think that was a grief, really, more like active participation. All it really did was supply them with more fodder for their stories. Hell, they probably felt validated.
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Gosh, you got me. Ambushing the characters and killing the one they had just gone through much silly drama to "revive" obviously makes me just another game nerd.
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Pfhreak posted:Let me get this straight. You showed up in costume to a roleplay session of Avatar, then behaved in character before fleeing the scene. I don't think that was a grief, really, more like active participation. All it really did was supply them with more fodder for their stories. Hell, they probably felt validated. While this is true I think it's still pretty funny.
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Gazpacho posted:Gosh, you got me. Ambushing the characters and killing the one they had just gone through much silly drama to "revive" obviously makes me just another game nerd. You were just too in-character. If you really want to grief people who love Avatar enough to roleplay as its characters, you'll want to attack the reasons behind that adoration. For example, create the most hideous, caricaturized Na'vi character model you're capable of making (I'm thinking something along the lines of that horrible Sonic the Hedgehog model someone made for SL a long time ago - it's in this thread somewhere). Then find players like the ones you described and start yelling about how this "whiskey" stuff the humans gave you is the best thing ever, and set everything on fire. Spawn horrible porn pics of Neytiri/Mo'at/Thanator (incest AND bestiality, hooray!) everywhere. Maybe talk about how this character model is your fursona and ask them about their fursonas. Aggressively poo poo on the movie's visual beauty and its message, everything you can think of that people love about Avatar. I don't know how much of what I suggested is possible in SL since I've never played it, but you get the idea.
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Soulex posted:MW2 is a train wreck. Now goons are cheating and a few got VAC banned. I'd like to claim the honor of first goon to be VAC banned from MW2, as I got myself banned before they had even fixed the Javelin glitch.
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Gazpacho posted:Gosh, you got me. Ambushing the characters and killing the one they had just gone through much silly drama to "revive" obviously makes me just another game nerd. You tried to grief, but all you did was roleplay. You bring shame upon your family.
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Che Delilas posted:I don't know how much of what I suggested is possible in SL since I've never played it, but you get the idea. Everything you just described is very possible in SL. For instance, this is my  Avatar has taken Second Life by storm. It appeals to furries AND Elf roleplayers,so there are a lot of chances to grief avatar roleplayers.
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Clayren posted:Avatar has taken Second Life by storm. It appeals to furries AND Elf roleplayers,so there are a lot of chances to grief avatar roleplayers. How about getting a bunch of you to dress as lumberjacks and start loudly discussing plans for a new road stright through this sim and you're gonna have to cut all these drat trees down? Alternatively dress as Sonic cosplayers and start claiming that the Avatar roleplayers are infringing on your gimmick. I'd join in but my laptop has an aneurysm whenever it tries to run SL.
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SteadfastMeat posted:Alternatively dress as Sonic cosplayers and start claiming that the Avatar roleplayers are infringing on your gimmick. That's a good one. Start shouting loudly about them ripping off "MY Copyrighted Models! DMCA! DMCA!"
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Battlefield 1943 - Air Superiority Coral Sea is pretty much the only fun map left in this game for me, and as such I've learned to pilot both the Corsair and the Zero pretty effectively. I started noticing that in head on fights, I would shoot down the enemy plane but sometimes I couldn't avoid their fuselage debris in time. It would hit me, explode, and the game would count my death as a suicide. This is where my plan was set in motion. What I began to do was circle around the friendly carrier waiting for my teammates to respawn. When their little blue arrow appeared on the flight deck, I would drop into a steep dive directly toward their position. They would usually run straight to the nearest empty plane and start to take off, but by that point it was far too late. After flying my plane directly toward their path, I would jump out at the last second and watch my empty plane slam into theirs exploding in a giant fireball while I parachuted to safety. Their death would be counted as a suicide, and I would just hop into a brand new plane and do it all over again. By the end of the game, half of my teammates have a negative score and barely anyone else has kills. concise fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Jan 25, 2010 |
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SteadfastMeat posted:How about getting a bunch of you to dress as lumberjacks and start loudly discussing plans for a new road stright through this sim and you're gonna have to cut all these drat trees down? Dress up as lumberjacks and claim to be roleplaying FernGully characters. Become aggressive and paranoid when they tell you to leave, suggesting that they're trying to disrupt your role-play experience.
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concise posted:Battlefield 1943 - Air Superiority Hahaha this is brilliant. I used to grief in 1943 by planting C4 on my team's planes and detonating it just as people starting running toward them. It worked ok, but no one's score was affected and it was pretty easy to see what I was doing. I'll have to try your thing sometime.
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If you like that trick you'd love seat-switching in BF2.
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Shumagorath posted:If you like that trick you'd love seat-switching in BF2. That's where you switch from the pilot seat to gunner or something right? I always hated that in 2142.
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Male Man posted:Dress up as lumberjacks and claim to be roleplaying FernGully characters. Become aggressive and paranoid when they tell you to leave, suggesting that they're trying to disrupt your role-play experience. Dress up as smurfs and go searching for smurfberries. Become aggressive and paranoid when they tell you to leave, suggesting that they're trying to disrupt your role-play experience.
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Pfhreak posted:Let me get this straight. You showed up in costume to a roleplay session of Avatar, then behaved in character before fleeing the scene. I don't think that was a grief, really, more like active participation. All it really did was supply them with more fodder for their stories. Hell, they probably felt validated. True, but just the very nature of it was what made it funny. In the midst of a bunch of nerds roleplaying and taking themselves much too seriously, he was the only one roleplaying and not taking himself seriously at all.
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frogbert posted:Dress up as smurfs and go searching for smurfberries. Become aggressive and paranoid when they tell you to leave, suggesting that they're trying to disrupt your role-play experience. 
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Xinlum posted:That's where you switch from the pilot seat to gunner or something right? I always hated that in 2142.
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Gazpacho posted:As far as I know, they fully accepted it as part of their roleplay. Che Delilas posted:You were just too in-character. If you really want to grief people who love Avatar enough to roleplay as its characters, you'll want to attack the reasons behind that adoration. For one example, a 20-foot tall one of these with a street sweeper might do the trick: 
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Shumagorath posted:Can you summarize or do I have to wade through the thread about that awful game? Pretty much the anti-cheating system is about as useful a clown suit in a fox hunt. Combined with no way real way of controlling where or who you play with and you wind up getting cheated over and over while your levels/stats hosed with by a hack-using host even if you yourself play legit. The official response from Activision on the situation has been something along the lines of a vague "I dunno" shrug before running back to swim in their Scrooge McDuck style gold piles. So yeah people are a little upset. A shame too because it actually is a fun game without the cheating bullshit. Calihan fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jan 25, 2010 |
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Eyebrows Mulligan posted:True, but just the very nature of it was what made it funny. In the midst of a bunch of nerds roleplaying and taking themselves much too seriously, he was the only one roleplaying and not taking himself seriously at all. Yeah it's kind of like how I troll gay men in the bus-station bathroom. Joke's on them: I'm straight. I'm not even attracted to them! Couldn't resist. Whatever, doesn't matter, as long as he had fun. Downtown Louisville Greyhound station, second stall. Rattle the lock twice. McNerd fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 25, 2010 |
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Calihan posted:Pretty much the anti-cheating system is about as useful a clown suit in a fox hunt. Combined with no way real way of controlling where or who you play with and you wind up getting cheated over and over while your levels/stats hosed with by a hack-using host even if you yourself play legit.
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McNerd posted:Yeah it's kind of like how I troll gay men in the bus-station bathroom. Joke's on them: I'm straight. I'm not even attracted to them! Heh. I still think it has potential, if you have enough people running around doing this stuff on a SERIOUSE RP SERVRE, because rather than just running in and outright trolling, they wouldn't get banned in the first 3 minutes.
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This is probably the funniest thing I used to do in EQ to people who'd make me mad. There was a zone Called Velkator's labyrinth, which, at the time, had a pretty tough end boss. I used to farm monsters at the entrance because it was reasonably good solo experience for a Paladin. Almost without fail a group of assholes would just come in there and start pulling the monsters I was camping. There was a giant pillar at a slight angle you could climb almost all the way to the top of the zone. You could climb it and get no aggro from any of the mobs. From the top of the pillar you could target a Gargoyle, stun it, and then go invulnerable and jump to the bottom near the zone out. On the way to kill you the gargoyle would path by the raid boss and piss him off. Essentially the ENTIRE zone including the raid boss would come to try to kill you, so I'd wait till the raid boss would get near me and zone out. Then Velkator would go apeshit on the other bastards near the zone in, giving me my revenge. It still makes me laugh thinking about it.
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Shumagorath posted:The solution is to not buy anything else in the CoD franchise but I know people aren't that smart. Are 360 players still dealing with infinite ammo because it costs Activision money to release another patch? 360 players are still dealing with the "bring out your care package/sentry/EAD smoke grenade while mounting something to get another grenade of that type after you crack open the box" glitch. Usually people who hack their systems to allow unsigned code (like for the infinite ammo cheat) get their systems banned from XBox Live permanently, so they either learn to behave or buy a new 360 to get back online every time they get caught. The problem isn't that it costs money since they do release patches for the 360 version, it's that the patches introduce other problems (like the mounting glitch) and the MS certification process delays each patch by at least a week or two.
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Promoted Pawn posted:PC Gaming Superiority, q.e.d. Fixed that for you
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On Red Orchestra there's a custom map, basically a track with spawn points across the track facing each other. Technically the goal is to use clown cars and motorcycles to gain the victory points on the track. In practice, all that happens is that each team blows the poo poo out of each other with massive amounts of spawn killing because this map is perfect for it. I was on a Polish server where they could care less about spawn killing, team killing and everything else, but god help you if you cuss. Anyway we were on the track map and I was playing a German and could not move at all without being spawn killed. There was a path up to the ridge overlooking the spawn, basically the perfect firing position. Everybody on the German side started to get pissed. So I switched sides. I ran up to the Russians on the ridge and began to spawn kill with them, for a minute at least. I asked them how the spawn killing was going, how may Germans they were killing, stuff to blend in. They were firing so hot and heavy that they exhausted the Germans of reinforcements. The biggest offender was a guy in a BA-64 armored car firing down with a Machine gun. I hoped in the car and started to move it down the hill. The hill was steep enough that once you moved it to a certain point it was rolling on its own. I hop out grab a motorcycle and push him the rest of the way, along with the idiot who got into the bike with me. I also took out two other spawn killers with the bike as I drove off. The explosions and the "LOL!" from the remaining Germans was worth it. Also, my screenname: John McClain. Yippe Kiyay, Motherfucker!
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BF1943 has squad spawn where you can spawn in on your teammates. What it doesn't have is very good team balancing, so many times you'll play on a server only to find that it's 12 vs 3. Which makes for a lot of fun when you parachute onto the enemy carrier deck (the only place he can spawn since he's so vastly outnumbered) have your squadmates suicide and spawn on you, and set up a firing squad waiting for the enemy to spawn. I have no clue why they don't leave, I guess they take it as a point of personal honor to try to kill the 5,6+ guys who end up on the deck shooting you as soon as you spawn in. Once in a great while they'll get one of us, who promptly respawns back in. Towards the end they're just sending hate filled messages.
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This is a terrific thread, I'm only about halfway through it. I've had good luck the last three weeks or so turning the tables on griefers. It's great because I know griefers are not real human beings and do not have human feelings, so harming them isn't really hurting anyone. 1) I was on a Team Fortress 2 server when a couple of dudes came on with speedhacks. They also spammed allchat with fake nerd voices, basically Urkel impressions. We were playing gravelpit. Most everyone quit and went to another server but I thought it was kinda funny, especially when the rest of the server stopped replying. See, if you replied they would obsessively repeat what you said in their Urkel voice, and rip you for it, etc. When everyone stopped replying, they started doing this to each other - probably because they didn't recognize each other's voice - and then stopping halfway in, trailing off, and so on.It was like listening to a 9th grader record his hilarious standup act on a casette player and forgetting the punchline. Anyway, the rest of the RED team and I were concocting a new defense. There were still 4 on each side, 2 BLU speedhackers, 2 regular BLU guys who really were not doing a whole lot, I think they were trying to do a bit of tele-griefing but the speedhackers would be out and about before they could do anything. All four of us went demoman and set up sticky traps on every possible corner of both A and B, then hid far away. Because there were only 2 speedhackers (and neither would EVER play medic, lol), they were trivial to take out. They had to stop on the point, after all. (Now that I type this out, I think a Cloak & Dagger spyrush could have gotten them too.) Even a speedhacked airblast doesn't push stickies any faster. They started looking for us, and they'd find one or two of us, and kill us instantly, for which we would always compliment them ("nice kill" or "wow, you found me, good work") but there would always be at least 2 stickytraps remaining on each point. The first time one of them got dominated, they both left. 2) I did a 'Quick Match' for a Left 4 Dead 2 survival game and appeared in a game where 2 of the players, clearly friends, were teamkilling the other two players over and over before starting the match. I thought about leaving (as everyone else did, they would come and go in about 20 seconds once they saw what the others were doing) but after spawning up, I decided...hmmm... I ran to the button to start the zombie attack and hit it. They chased me all the way there trying to kill me and screamed at me as the zombie hordes closed in. 30 second round. So it was not with a lot of credibility that one of them said "Okay, we'll do it for real this time, let's gather up all the explosives and put them in the trailer." Nevertheless I put all the gas cans and propane tanks in the trailer, working alongside the teamkillers who had just yelled at me angrily for trying to play the game. "Okay, go on in and we'll start the round." one said as there were probably 8 propane tanks and 10 gas cans inside the tiny trailer (this was on Dark Carnival). "I'll cover you." I typed. Teamkiller 2 said, "No, no, follow me, go right in here." He went into the trailer to demonstrate, completely surrounded by piles and piles of explosives. "Don't you want someone to cover you?" I said to the first. "No, I got it, just go inside." "Oh, okay." I immediately wandered behind the trailer, so that to the first teamkiller, my silhouette would appear inside the trailer. He started heading for the button. "Wait, wait!" said Teamkiller 2. "Inside. Inside. In here." in a tone that made it clear that I was so amazingly stupid. Teamkiller 1 came running back. "What?" I said. "In here. Go in here and get ready." said Teamkiller 1, and ran into the trailer, whereupon I fired an explosive AK-47 round into one of the propane tanks and blew them both into smithereens. "Oh!" I said cheerfully, in an I-got-it-now voice, hit the button to start the zombies racing towards their on-fire, incapacitated bodies, said, "Thanks for the game!" and disconnected. I wonder if the AI saved them? Anyway, keep the stories coming. JDCorley fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jan 27, 2010 |
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