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Jinkin
Oct 21, 2008

My tummy hurts

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

My mom saw a political poster for a lemon party that had their website on it, I persuaded her not to visit it, but the conversation was somewhat awkward. It's funny how some corners of the internet are foul yet almost universaly known.

Also those chat griefs were hilarious. :)

My friend was driving me home one night and I ask if he's heard of 'goatse'. He responds 'no' so I look it up on my phone real quick and show him garnering a fantastic reaction. He taken Ambien an hour or so before and one of the side-effects is short-term memory loss. The next day at work, he explains he doesn't remember driving me anywhere at all, so I ask if he's heard of 'goatse'...

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Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

Ziji posted:

Man... just reading this stuff and watching videos makes me want to play EVE. But I don't know if I can justify the monthly fee.

I tried the game exactly for these types of reasons, and let me tell you: it's seriously boring 95 percent of the time. It takes like a month at least before you're able to fly and utilize a halfway decent ship. And all the awesome stuff is few and far between. Since I quit I realized it's much better just to watch the highlight reels.

dyzzy
Dec 22, 2009

argh
I've heard the same thing from many people. I get enough enjoyment from reading stuff like the Band of Brothers incident, even if there is a ton of jargon being thrown around.

Trainmonk
Jul 4, 2007

Jinkin posted:

My friend was driving me home one night and I ask if he's heard of 'goatse'. He responds 'no' so I look it up on my phone real quick and show him garnering a fantastic reaction. He taken Ambien an hour or so before and one of the side-effects is short-term memory loss. The next day at work, he explains he doesn't remember driving me anywhere at all, so I ask if he's heard of 'goatse'...

Why would you let someone who took Ambien an hour ago drive you home? That seems like a death wish.

Jinkin
Oct 21, 2008

My tummy hurts

Trainmonk posted:

Why would you let someone who took Ambien an hour ago drive you home? That seems like a death wish.

Short answer: he forgot.

Trainmonk
Jul 4, 2007

Jinkin posted:

Short answer: he forgot.

Ambien is a hell of a drug.

Opinion Haver
Apr 9, 2007

Trainmonk posted:

Why would you let someone who took Ambien an hour ago drive you home? That seems like a death wish.

Maybe he drove him home, took Ambien, and the Ambien kept the memory of driving him home from taking hold.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

bunky posted:

Haha, yeah! Bloody fat american twats! Good one!

Haha both the things I said were absolutely true. There were like, fifteen 'oh my gawwwwd!"s, and that really is something native to americans.

Also, fat fat voice.

(you are the one who was griefed)

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Fonzarelli posted:

Haha both the things I said were absolutely true. There were like, fifteen 'oh my gawwwwd!"s, and that really is something native to americans.


Yeah, in Britain it's more like "oh muh gud"

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo

Fonzarelli posted:

Haha both the things I said were absolutely true. There were like, fifteen 'oh my gawwwwd!"s, and that really is something native to americans.

Also, fat fat voice.

(you are the one who was griefed)

Heh, I bet she was fat. Women. :smug:

Jinkin posted:

My friend was driving me home one night and I ask if he's heard of 'goatse'. He responds 'no' so I look it up on my phone real quick and show him garnering a fantastic reaction. He taken Ambien an hour or so before and one of the side-effects is short-term memory loss. The next day at work, he explains he doesn't remember driving me anywhere at all, so I ask if he's heard of 'goatse'...

This is great, you have to have more stories.

Drox
Aug 9, 2007

by Y Kant Ozma Post

yaoi prophet posted:

Maybe he drove him home, took Ambien, and the Ambien kept the memory of driving him home from taking hold.

I'm also wondering about the wisdom of showing someone who is driving a shock image, too.

Phobophilia
Apr 26, 2008

by Hand Knit
A better question is why someone has goatse on their phone, and how their conversation segued into its application.

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

Phones have internet browsers nowadays slick

McNameeeeeeeeeeeeee
Nov 25, 2008
I BET YOU WONDER IF I CAN FIND GAY PORN ON THE INTERNET

Law posted:

Heh, I bet she was fat. Women. :smug:

Listen to her voice. It's high pitched, but slightly muffled like her resonating vocal chords are being dampened by 2 or 3 extra chins. It's a fat voice.

Edit: poo poo I've been spending a lot of time on reddit and I keep trying to upvote or downvote posts on SA

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

McNameeeeeeeeeeeeee posted:

Listen to her voice. It's high pitched, but slightly muffled like her resonating vocal chords are being dampened by 2 or 3 extra chins. It's a fat voice.

Edit: poo poo I've been spending a lot of time on reddit and I keep trying to upvote or downvote posts on SA

Furthermore, she squeels into the microphone, not unlike a pig. Regardless of whether she's fat or not, anybody who makes that noise into a vent chat is absolutely ridiculous and surely an annoying person.

dud root
Mar 30, 2008
Also the annoying voice has that slight twang to it, that tells me shes not only fat, but shes playing WoW from work. Fat AND a lazy worker. What a bitch

jesus everyone please shut the gently caress up

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

McNameeeeeeeeeeeeee
Nov 25, 2008
I BET YOU WONDER IF I CAN FIND GAY PORN ON THE INTERNET

dud root posted:

Also the annoying voice has that slight twang to it, that tells me shes not only fat, but shes playing WoW from work. Fat AND a lazy worker. What a bitch

jesus everyone please shut the gently caress up

That does not follow.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

I too compare women to pigs?

Trainmonk
Jul 4, 2007
Everybody here is fat and annoying. You guys are just projecting your own disgust in yourself onto that fat and annoying girl. :reject:

I can tell you're fat by your posts.

McNameeeeeeeeeeeeee
Nov 25, 2008
I BET YOU WONDER IF I CAN FIND GAY PORN ON THE INTERNET

Trainmonk posted:

Everybody here is fat and annoying. You guys are just projecting your own disgust in yourself onto that fat and annoying girl. :reject:

I can tell you're fat by your posts.

Woe upon ye who would disparage fatties in the "games" subforum!

Caesar Saladin
Aug 15, 2004

Endorph posted:

I too compare women to pigs?

Just that girl.

Haven't you guys ever had some chick on vent who just won't shut up, and has every other nerd in the guild beckoning to her call? That girl that basically flirts with all the dudes in the guild because they rarely hear a real life girl's voice?

And then, of course it turns out she's just a huge terrible hambeast. This is the girl in the video.

Caesar Saladin fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Jan 17, 2011

Trainmonk
Jul 4, 2007

McNameeeeeeeeeeeeee posted:

Woe upon ye who would disparage fatties in the "games" subforum!

Fatties need love too.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Fonzarelli posted:

Just that girl.

Haven't you guys ever had some chick on vent who just won't shut up, and has every other nerd in the guild beckoning to her call? That girl that basically flirts with all the dudes in the guild because they rarely hear a real life girl's voice?

And then, of course it turns out she's just a huge terrible hambeast. This is the girl in the video.
Yeah but I wouldn't call those people pigs jesus christ man.

Wild T
Dec 15, 2008

The point I'm trying to make is that the only way to come out on top is to kick the Air Force in the nuts, beart it savagely with a weight and take a dump on it's face.

Endorph posted:

Yeah but I wouldn't call those WoW players people jesus christ man.

hirvox
Sep 8, 2009

Chopstix posted:

I remember watching an old WoW video where one guy instantly kills like a dozen other people, can anyone help me find it? He dies somehow, and waits inside a cave and waits for a party to come in. He then resurrects or something, and dies again, but kills EVERYONE else while doing it.
Did he kill them with an explosion? Did he have a pet? If so, that might have been Baron Geddon's Living Bomb. Living Bomb was a debuff that caused the afflicted character to explode after a certain time, dealing damage to everything around him. He could also cast it on pets. The trick was that a hunter could dismiss their pet while the countdown for the Living Bomb was still ticking down. When the hunter resummoned the pet later, the countdown would finish and the pet would explode.

Sherry Bahm
Jul 30, 2003

filled with dolphins

Endorph posted:

Yeah but I wouldn't call those people pigs jesus christ man.

I know plenty of cops who play WoW. :cop:

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

Wild T posted:


Also all this petty elitism over people playing games you don't like is really dumb, any and all games are a waste of time.

Ziji
Oct 20, 2010
Yossarian lives!

Rough Lobster posted:

I tried the game exactly for these types of reasons, and let me tell you: it's seriously boring 95 percent of the time. It takes like a month at least before you're able to fly and utilize a halfway decent ship. And all the awesome stuff is few and far between. Since I quit I realized it's much better just to watch the highlight reels.

That kinda sucks to hear.. but I'm still considering at least TRYING it. I just hate the monthly fees though. But yeah, EVE griefing videos = hilarious.

Opinion Haver
Apr 9, 2007

Ziji posted:

That kinda sucks to hear.. but I'm still considering at least TRYING it. I just hate the monthly fees though. But yeah, EVE griefing videos = hilarious.

If you're in a profitable area of space you can make enough money to buy game time in-game for maybe 20 hours of work a month. But it isn't worth it.

TimNeilson
Dec 21, 2008

Hahaha!

yaoi prophet posted:

If you're in a profitable area of space you can make enough money to buy game time in-game for maybe 20 hours of work a month. But it isn't worth it.

Yeah, don't try to grind your way to free playtime in EVE, it'll make you want to shoot yourself. Scam you way to free playtime instead, it's super-easy. People who play EVE are incredibly dumb.

Ziji
Oct 20, 2010
Yossarian lives!

TimNeilson posted:

Yeah, don't try to grind your way to free playtime in EVE, it'll make you want to shoot yourself. Scam you way to free playtime instead, it's super-easy. People who play EVE are incredibly dumb.

That's one of the plans.. but I'd only want to play with people I know. Still, seems really fun and cool, but can't get to the fun without doing some boring work first.

Sankis
Mar 8, 2004

But I remember the fella who told me. Big lad. Arms as thick as oak trees, a stunning collection of scars, nice eye patch. A REAL therapist he was. Er wait. Maybe it was rapist?


Death by Cranes posted:

Sorry, but what the hell is this game? It says Black Ops in the description, but Wolfenstein was prettier than this load of manure. What gives?

Also that WoW Angwe guy was pretty legendary.

It's probably some guy with settings lowered since it's a PC version.

That and lovely compression.

Chumly
Dec 25, 2006
Is it? Based on how he's moving the camera around he's clearly using a controller.

Dick Burglar
Mar 6, 2006

Chumly posted:

Is it? Based on how he's moving the camera around he's clearly using a controller.

Not to mention the XBL tab popping up in the top right corner pretty early on in the video.

Wells
Sep 21, 2008

THIS IS A BIZ!!!
Lipstick Apathy
Two SWG moments I remember more fondly then anything else:

Firstly, in SWG you were either doctor buffed or your stats were low enough that you could basically get one-shot by pretty much anything serious. Now, at the time, people would head to the "Mining Outpost" on Dantooine as it was a PvE grinding mission hub. There'd always be tons of people around- just hanging out, or more likely running missions for money. Before they could run missions however, new arrivals would have to get buffed by a doctor. So what you'd see is lines of 10-15 people in front of whichever doctors were selling buffs at the time.

Long story short, a myself and a few friends kited a Dark Jedi Master from the other side of Dantooine into the Mining outpost, running it through the lines of people whose stats were still < 1k. It'd force dervish/cleave one person on the line, and instantly KO the other 10+ people. Since most people who were already buffed were out doing missions, the mayhem lasted for quite a while. I'm not sure if this was ever fixed by properly tethering mobs, but it was definitely the most fun I'd ever had in game.

When I quit SWG, I bought 10 launcher pistols (pistols that shot tiny swarms of missiles). I took them all to a smuggler to slice them (random chance of upping damage or attack speed), and gave all the speed sliced ones to my friends. We then took them to the Corellia starport (the biggest hub of players on our server) and began to duel with them in the area the transport ships drop players off in. Since none of us were pistoleers, we were not certified with the launcher pistols- meaning they did ~1-5 damage a hit. However, they still made gigantic obnoxious particle effects, greatly increasing the loading time of players that were coming to visit the starport. Eventually it degraded into us just chain summoning/dismissing broken speeder bikes- which would make large explosions and cause an earthquake screenshake effect on anyone's screen who was nearby.

SWG was a fun game, but they let you do a lot of really dumb poo poo.

Hard Clumping
Mar 19, 2008

Y'ALL BREADY
FOR THIS

Wells posted:

SWG

What was the command that you could type in that put this huge particle effect around your character, the same one you got when you leveled up post-Combat Upgrade? It was hilarious, you could spam it however much you wanted, and getting two or three people to do it at once would lag out most people's machines.

Star Wars Galaxies was the only MMO I ever loved :allears:

Colin Mockery
Jun 24, 2007
Rawr



Ziji posted:

That's one of the plans.. but I'd only want to play with people I know. Still, seems really fun and cool, but can't get to the fun without doing some boring work first.

If you wait another few days, you can get into the Goon corp, and that's enough to make scamming really, painfully easy.

It takes a few tries to find a dumb enough mark, but the first time I scammed people I was on a trial account (can't receive items from players, basically) and still managed to get enough isk after two days of work to buy a month of gametime. I have 5 PLEXes right now, and haven't logged in since maybe two weeks ago.

ToastiestToast
May 21, 2007

Misquoter posted:

Some people here may remember an old game by the name of Nox, it was made by Westwood and played similarly to Diablo, but more focused on PvP action.

It had 3 classes: Warrior(typical melee fighter), Wizard (typical fireballs/lightning/teleporting glass cannon), and the Conjurer (Archer/caster that could summon pets). The multiplayer was almost completely PvP, with Capture the Flag, FFA deathmatch, team deathmatch, and a football variant.

Most people online played Wizards to sneak around invisible and 1-shot people or Warriors to basically mash slower people with impunity; I preferred to avoid conflict altogether. Many of the deathmatch maps had dungeon/castle themed setpieces such as jail cells, pits, and other areas that were generally inaccessible by normal means.

Fortunately, Wizards had a spell called "Teleport to Target" which allowed you to teleport yourself to wherever your mouse pointer is. Combine this with invisibility and traps, which held up to 3 spells and were invisible unless people were actively looking for them; and griefing was simple.

Cue me camping the room with the strongest warrior weapon, setting a trap on it with the teleport spell pointing into a cell and another to make them drop their current weapon; all the while staying invisible since only directly attacking will break it. I could end most games with at least 5-6 people irrevocably trapped in in cells with no weapons to retaliate against a Wizard they couldn't see.

Enemy wizards were a little tougher since they never bothered with the weapon room except to deny it to warriors, but they were manageable since I could drain their mana from invisibility, making them just as helpless as the warriors. Some wizards were quick enough in hitting a mana potion to let themselves teleport out, but most people learned to avoid those areas like the plague.

I kept it up to the point that I managed to spread the fear/hate of "that dickhead wizard" to most of the community and eventually most of the map areas that I could exploit were patched with an exit or removed. People tried raging on the forums to get me banned, but they never did because I wasn't cheating or exploiting a bug, just using map mechanics.

In other maps, specifically ones with water, Wizards could break through the map barrier between solid ground and water by stacking enough traps with a push spell and manually detonating them. Combining this with a swap places spell garnered just as much rage. Trapping almost an entire team in a creek without breaking invisibility is a quick way to cause more than a couple meltdowns from the "elite" players.


Nox is still one of the best games I've ever played. It's even better to grief now, because the "nox community" is like 30 people that take poo poo way too seriously, and they can't really ragequit if they still want to play because there's literally one server with players on it. So they just have small meltdowns instead.

Ziji
Oct 20, 2010
Yossarian lives!

Colbear posted:

If you wait another few days, you can get into the Goon corp, and that's enough to make scamming really, painfully easy.

It takes a few tries to find a dumb enough mark, but the first time I scammed people I was on a trial account (can't receive items from players, basically) and still managed to get enough isk after two days of work to buy a month of gametime. I have 5 PLEXes right now, and haven't logged in since maybe two weeks ago.

To be honest I wouldn't feel right playing with Goons on EVE. Any other game, sure, but it seems like everyone would just be loving each other over every couple days. Also, Goon Corp.? I thought there was only GoonSwarm or GoonWaffe or something (I've never played EVE, just remember those 2 names from Youtube videos).

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RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
Didn't Goon Swarm disband a while ago when the leader was on vacation and forgot to pay their guild fees or something?

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