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I may have gotten this TTT video from a long ways back in this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6YVmBXUaRM
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Polka_Rapper posted:I may have gotten this TTT video from a long ways back in this thread. I'm glad you did, because I don't remember seeing it before. Sometimes the best griefs are the simple ones. 
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Jun 21, 2012 00:30
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I'm persona non grata on about half a dozen TTT servers, and not for any of the normal reasons. One server I get all sorts of rage for connecting to in general, because I spent an afternoon there waiting until I was the detective, and then giving a speech about the unfair workplace policies and low pay we endured, and then trying to get people to agree to sign my petition for living wages and better equipment. Most people didn't find it funny, lots of incomprehensible screaming over the mics, but the few people who got it played along and made it fun. We formed a union. My favorite issue in TTT was playing well and pissing everyone off. As a traitor, it's drat simple to get your hands on a flare gun. Then you just wait until someone calls that a body has been found, and while everyone flocks to it, you find a straggler, kill them, burn their body and catch up with the group. I literally had a guy bitch at me for 4 minutes during the next round for killing him, despite me being a traitor, because apparently I'm a "stupid dickhead" who "doesn't get this game at all". Well then. Also another fun thing to do is join a server and immediately say "I'm a traitor what does that mean which team am I on can someone give me a weapon I'm new". Bonus points if you're not really a traitor.
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Jun 21, 2012 00:59
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Segmentation Fault posted:No, he's wallhacking. Myg0t videos feature hacks of whatever kind so often that I kind of end up not seeing them when I watch their grief videos This is the only way to play TTT. Also the proper way to play TTT is to do it with Goons, and then orchestrate things so that the last two people alive are Goons. Then you have one person say they're going AFK, stand in a corner, and then watch as the pubbies try to guide the other Goon along until the round ends. If the two Goons ever do see each other they need to have an ineffectual gunfight until they're both out of ammo. Then do this again, and again, and again with different pairs of Goons until the server empties out and dies.
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Jun 21, 2012 01:31
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This has probably been posted already, but in case it hasn't; http://www.askcorran.com/belan/episodes.html Great stories of a griefing 'looter' from Ultima Online from over 10(!) years ago.
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Jun 21, 2012 01:37
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HoboWithAShotgun posted:This has probably been posted already, but in case it hasn't; In that same vein, some of my outright favorite stories, let alone griefing, come from http://www.spleens.net Truly amazing stuff.
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Jun 21, 2012 04:46
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HoboWithAShotgun posted:This has probably been posted already, but in case it hasn't; tikan posted:In that same vein, some of my outright favorite stories, let alone griefing, come from http://www.spleens.net Truly amazing stuff. These are such great stories 
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Jun 21, 2012 07:38
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It's a comforting feeling that today I still laugh at Belan and Galad as much as I did over a decade ago.
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Jun 21, 2012 08:05
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The Supreme Court posted:People will genuinely get apoplectic with rage if they are clearly a traitor and you kill them. Then you'll get banned Fun trick for TTT: if you stand right next to a traitor as they buy items you can hear the noise of their new stuff being equipped. Spot a guy who pauses and stares into space right at the start of the round? Execute that dude. I have caught out so many people this way it's kind of hilarious.
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Jun 21, 2012 09:34
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Didn't WoW Warlocks' Doomguard summon used to kill one of the people assisting in the summons?
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Jun 21, 2012 10:35
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Pope Guilty posted:Didn't WoW Warlocks' Doomguard summon used to kill one of the people assisting in the summons? I think it was just a (fairly high) chance, but yes.
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Jun 21, 2012 10:43
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Pope Guilty posted:Didn't WoW Warlocks' Doomguard summon used to kill one of the people assisting in the summons? Yeah, but without durability damage so not really that effective.
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Jun 21, 2012 12:41
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Pope Guilty posted:Didn't WoW Warlocks' Doomguard summon used to kill one of the people assisting in the summons? I also miss seeing people kiting the world bosses back to major towns.
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Jun 21, 2012 12:43
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One of the TTT maps, roy_the_ship, has a ship's wheel you can pick up with the magneto stick. Because of Source physics insanity whipping it around can actually kill people or throw other objects into them. When people in one of my Steam groups discovered this they abused it and got banned from a few servers for propkilling. One time I also got myself banned from a GMOD RP server for propkilling by flicking them at people with the physgun. Zeether fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jun 21, 2012 |
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Jun 21, 2012 13:01
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Tykero posted:This is a time-honored tradition amongst Mages called "Portal Roulette." It is a fun game for the whole family. At one point there was a popular PvP zone called Alterac Valley, which involved two 40-man teams fighting each other. The game didn't really support joining battlegrounds as a group, it wasn't intended at the time for you to group up with your whole guild of 40 people and join an AV game and just steamroll the pubbies on the other team. You'd all have to join at the same time, and a bunch of you would get into the game but a bunch of you wouldn't, you'd wind up in a queue and then if someone in the battle went AFK (if you were idle for some period of time the game would realize you were AFK and kick you out, or you could just type /afk if you wanted to bail), he'd be kicked out and another person from the queue would get in. There was plenty of portal action, trying to get pubbies to click on them so they'd leave the battle and let more of your queued guild members in, but it was ridiculously easy to just make a macro along the lines of: "BakedMage420 has marked you afk and you will be removed from the battleground! Type /afk to remove the flag and continue playing!" And just spam it in chat. It took a while for the playerbase to catch on to this, and it never stopped working entirely, but when it was new you might catch a dozen people. And Blizzard at one point implemented a deserter debuff, which meant that if you /afked out of a battleground you couldn't join another one until the debuff wore off in 15 minutes.
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Jun 21, 2012 15:28
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Dicky B posted:Makes me sad that nobody plays The Ship anymore but apparently they play some lovely half assed gmod imitation of it As a former owner of a server for The Ship, part of this problem is because the makers gave the gently caress up on the game a long, long time ago. There are a bunch of very simple tweaks that would make the game a lot better to both play and manage. Since the game is as dead as a doornail I won't write a spergetastic post about it and only mention the biggest pain in my rear end when getting the server set up: The master server, the thing that lists all the servers so people can connect to it? Most sensible games have that in an .ini file, so it can be changed easily if the server ever changes. Further, it is most often set to some address, like masterserver.gloryhole.com, so you can change the specific IP without bothering anyone. The Ship...had a static IP set in a binary .dll. That static IP had been wrong for at least a year. I needed to figure out the new static IP (through magic. or 6-factor google keywords. whichever) and then step through every .dll in the server files for the old IP (through stubbornness. or grep. if you're lucky enough to know how to use that) and change it every place you saw it. Then, it might work. If you somehow had nothing else wrong. Coolguye fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Jun 21, 2012 |
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Jun 21, 2012 15:41
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AXE COP posted:Fun trick for TTT: if you stand right next to a traitor as they buy items you can hear the noise of their new stuff being equipped. Spot a guy who pauses and stares into space right at the start of the round? Execute that dude. I have caught out so many people this way it's kind of hilarious. You can also do the reverse as a traitor. At the start of a round grab a gun then make sure you're in a good kill position when it assigns the traitors. If you are a traitor you can execute someone in the first second of the game.
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Jun 21, 2012 15:54
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Phanatic posted:There was plenty of portal action, trying to get pubbies to click on them so they'd leave the battle and let more of your queued guild members in, but it was ridiculously easy to just make a macro along the lines of: And of course nowadays, pulling the "type /afk!" trick will get you a tempban.
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Jun 21, 2012 16:54
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Pope Guilty posted:And of course nowadays, pulling the "type /afk!" trick will get you a tempban. These days doing anything fun will get you a temp ban. I'm pretty sure that at in a future patch even having fun will get you banned. However unlikely having fun actually is these days.
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Jun 21, 2012 16:59
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Pope Guilty posted:And of course nowadays, pulling the "type /afk!" trick will get you a tempban. I really hate this kind of overbearing rule enforcement. What harm does it do, exactly? You can't join a battleground for 15 minutes, oh noooo. If you get caught by that trick once, welp, I guess you learned not to do it again. If you get caught multiple times, what the gently caress are you doing outside of kindergarten?
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Jun 21, 2012 17:12
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Pope Guilty posted:And of course nowadays, pulling the "type /afk!" trick will get you a tempban. That's stupid. It's a harmless, minorly inconveniencing prank. Jesus it's like fooling suckers with "change your mIRC background color, just hit alt-f4!" back in the day. That was a lot of fun. What was more fun was substituting alt-f4 for ctrl-alt-del, back when hitting that [once or twice, I forget] would reboot you, no questions asked. Ahhh, the good old days. So much rage.
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Jun 21, 2012 17:12
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I imagine Blizzard got tired of getting thousands of thousands of e-mails about people bitching about it. I feel so sorry for the person who has to work support desk for WoW. It would be like an air-traffic controller but instead of planes, it's shitheads.
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Jun 21, 2012 17:57
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Code Jockey posted:That's stupid. It's a harmless, minorly inconveniencing prank. Reminds me of an old bug in a lot of old software, were typing /con/con would blue screen an entire computer. I think the Wikipedia article about it has been deleted, but it had something to do with a bug in Windows 95. You used to be able to grief people online by telling them to type /con/con in programs like AIM or mIRC, or by sending them to a link with that address.
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Jun 21, 2012 18:04
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I quit WoW when they started encouraging win trading in the World PVP zone, it's like what the hell is the point of having a game if your just going to encourage people not to play it?
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Jun 21, 2012 18:05
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robodex posted:Reminds me of an old bug in a lot of old software, were typing /con/con would blue screen an entire computer. I think the Wikipedia article about it has been deleted, but it had something to do with a bug in Windows 95. You used to be able to grief people online by telling them to type /con/con in programs like AIM or mIRC, or by sending them to a link with that address. It's C:\con\con, you just do anything that would pass that to the default file handler. I had a lot of fun times doing this: hahahaha look at all of this loser's files It doesn't work anymore but back in the frontier days of browsers when interprotocol calls were allowed it was the easiest way to make people have a hacking freakout imaginable. If you want to see what it actually does, make a new tab navigate to 'file:///C:/'.
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Jun 21, 2012 18:28
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bucketmouse posted:It's C:\con\con, you just do anything that would pass that to the default file handler.
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Jun 21, 2012 18:53
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Yeah, you couldn't just paste it into AIM or whatever, you actually had to try to open it. You could get it to work on a web browser creating an image with <img src="file:///C:/con/con"> (or, since most people then ran IE, just <img src="C:\con\con">). Linking it would probably work though. The reason is that "con" is one of the reserved files in MS-DOS (specifically for "console") and it wasn't meant to be used like that. You could do "copy con butt.txt", though, which would basically let you write whatever text you wanted to that file, like a low-fi EDIT.COM.
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Jun 21, 2012 18:56
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That is glorious. I want to time travel back to 90s me and tell him to do that, because that is awesome. I knew about "copy con" but I had no idea that con\con existed. Neat! e. and I remember oh so many people making web pages with links back to their local computers, and how loving hard it was explaining the problem with doing that to someone with zero tech literacy but who bought a "BUILD A WEB SITE IN 10 MINUTES!" book
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Jun 21, 2012 22:44
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Also, I think why I remember that is because mIRC actually bluescreened the computer for a few months when you got someone to type /con/con. So you didn't necessarily even need them to do anything but type it, and nobody expected a command like that to take down the whole machine.
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Jun 21, 2012 22:50
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Code Jockey posted:e. and I remember oh so many people making web pages with links back to their local computers, and how loving hard it was explaining the problem with doing that to someone with zero tech literacy but who bought a "BUILD A WEB SITE IN 10 MINUTES!" book This was the best part of the 90s/early 2000s.
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Jun 22, 2012 04:41
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I remember doing something similar with the a:/ drive in AOL. You could make chatrooms and instant messages try to load something from their floppy drive, and whenever they tried to load something it would pause their computer and make irritating sounds. This is back when people still had floppy drives and used AOL, naturally.
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To add some more content to the thread- a little more world of warcraft. Specifically, Vanilla wow Mount Hyjal. Im not sure if many people knew about this, but before the first expansion pack came out (TBC), I was possible to use a minor glitch to basically jump up a mountain, and land your character in the zone Mount Hyjal. Even being in Hyjal was offense that was punishable by GMs, possibly even banning. Mount Hyjal was not a zone that was released. It did, however, have full ground textures, terrain, the works. One specific part of the terrain is the site of our grief. In WoW, there was this big rear end tree named the world tree. It blew up. The world tree was in Hyjal. Now there is a hole. A deep hole, filled with water. Specifically, the deepest point of water in vanilla wow. It was so deep that without the ability to breath underwater, you would drown before you reached the bottom. Or reached the surface from the bottom. Our grief was born. I played a warlock at the time, and had two key spells. I could summon people to my location, and had a buff that allowed people to breath underwater. Basically what happened is we would search for marks, and tell them "Hey, we can summon you to Hyjal for 30 gold" 30 gold wasnt chump change back then, but wasnt a lot of money so most people agreed, seeing as how we were giving them the chance to explore a super secret unfinished zone. Long story short, we would summon random pubbies to the bottom of this deep hole. They would pay us money. Then they would start to drown. Then they began to get mad. Some begged me for the underwater breathing buff. Some tried for the surface. None made it. The reactions were priceless. The best part? In wow, when you die, you go to a graveyard and have to run to your body. There was no graveyard at all in Hyjal. People would just spawn in ghost form in a location that made it impossible them to run back to their body. They could not rez without the graveyard, or the body. They were stuck. That left them with one option. Normally in situations like this, you just open up a GM ticket and they help you out. When your in a unreleased zone thats bannable for just being in? You dont contact the GMs. They had to run out of the zone, in ghost form, all the way down this mountain to a night elf zone and search around for a graveyard. This took about 30 minutes to an hour. When they finally reach that graveyard? They have to spirit rez, which means they were debuffed to be completely useless for 10 minutes, and also lost 75% of all item durability. Making someone spirit rez is the worst thing you can do to someone in wow, and we made them do it after running for an hour. They also took a durability hit for drowning.
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Code Jockey posted:e. and I remember oh so many people making web pages with links back to their local computers, and how loving hard it was explaining the problem with doing that to someone with zero tech literacy but who bought a "BUILD A WEB SITE IN 10 MINUTES!" book But it looks fine on my end! 
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robodex posted:Reminds me of an old bug in a lot of old software, were typing /con/con would blue screen an entire computer. I think the Wikipedia article about it has been deleted, but it had something to do with a bug in Windows 95. You used to be able to grief people online by telling them to type /con/con in programs like AIM or mIRC, or by sending them to a link with that address. Back when GTA came out I was doing a lot of heavy modding with that game in terms of changing sprites and making my own city and I planned on making it a game I would call "Con". To my big surprise, Windows 98 SE at the time would not allow me to make a folder called Con. I was like "wait, where did my folder go?" and then I discovered con/con by accident. Cue me destroying the school computers by putting that into every autoexec.bat file.
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Jun 22, 2012 08:42
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tastychicken posted:Can't wait for the ArmA 2: Day Z stories to come pouring in. I said I was looking forward to DayZ grief-stories, but poo poo son... I never thought the poo poo hitting the fan would be liquid awesome. I'm lurching from all the hilarity.
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Jun 22, 2012 09:16
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Could someone explain the rules of TTT and jail maps?
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Jun 22, 2012 09:17
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TTT has been explained recently. Jail is "do as I say, or get shot." As fun as it sounds!
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Jun 22, 2012 09:36
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robodex posted:Also, I think why I remember that is because mIRC actually bluescreened the computer for a few months when you got someone to type /con/con. So you didn't necessarily even need them to do anything but type it, and nobody expected a command like that to take down the whole machine. Con/con thing was glorious. I remember people posting known aimbots and such on IRC to trigger PunkBuster (which monitored all system memory) bans.
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Jun 22, 2012 09:39
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Skilleddk posted:Could someone explain the rules of TTT and jail maps? It's fairly straight forward. TTT is the "Who dun it?" game where there are is a (few) traitors in a crowd of innocents. Innocents kill traitors, traitors murder innocents. Obviously innocents don't know who the traitors are. Jailbreak is basically Simon says. It has it's merits, depending on who is running the show.
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Pope Guilty posted:And of course nowadays, pulling the "type /afk!" trick will get you a tempban. Actually, this isn't the case anymore.  We just tell them to be more careful next time, and explain that it's an emote and not an actual server message. Grief away, but you didn't hear that from me.
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