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Coolguye posted:I used to RP grief on WoW like a loving fiend. I posted a couple of these earlier in this thread, but it's been over a year since they were last linked, so here you guys go: I just read through some of your year old posts in this thread; holy gently caress the UO stuff man. I just want to tip my hat to those grief, and the incredible freedom that game gave people that allowed them to pull poo poo like that.
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I just re-read the one of Soul dismantling and robbing a guild of three years of work. That was some beautiful poo poo man
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Jun 11, 2013 11:04
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Going back to BBC2 (which I play much more than BF3), I've found my favorite tactic to piss off camping snipers on my team is to tracer dart their face. Not only does it provide a nice beacon for enemy snipers, but it puts a big, red blinking light in their vision. It kinda distracts their aim when they're being useless by trying to pick off a fresh-spawned guy all the way across the map.
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Jun 11, 2013 11:53
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tomanton posted:The best way to grief roleplayers is metagaming: go with a buddy or two to a crowded RP hotspot and start carrying out a casual, out-of-character, fourth-wall-breaking conversation in local chat about the characters around you and their top-secret biographies. It's low effort, extremely high reward, and from a terms of service perspective it's bulletproof. Goons had pretty good success with this in Champions Online following the whole "RPist" debacle. Oh yes. That's exactly what happens whenever this guy makes the rounds around Champions Online's Club Caprice.  The character is entirely played straight in-game, by the way. A bingo-dispensing robot with access to all given in-game databases on a whim because the club owner has loving had it with all the dumb demon overlords and gods of death. Mind, posting entire chat transcripts is kind of boring, and would read like a slog. And to be fair, we never bother to save those. But the gist is basically people flipping their poo poo over 'but but but they can't know that' or 'go away Bingo' and 'my immersion is ruined'. Even though the Bingo Bot is played entirely in-character. Acknowledges and adheres to the (nebulously available) Champions lore, and whenever people don't clash with that, their characters. And can and has been ignored plenty often. Or to quote someone from STO, where this problem of vocal roleplayers is even more rife: Vizh20 posted:The "disruption" the other posters mention are basically us "ruining their immersion", that is to say we're having our own fun in the same instance as them and they don't think we should be allowed to.
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Jun 11, 2013 12:57
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Dinictus posted:Oh yes. That's exactly what happens whenever this guy makes the rounds around Champions Online's Club Caprice. Following the links on that tumblr brought me Here. I don't know if it's sleep deprivation or what but I find this character to be utterly hilarious.
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Jun 11, 2013 13:35
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Improbable Lobster posted:Following the links on that tumblr brought me Here. Don't worry, that's because it is. God drat, I miss the charming fuckeditude of CoH's bios. I mean points to CO, they're doing their best, but they just can't do it. I still think a big part of it is the lack of a bio limit; on CoH you were limited to 1024 characters, which sounds limiting, but if your head isn't so far up your rear end you understand that people around you don't care what you had for breakfast you do just fine. If you can't edit your character description to be less than that without losing what you think are important elements, you have failed. I'm almost tempted to reinstall CO just to go and watch, but... no, these people are too verbose, my eyes slip from the bio most times.
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Jun 11, 2013 14:10
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Cleretic posted:Don't worry, that's because it is. That's perhaps the biggest sad point of CO bios, yes. They have to be loving novellas. And most of the time, it means people will write a whole lot of nothing to tell exactly nothing that partains to their character or what they are. Race: alien species. What the gently caress species then? Looks: golden eyes, pale skin. We can see that! Auras, themesongs, it becomes a muddied, muddied mess.
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Jun 11, 2013 14:21
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Magres posted:I just re-read the one of Soul dismantling and robbing a guild of three years of work. That was some beautiful poo poo man Soul was a goddamn artist with that one. There is no way I am ever going to be able to touch that.
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Jun 11, 2013 16:38
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Magres posted:I just re-read the one of Soul dismantling and robbing a guild of three years of work. That was some beautiful poo poo man Which page is that on? OP would be awesome if it linked the 'good griefs' as a SS13 player I can appreciate a good grief.
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Jun 11, 2013 16:51
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I've been roleplaying way too long and in way too many venues, but I made a Champions character once and the entirety of his bio was an assurance that he wasn't special, had no aura, no magic, no psychic defenses, no demonic/angelic anything, and was just a regular jackoff of a superhero. These people wouldn't leave me alone. I loving swear, all the time I was being pestered in /tells to reveal the Big Secret I didn't have, strangers insisting that their Very Special Abilities could pierce my obvious veil of deception because of how many demons they had eaten or how old of a vampire they were. He's just a guy with ice powers, you weirdos. Goddamn.
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Jun 11, 2013 19:03
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Willfrey posted:Which page is that on? edit: I guess there's no statute of limitations on the forums because Coolguye just got probated for something he wrote over a year ago. 
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Jun 11, 2013 19:15
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Uranium 235 posted:To read the UO guild grief, click the little ? button under Coolguye's avatar. Then Ctrl-F and look for the post that has "MyLoafOfBread" in it.
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Jun 11, 2013 19:38
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Cleretic posted:on CoH you were limited to 1024 characters Speaking of which, I've got several dozen or so of them I can bundle up and filesmelt if any tumblr superstars feel up to stitching them together.
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Jun 11, 2013 21:38
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Uranium 235 posted:To read the UO guild grief, click the little ? button under Coolguye's avatar. Then Ctrl-F and look for the post that has "MyLoafOfBread" in it. I'm unprobated now, I guess? It was supposed to last for 3 days, but it was closer to 3 hours. I dunno, the probation reason didn't make a ton of sense to me in the first place, because at least in my mind the only person I was offending was a groggy douchebag who was turning the extremely complex experience of transsexualism into a way to get laid. Probably just a reading error or something, there was already someone who mistakenly accused me of being transphobic due to that story, since he had accidentally read 'profound' as 'profane'. Edit: VVV - Oh hey appreciate that Coolguye fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jun 12, 2013 00:13
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Coolguye posted:I'm unprobated now, I guess? It was supposed to last for 3 days, but it was closer to 3 hours. I dunno, the probation reason didn't make a ton of sense to me in the first place, because at least in my mind the only person I was offending was a groggy douchebag who was turning the extremely complex experience of transsexualism into a way to get laid. Probably just a reading error or something, there was already someone who mistakenly accused me of being transphobic due to that story, since he had accidentally read 'profound' as 'profane'. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3538428&pagenumber=62
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Jun 12, 2013 00:17
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Stuntman posted:Yeah, I could understand un-probating him if it was just a year old post, but the fact that he linked back to it means he still approves of the transphobic contents of that post today. After all, he could've just edited those parts out and fixed pronouns before posting the link. Coolguye's such a great griefer that he's got Stuntman trolling himself edit: VVVV Whoops, well, we all make mistakes. scopes fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jun 12, 2013 00:30
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scopes posted:Coolguye's such a great griefer that he's got Stuntman trolling herself
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Jun 12, 2013 00:54
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might want to change that patriarchal heteronormative cissexist username in that case.
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Jun 12, 2013 01:00
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Congratulations, you guys just griefed PYF. That was great. Edit: I guess just stuntman got griefed. Cojawfee fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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Jun 12, 2013 01:00
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Okay I'm gonna save everyone a lot of trouble here: Stuntman, the word "profound" basically means deep or meaningful and has no negative connotations whatsoever.
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Jun 12, 2013 01:01
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JustJeff88 posted:I just started playing TF2 again after a long absence - it is sad to see how the game has deteriorated, but I generally play in the evenings on a pretty high-skill public server with people I have known for a good while. I am missing so many weapons, though, which is kind of depressing - I do not give a toss about hats and other cosmetic bullshit, but I like to play with all the toys and I wish I had a Liberty Launcher because it would fit my style better and I play quite a bit of soldier. I am a very mediocre player and giving me an "overpowered" weapon is not going to break the game, trust me. I would also like to try that one weapon that shoots laser-style projectiles. I recently saw an amazingly effective use of a somewhat tired and overused gimmick. I join this server on foundry and there is an enemy rocketjumper soldier just flying around our spawn area like a jet fighter. He was one of those rare soldiers that can flawlessly chain walls and hops while surfing up slopes and really making lesser folk like me feel like trash in comparison. Now normally people use this gimmick to try killing people in a difficult manner so they can feel smug about themselves. This particular soldier wasn't in it for kills. He'd fly away as soon as someone tried to fight back, mostly he just took potshots with his shotgun. There is something particular to pubbie psychology where if a guy shoots at them and then runs away - they absolutely have to kill him. "That scrub just tried to ambush me but I was too good for him. Now he is fleeing because he is weak, but nobody escapes me."  For my part I simply ignored him and went on my way. Yet half my team was chasing him around behind forward spawn, ignoring any objectives because they absolutely had to kill this one guy in particular. Playing with half my team absent was challenging, but every time I died I was treated to spectating this Benny Hill routine of my teammates running around in circles trying to kill someone who they had no hope of ever catching. It was honestly the funniest gimmick I've seen in TF2. He wasn't being intentionally useless or trying to show off how many people he can kill with [gimmick weapon], he was just luring the poo poo out of people like some mythical piper boy.
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Jun 12, 2013 02:34
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tomanton posted:That character limit legit made me a better writer, All CO's current method does is give roleplayers one more dumb petty way to judge eachother, and make it more tedious to screengrab bad bios in their entirety. I've decided what I want to do. I want to make The Editor. I'm currently studying to be one, so it would be good practice and something I'm suited to, just going around and offering to fix people's horrible goddamn bios. I just need to decide on my method. Will I forcefully, drive-by edit their bios? Or will I be incessantly polite and tactful in my approach?
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Jun 12, 2013 02:43
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Ask hard hitting questions about the legitimacy of their bios.
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Jun 12, 2013 02:48
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whatis posted:They're actually about even right now in terms of total lifespan. From a competitive perspective, TFC peaked about four years after its release, and as far as public servers went, there were tons of active servers and communities well into 2006. Are we talking TFC or the horrible TFC-style mod (whose name eludes me) that got released a month or so before TF2?
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Jun 12, 2013 03:01
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It's obvious what kind of character he should be.
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Sanctum posted:For my part I simply ignored him and went on my way. Yet half my team was chasing him around behind forward spawn, ignoring any objectives because they absolutely had to kill this one guy in particular. Playing with half my team absent was challenging, but every time I died I was treated to spectating this Benny Hill routine of my teammates running around in circles trying to kill someone who they had no hope of ever catching. It was honestly the funniest gimmick I've seen in TF2. He wasn't being intentionally useless or trying to show off how many people he can kill with [gimmick weapon], he was just luring the poo poo out of people like some mythical piper boy. The best part of that grief is that not only is it hilarious, he is also being an extremely valuable asset to his team be removing those people from play. It is just as, if not more effective than actually killing those people.
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Jun 12, 2013 04:11
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Party Plane Jones posted:Are we talking TFC or the horrible TFC-style mod (whose name eludes me) that got released a month or so before TF2? Fortress Forever is what you're thinking of. Bad mod. On the bright side it does have the Escort gametype where one player is a civilian armed with an umbrella which is easy to grief. I don't have any interesting stories though, just nerds getting mad about me "playing wrong".
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Jun 12, 2013 04:13
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By the time I had first heard of Fortress Forever, there was literally nobody playing. Not a single soul. So I never got to find out what was so bad about it. Anyone mind educating me?
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Jun 12, 2013 05:05
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Improbable Lobster posted:Fortress Forever is what you're thinking of. Bad mod. Anyone playing as the VIP who didn't spend the entire round berating people for meaningless things, complaining about the awful bodyguard service, and then smacking random people with the umbrella as many times as they could was not playing the role correctly. 
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Jun 12, 2013 05:32
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I only really played the original Quake version of hunted, but the number of times the bodyguards would kill the VIP, or the VIP would be suicidal outnumbered the times I saw the map played as intended. I assume that's why Valve didn't put it into TF2. And while I didn't care about the pro grenade jumping tactics, I do miss the tons of gimmicks and grenades in the original.
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Jun 12, 2013 06:16
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TF2 has the escort mode, it's called being medic in comp. There's also a shitton of gimmicks available due to the new weapons valve added. No grenades but there are jars of piss.
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Jun 12, 2013 09:05
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FedoraDefender420 posted:TF2 has the escort mode, it's called being medic in comp. There's also a shitton of gimmicks available due to the new weapons valve added. No grenades but there are jars of piss. I constantly feel griefed on public servers because there is always that rear end in a top hat with 2 kills who's rocking Market Gardener/Rocket Jumper/gunboats soldier. I wish there were a native server option to turn off the rocket jumper and sticky jumper. And I wish everyone would turn those stupid things off.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Are we talking TFC or the horrible TFC-style mod (whose name eludes me) that got released a month or so before TF2? TFC. Others have said it already, but yeah, the bad mod was Fortress Forever. I was an early beta-tester for FF actually. It was pretty fun for a period of time, but the released mod felt a lot different than what I played. The guys who started the mod were more or less just looking to create a 1:1 source conversion of TFC with a lot of bug fixes, but it turned into something else somewhere along the way. There was a hilarious bug me and a friend discovered and abused the poo poo out of during testing. I can't remember exactly how you triggered it, but there was a way to bug the heavy's AC and fire all remaining ammo at the same time. You could instantly gib entire groups of players from across the battlements on 2fort
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Battlefield BC2 story. me and the other Goon BFBC2 players eventually discovered you could Teamkill people by throwing a gernade and immediatly disconnecting from the server which would then make the gernade hostile. It eventaully ended up with 5 people throwing tank mines in large groups where our teammates would get bottlenecked and then one person throwning the nade and DCing. We had to do it to other servers because it would empty the server in a hurry. Mosty the reddit server. Good times.
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FedoraDefender420 posted:TF2 has the escort mode, it's called being medic in comp. There's also a shitton of gimmicks available due to the new weapons valve added. No grenades but there are jars of piss. Being a medic in comp is griefing yourself 
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Ariong posted:The best part of that grief is that not only is it hilarious, he is also being an extremely valuable asset to his team be removing those people from play. It is just as, if not more effective than actually killing those people. People just really goddamn hate Spies.
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Not an inventive grief, but wastes people's time and makes them rage. Background: So, Path of Exile is an ARPG very similar to Diablo 2. High quality loot drops used to be allocated to players on a short timer, but they added a feature in the last patch where the party creator can toggle this to make loot drops permanent to a specific player, though unless it's your drop you don't know what player it's for. And as an ARPG with lots of skill effects and the ground covered with loot, you can miss drops from time to time -- they might occur in another room due to a big aoe skill effect or something. Find a public party that has loot set to permanent allocation, preferably in a multilevel dungeon with huge floorplans. Ancient Pyramid works well for this. When the group is at near the end of the zone, join party and go a couple floors away from them and remark something like "Hey, someone left an exalt laying here. (Exalt = exalted orb, very rare and expensive currency item -- in value, think along the lines of a Diablo 2 high rune, though it drops a bit more often than that making it fairly likely you're telling the truth). Anyone know if permanent allocation eventually wears off?" Everyone in the party will immediately stop what they're doing (in this case, working their way to the A2 boss) and scour this huge rear end dungeon for this valuable and rare item that might be theirs, if only they can find it. They'll keep asking you "Where is it??" constantly while you wander around the dungeon and say you plan to wait for the permanent allocation to wear off and don't want to tell or show them where it is. Harvest rage and tears. This can last 15+ minutes easily, more for the extra gullible. Especially because even telling the truth plays into it -- "Nah guys, was just joking" leads to them thinking you're trying to get them to stop looking for the exalted orb. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jun 12, 2013 |
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MissMarple posted:This is exactly how I play Spy. I am terrible at Spy, but if you keep chipping away at people with the pistol from different parts of their spawn and running around invisible you can end up with a half dozen people who are completely 100% invested in a Spy Hunt whilst the rest of your team cleans house at the objective. It was amazing when the Dead Ringer could recharge to full from a single ammo pack. (The TF2 Spy normally has a watch that allows him to cloak and become invisible. The Dead Ringer instead cloaks you when you take damage. You drop a fake body, instantly cloak and get 90% damage reduction for 6.5 seconds.) My brother would find a bunch of ammo packs, and just run a circuit between them, uncloaking right before picking up an ammo pack. He'd have most of the enemy team chasing him fruitlessly for a really long time. People on both teams got mad. One, because you just couldn't kill a DR Spy abusing ammo packs, and two "wtf useless noob spy just running around." He wouldn't fire a shot, or disguise. They knew he was a Spy, they knew where he was going, and they could not stop him.
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In the same vein, I used to do that sort of tactic in WoW either in Arathi Basin or Eye of the Storm. There was just something that would cause people to snap if you snuck invisible behind enemy lines, moonfired (rank 1) the crap out of the people guarding the spawn, did the /flex animation, and then fast travel (cheetah form) out of there with the %15 speed boost set. Some really-decked out warriors would spaz out and make it their mission to hunt you down; even if that meant leaving the node unguarded. Back then, though, druids used to be the masters of running away and healing themselves. I think the funniest moment was from this one night-elf warrior who absolutely had to kill me, but after countless running away + rooting + cyclone + nature's grasp he wasn't being successful. Of course, he and his buddy weren't paying much attention - and right when it looked like they had cornered me, the entirety of the horde team ended up capturing the last spawn and swarmed the two of them while running towards the allie's spawn point. Needless to say, they made some dummy characters on our server to voice their "displeasure" with my Arathi Basin gameplay tactics.
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