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Kavak posted:I took a class a few years ago where we used it to construct archaeological sites as they would've appeared in their heydey. (Our focus was Chichen Itza). This wasn't in Second Life proper, though, just the program. I have a lore-friendly bio, too! After reading too many terrible pubbie bios about rape and slavery and other nonsense, I just had to respond:  After all, every good story needs a villain, doesn't it? Unfortunately, pubbies seem to respond poorly to it. I can't imagine why. Preechr fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jul 10, 2013 |
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Kavak posted:I am a dyed-in-the-wool Trekker and former STO player (Wrote up a lore-friendly backstory for my character and everything) and even I want to give these people swirlies and steal their lunch money. To be honest, while what I posted a bit ago was likely insulting, I'm referring to the dregs of Trekkie society. There's normal people who like Star Trek. Hell, when I was a kid, I thought it was stupid and Star Wars was the best, but as I got older, I found that Star Trek was really, really well done. TNG was an amazing series. But the stereotypes about Star Trek fans are there for a reason. The more spergy fans of Star Trek are pretty fuckin' awful. Anyway. Please, noble goons. Keep loving with these people, they totally deserve it.
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I checked out the guys account page on a curiosity. It said "no friends!". Good work PWE. Good work.
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Kavak posted:I am a dyed-in-the-wool Trekker and former STO player (Wrote up a lore-friendly backstory for my character and everything) and even I want to give these people swirlies and steal their lunch money. I have a character specifically for this, not in any of the fleets, so I can play at "rerouting main power to bounce the graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish, etc." But these pubbies are seriously the worst. Contribution: One night there was a pubbie getting rowdy and moronic at one of our klingon-side folks (sup Bar Patron) and so I answered the summons as Mr. Grey, a character I made just to see how close to the classic "grey" alien I could get (pretty drat close, except the eyes). I sadly didn't take screenshots or anything, but I started a gimmick where I was a member of the Starfleet Press Corps, interviewing the pubbie. What followed was a couple hours of Fox News style leading, misinformation, and blatant 'just asking questions!' Wherein I put words in the mouth of this idiot, and then loudly repeated those words. Everything from cheating at pvp, erectile dysfunction, oedipal urges, and pedo. All phrased as if I was asking him to clarify something he'd just said. This had the intended effect of further enraging this "dude", and made for an excellent distraction.
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Phraggah posted:Horrible things I honestly just lost it at the skeletons. It crosses over from the gross to the absurd at that point and all I can do is tilt my head back and laugh at the insanity of it all. Otherwise I'd kill myself.
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Concatenation posted:I would like to know how he feels about being in his 50s and getting mad enough over something inconsequential in a video game to type pages and pages of noonecares.txt, personally.  part of it all. Seriously, I'm reading this line:quote:I'm in my 50's and they have zero chance of intimidating me.. *grin* Something about the juxtaposition of "here's how old I am" and the smug emote in asterisks like a goddamn child. I can't even piece this together.
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bucketmouse posted:One of the notoriously bad moba streamers (gullin89) has gotten banned and unbanned over stuff like this at least 3 times now. One of the times involved a goon conning him into opening his streaming software's settings on stream, exposing his stream key. The stream was quickly hijacked by gay porn from the 70s. 89? I thought his username was Gullin15. Anyways I apologize for quoting this from a few pages back but i wanted to add to it on how loving awful this person [Gullin15, not bucketmouse] is. Here's him practicing his chinese language skills after muting his team because they were all chinese. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typaG7XYbqQ There's also video of him trying to "get girls" while streaming but of course all he got was a guy who masturbated through the webcam.
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Vib Rib posted:Something about the juxtaposition of "here's how old I am" and the smug emote in asterisks like a goddamn child. I can't even piece this together. I picture it working like that coach who started screaming at the media for talking poo poo about one of his players. "I'm a man, I'm 40!". you can make him rage like a lunatic, but you can't scare him. 
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As much as I'm enjoying the madness, why is he not banned? Has no one reported him? Are the moderators and Devs to busy laughing at him to kick him out?
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Jul 10, 2013 06:56
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Game streamer fanboys throw ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS hissy fits when their preferred racist/homophobic/misogynistic gaming darling suffers any repercussions for being a vile human being, and a lot of companies don't want to deal with it
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Prime example would be BuzzCutPsycho formerly of Planetside and Planetside 2. The dude literally can't open his mouth for a full sentence without dropping slurs and has gotten numerous warnings for it, but every time he actually got in serious trouble, his psychotic cult following comes out of the woodwork to scream and whine and throw temper tantrums on his behalf until whatever punishment happened gets reversed. Only reason he's gone is because he left voluntarily and took his klanmates with him. Fun fact - on the server he was on, Matherson, there are also Goon and Reddit presences. It became a recurring joke that Matherson was the internet forum server because they had a Reddit outfit, a Goon outfit, and The Enclave, BuzzCutPsycho's outfit, representing StormFront. Definitely have seen people respond with "Oh The Enclave is from StormFront? Suddenly it makes so much sense" more than once when they read that joke for the first time. They're that bad, and BCP is among the worst of them. I hate video gaming communities, they are universally cess pools 
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Jul 10, 2013 08:05
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BCP left Planetside 2? When did this happen? What was the fallout from it like? I stopped reading the PS2 thread here once the topics just flowed in a circle.
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He got pissy about some gun he liked getting nerfed and quit, I think. I only know about it tangentially, mostly because of my former roommates - they insisted on continuing to tell me Planetside 2 drama news a solid 7 months after I quit 
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Preechr posted:I have a lore-friendly bio, too! Speaking of Bios, here is the bio of the crazy who started that thread: 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Speaking of Bios, here is the bio of the crazy who started that thread: Oh, oh god. The bio has something about "... is well into her 50's." I think when he's saying that he's well into his fifties, he's actually referring to this character. This just reaches whole new levels of weirdness.
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Jul 10, 2013 08:54
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An adorable clip from the Battlefield 3 stream trolling series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd6UAciiEC8
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Gestalt Intellect posted:An adorable clip from the Battlefield 3 stream trolling series: Here's the entire video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHv-iyUDTPA It's a little bit depressing, actually.
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New vid too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXkAFPIrM9c This guy seems to be a pretty good sport about it 
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Jul 10, 2013 10:49
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Can you guys please keep poking Khemaara or whatever it is? This self-styled Malcolm X of internet klingons needs to keep writing literal novellas about being mad on the internet. On the other hand, the fact that I don't doubt for even a moment that this person is legit and not a well thought out troll is actually a little depressing. I used to question the existence of people like that.
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rotinaj posted:So, Trekkies are still just as socially retarded, completely up-their-own-rear end smug about their own levels of intelligence, and have the same massive superiority complexes they have been stereotyped to have forever. It's mostly how unique the community is. One of the reasons why I restricted myself to annoying only the most offensive ones of the bunch is that the more I played, the more it seemed that there was a tangible thread of mental illness running in the seedier aspects of the community. This becomes apparent the more you hang out around Drozana or, in the pre-PW days, read the forums. Screwing with someone who is legitimately crazy seems a step too far to me. Compare that to annoying the The game has a seriously screwed up community though. See Gowron X up there as an example of how odd the community is. Or the many attempts by people at threatening Cryptic or trying a half-hearted "forum conspiracy" to pressure them into doing what they wanted factionally. Or the many people who completely lose their poo poo and go batshit insane at the drop of a hat. Archonex fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Jul 11, 2013 |
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Dirk the Average posted:Oh, oh god. The bio has something about "... is well into her 50's." I think when he's saying that he's well into his fifties, he's actually referring to this character. This just reaches whole new levels of weirdness. It's weird, but frankly, way less pathetic. If this guy actually was 50 instead of just a dumb kid that would be much more sad.
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Preechr posted:I have a lore-friendly bio, too! After reading too many terrible pubbie bios about rape and slavery and other nonsense, I just had to respond: I have never seen a funnier, more brilliantly written profile in any game in my entire life. Holy poo poo.
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Time_pants posted:I have never seen a funnier, more brilliantly written profile in any game in my entire life. Holy poo poo. You need to lay it on a little thicker. At first I thought you weren't being sarcastic.
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Chomp8645 posted:You need to lay it on a little thicker. At first I thought you weren't being sarcastic. Honestly, it is the best character bio I've ever read. Granted, the bar is so low that you'd have a damned hard time tripping over it even if you tried.
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It's been years since I played World of Warcraft, and I would never play it again. But I did have a lot of fun in that game. Toy Collector I loved collecting dumb items that stupid game, and I still couldn't tell you why. At one point during the first expansion, I had a bag that was just full of toys. I played an extremely boring class, so I kept myself entertained by using as many toys as possible between fights. So while the leader of the raid tried to explain the fights to our terrible, terrible guild, he would constantly be interrupted by me causing everyone to dance, the ground shaking non-stop, me turning into a bear and dancing, me turning into a different race and dancing, the random appearance of a half a dozen quest items I had never turned in, or something else incredibly dumb. I even had one of those quest items bound to one of my attacks so I would summon a wizard ghost to just stand beside me every time I did a certain move. I wasn't trying to grief anyone in particular, but ended up bothering a lot of people for some reason. There was one item that summoned a pet that would follow you around. When you clicked on it, the ground shook as you summoned a little diaper-wearing goblin. It also didn't have a cooldown, which meant that you could cast it as fast as you could click it. I hid behind a corner in a crowded capital city, set a program to click it about 20 times a second, and convinced half the server that a world event was starting because the earth wouldn't stop shaking. The item was patched to not shake the ground anymore and have a one-second cooldown the following day. Maybe not the most greify thing ever, but anything that causes a patch is a victory in my book. Trivia Time! Trivia bots were a thing people installed at some point. Your NPC would automatically ask questions, recognize when someone answered correctly, and keep up with players' scores, eventually declaring a winner. These were pretty popular in the capital cities where players would just sit around, looking for something to do. So I decided to have a server-wide trivia contest with a prize of 20k gold, announced it a week in advance, and hyped it up. I was about to transfer servers to play with Goon Squad, the big SA guild in WoW, and fully intended on taking my gold with me. I decided that the edge of a floating wizard city would be a great place to have a trivia contest. A huge crowd gathered, and I let the game go on for ten or fifteen minutes to attract bystanders. There happened to be a quest item a friend and I hung on to that summoned a huge, goofy-rear end looking monster that would explode. Anyone near it would go flying in the opposite direction. Since I was on the edge looking at the crowd and the crowd was mostly looking at me, I'm pretty sure I was the only one who saw the goofy motherfucker appear and run full speed at the nerds who were currently answering where Picard was born or whatever. It went off perfectly and sent nearly everyone flying off the edge of the city to their dooms. I logged off, paid my five bucks to transfer servers, then forgot about the whole thing until this thread reminded me. Gnome Exterminator My friend I mentioned in the last story was a much better griefer than me. When he started the game, he pretended to be a girl to get free stuff for so long that I started to worry that he was getting too into it. We would do stupid stuff like stand on a glitched piece of sky and summon people to fall to their deaths, follow people questing and kill everything so they couldn't get any XP or quest credit, or kidnap the flight master from the opposing capital city so everyone would have to walk (a GM ended up spawning a new one after a few hours, so I let the original run back across 6 zones to the capital, where he stood on top of his twin). My friend would always take it one rear end in a top hat step further than me. I would just end up feeling sorry for whoever we were messing with. He also ended up getting really, really good at PVP. I think he told me he was on a nationally ranked arena team at some point, but that was probably bullshit. He was good, though. I had called him one night to see if he wanted to hang out, and he didn't answer his phone. The next afternoon, I called him again and he didn't answer. He does that sometimes, so I just showed up at his house and saw why he was too busy to even answer the phone. I had quit WoW for almost two years at this point, so some of the details about this event might not be accurate. But before a certain expansion, there was an event would turn Alliance players into gnomes or something as they tried to take back the gnome city. But more importantly, it would make everyone doing it as flagged for PVP, even though they were in a safe zone. So he and his small team of about seven or eight had been sitting halfway through the event, killing everyone, including the NPCs who absolutely have to stay alive for the event to succeed. The alliance population of our server never did PVP, so even the high level players didn't even have the gear to fight back. He had been sitting there for nearly 24 hours, just murdering everyone. This was a temporary event that gave an achievement you could never get again, so you can imagine the impotent tears and rage. 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Croccers posted:BCP left Planetside 2? When did this happen? What was the fallout from it like? I can't remember exactly when, but for the longest time TE's whole slogan was being the #1 Planetside 2 outfit. When we pointed out to BCP that they weren't actually statistically the best, over a thousand members of his outfit got kicked later that day. Most of them were inactive, but it got the ball rolling to the point where he was kicking active members for not having high enough stats. Then he started whining about how his outfit didn't have enough active members, despite still being one of the largest on the server. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mODeV2w9DFQ For anyone who doesn't play Planetside 2, this video is TE pulling 50 or so MAX suits, which would normally be able to break through any defenses, and then getting annihilated in under a minute after pushing through the teleporter. This is because they were both outnumbered, and didn't think that anything was suspicious at all when all of the goons that were fighting them outside mysteriously vanished all at once. So, with the lattice in the game TE is facing fights where they don't have an overwhelming population advantage, which is only being compounded by the fact that their numbers are dropping. Mid June they start getting desperate and tried to recruit as many players as possible, but it didn't really work out for them. Then GU11 came out and BCP had an autism breakdown and quit the game after posting an eight minute whine video. Coincidentally, I have not seen a single hacker since.  As for the fallout, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7_W4WxInkY Also everyone hates us now instead I guess.
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That was masterfully sarcastic. It actually reminds me of an old thing we used to do in Planetside 1 for fun sometimes. I don't know that it was technically griefing, but it made people on the other teams seriously mad sometimes. Planetside 1 had artillery. Not the stupid Orbital Strike thing that made fights terrible (anyone who was a sufficiently advanced character could, every six hours, walk outside and drop what amounted to a minor nuke that would instantly kill anything and everything in a relatively large radius. Long cooldown, but it was miserable when half the server had it and fights were just nonstop nukes), but an actual artillery vehicle, called the Flail. Flails shoot huge rainbow colored energy bolts in a massive arc, dealing heavy damage to anything they hit in a big splash radius around where they land. Flails honestly weren't particularly great - they were cumbersome and boring to play, because it was extremely difficult to land shots without someone spotting for you with a laser target designating gizmo, and no one wanted to carry those because they ate up inventory space, which was always at a premium in any loadout in Planetside 1. Especially for the armor suit that could cloak, the gizmo would take up a full fifth of your already extremely, extremely limited inventory. Flails, while not great, became positively magical when you had two dozen of them lined up and ready to shell things, with a half dozen spotters roaming around lazing targets. My old clan would get our artillery array set up, our spotters in place, then someone would start playing the exact ukelele rendition of Somewhere Over the Rainbow over teamspeak, and we'd go to town pummeling bases with our rainbow firing doom cannons. I feel like it's really humiliating to be trapped inside your base because there are rainbows pounding into every exit nonstop that will kill you the moment you go outside. People got pretty mad about it some times 
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Magres posted:I feel like it's really humiliating to be trapped inside your base because there are rainbows pounding into every exit nonstop that will kill you the moment you go outside. People got pretty mad about it some times This must be what the anti-gay marriage crowd feels like recently.
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Professor Wayne posted:It's been years since I played World of Warcraft, and I would never play it again. But I did have a lot of fun in that game. It's now better than ever. With potions of illusion, you can turn into a giant snake from zul'drak and then turn into a colossus from Uldum. You become a giant snake (for reference, you're taller than the elevator spires in Orgrimmar and roughly as wide as the auction houses). Best part is you can do this in LFR so people can't even click to target things because your model's so loving huge that you're all they can click. Oh man, the rage.
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Cojawfee posted:It's enjoyable just to imagine a nerd getting angry as he tries to roleplay some important diplomatic meeting with another fleet and then they are forced to start dancing because a disco ball showed up. And you'd think that guy would be able to masturbate to his character just the same if it is dancing. Or maybe he is roleplaying himself sneaking up on someone who is sunbathing. What is great is that you don't even need to go after the two dudes pretending to go on a mission. There are such outlandishly bad and obnoxious role players and ERPers on STO that we don't even bother with the bland people.
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Trast posted:What is great is that you don't even need to go after the two dudes pretending to go on a mission. There are such outlandishly bad and obnoxious role players and ERPers on STO that we don't even bother with the bland people. On the Fed side, I've noticed a tendency for pubbies to make their avatar stand at attention when reporting to a higher-ranked NPC for a mission, particularly Admiral Whateverthefuck in Earth spacedock. I try to get them to rage by dropping a disco bomb to wreck their ~~~immersion~~~ but it never works. 
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D34THROW posted:On the Fed side, I've noticed a tendency for pubbies to make their avatar stand at attention when reporting to a higher-ranked NPC for a mission, particularly Admiral Whateverthefuck in Earth spacedock. Given all the crazy poo poo that happens in Star Trek you think mandatory disco would be something you could just roll with. "Captain some strange force compels us to dance! What creature could have such power?"
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Soylent Pudding posted:Given all the crazy poo poo that happens in Star Trek you think mandatory disco would be something you could just roll with. "Captain some strange force compels us to dance! What creature could have such power?" I think there was an episode of Voyager where that happened. Mostly, though, the people saluting NPCs are harmless and, more importantly, don't bother anyone, so I usually leave them be. It's when people start yelling in public areas about ridiculous nonsense that it's worth doing something about.
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Soylent Pudding posted:Given all the crazy poo poo that happens in Star Trek you think mandatory disco would be something you could just roll with. "Captain some strange force compels us to dance! What creature could have such power?" Certainly one man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBTRp80Q64U
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I may be incorrectly recalling, but isnt the 'stand at attention' animation just a result of the animation personality set you choose at character creation, i.e. aggressive, brave, formal, etc?
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Certainly one man: ...poo poo I might have to make a Q character and misquote him constantly at pubbies.
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Orv posted:...poo poo I might have to make a Q character and misquote him constantly at pubbies. Be super un-ironically nice to them all the time too. Then, when they least expect it, help educate them about fire safety in the disco hall.
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Yessss. I wonder if the name Queue is taken.
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Orv posted:Yessss. I wonder if the name Queue is taken. Name him Major Boothroyd so it is the name you want, but as a reference to another series entirely. [EDIT] I should probably explain that: Major Boothroyd was the quartermaster for James Bond, designated "Q".
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Zaodai posted:Major Boothroyd "Now do pay attention, Captain. "Here is your personal gear: your standard phaser, which we've taken the liberty to update. Hit this hidden switch here and you can set it to 'annoy.' Anyone hit by this ray will be wracked with nerve spasms, making them almost dance about in place. Quite handy for distracting persons from other more important objectives. And do be careful with it, we'd like it back in one piece for once. The last thing I want is for some baddy to get angry at forced disco and wipe out its memory chip."
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