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kirbysuperstar posted:Would you rather go back to griefing people with playing cards? At least this is video games. Most of those tabletop stories were great  Artemis J Brassnuts posted:... Go gently caress yourself  I have actually been loving with people lately though, so here's my little bit for the rest of you. One of my favorite "takes this game too seriously" gamer types is the kind in loot pinata games. Torchlight, Borderlands, Diablo. People who absolutely hate the idea of gear or whatever that wasn't won through a hard slog of fellating the RNG. The kind of people who take pride in having caught over a hundred of each Pokemon in their party and leveling them all up manually to 100 and then doing formulas to figure out their hidden stats to pick the one with the best arrangement they desperately want. This is specifically about Borderlands, which thanks to people like Gibbed you can gently caress with endlessly with cheat engine tables. What got me playing again was a new "lootsplosion" table. Basically you can make literally everything drop a profusion of items from it's loot table and have basic enemies littering the ground with everything from whites to legendaries in altered proportions. Previously, controlling your drops involved altering probabilities so normal drops were never greens and always purples or whatever, and spawning hordes of enemies which drop whatever you want to farm faster. Now, you can guarantee drops you want through sheer numbers while crashing the clients of people with lesser computers through ground clutter. Yesterday though, yesterday we got some kind of "True drops" crusader. I was playing with some random pubbies who were having a blast with that table enabled. Basically, if you host your cheat tables will work in multi. And I had two kids, probably 12-15, following me around laughing their asses off as skags exploded money, eridium, and rare loot all over everything. They thought it was awesome, and we were having fun constantly trying out new guns and leaving the ones we didn't like by the side of the road like empty Starbucks cups. Enter some guy who had to be in his mid 20s who saw what we were doing and started yelling at us. Mild cursing interspersed with "ruining your game experience" and "you can't cheat real life, why would you cheat a game" and other such nonsense. The two kids I had in my game did not take this lightly. They fired back the usual barrage of "You're a stupid human being" and other such insults you'd expect from people who have only existed in social situations where it's acceptable to curse for a couple of years. And to his credit, Crusader dude toned down just a tad when he realized that he was talking to a pair of teenagers probably at least a decade younger than he was. Well, he toned down until they went ahead and volunteered "We're not even doing this anyway. We joined this game and the guy hosting it is the one who's making it rain guns" I'm 28. I sound 28. And when I spoke up and he realized that it's a 28 year old dude showing kids how to cheat in a multiplayer game and like it, he called me a predator. Not a sexual predator, just a predator. I found myself facing accusations from another grown man that I was seducing children to my warped cheat-friendly worldview. I was damaging their ability to function in the real world by showing them that you can cheat your way around things and not actually ever have to put in any work to get what you want. That I was teaching them it was perfectly ok to circumvent societal conventions (as dictated by the programming of Borderlands 2) and he then began entreating the kids to leave my game with him and "forsake these hedonistic lands of gun-plenty which is not an accurate reflection of real life." Yeah, that's a direct quote. The upshot of it all came when they wouldn't leave and I couldn't kick him and didn't feel like quitting out and trying to reform or something, he eventually got tired of following us around murdering things and picking up guns everywhere and asked if I would please turn off the code and go legitimately farm a Bee shield for him. The younger sounding of the two kids turned and shat out four of them, saying we'd already done that and he should just take one of the ones there. Dude sat there for about 20 seconds silent, picked up all 4 shields, and promptly quit the game. It took us a few minutes to stop laughing after that, gather ourselves, and go murder some more bandits. The only thing better than a self righteous crusader is one who's also a total hypocrite. TheSpiritFox fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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Tardcore posted:I actually think it was just intent to maim, making it even dumber, there's no way in hell he was trying to kill him if all he hit was the owners hand. Zereth posted:I'm pretty sure you are massively overestimating the typical accuracy of a handgun shooter. I also imagine the owner was doing something other than standing there like a chump and taking it.
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Well, I (in an admittedly rather petty way) wasted nearly half an hour of someone else's time in Hearthstone earlier tonight. For reference's sake, most matches take 5-10 minutes.  To put it as simply as possible, the deck I run revolves around preventing the opponent from acting as much as possible, be it preventing their minions from attacking on their next turn, murdering the gently caress out of it with a spell, etc. Outside of playing one rather rare minion, turns in Hearthstone last for 1:30 or so at max. There is a system to combat AFK'ers they have in place that causes people who totally ran out the timer on their turn to start the next with a reduced amount of time. If they manually end it, even if it's only a split-second shy of automatically ending, they'll still start with a full timer the next round. So, I essentially did everything I intended to do in my play within 15-30 seconds, then tabbed out to play Cookie Clicker until I heard the warnings HS gives when your time's almost up, then tabbed back to manually end my turn. Every. Single. Turn. Between that and the aforementioned shenanigans of my deck, the other guy almost never got to use his minions after the early game, while I kept plinking away at him directly. Eventually, he made a sudden reversal on his board, and brought out several powerful minions that would've killed me on his next turn (most creatures in HS have to wait a turn after they're summoned before they can attack). Until I played a spell that'd been in my hand for nearly all of the game, which dealt more than enough damage to his hero to win me the game. Honestly, I feel kinda guilty about it in retrospect, especially since it all started for incredibly petty reasons on my end. 
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Regalingualius posted:Well, I (in an admittedly rather petty way) wasted nearly half an hour of someone else's time in Hearthstone earlier tonight. For reference's sake, most matches take 5-10 minutes. This is dumb, and so are you. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:This is dumb, and so are you. I know. Like I said, I did it for rather stupid reasons, and the guy I did it to really did nothing on his part to deserve it.
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Dr. Tim Whatley posted:This is dumb, and so are you.
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TheSpiritFox posted:This is specifically about Borderlands, which thanks to people like Gibbed you can gently caress with endlessly with cheat engine tables. So my aunt should've gone to jail for giving me that Game Genie. Good to know 
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FactsAreUseless posted:Intentionally making someone's gameplay experience miserable for no good reason is the classical definition of griefing Yes, but in this thread we expect some kind of creativity in our griefing stories. Any ten year old kid can waste timers, shoot teamates, or scream into a microphone, but that poo poo is totally uninteresting and not worth posting. Griefs in this thread are supposed to involve something actually funny, that's why it isn't just pages and pages "LOL I just shot my teammates in Call of Duty and then called them faggots!" For Content: I was playing Dark Souls the other day and was summoned by another player in the Undead Parish. Now in this area there is an NPC named Lautrec, who drops a very nice ring for the early game if you kill him (which is optional). The thing is, summoned players cannot interact with NPCs in the host's world in any fashion, even to attack them. My summoner was apparently unaware of this and attacked Lautrec, then clearly went into a defensive posture expecting me to attack him from behind. Instead of doing anything to communicate this to him or simply stand there silently, I just started doing a variety of emotes like dancing a jig with my channeler stick. I couldn't have done anything to help him or hinder him anyway, but by dancing around the whole time it looked like I was willfully refusing to help him. Lautrec slowly whittled him down and killed him, and after he was dead I was sent a rage filled message demanding to know why I didn't help him. Meme Poker Party fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Oct 27, 2013 |
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I used to play the old school Day of Defeat 1.3b mod for Half Life in high school. There was a bleeding system. There was a somewhat random chance that a shot would cause someone to slowly bleed. While bleeding, their health would decrease gradually. Unless they stopped it with a bandage, they'd be dead in 10 seconds. All you had to do was hit the X key, and you had as many bandages as needed. Pistols and shots on the limbs were less likely to initiate bleeding. Servers with team damage on were rare, and those that did have TD enabled always had some voting kick script for teamkillers. The hilarious grief was not to teamkill, but to be teamkilled. If you had a douchebaggy teammate, it was pretty easy to get them kicked/banned for teamkilling. Jump in front of their grenade. Run into their line of fire. But the best was to shoot their feet with your pistol. You could put 3 or 4 rounds into them and it wouldn't kill them, but bring their health so low that a single shot from any enemy would kill them. Almost every time, they'd realize what was happening and fire a shot into your center mass with their main weapon. If you were really lucky, you'd start bleeding. Don't bandage yourself, and you bleed out and die, and they get the TK logged against them and are now kicked. The rage that inspired was hilarious. It was extra fun to taunt them in chat, "Why did you do that to me? Aren't you trying to play the game? Please stop TK'ing me  " just before the banhammer came down.
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GTA Online has all kinds of good griefs. They've been posted in the gta thread, but I don't know about here. One way to grief yourself is by getting a tank. It costs a lot of money and is totally useless if you don't want bad sport. If someone else has a tank, good times are about to be had. Take your personal (and insured) vehicle, the higher the value the better and drive towards the person in the tank. They might shoot you with the cannon and get some bad sport points. Keep doing this and they might learn to not shoot you as you are bringing personal vehicles. This doesn't end everything because you can drive your car under the tank treads. This counts as them blowing you up. Do this enough times and they'll pay a bunch of money to get your car back as well as get kicked to bad sport land when they leave the session. Another fun thing has to do with Simeon's high priority vehicles. A green car icon shows up on everyone's map and if you get it, respray it and take it to the docks, you get a few thousand bucks. Not really worth it at all for the time spent, but people do it anyway. There are a few ways to go about dealing with this. One way is to get to the car, throw a sticky on it and leave. Eventually you will get a notification that someone has grabbed the high priority vehicle and you blow it up. Pretty easy, not as satisfying. Another thing to do is take the vehicle yourself, drive to the mod shop and put an ignition bomb on it. Take the car and drive up to a bunch of pubbies and they will kill you to try to get the car. They will fight amongst themselves to get it. One of them finally wins and gets in, BOOM! My personal favorite is to wait until it says someone has grabbed the car. Once they have it, there's only two places they can go. They'll go to LSC to spray it and then to the docks to turn it in. Some people go to the nearest LSC, I go to the docks as there are several mod shops the person could go to. Place some sticky grenades on the ground in front of the garage door and run away. Get a sniper scope or something to look from afar. When the person shows up with the car and drive to the garage, detonate your stickies. I think this is the most satisfying because all I had to do was drive to docks and wait. This person spent at least a few minutes losing the cops, getting to a mod shop to repair and spray the car and then the trek down to the docks. Not to mention they have to find a new car (cars don't spawn much at the docks) whereas I can just drive away. It forces them to spend a thousand dollars and waste their time and they don't even get the pittance of a reward at the end. Another good grief comes from glitching insurance onto non insurable vehicles. There's a way to put emergency vehicles and helicopters into your garage and glitch insurance onto them. When someone blows up your personal vehicle, they get badsport points and also have to pay for your insurance. So if you insure something like a tank or a buzzard, it gets expensive for pubs. Take your tank out and let someone borrow it. Eventually they might blow it up in their rampage. There goes $18K out of their bank account. Fly your buzzard around and shoot at pubs, let them blow up your chopper. They just lost 12K.
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TheSpiritFox posted:One of my favorite "takes this game too seriously" gamer types is the kind in loot pinata games. Torchlight, Borderlands, Diablo. People who absolutely hate the idea of gear or whatever that wasn't won through a hard slog of fellating the RNG. The funniest example of this kind of attitude I've seen is when the CEO of Gearbox(the developers of Borderlands) called people who use modified loot tables "e-terrorists" on twitter:  E: Keep in mind Bordelands 2 has no competetive multiplayer element so the cheating in it is basically like cheating in a singleplayer game.
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Small and Blue posted:The funniest example of this kind of attitude I've seen is when the CEO of Gearbox(the developers of Borderlands) called people who use modified loot tables "e-terrorists" on twitter: I'm 99% sure this was in response to people harassing him after changes to how The Bee shield worked, it had nothing to do with modified loot tables.
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Not_Log posted:I'm 99% sure this was in response to people harassing him after changes to how The Bee shield worked, it had nothing to do with modified loot tables. This is correct. They made the bee have a much longer recharge delay, which made it more likely that you're not going to be at full shields and get to have every shot have am extra 20k tacked on to the front end of the damage calculations. It hurt a few specific bee-dependent speedrun builds designed to murder raid bosses in under a minute solo. Rather than being an expression of taking a game too seriously, that post was the developers being irritated at the response to a change they made from people who take the game too seriously.
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I was unintentionally griefed today in GTA V by another goon. But, it started yesterday. Yesterday, fellow goon Fallenintheblak and I drove around endlessly looking for a specific vehicle. The Karin Rebel 4x4 version. To be fair, it's a nice car, and I had no problems helping. A few hours goes by with no sign of this car. So we both leave and do something else. Today, Fallen decided to put a 9k bounty on me while I was in passive mode. For those who don't play, a bounty on someone makes them stand out by being a giant red dot on the map. If you get the person who has the bounty, you get the money. I don't think anything of it, and continue to mess around. Since I am in passive mode, people can't directly kill me. I do a few races and mess around for an hour or two until I enter free roam. As soon as I enter the free roam session, there is a brand new Karin Rebel 4x4 waiting for me. I jump in it, and am immediately destroyed by guards surrounding the area I was at. No big deal, I respawn and rush over there. I get in, and start driving away when a missile comes out of nowhere and explodes right in front of me. Some guy is shooting at me from a Buzzard, a helicopter with missiles on it. I quickly think about my choices. Try and out run the guy and bank on the fact that he can't target me, or get out of the vehicle so there is minimal risk that it will blow up and let this guy kill me. You see, the bounty, that Fallen put on as a joke a few hours ago is still very active. So I get out of the car and jump up and down so this person kills me. No big deal. I start running back to the car after I respawn only to see this rear end in a top hat get into the car I was trying to take, and drive off. I steal a car and start chasing him. Meanwhile, the person I just raced with, Caramaine, is asking what is going on only to be told to shut up. I'm mad and I want my truck. I chased this person for five minutes before I can get close enough to shoot out his tires and move up close to try and kill him. I damage him a lot but sadly, in the end I died. I respawned and rushed for the truck. All four tires have been shot out, and the guy is nowhere to be seen. I hop in and limp to the nearest customs shop. I repair, and start the 3 mile drive throu mountains back to my garage. Because I was angry at this person, I put a bounty on him. 9k for being an rear end in a top hat. About a mile into my trek back home, this red dot comes zooming out of nowhere and shoots a missile right in front of me, blowing up the car in front of me. God drat it. So I start to take this thing off road. H can't lock on, missiles are hard to get right at cars, and I want this truck pretty bad. He keeps following me, shooting at me and trying to kill me. I crest over a mountain and hide under a bridge for a second and call Lester. Lester is this hacker guy that can make you lose warrant levels, find cars for you, make bounties, or make you disappear from radar for a minute. So I pay him the money, and call a mercenary service to attack this guy as a distraction. As soon as he makes a pass I drive away, and make it back out onto the road and try to blend in with the other cars. I finally make it back to my garage with the truck, dented and beaten to poo poo. Ad the whole thing might have never happened if Fallen wouldn't have put that bounty up.
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FactsAreUseless posted:Intentionally making someone's gameplay experience miserable for no good reason is the classical definition of griefing, and by "classical" I mean "in the Greek or Roman sense." It was the Roman emperor Nero who once asked, as he spawncamped a burning Rome, "Iratus es, frater?" Yeah it but it should be funny and/or creative.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Yeah it but it should be funny and/or creative. Yeah and his Latin is wrong.
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Soulex posted:I finally make it back to my garage with the truck, dented and beaten to poo poo. Ad the whole thing might have never happened if Fallen wouldn't have put that bounty up. Why did you care after you got to LSC? Once you put a tracker and insurance on it, you can't lose it.
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Chomp8645 posted:For Content: I was playing Dark Souls the other day and was summoned by another player in the Undead Parish. Now in this area there is an NPC named Lautrec, who drops a very nice ring for the early game if you kill him (which is optional). The thing is, summoned players cannot interact with NPCs in the host's world in any fashion, even to attack them. My summoner was apparently unaware of this and attacked Lautrec, then clearly went into a defensive posture expecting me to attack him from behind. Instead of doing anything to communicate this to him or simply stand there silently, I just started doing a variety of emotes like dancing a jig with my channeler stick. I couldn't have done anything to help him or hinder him anyway, but by dancing around the whole time it looked like I was willfully refusing to help him. Lautrec slowly whittled him down and killed him, and after he was dead I was sent a rage filled message demanding to know why I didn't help him. You were literally doing everything you could to help short of bringing the group heal miracles which if I recall are not really worth the slots.
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Yeah the group heal miracles are pretty poo poo. You're way, way better off bringing attack miracles/spells/pyromancies than bringing the crappy healing ones. None of your healing compares to Estus Flasks or Humanity at all.
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Soulex posted:I was unintentionally griefed today in GTA V by another goon. But, it started yesterday. It's me. I'm the horrible person. The truck was so worth it though.
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Chomp8645 posted:Yes, but in this thread we expect some kind of creativity in our griefing stories. Any ten year old kid can waste timers, shoot teamates, or scream into a microphone, but that poo poo is totally uninteresting and not worth posting. Griefs in this thread are supposed to involve something actually funny, that's why it isn't just pages and pages "LOL I just shot my teammates in Call of Duty and then called them faggots!" That actually happened on a game I was summoned too once, and me and the other player just decided to form a human wall between the player and Lautrec.
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SlothfulCobra posted:That actually happened on a game I was summoned too once, and me and the other player just decided to form a human wall between the player and Lautrec. Yeah, that's about all you can do with the various "important" NPCs if the host picks a fight with them. There's one fight that's actually fairly difficult, against the two clerics in Tomb of the Giants, where just being in the way of one of the NPCs can be a huge help to your host.
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Cojawfee posted:Why did you care after you got to LSC? Once you put a tracker and insurance on it, you can't lose it. I didnt want to die and have the guy succeed in finally destroying the vehicle. I was not happy at that point and refused to let him have the last word essentially.
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-Zydeco- posted:I also imagine the owner was doing something other than standing there like a chump and taking it. He was parrying the bullets, which the gunman didn't know he could do and thus griefing him.
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FallinInTheBlak posted:It's me. I'm the horrible person. The truck was so worth it though. Inadvertent with a priceless story. 
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AXE COP posted:This doesn't actually work just fyi, multiple reports in one game just roll together into one. I guess if you got matched up with them a few times in a row somehow? Back to top hat guy from my earlier post for a second, we called his top hat a fedora for long enough that it ticked him off and he tabbed out of his game to educate us on the difference between the two
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tomanton posted:Seriously? So if you're being a bigoted match-ruining menace to the point where all 9 other players report you, 8 of those reports are effectively wasted? One more incomprehensible decision in an incomprehensible game. It's to stop people in one round from griefing someone. The idea is to punish repeat offenders, not let one game decide everything. The idea is people who are going to be problems will still get picked up by the system.
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Reading these 2013 "griefing" stories makes me miss oldschool UO and the terrible things you used to be able to do to people 
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Path of Exile is a F2P game that is kind of a grind. To take my mind off of the monotony when I'm clicking monsters, I perhaps dabble in a bit of trolling. Just a bit. Seriously that player base must be either very young, very serious about the game. All I typed was "please don't curse in public chat, it offends my Christian beliefs", and I kid you not, a debate on the value of cursing and religious freedom continued for a good 20 minutes off of that one comment, with some people getting REALLY MAD about it. Everyone in PoE also seems to LOVE or HATE Dota 2 and LoL.
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James Johnson [145.9] says, "You know, I came all the way from space for a mail delivery. It's loving gibs."
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Just a PSA to remind everyone to piss off misogynist and other bigots in GTA Online. With a large enough server, you can go from repeatedly killing someone for being a block away from you to experiencing a verbal equivalent to a youtube debate. Like child birth, it's a horrible, painful, and disgusting series events that you can't help but think is beautiful.
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MizPiz posted:Just a PSA to remind everyone to piss off misogynist and other bigots in GTA Online. With a large enough server, you can go from repeatedly killing someone for being a block away from you to experiencing a verbal equivalent to a youtube debate. Like child birth, it's a horrible, painful, and disgusting series events that you can't help but think is beautiful. This is what molotov cocktails are for. Either that or blockading their garage with as many large vehicles as possible.
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Splendiferous posted:Reading these 2013 "griefing" stories makes me miss oldschool UO and the terrible things you used to be able to do to people Try EVE Online, where you can literally trick someone into handing you everything they own and then walk away with no repercussions whatsoever and no restitution for your victims. And by "try" I mean "read about". Don't play EVE.
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Ok, so people remember when having your games streamed to you from a PC someplace far away was starting to be a big thing, and one of these services was OnLive, right? OnLive had a feature where you could watch other people play their games and actually talk to them, part of me wishes that OnLive was more successful because stuff like this is beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2JiMEk_eh8
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I know this might be a tall order but I think there is a picture of someone putting buttbots over the radio in SS13. Can anyone link me the story and pictures. Also anything else with butt bots because those things are hilarious.
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Soulex posted:I know this might be a tall order but I think there is a picture of someone putting buttbots over the radio in SS13. Can anyone link me the story and pictures. Also anything else with butt bots because those things are hilarious. Angry Diplomat posted:My god, it's full of butt, part 1: the Cluwne factory
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Yeah that's it. I love that story!
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theshim posted:This one? (I dunno about any pictures, though). Unfortunately that incident drove the coders to change it so that non-humans can't broadcast over radio. A sad, but glorious end.
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