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Splode posted:I thought Purple hearts had to be awarded to you? People sell them. Usually grand kids who are assholes.
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Splode posted:I thought Purple hearts had to be awarded to you? He says he got it in an antique shop, though I thought it was illegal to sell them. It doesn't really matter how he got it in the end unless it was awarded to him. EDIT: Holy poo poo, there are 2 million of these things in the world?
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Aug 18, 2014 04:47
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Lot of people get shot in the rear end in wars.
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Aug 18, 2014 04:51
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Thumbtacks posted:This is why you should be careful about private tournaments. So is there some gameplay aspect to what this guy's doing? Or is he just following some streamer around, joining his games, and spamming poo poo in chat?
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Captain McStabbin posted:So is there some gameplay aspect to what this guy's doing? Or is he just following some streamer around, joining his games, and spamming poo poo in chat? Yeah pretty much, though you could argue it obscures an important part of the screen (dumb place to put the chat Blizzard, geez.)
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Captain McStabbin posted:So is there some gameplay aspect to what this guy's doing? Or is he just following some streamer around, joining his games, and spamming poo poo in chat? I think he's exploiting a bug in Battle.net to change his name and get in the tournament. Either that, or he's repeatedly buying name changes, which is more sad than anything really. When he does get in, he spams racist poo poo, then he shuts off his router for a few seconds and turns it back on. This causes the match to pause and wait for him to reconnect. He can do this repeatedly until the 60-second timer runs out.
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Aug 18, 2014 04:58
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RatHat posted:
Most were made in the early 40's in anticipation of the invasion of mainland Japan. The surplus are still being given out IIRC
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Aug 18, 2014 05:03
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It's not griefing. It's stupid and half their YouTube channel is with jace who is basically retarded and the easiest person in the world to gently caress with.
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Aug 18, 2014 05:04
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You can buy purple hearts. The medal itself is totally available for purchase. Anyone griefed by that is ignorant of how medals work. Hell, I think the US hasn't printed any new Purple Hearts since WWII, because of the massive expected casualties for an invasion of Japan.
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Aug 18, 2014 05:05
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That was a pretty good troll Japan pulled I guess.
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Aug 18, 2014 05:12
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SynthOrange posted:Lot of people get shot in the rear end in wars. http://youtu.be/hQwWaWFjd0Y
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Aug 18, 2014 05:41
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RatHat posted:He says he got it in an antique shop, though I thought it was illegal to sell them. It doesn't really matter how he got it in the end unless it was awarded to him. In some countries they are, for instance South Africa. The US does not have this law. What makes it illegal in other countries is the fact that they inscribe the order number on it. If you are caught wearing that medal or having it in your possession, you can see jail time. This was explained to me as I was trading my dress uniform for a South African's at an international shooting competition on a bet. Cause I did ask why I couldn't keep the medals. The US has an ordering system for awards, and without those orders, you cannot wear that award. You can literally buy just about every award the US has to offer online, so no, it doesn't matter how he got it. Nor does it matter which one it is, because they really don't start keeping track and inscribing medals until much later. And you don't even wear medals, you wear ribbons. If it was a MoH, I'm sure that there would be some backlash because those aren't exactly floating around. Same with a VC
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Aug 18, 2014 13:50
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Sneaking into sponsored matches and disrupting them with spam and connection issues is honestly great. I also love how people in this very thread get upset at the griefing videos.RatHat posted:Want to point out the dude doing this griefing uploaded a video of him destroying a Purple Heart he bought just to be a dick.
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Soulex posted:
For info from here: https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/119157-medal-of-honor-buyingsellingpossession/ "If you’re living in the United States, the simple answer is, you can’t. The sale of Medals of Honor is regulated by federal law, specifically Title 18, United States Code, Section 704. The law prohibits the buying, selling, trading, importing, exporting, or bartering for anything of value for a Medal of Honor. The law makes no mention of inheriting a MOH, or gifting one, so the only way you can legally obtain one is if you are given or inherit one. "
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Ogrel72 posted:For info from here: The gifting bit seems a huge loophole. "How did I come by this medal? Well it was gifted to me, you see. Coincidentally, at the same time I happened to purchase a gum wrapper from him for $5000."
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regulargonzalez posted:The gifting bit seems a huge loophole. "How did I come by this medal? Well it was gifted to me, you see. Coincidentally, at the same time I happened to purchase a gum wrapper from him for $5000." To be fair though, I wouldn't really give a crap if someone spent a fortune to buy one just to have. You can't just go around wearing it, and most actual (ex) military folks if they ever see that 13 star ribbon on a uniform blouse are going to ask more than a few questions. Example: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e96_1406050224#2vwWTIyoKZ4xiQt1.99 Most fakes are just as pathetic as this guy. Oh and actual MEDALS on a uniform? Unless its AT the awarding ceremony, or on a Mess Dress uniform its usually fake. (sorry for the derail) TehRedWheelbarrow fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Aug 18, 2014 16:49
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Apparently LoL is trying to kind of stop the horrible toxic players. Player gets banned and admin calls them out on their poo poo by posting logs. http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=49376985
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Here's a better one.quote:Post chatlogs, I know I had at least 1 or 2 games but that resulting in a 2 week ban is unjustified, I should at least have more chat restrictions and/or decrease it to 7 days. Lyte (Riot employee) posted:After further review, your ban has been permanently closed for excessive verbal abuse, racial slurs, indirect death threats, and more. quote:Ok? So can we like pretend I never made this thread and I keep the 2 week ban? Dude's an obvious troll though. Doubt he was really attached to his (secondary) account.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:14
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I recall seeing a similar thing happening on the Xbox forums. A mother opened up a thread for her "innocent" son and wanted an explanation why his XBox Live account was de-activated. Turns out he was exposing himself to people via the kinect camera.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:19
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VanSandman posted:You can buy purple hearts. The medal itself is totally available for purchase. Anyone griefed by that is ignorant of how medals work. Hell, I think the US hasn't printed any new Purple Hearts since WWII, because of the massive expected casualties for an invasion of Japan. Generally Army surplus stores will have those and other medals available to buy. Friend of mine's grandfather earned one and was buried with it, so the family bought another one and placed it by his picture on their mantle.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:26
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Mierenneuker posted:Here's a better one. lovely griefers getting griefed by game admins is the best.
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Aug 18, 2014 18:43
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The GW2 admins did that on reddit a few years ago. It's fantastic. http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/yxx3m/suspensions_for_offensive_names_and_inappropriate/ quote:Mind to check? My character name is Dachshund. quote:Name: OK Chat: Not ok -- "i AM A DOG YOU friend of the family"
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Thumbtacks posted:The GW2 admins did that on reddit a few years ago. It's fantastic. Funny enough I found the screenshot in that thread that I was referring to earlier. 
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RatHat posted:Want to point out the dude doing this griefing uploaded a video of him destroying a Purple Heart he bought just to be a dick. Want to point out that the fat white guy bashing on a purple heart was a viral video from a few weeks ago and that is just a reupload that happened to fool news articles and youtube commenters into thinking it was the original. For the sole intent of generating funny comments. guess it works on goons too though Daman fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Aug 18, 2014 |
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Mierenneuker posted:Here's a better one. The  doesn't sink in until after a few pages in when you realize at the same time as the troll that Lyte was talking about the guy's main account getting the permaban.
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Marlamaid Swordhand posted:The I don't see any mention of his main getting banned. I see a lot of people calling for it but unless he breaks ToS on that account it's safe. Too bad though, I wanted to see that guy break down when they banned his primary.
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m.hache posted:I don't see any mention of his main getting banned. I see a lot of people calling for it but unless he breaks ToS on that account it's safe. Ya this, on page 5 that Lyte guy responds to someone calling for a ban of the dude's main with "If they behave the same way on their main account, it'll be banned."
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More dumb Robocraft F2P stuff. Making wordbots is stupid easy, but if you add higher tier weapons you can be somewhat effective in the lower tiers. Despite this robit being absolute poo poo, the sole weapon on the bot is easily capable of wreaking havoc in a lower tier battle.  The weapon on top of the H is a railgun. It takes a long time to charge up, but when it does it is pinpoint accurate and is capable of nuking almost any Tier 3 or lower player. I'm playing in Tier 2.  The best part? When you're killed by anyone, the camera zooms in on your killer and remains there for a few seconds. what  what
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It's a point-based rank system. Armor adds very little rank while weapons add a bunch, and movement items add even more. If he added another railgun he'd get more shots in but he'd be bumped up a tier.
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Tier is based on total the equipment value of the whatbot. You can take higher tier weapons into low tiers by having lovely armor, wheels, etc.
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Earlier in the game's history, they had just finished boosting the cost weighting of tougher armour to reduce the prevalence of near-indestructible tanks in some brackets, and people actually had to choose between powerful guns or tough armour to some extent instead of just loading up a smallish cube of hellishly resilient blocks and plonking a single huge cannon in the middle. This led to a lot more experimentation and somewhat better balance, until someone figured out you could simply bolt the biggest loving gun you could get onto your cockpit and have a robot with two parts: a gigantic cannon and the screaming pilot strapped to said cannon. They would use the weapon's recoil to propel themselves and essentially zip through the air on barely-controllable laser-fuelled rocket ships, occasionally one-shotting opponents with a well-placed zap as they spiraled overhead at Mach 4. I got into the game just after that little exploit got nerfed. The bigger guns had their recoil considerably reduced, and if I remember right, it was no longer possible to weld a weapon directly to your pilot's chair. It seemed the gunchair was a thing of the past... until I figured out that, by attaching my cockpit to a little line of three or four blocks and clustering a handful of moderately high-powered, downward-facing, rapid-firing laser turrets along the outside faces, I could create a new iteration of the gunchair: the LASER TORNADO. When you have a bunch of the same gun, holding down the fire button chain-fires them continuously, one after another, at regular intervals. The right gun, in the right quantity, balanced against just the right amount of weight with just the right distribution, could chain-fire in such a way that my little armoured sofa began to spin at increasing velocity, steadily building up momentum as it whirled forward atop a wake of projectiles like some unholy marriage between a helicopter and a terrifying airborne squid composed mostly of lasers. It would continuously gain speed with no apparent limit as long as I kept it pointed in more or less the same direction, and its shape was such that it would ricochet madly off of terrain without slowing down much at all. Enemies would fire wildly at air as this little rear end in a top hat spaceman on a gun-encrusted demon couch flew/ricocheted/screamed past them at normally unattainable speeds in an obnoxious clusterfuck of PEW PEW sounds, hideous grinding metal-on-ground noises, dust clouds, and wildly inaccurate laser blasts, until the sheer volume of projectiles finally sheared a wheel or gun or something off of someone (or scored a lucky hit to the cockpit and killed them outright). Meanwhile, my teammates would trundle up in their dickmobiles and giant flying swords and goofy little space rovers and start shooting the enemies in the rear end while they fishtailed around trying to target me in the quarter-second before I slammed into the edge of the map and ricocheted around for another pass. Sometimes I would ram into enemies and flip them over, then spin in place like a douchebag hovercraft before PEWing away into the sunset (read: the enemy base, where I would sit around scoring capture points until they rushed to stop me, then howl away in a storm of lasers and hysterical laughter). It was not a very effective design - I didn't get a lot of points - but holy gently caress was it ever fun as hell to play, and I used to get quite a bit of rage in chat.
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Angry Diplomat posted:someone figured out you could simply bolt the biggest loving gun you could get onto your cockpit and have a robot with two parts: a gigantic cannon and the screaming pilot strapped to said cannon. They would use the weapon's recoil to propel themselves and essentially zip through the air on barely-controllable laser-fuelled rocket ships, occasionally one-shotting opponents with a well-placed zap as they spiraled overhead at Mach 4. quote:The right gun, in the right quantity, balanced against just the right amount of weight with just the right distribution, could chain-fire in such a way that my little armoured sofa began to spin at increasing velocity, steadily building up momentum as it whirled forward atop a wake of projectiles like some unholy marriage between a helicopter and a terrifying airborne squid composed mostly of lasers. quote:Enemies would fire wildly at air as this little rear end in a top hat spaceman on a gun-encrusted demon couch flew/ricocheted/screamed past them at normally unattainable speeds in an obnoxious clusterfuck of PEW PEW sounds, hideous grinding metal-on-ground noises, dust clouds, and wildly inaccurate laser blasts
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Angry Diplomat posted:Earlier in the game's history, they had just finished boosting the cost weighting of tougher armour to reduce the prevalence of near-indestructible tanks in some brackets, and people actually had to choose between powerful guns or tough armour to some extent instead of just loading up a smallish cube of hellishly resilient blocks and plonking a single huge cannon in the middle. This led to a lot more experimentation and somewhat better balance, until someone figured out you could simply bolt the biggest loving gun you could get onto your cockpit and have a robot with two parts: a gigantic cannon and the screaming pilot strapped to said cannon. They would use the weapon's recoil to propel themselves and essentially zip through the air on barely-controllable laser-fuelled rocket ships, occasionally one-shotting opponents with a well-placed zap as they spiraled overhead at Mach 4. This is art
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Here is a video from the Robocraft thread of the original Gunchair in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olCQTkEP2sI Looks hilarious.
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Angry Diplomat posted:It seemed the gunchair was a thing of the past... until I figured out that, by attaching my cockpit to a little line of three or four blocks and clustering a handful of moderately high-powered, downward-facing, rapid-firing laser turrets along the outside faces, I could create a new iteration of the gunchair: the LASER TORNADO.
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And I put this in the wrong thread... 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Here is a video from the Robocraft thread of the original Gunchair in action. That's actually a lot more effective/practical than I thought it'd be. Is there no fall/collision damage in that game?
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Doodles posted:Just a couple of updates from Steam. All of this is happening this coming weekend: I think you might have the wrong thread guy. 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I think you might have the wrong thread guy. Not if he's lying 
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