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The Deadly Hume
May 26, 2004

Let's get a little crazy. Let's have some fun.

Agean90 posted:

use to grief the gently caress outta this one kid by pulling a football away from him whenever he'd try to punt it. What a blockhead.
Good grief!

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Cryohazard
Feb 5, 2010

That's not griefing, it goes beyond the confines of the game and is just plain mean-spirited, furthermore

TheObserver
Nov 7, 2012

Cryohazard posted:

That's not griefing, it goes beyond the confines of the game and is just plain mean-spirited, furthermore

Counterpoint: you're a blockhead.

:master:

TheObserver fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Nov 25, 2014

Dick Burglar
Mar 6, 2006
No matter how many times I watch this video, I can't get over the kid at 0:45. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6YVmBXUaRM

TheSpiritFox
Jan 4, 2009

I'm just a memory, I can't give you any new information.

Dick Burglar posted:

No matter how many times I watch this video, I can't get over the kid at 0:45. I love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6YVmBXUaRM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWZLa4AnN5k

This one is my favorite name troll.

g0t_hats
Jan 17, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6-3St_CPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIZ4Dq7qG0E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg-eRkZWr5Q

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

lol they keep saying pussy and friend of the family over and over, that's hilarious

e: For content, have some TF2 2014 Halloween griefing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmhwq9ZXC8

Highlights: neverending ghost party, a teleporter exit that causes people to instantly be killed by a giant cartoon hammer, and blue spies killing people inside of the red spawn area

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Nov 27, 2014

Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007


*sexy girl laugh*

wuat
Jul 12, 2009

QuarkJets posted:

lol they keep saying pussy and friend of the family over and over, that's hilarious

e: For content, have some TF2 2014 Halloween griefing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmhwq9ZXC8

Highlights: neverending ghost party, a teleporter exit that causes people to instantly be killed by a giant cartoon hammer, and blue spies killing people inside of the red spawn area

lol they keep dying over and over without a single bit of rage, that's hilarious
great 13 minute video but apparently that guy (or you) doesnt know why griefing is funny?????

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Locking people inside of a tiny conference room for an entire match while they beg to be let out is awesome, but if you prefer people screaming racial slurs instead then that's cool

g0t_hats
Jan 17, 2014

QuarkJets posted:

Locking people inside of a tiny conference room for an entire match while they beg to be let out is awesome, but if you prefer people screaming racial slurs instead then that's cool

Are you like, a connoisseur of fine griefing?

tomanton
May 22, 2006

beam me up, tomato
think of griefing as working at monsters inc, you have a direct connection to some kids bedroom and your job is to make em scream

http://youtu.be/b5HxtQD27tA

http://youtu.be/FhgpjJd1d1w

http://youtu.be/mE2LS3ptReA

Machai
Feb 21, 2013

tomanton posted:

think of griefing as working at monsters inc, you have a direct connection to some kids bedroom and your job is to make em scream

http://youtu.be/b5HxtQD27tA

http://youtu.be/FhgpjJd1d1w

http://youtu.be/mE2LS3ptReA

Aatrek's dream job

Free Cheese
Sep 16, 2005
Come on, it's free
Buglord
loving lol 'the king'

Croccers
Jun 15, 2012

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

I use Hola unblocker so I can buy super discounted NFL internet streaming packages from non broadcasting countries. Works pretty well.
For real? And you save money doing this? Sounds like a #lifehack there, maybe. Using an Unblocker mightbe too hard for the Lifehack crowd.

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

Croccers posted:

For real? And you save money doing this? Sounds like a #lifehack there, maybe. Using an Unblocker mightbe too hard for the Lifehack crowd.

Check the thread in TFF

wuat
Jul 12, 2009

QuarkJets posted:

Locking people inside of a tiny conference room for an entire match while they beg to be let out is awesome, but if you prefer people screaming racial slurs instead then that's cool

except nobody said anything the whole video haha lol sure trolled them

g0t_hats
Jan 17, 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTtvQbjlGvo

QwertySanchez
Jun 19, 2009

a wacky guy
I love how they just disappear and their gun falls to the floor. *poof*

Sanctum
Feb 14, 2005

Property was their religion
A church for one
I posted this in the Dark Souls II thread a while back, and I'm shocked the guy hasn't taken the video down yet. If nothing else, it's an interesting perspective because the video is recorded from the perspective of the griefed rather than the griefer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjAZa3p9rQ

The guy recording is playing the game using Havels armor which is this giant silver clunky armor that's become synonymous with newbies because it lets players face-tank their way through most of the game instead of learning how to dodge effectively. Problem is it's heavy as hell so while they can face-tank their way through the game, actual dodging is a problem for them. The red player is an invader that forces his way into the hosts world with the goal of killing them, except this invader has a better idea...

The invader uses a boss-weapon that briefly slows the target and then chucks acid urns and casts an acid mist pyromancy to degrade the host's equipment. Instead of killing the host he is slowly breaking all of his gear, which the host will have to repair for a not insignificant cost. It's a great bit of justice since the host would have no issues with the invader if he knew how to dodge. And then there's that last bit. :allears:

The ultimate irony? The host in question is the guy that makes the "this is how you don't play dark souls" videos making fun of DSP's playthroughs. He is quite possibly worse than DSP, which is mind-boggling. And he uploaded the video. :psyduck:

Tarquis
May 11, 2013

Every time Idra smiles a puppy dies!
I've been reading this forum for a while now and never made a post so I decided to change that today.

I used to play World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King on a pirate server a while back, it was one of those servers with an interesting community and GMs that used to make cool events all the time. One of these events was a maze with invisible teleporters, and if you stepped in them they teleport you to the start of the maze. The goal was to get to the other side, and the first to do so would get a prize in tokens, (special currency on the web site of the server) which could be used to buy a whole lot of rare items and mounts. There was a surprise at the last part of the maze though... You would be teleported to a hole from which you could not escape, not even hearthstone out. I fell for the teleport trick and ended up in the hole. The thing GMs forgot was that they gave us a command to teleport to the nearest GM in the last event. I used the command, and teleported to the nearest GM, which surprised him because he saw me get teleported to the hole, and I started running away... He did not like me escaping so he caught me and tried to make me tell him how I escaped... I refused to tell him so he summoned 4 NPCs that just stunlocked me forever, which was the usual punishment for disobeying any GM, and there was no easy way to get away from them without help... However with the use of the previously mentioned command I teleported back to him and started running away again... This time he was really mad and just outright permabanned me for not following the rules of the event...

Later that day I noticed that my in game name was in a couple of forum threads on the site because people were laughing about me fooling around with the GMs, which was not usual since they were really strict and used to ban a lot, and some about trying to figure out how I did it.
All in all, I had a good laugh, as did some of the other members, and even made a new account to keep trying to mess around with these events.

AbrahamLincolnLog
Oct 1, 2014

Note to self: This one's the shitty one
Speaking of WoW griefing:

In the new expansion, Warlords of Draenor, there was a mechanic where you can recruit a "bodyguard", which is an NPC that is a functionally permanent pet who follows you around and attacks what you do in the open world. Anyone can get it if they have the right building in their player-housing Garrisons. You could, if you want, click them to open a dialogue box and send them back home.

Except Blizzard forgot to disable the dialogue box for players who AREN'T the NPCs owner. So anyone could send anyone's bodyguard back home.

They would be standing there, fighting something, then see my character roll up, click their bodyguard, and have their NPC buddy go "Okay! See you back at base later! :D" and run off into the distance leaving the player behind.

So many angry whispers and accusations of hacking.

Magres
Jul 14, 2011

Sanctum posted:

I posted this in the Dark Souls II thread a while back, and I'm shocked the guy hasn't taken the video down yet. If nothing else, it's an interesting perspective because the video is recorded from the perspective of the griefed rather than the griefer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjAZa3p9rQ

The guy recording is playing the game using Havels armor which is this giant silver clunky armor that's become synonymous with newbies because it lets players face-tank their way through most of the game instead of learning how to dodge effectively. Problem is it's heavy as hell so while they can face-tank their way through the game, actual dodging is a problem for them. The red player is an invader that forces his way into the hosts world with the goal of killing them, except this invader has a better idea...

The invader uses a boss-weapon that briefly slows the target and then chucks acid urns and casts an acid mist pyromancy to degrade the host's equipment. Instead of killing the host he is slowly breaking all of his gear, which the host will have to repair for a not insignificant cost. It's a great bit of justice since the host would have no issues with the invader if he knew how to dodge. And then there's that last bit. :allears:

The ultimate irony? The host in question is the guy that makes the "this is how you don't play dark souls" videos making fun of DSP's playthroughs. He is quite possibly worse than DSP, which is mind-boggling. And he uploaded the video. :psyduck:

I love Dark Souls griefing in general, and THE WALL is probably my favorite one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXp8Th41rBs

There's a specific place in Dark Souls 1 that's notoriously difficult - you have to run up a narrow ledge while archers with great bows shoot at you - if they hit you the shot knocks you back and will likely toss you off the ledge to your death. The narrow ledge aspect means it's also a perfect place to set up shop with a tower shield and refuse to let people pass or to shove them off ledges, which is exactly what he does.

Eye of Widesauron
Mar 29, 2014

Whoah

Horace Kinch
Aug 15, 2007

Another WoW grief! To celebrate WoW's 10th anniversary of monopolizing the MMO genre, they scaled up an old 40-man raid called Molten Core. It was pretty notorious in its hayday because it required every single person to jump through a billion goddamn hoops just to be able to survive that place. Everything about it reeks of bad design in retrospect. They scaled it up previously, but the bosses pretty much just sat there for easy kills. This time Blizzard scaled everything up from the original version verbatim. Old boss mechanics, 15-minute debuffs, and the ridiculous aggro radius of every monster in the dungeon are ready to be tackled by 40 clueless morons who in all likelyhood, have never experienced the content, or have forgotton the mechanics. Blizzard pretty much threw infants into a pool and expect them not to drown. The bulk of the griefing potential comes from two varieties of Core Hounds.

Core Hounds are two-headed demon dogs. The first variety comes in small packs. However, they all have to die at the same time. If one Core Hound dies before the rest, the other hounds will need to be killed in the next 5 seconds or the dead one will spring back to life at full health, as long as they are in the vicinity of living hounds. Usually these packs are burned down with area-of-effect abilites, or are pulled away from the group to be killed individually. WoW players are notoriously stupid and just tunnel-vision everything they see now. You've got 40 people in a group who can't follow directions. All it takes is one premature dead hound to ruin the day for 39 other people. You can grind poo poo to a halt and watch as internet detectives start throwing the blame around. The best part? These packs are uncomfortably close to the first boss, Lucifron, who patrols the area. Doing this results in the boss being pulled, who will debuff players to double all of their ability costs, in addition to mind-controlling your allies, who go on to kill other players. All you have to do is overkill one monster to send everything spiraling out of control.

Their larger counterpart, Ancient Core Hounds, are total bastards. They patrol all areas of the dungeon, have a fire breath attack which does a fuckton of damage to the group, and can fear you, making you lose control of your character as you run around uncontrollably, usually into more monsters and core hounds. They have a very large aggro radius, to the point where if you think it's too close, it usually is. You just have to get one's attention and it will begin to rampage throughout the group, fearing more hapless group members headfirst into danger, wiping out the raid.

The promotional Molten Core is pretty much un-puggable, and is a griefer's paradise.

Magres
Jul 14, 2011
How bad is the new Baron Geddon, Destroyer of Guilds? I loved wiping pug raids with that boss

Horace Kinch
Aug 15, 2007

He does what he does best.

m.hache
Dec 1, 2004


Fun Shoe
Sounds like you need to play "Hug the Tank" when you get the bomb.

Horace Kinch
Aug 15, 2007

I main a Hunter and was playing "misdirect everything" (Hunters can force monsters to attack party members) since Barrage (the autoshotgun from the Expendables) is notorious for pulling everything in view due to its obnoxious range.

The only way this could be better is if they scaled up Naxxramas. I could see people wiping on Heigan and Thaddeus for days.

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

Sanctum posted:

I posted this in the Dark Souls II thread a while back, and I'm shocked the guy hasn't taken the video down yet. If nothing else, it's an interesting perspective because the video is recorded from the perspective of the griefed rather than the griefer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LjAZa3p9rQ

The guy recording is playing the game using Havels armor which is this giant silver clunky armor that's become synonymous with newbies because it lets players face-tank their way through most of the game instead of learning how to dodge effectively. Problem is it's heavy as hell so while they can face-tank their way through the game, actual dodging is a problem for them. The red player is an invader that forces his way into the hosts world with the goal of killing them, except this invader has a better idea...

The invader uses a boss-weapon that briefly slows the target and then chucks acid urns and casts an acid mist pyromancy to degrade the host's equipment. Instead of killing the host he is slowly breaking all of his gear, which the host will have to repair for a not insignificant cost. It's a great bit of justice since the host would have no issues with the invader if he knew how to dodge. And then there's that last bit. :allears:

The ultimate irony? The host in question is the guy that makes the "this is how you don't play dark souls" videos making fun of DSP's playthroughs. He is quite possibly worse than DSP, which is mind-boggling. And he uploaded the video. :psyduck:

Dear god that ending. How do you be that terrible and then willingly announce to everyone how terrible you are. I hate invaders but literally no part of that was "cheating" and the player got exactly what havels deserve.



Possibly already posted I don't know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYzxIemcqNQ

RatHat
Dec 31, 2007

A tiny behatted rat👒🐀!
That Dark Souls video is so bad I'm really wondering if it's satire or not, especially considering the channel it's on.

g0t_hats
Jan 17, 2014

QwertySanchez posted:

I love how they just disappear and their gun falls to the floor. *poof*


its great

QwertySanchez
Jun 19, 2009

a wacky guy
It's the same on the Left 4 Dead games, if you figure out how to call a votekick on a bot the character just disappears and all their stuff falls to the ground from where it was on their body, and the bot wouldn't return on any of the next maps. If you had a group of impatient players and a bot that just wouldn't get to the safe room you could ruin the rest of the play through for them, or at least make it way harder.

Sanctum
Feb 14, 2005

Property was their religion
A church for one
Dark Souls II has special consumables called 'bonfire ascetics' that move an area of your world into NG+ complete with tougher enemies and additional special extra tough versions of enemies scattered about in annoying densities. All NG+ enemies have damage, health, and resistances increased so that a character with endgame gear and soul level will find them more challenging than they did in their first playthrough. So if you are on your first playthrough facing NG+ enemies, especially in an early area, things become very loving scary (albeit still technically possible to get through.)

I chose a bonfire ascetic as a starting item, and then used it on one of the earliest bonfires while at a really low soul memory. I summon unsuspecting phantoms in to assist me and watch them get curbstomped by early enemies. The phantoms aren't any more helpless than I am, but it's extremely unfair to be fighting enemies that can 2 shot you and also tank your hits like a damage sponge when you're only 1 hour in and rocking a dinky +3 weapon with no stamina.

Pretty low effort/low reward grief :geno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYu7mQZxYxc

Just don't do what I did and be clever, realize you can jump from the bonfire after the boss into the end of the NG+ area, and kill the red phantom who has more health than the NG+ boss. The NG+ boss is a pushover compared to the enemies leading up, after I managed to kill the red phantom (only by getting him to charge off a cliff, seriously I could not take him on) I wound up killing the NG+ boss with some random chump who wasn't half bad. Then I had to speedrun the wharfs, do the sentinels skip, and grab the earliest available ascetic to pump the bonfire up again which is like a really high effort grief just to watch dudes die (who definitely would be dying just as badly against NG+ enemies.)

Psychedelicatessen
Feb 17, 2012

Some guy in Robocraft on my team made a huge bottomless cage, added some thrusters, hovers and a single railgun. At the beginning of the game he flew on top of another guy on our team and held him in the immovable cage until the enemy team arrived and shot both of them to death.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Spergminer posted:

Some guy in Robocraft on my team made a huge bottomless cage, added some thrusters, hovers and a single railgun. At the beginning of the game he flew on top of another guy on our team and held him in the immovable cage until the enemy team arrived and shot both of them to death.
Holy poo poo, this is amazing.

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Spergminer posted:

Some guy in Robocraft on my team made a huge bottomless cage, added some thrusters, hovers and a single railgun. At the beginning of the game he flew on top of another guy on our team and held him in the immovable cage until the enemy team arrived and shot both of them to death.

I need to try this now.

The Fattest PI
Mar 4, 2008
Yeah i might actually pick up that game now.

Bushmaori
Mar 8, 2009
Unintentional but still funny:

My friends internet connection has major issues with the dark souls 2 servers. We can connect to eachother through hamachi but I am the only person he can connect to. This means whenever somebody invades his game they are instead treated to an infinite loading screen. After getting my rear end kicked by invaders in the last DLC area I have no pity.

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Infinite Monkeys
Jul 18, 2010

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Spergminer posted:

Some guy in Robocraft on my team made a huge bottomless cage, added some thrusters, hovers and a single railgun. At the beginning of the game he flew on top of another guy on our team and held him in the immovable cage until the enemy team arrived and shot both of them to death.
I tried this months ago but it wouldn't work for some reason, IIRC there was an invisible barrier at the bottom of the cage or something? Cool that he got it working, though.

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