I Killed British - The Griefing Discussion Thread

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gucci bane: Oct 27, 2008

MAKE WAY NEW STARS posted:

Netstat -n isn't using an exploit but typing it into command prompt sure does make you feel like a badass

Hahah yeah I didn't remember what it was exactly because it's almost been a decade but I assumed you weren't meant to be able to do it. Guess you were!

# ? Jan 17, 2016 18:57

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# ? May 29, 2024 18:28

Fruit-by-the-Foot Fetish: Aug 3, 2012

Eonwe posted:

im the post about victim blaming in a video game griefing thread

No you're the dozens of whiny posts arguing about the gamerfood child rape video and other high-quality contributions like single-emote posting. Why are you here?

edit:
Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Squaring that with his most recent quality contribution, this poster is either:
- a triggered MRA set off by the words "victim blaming" too lazy to read my thought about the nazi-creeps video not even being griefing, and/or
- defending said nazi who stole videogames from a child half his age and then tormented and threatened said child afterward

The most consistent thing about his posting ITT is his discussing pedophilia and mental illness, he discusses griefing as if were tangential.

You're a shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA.

Fruit-by-the-Foot Fetish fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Jan 17, 2016

# ? Jan 17, 2016 19:17

Instruction Manuel: May 15, 2007; Yes, it is what it looks like!

Dabir posted:

Sounds like Bro Team Pill.

It was one of theirs. Phone postin at work so can't look for it right now.

# ? Jan 17, 2016 19:18

OxMan: May 13, 2006; COME SEE
GRAVE DIGGER
LIVE AT MONSTER TRUCK JAM 2KXX

Harley C posted:

Hahah yeah I didn't remember what it was exactly because it's almost been a decade but I assumed you weren't meant to be able to do it. Guess you were!

If they used AIM you'd be like "if you wanna see something cool press rightclick i i enter" which would write their IP in the window and send it. Late 90s griefs~

# ? Jan 17, 2016 19:22

Captain Bravo: Feb 16, 2011; An Emergency Shitpost
has been deployed...

...but experts warn it is
just a drop in the ocean.

Wamdoodle posted:

It was one of theirs. Phone postin at work so can't look for it right now.

found it.

Edit: Or maybe you're talking about this one?

Captain Bravo fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jan 17, 2016

# ? Jan 17, 2016 19:25

Stunt_enby: Feb 6, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

hampton posted:

No you're the dozens of whiny posts arguing about the gamerfood child rape video and other high-quality contributions like single-emote posting. Why are you here?

edit:
Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Squaring that with his most recent quality contribution, this poster is either:
- a triggered MRA set off by the words "victim blaming" too lazy to read my thought about the nazi-creeps video not even being griefing, and/or
- defending said nazi who stole videogames from a child half his age and then tormented and threatened said child afterward

The most consistent thing about his posting ITT is his discussing pedophilia and mental illness, he discusses griefing as if were tangential.

You're a shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA.

you got griefed :grin:

# ? Jan 17, 2016 20:44

GuyUpNorth: Apr 29, 2014; Witty phrases on random basis

So is this some weird meta-grief then?

# ? Jan 17, 2016 20:51

Annointed: Mar 2, 2013

Being a scamming shitheel is grief

# ? Jan 17, 2016 20:53

Fruit-by-the-Foot Fetish: Aug 3, 2012

Stuntman posted:

you got griefed

It was necessary in order to grief you, which I did because you typed words in response to my own.

# ? Jan 17, 2016 20:56

Magres: Jul 14, 2011

hampton posted:

No you're the dozens of whiny posts arguing about the gamerfood child rape video and other high-quality contributions like single-emote posting. Why are you here?

edit:
Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Squaring that with his most recent quality contribution, this poster is either:
- a triggered MRA set off by the words "victim blaming" too lazy to read my thought about the nazi-creeps video not even being griefing, and/or
- defending said nazi who stole videogames from a child half his age and then tormented and threatened said child afterward

The most consistent thing about his posting ITT is his discussing pedophilia and mental illness, he discusses griefing as if were tangential.

You're a shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA.

lmao

the griefing is coming from inside the thread

# ? Jan 17, 2016 20:57

Bait and Swatch: Sep 5, 2012; Join me, Comrades
In the Star Citizen D&D thread

hampton posted:

No you're the dozens of whiny posts arguing about the gamerfood child rape video and other high-quality contributions like single-emote posting. Why are you here?

edit:
Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Squaring that with his most recent quality contribution, this poster is either:
- a triggered MRA set off by the words "victim blaming" too lazy to read my thought about the nazi-creeps video not even being griefing, and/or
- defending said nazi who stole videogames from a child half his age and then tormented and threatened said child afterward

The most consistent thing about his posting ITT is his discussing pedophilia and mental illness, he discusses griefing as if were tangential.

You're a shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA.

Looks like you got it all figured out

# ? Jan 17, 2016 20:59

Morzhovyye: Mar 2, 2013

The grief is this lovely loving thread. Have some actually funny stuff by the same group of dudes who committed internet child abuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koHlXm6AvHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WNHd50sJoU

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:05

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

hampton posted:

No you're the dozens of whiny posts arguing about the gamerfood child rape video and other high-quality contributions like single-emote posting. Why are you here?

edit:
Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Squaring that with his most recent quality contribution, this poster is either:
- a triggered MRA set off by the words "victim blaming" too lazy to read my thought about the nazi-creeps video not even being griefing, and/or
- defending said nazi who stole videogames from a child half his age and then tormented and threatened said child afterward

The most consistent thing about his posting ITT is his discussing pedophilia and mental illness, he discusses griefing as if were tangential.

You're a shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA.

ahahaha lmao

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:07

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

mods change my name to "shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA"

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:08

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

hampton posted:

I see you're a veteran of this forum. Were you a little triggered just now? Hold my hand and let's pray to J that you get gassed too.

call someone a Nazi in one post, wishes that someone would get gassed in another

lmbo

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:09

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

mods change my name to "single emote posting"

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:10

Synthwave Crusader: Feb 13, 2011

hampton posted:

No you're the dozens of whiny posts arguing about the gamerfood child rape video and other high-quality contributions like single-emote posting. Why are you here?

edit:
Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Squaring that with his most recent quality contribution, this poster is either:
- a triggered MRA set off by the words "victim blaming" too lazy to read my thought about the nazi-creeps video not even being griefing, and/or
- defending said nazi who stole videogames from a child half his age and then tormented and threatened said child afterward

The most consistent thing about his posting ITT is his discussing pedophilia and mental illness, he discusses griefing as if were tangential.

You're a shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA.

Hahahahaha holy poo poo talk about getting baited hard.

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:16

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

thanks hampton that made my day

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:26

Soulex: Apr 1, 2009; Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Captain Bravo posted:

found it.

Edit: Or maybe you're talking about this one?

That's it. Thanks!

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:37

EricFate: Aug 31, 2001; Crumpets. Glorious Crumpets.

Soulex posted:

That's it. Thanks!

The offhanded comment about the SOE employee whose paycheck had an option to select what % of their paycheck they wanted to be paid in 'station cash' had me dying. Because that is just so stupid that I know it has to be true.

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:50

Segmentation Fault: Jun 7, 2012

hampton posted:

Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Don't sign your posts

Segmentation Fault fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Jan 17, 2016

# ? Jan 17, 2016 21:55

Fruit-by-the-Foot Fetish: Aug 3, 2012

Segmentation Fault posted:

"this guy's a huge rear end in a top hat, here's an on-topic video" *links to video by someone from a troupe that does the same drat poo poo*

You support an appeal to hypocrisy with an association fallacy, so I'll stand by what I said. Since you're having difficulty grasping it, here's a succinct take home:

hampton posted:

You're a moron

You're a spectator, don't act like you have a clue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5FLtUqVGhU

# ? Jan 17, 2016 22:25

Third World Reagan: May 19, 2008; Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.

always spectate between rounds

# ? Jan 17, 2016 22:27

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

hampton posted:

You support an appeal to hypocrisy with an association fallacy, so I'll stand by what I said. Since you're having difficulty grasping it, here's a succinct take home:

You're a spectator, don't act like you have a clue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5FLtUqVGhU

lol at your words

# ? Jan 17, 2016 22:41

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

hampton posted:

No you're the dozens of whiny posts arguing about the gamerfood child rape video and other high-quality contributions like single-emote posting. Why are you here?

edit:
Now I remember you clearly. This is the griefing threads very own moral crusader who posted literally dozens of times about the aforementioned video, not content to simply say he thought it was unfunny (wouldn't disagree) and leave it at that, but compelled to argue with anyone who'd reply to him who didn't express a boldfaced contempt for the video similar to his own. Apparently because he just feels so strongly about whats in good taste (this despite having never posted his own OC).

Squaring that with his most recent quality contribution, this poster is either:
- a triggered MRA set off by the words "victim blaming" too lazy to read my thought about the nazi-creeps video not even being griefing, and/or
- defending said nazi who stole videogames from a child half his age and then tormented and threatened said child afterward

The most consistent thing about his posting ITT is his discussing pedophilia and mental illness, he discusses griefing as if were tangential.

You're a shitposting weirdo, gently caress off TIA.

"Yousa nuts as gently caress!" --Jar Jar Binks

# ? Jan 17, 2016 22:49

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Woah, hey, Jar Jar, no need for that kind of language.

# ? Jan 17, 2016 22:49

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

jarjar is brutal as gently caress

# ? Jan 17, 2016 22:53

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

Okay, Games, modding time:

I think this thread has pretty much run its course after several years, most of which it has spent on saying things like "reading the thread is the real griefing" and dumb slapfights.

But because it also has several years of funny MMO trolling stories I want to move it to Comedy Purgatory instead of the gas chamber so it gets saved.

So I'd like to spend the thread's last couple pages putting together an index of good stories, even if it's just page links to good ones that have been posted in the thread.

Please quote or link to your favorites. I will probate anyone who slapfights or whines about posters or does anything dumb until the thread is Purgatoried.

# ? Jan 17, 2016 22:57

baram.: Oct 23, 2007; smooth.

the real griefer finally shows his face...

i nominate goon axisofidiocy's tf2 videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i_tRiUuFbM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjSYi7ytW4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAue43hU-M0

# ? Jan 17, 2016 23:02

Mierenneuker: Apr 28, 2010; We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

People kept asking for this video several times, even after the OP added it to the first post several years in (no hyperbole on that one). If you say "counter-strike" and "magic carpet ride", most people in this thread will instantly know what you are talking about.

LLCoolJD posted:

Counter-Strike

Hackers go on a rampage using Apache helicopters, magic carpets, forklifts, and other tools of destruction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQhs3y2Lc-E

And here's another TF2 griefing video from the days of yore (no hats, so it's ancient at this point).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bPUHb7Is5Y

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jan 17, 2016

# ? Jan 17, 2016 23:23

Fruit-by-the-Foot Fetish: Aug 3, 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRWLYKycxZc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzJJ3STJxHU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXns63OD_Ts

# ? Jan 18, 2016 00:22

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

this is and always will be my favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQhs3y2Lc-E

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:05

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

goodnight sweet thread, you will return when MMOs are funny again

for my contribution, this post

Slanderer posted:

Years back, after I quit my EQ addiction, I played on a persistent world Neverwinter Nights server for a few months. I'm not sure how many players there were on the server at the time I played, but the active player base was probably only a few hundred. I honestly can't remember how many players could be on at the same time, but I'd guess it was around 50. That made it a small server, but the game world was entirely too large (with extra, completely empty cities occasionally being added, and later removed, with no one noticing), which meant that most of the game world was unpopulated and, more importantly, completely mysterious to most players. It was pretty mundane--players could gain XP through defeating NPCs in the middle of the woods and random dungeons up to a certain level (10, I believe), after which all XP needed to come from DM events. To make things worse, most of the NPC encounters and loot wouldn't respawn until the server reset, which could be twice a day, or twice a month. Finding mobs and chests that respawned automatically was really important, as was keeping them secret. Grinding for loot or XP was actually against the rules (unless you had a "RP reason" for killing lots of umber hulks or whatever--I think I just claimed they killed my father and so I would kill them all until I was level 10, at which point I would have my vengeance), and most of the DMs only did events with the high-level characters that they were already friends with, which meant actually getting to a comparable position of power on the server was nearly impossible. One one hand, the drama of the most important characters was always really stupid: "oh no my sword is HAUNTED!", or "I MUST SACRIFICE MYSELF TO SAVE THE WOOOORLD!", but on the other, I wanted to be part of it so that I could bring it all crashing down. All RP eventually ends in some sort of fight, and if I couldn't win on a purely-mechanical basis, or due to DM intervention (as they'd always side with their already powerful buddies), I decided to add weight to my character's arguments by exploiting the poo poo out of that server as hard as possible.

Luckily, the server itself seem to be remodeled every few months, and tons of new exploits would be introduced as new, poorly-scripted content was introduced. This would be my primary method of achieving power. The second, less interesting mechanic was the broken pickpocket skill, which let me steal random items from other PCs, basically at any time. I created a new character just to specialize in pickpocket, who I then used to rob the high level PCs as much as possible, knowing that many of them would not attack me directly (instead, they'd try to subdue me, or paralyze me, or some other role playing bullshit, because people were scared to use PVP on a server with PVP by default), and have me thrown in jail. Which would be great, were the jail not DM controlled, meaning that half the time when I was put under citizen's arrest they'd just stand around with me captive for a while before getting pissed, making threats, and storming off (since there was no DM on there to play the guard and put in me jail or the stocks, and retrieve their stolen items from me).

The purpose of all the pickpocketting wasn't to piss players off (although that didn't hurt). Instead, I was only interested in occasionally acquiring a DM generated item from a higher level player. In online NWN games, DMs can create all of the standard premade items. They are also able to create unique items (although I'm not sure if they could do this directly in game or what). Sometimes this was just random magical items, but occasionally it meant unique items with specific magical effects that you wouldn't find anywhere else. Naturally, these items would be given away without much overall thought in the purpose of some event or special quest, which meant that many were hilariously broken themselves. Many players, interested in maintaining the roleplaying facade, didn't even realize how broken some of their poo poo was.

As I mentioned earlier, as people redid areas and content for the server, lots of bugs and exploits were introduced. Eventually, I found one broken NPC who could be used to duplicate items (related to some half-assed and otherwise useless crafting system). I found another who would, when used as a merchant, sell certain items for less than he would buy them for. Of course, I instantly saw the utility in this, and proceeded to give myself far more gold then I would ever need, and launder it to multiple characters (for some reason, the DMs could see how much my PC had on his character and in the server bank, but not on any offline characters). After discovering a bug in their implementation of some custom feature, I was able to determine if any DMs were online at any given time (since they had the ability to hide that status), and safely exchange money between my mains and my mules. I also used the item duplication exploit to acquire as much high level equipment as possible (bought from both NPCs and PCs), and save it away (in case the server changed and some of it became unavailable and highly sought after). I wasn't able to copy more than a few custom items, as my obsession with those only really became A Thing after that exploit was fixed.

The problem with infinite gold was that there wasn't too much to buy, after a point. I could get the highest level equipment, but DM provided stuff was far better, and most PCs didn't want to part with it for gold (because what would they buy with gold, after all?). Regardless, equipment would only get me so far against PCs far stronger than me, who I couldn't get the XP to match them in level (since the DM inbreeding meant they only did quests among those same high level players most of the time). That's where I started looking for exploitable items. I began searching the most obscure, never-traveled zones on the far side of the server for broken items in loot tables. I found a few things---scrolls of a weird, non-standard spell that, if successful, would destroy a player utterly. Their corpse would be consumed by fire, preventing resurrection. This meant they definitely lost XP, and their items too. Unless they had gold stashed in the bank (with which they could only get lovely stock gear from merchants), they were relegated to the default, useless noob gear and handouts from sympathetic friends. The spell was rarely successful, and rarely used (since people rarely fought to the death, because they were weird). But with persistence, I stockpiled enough to be able to take a higher level player down and seriously gently caress their poo poo up, which would lead to gallons of RP tears---manhunt parties combing the wilderness for my dwarven blackguard, wanted posters for me in the main city, angry forum threads about me, DMs messaging me out of character telling me how much they hated me and how I should die. The usual, basically. And since it was RP rules, I'd just walk into down the next day with a different hooded garment and dare them to recognize me without doing a specific skill check with DM assistance. "How dare you goode sir! I have never been to your humble town before, and I have certainly never slaughtered the innocent and christened by weapon in the blood of children. What do you mean I look like the guy that did it? Are you saying all dwarfs look alike? Are you a racist?"

After a while, they had the idea to quietly let PCs buy crafted magical items (using generic values from the DM guide) from DMs. I poured money into an enormously overpowered greatsword with multiple magical effects, enough armor to actually let me hold my ground against a player with 10 levels on me, and loving teleportation boots. Yes, they had some broken scripted system for teleportation (it involved using chat commands and stuff along with spell items). I found the item in the DM guide, and convinced a newer DM to make them for me (the older ones knew how badly that would end). Suddenly, I could move around the world faster than literally anyone on the server, escape any fight, and then return minutes later to drop a spell and fly off again.

Later, I went on to acquire a huge number of other overpowered and unbalanced magical items through an auction event they held, tapping into my cash reserves. A couple DMs were annoyed, but assumed I had gotten cash (which no one else cared about) from farming some obscure monster for XP and gold in an obscure area (in fact, I did this too, because finding monsters that awarded XP in this server's weird system was hard to do, but I managed to find some that no one else knew about and use them to level up and get some, but not nearly enough, gold). Combined with my prior stockpiling of broken loot, I finally had a big enough arsenal to challenge the incumbent heroes of the server. In fact, I ended that auction by paralyzing half of the players present, summoning a hoard of elementals to attack them, and then spamming area of effect magic to attack them all at once. Keep in mind, I was a blackguard, which meant I had no real magic of my own. I was just using the items that the DMs had just sold me, completely in character.

So far, I had just been setting up for my final act of pissing people off enough to get the entire server to drop the RP and admit that they were lonely weirdos. A few weeks after my attack on the auction, I went to the main city, which at the time had a single bridge for entrance or exit. I decided to charge a toll for crossing, and made up some obscure RP rant about how that bridge spanned the sacred river of my ancestors and how the White Man destroyed our lands and people and how dare you defile our sacred goddamn river. This failed to convince most people, so I started off my making an example of one of the first to cross the bridge by using one of my broken fire scrolls to incinerate his character and permanently destroy everything he owned. A dick move, but the guy I targeted was a huge tool, so it was a good way to get the ball rolling. At this point, I believe a few people paid the drat toll, a few people ran back to the main city to get help, and a few people cried to the DMs.

But no DMs were on that night. I had gained access to the DM schedule, and none would be on that night, unless someone got on AIM and found one willing to log in. This gave me time to have fun.

Some lowbie told me that he didn't have any money, and asked to join my team instead. It was a useless gesture, as he was around level 2, but I accepted him into the bloody fold. I'm fairly certain I killed him in the madness that followed, but I can't remember if it was intentional or by accident. Not that it matters in the least, of course.

At this point, I decided that I was the equivalent of a raid boss, and that I really had nothing left to lose. I entered the main city (where all the available players were currently running around trying to gather up a group to resist me. Most players were somewhat lower level then me, but the few members of the high level DM-favorite club were present, and they were way higher level than I was (only a few levels, sure, but in DnD that's a lot). After choosing the exact perfect spot in the city, I waiting for the rest of the PCs to start attacking me in waves. Using one of my items, I put a permanent buff on my AC and regeneration (it was supposed to be temporary, but it was unlimited uses, so I set a macro to use the item and keep me permanently buffed). I then created a number of friendly, high level elementals to fight by my side (these, unfortunately, had a limited # of summons per day, which I needed to rest to reset). As players approached, I activated an item that cast Cloudkill as often as I wanted, and used a pseudo-wand of Finger of Death to start picking off the weaker ones as my elementals distracted most of the PCs. This destroyed most of the first wave, or at least scared them off, allowing me to actually enter the battle and take a few of them down with my comically overpowered weapon, causing them rest to back off for a minute. At this point, the OOC chat channel was filled with accusations of hacking, people crying about weeks of XP lost, and people asking where the DMs were. Even in normal chat, people were boldly breaking their cherished RP out of frustration (I recall hearing one person yell, "DIE IN A FIRE YOU CHEESE EATING human being". I'm honestly not sure where the cheese part came from, though). Bear in mind that "weeks of XP lost" was a fairly accurate assement--players below (but close to) the level cap were unlikely to know the loophole in the XP cap system that let certain monsters still award experience, and those above the level cap would need multiple, very long (and boring) DM events to regain lost XP.

At this point, the actual high level characters decided they had some holy imperative to defeat me, and started delivering paragraphs of speeches as I was still slaughtering the weaker players (presumably so that DMs could later examine the chat logs, see their just and totally-valid RP reason for attacking me, and shower them with XP and praise). Fortunately, by generally keeping the skies filled with flak of various sorts (ie, the various item effects I kept firing off), I was able to slowly chisel away at the health of these PCs, who I would otherwise likely lose to in a 1-on-1 fight (again, due to the level different). Although most of my "tricks" were somewhat known, I had saved a few for this sort of occasion. Every time the PCs got my health low, I pulled out a scrolls that cast some sort of custom-spell to turn me into a vampire, instantly granting me full health, regen, and much better attack and defense. People were generally confused as gently caress at this turn of events, as only a few people (mostly GMs) knew the item existed (as it turned out, it dropped from an obscure NPC in an obscure tower out of the way of anywhere important, and I had been farming it for months). I would spit out some canned, pre-prepared dialog, "AH! YOU HAVE UNCOVERED MY TRUE EVIL FORM! THE DEEP DARKNESS OF MY SOUL IS LAID BARE!", in an attempt to cause them to type a response (hopefully allowing me to trip them up with a different spell scroll while they were typing). Eventually, the scroll would wear off, I would turn into a dwarf again, and kite them around the city, occasionally popping off fireballs until I would stop and become a vampire murder machine again. I was able to start taking the high level PC characters out, which caused them all to flee for the time being, with most of them messaging people about how much of an rear end my character was and how they would kick my rear end in real life and how their friend was the head DM and I would be BANNED FOREVER.

However, at this point, more high level characters were arriving from across the server to join in as they had "felt a disturbance in the Weave" or whatever bullshit RP excuse they wanted to throw out after hearing about the situation on the OOC channel. I did the honorable thing and teleported away to a safe location on the other side of the world, where no one ever went (since it was far away, half programmed, and generally boring). After healing up, replenishing my item stocks, and resting (in order to reactive my items with limited uses per day), I teleported back to the main city. The important PCs had already left again after much deep RP discussion about my rogueishness and how they needed to hunt me down, and left to do just that. Or perhaps have RP sex. Or both, whatever. Regardless, at this point the city was filled with the same low level characters again, annoyed at having their poo poo wrecked earlier, and having stupid RP chat in the inn or tavern or whatever. Of course, at this point I interrupt their chat to begin serving heaping plates of murder, before teleporting off again. For the next couple hours, I repeated this cycle every 15 minutes or so, since these players had nothing else to do other then chat in the inn. Even littered with the dead, they'd still stand around, poorly-RPing about how good the ale was today and how comely the bar wench was. That was, apparently, 90% of the action on the server. The OOC channel was still filled with death threats and attempts to locate me (which was stupid, because in order to teleport I had a macro mapped to use my teleport boots and actually "speak" the teleport command in chat, which included the location of my destination).

After a few hours of grinding all action on the server to a halt, a DM arrives and promptly throws me in DM jail (limbo or the void or something equivalent). However, lacking a RP reason to ban me, he was forced to simply release me after a few days.

At that point, knowing that even killing half the server wouldn't get me banned depressed me, and I forgot about that drat game. My only regret was that I wasn't able to incinerate all of the high level PCs (unfortunately, the broken scroll that did this only had a horrible success rate, so most were spared that hilarious fate).

EDIT: Edited for grammar, general lack of proofreading, and details remembered.

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:16

mcvey: Aug 31, 2006; go caps haha

*Washington Capitals #1 Fan On DeviantArt*

There's gonna be another griefing thread, right?

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:32

FactsAreUseless: Feb 16, 2011

mcvey posted:

There's gonna be another griefing thread, right?

I have no problem with that, I just want a fresh one without 526 pages of baggage. Also it would be nice to save the stories in this one.

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:35

Captain Bravo: Feb 16, 2011; An Emergency Shitpost
has been deployed...

...but experts warn it is
just a drop in the ocean.

Mierenneuker posted:

And here's another TF2 griefing video from the days of yore (no hats, so it's ancient at this point).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bPUHb7Is5Y

You left out the sequel, featuring The Quizmaster!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRhCFz9FxWo

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:37

pulp rag: Feb 25, 2013; AGDQ 2018 Awful Block Survivor

Goddamn. That Team Roomba video takes me back.

The bong rip still slays me in the most juvenile way.

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:39

eonwe: Aug 11, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

2Fort2Furious was always a good TF2 server to be on

I think its dead now right? I just remember getting on and people would be doing karaoke

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:40

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

mcvey posted:

There's gonna be another griefing thread, right?

As much as I have adored following this thread the last few years, I'll be the first to say that we probably need a month or two without this thread at least. The reality of the situation is that the people who post here demand an awful lot from their griefing stories and those sorts of good stories don't show up very often. We've routinely been going 5 pages or so between great stories/videos.

We should really just let it cool off for a month, then the thread can start off really strong with stuff that has happened in the last couple of weeks and retellings of the best stories (which most people will have forgotten by then).

Ideally we should just wait until something on the level of Wushu comes out again, but I'm not naive enough to think people can wait that long.

All that said, I will happily create the OP for the next thread when we get there.

# ? Jan 18, 2016 01:50

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# ? May 29, 2024 18:28

Cartoon: Jun 20, 2008; poop

More a heads up for a new opportunity:

http://www.everjane.com/

quote:

Ever, Jane is an on-line role-playing game set in the virtual world of Regency England and the works of Jane Austen. Unlike many multi-player games, it's not about kill or be killed but invite or be invited. Gossip is our weapon of choice. Instead of raids, we will have grand balls. Instead of dungeons, we will have dinner parties.

At the moment, we don't have any of these. What we do have, is a village centred round a tree-lined village green, with houses where you may "squat" and soon even own and redecorate to your taste. Please feel free to role-play with your friends in and around the village. There are several "stories" to get you started, and if you click on the small green sphere in the corner of the fireplace, you will be taken to the ballroom. Unfortunately, the dance-partners seem to be taking a break at the moment, so you can't practice, but you can see what it will be like when you can.

It's from the same nongs as Second Life and if that wasn't encouragement enough I'm struggling not to download it and make a character called Mr Dickam...

# ? Jan 18, 2016 02:42

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