neogeo0823 posted:

so the adventurer got to sit there listening to two spongemen shout obscenities and vitriol at each other endlessly, forever.

Krankenstyle posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up,_Little_Man!

Shady Amish Terror posted:

All fish benefitted from the skills=stats swimming oversight at one time, but carp remained a nuisance even outside of that because of their teeth, yes. A similar fun one was the fact that undead sponges or corals, I forget which, were terrifying monstrosities for a time because they lacked a brain or any other vital parts and thus could not be killed; this was compounded by the fact that even a limbless, brainless, otherwise completely immobile organism gained access to a rudimentary charge/tackle attack if hostile, and undead are generally always hostile. Since they were MASSIVE by dwarf standards, they would occasionally lurch into anyone foolish enough to attack, obliterating them. I believe that they have since lost access to the charge attack, and that undead can now be killed by sufficient damage regardless of whether or not they have any vital parts to attack.

Pastry of the Year posted:

I love this to death, but every year it gets harder and harder to recommend to people that haven't already heard it, and I can't even quote a lot of my favorite lines on these forums. Those horrible, dying little men were occasionally touched by the hand of god when it came to spinning verbal cruelty.

Cardiovorax posted:

Yeah, kind of hosed up to eavesdrop on two sick people be each other's personal hell and call it comedy.

Tony Phillips posted:

Think it falls under the umbrella of if you're yelling at the top of your lungs non-stop you shouldn't really expect any semblance of privacy. They knew they were being heard, and even knew they were being recorded. They didn't give a poo poo.

Cardiovorax posted:

Yeah, fair enough, if they know and don't care, then it really isn't eavesdropping by any real measure anymore.

MadDogMike posted:

Was regular sponges even, not just undead ones, and it was an artifact of them technically not having anatomy to damage (as I understand it there is “general” health in DF units but most fatal damage comes from wrecking a vital part like the head or similar). I remember one meme going around of a quote from the game of “Giant sponge becomes enraged” captioned “Without a nervous system, the only thing they feel... is ANGER!”. Even more hilarious/disturbing, sponges were classified as possible mounts in the game code, though I don’t think anybody actually saw any invaders on top of sponges (possibly because they couldn’t actually get anywhere that way...). Think in addition to what you mentioned the game is also coded to allow blunt damage to affect sponges more.

Zereth posted:

The ability to "pulp" body parts was added specifically for this sort of situation, where a creature without any vital organs to remove was, in fact, immortal barring drowning or something. Which undead can't do. Sponges and undead raised from parts where you couldn't chop them up further were big culprits.

Plastik posted:

I agree, but people have been punished for posting goon-only secrets outside the private subforums is all.

LeakyLarry posted:

Don't fret! Looks like the goon admins dmca'd it. They've been reposted.

https://privatebin.net/?f98cbb31b70bdfbd#ErQHER8mn6LepZonZ3xYpjF7A42t7zBYRVaxJTm3o91h
https://pastebin.com/EbvS9iCM

Dabir posted:

it was carp, and the other issue was that carp had the same generic 'bite' attack that you might see on, say, a bear, or a dog. so a dwarf would venture down to the river and a tiny swimming rottweiler would leap out and try to chew its feet off, at which point the dwarf would try to dodge and have a 50/50 shot of just throwing itself into the river by accident

Straight White Shark posted:

Toady looked up on Wikipedia that Carl can grow to be up to 5 feet

neogeo0823 posted:

...However, spongemen have no way to attack and no way to move, so the adventurer got to sit there listening to two spongemen shout obscenities and vitriol at each other endlessly, forever.

Pastry of the Year posted:

I love this to death, but every year it gets harder and harder to recommend to people that haven't already heard it, and I can't even quote a lot of my favorite lines on these forums. Those horrible, dying little men were occasionally touched by the hand of god when it came to spinning verbal cruelty.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

There's also the foam grenade that would never stop burning and expanded forever, I think(?)

quote:

IT'S ALIVE! It died. IT'S ALIVE! It died. IT'S ALIVE!

There are a variety of highly combustible chemical compounds in SS13, such as napalm. There is also a recipe called Life, which can create weird gribbly meat creatures or a (usually insane and homicidal) randomized NPC human. The Life recipe is triggered by heat once it's mixed together. I'm sure you can kind of see where this is going, but trust me, it's crazier than you think.

One of the Chemists managed to brew up some kind of nightmare potion that created a cloud of flaming Life. This had the effect of spawning an endless singularity of screaming, flaming creatures and people that exploded into an eternal Valhalla of fiery combat. The fucker had somehow made the reaction self-sustaining, so his workplace quickly became an ever-deepening mountain of burning bodies, fire, and screams. As the lag got worse and worse, an admin teleported in to see what the gently caress was going on, and came face-to-face with a vision of Hell. "MY BEAUTIFUL CREATIONS" lamented the immolated chemist, as his murderous children's fiery fists rained down upon him.

It lagged the round absolutely to gently caress and back and basically ruined it for everyone else, but nobody punished him for it. In fact, the admins immediately posted the story to the SS13 thread for everyone to marvel at. Playing a Chemist and creating any kind of laggy hellfoam or hellsmoke is basically griefing in and of itself, but every once in a while someone does something so incredible with it that even the people stuck staring at a laggy, useless Byond client can't help but be impressed. Like whenever someone makes a mixture so hot that it melts space. That happens occasionally.

Tony Phillips posted:

According to one of the guys that made the recording, they once tried to get back at the neighbors by taking stereo speakers, placing them in front of the arguing couple's window and cranking recordings of them fighting right back at them. The neighbor's then just started arguing about who sounded like a bigger rear end in a top hat in the recordings. It's really some of the most surreal poo poo you can imagine.

There's one bit in one of the recordings where one guy says something along the lines of "The neighbor's are recording us again." Which gets a "Good. Hey neighbor! I want you to know that Peter Haskett is a piece of poo poo!" in return.

Will stop the derail now since this is really not the thread for it, but do recommend that documentary if anyone is interested in a some weird rear end poo poo. Especially if you're old enough to remember when you had to trade cassette tapes to get to hear random weird crap. It's a crazy throwback to pre-internet days.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

I think the culture of secrecy around SS13 basically boils down to there's a lot of poo poo that will break the game (not in a "this is unbalanced" kind of way but in a "this will literally crash the server" kind of way), like the stuff posted above, and they don't want people doing drive-bys. It kind of goes pretty far into the extreme where like, no amount of genuine experimentation is actually going to teach you those formulas, you're either part of the cool kids club that knows them or you aren't.

It'd be nice if the game existed on a more stable platform so that was less of a concern but every attempt to remake the game has stalled because like, where do you even start with a beast like SS13? It's the result of almost 15 years of work by dozens of people doing extremely deep dives into specific systems and the fact that it works at all is a miracle.

Taintrunner posted:

https://twitter.com/Daxelfrax/status/1210739415007424515

Resetti warned you, bro! Resetti warned you!!!

Booourns posted:

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Oh no, it’s suffering!

How does something like that even end up happening?

Cardiovorax posted:

What on Earth did they do to that poor Switch?

Tempest_56 posted:

Slightly late, but I believe this is the incident you're referencing:


(from the old griefing thread)

Jiru posted:

There is an old Let's Play of Pokemon Blue in which the LPer goes in depth over the various glitches and hacks than can be used in the pokemon cartridge games and the effects of them. One of which affects Glitch Pokemon cries which, as the game tries to read data that is in no way sound-related as sound, become minute-long midi screeching abominations. A certain glitch Pokemon in Yellow was aptly described as "It cries for blood".

It is a hybrid LP and some videos were missing last time I checked, but they seem to have been re-uploaded. Youtube has them as "Let's break Pokemon Blue". Fair warning, even then the goons were not recommending watching them before sleeping; there is a certain terrific quality to watching a kid friendly game quite literally fall apart in screams.

zedprime posted:

Oh, it obvious, they uhh, clocks sometimes, uhh.

I don't understand.

zedprime posted:

Oh, it obvious, they uhh, clocks sometimes, uhh.

I don't understand.