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codenameFANGIO posted:Man, MMO character bios really make me want to join one just to make a bio like, 'I graduated from Starfleet Academy in the middle of my class after a mediocre childhood in a normal Earth city. A soothsayer once told me I am destined for nothing exciting. I am no more sexually attractive than anyone else. I demand and receive very little respect.' 'I have only just recently mastered the art of walking and chewing bubblegum at the same time.' Wasn't this guy also the one to get on peoples' cases for not having big enough tits? I'm honestly more amazed that he got anyone playing any MMO to follow him around in the first place. I shouldn't be, but  , the more I learn about this guy, the more astounding it ends up being.EDIT: I'd hope that in the lackluster bio, the biggest character aspiration would amount to 'be the best janitor that ever was, or ever will be.' Old Boot fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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codenameFANGIO posted:Man, MMO character bios really make me want to join one just to make a bio like, 'I graduated from Starfleet Academy in the middle of my class after a mediocre childhood in a normal Earth city. A soothsayer once told me I am destined for nothing exciting. I am no more sexually attractive than anyone else. I demand and receive very little respect.' The best MMO RP description was the parody one in the WoW RP thread I saw a long time ago where the guy was like a half dragon/half elf/half god, something or other. It was pretty funny but I can never find it
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codenameFANGIO posted:Man, MMO character bios really make me want to join one just to make a bio like, 'I graduated from Starfleet Academy in the middle of my class after a mediocre childhood in a normal Earth city. A soothsayer once told me I am destined for nothing exciting. I am no more sexually attractive than anyone else. I demand and receive very little respect.' I actually had a character bio similar to this in STO. People would whisper me that I am "not as clever as I think I am" when I was in the RP havens. In between whispers from people asking if I wanted to be shown a good time. All I had to do was exist to bug people. They really are too easy
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Aug 20, 2013 04:31
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An Old Boot posted:Wasn't this guy also the one to get on peoples' cases for not having big enough tits? Yeah same dude. When he started purging his fleet of spies some of the people who got booted had a bunch of fun pastebins for us to laugh at. The fleet wide mail he sent complaining about small chested characters and threatening demotions for failure to uphold the quadruple D standards of his lovely fleet.
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codenameFANGIO posted:Man, MMO character bios really make me want to join one just to make a bio like, 'I graduated from Starfleet Academy in the middle of my class after a mediocre childhood in a normal Earth city. A soothsayer once told me I am destined for nothing exciting. I am no more sexually attractive than anyone else. I demand and receive very little respect.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHoPLhpw2g4
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Aug 20, 2013 05:12
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The thing that gets me about this guy is that usually, the top-ranking sperglords in these groups have impeccable linguistics skills and typing ability. The fact that this guy writes like a five-year-old makes me think that he's really quite dumb and possibly even hosed in the head.
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Linamia sits in the red, stereotypical shrink's couch. To him, his psychologist ponders, "Evidently none of the tried and true methods of treatment have worked. Of course, this is of no fault to you - you are a special case. And not in a negative way, of course." "What's next, doc?" The psychologist thinks. What, in this modern day, will help? It hits him. "Let us channel your paranoia, your delusions, your superiority complexes and authority issues - let us channel all of these issues into something new." Linamia's eyes beam. "Welcome to Star Trek Online, Linamia. I've got the highest hopes for you."
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The fighting game talk reminded me of a grief I pulled off in college without trying. Back when Marvel vs Capcom 2 was brand new, the University of Pittsburgh got a copy of it in the gaming room they had. My friends and I had all played it for a couple of days, then went online to learn about any secret characters so we could mess around. We all went down one afternoon and were trying to beat the game with the hidden characters to see their endings. While we're doing this, some guy comes up and decided drop his quarters in to play against me. I was a little annoyed because I was getting close to the end, but eh, what can you do. Well, he decided to play Ryu (and another charm I don't remember off hand right now.) So I pick my secret character. Roll. The little girl version of Mega Man who is weaker, but she has one major advantage. She can slide under fireballs. So this guy decides to try sitting back and throwing fireballs at me. I spent the whole match sliding under his fireballs and then kicking him in the shin with Roll's weak kick. This guy continued to try to challenge me, but since his best skill seemed to be turtling, and I could slide under anything he threw, he just got really pissed as he repeatedly got killed by the weakest character in the game. It was certainly a lot of fun for me though.
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Mage_Boy posted:The fighting game talk reminded me of a grief I pulled off in college without trying. Back when Marvel vs Capcom 2 was brand new, the University of Pittsburgh got a copy of it in the gaming room they had. My friends and I had all played it for a couple of days, then went online to learn about any secret characters so we could mess around. We all went down one afternoon and were trying to beat the game with the hidden characters to see their endings. While we're doing this, some guy comes up and decided drop his quarters in to play against me. I was a little annoyed because I was getting close to the end, but eh, what can you do. Well, he decided to play Ryu (and another charm I don't remember off hand right now.) So I pick my secret character. Roll. The little girl version of Mega Man who is weaker, but she has one major advantage. She can slide under fireballs. So this guy decides to try sitting back and throwing fireballs at me. I spent the whole match sliding under his fireballs and then kicking him in the shin with Roll's weak kick. This guy continued to try to challenge me, but since his best skill seemed to be turtling, and I could slide under anything he threw, he just got really pissed as he repeatedly got killed by the weakest character in the game. It was certainly a lot of fun for me though. Heh, did he keep putting in more quarters to try and beat you only to lose over and over?
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Aug 20, 2013 07:37
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Please keep writing about the STO insanity, it's funny as hell.
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RandomFerret posted:"The first time Linamia played golf, she shot 38 under par, with 11 holes-in-one. All 17 of her bodyguards can testify to this. After this single amazing round, she retired from golf forever so as not to destroy the sport." This is exactly what I thought. Honestly Linamia seems like an extremely broken person and he probably needs urgent professional help. Let the comedy roll until he gets it though. By the way, Lina and Mia are two very common swedish girl first names.
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Fuzzyjello posted:Heh, did he keep putting in more quarters to try and beat you only to lose over and over? Yep, I eventually had to quick when I got a blister on my thumb from playing the game too long. Never did get to beat it with Roll that day either. (Got the blister from just sliding over and over again. He never did figure out a good counter.)
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Aug 20, 2013 08:26
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I must admit all this STO talk is making me curious to give it another go, even if it's for the... comedy. But that's mostly because I get a sick kick out of watching these kinds of people trying to function at playing a video game.
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Foxhound posted:This is exactly what I thought. Honestly Linamia seems like an extremely broken person and he probably needs urgent professional help. Let the comedy roll until he gets it though. Someone in the STO thread said it's a pornstar's name. Which fits with all the naked mom-grinding and such.
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Foxhound posted:This is exactly what I thought. Honestly Linamia seems like an extremely broken person and he probably needs urgent professional help. Let the comedy roll until he gets it though. Mia Lina is the name of a porn star. Almost all his characters are named after porn stars. The latest one is called Nikita Denise. Out of the hundreds of space autists I have met in this game, he is one of the most worthy of our scorn.
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Aug 20, 2013 13:36
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DAVE!!!(c)(tm) posted:Out of the hundreds of space autists I have met in this game, he is one of the most worthy of our scorn. "Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most..." *choked back sob* "...lovely."
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Aug 20, 2013 14:24
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What was that race of space retards in Star Trek? He reminds me of them.
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VanSandman posted:What was that race of space retards in Star Trek? He reminds me of them. The Pakled e: They are a playable race in STO iirc.
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Novum posted:The fact that people take winning at video games this seriously is loving hilarious. When you're talking about winning tournaments with big cash prizes, I disagree. At that point, it's not terribly unlike professional sports or poker. If I have a legitimate chance to win a million bucks by playing incredibly, obnoxiously lame, I don't care if every motherfucker in the room and on the stream boo me and curse my name, I'm doing it. Of course, I'm not good at any games (much less "tournament good") and I don't really play anything seriously, but saying that it's stupid to care about potentially winning money is pretty silly.
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Even if there isn't money on the line, what's not to understand about playing to win? If you're invested in the game and trying to be better than your opponent(s), it's going to be a more engaging experience than if you're just mashing buttons or whatever. Sirlin just happens to be a weird sperg about it. On that note, there's this game called Dota 2 that you might have heard of, and it has a mode called "All Pick" which lets you play any characters you feel like as long as nobody else has taken them already, which results in a combination of casual play and people rushing to pick the flavor of the month overpowered men as soon as possible. If your team picks one too many popular "overpowered" heroes, expect at least one guy on the enemy team to be frothing mad the entire game. If you beat him, it was because you picked better heroes, noob. If you lose, you had it coming, noob. All you have to do to make these people mad is press the little button that says "Phantom Lancer" or whatever and they explode. HMS Boromir fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Aug 20, 2013 |
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HMS Boromir posted:Even if there isn't money on the line, what's not to understand about playing to win? If you're invested in the game and trying to be better than your opponent(s), it's going to be a more engaging experience than if you're just mashing buttons or whatever. Sirlin just happens to be a weird sperg about it. I think Sirlin being a weird sperg and trying to apply military philosophy to basic video game mindgames is the point people were getting at. Also PL is dumb as hell  Furion is the best troll hero though. People get real, real mad when you party crash their ganks constantly, and you can make your teammates mad by sniping kills with the ult all game. Getting to troll both sides at once is the best
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Magres posted:I think Sirlin being a weird sperg and trying to apply military philosophy to basic video game mindgames is the point people were getting at. Reminds me of the Bad Company 2 clan I stumbled on who had regular practice sessions using the US Army Field Manual. Yes, they were terrible at the game. How did you know?
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Oh god people who try to apply field manuals to video games are the worst. There are a bunch of clans in World of Tanks that try to be based off real world tank battalions, and they're all horrible at the game. The best is when you troll them for trying to be spergy milsim kids in an arcade Tanks game and get "SHUTUP KID I DRIVE TANKS IN REAL LIFE AND YOU'RE JUST SOME DUMB NERD LIVING IN YOUR MOM'S BASEMENT  " in response
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HMS Boromir posted:On that note, there's this game called Dota 2 that you might have heard of, and it has a mode called "All Pick" which lets you play any characters you feel like as long as nobody else has taken them already, which results in a combination of casual play and people rushing to pick the flavor of the month overpowered men as soon as possible. Alternatively, just hit the "Random" button or grab a hero that's considered weak and there's a decent chance someone on your own team will freak out about how you're ruining his winrate! If you manage to random into a strong hero maybe, just maybe, you can have one sperg on each team mad at you for opposite reasons, thereby gaining admission to Low Effort Troll Heaven.
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Magres posted:Oh god people who try to apply field manuals to video games are the worst. There are a bunch of clans in World of Tanks that try to be based off real world tank battalions, and they're all horrible at the game. The best is when you troll them for trying to be spergy milsim kids in an arcade Tanks game and get "SHUTUP KID I DRIVE TANKS IN REAL LIFE AND YOU'RE JUST SOME DUMB NERD LIVING IN YOUR MOM'S BASEMENT My favorite part was back in the older call of duty games were out (I don't know if anyone even does it anymore), they'd have their own squad or whatever they wanted to call it with military ranks. They wanted to be all real military except you'd be playing a game and then 101st|Sgt. Asshat joins. Then the chat fills with 101s|]Pvt. Retard: *SALUTE* 101st|Pfc. Dipshit: *SALUTE* 101st|Pvt. Dumbass: *SALUTE* 101st|Cpl. Moron: *SALUTE* Because, you know, you salute enlisted people. And if you didn't type in *SALUTE* every time one of the NCO members joined, you'd get kicked out of the clan. Of course, they are all in the real army in real life, so they know how it all works. It seems like online video games is just an experiment involving egotistical spergs who convince idiots to worship them at every opportunity.
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Cojawfee posted:My favorite part was back in the older call of duty games were out (I don't know if anyone even does it anymore), they'd have their own squad or whatever they wanted to call it with military ranks. They wanted to be all real military except you'd be playing a game and then 101st|Sgt. Asshat joins. Then the chat fills with These people still exist in the darker places of shooting games.
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Its weird because the best servers on bf3 are milsim. They don't make you salute, but you must have a mic and must communicate and stay relatively close to your squad. I remember playing on some Russian milsim server and it was the most tense, close games I ever had.
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Oppenheimer posted:Its weird because the best servers on bf3 are milsim. They don't make you salute, but you must have a mic and must communicate and stay relatively close to your squad. I remember playing on some Russian milsim server and it was the most tense, close games I ever had. There's milsim groups that use tactics and communication to be more effective while still having fun. Then there's the idiots who think that dressing up like soldiers, using military jargon and practicing parade formations will make them better at video games. Try no to conflate the two.
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Avulsion posted:There's milsim groups that use tactics and communication to be more effective while still having fun. Then there's the idiots who think that dressing up like soldiers, using military jargon and practicing parade formations will make them better at video games. Try no to conflate the two. It's cargo culting. Real militaries are good at shooting mans and do this parade poo poo, surely if we do the parade poo poo we'll be better at shooting mans.
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Jeffrey posted:It's cargo culting. Real militaries are good at shooting mans and do this parade poo poo, surely if we do the parade poo poo we'll be better at shooting mans. Nah, that's pretty much the attitude in the real military. I mean if you can't march in formations based off Revolutionary-era combat tactics then how can you possibly expect to be able to shoot a dude?
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Avulsion posted:There's milsim groups that use tactics and communication to be more effective while still having fun. Then there's the idiots who think that dressing up like soldiers, using military jargon and practicing parade formations will make them better at video games. Try no to conflate the two. I wouldn't even call using tactics and communication in video games milsim, I'd call it just playing to win. I don't think it's milsim until you're trying to pretend to be SRS MILITARY MANS Oppenheimer posted:Its weird because the best servers on bf3 are milsim. They don't make you salute, but you must have a mic and must communicate and stay relatively close to your squad. I remember playing on some Russian milsim server and it was the most tense, close games I ever had. In BF2142, Tactical Gamer's servers were always my favorite because they had rules like this. Most of the squad leaders were super chill too, because no one would do the stupid rank/salute/sir poo poo the sperglords wanted. Wound up with a pile of regulars who lead squads because they had fun at it and were fun to squad with. I miss those servers 
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Magres posted:I wouldn't even call using tactics and communication in video games milsim, I'd call it just playing to win. I don't think it's milsim until you're trying to pretend to be SRS MILITARY MANS Tactical Gamers were a good group I can vouch for that. While doing a map on one of the ArmA games (I believe it was 2), there was a possibility that using some interactions with one of the add-ons can cause your view to freak out and you'd be stuck in a kneeled-down, assisting pose and you're stuck. Generally this happened while trying to apply aid to another player that was unconscious. It got to the point that the best thing to do in the situation of a glitch-out was to put the player down. Cue a group of people standing around and saluting as someone puts a bullet in your head because you're stuck kneeling.
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Cojawfee posted:My favorite part was back in the older call of duty games were out (I don't know if anyone even does it anymore), they'd have their own squad or whatever they wanted to call it with military ranks. They wanted to be all real military except you'd be playing a game and then 101st|Sgt. Asshat joins. Then the chat fills with Someone should tell them that, traditionally, you don't salute ranking officers in the field because it tells enemy snipers who to shoot at.
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The funniest part of all that "realism" is that they don't realize the training is mostly there to keep you from freezing up or panicking during combat (which you aren't going to do in a game, because it isn't real). As far as actually doing things to be effective goes, in the field you do what works. If you know an enemy patrol is getting ready to walk around/past a corner where you are, you don't jump out and try to take them in a fair fight. You ambush them just like you're the "noob" camping in a corner. Those kind of people can't beat you in the game, so they resort to doing other spergy things to prove they're "better" than you. And then you shoot them in the face with another grenade launcher and make them rage.
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Everyone get on TF2 right now there was an update and walls and stacks of wood and poo poo are glitched and you can just drop mini sentries in them and cry laughing e: Maybe it was a server-side thing Peta fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Aug 21, 2013 |
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Just had a fun Payday 2 one that I got in on the end of. Jumped into a game of Bank Heist: Gold, found myself face-to-face with a bulldozer and in a running gunfight, which was interesting. Realised that we were out on the streets by the farthest place the van can be, and figured hey, they're almost done, free payday for me. Except everyone else is heading back inside, and there's a bag still in there. Ok, they're going back for the last gold bag, fine, bit risky since it's in assault but better to all do something possibly dumb than split up the team. Get in the bank, grab the bag and... it's the drill. Turns out that the other players had started it up, attempted to go for it stealthily, and the guy who i'd replaced had immediately ran to get the drill, took it as far away in the map as could possibly be gotten, and then alerted everyone.
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Peta posted:Everyone get on TF2 right now there was an update and walls and stacks of wood and poo poo are glitched and you can just drop mini sentries in them and cry laughing Reminds me of when you could use a console command to place down as many sentries as you wanted in every server. A wall of 8 sentries is actually rather fragile.
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Manuel Calavera posted:..Wait, *get* the drill? You can't pick it up after it's started. He didn't start the drill. He picked it up, carried it halfway across the map and dropped it before alerting everybody. Assault waves will still start if they know you're there but you haven't put the drill on the door.
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Lady Naga posted:He didn't start the drill. He picked it up, carried it halfway across the map and dropped it before alerting everybody. Assault waves will still start if they know you're there but you haven't put the drill on the door. You wouldn't have the option to escape, though. They wouldn't have completed the objective without the drill.
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