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QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

These SS13 stories are the best part of the thread, I want more of those

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QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

SpookyLizard posted:

I meant specifically griefing. There's a recruitment n thread in MMO HMO regularly, but Games are public, so you can't necessarily post the best stories because you might reveal some critical info or something, or have a characters name get out and ruin their ability to run future scams and stuff.

It's a loving video game, what's the point of griefing if you can't even tell anyone about it?

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Moonshine Rhyme posted:

Good Lord. A guy in my area is possibly going to be jailed for stealing a 300$ runescape hat, albeit they met IRL and he hit the dude in the face and ran. Im mobile and not able to read the whole thread, but did the scamee post in there?

I imagine that he's probably going to jail more for the assault and battery than for stealing the virtual item

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

I don't know what it is about those god drat robot voices that make me giggle so much

In Dark Souls there are a few different ways to mess with people. Here's one: you can get the equipment set of a certain type of enemy, and then if you stand perfectly still at specific spots then invading players will just assume that you're a regular enemy and walk right by you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywyll7GUG5Q

I like to play games with a spell called Chameleon. When you cast Chameleon, you'll turn into an inanimate object appropriate to the zone; this might be a box, or maybe a tree if you're in the forest. You can still move around slowly while you're this inanimate object, so sometimes it's just fun to slowly creep towards players as a tree and creep them out. This can also be somewhat like Hush; break a normal pot somewhere in the game, disguise self as pot, sit in a single spot while invaders come and go, completely confused as to why they can't find you. This isn't particularly great griefing as it's not like they're stuck with you, but some people find it really upsetting anyway.

In one particular zone, Chameleon will turn you into a fat floating demon statue, which is actually an enemy type for that area that moves slowly and is very easy to kill. So you can float around pretending to be a normal enemy and then surprise players with a massive unexpected spell or the like. Many spells are incredibly powerful if you can hit with it, so you could easily be one-shotting someone simply through surprise.

Normally if you take any action while Chameleoning then you'll break the spell and appear as a normal person again. However, there's also a flamethrower-like spell that you can cast while you're disguised as the fire-breathing demon statue. Naturally your version of the spell is much, much more powerful than the standard enemy's version, and you'll be a lot better at hitting with it than the normal enemies, so you can pretty easily surprise players and kill them in this fashion. Here's a good example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W75lPYzAqUg

(normally the statues have a long windup time before they breathe fire, and they stop moving once they start doing it. Being able to instantly cast the fire spell and continue moving while doing so is pretty surprising to most players who don't know about the demon statue chameleon trick. Actually, to be honest, I don't know if it's even possible to do this anymore)

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Shalhavet posted:



This is the N menu. Notice the other seven tabs. If you like poopsocking you do the spying missions to get exp capped for the day and then go batshit nuts on the mining/gathering nodes because ThirdWorldReggin and the other crafters need all of the materials forever and ever, amen. Then you can join a gigantic blob of partially drunk goons to go steamroll a kung-fu school and steal their kung fu.

Are there more fun griefing stories? I'm becoming intrigued by this MMO

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Zereth posted:

It's also a conflation of two separate stories, one a bout a guy playing an MMO who didn't bother to leave his computer to poop, and another guy who inexplicably pooped into socks and kept them.

The term originates from a story on these very forums where a woman discovered that her boyfriend kept a duffle bag full of poop-filled socks beneath his bed, which I guess is a kind of real life griefing

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Nobody gives a gently caress about LoL or DOTA except for the retarded manchildren who play those games (full disclosure: I was heavily into Tides of Blood, the precursor to the original DOTA, way back when I too was a retarded manchild)

Hey, so how about people who make retarded youtube channels and try to describe pathetic attempts at griefing? Here's one for Dark Souls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DYlC1XPOZ0

Highlights:
1) Use the Dark Hand to steal humanity from players... which is exactly what the Dark Hand was designed for

2) Manipulate level geometry, to absolutely no consequence at all

3) Getting the player to attack an NPC is actually pretty funny, although the video poster still puts more importance on NPCs than they actually have (the undead merchant, for instance, isn't actually useful for anything, so getting a player to attack him is kind of stupid)

4) Getting the player to kill the best the master pyromancy trainer


And some more fun with Chameleon: hide as an inanimate object and then one-shot players with a huge gently caress-off spell. Using the Channeler's Trident so that you can dance around like an idiot jester is just icing on the cake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sedA0eCBagk

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Zereth posted:

Isn't he the guy who sells repair powder? And like, one other mildly useful thing you can't get elsewhere.

Killing the better of the two total pyromancy trainers is a decent trick I guess.



And using the Dark Hand on somebody is less "greifing" and more "griefing yourself or a masterful display of skill", thing is hard as hell to actually land.

Repair powder can also be purchased from an NPC in Oolacile, standing practically next to the bonfire (and therefore easier to access)

He sells a key, but he also drops the key if you kill him

He sells the soapstone that lets you leave messages for other players to see, but he also drops that if you kill him

He sells the bottomless box, a very useful item storage item, but the next merchant NPC that you meet sells it, too

He does sell Lloyd's talismans, which are great for PvP. There's another NPC who sells them, but most players will kill that NPC for his armor set I guess

Killing the male undead merchant also rewards you with a pretty awesome sword for new characters (Uchigatana) that you can't get unless you join a specific covenant and then find a specific NPC, so it's kind of to your advantage to kill him if you're a new player. You get all of the essential stuff (the key and the soapstone), and you can purchase any armor/weapons/etc. that you want from him first before you do so, so it's really an inconsequential "grief"

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

EVE Online has been pretty awesome lately, or at least as awesome as a bad open world game about spaceships can get. There's still all of the normal admin-sanctioned scams and ganks that generate a bottomless trough of tears from autistic manbabies that people have read about many times before in this very thread, so here are some stories that you may not be aware of:

The N3 Hellcamp -- At this point in the game, there are basically two relevant factions: goons + goon friends (The ClusterFuck Coalition) and people who hate goons (N3 Coalition). Goons decided to help out one of the smaller factions, a group made up mostly of Russians that we've had a long love/hate relationship with, to take back some space that the N3 Coalition currently owned. Eventually this turned into a full-scale conflict, and by February the Russians had taken enough space from N3 that N3 was now staging all of their ships out of a single station.

By February, an opportunity to take this station presented itself. You can't actually destroy stations, but you can seize control of them and then restrict people from docking. You can't steal the assets in the station that others own, but if no one can dock then all of those ships and modules are trapped. The call went out, and a fuckton of CFC members dropped on the station and blew up anything trying to get in or out. Huge blobs of warp disruption bubbles were deployed all around the station, and the CFC maintained an enormous fleet around the station 24 hours/day for an entire week until ownership of the station changed hands. A few breakouts were attempted, but failed. The station changed hands, and furious pubbies could only watch in despair as tons of expensive ships and modules became completely inaccessible to them.

Burn Jita 3 occurred last weekend and was a great success, smashing the records from the previous years. In EVE, a large amount of space is "highsec", meaning high security. In these systems, if you shoot a ship unprovoked then a huge pile of NPCs spawn on your location and blow you up. A lot of pubbies falsely believe that living in highsec means that they are completely safe, so they do boring things like shoot space rocks and haul goods from one place to another while mostly AFK. But many goons (and other groups) enjoy traversing highsec in cheap high-DPS ships that can easily blow up a low-HP and often-expensive mining vessel.

Burn Jita is an annual event where tons and tons of CFC members descend on the game's single major trade hub, the Jita system, with only a single objective: destroy all of the freighters. This is the third year that this event has been running, and the event's announcement was made a week in advance, giving everyone plenty of warning to not try to transport things in or out of Jita during that 3-day period. Despite that, we were still running 2 simultaneous Burn Jita fleets that were each killing a freighter every 15-20 minutes throughout the weekend. A freighter has a ton of health but is slow to enter warp and can be prevented from warping by basically bumping into it with a high-mass ship, so the fleet would have a few heavy ships and scouting vessels watching for freighters or extremely expensive mining vessels in Jita and the surrounding systems, while hundreds of goons would warp in with cheap high-DPS ships (which are distributed for free by CFC members, and also reimbursed by the CFC so that the people flying them are actually getting paid to do so) and all suicide on the freighter at the same time. This spawns an enormous pile of NPC police that proceed to blow up all of those cheap CFC ships, generating horrible amounts of lag that slows down the entire system to 10% of normal speed (the game actually has a mechanic for displaying this).

Sometimes we lag the system so badly that the NPC police become buggy and one of two things happen:
1) The NPC police will randomly start shooting everyone, even those who were uninvolved. This results in more pubbie deaths

2) The NPC police will ignore suicide ganks, and we can start indiscriminately killing everyone instead of just seeking out high-value targets every 15-20 minutes due to game mechanics

Best of all is that Burn Jita is actually a profitable venture. The freighters often drop some very valuable stuff, so the fleet has a few guys waiting around to scoop the loot. The suicided ships are already handed out for free and covered by the bottomless CFC warchest, but the freighter loot likely covers all of those losses anyway.

Burn Jita also results in some great artwork:



The most recent damage estimate is that we blew up about 580 billion ISK worth of ships. If you were to convert this to USD, it'd be approximately $12000 (you can use real money to buy an in-game item that can be used to add subscription time to your account). Goons dealt about $12000 worth of damage to pubbies in a weekend. And that's a somewhat conservative estimate, buying only the largest PLEX pack using a discount that gets applied every year during fanfest.

Another fun detail: so many goons pile into Jita that during peak hours no additional people can enter the system. This results in pubbie freighters (which are often autopiloted) sitting idle on the Jita stargate, completely defense and ripe for destruction. This only makes our job easier.

EVE developers grief the DUST fanbase -- DUST 514 is a Playstation 3 FPS that is attached to the EVE Online universe. It's free-to-play and generally considered to be a bad game, but there are still plenty of people who play it, including horrible pubbies. It has the same sort of skill-progression system as EVE; you select which skills to train and they train over time, even while you're logged off, with some skills taking potentially months to learn. Being F2P, there are also a lot of real-money things that you can buy, including various cosmetic things

EVE Fanfest 2014 is a big EVE Online (including DUST 514) convention in Iceland (where the developers are headquartered) where people gather each year to talk about Eve and hear about the latest Eve-related developments, sort of like Blizzard's Blizzcon. Yesterday at EVE Fanfest the developers announced that they were working on a new FPS for the PC called Legion and were eagerly hyping up some of the planned features for a game that is basically in pre-pre-pre-alpha

The announcement infuriated pubbies, who began biomassing (deleting) their DUST characters en masse while simultaneously demanding that the developers should transfer characters from DUST to Legion. The forums have been boiling amazing pubbie stories like this one:

quote:

It's really hard for me to explain things. I never heard of CCP until I became involved in DUST 514. A free FPS that looked like a solid game. I really enjoyed being able to be a part of this from the ground up as a beta player and all. Sure the game had its faults, but they were being fixed and with the players help, my help, we shaped it into something solid. I felt like I was part of a strange family, sure a digital one, but family.

Then I hear about this Fanfest and CCP really pushing DUST players to come up to Iceland and enjoy the party on top of the world. A party with the rest of the family and to meet EVE players as well as other DUST players. I am a family man and really wanted my family to experience the CCP and EVE family. We flew up here to join in on the Fanfest activities. My wife and little boy. Hopefully will try to get him another sibling to pick on later this year! (still trying)

At first things were great. It was interesting to walk around and introduce yourself as a DUST only player and everyone was so friendly. I meet a ton of people. Things were great. Finally, after all the other stuff we get to the DUST presentation. For a moment I felt special. This was a presentation about me and the rest of my friends who play DUST. A presentation for us and to become closer to the rest of this family here at CCP and with EVE. Everyone around me knew I was a DUST only player it seemed.

Never in all my life have I been this utterly embarrassed to be somewhere. To really feel executed on the spot and all eyes on you. I felt like the biggest fool in the universe. My wife just covered her mouth and looked at me with pity. It felt as if everyone was looking at me for a reaction.

Every single moment after that it seemed like my family and I had leprosy. People steered clear and ended conversations as fast as possible and vanished. I just don't know how else to explain it. I have never in all my life felt this betrayed and publicly humiliated.

I wish I never came up here.


There are other little details that piss off the pubbies to no end

Goonswarm is basically a socialist utopia, and we make enough money from taxes and other resources that we're able to pay people to go blow up ships. Not only are lost ships fully reimbursed, but we offer a huge bonus on top of that, so pilots are actually making a profit just to go out and die. We were even able to pay people to suicide ships into freighters during Burn Jita 3, even when those ships were provided for free. The fact that our players are paid to die pisses off pubbies to no end.

There's a council of players called the CSM who meet with developers and help guide the direction of game development. The players vote for members of the CSM. Since we have a large number of players and are a well-organized group, every year we get at least 75% of the seats locked down with people that we like.

Manufacturing in EVE Online has been mostly unchanged since the game launched, and recently the developers announced a bunch of new manufacturing changes that are basically going to make the entire system better... unless you're a horrible highsec pubbie who hates change. Some pubbies are so stupid that they'll pay an absurd amount of money for in-game blueprints that would take hypothetically take 10 years just to break even on (ignoring things like opportunity cost). These changes are going to make these blueprints slightly less valuable, so at this year's fanfest a guy stood up in front of the Manufacturing panel and basically demanded that they reimburse him the value of one of these insanely-valuable blueprints that he had recently purchased. This prompted a developer to comment that they were going to nerf or possibly remove these blueprints in the future

At fanfest this week the developers just announced some new vessels that are going to make it way easier to gank miners in highsec

The developers have recently unveiled a big statue with every in-game character's name on it for some stupid reason. My best guess is that it's meant to be a monument to stupidity. During fanfest this week, someone put a sticker of the CFC logo on the statue. This was apparently sacrilege because it generated page upon page of rage on the forums. Any sane voice of "it's a sticker get over it" was drowned in a sea of "BAN ALL GOONS FOREVER FOR THIS INDIGNITY TO MY HONOR", all over a tiny sticker of a bee on a statue that most of these players will never even visit.

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 20:38 on May 4, 2014

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

In Mechwarrior Online it's impossible to know who has shot you unless you can actually physically see them shooting you. Sometimes I would pilot a very small mech and put a single huge gun on it that normally only heavier mechs would use. This gun was very popular at the time, so most large mechs had it. At the start of the match, I would run to the back of my group, stand behind a huge mech, and then shoot that gun at another huge mech standing in front of both of us. That mech would slowly turn around and see this guy standing behind him, and the pilot would scream something like "WHY DID YOU SHOOT ME YOU loving RETARD". By the time that he had turned around I had zoomed away in my light mech and would be many kilometers away

Sometimes the pilot that got shot would shoot the innocent mech, resulting in a 1v1 friendly fire brawl. Destroying or knocking off pieces of a friendly mech results in you losing ISK and EXP, but merely shooting at a friendly mech does not.

Mechwarrior back then was 8v8 matches, but if you wanted to play with friends then (due to game mechanics reasons) you would only queue with a team of 4 people. So usually I would by playing with 3 other goons, and I'd do this team-killing thing to pubbies on my team for a laugh, but our well-coordinated goon team would still win despite losing 2 guys to friendly fire because pubbies are terrible.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Macaluso posted:

I just heard about this on the Co-Optional Podcast and laughed my rear end off. What's the dude's claim to infamy that caused his name to be singled out by Goonswarm specifically?

Every story involving Goonswarm in Eve is amazing

Goonswarm doesn't care about him, he just thinks that they do. Otherwise he's a huge widely despised sperg. Someone scratching out his name happened days after the Goonswarm sticker and was completely unrelated

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Manuel Calavera posted:

Apparently, the three people behind it were permabanned, 8 accounts between the three of them. And a 4th is banned for 6 months. How the gently caress do you need four people to scratch out a name and put up a sticker?

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=342705

I am pretty sure that no one got punished for the sticker, and that it was unrelated to the name getting scratched up

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Dick Burglar posted:

Has word gotten out about who actually got banned?

CCP continues to grief its own players: there's a guy in the SA Eve thread who claims to be the guy who got the 6 month ban. There's just one problem: he's never been to Iceland (where the vandalism occurred). His Eve account has also been inactive for years.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Dr. Tim Whatley posted:

You are a pubbie though.

Nah, even if he's not in goonswarm CODE is still a force for good

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Many of the good stories in this thread aren't clever, but they're still funny. Although the clever ones tend to be more interesting

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

PurpleXVI posted:

Back when I played MechWarrior Online, a guaranteed way of pissing people off was to actually win the game by capturing points on the capture points maps, rather than both sides getting an equal number of points and then slugging it out like a deathmatch.

For a little more info, the most popular map mode had 5 points that were capturable, and one team or the other would win after accumulating enough points or if the other team completely died. Most people played this game like it was team deathmatch and would just use the points in order to prevent the other team from winning via points. Occasionally you'd get light mech pilots who would legitimately out-compete the other team on capturing points, causing their team to win prematurely, leading to an endless stream of "gently caress YOU FAGS" from the losing side. Sometimes it'd even piss people off from your team, "NO STOP CAPTURING THE POINTS YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE US WIN IN THE WRONG WAY"

That said, this did actually make some sense; you got pilot experience and cash (for buying mechs and upgrades) from things like kills, assists, and blowing off parts of other mechs. Winning a match didn't give you that much on its own, so players would want to prolong a match as long as possible in order to collect as many kills and whatnot as they could.

There was another map mode that was designed to be exactly like Team Deathmatch, so it's not like there was any reason to not just play this mode if that's what you wanted to do. Each time had a "base", which took a long time for a lone mech to capture. Trying to send a lone light mech to the enemy base could secure a win, or it might just end up drawing off a few of their bigger guys to come back and defend, which is still good for your team. One super fun grief was to get a team of 2-4 light mechs together on one of these maps and sneak around to capture the enemy base from behind. Four light mechs could capture a base extremely quickly, and the only mechs who could make it back to their base in time would be other light mechs that would just get blasted off the field in a 4v1 brawl.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

I want to see lemongrab first, and then I also want to see abraham lincoln

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

These text stories are actually my favorite posts, they're usually really funny. Griefing videos are more hit and miss, most of them are just a child screaming into a microphone or the funny part is buried somewhere in a 10 minute video of mostly unfunny and boring poo poo. The exceptional videos are always short or are basically highlight reels, like the team rhoomba tf2 video, but those are few and far between

E: Imagine a Ventrilo harassment video that had no editing at all and was mostly dead time for finding a channel, rejoining after getting kicked, etc. That's what many of the videos in this thread are like.

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Jul 14, 2014

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

g0t_hats posted:

Team Roomba videos are all staged dude lol. Why do you think they only made like two? People found out and hosed them up.

I'd rather watch a hilarious well-staged video than another 5 minute video of two teenagers calling each other fagots over and over

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Jul 14, 2014

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008


Hey look at that, short and sweet videos of actual griefing instead of kids screaming into microphones. Good job thread

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

g0t_hats posted:

So you'd rather watch people pretend to get mad? I don't get it.

Well I don't get what's entertaining about a 10 year-old screaming into a microphone for 5 minutes :shrug:

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPC66mPAKFk

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Doodles posted:

If you'd REALLY wanted to be evil, you'd have made the search term "furry."

:munch:

There's not going to be much difference between the two

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Yardbomb posted:

Nah, they're good sometimes when it's not spergs using it as a crutch and when there's reason enough for it. The worst thing to happen to LPs is sweden.

tomanton posted:

Facecams are the worst thing to happen to LPs and the best thing to happen to griefing

LPs are only made by spergs, LP facecams made by spergs are always poo poo, therefore LP facecams are always poo poo

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Full disclosure, I've done 2 LPs. All LPers are spergs

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Pubbies in Eve Online are so broken that groups of them will purchase huge freighters (which cost the equivalent of $20 in real life dollars, if you purchase PLEX in bundles) and fly them into Jita during Burn Jita. We fly cheap, high damage ships and suicide into these freighters. They claim victory because the freighters are empty when we destroy them, whereas most of our victims contain tons of high-value loot (which we promptly destroy before anyone can loot the wreckage)

They get so mad at us that they'll hire mercenaries to kill our cheap sacrificial ships during Burn Jita. This doesn't stop us from destroying any freighters, but the mercs are happy to oblige. Most of the time they wait until right after we've blown up a freighter, when the NPC police are about to come and kill us anyway.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Wild T posted:

I've never played EVE, but my limited understanding is two things:

1. No matter how hare-brained the scam, there will be schmucks who fall for it.

2. Nothing is worth getting into EVE for.

Very true, not even the people who play EVE like playing EVE and all of the pubbies are morons

Sammus posted:

Isn't that what the whole "Hulkageddon" event was/is? I've never played EVE, but it's my understanding that at some point goons put a large bounty on some sort of large, expensive freighters that pubbies love. Lots of freighters get blown up, some people get rich shooting things, and lots of pubbies cry. On top of getting their ships destroyed, goons have a monopoly over the supply of a mineral that is required to produce the freighters and they actually make a profit while paying out bounties because people have to pay goons to replace their ships.

The developers used to place certain resources in certain regions of space, so it was really easy to get a monopoly back then by just taking a corner of the galaxy and holding it. Those days are long gone. Hulkageddon took place back then, and it's pretty much what you described; we made so much profit per destroyed ship that we were still able to pay out huge bounties on them

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

DreamShipWrecked posted:

I'm seeing an entirely new side to Fantasy Football. I always assumed it was, y'know, D&D for your jersey-sporting uncle, but if it's big enough to be actually griefable then I may have a new purpose in life.

It is still D&D for your jersey-sporting uncle

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

For those who don't know what an Exhumer is, it's a mining vessel. EVE Online pubbies love shooting space rocks

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Ron Paul billboard would be kind of retro at this point but still awesome

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008


The part where he keeps showing a picture of a penis to a child is hosed up but the rest is pretty funny

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

RatHat posted:

Yeah those people didn't get it, they were just dense enough to think it was a bug.

That's true, but they have fun with it anyway. That's part of what makes the video so awesome

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

I play Hearthstone and it's relatively difficult to grief in that game. It's a 1v1 digital card game where you play one of 9 characters from Warcraft, and you can only communicate via 6 emotes, along the lines of Thanks Well Played, Greetings, Sorry, Oops, and Threaten. Each one of these spits out a unique audio clip and text bubble from whatever character you happen to be playing. People will usually throw out a "Well Played" at the end of a match or after you do some awesome combo that wipes out all of their poo poo or combos whatever trickery they were attempting, and a Greetings at the start of a match. Threaten is always the lamest sounding thing ever, and people only ever use it when they're obviously upset that you just cleared out all of their minion

I've started apologizing at the end of matches where it's clear that I'm about to win. This often results in them using the Threaten emote a bunch of times or just forfeiting immediately. It's kind of amazing the kinds of mind games that you can play with just a situation and a stupid catch phrase.

Other than that, griefing in this game is mostly pretty lame. Some people will make their turns last as long as possible, running down the turn timer to the last possible second. This pisses off a fair number of dumb pubbies, but I think that most people are like me and just AFK browse some forums while it's not their turn. What I like is running a deck that locks down an opponent, making it impossible for them to do anything useful. The Mage is a pretty good character for this. I have an entire deck full of cards that A) freeze minions B) destroy minions C) damage minions and then freeze them or D) turns a minion into a useless sheep. Each round, the opponent plays some things, and I either freeze or destroy everything. Repeat for several turns. I trickle my own minions onto the board while keeping their board completely clear or frozen, dealing 1-2 damage per turn and slowly grinding them down. If I lose a high-value minion, then I have a spell that duplicates it into two more into my hand that I can play next turn. This deck isn't particularly good at winning, but people tend to use the Threaten emote a lot more whenever I use it

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

JTG posted:

This thread has a lot of people fail to realize traditionally griefing is just the act of being malicious to draw out a reaction, and shouldn't be confused for clever gameplay, or someone just getting angry that they were outplayed using clever gameplay.

A good rule of thumb is that nearly all of the SS13 stories are not griefing unless you deliberately poo poo up a server by breaking the rules, preferably fast and horribly so admins cannot fix it. (Which due to how authoritarian the majority of administrative staff in all the servers for that game are gets you banned shortly afterwards, but you ruin a single round badly if you are good at it.)

The EVE stories are all great examples of griefing, considering they are all malicious inside and outside of mechanics available, sometimes juvenile, and generally draw a reaction of "Grief"

That being said, this is a griefing discussion thread, whether its something as simple as teamkilling, calling someone rude names and insulting them for a reason, or hacking; up to something as complex as a large scam and such, you all shouldn't be as sensitive as the people getting griefed persay. (Like those on the receiving end of myg0t's traditional grief that fits the definition of the action in regards to gaming.)

When someone comes in here and shits out a hot steaming "Let me tell you what is and is not actual griefing" that's usually when a mod starts to consider whether to finally close the thread. Shut the gently caress up with this stupid poo poo, no one cares. We just want to read funny stories about video games

:getout:

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Fibby Boy posted:

Not true. In DS2 you can just pray at their grave stone, pay out a certain amount of souls, and then use that npc like normal until you leave that area. Dude just has to pony up 2500 souls to revive her each time he wants to level up.

Edit: Basically it's a minor inconvenience.

That's true, but most people won't know where the emerald herald's gravestone is. Normally she hangs out right next to the bonfire, but her gravestone is a bit away and a little hard to see if you don't know what you're looking for.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

lovely Wizard posted:

Couldn't you just ask for a toll that is completely retarded high and be 100% legal?

Yeah, that would probably work if you're dealing with an admin who is also a robot

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Nov 2, 2014

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

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

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Eonwe posted:

I think the first 5-10 pages or so it should be acceptable to repost stories people have posted from this thread as a best of the best. But yea, new thread would prob be good at this point.

This thread has existed since 2008. gently caress creating a new one there's nothing wrong with this one.

"I have to go back to my home planet now" *jumps off a cliff*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlMlhiz-Wss

QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Dec 22, 2014

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QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

And there's some great cross-team teamwork in this one:

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

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