Team Fortress 2 Griefers Implement Forced Trivia Game
UPDATE: I removed the Stage 6 video, even though I think the people complaining about installing the DIVX codec were being a bit unreasonable. That said, my first duty is to the convenience of all readers, so despite my instinct I have removed the embedded version. It's still linked below if you want to see it.
"Team Roomba" takes griefing, the act of being a total asshole to members of your own team, to a whole new level. I love the Stockholm Syndrome people start to exhibit towards the end. And you have to wait until the end (or the mid-way point, at least) to see some of the most inspired griefing I've ever seen.
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Oh yeah, THAT's why I don't like online gaming.
But the Ron Paul/trivia portions were pretty goddamn funny.
instead of banning people like this, they should create a special area of xbox live where all the griefers and cheaters can play happily together.
Thanks for doing your part to make it more popular...
Oh, gee, requires a DivX plugin. Too bad hardly anyone will ever see it.
grrrrrumblecakes to you, jj, for embedding a video that causes stinky xvid popups on my perian-enabled mac every time i open your site until this post makes it off the front page. consider embedding a screenshot (jpg? png?) so those of us who don't do this kind of plug in don't have to suffer until then (or don't give up and stop reading 'gadgets' altogether). bah-humbug.
If you were wondering, Team Roomba is a ragtag group Something Awful forum members.
You owe me x minutes of my life back, JJ.
That's what you get when you turn off team damage, Valve.
Although, the game looks really good in that vid. (previously I'd been slagging it for its cartoony play, not its cartoony look -- and in this vid its look .... is kinda cool...)
Hardcoding MIME type="video/divx" breaks on my browser (Camino). Perian would have played it fine in QuickTime (default), or it could have used the VideoLAN (VLC) browser plugin.
Who the hell uses DivX software anyway?!
Who the hell uses Camino?!?
hey joel. you getting a kickback from the DivX people for all the plugin downloads? a little extra for that trip to berlin, maybe?
I'm assuming that it's a DivX player because it's hosted on Stage 6, DivX's Youtube-esque site. It's not a bad piece of software, anyway.
Jesus, what a dick. If you think that's funny, then give me that asshat's IP address and I'll give you all the hilarity you can handle.
I can see this REALLY pissing people off, but you can always jump to a different server, right?
not happy about having to DL the divx plugin to view the vid.
Using Mac 10.4 (Tiger) with latest Safari 3.0.4 or FireFox 2.0.0.5 and "plugins enabled" causes this site to crash on page load. The only way I was able to post this comment was to disable plugins. Like the comments above, it must be due to the DIVX code since I have been visiting BB Gadgets daily since it opened without issue until now.
Could all you people act any Moar butthurt?
Hmmm... I'm a bit torn. I've played a lot of online FPS in my day and a good bit of TF2, so I can see the viewpoint of those who are a bit miffed you decided to post this.
On the other hand, I can relate to griefers who are acting out of a sense of irony or to deflate people who take games way to seriously. A great example of this (can't remember if I originally say this on BoingBoing or elsewhere) was the serenitynow griefing a WoW funeral (meant to commemorate someone who died in RL).
In the posted video, I don't see any kind of point or anything that can be considered purposeful in any way, other than to purely upset people. So, while I'm not gonna jump up and down and fling poo at Joel, I'm gonna side w/ those who are giving it a thumbs down, albeit a mild one.
Ultimately, the nice thing about FPS games is that you have 100s of servers to choose from and its not, typically, too hard, to find ones that are well adminned who could ban asshats like that in a split second.
Ha, yes, you've all exposed my nefarious kickback scheme with the Divx people. I'm making thousands of cents a year by making browsers that can't elegantly handle odd MIME types crash. Thanks, Firefox Explosion Affiliates program!
I just used the Stage 6 embed because I thought the video looked way better than Youtube.
Anyway, there's absolutely nothing wrong with thinking this is humorous while simultaneously hating griefers. It's okay to chuckle at inspired assholishness. Fortunately, Valve has fixed the exploits they were using already (or so I've been told), so it's not like these are even going to be useful to any would be copycats in the future.
And if you aren't playing TF2, you should. That "cartoony play" is loads of fun.
awsome!!!!!!!
It's okay to chuckle at inspired assholishness.
Oh, absolutely agree. I just don't think that was "inspired." Dropping an Anarchist Doll onto Target shelves -- Inspired. Blocking a doorway in an FPS with no team damage -- not so much.
if you aren't playing TF2, you should.
Is there a free trial for Orange Box? When the gameplay vids for Portal first started trickling out (8 months or so ago), I was intrigued. However, as a staunch RtCW:ET player, having teleporters in an FPS kinda bugs me -- I don't even like modded Wolf levels with teleporters. :P
just as i suspected. you must be at least seven dollars richer by now. crafty. i was so in awe of your fiendish plot that i forgot to mention it was a vaugely amusing in a mildly funny sort of way vid. enjoy your trip rockafeller.
Abu Halsey, you lose points for posting a "you people" comment.
i hate greifers as much as the next guy, but i think that this video was awesome/hilarious/inspired. Trivia answers for passage! Teleporters of doom! These are antics even the most anal-retentive, goal oriented (aka people who take games for fun WAY too seriously) amognst us can smile at. On one hand, disruption of the game purely to cause grief (rapant TKing, cheating, etc.) is just childish and annoying, but disruption of the game for the sake of irony and to show that maybe this game shouldnt be taken so seriously is pure genius! i say BRAVO!
on a side note of irony: anyone notice that the most annoying/abnoxious/loud/racist person in the video happened to be someone trying to stop the griefers? if anyone deserves the focus of you collective (and mighty) hate is should be that guy.
to show that maybe this game shouldnt be taken so seriously is pure genius!
You disrupt my fun, you go on my list.
Taking a game seriously -- pointless.
Ruining someone else's game to play Vicarious Buddha -- actively dickish, and not-Buddha. Not-Buddha at all.
"Team Roomba" needs to get some fresh air.
Just wanted to addeded another shout that the divx embed is breaking the experience on Boing Boing Gadgets. How about replacing with youtube embed and linking to the higher-quality divx video direct?
Admins, I have actually avoiding clicking on the Gadgets section of BoingBoing because of this DivX video thing.
Dudes, etc., I do not understand what the problem is with the DIVX/Stage 6 embed. It is...crashing your browsers? Not working unless you download a plugin? Prompting a pop-up? Need more data.
Admins, I have actually avoiding clicking on the Gadgets section of BoingBoing because of this DivX video thing.
" Admins, I have actually avoiding clicking on the Gadgets section of BoingBoing because of this DivX video thing." posted by JACK previously and is my thought exactly, thus the same entry.
> Need more data.
When I let NoScript attempt to let it run, Firefox displays an "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page" notice. Not a big deal, but I just don't install plug-ins for random videos any more now that standard outlets like YouTube are available.
Back in the 1990s plug-ins were needed, and I'll still mess with them if there's a reason (like 3D images from a source that I trust that has lots of content worth watching). But one gaming vid that may or may nor be funny? No.
Opening gadgets.boingboing.net with Safari produces a dialog box:
Safari cannot find the Internet plug-in.
The page "Boing Boing Gadgets" has a content of MIME type "video/divx", but you don't have a plug-in installed for this MIME type. A plugin-in should be available on this page: http://go.divx.com/plugin/download/. Do you want to open the page? (Cancel/Go)
so its not that the video is broken for you, or that you CANT watch it, its just that you dont want to. How is this "breaking the experience on Boing Boing Gadgets"? If it's worth it to you then download the plugin, if its not then pass by and go about your business.
it was already explained why the divx was used, "I just used the Stage 6 embed because I thought the video looked way better than Youtube." and you know what? its true.
UPDATE: I removed the Stage 6 video ...
Thanks, Joel! It's nice not to have to cancel the aforementioned plugin box every time 'gadgets' loads.
Here's the problem I have with the Stage 6 embed which requires DivX more than anything. I simply don't want to install DivX support for QuickTime on my Mac. It has mixed results and has never worked consistently well.
But more importantly, I really find it very bizarre I need to explain the benefit of choice in computing to Boing Boing which lauds choice and not being forced into a corner on technology.
Direct link to the video file: http://video.stage6.com/1973259/.divx
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ
Same damn video on Youtube, but with no DIVX controversy and no advertising revenue to griefing jackasses.
Could my fellow commenters whine a little louder about a plug-in? Familiar (YouTube, and it's plugin that you installed forever ago and forgot about) is comfortable, but different (divx, with arguably superior quality compression) is scary or annoying.
Talk about griefing! ;)
Attempting to play the video crashed both Safari and Flock (pretty much the same as fx tech-wise, just like Camino) for me, but I had no problem downloading it and playing it in QuickTime player. (No idea when or what for I'd installed the DivX plugin for QuickTime, but typically not remembering means that it went quick and was no hassle at all. I guess if I hadn't installed that, VLC would have played the vid anyways?) The crashing was kind of not-so-nice (though by no means Joel's fault) and I would have much preferred an mp4 or something, but if the only available options for linking to are a DivX version and a YouTube version, I find it absolutely acceptable and defensible to choose the former. Pretty much anything is better than YouTube.
Installing the DivX plugin worked fine for me on Safari. I don't see what the problem is.
And I never play online games where Team Damage is turned off.
Huh? Am I missing something? What the fuck was all that about?
Just a data point, in the first 30 messages (which appears to be where you added the update saying you removed the vid)
14 comments reference the Divx vid
11 are against it
1 says Its not that bad
2 are you defending your choice.
But you still choose to call us out and say WE are being unreasonable instead of just changing the link without blaming your readers? Wow...never thought I'd see the day when boing boing jumped the shark