Kill the bully
Know your enemy - study the differen♑t kinds of bastards w𓂃ho cause mayhem in online PC games...
Bullies - you’ve got to pity them. They live like emperors at school - dishing out nuclear wedgies, swiping pocket money and ca𝄹lling your mom a slut -then they fall from grace as soon as they’re expelled. At best, a former bully gets to ask: “Do you want fries with that?” Most likely though, he’ll drive a stolen Toyota into an ATM and do three to five in "g𒁏uard your booty-hole" prison.
Apart from amusement arcades, parks and bicycle sheds, bullies enjoy hanging out online, where they’re known as griefers, or hateful dicks. They can be found flaunting their ASBO-meriting behaviors in WoW, Star Wars Galaxies, Battlefield… even The Sims Online. So if you own embroidered pillowcases, you might want to bury your head beneath them, cuzthe follo🐟wing will get you all in a fluster.
According to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft.com: “Typical griefer behavior includes: taunting others, especially beginners; thwarting fellow team-mates in the game; cheating; forming rovi☂ng gangs with other griefers; blocking entryways; luring monsters towards unsuspecting players; or otherwise using the game to annoy a convenient target or to harass a particular player.&🅘rdquo;
The seeds of intimidation were sewn back in the late 1990s in Ultima Online, when carpentry griefers sandwiched unsuspecting players with household furniture. One prankster would chuck a chest of drawers in front, another lob a piano to the rear. The result: your avatar ended up as immobile as a grandfather clock on the Antiques Roadshow. What, you don't regularly watch PBS? For shame.
Amusing tomfoolery soon descended into downright nastiness as Player Killers in MMORPGs like EverQuest lured newbie🐼s into hidden areas, often under the premise of friendship, thenchoppedup their heads with axes and stole all their possessions. Although mutual murder is part and parcel of many games, a level-50 player gets little reward or benefit from executing a newbie. Only sadistic satisfaction.
And so griefers became the bane of online worlds. One Battlefield 2 griefer boasted about how he took advantage of a glitch to ride the wing of a plane, shot the pilot in the head upon take-off, and then parachuted to safety. In The Sims Online💮, an opportunistic madam called Evangeline set up in-game brothels, then forced newbies into virtual sex slavery.
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