Guide to Being an Asshole on Winbolo

Nov 20, 2007 04:39 Guide to Being an Asshole on Winbolo
I've played this game for years. As useful as it might be to try to impart strategy or game tips in some way in the form of videos or guides, it is tedious and not rewarding or amusing. So instead, today I am giving you the definitive guide to being an asshole on winbolo!

Amaze your friends, dazzle your enemies. Follow these simple rules and you will be the greatest asshole ever!

1) Be insulting. The more personal the better. Mock someone every time they lose a pill or lose an lgm. Cackle at every bit of misfortune someone may have in the game. If someone loses a game, berate them endlessly and bring it up every single time you come across them. Make exaggerated claims about something someone did, or better yet fabricate them and claim they are fact. When called out, fabricate and exaggerate more claims. Always be one step ahead! Also, make sure you hold people to a double standard, though. And this leads to the next rule...

2) You are the best at winbolo and are omnipotent and have never lost, and will never lose. If for some reason you ever lose, whether it be a match or a pill or anything, it is because of your phone ringing (you tell them you are an important man who gets important business phone calls all day), a non-existant bug, a bad ally, or lag. Ahh lag, your best defense. Lag can be used for literally any defeat. You died with 10 pill on hand? Clearly lag was at play! Your lgm was sniped in the open? Lag, duh!

3) Jump go and early farm. So what if there are logs to verify your actions, you rely solely on nobody noticing. And if they DO happen to notice, lie. Say that actually, everyone else reacted slow and you were the one who started on time. If you are true asshole, you cannot be proven wrong.

4) Pad your game results. Don't play people who might actually beat you (nobody can beat you) with your normal winbolo ID. Use a dummy one or none at all. Another option is simply refuse to play them, but claim they are terrible and/or you are better. This is a sure way to be an asshole. This way you can minimize any apparent losses on your record, which arnt real anyways, but its a hassle having to explain that it was a bug or lag every time. Also, make fake accounts and beat those fake accounts to raise points on your wbn ranking. Set up a bot logged in as your ID and another bot on a map where they just take eachothers base and pill in a loop all night. Leave that up for weeks.

5) In an open game, your object is to piss as many people as possible off. Winning is inconsequential. Some ways to go about doing this are making highly skewed teams (and being on the lopsided one, naturally) Another way is to spam people with alliance request. Just hitting the hotkey a few hundred times will do the trick. If you really want to be efficient, make a macro that spams the hotkeys to request alliance on a loop, forever! This also applies to spamming profanities. If at any given time, they don't see something you said or did in the scroll, you havn't done your job!

6) If you see a strict game in progress, join it. Ignore their pleas asking you to leave. Again, here you can spam alliance requests and text, but another great way to be an asshole, is to wall bases and get lgms killed from behind.

7) Abuse the gamebots that the people who run the game hosting servers put up. If you might lose always try to ally them or server kill the game. Kill games in progress for no reason too, and make tons of games so as to crash the bot and make it unusable by anyone else. If anyone asks, you are doing this to improve winbolo. Don't need to be logical, or really explain your actions to anyone, since you are superior than everyone else. The asshole answers to nobody.

8.) Try to take down winbolo game servers. There are several ways this could be done. One way is phone up their ISP and claim they are hosting child pornography. If you can plant some child pornography on their public access ftp server, the more credible you will be. Harass their ISP incessantly, but don't overdue it or you will lose credibility. Come up with a different reason and seperate your complaints in time intervals of a few weeks to a few monthes. If you can collaborate this with a network of like-minded assholes, the more likely you are to succeed. Remember to always threaten legal action. Another way would be to attack their server with a distributed denial of service type attack. If you can't figure it out get some hacker friends to help you.

9.) Make useless and vulgar comments and posts on winbolo.net Be sure to make everything personal. The more personal you can be, the better. If someone else is doing this, remember to chime in against the person less successful at effective textual communication. Photoshop pictures you can find on them, and put them up. Great times!

10) Imitate other people. If you can figure out their username and password, that is better, but it is not essential.

11) In stricts, try to get on the team with the best allies. When teams are being made, claim you are "rusty". By saying you are rusty, you have more excuses to use if you don't win, and it makes you look cooler if you do win. When you win, insult the losing team and claim it was all due to your efforts. If your team loses, you had no part of the losing. Your allies lost it for you. Always.

12) Call go in stricts before everyone is ready. Or Call go in ally chat. Every second of time you waste of other people's the better asshole you are!

13) "Accidentally" kill your allies lgms, and lose your teams resources. Then say it was all their fault. How could it be yours? Don't they know you are the best ever? You define brilliance in winbolo.

14) Expanding on number 1, be hypocritical in how you insult someone. Criticize their spelling or grammar, while making similar mistakes yourself. Say they have no life because they are playing winbolo or are on the forum, or what not, yet you are on the forums making posts as well as playing winbolo too. The same rules never apply to the asshole

15) Use hacks and exploits. Things like armor hack, speed hack etc. Exploit pill bugs and ghosted tanks. Always deny any such act no matter how over whelming the evidence.


Ill add some more as they come to me
Last edited: Nov 20, 2007 05:50 (edited 5 times)
Nov 20, 2007 04:46
So instead, today I am giving you the definitive guide to being an asshole on winbolo!

Tired of not having peers?
Nov 20, 2007 04:50 Re: Guide to Being an Asshole on Winbolo
underdog wrote:
So instead, today I am giving you the definitive guide to being an asshole on winbolo!

1) Be insulting...

2) You are the best at...

2) Jump go and early farm...

3) Pad your game results....

4) In an open game...

5) If you see a strict game...

6) Abuse the gamebots...

7) Try to take down winbolo game servers...

8.) Make useless and vulgar comments...


Be sure to dupe the numbers you use when writing in lists. Also be sure to mix up the list style as well.

Asshole.
Nov 20, 2007 04:52
You realize you could summarize defects of the whole community in a nicely formatted 15-point bulleted list, but we'd need an entirely new website in order to list yours? Think about that!

And my God, why leave your post open with "Ill add some more as they come to me." Can't you, for once since I've known you, construct your thoughts before projecting them to everybody? At least now you've made a list to separate the ideas that you'd usually just fart into one paragraph - or worse in IRC you'd hit the return key in sets of 5 words regardless of they completed the thought or not.

6) Abuse the gamebots that the people who run the game hosting servers put up. If you might lose always try to ally them or server kill the game. Kill games in progress for no reason too, and make tons of games so as to crash the bot and make it unusable by anyone else. If anyone asks, you are doing this to improve winbolo. Don't need to be logical, or really explain your actions to anyone, since you are superior than everyone else. The asshole answers to nobody.

7) Try to take down winbolo game servers. There are several ways this could be done. One way is phone up their ISP and claim they are hosting child pornography. If you can plant some child pornography on their public access ftp server, the more credible you will be. Harass their ISP incessantly, but don't overdue it or you will lose credibility. Come up with a different reason and seperate your complaints in time intervals of a few weeks to a few monthes. If you can collaborate this with a network of like-minded assholes, the more likely you are to succeed. Remember to always threaten legal action. Another way would be to attack their server with a distributed denial of service type attack. If you can't figure it out get some hacker friends to help you.

While I feel these two are directed somewhat toward me, I can only take responsibility for spamming bottie once and kicking people out once and then ban-walking a million times after the only real justified ban behind nas/rebal that the server has really seen.

Number two tho.. that makes me think LRL was feeding you something in #ircop.. I pasted his 'resume' (where 27 year old LRL the Bank IT Manager turns out to be 22 year old Newspaper Delivery Boy) but I never posted anything offensive to his FTP. In fact, nobody did unless it was in the past 2 weeks or I would have heard about it.

Know why I would have heard about it? Because unlike you, I thought 'running the server' meant more than flashing an OP badge when ren beat me.
Nov 20, 2007 05:13
What I find most amusing about this list, is most of it applies to UD.

Min
Nov 20, 2007 22:39
Unfortunatly, most people can be assholes without this guide.
Nov 21, 2007 00:01
I was just thinking of playing some wb again...But now you've reminded me of all the reasons I haven't been playing in the first place. Thanks!

-DAllen
Nov 21, 2007 04:24
16) Massing/killing games...
Nov 21, 2007 16:32
I think this entire list applies to me at some time or other. Frustration builds and sometimes you do things that were not well thought out ahead of time or we would never do in real life.

That being said, here are my additions.


17: Using a speed hack
18: using a "NORM"
19: being disrespectful to someone's mom :D


We all have a little asshole in each of us. But we also have a brain and a heart.
Last edited: Nov 21, 2007 18:48 (edited 1 time)
Nov 21, 2007 18:43
We all have a little asshole in each of us.

:idea:

Because it looks like one.
Nov 22, 2007 16:05
20: Screaming "end it!!" when other people are still playing/enjoying the game.
Nov 22, 2007 16:12
dont forget a VERY important one ..........

21.) Being Derami
Nov 23, 2007 13:31 "NORM88"
18: using a "NORM"


:twisted: :!: :!: Haven't seen him in a minute.
Nov 24, 2007 03:12
22: Using other player's names.
23: Trolling.
Nov 24, 2007 03:55
Siren wrote:
23: Trolling.

That isn't really assholish behavior. Now that DNS/IPs appear after every players name, you can usually decode who is trolling as who. Even if you don't know who they are, after playing a game with them their skill level become apparent. This will help in creating teams for the next game.

Perhaps back in the days of 1.08 when only IPs were available and even then it was an option to turn them on and when WBN was just a dream, trolling might have had an asshole-trait or two associated with it. Some players did it just to get the best of someone else or just to actually be the one that mined and fucked up opens without having the reprecusions that come along with such a gameplan.
Nov 24, 2007 09:28
I dont think this was on there...

24) Leaving a strict game because your builder was sniped or you didn't like a move another player did ect...
Nov 24, 2007 15:45
Sticks wrote:
Perhaps back in the days of 1.08 when only IPs were available and even then it was an option to turn them on and when WBN was just a dream, trolling might have had an asshole-trait or two associated with it. Some players did it just to get the best of someone else or just to actually be the one that mined and fucked up opens without having the reprecusions that come along with such a gameplan.


Trolling was typically used to allow someone everyone thought was 'good' to actually have a good game. See what happens is when your percieved as the 'best' player, you get thrown on teams with the worst players, no matter what. This makes for bad games. Alot of times trolling was used to get more even teams made. You may think oh, having the best person with the worst is 'fair'. but in alot of cases, its actually not. Becuase the 'best' person may not play well with others (for example, myself, I'm not a very strong team player, but I was considered one of the best 1x1 players, which ment people would assume I was awesome, when in fact I was average when put in a team) In those cases trolling was actually required for the teammaking to actually be fair. Most of the time the people making teams havn't got the first clue what a fair combination would be (skill changes dayly, other things effect how the game will play out, one of your teammakes could be drunk for example, or just having a really terrible day. Or having a really awesome day) At best teammaking is a crapshoot of 'try it and we'll see' but when you have a superior player in the game, they will get the perceived worst player on their team every time.

I don't see anyone playing round robin games anymore to deal with this problem. If players would agree to 3 games different teams each time in a 2x2, trolling really wouldn't be required.

There will always be people who think trolling is unfair, but usually they change their minds once they get 'good'

Min
Nov 24, 2007 16:50
I guess I meant trolling in the way that someone will disappear for a while and then come back using a different name so no one will know who they are (for w/e, perhaps personal reasons). Well, while some are indifferent to this player being "supposedly" gone from winbolo, there are others that miss having them around.

And I guess this really doesn't qualify as being an asshole, I guess more like being dense.
Nov 24, 2007 18:28
hmmmm
Nov 24, 2007 18:36
Sticks: agree that trolling was a lil more harsh in 1.08 where pepople truly couldnt tell who the player was and in stricts trying to make level teams became a lil tuff....

Min: I too knew that was the purpose but at the time I felt that it wasnt really right, now I think I understand more so why, and can let that go heh

Siren: not sure what you mean by dense, if someone truly were to do what you say they are doing, and you say they "might" have a valid reason for it, why would that make them dense? cuz you miss them?

In general a very indirect thing that had become very "assinine" is the constant open games.... we all know the outcome.... groups form there "clicks" and ally usually the early allying players will decoy and dble to build up a significant pool of pills, soon one ally decided to ally a friend who is fairly new or doesnt give a shit how many players are on a team or whats fair and allies a buncha support, then it ends up a collision of either a mass vs a few or what will lead to such, in which case, in most measures the mass, supercedes, and not necessarily because one player made a power move, or for one vet that lead them cuz we have seen time and again bolo leads get frustrated with the cornhole newbs that dotn think before doing, but the mass in general there are just too many tanks, too many shells, too many full resources and many more lgms, its a matter of time til the small team gets in lgm trouble

Im not saying opens cant be fun but for crying out loud half the time our stricts we have to sit and wait all the time for an open game to end just to rally one player or such, cuz many just get too comfortable in opens to even challenge theselves in a strict.

Perhaps things have changed hell Im not in game much anymore a few pick up stricts here and there, but Id be shocked if it has.And from what I hear from friends now playing it hasnt.

We need to get more players interested in the "non lazy" playing and start picking up strict games and we need more vets willing to be patient and let them learn with out defaming them and telling them they are worthless.

-Add-
Nov 25, 2007 09:00
yea i hate it when someone loses their lgm an quits and rejoins to get it back.not cool. be like everyone else waiting for theirs to come back to them. grr :evil:
Nov 25, 2007 20:19
Pip wrote:
I dont think this was on there...

24) Leaving a strict game because your builder was sniped or you didn't like a move another player did ect...


Yeah, I've had a few newer players leave stricts after I either a) walled them in or b) walled in their LGM.

This is a completely different issue than, say, leaving/rejoining an open after you lose your LGM. Because when I join an open I typically wind up on the team of fewest -- but highly skilled -- players and least pills, I've done this myself. I have seen other players do this as well. But is it assinine to do in an open?
Nov 26, 2007 23:06
Of course you can rejoin for your LGM in an open. You're going to play 10 v 3 and have the nerve to say it's not *FAIR* to rejoin?

In any case, all etiquette gets thrown out the window in open games, whether it seems fair or not. Although I have to admit when someone allies and steals my pills, and un-allies, I get super pissed.
Nov 27, 2007 20:17
the difference is, that if you have all pills, then the rest mass. but to me, leaving and rejoining to me is poor sportsmanship.
my opinion



MD
Nov 28, 2007 02:55
when you have most pills and mass you are an asshole
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