Post old controversial /tg/ features before they got removed

Shadowflame909 · Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:30 pm

Remember mlp race

and then MLP vox

I miss the vox tbqh

YouTube · Post by **san7890** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:32 pm #639011

cacogen · Post by **cacogen** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:08 pm #639014

i dunno but one april fools there were erp verbs and i remember downloading that commit to see how they implemented them but i don't think i could get them to work without another player

another april fools the station got flip turned upside down, which was probably controversial because it was like playing on an entirely different map which weirdly made it hard to find your way around

i remember meteor pens, they were an accident but no rounds could work while they were in because you got a pen in your PDA that shot meteors, which destroyed the station and quickly everyone was killed

if i remember right in 2012 kor made it so the detective's revolver fired .357 bullets but it was reverted like a week later after he became a brazillian police officer

there was telescience, which was eventually solved with a spreadsheet, that worked like the bluespace launchpad except with no limit on distance so you could steal everything

ntsl i think it was called, which allowed tcomms scripts, which let you mute people from tcomms or impersonate them or run games over tcomms similar to ones seen in chat rooms and i think it got removed for being spammy and laggy

stun gloves, which i think everyone knows about, you attacked someone on harm intent with an empty hand and they were stunned for long enough to get cuffs on them and drag them into maintenance at high speed (this was before the default run speed was nerfed and a slowdown was added to dragging, particularly dragging prone people) never to be seen again

in 2010 and 2011 security and the detective started with three pairs of thermal imaging glasses (the orange ones, similar to the ones traitors can get but without being able to be disguised) between them, which was pretty based

paralysis sting? you would mute sting and then parasting someone, which gave them the message "you feel a tiny prick and a burning sensation" and then they were completely fucked unless someone interrupted you absorbing them

sec borgs, though everyone knows about this, removed due to validhunters picking them and the various advantages cyborgs have over humans that made them tough to beat in combat, particularly if they had help or there was more than one

stewydeadmike · Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:05 pm

Legion cores being a straight up aheal

The separated chems plant trait

some of those weird obscure engines cargo used to be able to order like the antimatter one that I honestly kinda miss.

The stock market

And I don't know if this counts because it was only test merged for like a few rounds but pixel based movement which was really janky but would have been wild to see where the game would be now if it went through

Pandarsenic · Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:18 pm

Secborgs had validhunter issues but it was also pretty much the only way to make it matter if you give AIs funny lawsets, as demonstrated by their Campbell trial.

Old Parapen didn't take 10 years to drop someone, and it should go back to being that way

Bring back hardstuns 2022

wesoda25 · Post by **wesoda25** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:03 pm #639032

I have a half finished pr that returns hard stuns, one day ill finish and hopefully get it tmed a few rounds >:)

Boot · Post by **Boot** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:17 pm #639034

Money Trees and the stock market were fun, I also miss departmental budgets.

Farquaar · Post by **Farquaar** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:09 am #639063

The original snack cart

Hey, you have no right to tell me that it wasn't controversial

Tearling · Post by **Tearling** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:24 am #639066

I actually did a glacier meme for tgstation with this concept in mind. I didn't get very far with it though because I don't know a lot of old features/events/things, but here it is if anyone wants to take over and add more to it.

*Edit oh god the image is big

Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:11 am

pixel movement's a way deeper cut then the weird necro guy, he's on the wiki

Annihilite111 · Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:55 am

Tearling wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:24 am I actually did a glacier meme for tgstation with this concept in mind. I didn't get very far with it though because I don't know a lot of old features/events/things, but here it is if anyone wants to take over and add more to it.

*Edit oh god the image is big

Add maid borgs

Post by **Misdoubtful** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:23 pm #639107

Hey who remembers when tasers were a thing

massa · Post by **massa** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:12 pm #639139

Misdoubtful wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:23 pm Hey who remembers when tasers were a thing

I remember every time I raided armory I took the eguns, left the lasers for being useless.

The way one really did things was spam tasers until you win, then just smash their heads. I quite prefer the intensity of laser gun combat now. Much more fun.

Post by **Hulkamania** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:47 pm #639152

hitscan. lasers.

Timonk · Post by **Timonk** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:23 am #639154

Tearling wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:24 am I actually did a glacier meme for tgstation with this concept in mind. I didn't get very far with it though because I don't know a lot of old features/events/things, but here it is if anyone wants to take over and add more to it.

*Edit oh god the image is big

Where's the round ID to the shezza ERP incident

Tearling · Post by **Tearling** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 1:56 am #639167

Timonk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:23 am Where's the round ID to the shezza ERP incident

Oh fuck I forgot about that, what was the round ID for that?

YouTube · Post by **san7890** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 2:27 am #639170

Tearling wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 1:56 am
Timonk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:23 am Where's the round ID to the shezza ERP incident
Oh fuck I forgot about that, what was the round ID for that?

https://scrubby.melonmesa.com/ckey/Wilchen

I could tell you what it was, but that would simply be too easy. It was one of the September 8th rounds, though.

they also made an appeal so the ban reason is public and that contains the round id

Tearling · Post by **Tearling** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 4:36 am #639175

san7890 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 2:27 am
Tearling wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 1:56 am
Timonk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 30, 2022 12:23 am Where's the round ID to the shezza ERP incident
Oh fuck I forgot about that, what was the round ID for that?
https://scrubby.melonmesa.com/ckey/Wilchen

I could tell you what it was, but that would simply be too easy. It was one of the September 8th rounds, though.

they also made an appeal so the ban reason is public and that contains the round id

That made it pretty simple, thanks for the help finding it

cacogen · Post by **cacogen** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 9:39 am #639205

I thought this thread was for membering the good ol’ days before everything was cucked, not dredging up ancient drama about some literally who

BebeYoshi · Post by **BebeYoshi** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 6:26 pm #639233

Clock cult

Shadowflame909 · Sat Apr 30, 2022 11:19 pm

I still seethe that xenobio can no longer create weeping angels, changelings, xenomorphs, revival bolt magicarps, and most importantly lesser ash drake

I think I need to lobby for a reverse mi-go so I can still ash drake troll the crew into thinking a megafauna got on station.

Capsandi · Post by **Capsandi** » Sun May 01, 2022 1:40 am #639254

remember when halon let you read dchat?

Also I MISS OCULAR WARDENS GIMMIE MY EYE BALOONS BACK
+ cog scarab ghost roles during non clockcult rounds after clockcult got disabled being left to do literally nothing on reebe

Post by **NoxVS** » Sun May 01, 2022 2:13 am #639255

Remember Overthrow and Assimilators?

What was funny about Overthrow, was they had the whole thing where they subverted the AI to their team. The AI would be given a law saying to support your master or something, and also separately be told who their master was because they were now on that team. Cyborgs under them were never told who the master was and had to constantly ask the AI for information on who they are supposed to be obeying.

Then you had assimilation where the best strategy was to find one of the other assimilators by trying to assimilate everyone nearby, and then send the shadowy attackers at them so you can run up to them, feign surprise at their sudden death, and then feign more surprise as they "unexpectedly" explode into gibs when you steal their hivemind.

Shadowflame909 · Sun May 01, 2022 3:36 am

Assimilator was a really lame version of reverse revs/shadowlings

Some guy stealthily converts everyone to his team, and they dont even know he's on his team. After he mind bleeps enough people he ascends.

Very unengaging for literally everyone except for the assimilator and valid hunters

Timonk · Post by **Timonk** » Sun May 01, 2022 8:15 am #639267

The mind control was funny
On top of that i never got to ascend

Post by **Misdoubtful** » Sun May 01, 2022 9:15 am #639272

Timonk wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 8:15 am The mind control was funny
On top of that i never got to ascend

I loved it as a mechanic it was pretty great

chocolate_bickie · Sun May 01, 2022 12:56 pm

I remember ascending shortly before the shuttle arrived only to get get gib spear'd (pre-chem nerfs) by a hero assistant.

For that matter I miss the old meth grenade gib spear.

Fond memories of rolling ling and kamikazing random people, only to regen all my limbs and do it again.

Also used it against a Mauler only for the Mauler to survive but the occupant to be gibbed. No idea how that happened even today.

cacogen · Post by **cacogen** » Sun May 01, 2022 2:10 pm #639290

Old gangs, you got to tag turf to farm enough points to buy an overpowered turret. I really enjoyed the tagging turf mechanic for whatever reason. It was satisfying to cleanse the station of the wrong opinions and the pointless street battles that resulted were fun. Then you got to see how you ranked compared to other gangs and got points to buy loot off of that.

I remember once putting a 10 second C4 on a throwing star and throwing it at someone (this was before it made the thing throw like shit) and then Kor adminPM'd me about it like 'wow did you attach a C4 to a throwing star' and then the mayor gave me a key to the city and everyone pretended I was Batman for the day (actually I had bad latency so I got killed shortly afterwards before I could do it more than like twice)

Itseasytosee2me · Sun May 01, 2022 8:34 pm

Timonk wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 8:15 am The mind control was funny
On top of that i never got to ascend

same

BlevRuz · Post by **BlevRuz** » Mon May 02, 2022 10:33 am #639403

Hulkamania wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:47 pm hitscan. lasers.

good old days...

Shadowflame909 · Mon May 02, 2022 3:33 pm

I miss freon. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

Shadowflame909 · Mon May 02, 2022 3:33 pm

I miss freon. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

Shadowflame909 · Mon May 02, 2022 3:34 pm

I miss freon canisters. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

Shadowflame909 · Mon May 02, 2022 3:34 pm

I miss freon canisters. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

Shadowflame909 · Mon May 02, 2022 3:35 pm

I miss freon canisters. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

Shadowflame909 · Mon May 02, 2022 3:35 pm

I miss freon canisters. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

Shadowflame909 · Mon May 02, 2022 3:35 pm

I miss freon canisters. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

cacogen · Post by **cacogen** » Mon May 02, 2022 4:11 pm #639436

Freon, God I miss it

YBS · Post by **YBS** » Mon May 02, 2022 4:50 pm #639443

He misses freon!

Shadowflame909 · Tue May 03, 2022 3:55 am

can't believe I just noticed I lagged out and duplicated the same post 5 times...

I no longer miss Freon Canisters

Tue May 03, 2022 10:54 am

I actually miss cocoa powder hard stunning felinids. Sometimes we just can't have nice/silly things.

Timonk · Post by **Timonk** » Tue May 03, 2022 12:54 pm #639638

NecromancerAnne wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 10:54 am I actually miss cocoa powder hard stunning felinids. Sometimes we just can't have nice/silly things.

As a catboy main that used to play around 2020 a lot,. I've never once got hard stunned by chocolate

Tue May 03, 2022 5:50 pm

Timonk wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 12:54 pm
NecromancerAnne wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 10:54 am I actually miss cocoa powder hard stunning felinids. Sometimes we just can't have nice/silly things.
As a catboy main that used to play around 2020 a lot,. I've never once got hard stunned by chocolate

I ran an event around it on Sybil. And by ran an event, I mean I purrbated the station and sent an ERT man with a squirt bottle of cocoa and basically told him 'go hog wild'.

Yes I can be trusted with admin buttons.

Tearling · Post by **Tearling** » Wed May 04, 2022 3:30 pm #639815

I miss freon canisters. You'd open a can of that thing and the station would turn into the thermostat episode of SpongeBob. Nukie gleon grenades are the only thing close to mimicking a fraction of it's power.

Post by **NoxVS** » Wed May 04, 2022 6:52 pm #639834

NoxVS wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 2:13 am Remember Overthrow and Assimilators?

What was funny about Overthrow, was they had the whole thing where they subverted the AI to their team. The AI would be given a law saying to support your master or something, and also separately be told who their master was because they were now on that team. Cyborgs under them were never told who the master was and had to constantly ask the AI for information on who they are supposed to be obeying.

Then you had assimilation where the best strategy was to find one of the other assimilators by trying to assimilate everyone nearby, and then send the shadowy attackers at them so you can run up to them, feign surprise at their sudden death, and then feign more surprise as they "unexpectedly" explode into gibs when you steal their hivemind.

Something funny I remembered, we still have a drink based off Assimilation even though Assimilation itself isn't in the game anymore.

Itseasytosee2me · Wed May 04, 2022 8:32 pm

NoxVS wrote: ↑Wed May 04, 2022 6:52 pm
NoxVS wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 2:13 am Remember Overthrow and Assimilators?

What was funny about Overthrow, was they had the whole thing where they subverted the AI to their team. The AI would be given a law saying to support your master or something, and also separately be told who their master was because they were now on that team. Cyborgs under them were never told who the master was and had to constantly ask the AI for information on who they are supposed to be obeying.

Then you had assimilation where the best strategy was to find one of the other assimilators by trying to assimilate everyone nearby, and then send the shadowy attackers at them so you can run up to them, feign surprise at their sudden death, and then feign more surprise as they "unexpectedly" explode into gibs when you steal their hivemind.
Something funny I remembered, we still have a drink based off Assimilation even though Assimilation itself isn't in the game anymore.

I implemented the assimilation drink after it was removed as a memorial

The joke is that here is a drink called a "Mind eraser" and Assimilation got erased, hence "Hive mind eraser"

I really liked assimilation. I think my favorite round I played was as hivemind.