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[[File:Door stuck by angusburgers.png|link=Counter-Strike|thumb|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqB1uoDTdKM DOOR STUCK! DOOR STUCK!] PLEASE, I BEG YOU!<ref>Image source:[https://www.deviantart.com/angusburgers/art/DOOR-STUCK-761248261]</ref>]]
Here you are just having a good time with your friends on your favorite online game. Everyone in your party is pulling their weight and gaining lots of items and gold. [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]...wait, [[Oh Crap|what's that sound]]? You suddenly hear a high level spell being used and before you can turn around and blink, [[Team Killer|you and your friends are dead]]. Who used the spell? [[Troll|The giggling player within your own party]] as he [[Ninja Looting|runs around looting your dropped items and runs away.]]
You just met another form of a [[Troll]] for online games, the [[Griefer]].
The Griefer is the most known term for this type of player. The act of griefing dates as far back as the days of old arcades in your local pizzeria. Methods of griefing included but were not limited to reaching over and pressing buttons on games people were playing, turning off the game while it was in use,
Griefers are also known for ruining games of sports.
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There exist videos of people griefing players and sometimes getting a funny reaction...which has sadly done ''exactly'' what the griefers want...to get people ticked off and laughing at something. Because thanks to videos of griefing getting loads of positive comments on Youtube and forums internetwide...people now think they can grief to be ''funny'', when in reality, it was only funny the one or two times it was actually done in the video. After that, it's about as unfunny as [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|Seinfeld is today.]]
Calling Griefer is a popular accusation in [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s that allow [[Player Versus Player]] combat, particularly in [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s that don't have separate PvP and [[Player Versus Environment]].
{{Noreallife|it's not worth the aggravation}}
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:Or, as development team member Tom LaPille [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ld/140 puts it]:
{{quote|Our vision of ''New Phyrexia''--as created by Aaron Forsythe and Ken Nagle, the two players in R&D with the strongest griefing tendencies--is one of all-upside griefing that leaves your opponent not knowing what they're supposed to do and feeling a little bit violated. Phyrexia doesn't destroy all the creatures on the battlefield; it destroys all the creatures on the battlefield and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name{{=}}Life%27s%20Finale rips some out of your library to boot]. Phyrexia doesn't just exile a permanent. It [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name{{=}}Exclusion%20Ritual disallows the opponent from casting every other copy].}}
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[South Park]]'' has a famous ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' episode where the cast goes off in pursuit of revenge against a griefer.
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