I still recall how, as a fresh-faced, young gamer just getting into the newfangled realm of online multiplayer, I got absolutely got in Everquest when somebody told me you could get a numeric representation of your current experience points by typing “/ex”.
It was actually short for “/exit”. And in those days, it took a loooooooooooooooooong time to relaunch the game and get logged back in. Learned a valuable lesson about human nature that day. It has served me well.
I got people with ‘/qui gon jinn’ in Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.
It runs ln the Quake 3 engine, so it would just ignore everything after the space and auto complete the closest command, which was ‘/quit’ which instantly quit the game.
I got so many people because it seems like a plausible cheat code in a Star Wars game.
‘/disco’ to dance got a lot of people too.
That’s a top tier prank
First week playing WoW and some goober told me to try the camp emote. /camp quits the game and I quickly learned my lesson. Wasn’t even mad.
check past messages with “/log”
It is an initiation we all must pass through. Nothing delights me more than delivering that initiation to others.
Unfortunately, this was before xkcd. If I’d known about the “lucky 10,000”, I might have been more philosophical about it at the time.
‘Type disco into console for lights’ for CS
Man, I really miss EverQuest. Wish I could go back to my teens and relive those days.
I still regularly play the same character I started with nearly 26 years later. I still love that game.
The first time I was hit with something like this, I was playing Doom and my dad said if I pressed CTRL+ALT+DELETE, I could access the cheats.
This was back when it didn’t come up with the little prompt and some options, that command straight up reset the PC.
It was a dark day when the three-fingered salute was nerfed.
Damn, that looks like a legit old man Linus.
Nope: Gary Oldman, master of disguise, strikes again!
I thought it was a aged picture of him at first
It is, though, isn’t it? That’s exactly his stream setup at his old house, down to the Sennheiser headphones with a mod mic
Oh man, you’re right,
So aged Linus pic???
LOL OP thinks kids still know how to use computers with physical keyboards.
Gen Z can barely operate them, and Gen Alpha can’t even read, let alone figure out a desktop PC; imagine how stupid kids in the 2070s are going to be.
I remember Thor from PirateSoftware talking about that … a lot of kids only know touchscreens.
“I was there with your mother when it was written. We were cybering at the goldshire inn”.
At work, I use a databank interface that’s so old, Alt+F4 is save changes. Guess it’s from before the standard arose
a smaller demographic be like “tf kinda nonsensical bugshit r u talkin bout bro alt+f4 lol its cmd+q you silly fuck lol alt f4 deez nuts in ur mom u daft cunt”
There’s a reason it’s a small demographic.
Yes, it’s because there are fewer people that are familiar with the cmd+q shortcut than there are those familiar with alt+f4. It’s possible that even fewer still have ever even used QNX Neutrino, back when it fit on a standard 1.44 3.5, let alone are even familiar at all with an RTOS.
So yes, your point stands.
Something something “hunter2”
What is something something “*******”
“*******” balls!
This guy has a lot of different doors.
Why’d you ask then grandpa
