• St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19 days

    Some games instantly ban you from chat if you write alt f4 as an anti-hazing measure. I, being of patrician’s taste, ask in global chat for the command to close a window and giddily watch as microphone icons disappear from the player list.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldEnglish
      19 days

      A blacklist for words is such a lazy solution, lol.

      I remember back in the old days of Westwood, their online games had a strict list of bannable words, and it was always fun to bait people into using them with seemingly innocent questions. “Hey, I’m doing a history report on WWII, does anyone know the name of the leader of the SS? Himm-something?”

      Some poor schmuck: “You mean Himmler?”

      <SYSTEM> User “Poor Schmuck” has been banned for 6 hours.

          • joelfromaus@aussie.zoneEnglish
            19 days

            Now it’s all “please don’t swear think of the advertisers/shareholders/profits!”

            And pissing off some random idiot teenager could mean having their 1.5 million Twitch followers weaponised against you.

        • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
          19 days

          my response would always be something like “be sure to touch some grass on your walk to the library to look that up.”

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        19 days

        A blacklist for words is such a lazy solution, lol.

        Plenty of games have a little pop-up window that says “are you sure you want to exit?” when you press Alt+F4. That’s a much more elegant solution than banning the phrase.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 days

      That’s just stupid, it is stupid prank but ultimately harmless.

      I can almost guarantee there are more important things they should be worrying about.

      • St.Elsewhere@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        19 days

        Getting kids, and the bait takers were overwhelmingly children, to recognize the value in avoiding internet people felt like more good than harm. Plenty of casual bigots. Feeling welcome among them is unhealthy

  • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 days

    Setting: Napster Chat c. 1999

    User: Why is my download so slow?

    Me: If you hold CTRL+ALT and tap DEL as fast as you can it’ll speed it up

    Windows 98:
    CTRL+ALT+DELx1 = Task Manager
    CTRL+ALT+DELx2 = Immediate Reboot

    Half the chat: *Disappears*

  • roadrunner_ex@lemmy.caEnglish
    20 days

    Not a bad meme, but it feels like the Venn diagram of people who have been playing 50+ years, know about the Alt-F4 prank, and can’t figure out how to reload would be a pretty tiny overlap…

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    19 days

    I once asked for a niche camera control shortcut and someone said “Alt + the external view button” and I tried it before realizing that the external view button was F4 :/

  • vrek@programming.devEnglish
    20 days

    If you don’t speak French, you can remove the French language pack from your Linux install with sudo rm -fr

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      19 days

      You’d be amazed how much space the french language pack takes up! I was able to reduce my HDD usage to almost zero with this one simple trick!

      • vrek@programming.devEnglish
        19 days

        I mean I like their toast but that language pack is just too big

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    20 days

    My fucking boomer dad was the first to hit me with this back in the early 90s. Told me the god mode code in Doom was ctrl+alt+delete. This was back before it asked for any confirmation and just restarted the machine instantly. I ended up doing it 3 times in a row before I realized what was going on.

  • Inucune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19 days

    In Star Citizen, you cycle the camera with F4. I’ve gotten a few people by telling them alt reverses the cycle direction.

  • AmyAye@nord.pubEnglish
    19 days

    Isn’t that the cheat code in Starcraft to get naked Kerrigan pics on Bnet?

  • varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    19 days

    Anyone remembers the paladin who setup group select key binds with Alt+F1-F5 and was complaining, that selecting the fourth member always crashed the game?

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    19 days

    There was a time where Source games had “Quit game” bound to F10 per default

    Was a fun time, when you could tell people to press F10 to open the cheat menu or start a votekick

  • MeatPilot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19 days

    In Factorio you can enter this cmd prompt via powershell to unlock a special game mode.

    systemreset - factoryreset