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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Lawnman23 5 points 2 weeks ago

Entering disco in Warcraft 2 lit up this bad boy:

https://youtu.be/8jQ36ixLeq8

Good times.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's a top tier prank

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is an initiation we all must pass through. Nothing delights me more than delivering that initiation to others.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] orris 7 points 2 weeks ago

‘Type disco into console for lights’ for CS

[–] Muun 5 points 2 weeks ago

Man, I really miss EverQuest. Wish I could go back to my teens and relive those days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

check past messages with "/log"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I still regularly play the same character I started with nearly 26 years later. I still love that game.

[–] gerbler 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.