• Psythik@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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.

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      7 hours ago

      I remember Thor from PirateSoftware talking about that … a lot of kids only know touchscreens.

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    17 hours ago

    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.

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      13 hours ago

      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.

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        17 hours 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.

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      17 hours ago

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

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    14 hours ago

    “I was there with your mother when it was written. We were cybering at the goldshire inn”.

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        8 minutes ago

        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

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    18 hours ago

    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”

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        17 hours ago

        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.