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.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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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?"
User "Poor Schmuck" has been banned for 6 hours.
Even funnier when the devs or admins strolled by and offered a simple “lol” immediately after the ban. Very goofy times.
Everything related to the internet was so unserious and fun.
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.
my response would always be something like "be sure to touch some grass on your walk to the library to look that up."
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.
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.
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
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*
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…
Wait until you see what kind of crazy controls we're using in 2070.
"For the last time, it's just like evergthing else, grandpa! You just have to think about what you want to do hard enough and it reads your thoughts."
aaaand I'm in horny jail
is that some sort of tongue controller?
basically yea
Touche
Can't think of an instance of reload, but I have had issues with melee, grenade, interact, hook, etc in more than a few games
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 :/
If you don't speak French, you can remove the French language pack from your Linux install with sudo rm -fr
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!
I mean I like their toast but that language pack is just too big
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.
iddqd
bummer, dude. it activates after the fourth time.
I'm actually trying to remember when I first learned the real code. I jist remember trying to use Doom's godmode code in Heretic, where instead of becoming immortal, the game kills you with a message like "you've DOOMed yourself."
In Star Citizen, you cycle the camera with F4. I've gotten a few people by telling them alt reverses the cycle direction.
Isn't that the cheat code in Starcraft to get naked Kerrigan pics on Bnet?
Damn you, I was in a ranked game!
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?
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
Is that Linus Sebastian?
No, that's his grandpa Lionel Sebastian
Bold of you to assume there will be Windows, or keyboards... or kids
In Factorio you can enter this cmd prompt via powershell to unlock a special game mode.
systemreset - factoryreset