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[LapsedPacifist79]

This is prolly old news. Just had a guy say Alt-F4 gives you 3'rd person view. I'm a bit drunk, did it before my brain kicked in. I feel like a complete *****. Don't be as n00by as me kids!!

EDIT: I D I O T is a swear word now?

Edited by LapsedPacifist79, 03 May 2013 - 05:13 AM.

[Juodvarnis]

-1 pts. Faith in humanity lost.

[Darwins Dog]

I'm more surprised that people are still using that trick. I thought it would have stopped being funny by now. Then again, there are plenty of drinks in the world.

[LapsedPacifist79]

Yeah, 5 pints of lager will screw your judgement. Knew it was wrong as I was doing it. I'm 33 and spent most of that gaming FFS! Total n00bage.

[DEMAX51]

I just posted about this in another thread - my guildmate pulled that trick a few days ago and like 4 people all discoed all at once. It was glorious.

We were all noobs once, consider it a right of passage

[Nick Drezary]

Before ELO i joked like this once and 4 players from my team DCd and we were *****... not joking like this any more

[Krazy Kat]

The first (and last) time I fell for that was in 1997. Playng Quake. Some pranks never get old I guess.

[LapsedPacifist79]

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We were all noobs once, consider it a right of passage

I've paid my dues man! Leonard Goldstein and Aaron Silverberg are both rich men. I suspect it's karmic retribution for being drunk at 1PM. Or possibly for the borderline anti-semitism.

Edited by LapsedPacifist79, 03 May 2013 - 01:38 PM.

[EvilCow]

It still works...

[ZeProme]

Amm... it stills works... lol.

New people come and go, maybe some forget maybe there are new people exposed to computers.

[Mycrus]

oh this is a classic... and it still works..

[knight-of-ni]

This is one of those threads that should just auto-repost itself ever other week. As long as we have Windows, we will have the Alt-F4 trick. It's easy to forget and blindly follow the suggestion. Perhaps PGI should add a reminder about this to their list of hints while the match loads.... right after "The Hulu girl is not a lie".

Now if we all ran Linux we wouldn't have this problem........ kidding.... kidding of course.

[Mechteric]

Well I guess the only good thing is that the Alt-F4 gag only works once per person in their lifetime (unless they are very very dim). I can only hope the only people that still use this are those who are around the age of 12. I'm sure when I was that old I did the same thing to others.

[LapsedPacifist79]

Seen it happen 3 times since I posted this thread. Worked on every occasion, 2-4 discos every time with a promise of 3rd person. It wasn't the same guy.

I didn't even want 3rd person, I'd never use it. Curiosity/Stupidity/Alcoholism killed the cat.

[JC Daxion]

Alt+f4 aslo fixes my typos!

[coolcook007]

[LapsedPacifist79]

Perfect.

Edited by LapsedPacifist79, 10 May 2013 - 06:02 PM.

[Strykewolf]

Flawless Victory.


That said...been tired of that one for about 20 years. Sort of like military bearings, muffler bearings, board stretchers...etc.

((ETA)) One D, Ten T.

Edited by Strykewolf, 10 May 2013 - 07:47 PM.

[Mechwarrior Buddah]

The funny thing about this is in the beta for the game fallen earth, it was a bannable offense to trick ppl like that

Strykewolf, on 10 May 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

Flawless Victory.


That said...been tired of that one for about 20 years. Sort of like military bearings, muffler bearings, board stretchers...etc.

((ETA)) One D, Ten T.

What about Blinker fluid and gallons of torque?

[knight-of-ni]

Strykewolf, on 10 May 2013 - 07:45 PM, said:

That said...been tired of that one for about 20 years. Sort of like military bearings, muffler bearings, board stretchers...etc.

It's all ball bearings these days.