FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
Good ole FUCK George Dubya!
I know way too much about the propagation of plasma in fluorescent lighting. When you first hit a fluorescent tube with high voltage you need some cosmic radiation to rip off the first barium ion off the cathode which causes a tiny little lightning strike of plasma that skitters across the inner surface of the tube. Once it makes its way across the length of the tube to the anode you now have a conductive path. This path then grows tremendously until it envelopes the whole cross section starting from the anode and works it's way back to the cathode until the whole tube is filled with wonderful plasma that makes light when it excites the phosphor coating.
That's kina beautiful. Thank you.
In NFS Underground 2, if you place an empty file named “FOOBAR” with no extension in the game directory, you can bypass disk verification and the game just launches.
To tell the age of any horse Inspect the lower jaw of course; The six front teeth the tale will tell, And every doubt and fear dispel.
Two middle nippers you behold Before the colt is two weeks old; Before eight weeks two more will come Eight months: the corners cut the gum.
At two the middle "Nippers" drop: At three the second pair can't stop; When four years old the third pair goes, At five a full new set he shows.
The deep black spots will pass from view At six years from the middle two; The second pair at seven years; At eight the spot each corner clears.
From the middle "Nippers" upper jaw At nine the black spots will withdraw. The second pair at ten are bright; Eleven finds the corners light.
As time goes on the horsemen know The oval teeth three-sided grow; Then longer get - project before - Till twenty, when they know no more."
The phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" comes from this. If someone gives you a horse, you shouldn't look into its mouth to see how old it is because, hey, free horse.
Open NFS MW 2005
In the titlescreen (Do not press Enter yet) type
burgerking (unlocks hidden challenge)
castrol (shows hidden castrol themed Ford GT)
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
Latin palindrome, roughly "we enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire".
Loading a program from disk on the Commodore 64
LOAD"*",8,1
I haven't loaded a game on that system since I was probably 10 or so, but I'll never forget the command.
I memorized it as L-O-A-D shift-2 star shift-2 comma eight comma one.
Fun fact: There's a common misconception that this would load the first program on a disk, but it actually loads the most recently loaded program from the disk. If the disk is detected as being freshly inserted (as determined by the 2-character identifier in the disk's directory header), that defaulted to the first program in the disk's directory.
Admittedly, most of the time that makes it a distinction without a difference, but if you'd loaded something else from the same disk first, and you then wanted to load the first in the directory, you would need to use LOAD":*",8,1 instead.
That extra colon is vaguely related to the colon in C:\ on Windows computers. A lone colon was taken as an abbreviation of 0:, because in Commodore DOS(es) the drive "letters" were numbers. Dual slot drives were possible and then the two slots were 0: and 1:.
"So what's the 8 for in the LOAD command?" you might ask; "Isn't that the drive "letter" "? No, that's the device number. Note that drives on the 8-bit Commodores were always external. The 8 was more like the drive's "IP address" on the serial bus.
"What about the ,1?" That meant to LOAD the program at the memory address specified by the program's header on the disk. Without that, the computer would ignore the header and try to load into BASIC memory.
The neat part about loading at any address meant that it could overwrite parts of zero-page where the computer kept pointers to important internal functions. Overwrite the right one of those and the computer could be convinced to jump to a routine in the program that had just loaded without the user needing to type RUN.
So, if you wanted to be i) certain of loading the first program in the directory of ii) the disk in the second slot of iii) a dual-slot drive on the serial bus identifying as device/address 9, and then iv) have the program load at its preferred memory location, you'd need to use LOAD"1:*",9,1
The number of people who found the need to type that command in earnest, even back in the heyday of Commodore, probably numbers in the low tens, but there it is.
How's that for an obscure info dump?
Along these lines, I have several important memory locations memorized. POKE 53280 and 1 to change the border and background colors. 828 is the cassette buffer, and 49152 the free memory above BASIC ROM. SYS 64738 resets the machine.
I also can recite the powers of 2 up to 65536.
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas was the mnemonic when Pluto was still a planet. I suppose not totally obsolete but I find myself ending at "nine" instead of something you'd serve beginning with N.
Nachos
Naan
"Served Us Nine" works tbh... There's 9 of us and we all got served... Seems fair
6922251 x 8 = 55378008
The "Turbo" button on a 486 PC was actually a CPU clock speed limiter. It was necessary to play older games who had a hardcoded framerate that depended on clock cycles, because they would otherwise run too fast.
But for marketing reasons, IBM labelled the toggle as "turbo" instead of a speed limiter.
09f911029d74e35bd84156e5635688c0
I think lol
nope. last "e" is a "c". real close tho
Morse code. Did a science project back in middle school with wires, buzzers and tappers on a board. Then I taught it to my boy scout troop for a badge. Then lost some of it before joining the army in communications (as well as a ton of other outdated means of communication) and then in Iraq, me and another commo guy wired up our rooms for it so we could talk shit about our leadership even if they were in the room. Anyways, after working with it that many times over a stretched out time frame, I'll never forget that. Or the phonetic alphabet.
doom cheat codes:
IDDQD, god mode
IDKFA, ammo
IDSPISPOPD, no clip i think
SPISPOPD stands for 'Smashing pumpkins into small piles of putrid debris'.
Back in the usenet days I remember someone making a crappy freeware game with that title.
That's right, a cheat code in a game inspired the creation of another game.
The cheat code was inspired by a Usenet meme, could be the game was also inspired by the meme
in GTA 2, naming your player "GOURANGA" activates the cheat code mode. "IAMDAVEJ" gives you all guns.
in half-life 2, typing ent_fire !picker in the console makes the thing you are looking at catch fire. it's also the base command for a lot of other things; if you're looking at a door and add "unlock" to the command, the door will open.
when stacking firewood, always put the pieces with the bark facing up. that way, rain can't get the wood wet, and the logs dry quicker.
paper maps fold long side first.
the modern graphical interface of the personal computer was developed by Xerox and plagiarized by Steve jobs after he got a factory tour in 1972, but he missed the most important part of the computer that he saw: it was fully networked using what we today call Ethernet.
when stacking firewood, always put the pieces with the bark facing up. that way, rain can't get the wood wet, and the logs dry quicker.
I read this as being another feature of half life. I was very impressed by the level of detail the devs put into such an early game. Although slightly confused why log stacking would be part of a game
Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true/false
Testingcheatsenabled true
And finally testingcheats true
The entire shortening of the Sims cheat codes.
Also motherlode.
Adjusting a carburetor.
I was never really good at it, I never actually went through with selling my soul to Satan to gain true knowledge of that black art.
If that's your idea if fun, I can recommend the game My Summer Car. It's basically a simulator for Finnish country life in the 90's.
You spend most of your time drinking, going to the sauna, driving a crappy old Datsun hatchback (which you first have to rebuild in excruciating detail) down country roads, and adjusting your car's carburetor.
?TJL-BDFW-BFGV-JVVB (enables cheats in Doom 64)
I might as well go first. A friend read this to me once over the phone in 1997 or thereabouts, and it stuck:
Cracked
09B9085A
..Sadly, winzip stopped accepting that as a valid reg key some time in the 2000's.
Lol, just reminded me about win XP CD key. Not 100% sure it's still accurate but:
fckgw rhqq2 yxrkt 2b7q8 8tg6w
Edit: aww, I fucked up the ordering of the last two
Morrowind on the original Xbox came with cheat codes. Put the cursor over the health, magicka, or fatigue bar, enter the codes with the black and white buttons then hold A until the bar fills. If you close the menu before you let go of A, it will continue to refill constantly until you open your menu again.
Health: B, W, B, B, B, A
Magicka: B, W, W, B, W, A
Fatigue: B, B, W, W, B, A
You could actually use the magicka code for all 3, but I liked that there were 3 different codes.
The password to reach Mike Tyson / Mr dream in Punch-Out! is 007-373-5963. Burned into my brain.
V21 is the shortcut to call for a medic in Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
IDKFA & IDDQD and off you go. Lots of childhood memories.
IDSPISPOPD was fun too.
The password for the final level of Crazy Castle on the Gameboy is GIFT.
(I have a friend with hyperthymesia and this was the last thing we spoke about)
hold L2+R1 and press X square R2 L1 circle x square square square
unlocks all levels in the ps1 game Bugz bunny: lost in time
I can recite the names of the Books of the New Testament in the bible by heart. I'm not even Christian.
281-330-8004 hit Mike Jones up on the low cos Mike Jones is bout to BLOW!
ATH1 ATH0
My ICQ number; various employee numbers and alarm codes long since changed from previous jobs; procedures and rules from those jobs; all kinds of cheat codes from games that I no longer play or own; various old computer protocols, port names/numbers, etc. that no longer matter; and I'm sure more stuff (and some other stuff that, living in Japan, isn't relevant to anyone here).
If you put as your name grm3110 in NBA jam you can play as death
3.14159265359 (ok the last 9 is actually an 8 but it's followed by a 9 so I round up).
Not exactly obsolete, but there's no reason for anyone to memorize that many digits of Pi except for trivia. Number of times it has come up in trivia: 0.
I know most sanitary fittings machining dimensions by heart. Engineer drawings are for pussies.
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