• RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️@feddit.dk
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    3 days ago

    It was a default user command in the IRC client mIRC, that’s why it’s such an iconic phrase. Old school coders, including the ones that became game developers back in the GTA San Andreas days likely came up through the demo scene or similar, because there weren’t really “game dev” educations, so they all sat on IRC at one point.

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      3 days ago

      Oh that makes sense.

      I played sa:mp on a RP server and there was this one guy who always did

      /me slaps x with a large trout

      He also was Norwegian and I think trout is pretty big there (or I know salmon is at least) so I thought he’d come up with himself lol. This was nearly 20 years ago.

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          3 days ago

          Ah yeah, I never watched too many of those sketches. Loved Holy Grail and Life of Brian and of course I never expect the Spanish Inquisition, but I think that’s pretty much all my Python knowledge. What has Monty Python ever done for us?