Keyboard Optical Illusion

[apostle83]

Revenge? Nah. I don't need no revenge!

I came across the following image today, and thought about using it to play a joke on some friends by calling them and reading the provided instructions until the punchline hit them.

I just couldn't do it.

So, I've chosen to live vicariously through you.

Here is the image; please share any stories!

attn: mods
The above image was linked from a specific location provided by xkcd.com specifically for hotlinking. Thanks!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Wow, I'm gonna have to try that on somebody.

I used to get a kick out of telling people they could do a neat trick on Windows by pressing ALT-F4.

 

[backstept]

Wow, I'm gonna have to try that on somebody.

I used to get a kick out of telling people they could do a neat trick on Windows by pressing ALT-F4.

I used to do that in Guild Wars when noobs wanted to know how to /dance

 

[Sheep]

I used to get a kick out of telling people they could do a neat trick on Windows by pressing ALT-F4.

F-U man. F-U. I just tried that not realizing what would happen.

 

[apostle83]

I used to get a kick out of telling people they could do a neat trick on Windows by pressing ALT-F4.

F-U man. F-U. I just tried that not realizing what would happen.

Hit Alt+Spacebar, M, Arrow <- and then move your mouse around really fast!

 

[Mr. B]

LOL... reminds me that mine is due for another run through the dishwasher.

 

[Amaris]

Wow, I'm gonna have to try that on somebody.

I used to get a kick out of telling people they could do a neat trick on Windows by pressing ALT-F4.

I used to do that in Guild Wars when noobs wanted to know how to /dance

Yeah, I saw that a lot when I would play WoW. Some new guy would say "So how do I dance?" and it wouldn't be 5 seconds someone would reply with "Press Alt + F4 at the same time, buddy". A few seconds later the new guy would disappear.

J.

 

[Mistral]

I used to tell kids playing Crimson Skies on Xbox Online that you could get the upgraded version of the plane they chose by hitting A,A,X,X, down, left, B. B was the command to drop out of the game. I am a bastard.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

For another trick, press CTRL-ALT-(down arrow). If you're lucky, it will just flip your screen upside down. If you're unlucky, it'll do a hard crash of your system.

 

[SeerSGB]

I did the whole Alt+F4 thing. Raise your hand if you ever convinced someone to cure lag by going into command prompt and doing Format C: <eg> Raises hand.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

You don't even have to do that, just: rmdir /S /Q "C:\Docume~1"

That'll fuck up their profiles enough your average user won't be able to log in at all.

 

[iguana_tonante]

When I saw the title, I knew what this thread was going to be about.

 

[FPAlpha]

People can be bastards sometimes.. i love it

I learned about the CTRL-ALT-(down arrow) thing last week.. still debating with myself if i should try it when i return to office next week

 

[Robert Maxwell]

If you have good video drivers, it will work fine. It's also a mean thing to do to a coworker who leaves their computer unlocked and steps away. ^_^

If you have shit drivers, however, it won't be pretty! I learned this the hard way when I used it as a "trick" on a friend. She was kind of pissed.

 

[SeerSGB]

People can be bastards sometimes.. i love it

I learned about the CTRL-ALT-(down arrow) thing last week.. still debating with myself if i should try it when i return to office next week

Hey, if us old timers don't haze the n00bs how they ever going to learn? I'm a bastard cause I care

 

[Joshua Howard]

I witnessed the ALT+F4 trick many times in the old days playing Empire Earth online. As shameful as it is to admit, I also fell for it once.

Upon reading the original post, I just realized how much junk was in my keyboard... and subsequently emptied a whole bunch of loot out of it onto my just-cleaned-with-pledge desk.

I am entirely guilty of sitting at the computer watching movies/TV shows and eating crackers at the same time, and I never realized how many of them were going under the keys.

 

[Ruaidhri]

I love XKCD. Brilliant site.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

OK...on the subject of dirty keyboards, what's the quickest (CHEAP) way to clean one out without prying up the keys? Mine has reached the stage of ungodly.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

For those of us non-Windows users - what does Alt-F4 do?

Nerys: You might try a small vacuum, like a dustbuster or something. Or perhaps a duster would work. I dunno, my keyboard is very flat (the only kind that my hands don't hurt when I use!) so it doesn't collect a lot of stuff. It's a keyboard I highly recommend, by the way.

 

[Sheep]

OK...on the subject of dirty keyboards, what's the quickest (CHEAP) way to clean one out without prying up the keys? Mine has reached the stage of ungodly.

A can of compressed air usually does the trick for me, unearthing all sorts of random debris.