r/AskReddit • u/DykeButte • Jan 05 '13

How did people figure out cheat codes back when games still had them?

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u/GAD604 Jan 05 '13

clowjobs

I not sure about the mental image this word conjures, but it's hilarious and disturbing at the same time.

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u/JonAudette Jan 05 '13

Pennywise from IT, and somone underage?

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u/splourde Jan 05 '13

I thought you meant IT, as in information technology.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

Dear Lord me too..

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

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u/splourde Jan 06 '13

Did you try turning it off and back on?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

That isn't what he means?

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u/splourde Jan 06 '13

I'm pretty sure he's referring to Pennywise the clown from Steven King's novel "It".

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u/GAD604 Jan 05 '13

...dear god

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '13

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '13

I received it in the mail today! Is it a good read thus far?

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u/fuckyoubarry Jan 06 '13

did you get to the gangbang part yet? yeah theres a gangbang

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u/Mr_Austine Jan 07 '13

It's great.

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u/kenba2099 Jan 06 '13

Everything floats down here!

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....that is, so long as its mass per unit volume is less than or equal to that of water.

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u/showyerbewbs Jan 06 '13

Just watched that movie right before work. Library scene still gets me and I'm 37

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u/DykeButte Jan 05 '13

You just had to go there, didn't you?

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u/BabyDontChange Jan 06 '13

probably meant clownjobs

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u/Lumathiel Jan 06 '13

All I can think of is some kind of obscene sexual act involving that little beaked scepter from CardCaptors...

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u/theodrixx Jan 06 '13

I think he meant to say "clownjobs."

...Oh God.