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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.

In an older version of Stellaris, a cheesy strategy is to abduct or force relocate the entire galaxy onto a single planet.

Usually having an overcrowded planet, has a several drawbacks.

Since you can never generate enough food, your population will always be in decline. But this decline is capped per planet, and is quite small. As long as you can keep abducting and force relocating pops from your conquests, you can grow.

Similarly, you ignore consumer goods for the only cost of a reduction in produced goods from jobs. But you barely produce anything via jobs anyway.

The low happyness and overcrowding causes stability issues on the planet. But again, the negative stability is capped, so you enable martial law on the planet, and build fortresses, which provide a stability boost per soldier job they create. And only stability matters for revolts.

You need minerals, but you can get those from mining asteroids.

Your energy credits come from being a mega church, in which each pop following your religion, generates some credits, along with trade generated per pop.

Alloys come from turning the planet into an ecumenopolis. Although you get a -50% production modifier, it is the only thing you need to produce yourself.

But the real trick is giving all the cramped up pops utopian living standards. In this version of Stellaris, any unemployed pop living in utopian living standards, generated science points and trade value. Usually those are barely worth the extra cost of letting the pop live so luxuriously. But even if you don't provide food and consumer goods, they still provide sciencd and trade.

As a result, you got a stable planet generating insane amounts of science, energy credits, and alloys. While remaining a small empire, which kept tech costs low.

I know most sanitary fittings machining dimensions by heart. Engineer drawings are for pussies.

Open NFS MW 2005

In the titlescreen (Do not press Enter yet) type

• burgerking (unlocks hidden challenge)

• castrol (shows hidden castrol themed Ford GT)

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

281-330-8004 hit Mike Jones up on the low cos Mike Jones is bout to BLOW!

?TJL-BDFW-BFGV-JVVB (enables cheats in Doom 64)

left-jump-left-1P-left-fire_bubble-left-1P

09f911029d74e35bd84156e5635688c0

I think lol

nope. last "e" is a "c". real close tho

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.

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8

Don't remember if any other titles used it, but BARACUDA on Sonic 3D Blast on Genesis/Mega Drive for level select.

Not sure if it works for the other versions or on any of the collection games it's included in, though.

V21 is the shortcut to call for a medic in Wolfenstein Enemy Territory

CTO4, SAP VC characteristics transaction code

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.

Latin palindrome, roughly "we enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire".

ATH1 ATH0

“No gimmicks! No tricks! You don’t pay … ‘till 1996!”

— ad for a furniture store when I was growing up

6922251 x 8 = 55378008

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.

Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true/false

Testingcheatsenabled true

And finally testingcheats true

The entire shortening of the Sims cheat codes.

Also motherlode.

The password to reach Mike Tyson / Mr dream in Punch-Out! is 007-373-5963. Burned into my brain.

RRTANGENTABACUS

I know it primarily as a cheat code in Star Wars pod racer on N64, but I've seen it in other games too, and even referenced in different non-gaming contexts. I still don't really know what it means.

When I was a kid I remembered it as "RR-Tan-Genta-Bacus". It wasn't until decades later I realised it is real words "tangent", "abacus".

I can recite the names of the Books of the New Testament in the bible by heart. I'm not even Christian.

IDKFA & IDDQD and off you go. Lots of childhood memories.