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"If your son is using Quake, you should make hime understand that this is not acceptable to you. You should ensure all the firearms in your house are carefully

"If your son is using Quake, you should make hime understand that this is not acceptable to you. You should ensure all the firearms in your house are carefully locked away, and have trigger locks installed. You should also bring your concerns to the attention of his school." Holy moly!

cosmodisk 5y ago
Dad, where did you say your BFG was?
lmilcin 5y ago
Also hide your nail gun.
mhh__ 5y ago
Quake sounds like Cake, for any Brass Eye fans.
- _joel 5y ago
  Watch out for the end of level Czech Neck
sokoloff 5y ago
Having firearms stored safely and appropriately does seem like generally good advice, regardless of whether your child plays Quake.
- dangerbird2 5y ago
  Plot twist: the article is a stealth PSA about firearm safety
- UnpossibleJim 5y ago
  But if he/she is a hacker, surely they know how to pick locks... right?
icecap12 5y ago
I guess I was hacking at a young age then. Obtaining the pak1.pak file from a friend who had the CD automatically turned the freeware version into the full version of the game. The tough part was transferring it over a 28.8 baud modem. Took all blasted night on my dads "borrowed" Pentium 90. Oof...kids with broadband these days don't know how easy they have it.
- FredPret 5y ago
  I remember boobs.jpg loading one... line... at... a... time
- MayeulC 5y ago
  Do you recall how you transferred the file? I'm curious. You likely didn't dial each other up, or did you? Did you employ some kind of p2p utility? IP-based? I don't know much what was achievable as a kid or teen back then.
  - enneff 5y ago
    You would just dial the other person’s modem and that would give you a bidirectional steam of bytes from one machine to another. Anything you typed showed up in their terminal and vice versa. Then you could initiate a file transfer using a protocol such as Zmodem, which would stream the file in checksummed chunks so that parts could be retried if line noise corrupted them.
  - rbg246 5y ago
    I used to use hyperterminal as a child to transfer if we didn't both have unlimited hour ISP access.

cosmodisk 5y ago

Dad, where did you say your BFG was?

lmilcin 5y ago

Also hide your nail gun.

mhh__ 5y ago

Quake sounds like Cake, for any Brass Eye fans.

_joel 5y ago
Watch out for the end of level Czech Neck

sokoloff 5y ago

Having firearms stored safely and appropriately does seem like generally good advice, regardless of whether your child plays Quake.

dangerbird2 5y ago
Plot twist: the article is a stealth PSA about firearm safety
UnpossibleJim 5y ago
But if he/she is a hacker, surely they know how to pick locks... right?

icecap12 5y ago

I guess I was hacking at a young age then. Obtaining the pak1.pak file from a friend who had the CD automatically turned the freeware version into the full version of the game. The tough part was transferring it over a 28.8 baud modem. Took all blasted night on my dads "borrowed" Pentium 90. Oof...kids with broadband these days don't know how easy they have it.

FredPret 5y ago
I remember boobs.jpg loading one... line... at... a... time
MayeulC 5y ago
Do you recall how you transferred the file? I'm curious. You likely didn't dial each other up, or did you? Did you employ some kind of p2p utility? IP-based? I don't know much what was achievable as a kid or teen back then.
- enneff 5y ago
  You would just dial the other person’s modem and that would give you a bidirectional steam of bytes from one machine to another. Anything you typed showed up in their terminal and vice versa. Then you could initiate a file transfer using a protocol such as Zmodem, which would stream the file in checksummed chunks so that parts could be retried if line noise corrupted them.
- rbg246 5y ago
  I used to use hyperterminal as a child to transfer if we didn't both have unlimited hour ISP access.