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The first time I realized the danger of Easter eggs was one that was triggered by Alt+Ctrl+Shift+PERIOD or some such. Tested it out and sure enough it would pas

The first time I realized the danger of Easter eggs was one that was triggered by Alt+Ctrl+Shift+PERIOD or some such. Tested it out and sure enough it would paste an email exchange about needing to add an easter egg into a comment field. Then I was demoing the software to leadership in a surprise visit, and it triggered. Turns out, I'd ORed the keys together! I tried to Ctrl-A+DEL but... the email was longer than the comment field and triggered a state in which any keypress was rejected with an alert, even one that would shorten the comment (bug #2). And I couldn't leave the form, as the early prototype was designed to save-on-exit. So I had to kill the app... lesson learned. My last easter egg was simply the name of "Lightish Red" for one of the AI colors in Halo Infinite. Much safer (once it got through localization, hah).

fein 5y ago
I wonder how many Halo infinite players will know the origins of lightish red going back to Halo CE, specifically the RvB web series. I've been out of the video game trend loop since Halo 2, and am not sure if the modern attention span of a few months at best enables 10+ year old easter eggs like that to be understood. I certainly appreciate it, but I also will probably never play Infinite.
- gnarbarian 5y ago
  definitely try out infinite. I grew up on traditional Boomer shooters like quake and Duke nukem and even Halo. This is the first new game I've played in more than a decade that really scratches that itch for me. Plus it's free so you have no excuse not to pick it up and play
steve76 5y ago
Jerrrry 5y ago
>(once it got through localization, hah). i can imagine that passed with flying colors
- esquivalience 5y ago
  I believe that is a fair translation of the actual Chinese word for pink!
Qub3d 5y ago
You are the dev that added Lightish Red? I want you to know that the reddit halo community loves you.

fein 5y ago

I wonder how many Halo infinite players will know the origins of lightish red going back to Halo CE, specifically the RvB web series. I've been out of the video game trend loop since Halo 2, and am not sure if the modern attention span of a few months at best enables 10+ year old easter eggs like that to be understood. I certainly appreciate it, but I also will probably never play Infinite.

gnarbarian 5y ago
definitely try out infinite. I grew up on traditional Boomer shooters like quake and Duke nukem and even Halo. This is the first new game I've played in more than a decade that really scratches that itch for me. Plus it's free so you have no excuse not to pick it up and play

steve76 5y ago

Jerrrry 5y ago

>(once it got through localization, hah). i can imagine that passed with flying colors

esquivalience 5y ago
I believe that is a fair translation of the actual Chinese word for pink!

Qub3d 5y ago

You are the dev that added Lightish Red? I want you to know that the reddit halo community loves you.