• czardestructo@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.

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

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    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.

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

    — ad for a furniture store when I was growing up

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    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.

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    Boolprop testingcheatsenabled true/false

    Testingcheatsenabled true

    And finally testingcheats true

    The entire shortening of the Sims cheat codes.

    Also motherlode.

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

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

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    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”.