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[+] 25 points 10 months ago (18 children)
  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    I started with GTA2, but Vice City is the best GTA.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Started with the first GTA on the PlayStation; I used to rank Vice City as my absolute favourite entry in the series - but as I’ve matured over time, I’ve come to find GTA IV (or more specifically, The Ballad of Gay Tony expansion) has taken over the top spot - though VC is still a close second.

    If you haven’t played TBOGT in a while, I highly recommend revisiting it - there are a lot of parallels to VC in terms of overall feel and the general “fun” tone.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    I kind of hated GTA IV when it came out because it was such a downgrade from SA, and I didn't really care for the story. But I started replaying it recently and appreciate it more. I'll eventually get to the DLCs. I liked Tony from GTAO, so that's a good sign that I'll enjoy them.

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  • [+] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    As a high school student I installed a pirated copy on the school network so my friend and I could play it in class. This was at a small town school where the IT specialist was usually too busy being a teacher and track coach to pay attention to what students were able to do on school computers. They removed the ability for student accounts to install software eventually, but I never got punished for what I did.

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  • [+] 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

    It's a joke how easy some of those were to bypass. I still remember when the lab installed some nanny cam app so they could make sure kids weren't playing games or looking at shit they shouldn't. The app was so bad that I could just open task manager and kill the nanny cam software.

    The librarians loved me, so I don't think they cared enough to say anything, even when they went after kids near me doing similar shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Haha, that's pretty shit level software. Usually it took a little bit more effort than that to just kill it in task manager.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah.... Even back then I was amazed at how little effort it took to bypass. But that was in the early 00s, and basic troubleshooting like opening task manager was considered black magic (just like opening a terminal is today to most people)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I remember figuring out how to make my account an admin account in like Windows 2k through some obscure setting that was still available. We stared with weird flash games in the library, and eventually played unreal tournament.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Was that the sticky keys trick? That was a fun one to use to elevate

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    No. What the heck? You can/could have used sticky keys to elevate account access??? What?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Yeah, so back in the day, you could replace the accessibility executable that launches when you hit shift 5 times to enable sticky keys, and is launched as a privileged process. Rename it and copy cmd to the old exe name, hit shift 5 times and you now have an admin console.

    Still works today, you just have to do it offline if you're not an admin.

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