It was a default user command in the IRC client mIRC, that’s why it’s such an iconic phrase. Old school coders, including the ones that became game developers back in the GTA San Andreas days likely came up through the demo scene or similar, because there weren’t really “game dev” educations, so they all sat on IRC at one point.
I played sa:mp on a RP server and there was this one guy who always did
/me slaps x with a large trout
He also was Norwegian and I think trout is pretty big there (or I know salmon is at least) so I thought he’d come up with himself lol. This was nearly 20 years ago.
Easy - IRC worked way better and was way less miserable
I’ve hosted IRC servers on a windows XP laptop that were more resilient and reliable than slack lmao
Did you ever play sa:mp or is the trout slapping more common than I thought?
It was a default user command in the IRC client mIRC, that’s why it’s such an iconic phrase. Old school coders, including the ones that became game developers back in the GTA San Andreas days likely came up through the demo scene or similar, because there weren’t really “game dev” educations, so they all sat on IRC at one point.
Oh that makes sense.
I played sa:mp on a RP server and there was this one guy who always did
/me slaps x with a large trout
He also was Norwegian and I think trout is pretty big there (or I know salmon is at least) so I thought he’d come up with himself lol. This was nearly 20 years ago.
Nerds in the USA and the UK used to almost unanimously be Monty Python fans. I’m fairly certain it is a reference to the Fish Slapping Dance.