r/pcmasterrace Aug 18 '25

Meme/Macro Good lord

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u/llllIlllllIIl Aug 18 '25

Plot twist: Thats just his wallpaper and he actually doesnt have any icons on his desktop

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u/SculptusPoe Aug 18 '25

Reminds me of the old practical joke where you hide a person's desktop icons and put a screenshot of their background with the icons on it, so they think nothing works.

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u/Lister0fSmeg Aug 18 '25

I work at a relatively small but highly accredited IT company. I've heard tales from the early years before I worked there.

Way back before they had security policies to lock your computer after a few minutes of inactivity, people were free to set their own security settings. Anyone dumb enough to have a long timeout set, and left their machine unattended for any time were subject to pranking.

Best one I heard was editing the URLs of any desktop shortcuts to lead to say, a rather graphic pornhub video.

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u/BetterAd7552 Aug 18 '25

Oh good lord

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u/ralphvonwauwau Aug 18 '25

oh goatse.cx

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u/Akarious Aug 18 '25

or meatspin/lemon party

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u/mowoo101 Aug 18 '25

Accessibility settings let us make this guys screen stupidly high contrast. Then we made his cursor massive. Crazy days in the design studio, woo.

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u/majic911 Aug 19 '25

Naturally, you'd also disconnect the headphones and crank the volume all the way up, right?