AlexH

During lunch break at work, there are a bunch of people who play UT2004, and it’s a good way to blow off steam. Yesterday, with the help of our IT guy, I plugged a USB mouse into the computer of the guy who sits on the other side of my cubicle wall. He’s pretty much the best player in our office.

Today, I joined the game in spectator mode to see what I could do.

It was very interesting, because he didn’t seem to notice when I clicked the mouse while he was teleporting. He didn’t notice that, probably because he’s used to compensating for net lag.

What he couldn’t compensate for was when I’d put him facing the wall just as he was about to fire a bunch of rockets.
Eventually paranoia set in, and he was checking his computer for trojans, remote desktop hacks, etc. He was smart enough to realize that there were two people spectating the game, and it had to be one of us messing with him. At that point I couldn’t keep a straight face and he knew it was me. I had the choice of telling him how we did it, or having my monitor turned off every time I tried to play, so I let him in on the secret.

The only problem is that I now have to watch my back all the time…