Just had a weird 20 years late epiphany

[jolanar]

Soandso, the character you play in the original Everquest tutorial is named that because he is 'So And So'.

so-and-so
/ˈsō ən ˌsō/
noun
a person or thing whose name the speaker does not need to specify or does not know or remember.

Huh. Am I an idiot for never realizing this? :D

[SamwiseRed]

Duh?

[loramin]

How are you still playing the tutorial 20 years later? I didn't think it even worked on P99/Titanium client.

[jolanar]

How are you still playing the tutorial 20 years later? I didn't think it even worked on P99/Titanium client.

I haven't played it recently. But it's a seperate .exe file so I am sure it's out there on the internet somewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0ErchwGqR8

[Smuuglie]

Well, i remember Scorpious2k server used to have the tutorial in, it was the zone/quest/Trainer hub and i loved it.... I miss it :(

[Danth]

How are you still playing the tutorial 20 years later? I didn't think it even worked on P99/Titanium client.

It doesn't. However, the tutorial *does* work if installed from the Trilogy disks (or possibly other old disks). Some folks, including myself, still have those laying around.

Danth

[Videri]

Haha. It's not inconceivable that some people don't notice Soandso is so-and-so. I believe "so-and-so" is more common than "soandso;" and it's almost never capitalized. Perhaps the absence of the hyphens combined with the capital S and the fantasy setting prevented you from interpreting the word as a combination of English words. Something like that.

[Swish2]

Best and only thing to do during numerous server downtimes :(

[Jibartik]

Lol TIL soandso is not sowAN'dzo

[jolanar]

Lol TIL soandso is not sowAN'dzo

That's how I've been pronouncing it all this time.:p

[Jibartik]

Wait, the name of this game is two words I just realized!

EVER (meaning like, forever) and QUEST (like a actual quest from the game)

lol its like, forever questing.

I always called it Havfv-HER-quaps

(JK but this is how I feel about this soandso thing) :o

[Ennewi]

It is odd how certain things that should be obvious to us go unnoticed. It wasn't until my mid-twenties that I realized that Free Willy was about free will. Another example would be the acronym for EverQuest which, coincidentally, happens to be an accurate description of the player experience. With 'e' being the abbreviation for electronic (e-commerce, e-banking, e-cigarettes, etc.), EQ = an e-queue.

[Jibartik]

Free Willy was about free will.

https://i.imgur.com/WrKPhfd.gif

[Tarskin]

I remember that tutorial telling me that money was easy, with that skeleton dropping a Ruby.... How naive I was (am?) Haha

[gildor]

The first hits always free.

[Tarskin]

20 years later, guess it worked eh?