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In some competitive online games (such as Quake III), used to be a snarky remark addressed to opponents who would keep coming up with explanations as to why they lost a round, insinuating that the explanation provided was just a made-up excuse picked from an imaginary text file filled with random excuses (i.e. `excuses.txt`). Ultimately, some players turned this proverbial `excuses.txt`into reality by implementing a script that would automatically pick a random line from such a file on disk, and send it to their opponent as a chat message whenever the player was fragged in the game.
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