Faced with such absurdity, the good-natured citizens of the Tomb Raider newsgroups decided to take action. An emergency meeting was held, and after much deliberation they decided (as its technically known in the industry) to "take the piss"***. No more would they stand for such ill-conceived degradation of society from these "foul little pubescent weevils" (as my grandma would have put it if she were alive today, bless her cotton socks). "These perverts must be ousted from this place". So, one by one, the People started to invent cheat codes to fool the Nude Raider desperados into trying the codes out...and here's the clever bit. . .The information would always be false, ever-so-slightly-mocking. . .a subtle "piss-take" on the part of the Revolutionaries. By the time your common-or-garden Nude Raider got to the end of the instructions, they'd be faced with a line like ". . .and after you jump right three times and light the second flare, you must hang you willy in a glass of coke and slap your face." Nothing could possibly go wrong.

Thus, THEY would realise that they were laughing stock, WE would have a damn good laugh at their expense as they realised that thousands of people were actually laughing at their sad little fixation, the world would return to its former self and we'd have no more fuss and bother down at the Tomb Raider newsgroup. "Good stuff, first class, top notch, echellente El Presidente. Lets let bygones-be-bygones and we'll hear no more about it, me old mucker" they all said. In short, it was considered "a good thing", and everyone was happy.

***(Note for Americans: "Taking-the-Piss" - Slang (English Colloquial). To mock; to cunningly insult in an extremely amusing fashion or manner.)