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Load bearing coconut
Now I need details..
First I wonder can we replace the image with a different image?
Black box hidden in coconut
There must be an If statement buried somewhere in the code that looks for this file; maybe a coder’s idea of a practical joke.
Its what holds the entire game together. It’s the Jesus nut of the helicopter.
This is fake.
There is no jpg anywhere in TF2’s files. Yes, the coconut is there, but it’s a VTF, not a jpg. There is no one specific file in the game that the game itself is solely reliant on to function. If it cannot find any file, or if it detects that a file has been modified in some way, then it just won’t load.
Furthermore, the “Dev note” was written by a Redditor. The guy who first posted this and the source from which everyone who propogates the incorrect meme takes it from.
Perhaps a swallow carried it there.
Everyone, please watch this 3 minute video if you wish to learn more about this. It’s not a long watch, and explains a lot.
https://youtu.be/WLx_3bON0Mw
This is fake. And we’re all as bad as boomers now.
r/ProgrammerHumor
1: this is fake, this it a vtf file, 2: if you remove this file the game runs perfectly, you can literaly remove all textures and most sounds and still get the game to Run like normal (excluding the missing textures and the fact you cant even tell what is what)
Goddamn it this shit was never true please stop
That’s Coconut Monkey
Even this is made up, if such thing actually exist it has to be some programer’s joke.
For one thing, the TF2 fan base has known about this for literal years already.
For another, this is completely fake. The coconut isn’t a JPG, it’s a VTF – Valve’s proprietary texture format for the Source engine.
TF2 doesn’t fail to run if the coconut isn’t found in the files, it will simply load the infamous pink-and-black checkerboard texture instead.
Imagine when you tell someone the won’t run without a coconut.
Not to brag but I’m two weeks into computer programming classes and can already identify that this makes no sense whatsoever. NASA please hire me, I cracked the case 😏😏
The coconut is fake, but there is a wooden cutout of a cow that if removed, the game wont start
For some reason whatever checks if all files are there doesnt find the data file with the cow in it, it fails and throws an error
Obviously not if he can’t figure out why a coconut won’t start the game
People were gullible enough to believe this?
[not true](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLx_3bON0Mw)
Load bearing nut
**WRONG.**
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*Thanks for coming to my TED talk about the TF2 coconut, if you liked this and would like to hear more like this please talk to me in the bathroom in 2 minutes.*
if anyone’s wondering, it’s fake. the coconut is used as coffee particles I believe
The Coco Nut 😀
Love that.
It’s going to be a semi colon I bet
yeah its fake. but its also funny to imagine that source spaghetti is that bad
As a game developer, this joke honestly makes no sense if you think about it for a few minutes. Why in the hell would a texture file prevent the game from loading? I work in FPS Creator, an engine known for not working right, and even THAT program doesn’t prevent games from being made if a texture is missing.
Also, how on earth would a developer not be able to trace why one specific file wouldn’t make a game launch?
Don’t get me wrong it’s funny, but it makes no real sense.
It’s the perfect way to confuse people
Because TF2 was a nutty game, clearly it would be some generic FPS like CoD without nuts in there.
Probably a asset that isn’t loaded will crash the game. I could see a dev coding that…
This is also one of reasons tf2 is one of if not the greatest fps video game ever (I’m my opinion)