Was the game The Prisoner?
No, it was not.
Hmm. So the command was both was directed at the game, and was not directly related to the game you were playing. It’s sorta a configuration thing, but not entirely so.
Did it involve saving?
Correct on all counts.
No.
Did you mistakenly enter a command from a different game?
Would it help to know which game it was?
I guess you could sort of say yes? But not really.
No.
Was the command something you didn’t really think the game would recognize, but you decided to try it anyway because, well, why not?
No. (more characters to please Discourse)
I am not a gamer and have only very limited knowledge of computers. Am I likely to be able to understand the answer when somebody finally gets it?
Yes, and you might even be the someone who gets it.
Hmmm. Does it have anything to do with the keyboard?
Did you try to tell the game to pause or stop, and the game didn’t recognize the command but paused or stopped because it got a command it didn’t recognize?
Beyond the fact that I typed it in, no.
No.
have you used the command in this game before? if so has it worked before?
when the command failed did you get a message that the command failed? or did you get no response?
were you typing a command to see if the game had frozen?
Did you type a word that has multiple meanings and the alterntive meaning was what you needed?
Was the command a keyboard shortcut, such as Control-A or F5 or some such?
A single word?
A phrase (that is, not a grammatically complete sentence)?
A grammatically complete sentence?
Was it a multiplayer game? Were you trying to communicate with another player?
I don’t think I have.
Yes, I got an error message.
No.
No.
A single word.
Yes and no, respectively.
Were you trying to get the error message?
To test whether the game would recognize the command?
Was the command invalid for censorship reasons (i.e. the Scunthorpe Problem)?
No to all.