[citeguised]

About the name: "Noclip" was a common cheat or mod in games, that allowed the player to fly through (or fall through) level-geometry and boundaries.

[modeless]

John Carmack explains the etymology as [not] "'clipping' your movement vector", which I hadn't heard before. The name makes more sense to me now. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1688614345511510017

[pvillano]

I let out an "oh" so long and loud it revealed my location

[113]

Oh no, is this esoteric knowledge now?

[TheFreim]

I think it's still pretty common if you play a lot of PC games, but it's likely much less so. There seem to be less and less games giving you out-of-the-box developer console access which over time will likely cause new video game players to not know about them as much.

[pluijzer]

Nowadays, with online game (both MP as SP) cheating is seen as a crime.

[viraptor]

Yeah, iddqd and idclip are kind of a shibboleth now : - (

[macintux]

Well, some of us haven’t played serious video games since the early 90s, so…

[this_is_not_you]

Oh, I thought this was related to the Youtube channel Noclip that publishes video game documentaries.

[Retr0id]

Guess what their name is referencing...

[smcl]

Interestingly noclip (as in Danny O’Dwyer) have their own video game archiving project going on, where they’re preserving and uploading old clips to https://archive.org/details/noclip?tab=collection