Grubb, Ben (7 December 2011). "Aussies more interested in iPhone than world's disasters: Google". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 10 December 2011. In the 1994 game Road Rash, if the user were to enter "xyzzy" in the main menu, [15] they could access several cheats such as nitrous refills, oil refills, etc. a b c Whyte, Sarah (27 May 2012). "Zyzz, the late bodybuilder who gets Googled as much as Gillard". The Age. Archived from the original on 30 June 2012 . Retrieved 27 May 2012. In the game Zork, typing xyzzy and pressing enter produces the response: "A hollow voice says 'fool '". The command commonly produces a humorous response in other Infocom games and text adventures, leading to its usage in the title of the interactive fiction competition, the XYZZY Awards. [ citation needed]

Berry, Sarah (12 January 2012). "Incredible bulk: a journey from fit to fanatical". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 12 January 2012.In November 2022, Flume covered Bag Raiders' song, " Shooting Stars", with Shavershian's older brother, Said (known publicly as Chestbrah) for Triple J's " Like a Version". In the cover, Chestbrah enters from behind Flume, and "muzzes out," the dance Zyzz made famous. [38] Filmography Year The origin of the word "xyzzy" has been the subject of debate. According to Ron Hunsinger, the sequence of letters "XYZZY" has been used as a mnemonic to remember the process for computing cross products. [3] Will Crowther, the author of Colossal Cave Adventure, states that he was unaware of the mnemonic, and that he "made it up from whole cloth" when writing the game. [4] Usage [ edit ] Operating systems [ edit ] I can safely say that my motivation to train goes far beyond that of merely impressing people, it is derived from the feeling of having set goals and achieving them and outdoing myself in the gym. I absolutely love it, the feeling of pushing out that last rep, and getting skin tearing pumps is something I don't see myself without. [19]

Aziz Sergeyevich Shavershian [2] (Russian: Азиз Сергеевич Шавершян; 24 March 1989 – 5 August 2011), [3] better known as Zyzz, [4] [5] was a Russian-born Australian bodybuilder, personal trainer and model. He established a cult following after posting multiple videos of himself on YouTube, starting in 2007. [6] [7] [8]

Ian Walker and Claire Harvey (2 January 2012). "Sydney throws a party as New Year 2012 arrives". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 26 April 2012. Dunning, Craig (29 March 2012). "What's hot online Thursday, 29 March 2012". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 8 April 2012. Shavershian was the poster boy of a subculture of amateur bodybuilding in Australia, dubbed "aesthetics", [21] which he had made popular. [20] He had established his own protein label, Protein of the Gods, released in June 2011. [6] He also had a clothing line, [22] and Zyzz's Bodybuilding Bible was released on 17 May 2011, based on a compilation of bodybuilding knowledge he had acquired over his four years of training. [18] [23] He asserted that the internet helped build up his brand, and it was ultimately made possible through the use of social media. [24] Modern usage is primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore a cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there. By typing "xyzzy" at the appropriate time, the player could move instantly between two otherwise distant points. As Colossal Cave Adventure was both one of the first adventure games and one of the first interactive fiction pieces, hundreds of later interactive fiction games included responses to the command "xyzzy" in tribute. [2]

Xyzzy has been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several operating systems; in the 16-bit version of Data General's AOS, for example, it would typically respond "Nothing happens", just as the game did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word. The 32-bit version, AOS/VS, would respond "Twice as much happens". [5] On several computer systems from Sun Microsystems, the command "xyzzy" is used to enter the interactive shell of the U-Boot bootloader. [6] Early versions of Zenith Z-DOS (a re-branded variant of MS-DOS 1.25) had the command "xyzzy" which took a parameter of "on" or "off". Xyzzy by itself would print the status of the last "xyzzy on" or "xyzzy off" command. a b c d Whyte, Sarah (31 July 2011). "All pumped up, but tell us how?". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 5 November 2011. At the 2012 New Year's Day Field Day festival in Sydney, people dressed up as Shavershian in a tribute to him. [32]Morrah, Michael (26 November 2014). "Young Kiwis experiment with potent steroids". 3 News. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015 . Retrieved 27 November 2014. a b de Brito, Sam (11 August 2011). "Zyzz ripped from this life too young". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 14 August 2011. Gmail supports the command XYZZY when connected via IMAP before logging in. It takes no arguments, and responds with "OK Nothing happens." a b Kennedy, Les (10 August 2011). "Sydney bodybuilder dies in Thailand sauna". Ninemsn. Archived from the original on 13 September 2011 . Retrieved 15 August 2011.

When asked by The Daily Telegraph, Shavershian denied ever using steroids, and claimed that his physique was the result of hard work in the gym and a strict diet. [23] According to The Sydney Morning Herald, the company which employed Shavershian as a stripper maintained that he was "a lovely guy, aside from the steroids". [26] Shavershian often used phrases such as "riding bicycles", which, according to The Daily Telegraph, is "gym slang for using a cycle of steroids". [13] Death Before becoming a bodybuilder, Shavershian had been described as a "skinny kid" [7] [18] and an ectomorph. [19] Once he completed secondary school, [11] inspired by his bodybuilder brother, he joined a local gym and began learning about nutrition and training, applying it to his pursuit of becoming a bodybuilder. He would spend three to four hours a day training in the gym. [19] [20] His favourite professional bodybuilders included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank Zane. [19] a b "Aesthetic bodybuilder Aziz 'Zyzz' Sergeyevich Shavershian's last posts". The Daily Telegraph. 11 August 2011 . Retrieved 20 August 2011. Baker, Jordan (2 September 2011). "Generation V buff, but not so pretty after dark". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 12 January 2012.In the game Return to Monkey Island the code is written on a sign at the entrance of a cave labyrinth. Ripping the sign off and using it in the cave, which leads to reading it, lets the protagonist, Guybrush Threepwood, return to the entrance of the cave. a b Vollmer, Tim (11 August 2011). "Bodybuilder Aziz 'Zyzz' Shavershian killed by heart defect". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 19 August 2011.