In the early 2000s, many private game servers (e.g., for Counter-Strike , World of Warcraft , or Minecraft ) used flat-file user databases. A line like nolube,vip in a users.txt file would mean: the player named "nolube" has VIP status (immunity to kicks, access to reserved slots). The %2C appears when that file is read via a URL parameter without proper decoding.
smirked, the kind of expression that usually bought silence. "I don't think you understand. I’m the 'Very Important' part of this equation."
When decoded, the subject string translates to: