Trenches Comic: Thursday, December 15, 2011 - Rodentia

Robert Khoo

http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/rodentia

Delzhand

Khoo got fed up waiting for y'all's bitch asses.

Introducing... The Mascot

Robert Khoo

It's so true.

Rehab

Now they have a feral office baby and a bunny!

Aurich

Rehab wrote:

Now they have a feral office baby and a bunny!

Have you ever seen them in the same place at the same time?

agilemania

And now that we know the last employee on the "New Readers" page, will it be decoded?

Mr. Toots' entry: "He is a real rabbit. I don't know what to tell you; I was outvoted."

Columbarius

Hate to be pedantic but ... Lagomorpha. Magic testing bunny is a good mascot though.

Dark Raven X

Is this the first Tale From The Trenches to actually identify the company and game it's talking about?

ArcSyn

Dark Raven X wrote:

Is this the first Tale From The Trenches to actually identify the company and game it's talking about?

I think so, except for the one where he was led to an office that was completely barren which was identified as FASA I think.

PikaPuff

bun bun!

Aegeri

Is forcing a cute animal to do games testing cruelty to animals? Should the SPCA be called in?

Kochikens

Dark Raven X wrote:

Is this the first Tale From The Trenches to actually identify the company and game it's talking about?

Yeah I don't actually know how I feel about it, considering how easy itd be to find the name of the "bad guy" in this story.


but whatever, BUNNY!!!!!

see317

PikaPuff wrote:

bun bun!

Nah, Bun Bun has grey markings, not brown. Also both ears are grey and why am I typing this?
Nobody cares about this. I'm nerding out over a web comic rabbit. What the hell is wrong with me?

Tube

wookit the bunny

Piggy Chimp

Scott, you have made me smile! That bunny is delightful.

Dark Raven X

Oh snapple, that bunny is a member of the cast?

I had assumed Reception Lady was the final portfolio.

Ashoka

Columbarius wrote:

Hate to be pedantic but ... Lagomorpha. Magic testing bunny is a good mascot though.

I thought exactly the same thing. (But then, I also just totally don't 'get' the entirety of this series.)

yob_ymmit

Is this somehow Bun Bun from Sluggy Freelance? (http://sluggy.com/)

Because if it is there is going to be trouble in the trenches...

Gyral

Kinda surprised the rabbit doesn't have a carrot nose.

Ashoka

Gyral wrote:

Kinda surprised the rabbit doesn't have a carrot nose.

*a-boom-tish*

Incenjucar

Gyral wrote:

Kinda surprised the rabbit doesn't have a carrot nose.

Well now you know why they have to keep it in a cage.

emskadittle

Aegeri wrote:

Is forcing a cute animal to do games testing cruelty to animals? Should the SPCA be called in?

Forcing anyone/thing to do testing would be cruel and unusual punishment

emskadittle

I have been in one of those meetings, where we are all gathered in the wherehouse and told our services are no longer needed. I am no so sure i would be cheering for the people that got keep their jobs because that will be just a couple of extra weeks of agony for them.

Aurich

emskadittle wrote:

I have been in one of those meetings, where we are all gathered in the wherehouse and told our services are no longer needed.

Legend has it EA once did this with a studio they acquired, only they gathered them in the parking lot. I wonder if at that point, it isn't actually a courtesy to can them so close to their vehicles.

Sticks

Out there, if they get angry and trash things, it's only their own vehicles.

Someone probably got a tidy little bonus for minimizing the risk of laying off that many people simultaneously.

Skelly B

Ashoka wrote:

Columbarius wrote:

Hate to be pedantic but ... Lagomorpha. Magic testing bunny is a good mascot though.

I thought exactly the same thing. (But then, I also just totally don't 'get' the entirety of this series.)

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Hamju

Kochikens wrote:

Dark Raven X wrote:

Is this the first Tale From The Trenches to actually identify the company and game it's talking about?

Yeah I don't actually know how I feel about it, considering how easy itd be to find the name of the "bad guy" in this story.


but whatever, BUNNY!!!!!

*spends 3 minutes on wikipedia*

Yeah, that was easy.

Gaslight

There was a blog from a former Realtime Worlds employee detailing some of the early trouble and the completely dysfunctional culture at Realtime Worlds which I read a while back. It was fascinating stuff.

Ah, still have the link. http://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/where-realtime-worlds-went-wrong/

MichaelLC

Interesting read; that Dave was a real ass. I didn't follow the story too closely when it first came out as I didn't have any interest in the game, but sounds like a good team got wrecked by success.

Scooter

I will never cease to be amazed how a company could have had as much money as APB and produced as little content as APB had

It's like they started and stopped with the decal system