Circling around at the end of a game to complete low-level quests I've missed is always sort of a pathetic experience.
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Gauntlets can be thrown in lots of ways, but the intent of insult is always there.
I was testing a part of a game where the user had to interact with a computer terminal to type in various commands. I was told to try variations on known phrases, but alter it slightly for each iteration (capital letters, spaces, etc). “Try everything you can think of.”
After several hours of this and nearing total mental collapse, I started putting in various nonsense phrases for fun (similar to you’d do with old text parser games), just to see if the programmers had planned for that sort of juvenile behavior. Besides, I thought I could always argue that this should have been thought and tested.
I typed in “slut” and suddenly a slideshow appeared with naked women.
After the shock, I noticed it was actually all the same woman, but in the requisite fantasy poses this sort of thing affords. A few seconds into this revelry, my supervisor walked by and asked me just what the world I thought I was doing, son. I explained what happened. He stares for a few seconds and then walks off, telling me to stay there until he returned and Don’t. Touch. Anything.
20 minutes pass, during which I’m equally terrified and embarrassed, as people were walking by my desk and giggling uncontrollably. One guy did offer me a high five. Also the pictures looped, and I lost interest after the first eighteen cycles. Sort of.
Supervisor returns with another guy I’ve never seen before, and tells him to look at my screen. This second guy runs through the full spectrum of emotions - giddy surprise which begets alarmed realization - before his eyes redden in fury and he runs down the hall. Seconds later, he emerges in a fist fight with another man. Turns out a programmer had been having an affair with an artist’s wife, and I’d brought it to the climactic breaking point upon stumbling across this “feature.”
Their struggle ended quickly once security was called in. Both were fired immediately. I was terminated the next day for vague reasons at best.
I did try it once the game released, and (of course) was disappointed.
Also something that is pretty common, ie provoking tremendous anger out of someone only to realize that the rage isn't directed at YOU, and then knowing that you will be punished anyhow once the dust has settled.
Is it a thing now to act like Big Bang Theory is an actual way people act? Cause ugh.
Also all of the first two chapters could have been done without a voice over in half the pages and slipped the needed information in the art and writing.
Hell I didn't need the voice over guy that [main character] wanted to bang [girl].
Because I tell a lot of science, art and lit jokes at work a lot of people whom I now asume are fans of the show because they throw back comments from it or tell me facts and story lines
Gauntlets can be thrown in lots of ways, but the intent of insult is always there.
I was testing a part of a game where the user had to interact with a computer terminal to type in various commands. I was told to try variations on known phrases, but alter it slightly for each iteration (capital letters, spaces, etc). “Try everything you can think of.”
After several hours of this and nearing total mental collapse, I started putting in various nonsense phrases for fun (similar to you’d do with old text parser games), just to see if the programmers had planned for that sort of juvenile behavior. Besides, I thought I could always argue that this should have been thought and tested.
I typed in “slut” and suddenly a slideshow appeared with naked women.
After the shock, I noticed it was actually all the same woman, but in the requisite fantasy poses this sort of thing affords. A few seconds into this revelry, my supervisor walked by and asked me just what the world I thought I was doing, son. I explained what happened. He stares for a few seconds and then walks off, telling me to stay there until he returned and Don’t. Touch. Anything.
20 minutes pass, during which I’m equally terrified and embarrassed, as people were walking by my desk and giggling uncontrollably. One guy did offer me a high five. Also the pictures looped, and I lost interest after the first eighteen cycles. Sort of.
Supervisor returns with another guy I’ve never seen before, and tells him to look at my screen. This second guy runs through the full spectrum of emotions - giddy surprise which begets alarmed realization - before his eyes redden in fury and he runs down the hall. Seconds later, he emerges in a fist fight with another man. Turns out a programmer had been having an affair with an artist’s wife, and I’d brought it to the climactic breaking point upon stumbling across this “feature.”
Their struggle ended quickly once security was called in. Both were fired immediately. I was terminated the next day for vague reasons at best.
I did try it once the game released, and (of course) was disappointed.
I find some of these hard to believe, just because so many end in "Oh and I was fired for doing my job."
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So are we going to talk about that Axe Cop vs LOLBat comic, or have we all silently decided to pretend it doesn't exist?
There's an english comic of that Taco Johnny one somewhere. I feel like it was posted in the Artist's Corner by the author, but I may be wrong.
I do remember laughing a long hard time at it when I first saw it
edit: Oh, but I'll give the gist.
"Neither of these drawings convey what the client wants. Could you merge these into one idea? We like the taco as a mascot, but he should also be eating tacos."
"Oh God, that's awful. It's cannibalism!"
Then when the lady has the picture in hand. "You're fired."
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This is one of the ones I know is a shit strip but I got so stressed and distracted by the site virus that the comic suffered. Really need to get into making a buffer, because I'm not in the right creative mind currently.
Gauntlets can be thrown in lots of ways, but the intent of insult is always there.
I was testing a part of a game where the user had to interact with a computer terminal to type in various commands. I was told to try variations on known phrases, but alter it slightly for each iteration (capital letters, spaces, etc). “Try everything you can think of.”
After several hours of this and nearing total mental collapse, I started putting in various nonsense phrases for fun (similar to you’d do with old text parser games), just to see if the programmers had planned for that sort of juvenile behavior. Besides, I thought I could always argue that this should have been thought and tested.
I typed in “slut” and suddenly a slideshow appeared with naked women.
After the shock, I noticed it was actually all the same woman, but in the requisite fantasy poses this sort of thing affords. A few seconds into this revelry, my supervisor walked by and asked me just what the world I thought I was doing, son. I explained what happened. He stares for a few seconds and then walks off, telling me to stay there until he returned and Don’t. Touch. Anything.
20 minutes pass, during which I’m equally terrified and embarrassed, as people were walking by my desk and giggling uncontrollably. One guy did offer me a high five. Also the pictures looped, and I lost interest after the first eighteen cycles. Sort of.
Supervisor returns with another guy I’ve never seen before, and tells him to look at my screen. This second guy runs through the full spectrum of emotions - giddy surprise which begets alarmed realization - before his eyes redden in fury and he runs down the hall. Seconds later, he emerges in a fist fight with another man. Turns out a programmer had been having an affair with an artist’s wife, and I’d brought it to the climactic breaking point upon stumbling across this “feature.”
Their struggle ended quickly once security was called in. Both were fired immediately. I was terminated the next day for vague reasons at best.
I did try it once the game released, and (of course) was disappointed.
I find some of these hard to believe, just because so many end in "Oh and I was fired for doing my job."
I find it incredibly easy to believe. The company, or much more likely the junior management, do not want to be associated with the failures or flops their underlings might have caused discovered or even witnessed, so they fire them. It's not like anyone cares about people so far down the corporate ledder.
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We can but hope it will land on all the coffee shops.
all the world is coffee shops
Down this path of thinking lies only madness.
And coffee.
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It helps that I instantly imagine the main character being played by Brent Spiner.
I could read Berk's transcribed Scottish accents all day
feels like straight eating a loaf of bread with your ears
That's pretty intense.
Also something that is pretty common, ie provoking tremendous anger out of someone only to realize that the rage isn't directed at YOU, and then knowing that you will be punished anyhow once the dust has settled.
I think this comic would be funnier without the last speech bubble.
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The voiceover is tedious.
Oh no fucking shit kid? Being abducted wasn't in your plan? Just shut up.
Then Ellis launches a new Freakangels series.
Also all of the first two chapters could have been done without a voice over in half the pages and slipped the needed information in the art and writing.
Hell I didn't need the voice over guy that [main character] wanted to bang [girl].
Severely inspired to draw my reaction to it in webcomic form but I'd want it to be accurate so that leaves my art out.
Oh, and apparently this is the Scott and Kris Kris and Scott Show finale. Series finale or season finale, I don't know, but I can't get through it so soon after all that.
I find some of these hard to believe, just because so many end in "Oh and I was fired for doing my job."
turns out even if you tie two dead horses together they still can't carry a joke
Hooray?
I remember enough of my high school Spanish to find this extremely funny.
I do remember laughing a long hard time at it when I first saw it
edit: Oh, but I'll give the gist.
"Neither of these drawings convey what the client wants. Could you merge these into one idea? We like the taco as a mascot, but he should also be eating tacos."
"Oh God, that's awful. It's cannibalism!"
Then when the lady has the picture in hand. "You're fired."
Not hooray.
I loved Axe Cop
This is one of the ones I know is a shit strip but I got so stressed and distracted by the site virus that the comic suffered. Really need to get into making a buffer, because I'm not in the right creative mind currently.
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I find it incredibly easy to believe. The company, or much more likely the junior management, do not want to be associated with the failures or flops their underlings might have caused discovered or even witnessed, so they fire them. It's not like anyone cares about people so far down the corporate ledder.