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[TRENCHES] Tuesday, September 25, 2012 - Cuisine
Geth
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Cuisine
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/cuisine
Technologically literate, technically underpaid.
AnonymousCan you think of any other profession where you use HTML, C#, LUA, Visual Studio, VBA for Excel, Microsoft Project, Outlook, Word, Photoshop, Maya, Bug Databases, and various other proprietary scripting languages, map editors, video, audio, and development kit management software on a daily basis and get paid $12 an hour with zero benefits, no PTO, and no chance for full time employment?
QA, you are a cruel, cheap whore.
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EDIT: @-Tal - it may have been Kurtz, but coloured by Mary Cagle. She's an illustrator he had employed for a while, I think. Maybe still has. Might not be.
QA makes YOU it's cheap whore.
South, to Mexico?
I think that's the joke.
Game QA on the other had, is pretty much exactly as the post describes.
From what I understand (and have witnessed) testers test games. They don't fix code, they don't make art, or fix assets in a game. Game studios don't just buy copies of Maya or Photoshop and hand them out to testers, those programs are NOT cheap.
Theoretically speaking, let's say someone self-taught themselves VBA, was given a large company award for fixing someone else's mess and has since made multiple tools being used throughout their company. They maybe are being paid as a customer service rep despite being used in this extra role as a VBA/Access database creator/manager for a few years now.
What types of roles/positions might this unnamed person search for when looking around?
I know of people who worked as LOCALIZATION QA testers for a game and had two machines on the desk, one for running the game, other for fixing the text in the code itself. Yeah, the game was pretty shoddily coded.
Also, I know of QA who had to listen to all the VA lines and that person did some quick fixes on the files if possible.
There is a whole wide world of weirdness on game QA, dude.
You should send this quote in for Tales from the Trenches, even if it's a little misleading.
You probably won't just find a VBA job, but it should be a huge plus for just about any office job. I spent quite a while reworking other's VBA code which was pretty terrible for me because I hate VBA. I have a friend who does the same thing despite technically being an actuary.
As companies have realized that they can demand more and more in exchange for less and less, I've seen programming and coding bleed out into the basic QA populace. We had some poor QA schmuck in here write a bug about a graphical issue, so part of the management staff told him to just change the art himself. The original artist wasn't happy, but the bosses sided with the manager.
Hey, if it saves time and money, why not do it?
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Yea, the coloring is pretty neat!
Hey, maybe that'll take the pressure off QA! That seems likely.
Ah, that makes sense. I knew it was more than shadows making the strip look different. She's also using different "camera" angles than Kurtz does.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Is she a permanent addition to the Trenches artist lineup? ;D
I wonder if this is/was part of the "Strip Search" thing they're doing. Anybody know if she's one of the contestants?
And on that note, it irritates me that she wasn't credited here, not in the copyright notice and not on the website. As far as artistic etiquette goes, that's really inappropriate.
But then that probably doesn't see much use in the games industry, so maybe that's not applicable here.
And it's not just the colors and the angles, there is an actual ROOM around the characters now.