[TRENCHES] Thursday, May 2, 2013 - Classification

Geth

Classification
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100 Percent

Anonymous

I once was tasked to a last minute helper job at a large media production house which produced (later all failed) flash based MMOG products.

Because of a fallout with an important contractor, every single media asset had to be checked by a human to visually match a printed catalog of assets. If we found a match, we had to move it to a different folder and copy a black and white checkered placeholder image for it with the same filename. It was mind numbing how large the asset count was.

After long shifts wading manually through a small forest’s worth of printouts, we were called into a room. After 9 days without much sleep we were told that we now had to check if the games will still run “somehow” without

those missing assets and if they are still “marketable.”

Every game we started, we only saw an ocean of black and white checkered patterns stacked each over. It turned out that this outsourcing company had made 100% of the assets.

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peacekeeper

yay a trenches that made me smile! i dont think any have made me laugh yet, are mike and jerry really in on this? ;-)

RMS Oceanic

I like the way Isaac is deadly serious about his manproof.

KoopahTroopah

Great comic.

Hevach

Aegeri wrote: »

PENIS JOKE.

What does vampire bat man even do at this company anyway? I am wondering if they even are making a game in the first place.

I think we established right around here that they're not.

Chris FOM

RMS Oceanic wrote: »

I like the way Isaac is deadly serious about his manproof.

My favorite part as well. The line is funny on its own, but his expression makes the entire panel.

Warlock82

Best Trenches comic ever. That last panel is just fantastic.

BlitzAce1981

What is a man? A miserable little pile of wangs!

Warlock82

BlitzAce1981 wrote: »

What is a man? A miserable little pile of wangs!

To be fair to the original quote, showing a secret could also land you in jail (depending on the secret) :P

All in all, Castlevania is always right.

Jebus314

Today's comic is pretty funny, but am I the only that's kind of sad this isn't really about the trenches anymore? I felt like they were really starting to get into things at the end of the lawstar arc and then it immediately abandoned anything QA related. Don't get me wrong, this arc has brought the dad character who is fantastic, and the jokes have been getting better and better, but I kind of wish we could get back to more trenches type stuff.

Scooter

It's hard to imagine the level of failure for the story. Someone had to be aware that, "Oh, hey, we don't actually have our own art department. That probably means there's not going to be any art left over!" Two weeks really went by with no one spending a minute to think about it?