[TRENCHES] Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - Spherical

Geth

Spherical
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/spherical

Yah, thanks for that.

Anonymous

I was hired for my first job in the video game industry yesterday - as a QA tester. I thought it would be the best job ever. I was so excited that I started google searching for tester related stuff, and found this site.

Then I read the tales archive. My favourite one was where the guy works 70 hours a week for no pay while surrounded by hostile co-workers, and then gets laid off when the game is done. I’d give you the title, but I can’t remember - I read the same story so many times they’ve sort of bled together.

I start my new job on Monday.

Shit.

Man in the Mists

You're welcome!

Raiden333

Funniest Trenches in awhile. :^:

Karl

Well at least the guy in the trenches story is going in with open eyes.

Unlike some of us mugs.

Darkewolfe

Man, I remember hourly jobs.

"Did you read all this shit, or do some other extracurricular activity?"

"Were you paying me to do that?"

"No."

"Well, there you go then!"

Warlock82

Haha I like that story.

Gaslight

I would say based on today's Tale that The Trenches is doing a public service, but the guy is still taking the job, so...

prehemencie

It's the Silmarillion.

Ori Klein

I'm sorry. I am a bad man. I chuckled.
It's hard to believe someone is this naive and clueless in regards to PA or QA (not saying it's not possible) and if they are...oh boy.
Poor person.

ani_game_bum

Sounds like Cora is describing the premise of the Ar Tonelico series to me. Never played it, but it looks interesting from the various Youtube videos and forum threads here.

zepherin

It should be noted that the tails are going to be the more outlandish and assholeish of the workplace experience. It isn't memorable if it is not on that far end. There isn't much interest in a tails that went. I worked 50 hours one week and then crunch time came and I worked 60-70 hours, and I was paid time and a half for hours worked over 40. When the project closed I was assigned to another. Nobody wants to read that. Well, there are some people who do, but the more fucked up ones are going to draw more readers.

Panda Liker

Again, seems like a fitting title for both the comic and the tale. And the cycle continues...

RoyceSraphim

I'm picturing someone going to jail in this world for a Lute solo so metal that it unmakes a mountain, damning hundreds of miners to the underworld and leaving a rival nation ripe for invasion. But he was a patriot, so he had to rock.

Man in the Mists

Would Diva be a regular class or advanced class?

Ori Klein

RoyceSraphim wrote: »

I'm picturing someone going to jail in this world for a Lute solo so metal that it unmakes a mountain, damning hundreds of miners to the underworld and leaving a rival nation ripe for invasion. But he was a patriot, so he had to rock.

Hmm...a world where the Metallocalypse is actually coming true?
That would somewhat be harkening back to the premise of LOOM, of sorts, only in a much nastier way than the innocence of LOOM would've allowed.

Man in the Mists

Oh gods. I just thought of a raid boss: Queen, performing "Bohemian Rhapsody".

terramancer

I don't know about the innocents of LOOM man. That demon guy fucking unmakes your grandmother before your eyes, and dead Rusty Nailbender was kind of messed up, especially when you personally kill him (unintentionally). That game is the thing that came first to mind with this comic though. Such a good classic.