[TRENCHES] Thursday, September 19, 2013 - Concept Art - Marley
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Concept Art - Marley
http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/concept-art-marley
Which Do You Like Better?
AnonymousI worked in standards testing for a couple of contracts. To those of you who don’t know, this is the last step before a game is released on a console; the title spends a week or so in testing by the platform owners’ QA dept before it gets wide release. Standards testing is not very in-depth but you get to test A LOT of different titles.
On my second contract, I was on a team with a New Kid who had only been there a couple weeks at that point. Our second week on a team together we had the following conversation:
New Kid: Which do you like better, LastWeeksCrappyTitle (a major sports title) or ThisWeeksCrappyTitle (a licensed racing title)?
Me: Neither.
NK: Really?
M: Really. I don’t care, testing is testing.
NK: C’mon, you gotta have a preference.
M: No, I really don’t.
NK: ...
M: But I guess I prefer TWCT because we’re getting overtime on it.(And then OT was canceled and I was a sad panda.)
I think this highlights a difference I often see between seasoned testers and new testers. There’s no point in thinking about or even asking if you like a title or not - they all have to be tested.
When a hotly anticipated title comes in, experienced testers do still ask those assigned to it for their opinions. But we mostly ask “How is it?” or “What do you think?” rather than “Do you like it?” Because
even a good game is less enjoyable when you’re testing it, and if you’re enjoying the game too much, you probably aren’t doing a very good job of testing it. It’s also highly likely to be in a genre that you don’t like anyway, so even if it is the very best example of that genre, you’re still not going to like it.So, no, New Kid, I don’t like it. And when you said “Do you like anything?” when I told you I didn’t like either one, the answer is, yes, I do like things. Just probably not the things that you like.
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But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Still posting about this, I see.
Yeah well it's kind of an ugly thing for them to have not seen to by now?
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Have you tried emailing Gabe about it instead of posting on the forums?
Well I just did now, but it sure is an odd thing to imply that Gabe, Tycho and Kurtz are unaware of artists' rights and therefore blameless unless people like me email them. Like really when you think about it, it's my fault they haven't updated yet.
The reason I posted about it today because I thought to check the artists' page today, assuming that surely they'd have updated it by now. Ha ha. Ha.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"