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I dunno about judge. To me her outfit looks like some sort of safari/game warden getup.
edit - based on her usual hat she always looks like some sort of Space Forest Ranger
He/she's referring to Judge McBride from Bravestarr, the inspiration for Lawstar.
As for why HER outfit looks like that, one can only guess.
Thats what i was thinking, i feel like i missed the strip(s) that resolved the previous issue...
maybe im crazy
There are ten hat slots, let's take the simplest case and assume there's only ten hats available, and they can't be doubled. Each hat is then either on or off, so you've got 2^10 or 1024 possible combinations for hats alone. Assuming the same for buckles, you've got 4096 possible buckle combinations. If you want to test all possible hat/buckle combinations, then, you're looking at a little shy of 4.2 million combinations. In the simplest case.
Banging out some quick numbers (because I love discrete math), if we assume hats and buckles both have 20 available options, I'm getting better than 560 billion combinations. 25 each puts it at a hair under 120 trillion.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
Ugh. To anyone with any familiarity of Free 2 Play beyond Team Fortress 2? This is just a stupid analogy to make, showing that the writers of this have about as much info on F2P as, well, the idiot boss.
What would be a good strip? The developers nickel and diming for every single possible feature. That's the evil way of doing F2P...
Maple Story
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ROSE Online
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Vindictus
Dungeon Fighter Online
I mean, I guess your question still stands. Anyone with any familiarity beyong Team Fortress 2? They weren't the first or only place with hats.
That's what I didn't get before.
I know about testing, I was lost on the event sequence that got them from complete meltdown to hat testing.
In test planning, most bugs appear as a combination of 2 or fewer factors (this is called "pairwise" testing or "all pairs" testing). Issac is talking about an exhaustive test plan which would test all possible combinations which is impossible with manual testing and probably impossible with automated testing.
According to the Seasons page, the current season was supposed to run through October 2012, so maybe we are in for a break? I guess an announcement of some sort would have been nice.
Also, that story is easily the best they've had.
Or maybe you're way overreacting. IF hats are the majority of Lawstar's F2P ambitions (this has not been announced at all), wouldn't it make sense that this is just another example of the development team being laughably out of touch and at the same time overcompensating to make their game seem good? TF2 lets you wear hats? Well Lawstar lets you wear TEN hats, how about that?!
The writers having something stupid happen in the plot does not mean that they themselves, are stupid. It may be a way to SHOW the audience that the characters who made that action are stupid. But no no, work yourself into a frenzy for a reason that makes no sense...
I wish that I could say that I didn't believe this one. However, it is unfortunately something I have encountered before even though I have never been a tester. It's basically something related to shitty jobs that will hire any warm body available.
FYI defecating in such a manner is in fact illegal and they should have filed charges.
Also, people are wusses. I'd find a way to clean up the shit, if only so I wouldn't have to deal with the smell.
I think you're chasing a red herring if you're focusing on the fee-structure of this comic's imaginary F2P game.
I just want to throw out that your doing a great job with the art. I also have been reading Kiwi Blitz and have been really enjoying it. Great work!
Ahhhhh, got it.
Once again, can't help but feel communication with the readers was a little lacking here. There was no clue given that this was supposed to be the conclusion to the season, apart from the rough guideline that Season 2 was supposed to run through October. Even a little "End of Season 2" box in one corner would have helped.
And it was definitely a bit of a rough ending. Kind of abruptly shifting from one time/place/scene to another to the point where some people in these threads didn't even know what was going on and thought they had missed comics in between.
The final strip just looks like the project has been abandoned. You have forums here that everyone uses, you have a post that goes with every comic, there are LOTS of ways to let people know that the season is over, please use one.
My complaints aside, the content quality is high. I'll read what gets posted.
That's exactly what it is. Well, that's exactly what *I* think it is, anyway..
But yeah, I had no idea the season ended until I saw today's update post.
And like many others, I'm kind of scratching my head at WTF is going on. Is the player uprising over now that its F2P? What was the point of Q's 2-girls-one-goatse photo? Did it affect the plot in any way or was it just showing that he's an immature forum-goer? I did get the Hats/F2P/TF2 joke, but that seems like a filler strip joke, not a season ender.
I dunno. Its still only season 2, I guess. They'll find their stride soon enough, I got faith in the product.
The hats comic feels more like the first comic of Season 3. It's like they skipped the resolution and jumped into the next stage.
The game is now F2P (due to story arc of S2) and part of 'Lawstar Freedom' is the 10xHats and 12xBuckles slots. This leads to billions of permutations (assuming some ridiculous number of unique Hats and Buckles) that the team now has to test for QA purposes. Given that Isaac nearly went insane testing a million doors... well, draw your own conclusion and that's the purgatory that the heroes now find themselves working in.
Test Plan: Call of Duty 34
Done!
"Before we give you anything, tell us what you'll do with it."
"I don't know what I can do with it until you give it to me."
"Then we're not giving it to you!"
Aaaargh.
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