http://kotaku.com/5300055/like-sands-throu...r-online-office

 

Any great office prank stories from the Obsidian crew?

It's no wonder so many studios go bankrupt because of such unnecessary luxury.

It's no wonder so many studios go bankrupt because of such unnecessary luxury.

It's sand.

Let

How about the Dune worm?

It's no wonder so many studios go bankrupt because of such unnecessary luxury.

It's sand.

Luxury.

 

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You can't go bankrupt when you farm spice melange as your part time job in your office.

You can't go bankrupt when you farm spice melange as your part time job in your office.

 

You CAN go bankrupt when you have your developer's legs bitten off by shai hulud.

If you're insured, you simply use the extra cash to buy a thumper with a set of cloned feet.

It's no wonder so many studios go bankrupt because of such unnecessary luxury.

 

It's silicon dioxide.

Yeah but transporting that sand into the office, and all the dirt that gets stuck on your shoes!

 

Mah such things drive me crazy!

I don't know why, but Obsidian is really pretty restrained when it comes to ludicrous pranks. Outside of the obvious ones, like tape over the sensor on an optical mouse, or screenshotting someones desktop, putting the screenshot as their wallpaper and hiding away all their icons.

 

Actually, late in Storm of Zehir I decided that I was going to accumulate a pyramid of diet coke cans and not recycle them until the game shipped. It ended up growing about four or five feet tall, and mysteriously ended up on Tony Evans' (lead designer) desk. I also created my own mod where I swapped out the main theme music for Tony's theme by the Pixies.

 

But nothing as elaborate as filling someone's office with sand.

We got in trouble for our pranks when i was in QA, remember Nate?

oooh trouble....

I don't know why, but Obsidian is really pretty restrained when it comes to ludicrous pranks. Outside of the obvious ones, like tape over the sensor on an optical mouse, or screenshotting someones desktop, putting the screenshot as their wallpaper and hiding away all their icons.

 

I find the replacing only a few icons tends to work better. Most people I've tried this with tend to figure it out pretty quickly when none of the icons work, but when it's only a couple icons they tend to get tripped up much more. Takes longer before they get hit by it, but the delay is worth it.

I don't know why, but Obsidian is really pretty restrained when it comes to ludicrous pranks. Outside of the obvious ones, like tape over the sensor on an optical mouse, or screenshotting someones desktop, putting the screenshot as their wallpaper and hiding away all their icons.

 

I find the replacing only a few icons tends to work better. Most people I've tried this with tend to figure it out pretty quickly when none of the icons work, but when it's only a couple icons they tend to get tripped up much more. Takes longer before they get hit by it, but the delay is worth it.

 

And this is why you always lock your desktop when you leave your desk, people.

And this is why you always lock your desktop when you leave your desk, people.

Words of wisdom

 

We pulled a prank once on a fellow student at university. One guy left his work station unattended for a while and somebody (not me) modified his logout script to send cheesy love letters to a list of female students. It took a while for him to realise why he was getting an increasing number of hostile stares when walking around

That's cruel. And yet oddly amusing.

http://gallery.me.com/joshuadickens#100450

I don't know why, but Obsidian is really pretty restrained when it comes to ludicrous pranks. Outside of the obvious ones, like tape over the sensor on an optical mouse, or screenshotting someones desktop, putting the screenshot as their wallpaper and hiding away all their icons.

 

I find the replacing only a few icons tends to work better. Most people I've tried this with tend to figure it out pretty quickly when none of the icons work, but when it's only a couple icons they tend to get tripped up much more. Takes longer before they get hit by it, but the delay is worth it.

 

And this is why you always lock your desktop when you leave your desk, people.

 

When I was in school we did a lot of stuff to people who didn't lock their machine. Mostly switching their desktop to tubgirl or something equally horrifying, but one time one guy went on another guy's MSN and told his girlfriend the sex was lousy.

 

Revenge was had when the perpetrator left his machine unlocked and the victim came out of the closet to random people on MSN for him in some pretty convincing conversations.

I don't know why, but Obsidian is really pretty restrained when it comes to ludicrous pranks. Outside of the obvious ones, like tape over the sensor on an optical mouse, or screenshotting someones desktop, putting the screenshot as their wallpaper and hiding away all their icons.

 

I find the replacing only a few icons tends to work better. Most people I've tried this with tend to figure it out pretty quickly when none of the icons work, but when it's only a couple icons they tend to get tripped up much more. Takes longer before they get hit by it, but the delay is worth it.

 

And this is why you always lock your desktop when you leave your desk, people.

 

So true.