QA Reacts

[alanschu]

I enjoyed this   (only made it to page 5... hometime suckas)

 

 

http://qareacts.tumblr.com/

[WorstUsernameEver]

I actually thought this would be a QA employee writing an angry rant after reading another "sack the QA department" complaint post on some gaming forum.

[Blarghagh]

Do you happen to know "The Trenches"? It's a webcomic about a QA team, but that's not really the most entertaining thing on the website - the best part is "Tales from the Trenches" where QA people send in their stories anonymously. Some of them are heartbreaking and others are hilarious.

 

Can be found here.

 

This is my personal favourite:

 

It's a feature. A sexy, sexy feature.

 

"Gauntlets can be thrown in lots of ways, but the intent of insult is always there.

I was testing a part of a game where the user had to interact with a computer terminal to type in various commands. I was told to try variations on known phrases, but alter it slightly for each iteration (capital letters, spaces, etc). “Try everything you can think of.”

 

After several hours of this and nearing total mental collapse, I started putting in various nonsense phrases for fun (similar to you’d do with old text parser games), just to see if the programmers had planned for that sort of juvenile behavior. Besides, I thought I could always argue that this should have been thought and tested.

 

I typed in “[insert insult for promiscuous female here]” and suddenly a slideshow appeared with naked women.

 

After the shock, I noticed it was actually all the same woman, but in the requisite fantasy poses this sort of thing affords. A few seconds into this revelry, my supervisor walked by and asked me just what the world I thought I was doing, son. I explained what happened. He stares for a few seconds and then walks off, telling me to stay there until he returned and Don’t. Touch. Anything.

 

20 minutes pass, during which I’m equally terrified and embarrassed, as people were walking by my desk and giggling uncontrollably. One guy did offer me a high five. Also the pictures looped, and I lost interest after the first eighteen cycles. Sort of.

 

Supervisor returns with another guy I’ve never seen before, and tells him to look at my screen. This second guy runs through the full spectrum of emotions - giddy surprise which begets alarmed realization - before his eyes redden in fury and he runs down the hall. Seconds later, he emerges in a fist fight with another man. Turns out a programmer had been having an affair with an artist’s wife, and I’d brought it to the climactic breaking point upon stumbling across this “feature.”

 

Their struggle ended quickly once security was called in. Both were fired immediately. I was terminated the next day for vague reasons at best.

 

I did try it once the game released, and (of course) was disappointed."

 

EDIT: Hrm, the slur in it got censored. Edit'd for understandability.

Edited July 26, 2013 by TrueNeutral

[Guest Slinky]

Hah a funny story, but why all three guys were fired? Sacking the one who put that funny little feature in was given, but hopefully the two others didn't go quietly.

[Blarghagh]

QA is pretty infamous for firing people for no reason. I guess the other guy got fired for starting a fight, I don't know what the "vague" given reasons were for the other guy.

[Malcador]

Trenches stories are somewhat amusing, of late a lot seem to be "LOL my job in QA sucks!".

 

http://trenchescomic.com/tales/post/one-of-those-people this one is funny, probably because I doubt it actually happened.

[AGX-17]

It's a webcomic about a QA team, but that's not really the most entertaining thing on the website

No ****. I am incredulous. /sarcasm

 

 

Video game webcomics are bad by definition, with one notable exception.

 

[sorophx]

VG Cats. your argument is invalid

[Malcador]

Nuh, Sinfest is best. For Social Justice!!

[BruceVC]

Okay some of those pictures and associated lines were hilarious

 

But the one with the kitten pushing its face on the carpet was one of the cutest things I've seen in ages 

[Pidesco]

Look, this one is about NWN2.

[Malcador]

Seems a bit misguided about his role.

[Pidesco]

That's an understatement.

[Malcador]

A key skill in my work. "Server process crashed and prevented operations for two days" -> "A minor bug caused a slight outage"

[WorstUsernameEver]

"I didn't care about my bugcount, I'm just an obnoxious nerd!"

[Malcador]

He's clearly an artist.

[Serrano]

I enjoyed this   (only made it to page 5... hometime suckas)

 

 

http://qareacts.tumblr.com/

 

Alan this is possibly the best thing ever posted on the forum. Thank you. 

 

I love the

  Edited July 31, 2013 by Serrano

[Tale]

Oh man, I'm reminded of one bug that got passed around the office. My memory is faulty, so this may not be exact. The rifle the medic used should not be available in the game's time period. Or that the assault rifle sound was for the wrong type of rifle. And there seemed to be this one guy at Microsoft who kept submitting these bugs. Some guys on our end were criticizing it.

 

But you know what, the art team fixed it.

[alanschu]

 

I enjoyed this   (only made it to page 5... hometime suckas)

 

 

http://qareacts.tumblr.com/

 

Alan this is possibly the best thing ever posted on the forum. Thank you. 

 

I love the QA video 

 

 

Haha that video is what sold me on sharing the link too.

[Blarghagh]

 

It's a webcomic about a QA team, but that's not really the most entertaining thing on the website

No ****. I am incredulous. /sarcasm

 

 

Video game webcomics are bad by definition, with one notable exception.

 

 

This is my favourite post ever. It's just so bad. It made me go "what, did I miss a fact check?" and then I opened the spoiler and realized it required me to know the poster's opinion on gaming webcomics for the sarcasm to work and the poster actually thought I did!

 

If there was a message board equivelant of "funniest home videos" submissions where someone rides a bike into a wall on purpose and pretends it was a funny accident, this would be it.

 

Thank you for that! I'm not even being sarcastic, I had to laugh out loud.

Edited July 31, 2013 by TrueNeutral

[Serrano]

Episode 2