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Me: GET /sleep
Baby: 307 Temporary Redirect
Baby: 204 No Content
Me: 200 OK
Me: GET /sleep
Baby: 307 Temporary Redirect
Baby: 413 Payload Too Large
Me: 102 Processing
Me: 200 OK
Me: GET /sleep
Baby: 307 Temporary Redirect
Baby: 444 Connection Closed Without Response
Me: 200 OK
Me: GET /sleep
Baby: 307 Temporary Redirect
Baby: 444 Connection Closed Without Response
Me: 429 Too Many Requests
Me: GET /sleep
Baby: 307 Temporary Redirect
Me: 101 Switching Protocols
Me: 408 Request Timeout
GF: 102 Processing
Me: GET /sleep
Sleep: 404 Not Found
Me: 406 Not Acceptable
(Morning)
Me: 501 Not Implemented19 -
Dear nerds from all over the world,
We get it. 404 pics are funny.
But did you know there other status codes too?
Like...
204 - No Response
301 - Moved
302 - Found
400 - Bad request
401 - Unauthorized
402 - Payment Required
403 - Forbidden
501 - Not Implemented
502 - Service Temporarily Overloaded
I'm sure you'll also find funny situations with these.
Thanks. We're the best!26 -
Years ago, I joined a company making games for handheld consoles.
Because a game's audio needs to be tested, too, I connected earphones to the console so that:
0. I wouldn't bother others w/ the sounds coming out of the console.
/* !Everyone wants to hear that crap. */
1. I could hear the sounds better.
PM: * Enters the room. *
Me: * Focused on testing the game. *
PM: * Walks up to me from the side, starts talking. *
Me: * Focused on testing the game. *
PM: * After approx. 30 seconds of complete lack of response from me, kind of irritated, knocks on my desk to get my attention. *
Me: * Take out the earphones. *
Oh, hi, how can I help you?
PM: Haven't you heard a word I said?
Me: Well, no. I am testing the game, including the audio.
PM: You need to pay attention to what's going on around you.
Me: Testing audio is one of my responsibilities. I am using earphones because of the reasons [0-1].
PM: Even still, you just need to pay attention to what's going on around you.
PM: * Finally explains the reason for him bothering me, then goes back to his lair. *
Moral of the story: Fuck being good at what you do && knowing your responsibilities.
When PM wants something from you, you better give him the attention he wants.
/* The expectation being I grow an extra pair of eyes && ears, so that I see the guy coming && am prepared to listen to him whenever he wants something _while_ doing the best job I possibly can. */9 -
Taking my security+ exam on Tuesday. Any advice on what to pay attention to?
I have 401 and 501 materials since I didn't know which I'd end up taking. I had to register for 501. I have friends who have passed 501 using 401 material.5 -
I've been in a new city for a while, now.
When it comes to getting to know a new city, I like to pick a remote destination of interest within a walking distance /* Which usually is a supermarket, or an electronics store. */ && just pay attention to surroundings on my way there.
Using Google Maps myself, since it works quite well in my area.
Today /* Technically yesterday, since currently it's past midnight, but the event took place a few hours ago, but whatever. */ I have found this interesting landmark.
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Some two years ago I purchased a license for AV solution on Amazon UK which is my default place for shopping.
When attempting to activate the license, I kept getting this annoying error somewhere along the lines of:
'License from another region.'
I contact the support, they did their magic && the license got applied.
Fast forward some two years - the license is about to expire.
The software is actually good, so I make the choice to renew it.
Thing is, I keep getting redirected to the local site w/o an option of choosing the English language.
I edit the site's address to reach an English version of the site.
On UK's site I am unable to choose my country of residence so I can't complete the purchase form.
I try a few other things && finally reach the Global site where I am able to input the correct data for the purchase, but all attempts to finish the payment fail.
Fine... I'll purchase from the local site.
I purchased the license, activated it w/o problems, but when attempting to download the installer it keeps downloading the localized version which doesn't allow me to change the language.
I contact Support.
S: 'The license you've purchased can be used solely w/ localized version of the software. If you want to use the English version, you'll have to get a refund && purchase from our Global site here [link w/o redirection].'
_Fuck_ this trend of automatic redirection to localized sites && forced localized software.
One shouldn't have to go through all these hoops to get the software in the language of their choice, instead of having the localized version shoved down their throat.11 -
There was this one time when a coworker needed to update the Xcode.
IIRC because his Mac mini was low on storage space, the update failed && the Xcode became corrupted.
He found that out when he tried to open the Xcode, at which time he was presented w/ an error akin to:
'Xcode was found to be corrupted && was moved to the Recycle Bin'.
C: 'Good, it belongs there!'.10 -
Tester has found an issue: controller input stops working when performing certain steps.
Creates a report and provides an attachment.
The attachment depicts some menu where, at first, the cursor moves around various options, then simply stops moving.
The problem:
Since this is a simple in-game recording, there is neither an overlay of the controller w/ a visual representation of the input actually being provided but not working, nor there is a camera recording available where I can see the tester pressing buttons on a controller.
For all I know, the tester put down the controller / stopped pressing buttons.
...I've also seen reports of animations not working... w/ fucking screenshots attached.
How the fuck can you see something not being animated in a fucking static picture?4 -
Years ago we had been developing a game for the handheld consoles. We were very young && inexperienced back then. Some more than others... Version for one of the consoles finally saw the light of day, while the other one was sadly canceled.
The development of that canceled one was very troubled.
One example of that would be the core team during the initial stages of the project. One fairly seasoned programmer... Yes - that's it.
Obviously he needed some help, so... the studio hired interns. Two of them, IIRC. One of the interns was put in charge of the game's multiplayer code.
He was ostensibly doing a good job, as the mode was working. Sure it needed some fixing && some tweaks, but it was there.
That is until it came time to check the platform's requirements by the testers. By the time they got their hands on the documentation, it turned out that the SDK used by the game had become obsolete && was no longer eligible for submission. Once the SDK was updated to a newer version, the multiplayer stopped working for some reason.
The issue was investigated which revealed that the intern who wrote the code had been using functions that were marked as deprecated && were no longer available in the newer SDK, explaining why the mode was FUBAR.
Moral of the story? Pay close attention to:
0. Interns,
1. Platform's requirements,
2. Changelogs,
3. Deprecations.6 -
I'm working w/ idiots.
Since a week ago, builds have started being bundled w/ this interesting folder called 'DeleteBeforeSubmission'.
Immediately mentioned the problem, but no action has been taken thus far. Sure, they might !care whether it is bundled or !. If whoever submits the builds for release manually removes those folders prior to submitting the game - fine.
Thing is... the shit is heavy. Depending on the platform, it's ~~500 MB up to some ~~2 GB on top of the actual size of the build. So, apart from our NAS storing garbage, people have to download unnecessarily larger files.
But hey - why do something about it. It's fine, right?
/s7 -
There was this text in the game that, according to platform's rules, was supposed to be displayed verbatim. One of the languages had these “” opening / closing quotation marks. The problem was that instead of the text reading “some_text” there seemed to be a space in there “ some_text”. Since the rules are specific - no alterations whatsoever, a report was made. It turned out later the issue was due to kerning.
The chosen solution for that was to use "some_text”.
What the fuck? For one, there rule was that there are to be no alterations to the text. Then there's the other thing of this "” being just plain wrong.
It's like writing
```
main()
{
end
```
WTF are you doing?15 -
Tester: How is $feature supposed to work?
PM: How did $rival_company do it in their $rival_game? Check it there - that's how it's supposed to work.
...One of the greatest killers of any joy in gamedev is when you hear people want to blatantly rip off someone else's design.9 -
Something, somewhere went horribly wrong if we need to present these kinds of 'warnings' to people.
WTF?
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Legacy Of Kain Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered has been released.
It contains a lot of bonus material, including a few areas that have been scrapped before release.
Exploration of one of those areas may end up _crashing_ the game...
...Imagine that...23 -
Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/15770605/... .
It's fun getting to know a new city.
Also, it's fun learning where the key players are located...
High quality pic here:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/11BS.jp... .
...especially when they're in walking distance.
I have purchased a few games by them like 'Beat Cop', 'This War of Mine', && 'Frostpunk' but have yet to find the time && will to try them out.4 -
Roughly one year ago we'd been setting up our network to have our IP whitelisted.
The process took way more than it should've. Here's why:
* Back story: *
Coworker had been talking to IT because he wanted his PC && a devkit to have static IPs.
IT did that && set up the network so that in the future they wouldn't have to be bothered about it.
They set aside a pool of IPs 10.0.2.50-10.0.2.100.
/* You _know_ where this is going, right? */
Coworker: We have our static IPs. This is our range: 10.0.2.50-10.0.2.100. Could you pass it over to $company_name so that we have our IPs whitelisted?
Boss: Finally! Yes, will do.
* Passes the info over. *
* Week passes. *
C: Do we have our IPs whitelisted?
B: Got the info that they should be.
C: Damn, it doesn't work!
* B starts blaming $company_name 's support. *
* Another week passes. *
C: Any word on the whitelisted IPs?
B: They tell me it's set up. Can you try now?
C: Nope, still doesn't work.
* B starts bitching about IT how they're incompetent. How they were supposed to be pros && all that. *
/* I got wind of the whole situation. */
Me: Hold on. Those aren't the IP we need to pass to the $company_name.
* Provide the _correct_ Internet-facing IP. *
* Gets whitelisted within 1-2 days. *
These are the people I'm dealing w/ right now. They'll bitch about everyone being incompetent, but when it turns out _they_ have been at fault I hear no responsibility being taken.
/* I'm also reminded of this adage: Garbage In, Garbage Out. So true. */2 -
Found this ancient, forgotten task that was basically a QOL improvement.
Given that the feature would shorten the time of testing from some 10-15 minutes to 2, I left a comment mentioning that it would be immensely helpful.
!too long after, the report started seeing some traffic && the feature got actually implemented.
Checked the implementation as soon as I could.
- Speedup worked well regardless of platform.
- Slowdown /* which was never actually mentioned in the task as it wasn't crucial */ was also implemented, but the mobile phones were omitted, since the implementation would be too complex for the time allowed for the feature implementation. I was perfectly fine w/ it, as this wasn't actually necessary for those.
I left a proper comment, thanking for the feature implementation.
...then the lead tester chimes in, bitching about the lack of implementation of the slowdown on mobiles.
Got the same explanation as I mentioned earlier - too complex for the time allowed. Plus, the feature had other platforms in mind. Having it working on mobiles was just gravy.
Good call, lead, now - ask for another favor.
I'm sure it'll go well, since you can't be satisfied w/ getting what you need. You need that special pampering, too.
/s2 -
The kind of testers I'm dealing w/ right now:
Until fairly recently, they thought it was a good idea to keep retesting stale && untouched bug reports to see whether an issue is still present, then leave a comment.
Imagine being assigned as a watcher to a report, but keep seeing comments made by testers akin to:
- version 1: issue is still present.
- version 2: issue is still present.
- version 3: issue is still present.
- version 4: issue is still present.
Which was true for some 90-95% of the cases.
How retarded does a person have to be to think that this is a good idea?
I say it's a great way to piss somebody off.
Reminds me of movies w/ scenes where there is this annoying brat in the back seat of a car asking 'Are we there, yet?' over && over again.
Once a report is up, just be fucking patient && wait until someone replies!6 -
Once, we hired this one intern as a mobile games tester.
His first day on the job. He received his laptop for work.
He sits down by his desk, takes out his headphones, plugs them into the laptop, && starts playing his favorite music. _Now_ he can finally test the game in peace.
...the fuck?
I _get_ how testers can get sick of hearing the same crappy music, SFX, && other sounds listening to them day in && day out for days, weeks, months, etc. _This_ guy, however, pulls that shit on the first day?
Sadly, the lead either had never noticed that or had never taught the wannabe better.
Good thing !all testers are like that.5 -
Some time ago I had a brief period of time when I had no tasks.
In order to stay productive, while having a lot of free time on my hands, I had decided to create a documentation of a feature in our game that has slightly different implementations depending on the platform on which the game is running.
Once I was done w/ the documentation, I shared it w/ the lead.
His feedback was along the lines of:
'It's OK, but the color palette that you used could've been better.'
/* What I used was basic colors: feature is available = green; !available = gray; partial availability = yellow, etc. Simple, easily readable. */
So instead of 'Thanks for documenting this.' I hear 'You have poor design skills - you should've used company's theme'.
/* I'm guessing since the company's logo uses some fancy colors, in lead's mind, those colors should've been used in documentation. */
Well, duh - I'm !a graphics artist / designer, so no shit.
There will definitely be no graphical fireworks in my documentation.
I fucking love working w/ people who have their priorities straight - '_fuck_ usefulness && correctness of data; It must be pretty too!'.11 -
Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/14042595/... .
Found you. Hello.
High quality pic here:
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/CDP_01.... .
/* Low quality unavailable due to devRant's picture upload being broken for the moment. */7 -
Cont. https://devrant.com/rants/12659551/... .
Imagine receiving three basically the exact same reports instead of just one.
When releasing games on consoles, there are some rules for basic quality the games have to meet that depend on the platform.
Some of those rules align across all platforms, but are written down as different test scenarios.
Let's say, the game mustn't crash && tests are listed as:
- Company A: Test 0.
- Company B: Test 1.
- Company C: Test 2.
If a crash affects all platforms, the _logical_ thing to do would be to write just one report, mention all affected platforms && also list all requirements that are failed due to this.
Leadership: 'No, we need to create separate reports for each affected platform.'
Result: Only one report gets actual attention, while all the others are left forgotten, living as zombies.
...sometimes I wonder whether such people are paid per report, given their approach.
/* For some context: I am dealing w/ a multiplatform project built using one of the more popular engines, making vast majority of issues present regardless of the platform. Creating separate reports makes absolutely no sense.
They changed their mind solely after this being brought up by the developers, though. */2 -
There was this one time when I was asked to create screenshots of our game for marketing purposes.
The game supported solely the 480i mode.
Once I delivered the screenshots, PM bitched about them being !good, because of the visible interlace.
...the fun times of the Wii era.5 -
It's always the 'Poll Of The Day' on some other site that reminds me that there's an actual word for the fear of the Friday the 13th...18
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I've recently learned how committing of the Save Data to file works in my project.
The file is updated w/ _each change_ made to the settings.
Worse yet - the file is updated even when _no actual change_ is made due to the setting already being at its highest / lowest value possible.
/*
e.g. 5 is maximum sound volume.
- You try increasing the sound volume.
- Setting can't get any higher, so remains unchanged.
- *Update the Save Data*.
*/
What kind of abusive masochist would do that?
// Yes... there's always blame.5 -
*Reading a bug report's summary*
'Object x is displayed incorrectly when playing on PC in resolution 1024x768 or Android tablets w/ 4:3 Aspect Ratio'
*facepalms*
You, sir, are failing at basic math && basic logic, among other things.
1024x768 _has_ an Aspect Ratio of 4:3.
If only you had bothered checking, you would've know that the issue is purely related to the Aspect Ratio && !just that one resolution.5 -
So for a few months now, I've been battling w/ failed updates of Windows 11 from version 23H2 to 24H2.
Initially, the update became available around Christmas.
During the update process, the PC BSOD'ed, then failed, && ultimately reverted to its original 23H2.
Couple of months later - same thing.
A few weeks ago, the update was once again offered to me...
...same _fucking_ thing.
...OK. This time around I actually saw something that resembled a meaningful error code.
...googled it.
...stumbled upon this post:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/... .
Well, I wasn't thrilled about it, but decided to try the solution, as that environment mentioned actually mirrored my own.
Yup. That was it.
It's fucking retarded how an OS can't even successfully undergo an update because of a security solution.
I'd say they should work together to solve that idiotic inconvenience.
Oh, yeah - once fully updated I have reinstalled the security solution. It's good, so apart from the OS's update failure thingy, can't really complain.
Thanks for reading.12 -
In our game, we have occasional problems w/ IAPs where for whatever reason a purchased IAP doesn't get redeemed, which leads to players requiring aid from the support team.
On our end, a tester reported an issue where he had such problems. 100% reproduction rate, mentioned the affected account to be safe.
Caught the following conversation between two leads regarding that report:
Test Lead 0: Upon rechecking the issue we've discovered that the issue can't be reproduced on our end. We have however confirmed that the one account mentioned in the report is affected.
Test Lead 1: Since we can't reproduce the issue, should we close it?
So, yeah... why bother a poor programmer w/ this issue that is 100% reproducible but w/ one account affected only. Definitely zero chance of fixing at least one instance where this issue might occur.
/s6 -
B: 'Being in $city is a requirement for the job because it's an 'on-site' job. Salary is x.', * Smiling face. *, 'Nice, huh?'
Me: * Thinking, fine - slightly more than before, but new city, so should probably be the roughly same as before given the $city is more expensive. *
Me: * I invest in the move. Turns out new apartment costs 2x as much as the previous one. No time to look for another one. Fine - I'll be doing what I love, once again - I'll manage until proving my skills. *
* 2 months of probation pass. *
B: 'I'm happy w/ your services. When renewing contract, we'll switch to a different type, though, because (...)' /* Some bullshit - read - he doesn't want to pay the overhead. */
Me: * The move wiped the savings, can't say 'No'. *, 'Fine'.
* 5 months pass. *
B: 'I'll be closing the office due to imminent price spike. We'll move you to WFH. I'm fine w/ you returning to your original home.' /* Read: Salary will remain the same. */,
* My bills rise due to WFH. *,
* Costs of living receive an unwelcome big spike. *,
* Time passes until contract renewal. *
B: 'I value you as an employee. I would like to continue the partnership.'
* Offers no bonuses, no salary bump due to skills, !even cost of living adjustment. *
Ladies, gentlemen - you've just met my boss - no appreciation, because talk is cheap. Also - absolutely no accountability for the office being closed.1 -
Top bullshit message I have ever received would probably be:
'I wasn't asking 🙂'.
The fuck is this shit?
Are you trying to reprimand me, as indicated by the first part of the message, or be my fucking friend?
Best part - the message was sent by someone who had no authority to demand anything from me at the time, which I had to point out to the guy.14 -
At previous company I had a side-task of helping out IT dept. w/ cataloguing of hardware for the testers.
The person previously tasked w/ this chose to use Google Docs, so I had no problems w/ expanding / updating the list.
Later on, a test lead of one of the projects had a bright idea of creating a copy of that list for their project.
After some time he approached me && started bitching about why I am !updating their copy of the list.
His reasoning?
- Because you're the 'list guy'.
- Because I'm asking you nicely to do it.
The exchange had been taking some time, but long story short: I stood my ground && basically told him to fuck off, given how it was _he_ && his team that decided to make a copy of the official list && I was definitely !going to accept the responsibility of additional work due to that choice.
Seriously. The fuck do these people think?
If he were to purchase e.g. an knockoff of an iPhone, the device broke down && he went to the Apple's repair center, they'd tell him to fuck off.
Which would be the right thing to do.
...fucking retards && their logic.
/* Also, it's always fun to watch people being ostensibly polite w/ their 'I'm asking you politely / nicely.' then demanding whatever it is they had been asking about, when they have absolutely no right asking for that thing, making _you_ look like an asshole. */4 -
There was this one time when we've managed to upload a Debug build to Google Play Store.
On the same day we had to create a new build w/ fixes, have the testers perform smoke tests, then switch to some fairly quick overall tests.
If nothing were to come up during those tests, the build was supposed to be passed over to the submission manager for release.
Things weren't going that smoothly in the beginning, w/ the first two builds being broken in one way or another.
Finally, however, we managed to create a properly working build.
QA hadn't had that much time to test it, but no major problems were identified && given the deadline we had to submit it.
The next workday it turned out that the tester responsible for passing the approved build over to the submission manager gave him the Debug build.
The submission manager none the wiser uploaded that build for release.
Result?
The users who managed to update their game got their save data wiped... sort of.
It looked that way given the Debug build was communicating w/ a different server.
In the aftermath of that situation, we had to repair the damage && upload the correct build as quickly as possible.
Also, ever since then a huge text 'DEBUG' was added to the loading screens of Debug builds to make people very aware of which build they were looking at.
As for any repercussions for the tester responsible for the mess, or the submission manager - I have no idea.
They were both still working there, so at the very least none of them got fired because of this. -
One of the testers created a report a few days ago that the 'virtual cursor' is !working... The _'virtual cursor'_...
Who the fuck taught these guys?9 -
A friend of mine has once sent me this job posting:
https://skillshot.pl/jobs/...
saying to me: 'You _need_ to see what they wrote for their 3rd requirement!'.
...
The fuck!?!
Since _when_ is empathy a fucking requirement for testers?
We had a good laugh about that.7 -
Started being greeted by the `500` when attempting to comment on rants.
...sigh.
@Lensflare In response to your:
https://devrant.com/rants/18863035/...#
I barely remember any board games, but checking out the 'Ludo' did remind me about 'Chińczyk' /* EN: Chinese person. */ board game.
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
It was fairly popular.
The design was a bit different from your picture, though.
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You know your e-Post Office really sucks when you receive only now scammers' emails that are _decades_ old.
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