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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3783254 times)

nenjin

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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32115 on: January 29, 2014, 02:35:58 pm »

hey, can you post material that you're sure will piss off others here?

because cue shitstorm

As long as it's not an attempt to stir up a mob to unleash them on someone.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32116 on: January 29, 2014, 02:41:50 pm »

The curriculum asked me to catch when a user made errors and prevent that from crashing the program, I programmed in such a way that the user was unable to make errors. I lost about 30% of the grade as a result.

I expected this, butt still, fucking hell it's irritating.
Did you point out that it avoided crashing by avoiding the errors in the first place?
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32117 on: January 29, 2014, 02:47:07 pm »

The curriculum asked me to catch when a user made errors and prevent that from crashing the program, I programmed in such a way that the user was unable to make errors. I lost about 30% of the grade as a result.

I expected this, butt still, fucking hell it's irritating.
Did you point out that it avoided crashing by avoiding the errors in the first place?
Won't work. The idea is to test whether you can write error-handling code, not whether you can write a program that pre-filters output/ does something else to prevent false input.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32118 on: January 29, 2014, 02:49:23 pm »

Thing is I already had to write error handling code for a different part of the project, so what they were seemingly testing was whether I could copy and paste some code then rename the variables.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32119 on: January 29, 2014, 03:27:51 pm »

And thus you learn an incredibly important lesson for your future in the field.

You get happy clients by delivering what they need, not what you want to deliver.

:P

I wish those two things were more often the same, but alas....
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32120 on: January 29, 2014, 03:42:49 pm »

Car is dead, and I really, really need to turn in some paperwork. Y U ALWAYS DIE WHEN I NEED U, CAR!?
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32121 on: January 29, 2014, 05:47:36 pm »

but


you're never there
when the car needs you

when it's scared

when the gremlins are coming
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32122 on: January 29, 2014, 07:25:18 pm »

And thus you learn an incredibly important lesson for your future in the field.

You get happy clients by delivering what they need, not what you want to deliver.

:P

I wish those two things were more often the same, but alas....

What if you want to deliver something that saves the client time and hassle?  ???
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32123 on: January 29, 2014, 08:13:11 pm »

... sometimes they need a little wasted time and extra hassle to convince them it was worth paying you. Or so I hear.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32124 on: January 29, 2014, 08:55:43 pm »

GOOGLE YOU REPLACED THE SCROLLBAR IN MY SUBSCRIPTIONS LIST WITH A SLOW AS FUCK ROLLOVER POPUP, FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON. WHY@!? Why do you kill everything you touch with your slimy corporate fingers!?
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32125 on: January 29, 2014, 09:01:51 pm »

GOOGLE YOU REPLACED THE SCROLLBAR IN MY SUBSCRIPTIONS LIST WITH A SLOW AS FUCK ROLLOVER POPUP, FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON. WHY@!? Why do you kill everything you touch with your slimy corporate fingers!?
I partly counter with the fact that Gmail is still pretty usable.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32126 on: January 29, 2014, 09:05:30 pm »

Google subscription list?
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32127 on: January 29, 2014, 09:10:42 pm »

Google subscription list?
Probably youtube.
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32128 on: January 29, 2014, 11:25:13 pm »

You get happy clients by delivering what they want, not what they need.
FTFY
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Re: Things that made you RRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Capitalization is srs bzns Edition
« Reply #32129 on: January 30, 2014, 12:01:25 am »

Made characters for Rifts tonight, a game I haven't played in probably 20 years. (Ok, that's wrong, I played a pre-gen character at a bachelor party about 5 years ago.)

There were literally 30 books on the table to work from. Almost the entire Palladium collection.

Three of the people knew this material like the back of their hands. I was the most experienced out of the other three, and I was pretty much overwhelmed.

Here's the rage inducing part. Rifts is a terribly written game. From top to bottom, it's laid out like shit, its rules are contradictory and poorly explained and it's the most godawful amount of book keeping I've done in a while. And that's before you even sit down to play. It makes Fantasy Flight RPGs look downright streamlined.

And some of these guys have nothing but contempt for Fantasy Flight RPGs. They bitch a blue streak about it whenever we play. I'm not especially attached to the core rules system, but it happens to be the only system out there in which I enjoy 40k. But Rifts? Oh, Rifts is awesome. Despite being the epitome of a bad rules system, with just an asinine character creation system that doesn't help you....they love it. Because it's the game they played in high school. Kind of demonstrating to me that, it's not really about the rules. It's about how much time you've put in with the rules that dictates what you think is playable or not. It can be the worst rule set out there, but if it's a theme you like and you've played it enough  it's what you're going to go back to (They're also big fans of Hackmaster and know it almost carnally.)

That's the sad part of getting older. You get so much more set in your ways, where you cling to the things you know and after a while start to actively reject trying to learn new stuff. I pretty much did it tonight when I had an half page of scribblings that I needed to add back to my character sheet, before picking gear or magic or any of that shit. My numbers were wrong anyways because I'd forgotten Rifts hands out stat bonuses left and right during CC and you derive your important stats as the last thing. I was cranky as shit because of it.

I gave my Rifts book to one of these guys when I was 15, after reading it cover to cover multiple times and going "Yeah, there's no way in hell I'm ever going to run this." Cool universe, atrociously old school rules. Little did I know that choice would come back to mock me, the original book included, tonight.

What I truly came to realize is, no one likes playing a game in which they don't understand the rules. Being surrounded by other people, who are absolutely maxing out their options (one person basically just made a game tonight of coming up with the most broken OP characters and baiting the GM into banning them) just makes it worse. It kind of robs you of the desire to even learn independently. I can totally understand why people react like that to Fantasy Flight games now, because it certainly sucks being in a rules and content heavy game without knowing what to do. It's just kind of the hypocrisy of taste that kills me.
« Last Edit: January 30, 2014, 01:28:34 am by nenjin »
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