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[King Zultan]

If they didn't that's a WTF because you'd think the guy who made it would be the best person to work with it.

[TD1]

Plot twist: The job was made and tailored for that individual, but legally they had to advertise it for interview. By placing a preposterous '5 year experience' restriction, they could 'settle' for their intended employee.

[pisskop]

at a modest reduction in salary, of course, to compensate for the 'lack of experience'

[nenjin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wAo54DHDY0

Just a DOOM 2 map right? Can't be that interesting in the year of our Lord 2023.

No....it's more of a work of art. The video is an hour and 42 minutes and I was honestly riveted throughout. The meta story behind the map is also really interesting. It's all very unsettling. Probably a deliberate construction of fiction from top to bottom. Stuff involving Liminal Spaces and the Backrooms tend to vibe that way. But it's fascinating and a really impressive piece of work none the less.

[hector13]

I downloaded a game today, and played the tutorial.

The tutorial taught me how to drive a boat, for a ridiculously unnecessary amount of time, then showed me (barely) how to cast a rod. Then it made me move the boat, and cast the rod, and deal with a snag. Then it told me to drive the boat back the unnecessary long time again.

It did not explain to me how the radar worked, how to find fish, what type of lures (and/or bait) to use, it did not explain the more complicated parts of casting a rod, nor did it explain the various types of “retrievals” and methods to attract fish to the rod, nor what reducing drag or reel speed really do.

Like, I don’t know what the crossover is between fishing and gaming is, both involve a lot of sitting and staring into space, but I very much doubt all gamers are expert fisher people to the point you don’t need to explain it in your shitty game.

There is an in-game manual oh wait it’s a QR code ffs, and takes you to a link which lists the controls and menu items, and lists the various elements of the HUD. Real helpful.

[delphonso]

There is an in-game manual oh wait it’s a QR code ffs, and takes you to a link which lists the controls and menu items, and lists the various elements of the HUD. Real helpful.

Christ.

I get this shit all the time these days - I bought some electronics and the "manual" that came with it was a QR code for the app that would...explain how to use the thing.

[pisskop]

They want you to use the app.  Multi tiered data harvesting.  That and the devs probably dont handle the games files after publishing it.  So the guys who do that have an app for that.

[Frumple]

Well, that's something I can't remember ever having done before, and it's... kinda' creepy.

Turns out if you put a flashlight (that's on, if it wasn't obvious) against a cat's cheek, the closest eye to that cheek lights up from the inside. Y'know, like it does for your thumb or whatever except it's an eye socket. Cat didn't seem to mind, but...

E: Also, having now checked, it doesn't have the same effect on at least the dog I've got, dunno about other breeds. Like, the skin around the eye does the light-up-from-inside thing, but... not basically the whole eye socket. Apparently something about feline eye structure makes the effect particularly unsettling on cats.

[hector13]

Well cats eyes reflect light back out so they can see better, which I think gives that eerie look when there’s a cat in the dark with super bright eyes, possibly as a consequence of being more active (or supposed to be more active) in the twilight hours.

I don’t think dogs have the same thing.

[EuchreJack]

Well cats eyes reflect light back out so they can see better, which I think gives that eerie look when there’s a cat in the dark with super bright eyes, possibly as a consequence of being more active (or supposed to be more active) in the twilight hours.

I don’t think dogs have the same thing.

And thus, we continue to prove the obvious: Cats aren't as bright as Dogs.

[Frumple]

I... think that's backwards, in this case? The cat was notably brighter than the dog was. Like, its eyeballs were glowing.

[EuchreJack]

Ugh, drunk posting.

Cats are brighter than dogs.

::Joke Complete::

[Funk]

A dog will want to help, a cat while maybe it'll help.
if it get's a reward then maybe....

[King Zultan]

There is an in-game manual oh wait it’s a QR code ffs, and takes you to a link which lists the controls and menu items, and lists the various elements of the HUD. Real helpful.

Christ.

I get this shit all the time these days - I bought some electronics and the "manual" that came with it was a QR code for the app that would...explain how to use the thing.

When I bought my laptop a few years ago the "manual" it came with was a just pamphlet that told you how to plug it into a wall and turn it on.

[KittyTac]

More like "Things that made you go "WTF?" last week o_O "

My PC randomly had a hard drive hiccup and the sound died somehow in the process. Nothing helped. Not even techie friends. Ended up moving all files I cared about onto GoFile (I didn't want to pay for a cloud storage option so I just zipped everything and put it onto a file sharing service), set up a flash drive recovery (with a completely legally acquired Windows ISO of course ), reset everything, then redownloaded the files. Sound came back. Yay!