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[TheBiggerFish]

...So catborgs are rapidly becoming a Thing in the Corrupt A Wish thread.


All after a one-off about a pair of headphones.

[Lenglon]

...So catborgs are rapidly becoming a Thing in the Corrupt A Wish thread.


All after a one-off about a pair of headphones.

You have no clue how much fun it is to watch you all squirm and utterly fail to corrupt my RP about being Cthulhu's unknowing catborg girlfriend.

I have no regrets about my headphone wish.

[KingofstarrySkies]

Steam is not allowing me to install a game. It's nearly done. 11.6 GB. I hit resume, it starts, then stops seconds later.

[TheBiggerFish]

...So catborgs are rapidly becoming a Thing in the Corrupt A Wish thread.


All after a one-off about a pair of headphones.

You have no clue how much fun it is to watch you all squirm and utterly fail to corrupt my RP about being Cthulhu's unknowing catborg girlfriend.

I have no regrets about my headphone wish.

I kinda want to make an SG out of it...

[hops]

I kinda thought he inhaled it but quickly rejected it from his body through some weird space Tai Chi.

It was a visible gas that was nowhere near his face, so that's not possible.

Assuming we're talking about the same scene in Ep. 1.

HE FORCE-INHALED IT.

[Blaze]

Steam is not allowing me to install a game. It's nearly done. 11.6 GB. I hit resume, it starts, then stops seconds later.

Christmas sale, everyone's buying and downloading.

[Tawa]

I have no idea how long I played Civ II today but it was several hours at the very least.

I am unsure if getting this was a good or a bad thing.

[Greiger]

Work has a webpage on the intraweb where they post Voluntary time off.  Basically when there's no work to be done the administration puts up a number of 'slots' thet people can claim that lets them clock out for the times specified.

Prople over the last year have noticed that the slots show up as availible in that system often a good 5 or 10 minutes before they are announced.

Fast forward to to the dystopian vto world of December 2015.  Everybody who wants time off has scripts installed on their browsers to reload that page every 5 seconds.  Some even have the scripts set to automatically take any slots available as they appear. If you are not automatically reloading the page, you are not getting VTO. period.  The entire intranet is beginning to crumble under the load as a good portion of the over 2000 workers have their computers set to constantly refresh the page every. second.  Custom scripts to automatically take slots are actually being given out as currency.   One person openly offered to give their custom firefox script to someone willing to cover for one of their work days.

Administration responds in an amusing way.  The page is now programmed to have a gif of Dennis Nedry saying "Uh Uh Uh, you didn't say the magic word." come up instead of the vto page if a person accesses the page more than 3 times in 2 minutes.   It caused an uproar of people complaining how it's so unfair and that they might as well stop giving VTO out if they are doing that.  Some even threaten to quit.

Completely ignoring the fact that you aren't even suppose to know it's there before the vto is announced.  My coworkers boggle the mind.  I mean it's not like they are stopping folks from doing it, they're just forcing people to set their scripts to reload once every 31 seconds instead of once every 5.  You know, so it stops bringing the servers to it's knees.

EDIT: I considered fixing the lack of sleep fueled typos but I like them so they are staying.

[Descan]

So uh

what's the impetus behind this

what's so special about vto that people are literally becoming script kiddies to get some

cuz it SOUNDS like they're saying "OH I HAVE NO WORK, DON'T PAY ME!"

[Greiger]

That is exactly it.   Though it is a work from home job, so it's not like you have to commute there and back.  Though there is also literally nothing keeping you from having some video game running on your computer while you wait for phone calls to come in.


(I actually play DF myself)

I suppose no work may be a bad choice of words, I should say very little work.  It's a call center. It gives out calls to people working using a set queue system.  When it's buzy yer getting another call the moment you hang up.  When it's at the point where VTO is availible, yer sitting at your computer twiddling yer thumbs for 15 minutes before another call.

[Descan]

so yeah what's the point of that that people are literally breaking the server so they get less pay?

I must be missing something

[TheBiggerFish]

so yeah what's the point of that that people are literally breaking the server so they get less pay?

I must be missing something

... Yep... I don't know either.

[Amperzand]

That, sir, is definitely a WTF-worthy scenario.

[Bauglir]

they want to spend time with their families or some such rubbish

or more generally be freed from the obligation of being at their computers for the time specified

[flabort]

so yeah what's the point of that that people are literally breaking the server so they get less pay?

I must be missing something

I think, at a guess, while it's unlikely the company gets busy during vto periods, people who take vto are exempt from helping out if suddenly they get busy again.