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[Romosome]

Shill alert.  Skip this post if me saying something that can be construed as defending an insanely rich corporation offends you.

People blaming all the retarded WoW patch 3.0.2 instability on "the patch not being ready" or (even worse) "Activision".  The issues are incredibly frustrating but are also nearly all related to simple server load and there was barely anything that could've been done to test it.

The reason all this wasn't caught on the public test realms is there are one or two public test realms, and it was tested on those with a few thousand people (maybe less) to make sure everything was fine.  Then it was pushed to HUNDREDS OF LIVE SERVERS WHICH ALL EXPERIENCED ADDITIONAL INFLUXES OF MORE PEOPLE SIGNING ON due to the new content.  Then halloween hit and every single player started running Scarlet Monastary due to the new achievements and putting never-before-seen strain on the instance servers.  Literally, the biggest problem with the patch has been that it is too popular.  Stop me if you need me to re-explain why this isn't something that would've been found with another month on the PTR.

Gripe if you want.  It sucks.  I hate it.  I want the servers to be back up too.  But I can tell you personally, after spending 12 hours a day until nearly midnight working on this for weeks, that sitting back and waving your hand and saying "Oh, good job, they should've tested it better, it's clear Activision is calling the shots and they don't wait until things are ready yet" is astoundingly ignorant and personally offensive.

In summary: Stop acting like you know what the hell you're talking about.

[Brentai]

...this your first major release or something?

[Romosome]

I freaking worked at NIS America before this, man.

so yes.

[Brentai]

Myeh.  So what I'm saying is that - and you damn well know this - the players will bitch about anything and everything and similarly blame it on anything and everything.  They knew as well as you did that the release was going to suck for stability, and in their impotent whining they blame Activision because, let's face it, they're the third most evil corporation in the industry.  And you're on their direct payroll.

SUCKA

HOW DO THOSE HEALTHCARE AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS TASTE NOW, MR. REAL-JOB?

[sei]

If nothing else, just be glad there isn't a flagshipped-like site with people persistent enough to follow you here and quote your innocuous rant on an anti-Blizzard web site, interfering with your work life, etc.

(They whine and stuff, but at least they're not at that stage of doing whatever they can to grief any and every one working for the company.)

Come to think of it, such a site might exist, but well, whatever.  I haven't heard of it.

[Romosome]

You might as well say Activision is on Blizzard's payroll.

Seriously, I think of it as more of a buddy-cop thing; everyone seems to forget that Vivendi is still in the backround looming over everything.

(also thanks for the pep talk, if it gets any more positive in here the thread is going to derail, though)

PET PEEVE: the fact that I keep reading user commentary on games I work on and I don't know well enough to stop.

If nothing else, just be glad there isn't a flagshipped-like site with people persistent enough to follow you here and quote your innocuous rant on an anti-Blizzard web site, interfering with your work life, etc.

(They whine and stuff, but at least they're not at that stage of doing whatever they can to grief any and every one working for the company.)

Come to think of it, such a site might exist, but well, whatever.  I haven't heard of it.

WAY TO FEED MY NIGHTMARES I'm not posting anything else outside of #finalfight, that did it

[Brentai]

Man, I wish people ratted out what I said here to my employers.  It would validate my paranoia.

Of course, my current boss knows every single thing I say here.  

[Romosome]

I like how at my current job I can be rightfully afraid of my work-related knowledge getting me in trouble, and at my old job no matter how cool I thought I was I could've walked into a crowd and offered aloud to share every secret piece of information I knew and nobody would care.

also even if anyone did care and wanted me to spill the beans, my bosses would have never known or cared.

[sei]

WAY TO FEED MY NIGHTMARES I'm not posting anything else outside of #finalfight, that did it

No fantasy here, by the way.

An employee's complaining on IRC wound up getting pasted by some dick on flagshipped's forum, and it then went from forum post to news article, and then from that article it was copied to a couple scrounging gaming news sites.

The guy who posted the transcript edited his post a bunch and sort of backed down after a bunch of people on something awful chewed him out for being a douchebag.  This is the initial thread on flagshipped's forum.

[Büge]

On the other side of the coin, feminists who consider passing mention without derision of Palin's gender to be sexist.

What? I don't understand what you're trying to say here.

[TA]

On the other side of the coin, feminists who consider passing mention without derision of Palin's gender to be sexist.

What? I don't understand what you're trying to say here.

This, for example.

Is it derogatory of women?  No.  Is the fact that Palin's female a subject of mockery?  No.  Is it suggesting that Palin's gender is a fault?  No.  Her gender is mentioned in passing, as a way to construct a joke calling her stupid.  But because it dares to use that magic hot-button word "vagina", I've seen feminists scream that it must be sexist, because it's making fun of her for being a woman and a mother.

They admit that if it were rephrased as "What's the difference between your children and your ideas", it'd suddenly stop being sexist, despite being the exact same joke.

[Romosome]

...you had a valid point before you used the worst example possible.   

[Saturn]

you guys keep changing your names and i cant keep track of them.

[Romosome]

I was going to change mine back, but then Constantine stroked my ego for beating him to the punch at something.

[Fredward]

...you had a valid point before you used the worst example possible.  

In the sense that he used a comic that was funny because it's offensive?

[A²]

you guys keep changing your names and i cant keep track of them.

[Brentai]

He's right, though.  It's offensive, but the offensiveness has nothing to do with the inequality between men and women.

[Disposable Ninja]

Yeah, it was actually more ableism than anything.

[Fredward]

thats the most retarded -ism I ever heard of

[sei]

Yeah, it was actually more ableism than anything.

thats the most retarded -ism I ever heard of

It's called meritocracy.