What? No im not being sarcastic… why do people always assume im being sarcastic…

*Wanders off muttering sarcastic comments to himself*
*pops head back in*

Grats m8

I quite enjoyed the Force Unleashed. The second instalment is looking very promising as well.

A director walked up to me while I was working on one of my projects and said “We have this new panel code that we need to send off to a customer in a hurry and I need you to test it… we really need this to pass” to which I replied “Why are you giving it to me then?”

Sure enough I tested it and I broke it (rather completely… about 20min into the test).
So the question presented itself. Did I actually succeed at my task?
The director wasn’t pleased, the programmer that had written the code (we can’t test our own code) was giving me weird looks for a while after that, and I was in the middle of this disappointing situation simply by doing what was asked of me.

I was told it needed to pass the test… did I succeed at my task?
Yes I did. The task was to test, to break it in any way necessary, possible or unexpected. If it is to fail it should fail in my hands and in my hands only. A director wanted it to pass but his expectations on this matter means nothing. I will not compromise. I test to destruction, if need be, for that is the task at hand. And that’s why I was asked to do it.

The moral of the story was two fold:
Don’t give me anything to test that you want to see pass on the first try (cos it won’t)
Don’t leave the testing to the last minute.

PS – The barely tested site needs some colour, way too much grey.

FatalTesting (andif you dont like that theres always one closer to home that you probably already considered)
BarelyTested

ForTheLoveOfGodMakeItStop
StopChangingTheDamObjectNames
ScriptAhontas
AspirinsRequired
DailyHeadache
Regresionator
NotSoBackwardsCompatible
BetweenAScriptAndAHardPlace
RegressThis
HowToLoseYourMind
HowNotToLoseYourMind (works both ways realy)
DoNotPanic
TheresAlwaysOneMoreBug (programmers Law #1)

So to answer your question. No i cant think of any good names

You lose anyone in the ME2 finale? I suppose not Shepard, anyone else though?

Altho there are a few areas of the game that seemed to have been tweaked (with a sledge hammer) between ME1 and 2 the game itself didn’t disappoint.

Played it through with 2 of my characters from ME1. The one were i let the council die (by accident… mostly) was somewhat darker. The one were the council lived on to ignore me another day made me feel like i should have let the gits die. But that’s the beauty of a game were your choices have consequences, a trend that’s picking up some steam with a few games recently (albeit slowly. Bioshock 2′s take on the whole action & consequence was very well done tho I’m not about to say why or it will spoil the surprise if you haven’t played it yet).

The one thing that seemed awkward about ME2 is that if your starting a New game without an import character the game makes some interesting assumptions.
- The council died: They weren’t very likeable so i can accept that most people would have opted for this, if only by accident.
- Udina was left in charge: this one i don’t get, the guy was a complete weasel with a hint of power hungry despot. Odd choice.

It will be interesting to see how all of this plays out in the third installment

Important: to be watched in English. It’s too bad the US shows are often not aired at all in Germany or only very late, and you can only get the DVD copies late, too – so no Dollhouse for example.

Of course you can get some more casual stuff like House, Life, Boston Legal, and more weird ones like Pushing Daisies, My Name Is Earl, IT Crowd, Black Books, Dr. Who et al…