I’m playing a relatively new game and it’s still a little buggy so whenever there’s a glitch or something the devs want you to email them about it. So my game crashed and deleted my save file and when I sent the devs an email about it I got this back:
As a designer who used to be a tester, I can absolutely confirm that this is one of the three basic responses to bugs:
“Hah, that’s AWESOME!” — translation: Usually an animation or physics bug whose results are so hilarious you wonder if it’s worth just leaving it in so everyone can see it. I hope you got that on video or something.
“Oh, this shit again.” — translation: I thought I fixed this fucker like five times already. Either somebody keeps breaking it, or I’m going to have to spend all week trying to find some deeper underlying cause of it all.
“Well, that’s terrifying.” — translation: that shouldn’t even be possible, but if it is, dear sweet zombie jesus, what other things might be going wrong behind the scenes? These are the nightmare bugs that could require fundamental reworks.
I know this is about game bugs, but this somehow happened and it seemed relevant
ya no prob. gonna derail the post i hope thas ok. i believe i named this one newsprint
this one’s Ginny (short for Guinevere)
I missed that the pigeon pic request was because there’s one of theshitpostcalligrapher’s posts in the glitched screenshot. I thought we were abruptly veering into the subject of pigeons for absolutely no reason and I was fully willing to accept that on this website.
The Pigeons are important in this but I’m gonna veer back to this for a moment:
“Well, that’s terrifying.” — translation: that shouldn’t even be possible, but if it is, dear sweet zombie jesus, what other things might be going wrong behind the scenes? These are the nightmare bugs that could require fundamental reworks.
Related: “[Huh.] That’s interesting” SIMILAR, but the the technical person is actively cycling through scenarios that COULD describe the behavior.
The pause between “that’s” and “interesting” is directly related to the amount of thinking needed between, and, as such, it gets worse as the pause between the two increases AND how long it takes to say ‘interesting’
