XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Fuck you too! ;P
Good PMs get none of the credit when we do our jobs properly and all of the blame for when bad PMs screw up.
'Computer Engineer' Barbie book features her breaking two laptops
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Fuck you too! ;P
Good PMs get none of the credit when we do our jobs properly and all of the blame for when bad PMs screw up.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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You think that was realistic
Lol, this is great
CartridgeBlower
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You must have missed the word 'more' in my post.
Morrigan Stark
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Pardon?
God how is QA going to get regression done now??
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Wait, QA getting the holidays off?*
*This joke is dependant on whether this is normal software development or game development.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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You think that was more realistic
Morrigan Stark
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Care to explain?
CartridgeBlower
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Meaning a tech environment. It's not about princesses and other stereotypical Barbie arenas, yes. What is hard to understand about that?
CartridgeBlower
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What is your point exactly? Other than refusing to use periods to end your sentences. It is trying to be 'more realistic' by not having Barbie be on a date in Ken's Corvette or something stereotypical of old-school Barbie. There is clearly an effort being made to put her in a more common workplace environment.
The issue is that in a book called "I can be a computer engineer", Barbie does literally every possible thing wrong. She doesn't have security software on her PC, she spreads a virus around like an idiot, she makes statements suggesting that she'll obviously need the help of others to turn her ideas into a "real game" (because there's no chance she might be able to learn to code, right?), she relies entirely on the help of others to fix her simple PC problem, and ultimately she takes credit for both fixing her sister's computer and making a game, which were both done in large part by others.
In a book called "I can be a computer engineer".
Haha yeah I work with normal developers. Our QA gets normal hours.
Morrigan Stark
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I'm a woman who works in a tech environment and who frequently has to coddle incompetent male developers because they can't do much without help.
So, again: what exactly are you saying about "realism"?
Gentleman Jack
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Sweet jesus this is perfect.
What is exactly the other direction? To show her as competent? Is that overcompensating for you?
Dice//
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Morrigan, I'm a fan.
I also love the other defence/excuse that gets tossed: "Well we love ladies, of course we want to save them, we risk our lives because we love them". x)
Some of the rebuttles to Anita's FemFreq. gaming videos (I'm not saying I'm a complete fan of her either though) are incredibly amusing for making the point completely.
Fragamemnon
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Good PMs! <3
Honestly there isn't as much bad PMs as there are people under pressure making bad decisions.
this thread is going towards the devops reactions tumblr and I approve of that fact
CartridgeBlower
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This is what I said from my post above --
It is trying to be 'more realistic' by not having Barbie be on a date in Ken's Corvette or something stereotypical of old-school Barbie. There is clearly an effort being made to put her in a more common workplace environment.
I was simply referring to the work environment space.
Barbie creates a game in this strip and then gets a virus, then needs some help getting it removed. I'm not really sure that's the most 'unrealistic' thing I've ever heard. I wonder if she had mentioned asking two girls for help instead of two men, would this have been as big an issue. Probably not.
Are you backpedalling? Anyway, people want more realism, don't understand where you get your problem from.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Lemme go tell the combat programmer to go home since realistically, she shouldn't be in the office handling business.
CartridgeBlower
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I'm not backpedaling at all, but if that's what you want to label it using a cheap debating tactic, more power to you.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Trust me, there are some bad PMs out there. How they keep getting jobs I don't know, but a lot of the time they work contract-to-contract.
#DEAD
The remix establishes that Skipper is a talented artist. But now she has to become a physicist, because art isn't manly enough or something. Not that there's anything wrong with women working in physics of course, but this is straight up garbage, because the intent is fucking obvious. Neither the original nor the remix encourage girls (or people in general) to be who they are and do what they want.
So your defense is that it could be worse? That it's not 100% bad, there's a little bit of positive? There's no need to downplay how obviously shit the book is. And if you want to talk about realism
1) a computer engineer is not a game designer
2) there are tons of female programmers out there, it wouldn't even have been unrealistic if she asked a girlfriend for help
CF_Fighter
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It's about ethics in gaming journalism, Barbie! That's why you can't design games!
I've used UNIX for almost two decades and have no idea what this command is supposed to do. Neither the environment variable nor the "bash -c" make any sense.
TheLostBigBoss
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Isn't that the broken bash command that allows any string to be read and executed as code?
SquiddyCracker
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Lmao I was going to call you out on it.
Perspicacity
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Amahzing
Paper Sparrow
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I'm loving these remixes, lol.
Now that you mention it, it actually is Shellshock. The fact that the command itself is harmless threw me off.
ThreePiMatt
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This is why change freezes and business protection periods exist. Only emergency changes approved by directors from now until after the first week of January.
We're in peak freeze bitch!
The Real Abed
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Someone needs to teach Barbie the benefits of keeping a backup.
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