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Planet Descent => Testing Zone => Topic started by: S13driftAZ on December 07, 2009, 03:58:41 PM

Title: sig round two
Post by: S13driftAZ on December 07, 2009, 03:58:41 PM
(http://i46.tinypic.com/2w3qrk5.jpg)
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: S13driftAZ on December 07, 2009, 03:59:05 PM
Dang its obnoxiously big....
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: NUMBERZero on December 07, 2009, 05:05:48 PM
It's hilarious though!
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: D2Disciple on December 07, 2009, 08:45:14 PM
What goes on in the mind of any IT support worker almost every day.  ;D
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: NUMBERZero on December 08, 2009, 05:23:54 PM
Hey, think my dad can use that at work? He's stuck in with a bunch of oldies who have never heard of an "updated, more accurate manual." He doesn't give a damn for the old ways.
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: TechPro on December 08, 2009, 07:50:30 PM
What goes on in the mind of any IT support worker almost every day.  ;D
At least once every work day, with perhaps some verbage alterations.  Trust me, I know.
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: D2Disciple on December 09, 2009, 06:40:29 AM
*Laughs*

I can imagine. I once worked in a fast-food restaurant with a guy who used said change-of-verbage to refer to everything.

[**** man, we need that **** over here now. Cliff, go grab that **** and bring it over and sit it on that **** sitting here and I'll get to working on that **** as soon as I get a chance. -Coworker]

[English, please? -Myself]


Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: -<WillyP>- on December 09, 2009, 11:25:33 AM
lol... I recently saw one similar, that started off something about downloading some virus, in the bottom it had buttons for abort, continue, cancel, but no matter which one you pushed it said something like too late, continuing anyway. Then it went through installing virus, updating virus, deleting all data from drive c, and finally "Letting Smoke Out Of Processor" with some skull and crossbones answer. You were supposed to install it as a screen-saver on your wife's laptop or a co-worker machine.
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: Foil on December 09, 2009, 02:10:22 PM
My favorite was one which altered words on the screen... but very very infrequently, so that you wouldn't notice. 

It was funny to see someone typing along, pausing for a moment, and looking back at the screen, only to notice that some of their words had become gobbledygook.  (Of course, it wasn't permanent; scrolling the word off the screen and back fixed it.)  :)
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: Scyphi on December 09, 2009, 04:56:23 PM
I remember a little program a friend of mine showed me, that, when clicked upon, it'd open a window that would claim that it was now deleting all the files on your hard drive in very technical terms, and along the bottom of the window it would say "Deleting C:\..." going through all of your files one by one. At first glance, it looked like it was really deleting the files.

When you go to tell it to abort, though, it'll refuse, and keep doing so as you continue to tell it to abort. At first, it's very technical about it, maintaining the ruse, but then it'll start making sillier and sillier comments about the matter, acting like it's getting madder and madder. Finally, it'll confirm at one point that it's not actually deleting anything, but still won't stop, just so to annoy you. Eventually, if you tell it to abort enough times (which is quite a few times) it'll finally abort and close, leaving everything like it was before.

It's actually pretty funny. :)

If memory serves, tho, it needed to re-verbalize a few things itself. :P
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: D2Disciple on December 09, 2009, 05:10:49 PM
An interesting program for Mac users is "Lose/Lose," a little art game designed so that the only way to win is to... well, not play. You have a Galaga-style fighter, and you have alien ships close in you. Each alien ship is a random file on the computer (could be anywhere - a random jpeg or a crucial system file), and every time you destroy one, it deletes that file. If you are destroyed yourself, the program self-destructs and deletes itself.

It takes some major commitment to play that game.  ;)
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: -<WillyP>- on December 11, 2009, 07:26:48 AM
Either that or just dumb.
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: Scyphi on December 11, 2009, 10:54:35 AM
I think I've seen that game before, now that I think about it...
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: S13driftAZ on December 11, 2009, 11:03:57 AM
lol...

http://www.applegazette.com/featured-commentary/loselose-mac-game-deletes-files-from-your-mac/
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: -<WillyP>- on December 11, 2009, 03:09:09 PM
I guess the philosophy part is whether you are willing to lose to data to blow up a few virtual aliens. mmm... yeah that's real deep, man...  ;)
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: NUMBERZero on December 11, 2009, 03:48:01 PM
Wait. Are you serious? It's real? It will delete your stuff?

"I'll find out if what I 'blasted' was vital here shortly..." -d3jake
JK JK! I saw that quote on the ODF ;)
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: NUMBERZero on December 21, 2009, 01:45:25 PM
Dah! I've got another question! Can I use the Give a Damn for the Christmas ditty I am making?   ;D
Title: Re: sig round two
Post by: Ronin RedFox on December 21, 2009, 02:19:23 PM
Its not his anyway, so sure.  :P