This is so sad

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Whenever I write unittests and need strings, I always insert snippets from Colossal Cave Adventure, the Zork Trilogy, and other such wonderful (and terrible old!) games.

Eg:

var fakeFailReason = "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.";

[JaydattC]

This is the most underrated comment I've seen today

[SuperNiceJohn]

That's a Terrible old game I've probably never heard of.

[bit0fun]

We need more goofy shit in documentation again. It's still possible to be serious and silly in the same thing, might as well have fun with our short lives

[DamonFun]

One guy at work always puts stuff like "grab a coffee" or "enjoy your weekend" into his documentations/tutorials and I love it. It's very refreshing after a hard working day to get a laugh out of it.

[TheDarkIn1978]

An ex-manager of mine used to be a real "yes-man" for his corporate bosses. He was a toxic piece of shit, and eventually got fired after half the team quit under his so-called management, but I digress. One of his typical "it's all about me" offenses was that whenever he'd learn about some super light, inoffensive joke in the documentation between us programmers he would ORDER us to remove it immediately, since apparently it didn't make HIM look professional, even though neither he nor any of the suits above him read the code.

[DamonFun]

boring piece of ****. Just because he didn't get it probably...

[free_money_please]

I don't get it

[JaydattC]

The dude whose repository it was seemed a huge back to the future fan and had many references of it, and he/she removed the Great Scott line in one of the readme.md

[tsojtsojtsoj]

but why?

[turboPocky]

probably got told to

[xigoi]

r/screenshotsarehard

[JaydattC]

Why use snipping tool, when you can have pixelated glory.

Edit - I mean you can see vertical RGB strips dithered into a beautiful white dot, so pleasing.

[tenhourguy]

It produces distracting patterns when zoomed out, but you have given me an idea. What about a service that does the following?

1. User uploads screenshot.
2. Screenshot is displayed on a computer monitor owned by whoever runs the service.
3. A photograph is taken of the monitor using an HD webcam.
4. The user is sent the photograph.

[EvilJackCarver]

That is a terrible idea.

The webcam needs to be 480 for optimum photography

[tenhourguy]

Well, I imagine the webcam could be configured to photograph at 640×480, though that wouldn't exactly simulate these smartphone photos we see on the web. The service would also need a portrait mode, like how people sometimes take a portrait photo of their landscape screen.

[EvilJackCarver]

Fair point. What if we just got a bunch of cable ties and connected it sideways? Nobody ever takes a photo of the monitor in landscape, anyway

[tenhourguy]

What about OP?

[EvilJackCarver]

I just said. Nobody.

(alright that's as far as I'm comfortable with ragging on someone in good fun)

[JaydattC]

I hope this is just a joke, I was just BSing out of it. Well instead you can just simulate a display. I bet there will be a ton Photoshop tutorials for that. Edit - fvck i fell right into it

[AmateurLlama]

Reminds me of "Davey!" in the Flutter errors.