🐙🐇🐝Pointed Sarah🐞🐡🐧Jul 21, 2023

programmers are always posting like "worked on tracking down an issue with a Flurble deployment for twelve hours. the problem wasn't in Flurble at all - it was in the Gumbies install. It turns out if you install Gumbies 3.0 over Gumbies 2.7 and don't do a cache flush on all the client spiders they'll get stuck in the crystal maze." then you look up Gumbies and the site is one of those scroll scroll scroll types with one sentence per page, like

"GUMBIES is a lean, expressive sharding sandcube for testing and deploying large scale Woodchips playgrounds.

GUMBIES automates and streamlines away watersliding phases, meaning your team can get right to the chipping.

See why Microsoft, OpenAI and Bloingo have embraced GUMBIES in their Woodchips workflows."

and you get to the bottom and you're like I want this I guess but I still don't know what it is

Show threadThe Doctor
@sc_griffith
Jul 21, 2023 at 3:37amWeb
Show threadIIVQJul 21, 2023
@drwho @sc_griffith What game (or no game) is that from?
Show threadarclightJul 21, 2023
@IIVQ @drwho @sc_griffith Guessing from the font it's Hacker or Hacker II by SJG https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameversion/25612/first-edition
Show threadarclightJul 21, 2023

@IIVQ @drwho @sc_griffith Spoiler alert: It's literally right there in the image description - Hacker II.

Aside: I learned a lot about two topics in the year I spent as SJG webmaster: front-to-back book production (acquisition, editing, design, production, sales, marketing, and distribution) and creepy abusive narcissism.

Show threadIIVQJul 21, 2023
@arclight @drwho @sc_griffith
Sry, online it's not obvious to check alts for images
Show threadThe DoctorJul 21, 2023

@arclight @IIVQ @sc_griffith

Final thing: SJ himself, you mean?

Show threadarclightJul 21, 2023
@drwho I'll just say he is not a good person and leave it at that. I made some great friends at that job, worked with some super talented people, and learned a lot. It takes years to recover from working there.
Show threadThe DoctorJul 22, 2023

@arclight Oof.

:(

Show threadpackyJul 21, 2023
@IIVQ @drwho @sc_griffith It's in the ALT text: Hacker II: The Dark Side.