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QA has always been considered the bastard children of software development. I've never worked on a project where they weren't treated like shit. I'm guilty too; which is really bad because I started out in QA/QC.

Partially because QA is mostly made up of bastard children /jk

Obligatory Leisuretown

http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/28.html

WTF Was that jibberish?

Obligatory Leisuretown

http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/28.html

Yes, we had someone at work do this, and yes, from that day on we referenced him as F.B. (in polite company).

If you're wondering who Rands is, he's also one of the "writers" of Jerkcity, probably the best nihilistic/deep/nerd/software webcomic out there, which you can find at http://www.jerkcity.com/ Jerkcity also spawned http://www.leisuretown.com/ which is the ultimate examination of life expressed in a webcomic.

It's all right here, kids:
http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/14.html
http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/

It's all right here, kids:
http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/14.html
http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/

To quote the innimitable Tristan A. Farnon: "My Pac-Man fever is now full-blown Pac-Man AIDS!"

No problem! Here's a website with instructions! MUCH more stimulation in fact...

http://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/2.html

most of the webcomics i've read aren't remotely funny, interesting or worth the webspace

Fucking QA workers.

X

And there could be serious copy protections, but I get the feeling that many software companies WANT their software to be pirated (by home users) so the same people want to use say MS Office or Photoshop at their workplace.
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of course they want them to pirate it!! you've not read leisure town?

Geez, I would never be able to guess that you were one of the writers of Jerkcity and Leisuretown!!!!!!!!!!!!

QA can be really difficult

aww.. whatever. you get the point.

QA can be really difficult

aww.. whatever. you get the point.

QA can be really difficult

aww.. whatever. you get the point.

Have you seen Conan or SNL? Being "not funny" seems to be a trademark of their writers.

Great to see a link to jerkcity on slashdot. www.leisuretown.com is another good one, written by the same guy.

My favorite web comics would probably have to be jerkcity, , and Leisure Town.

Anyone else really enjoy these? Most people either just think these are too offensive or just too far out there, but I think they're great.

From meempool
(I can heartily recommend Leisure Town, it's twisted.
I find the comment in the Forbes article about comic books not making a profit, and that the publishers treat them as R&D for ancillerary rights to be quite intriuging...)

Whatever happened to comic books? In the 1940s millions of Americans read comics not only for Superhero stories, but Romance, Cowboys, War, History, Literary Adaptations and more. Readers were lured away whenever another medium provided their "fix" cheaper, easier or better, beginning with television in the '50s. By the early '80s the only genre still dominated by comics was Superheroes, and 1989's hugely profitable Batman signaled the beginning of the superheroic exodus from comics to film. Since then comicbook sales have plummeted, from $850 million in 1993 to $275 million in 2000 and still falling fast. Leading publishers Marvel and DC Comics both now treat comics solely as Research and Development: they lose millions printing the comics, but earn far more selling licenses for movies, cartoons and toys. Comics' core audience, traditionally pre-teens, is now 18-30 and getting older every year. Is this the death of comics? Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, plays Gandalf to an unofficial fellowship out to save comics by migrating to the Internet! Join the revolution with Justine Shaw's Nowhere Girl, Patrick Farley's Electric Sheep, Tristan Farnon's Leisure Town, Derek Kirk's Small Stories, Jenn Manley Lee's Dicebox, Cat Garza's Magic Inkwell and more!

From meempool
(I can heartily recommend Leisure Town, it's twisted.
I find the comment in the Forbes article about comic books not making a profit, and that the publishers treat them as R&D for ancillerary rights to be quite intriuging...)

Whatever happened to comic books? In the 1940s millions of Americans read comics not only for Superhero stories, but Romance, Cowboys, War, History, Literary Adaptations and more. Readers were lured away whenever another medium provided their "fix" cheaper, easier or better, beginning with television in the '50s. By the early '80s the only genre still dominated by comics was Superheroes, and 1989's hugely profitable Batman signaled the beginning of the superheroic exodus from comics to film. Since then comicbook sales have plummeted, from $850 million in 1993 to $275 million in 2000 and still falling fast. Leading publishers Marvel and DC Comics both now treat comics solely as Research and Development: they lose millions printing the comics, but earn far more selling licenses for movies, cartoons and toys. Comics' core audience, traditionally pre-teens, is now 18-30 and getting older every year. Is this the death of comics? Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, plays Gandalf to an unofficial fellowship out to save comics by migrating to the Internet! Join the revolution with Justine Shaw's Nowhere Girl, Patrick Farley's Electric Sheep, Tristan Farnon's Leisure Town, Derek Kirk's Small Stories, Jenn Manley Lee's Dicebox, Cat Garza's Magic Inkwell and more!

That the best online strips are Jerkcity, Leisure Town, and God's gift to man: Pokey The Penguin.

Those three have done some very interesting and unique things with the media other than just being print comics in cyberspace.

Heh, here's the link I wanted to put with the parent:

this page from this amazingly funny comic from this amazingly funny website

Heh, here's the link I wanted to put with the parent:

this page from this amazingly funny comic from this amazingly funny website

Heh, here's the link I wanted to put with the parent:

this page from this amazingly funny comic from this amazingly funny website

Yeah, like web-browsing, game "testing", phone call making, time-card fudging, etc.

I know, I've been to plenty of QA depts. ;)

See: QA confidential Be sure to read the whole strip to "get it"

This guy sounds like a leisuretown character. no shit, head over there and check out "just plain useless" in the archives. it's really uncanny.

To wit: Q.A. Confidential. Because while this "news" article demonstrates that people are actually doing it, I don't think it gets down into the nitty-gritty and gives people the real how-to on stealing gear that we both know they're after. And that's where Leisuretown comes in.

...NS-Crashicator

"I refer to them as Nutscrape and Internet Exploder, respectively."

I call it AO Hell, because I'm yet another cocksucker!

Jerkcity
Leisure Town

Dude, Badtech is just like Leisuretown... except Leisuretown is humanity's crowning achievement, and Badtech, well, sucks major ass.

Bizarre (but not tiresome), beautiful, funny. I love it. You should too.

www.leisuretown.com

If you want a truly excellent example of an online cartoon -- especially one that takes full advantage of its medium -- check out Leisure Town. Technically brilliant, it's also hilarious and pretty much a work of art.

I warn you though, it can take a while to really get into it. But stick with it, check out some of the older ones, and you won't be sorry.

-tcf

Full Disclosure: I have the same first name and nearly the same set of initials as the author of Leisure Town, but I can only wish I was capable of such brilliance ;-)

Pfft. This is a clear rip-off of The Onion's Least Essential Albums of the 90's.

Now THOSE were useless.

-jay

Check out Leisure Town. It's funny.

Thank you for your erudite commentary. As it happened, I was only planning on trolling this away for the rest of the day or so -- as you can see from my posting history, I'm much more of a karma whore than a troll. (Though many would say that they're one in the same -- and I'm not inclined to disagree.)

The only reason that I have continued to post the link to Leisure Town is because I have received nothing but thanks for it. People genuinely seem to enjoy it as much as I do, and no, I had nothing to do with its creation.

Thank you again for your perspective.

yours,
john

tim, I still want to know why we weren't given the opportunity to question the microsoft engineers after IIS's fantastic performance in the mindcraft benchmarks. I can understand if they refused, but did you even ask? and was this interview with this ingo character offered by him, or requested by slashdot? thank you.

My god! I wrote this! Normally I'd be pissed if my Slashdot output was misappropriated (not that that's ever happened, right roblimo?) but I'm honored to know that someone felt my point was valid.

Hmm, as long as I'm posting at +2, I might as well implore you to check out Leisure Town. You will very closely identify, I assure you.

And a nickel's worth of free advice, McFly: Don't be too quick to judge (i.e. moderate) me for the apparent offtopic nature of my message. While I am willing -- nay, proud -- to bear the slings of outrageous moderation, I recommend that you do not waste your points on me. Trust me on that one.

yours,
john
Trollin' for Art and Microsoft since 1992!
Whoops forgot to make fun of timothy. tim -- you're a gun nut. monster.

So I submitted this really cool site to Slashdot, knowing that everyone would immediately recognize (and love) the humor and brilliance and shattering insights made by the artiste. However, it was promptly rejected by timothy-the-gun-nut.

Therefore, in the spirit of the GPL which we all hold and cherish so highly, I bestow this link directly unto you, my Slashdot brethren.

Leisure Town

Don't let timothy get you down.

yours,
john
Trollin' for Art since 1992!
Trollin' against timothy (the gun nut) since... somewhat more recently

So I submitted this really cool site to Slashdot, knowing that everyone would immediately recognize (and love) the humor and brilliance and shattering insights made by the artiste. However, it was promptly rejected by timothy-the-gun-nut.

Therefore, in the spirit of the GPL which we all hold and cherish so highly, I bestow this link directly unto you, my Slashdot brethren.

Leisure Town

Don't let timothy get you down.

yours,
john
Trollin' for Art since 1992!
Trollin' against timothy (the gun nut) since... somewhat more recently

I know very little about Tristan A. Farnon, the creator of Leisure Town. However, I believe he can be contacted at correspondence@leisuretown.com (or at least that is the contact provided on his DNS entry).

I can't tell you how much it means to me to know that someone enjoyed the link I provided (and timothy the gun nut rejected).

Leisure Town

yours,
john
Trollin' for Art since 1992!

I know very little about Tristan A. Farnon, the creator of Leisure Town. However, I believe he can be contacted at correspondence@leisuretown.com (or at least that is the contact provided on his DNS entry).

I can't tell you how much it means to me to know that someone enjoyed the link I provided (and timothy the gun nut rejected).

Leisure Town

yours,
john
Trollin' for Art since 1992!

Microsoft flames are about as original as washing a car with water rather than mud.

Read this and see what I mean.

This particular strip is kind of like Pokey the Penguin only more coherent (and yes, the comics are in there). It will make you feel like you forgot to take your meds.

My favorite one though is very much like what might happen if the Cohen brothers wrote for Tristan.

This particular strip is kind of like Pokey the Penguin only more coherent (and yes, the comics are in there). It will make you feel like you forgot to take your meds.

My favorite one though is very much like what might happen if the Cohen brothers wrote for Tristan.

More than half of these cartoons seem to have
been lifted from Tristan Farnon's Leisuretown
comic strip "A Comedy Crisis". I don't know if
rotten.com is associated with him at all, but I
saw no references, and the Leisuretown strip came
long before this Dilbert Hole thing. (plus, there
was added humor from context in Leisuretown.).

(Personally, I found the ones from Leisuretown and
one or two of the new ones to be really funny).
--
Kevin Doherty
kdoherty+slashdot@jurai.net

Please do bother.
These strips are taken from Tristan Farnon's LeisureTown. In context, they were quite funny: a disgruntled office worker re-captioned a bunch of Dilbert cartoons to offend his drone co-workers. The point was not to be independently funny, but to be offensive and to contrast Adam's style. The commentary is not on the content, but the lack thereof. Compare something like the excellent social commentary of The Onion (which on the surface is offensive to everyone but can actually be very intelligent and meaningful) with the inoffensive cartoon facade of Dilbert (which minimally covers material which would be honestly offensive if it actually said anything). This parody is an attempt to be maximally offensive and still not say anything, which I think it does pretty well.

This is just my impression of Tristan's work. Check it our yourself. (choose "A Comedy Crisis" on the left)

joe harpe