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Working as a Game Tester

Posted by michael on from the carpal-tunnel dept.

DaytonCIM writes "SFGate.com has a great story on the real life of game testers. 'Life is not all fun and games, though. It's all games -- with little time left for sleeping or eating, at least during the busy months before Christmas. The longest week he has logged was 106 hours, and 60-hour-plus weeks are typical in deadline crunches, he said.'"

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  1. Fat Club by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fat Club Post

  2. Test this! by elnerdoricardo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Test my nuts on your chin! booya!

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  3. FP by triptolemeus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Burning Karma, I got a first post!

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    1. Re:FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      all your lame are belong to YOU!

  4. this game is called the fp game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and I may have just won it???? :)

  5. My thoughts about Leroy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    To me, the best summary of the person Leroy Anderson is found in the "Idea Exchange" section of the September 1970 issue of The Instrumentalist. A high school viola player, named Linda, wrote to Anderson complaining about the parts that were assigned to the viola section. Her high school orchestra was performing three of his pieces, Fiddle Faddle, Sleigh Ride, and The Syncopated Clock. She found the viola parts to be "absolutely insulting" to her musicianship. She asked him,
    "you must know how frustrating it is to sit through an entire piece . . . while the other sections saw out beautiful melodies. Your parts treat us like a bunch of low-grade, moronic idiots! My five-year-old sister could play our part with ease! I really don't understand why you bothered writing us a part anyway. It's as if you had finished the score and someone came up and said, 'Hey, there's another instrument you forgot.' You shouldn't have troubled yourself because the part isn't worth the paper you printed it on! Please, please, please, give us a break. I'd admire you if I was out in the audience because all your pieces are fun to listen to. But, being a violist I can't help but hate you for the way you treat us."
    She closed and signed it with "I hope this letter is not insulting in any way . . . "

    Leroy Anderson's character comes shining through in his reply to Linda,

    I was very much interested to receive your letter because I know exactly how you feel. You see, I used to play the double bass, and if you think those viola parts are dull, you should see the parts we bass players have to put up with. Mostly we just go 'zoom, zoom, zoom' all the way through the piece." Then he explained the process he went through to put a piece of music fixed in his mind to orchestration. How the part a particular instrument is assigned -- melody, accompaniment, countermelody, etc. -- depends on the music. He enclosed three pieces of his music which he said, "I can assure you that I try to make all the orchestra parts as interesting as possible, including the viola part. If you look at the enclosed viola parts . . . you will see that the violas have a lot of interesting melodic passages. And far from treating you like 'low-grade, moronic idiots,' . . . I have given the violas some pretty difficult passages to play. I hope you will have a chance to play these numbers someday. In the meantime, when you are playing the accompaniment, remember that this is just as important to the music as the melody. At least we bass players and viola players are better off than the poor triangle player who had to count 104 measures rest and then go 'ping!' Thank you for writing and best regards.

    Sincerely,

    Leroy Anderson

    P.S. The triangle player missed it.

  6. Re:funny story by Elwood+P+Dowd · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Boy, is that the trollingest troll I've ever read. Troll somewhere else, troll boy.

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  7. FUCK YOU!! retard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yes, fuck you and your inferior genes!

    do the world a favor and end your life, fucker!

  8. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Tetris is only game... and um, what was that line? ... ah yes - game test YOU!

  9. Re:Poor babies... 106 hours?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why the hell would you want to?
    Money? Id rather be healthy.
    Your Job depended on it? Id rather work somewhere else.
    Your Business Depended on it? Id rather not be in that business.
    You Need to quit your damn prancing around and realize that 8 hours a day 5 days a week is perfectly fine for normal people with lives.

    Oh, wait, this is a fucking slashnerd.