Technomage wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 11:21am:


As people will probably say to you on the motherboards when you asked this exact question verbatim, I dunno. From what I can tell from the outside looking in, they're just trying to get as much done as possible.

Release notes are aggregated from their version control, and version control is often messy during production crunches. I know Jerry had to ask me a few times what the hell I was talking about in my pushes, because to me something like "fixed the issue with player choice option in instance" makes sense but it doesn't make sense to literally anyone else because wow programming under a time crunch messes with you. I know other designers and developers were much better at actually using their words instead of commits labeled "adsasdfnsn things for steelstar", but since small changes can sometimes ripple through the entire project, it can be hard to focus and pare down what's actually ready to release and review and what's just some stepping stone for character architecture rebuilds that won't see the light of day for maybe a year, who knows.

Take a day to just play the game, or don't. The update will happen eventually, and when it does, I'm sure the Dragonborn will be the beefy shredded like lettuce eye candy dragon man I'll wear around like a skin suit just feeling those pecs on my skin

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what was I talking about?

Anyway, tldr, release notes can be complicated because development lines are aggregated from the same place that longer term things are sent to, so chill the heck out

Oh and btw because I know the mobos won't listen, I'm not actually at SSG right now, I just got Jerry to let me make a shitty joke. Sorry to get your hopes up.

Hang in there, guys.

Sailias wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 11:59am:

They have version control?

Sailias wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 11:59am:

Sex dungeons.

Revaulting wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 6:33pm:


Every time someone says something similar it makes me laugh my ass off.

Do you even know what version control is? From the way people keep going back to this, I'm assuming no, because VCS is a backbone of literally everything that uses one or more programmers.

SSG is hiring. You seem like you know how video games work. Go make them.

Sailias wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 6:42pm:

Don't be a sperg.  You know they mean regression testing.

Pull on the Gianthold door lately, rock star?

Sailias wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 6:42pm:



Yeah, you can fuck right off junior. We already have a bunch of established old 'oh I'm so experienced in coding' farts here we don't need you trying to take on the role. I couldn't give a fuck if you want to post but don't annoy us by attempting that well worn trope little guy.

Ah Pook wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 8:51pm:

Cool. They have version control; they don't have regression testing. Glad we sorted that out.

Sailias wrote on Mar 2^nd, 2017 at 6:42pm:


A fair number of us around do know about Version Control.
in my line of job part of it is called Non-Regression Tests... which are basically tests to make sure all the bugs found in the previous version are still dead. There's also the puny thing called Correection Lift, which is basically taking all the patches that were inserted to the code and making sure they are included in the new code.

I haven't coded in a long time, and last time I did some serious coding it was in Assembler... and edited with barebone text editor. ( no, not vi, but not much more )
They don't need somebody like me, they need junkies that can move a mouse in a visual thingie window.

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