• Reductio Ad Ridiculousum (unregistered) in reply to The Crunger
    The Crunger:
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    This is not entertainment. This is not an interesting read. Please refrain from this kind of crap in the future - you can embellish and add detail to a submission without it turning into a pile of dogshit.
    This really makes me think of a Classic Movie scene:
    WTF: Capra Style:
    We serve up hard WTFs here to men who want to get judgmental fast, and we don't need any "characters" giving the place atmosphere.
    Yes, the three Sallies of "Sergio de la Mancha" is far too subtle (and literate) for the hard-core WTFer.

    Picture a programmer in his repose, exposed to excessive and unrealistically detailed programming documentation. With no referents to reality, he goes mad -- he fancies such tomes to be normal, even a desirable end in themselves. Unable to ignore the romantic notions of chivalrous programming that cloud his thoughts, he somehow finds another companion who shares his delusions and pays him to perpetuate them.

    Faced with a dragon of a system that has neither rhyme, reason, nor documentation, his madness leads him on three doomed Sallies -- the first to a skyscraper, where he had little chance of success, even if he had actually visited on a weekday. On his second sally, he travels many miles to track down a shady character in some dodgy tavern.

    Undaunted by the mounting failures that result from his epic misconceptions, he makes his third and fateful sally, but finally he catches a glimpse of the truth, like a long-lost oasis.

    Wikipedia: Don Quixote:
    Near the end, Don Quixote reluctantly sways towards sanity: an inn is just an inn, not a castle
    As the trilogy ends, our hero finally realizes the system is insane, and he must abandon it, yet in so doing still fails to grasp the folly of his labors to rationalize it.
    Perhaps it was just a failure to consider the target audience. If the stories had starred Luke Skywalker or Arthur Dent the three-part thingy might have worked.

  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to Reductio Ad Ridiculousum
    Reductio Ad Ridiculousum:
    If the stories had starred Luke Skywalker or Arthur Dent the three-part thingy might have worked.
    If it starred Arthur Dent, the trilogy would need four parts. Maybe five.
  • (cs) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Reductio Ad Ridiculousum:
    If the stories had starred Luke Skywalker or Arthur Dent the three-part thingy might have worked.
    If it starred Arthur Dent, the trilogy would need four parts. Maybe five.

    Posted every Thursday.

  • Reductio Ad Ridiculousum (unregistered) in reply to chubertdev
    chubertdev:
    Bob:
    Reductio Ad Ridiculousum:
    If the stories had starred Luke Skywalker or Arthur Dent the three-part thingy might have worked.
    If it starred Arthur Dent, the trilogy would need four parts. Maybe five.

    Posted every Thursday.

    In the basement.

  • Essex Kitten (unregistered)

    Are you sure the authors of that software weren't the same guys that appear to be writing computer BIOS-es, communication protocols, embedded websites, automatic and mandatory noip-like service that they own - on your security cameras, and Engrish, all at the same time, as part of their daily jobs? Totally clueless nutjobs. Yet somehow we still buy stuff from them solely because it's cheap, even though that stuff would generate so many lawsuits in the US to make the owners of Walmart look poor compared to the lawyers.

    Captcha: tristique. This is a very tristique state of affairs.

  • Axel (unregistered)

    WTF is the point of writing all this made-up shit and not just telling a cogent story? God, this sucks!!!

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