May 1st, 2009
#754 – Jaws
The ergonomics of my workspace are very important to me. I make lots of tiny adjustments over the course of weeks to get everything working in harmony. This is all destroyed almost every time I take a day off from work. Someone will need to leave a note for me and somehow this involves moving my keyboard, moving the mouse, lowering my chair, tilting the monitor and stealing a pen. Maybe next time I should draw chalk outlines where everything is supposed to go.
Also, if you are hanging out in the Detroit suburbs this weekend, come see me at Penguicon!
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May 1st, 2009 at 12:08 am
we need one of those for our appartment. we have several too many consoles here.
oh n i totally understand about having your workspace adjusted for you. i almost have a degree in computer science, n that kind of obsession kinda comes with the degree.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:10 am
I see Biff has the new Nintensoft Xcube 360.
The Duck Has Spoken.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:44 am
I do the exact same thing with where I live. It would be a lot more effective, though, if my roommate wasn’t a total slob.
May 1st, 2009 at 1:31 am
I love the Final Fantasies. My brother overwrote my data in FF VIII around disk 3. Mother dearest threw away unusual plastic device when I progressed far into the game. Friends spilled soda onto plastic with memory card in it when I was in the castle at the end of the game.
Similar stories exist for FF IX.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:02 am
after seeing this week’s comics, I’m not sure if I want a stranger for a roommate…
May 1st, 2009 at 2:02 am
unless that stranger is Biff!
May 1st, 2009 at 3:59 am
I’m wondering how Biff plans to be able to play his game again later… Must be ‘challenging roommate’ behavior week.
May 1st, 2009 at 6:17 am
This isn’t the first comic I’ve seen today with a bear trap – I’m thinking Biff is in line with a conspiracy now
May 1st, 2009 at 7:45 am
Maybe I should invest in one of those traps the next time my sister wants to “try out” one of my games
May 1st, 2009 at 8:01 am
*adds to the comic*
And God help you if you attempt to erase it XD
May 1st, 2009 at 9:04 am
No, no, that’s too simply to get around. I have mine locked in a safe, in area 51, guarded by lasers, some of which are top secret lethal to people varieties, with a whole pack of guard dogs in the room before the safe, trained ninjas hiding throughout the complex, backed up by trained snipers and the entire combined might of the US secret service, FBI, Military, and CIA. No one has ever touched my system when I’m not around…
May 1st, 2009 at 9:13 am
Well, It’s been a while. This remindes me of the time my brothers friend brought over his memory card, and left it here for a long while. I can’t rember if we lost it,and bought him a new one, or returned it after a few months. Now, I have a wii and a ps3, the wii needs a memory card soon, but the ps3 still has a lot of memory on it, about 80gb when I got it.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:33 am
This rings true!
I used to leave zelda 1 on all day while I was at school and I had to put up a cardboard blocker so no one (read:mom) could hit the reset button on my nes.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
The worst part is that the “roommate” (or who ever Biff is with) could find one of Biff’s gadgets to disable the trap.
Or they’d brave the trap to play Biff’s games; but not having arms kind of defeats the purpose of playing video games, right?
May 1st, 2009 at 7:28 pm
wait! What if, the entire universe is Biff!? I mean every new comic we see is a different Biff. He cloned himself and ended up creating his own biff-nation
May 1st, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I make video games, if someone was to delete GCV/GCA (my biggest one which i shale only call by its acronym for no obvious reason (technically its two separate games but there tied together so much often call them one)) I would lose about 4 years of working on it. Yes on and off, but it still has several hundred hours of work in it.
Of coarse i have probably 100 backups hidden in various locations.
Also if i ever finish it (GCV is almost done, mostly waiting on artwork and GCA) I will post a link to it here and that link will be in my website link!
May 1st, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Next frame: Biff from Earth C suspended from ceiling, grabbing computer.
May 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 am
@ -2!
Just curious, what program are you using to create your game? I use Multimedia Fusion Developer 2 to make my games.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I needed this my freshman year of college. I left for a weekend and one of my roommates decided that my ps2 along with games was his personal property–and there went a 100+ hour saved game of FFX.
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 pm
@ Reg
Turing. Its a programing language i leaned back in grade 10 that is meant only to learn how to program but is a surprisingly good language, although I cannot find a link to download it.
So yes i actually program. The game i am talking about sums up to about 14000 lines of code.
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:34 pm
After more looking for a link for Turing I found one: http://compsci.ca/holtsoft/.
A warning though 4.1.1 you cannot compile to exe
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
this reminds me of the countless amout of times i left a console one over night back in the old days cause they didn’t have places to save.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:27 pm
sorry *on overnight*
May 5th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
(In reference to the blurb, not the comic itself). I feel the EXACT same way you do! I have an office almost to myself, and I have a spot for everything. When I take one day off, disaster happens! I thought it was just me…
May 8th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I don’t have a roommate, so I’ve never run into problems with saved games being erased.
My parents have no interest in video games.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
The worst thing is when the power goes out when you’re saving and ALL your save games get eradicated. Katamari Damacy, I shall miss you.
October 8th, 2009 at 9:57 am
I lost a 237 hour profile on Oblivion. *sniffs* I miss my Necromancer so…
October 26th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Pah, who cares for the console? What about that plasma TV? Can’t play without a screen.