3599: The Pilgrim
GAHHH, so I conceded my time from Wednesday on to playing through SCOTT PILGRIM THE GAME [yes, apparently all caps] for no other reason than I have all this XBox space money that's otherwise not going to anything in particular [already bought the few avatar clothing items I had any remote interest in, plus Braid picture packs, plus R-Type picture packs, plus Lode Runner background... not much else out there I feel deserves the tip].
If you weren't aware, it's kind of like an RPG beat-'em-up. There's literally NO WAY to complete the game on one credit, and the game gets progressively easier with successive grinding because the characters gain and retain XP. In fact, what you do is find every shop possible [especially Wallace's] and spend all your money on at least one of every single item [especially Wallace's]. Possibly, with the exception of food so to get the Gourmet Achievement, just load up at Wallace's secret store exclusively [especially the Bionic Arm = STR +50!!!].
[If you can manage to get to Stage 5, too, it's broken in that the Subspace Highway? is smack at the beginning of the level, so you can milk that and leave the map...]
I've only stopped at this point because my 360 has decided to call it quits. Don't think forever [no RROD, which is its own mixed bag since broken but no RROD means SCREWED], but locking up completely in two entirely different locations seems to indicate break time 9_9
...so, um. Work drama! Y'all prolly don't care, but it basically has to do with X having these ideas that Y [and Z and everyone else] knows is completely wrong. That's not a lazy substitution--there are multiple people who fit into the equation [UNFORTUNATELY]. For instance, X1 found out a shipment was being held or something like that, so okayed the release. Why?
"It's a [Major Company]! They're good for it!"
Thing is, even just overhearing bits of the specifics, *I* knew it was a stupid reason, because I knew [Major Company] still owes us a crapton of money. Y1 said, "I don't care if it's the WHITE HOUSE!"
Similarly, X2 decides to have me do a procedure in a certain way to skip a step and save time. Trouble is, Y2 had complained to me before about this exact skip-a-step way--which is where I came up with the "Making my job easier makes someone else's job harder" corrollary or whatever I said it was--so I asked Y2 about it only to be told, no, don't skip the step... but procedure meant I had to tell X2 to do the normal way [because X2 has to do the extra step].
X2: "Did Y2 tell you why?"
Me: "Eh..." [I didn't recall the exact reason except that it was the proper way.]
X2: "Well, it really doesn't matter because it works out to be the same, but if you want to do it THAT way..."
Thankfully?, Y2 heard the above dialogue and waved me over when X2 was gone and explained, "I don't know where X2 gets these ideas that it doesn't matter, but the system needs to match, i.e. we need a record of what happened to this money. I'm sorry to make you feel like we're telling you to do two different things, but if X2 has a problem with that, say Y2 can explain it again."
This makes perfect sense to me, of course. I just have this hard time saying, "No, that's stupid," when I can't put a finger on why it's stupid. [As I said, I forgot, or I would have said so from the beginning.] At least now I can put the words to why it's stupid and explain for myself--we need a record, that's why we can't skip that step.
[Ironically, X2 complained about Z not printing out a receipt to "save the Earth!"--even a vital receipt.]
Umm... so that's me.
If you weren't aware, it's kind of like an RPG beat-'em-up. There's literally NO WAY to complete the game on one credit, and the game gets progressively easier with successive grinding because the characters gain and retain XP. In fact, what you do is find every shop possible [especially Wallace's] and spend all your money on at least one of every single item [especially Wallace's]. Possibly, with the exception of food so to get the Gourmet Achievement, just load up at Wallace's secret store exclusively [especially the Bionic Arm = STR +50!!!].
[If you can manage to get to Stage 5, too, it's broken in that the Subspace Highway? is smack at the beginning of the level, so you can milk that and leave the map...]
I've only stopped at this point because my 360 has decided to call it quits. Don't think forever [no RROD, which is its own mixed bag since broken but no RROD means SCREWED], but locking up completely in two entirely different locations seems to indicate break time 9_9
...so, um. Work drama! Y'all prolly don't care, but it basically has to do with X having these ideas that Y [and Z and everyone else] knows is completely wrong. That's not a lazy substitution--there are multiple people who fit into the equation [UNFORTUNATELY]. For instance, X1 found out a shipment was being held or something like that, so okayed the release. Why?
"It's a [Major Company]! They're good for it!"
Thing is, even just overhearing bits of the specifics, *I* knew it was a stupid reason, because I knew [Major Company] still owes us a crapton of money. Y1 said, "I don't care if it's the WHITE HOUSE!"
Similarly, X2 decides to have me do a procedure in a certain way to skip a step and save time. Trouble is, Y2 had complained to me before about this exact skip-a-step way--which is where I came up with the "Making my job easier makes someone else's job harder" corrollary or whatever I said it was--so I asked Y2 about it only to be told, no, don't skip the step... but procedure meant I had to tell X2 to do the normal way [because X2 has to do the extra step].
X2: "Did Y2 tell you why?"
Me: "Eh..." [I didn't recall the exact reason except that it was the proper way.]
X2: "Well, it really doesn't matter because it works out to be the same, but if you want to do it THAT way..."
Thankfully?, Y2 heard the above dialogue and waved me over when X2 was gone and explained, "I don't know where X2 gets these ideas that it doesn't matter, but the system needs to match, i.e. we need a record of what happened to this money. I'm sorry to make you feel like we're telling you to do two different things, but if X2 has a problem with that, say Y2 can explain it again."
This makes perfect sense to me, of course. I just have this hard time saying, "No, that's stupid," when I can't put a finger on why it's stupid. [As I said, I forgot, or I would have said so from the beginning.] At least now I can put the words to why it's stupid and explain for myself--we need a record, that's why we can't skip that step.
[Ironically, X2 complained about Z not printing out a receipt to "save the Earth!"--even a vital receipt.]
Umm... so that's me.