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How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

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Re: How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

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Post by fennecbutt »

gortok wrote: post #31
MyPasswordSucks wrote: post #25

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It's an ASCII art of a nude woman. So what? It just seems like such a busybody thing to get one's feathers ruffled over.

How about ascii art of a male penis every time you opened your IDE? The point isn’t what you (MyPasswordSucks) would find objectionable, the point is what the median would find objectionable in a professional setting. Luckily we’ve gotten away from the locker room behavior being the median and now the median is approaching good-manners behavior. This is one of the situations where the Overton window shifting makes us…

As a gay dude, I'd have no problems at all with this out of a garage game developer.

And any reasonably well adjusted straight male would probably get a good laugh out of the art, same as I would.

We now live in a world where female colleagues can speak in whispers about how a male colleague is hot/attractive, but male colleagues cannot engage in the same behaviour.

Trust me, I know. Because of media stereotypes about gays most female colleagues don't have any problem engaging in "girl talk" once they know I'm gay. Like damn I don't care, I'm just a dude.

Re: How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

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Post by fennecbutt »

msgodel wrote: post #48
jcranmer wrote: post #43

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Even if you restrict yourself to talking about men, asexual and gay men exist. And honestly, I suspect that such people are more common among developers than among the base population.

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As a gay man lmao no that's not the reason. Don't get salty just because you can't make homophobic jokes anymore.

When it comes to sexual openness, kinks, volume of sex, etc us gayz/queers got you beat by a long, long shot. We generally aren't prudes at all.

Re: How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

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Post by wkat4242 »

Rendello wrote: post #62
wkat4242 wrote: post #57

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Which file? Now I'm curious :)

The second link in the comment, the devlog.

Ahhh ok I was thinking it was in the actual code. Because the devlog wouldn't be part of the game. Thinking too literally :)

Re: How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

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Post by soulofmischief »

toxican wrote: post #61
doublerabbit wrote: post #56

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None of those things. I personally laugh at it for shits and giggles. "Andy, lol." It's not weird, nor creepy. Unprofessional maybe, but it's a developers morning shit post and humorous for its time. 1999. Stop applying the future on to past antics. If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune.

> If a women had posted a half naked man in ASCII this thread would have different tune. No, that would be fucking weird too, dude.

What's weird is how we're taught that the human body is uniquely something to be ashamed of.

Re: How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

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Post by GJim »

GEBBL wrote: post #24
msgodel wrote: post #21

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I feel this was an ‘of it’s time’ thing, but I am so glad we have moved on from this. I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable.

> I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable.

I understand Americans are prudish to depictions of nudity, however objecting to ASCII art is simply beyond my comprehension.

Anyone objecting to such a thing here would, quite rightly, be considered a nutter.

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Post by colejohnson66 »

GJim wrote: post #76
GEBBL wrote: post #24

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I feel this was an ‘of it’s time’ thing, but I am so glad we have moved on from this. I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable.

> I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable. I understand Americans are prudish to depictions of nudity, however objecting to ASCII art is simply beyond my comprehension. Anyone objecting to such a thing here would, quite rightly, be considered a nutter.

People aren't objecting to the ASCII art itself, but the context in which it is used — a workplace.

Re: How Frogger 2’s source code was recovered from a destroyed tape [video]

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Post by GJim »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #77
GJim wrote: post #76

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> I wouldn’t enjoy working in a workplace where this was acceptable. I understand Americans are prudish to depictions of nudity, however objecting to ASCII art is simply beyond my comprehension. Anyone objecting to such a thing here would, quite rightly, be considered a nutter.

People aren't objecting to the ASCII art itself, but the context in which it is used — a workplace.

The context being ASCII nudity (!) should not be seen in a workplace?

Is that honestly the problem you have?

I'm not being unkind when I say that if such a 'concern' was raised in Blighty, people would question your sanity.

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