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Only a child or a completely naive idiot would unironically want to get into game testing. That stuff is soul-crushing. Besides, in the "AAA" industry the job is for small subcompanies formed exclusively by the stiffest "office people" stereotypes who hate their jobs, not gamers. While there are a few companies who do test group stuff with actual gamers, that's usually at/past beta stages, and kind of a rarity. Testers literally exist so programmers don't lose billable hours in running what they coded to check if it works or not.
For those of you that code at home, it's outsourcing the process of running your project after building. You can already tell how fun that would turn out when done over and over and over again. You don't even get the respite of having to work in code after a testing session.
For the rest, and with some simplifications: You play specifically tailored and incomplete versions of a game, to test out for things like "does the player character go through the floor when walking?". Then you write a report. Over and over.
This, combined with the disinterest of the office drones, also helps minimizing possible leaks since they don't get access to "the whole" (and NDA contracts are 101% restrictive). But also maximizes the possibility of not finding breaking bugs in the whole package, and that's why so many games come out with completely obvious bugs that aren't caught until after release.
That stuff is so nasty I don't even wish it on a sperg like Lyurong, to be honest.
Well, even if he does appeal in 2 hours, 10 minutes, we won't learn unless it's successful. It's appealed via email to ARBCOM, not by public talk page, like a block would be.
Anyway to tell if Ryulong was unbanned or do we have to wait for him to start edit warring again?
More of that Wikipedia transparency and accountability. No behind doors corruption going on here!
Off-wiki stuff is questionable. They look at it for personal attack cases ("personal attacks made elsewhere create doubt about the good faith of an editor's on-wiki actions...such attacks...are admissible evidence in the dispute-resolution process, including Arbitration cases.") I think they'd see that Ryulong clearly hasn't dropped the stick on Gamergate, which got him banned, and would probably deny the appeal.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=User:Ryulong
If he is unblocked you'll see it there.
The fact that it operates like this may be Cohen's best shot at unleashing his autistic rage on Wikipedia once more, since none of the admins that were enabling him to use meatpuppets/sockpuppets to violate his ban are likely to put their 'mop' on the line by ratting him/themselves out (and won't know he appealed unless he says so on social media/PMs to them). One of the admins alleged to be at Cohen's beck and call is Robert "Gamaliel" Fernandez, newly elected to the arbitration committee.
Drmies, another newly elected arbitrator, was sympathetic to Cohen when he got banned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ryulong#Sanctions
Anyone have any idea how likely they are to consider off-wiki activity for ban appeals? ArbCom should take one look at Cohen's year at RationalWiki - where he was still obsessing over the shit that got him banned from Wikipedia in the first place along with being a tremendous asshole to everyone he came in contact with - and deny that appeal as fast as possible.
I assume they'd discuss it for at least a week. Usual unblock requests can be left in discussion for over a week (for example, see this open one, which got only a template after 6 days), and an unban like this is an order of magnitude more interesting. More Arbitrators discussing, more bureaucracy, more time.How long until we can assume his appeals were rejected?
Seeing some crying on twitter from Cohen's weaboo buddyroids in response to something Cohen said.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was complaining about a denied appeal.
IP 2601:140:8200E:E081:167E:5FAE:7DCB has some suspicious Ryulong-isms:
- Obsessing over translations? Check and check.
- Persecution complex? Check.
- Arrogant ownership over pages? Check.
Then again, I support the same can be said about a great many pathetic weebs with nothing better to do than obsess over the Wikipedia pages of their favourite children's cartoon.