SilentRiC
First time out of the vault

Okay, I don't know you and you don't know me but I am here to make tired references and complain about error messages, and I'm well stocked on references.
Anybody here use Chrome? If you do, you'll be familiar with two things - website crashes and the "Aw snap" error message that so hilariously accompanies it. Upon searching online for other people venting their shared
irritation, I was aghast to find little besides pages and videos dedicated to celebrating the funniest error messages. This will not do.
I can only assume that all the people slapping their guts and busting their thighs at these cutesy wacky error messages are not actually encountering them when the program they're using screws up and crashes.
If I had a dime for every time a program crashed and I responded by chuckling at its decision to crack jokes about its failure, I would have zero fucking dimes.
Programmer humour tends to be lame enough as it is (and yes I stole a joke about "dimes" despite clearly not being American) but is it so hard for them to see that the absolute worst time for them to start waxing comedic is when the user's just lost data, lost their video feed, or at least had their time wasted?
Half the irritation winds up stemming from the stupid wacky message itself. If I order a pizza and the delivery guy drops it on the floor as he's walking to my door, seeing them look me in the eye and say "Oh noes! I just goofed up, shucks!" isn't exactly going to soothe my frustration yet dailymotion thinks that's exactly what you want to hear when your video feed goes kaput.
I'd like to hear a reasoned defence of this awful crap, but I'd like even more to hear the entire forum agree with me. Just don't be complaining about having to hear a man complain because, y'know, the title was a bit of a give away.
Next up: 'Enjoy is not an instruction and certainly doesn't deserve its own step'
-RiC
Anybody here use Chrome? If you do, you'll be familiar with two things - website crashes and the "Aw snap" error message that so hilariously accompanies it. Upon searching online for other people venting their shared
irritation, I was aghast to find little besides pages and videos dedicated to celebrating the funniest error messages. This will not do.
I can only assume that all the people slapping their guts and busting their thighs at these cutesy wacky error messages are not actually encountering them when the program they're using screws up and crashes.
If I had a dime for every time a program crashed and I responded by chuckling at its decision to crack jokes about its failure, I would have zero fucking dimes.
Programmer humour tends to be lame enough as it is (and yes I stole a joke about "dimes" despite clearly not being American) but is it so hard for them to see that the absolute worst time for them to start waxing comedic is when the user's just lost data, lost their video feed, or at least had their time wasted?
Half the irritation winds up stemming from the stupid wacky message itself. If I order a pizza and the delivery guy drops it on the floor as he's walking to my door, seeing them look me in the eye and say "Oh noes! I just goofed up, shucks!" isn't exactly going to soothe my frustration yet dailymotion thinks that's exactly what you want to hear when your video feed goes kaput.
I'd like to hear a reasoned defence of this awful crap, but I'd like even more to hear the entire forum agree with me. Just don't be complaining about having to hear a man complain because, y'know, the title was a bit of a give away.
Next up: 'Enjoy is not an instruction and certainly doesn't deserve its own step'
-RiC