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(Kotaku)   Man accused of playing games on a government computer, avoids being fired by proving a government computer can't run Crysis   (kotaku.com) divider line
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SirDigbyChickenCaesar
2023-01-27 11:56:19 AM  
I was in the navy in the 90's.  Every computer had Harpoon on it and we'd play it all the time.
 
Last Man on Earth
2023-01-27 11:57:43 AM  
Avengers - That man is playing Galaga!
Youtube t4Fy6AUMv8E

/oblig
 
Snapper Carr
2023-01-27 11:58:26 AM  
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Sgt. Expendable [OhFark]
2023-01-27 12:06:45 PM  

SirDigbyChickenCaesar: I was in the navy in the 90's.  Every computer had Harpoon on it and we'd play it all the time.


Harpoon is a name I've not heard in a long, long time.
 
AintNoAmoeba [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 12:12:59 PM  
Supervisor: How come every time I walk by here I see you playing video games?
Employee: Because you have soft soled shoes?
 
I Like Bread
2023-01-27 12:41:30 PM  
I don't think there's a manager in the world who would recognize Dwarf Fortress as a game. They'd probably accuse you of hacking the mainframe.
 
zeroflight222
2023-01-27 1:04:44 PM  
Next up, no entering 5318008 into your calculator.
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 1:08:22 PM  

SirDigbyChickenCaesar: I was in the navy in the 90's.  Every computer had Harpoon on it and we'd play it all the time.


I was in the navy in the 70's. Was the first in my Division (B) to get Pong.
 
Vlad_the_Inaner
2023-01-27 1:42:23 PM  
Game was running at home and he was connected from work via RDP

/just a little laggy
 
The Reverend Sam Hill [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 2:26:10 PM  
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Frothy Panties
2023-01-27 2:49:11 PM  
Lol. This is nothing. In the early days of Iraqi Freedom (2003) folks had bootleg copies of Half Life:Day of Defeat installed on SIPRnet for a bit of old-fashioned LAN party after hours in tactical operation centers (TOC).
 
ReapTheChaos
2023-01-27 3:17:42 PM  
The worker wasn't even playing a game, but watching "a game review on his break (which is fine)

Let me guess, the boss didn't confront the guy right then and there when he could have easily proved it was a You Tube video. Instead he waited until a day or two later, after he filled out the necessary paperwork to discipline or fire him.

I had a boss like that once, on multiple occasions he would take something that would have been simple to explain if he had just asked me at the time, but instead he made it into a big ordeal by waiting several days to confront me about it with official paperwork all ready to go.

One time I was told to go to a specific building to let some contractors in to do a job. I went there and waited around for a while, but they never showed up. I call back in to see what was going on and was told to wait while they checked. After close to an hour I was told they weren't coming until the next day, so I left and went back to what I was doing.

The boss was sitting in the parking lot the whole time watching me, but instead of just walking up and asking what I was doing, he waited three days to confront me about it. I eventually quit that job.
 
palelizard
2023-01-27 3:49:59 PM  

ReapTheChaos: The worker wasn't even playing a game, but watching "a game review on his break (which is fine)

Let me guess, the boss didn't confront the guy right then and there when he could have easily proved it was a You Tube video. Instead he waited until a day or two later, after he filled out the necessary paperwork to discipline or fire him.

I had a boss like that once, on multiple occasions he would take something that would have been simple to explain if he had just asked me at the time, but instead he made it into a big ordeal by waiting several days to confront me about it with official paperwork all ready to go.

One time I was told to go to a specific building to let some contractors in to do a job. I went there and waited around for a while, but they never showed up. I call back in to see what was going on and was told to wait while they checked. After close to an hour I was told they weren't coming until the next day, so I left and went back to what I was doing.

The boss was sitting in the parking lot the whole time watching me, but instead of just walking up and asking what I was doing, he waited three days to confront me about it. I eventually quit that job.


Of course, the boss who burned an hour spying on you from the parking lot wasn't in trouble...
 
ReapTheChaos
2023-01-27 4:02:39 PM  

palelizard: ReapTheChaos: The worker wasn't even playing a game, but watching "a game review on his break (which is fine)

Let me guess, the boss didn't confront the guy right then and there when he could have easily proved it was a You Tube video. Instead he waited until a day or two later, after he filled out the necessary paperwork to discipline or fire him.

I had a boss like that once, on multiple occasions he would take something that would have been simple to explain if he had just asked me at the time, but instead he made it into a big ordeal by waiting several days to confront me about it with official paperwork all ready to go.

One time I was told to go to a specific building to let some contractors in to do a job. I went there and waited around for a while, but they never showed up. I call back in to see what was going on and was told to wait while they checked. After close to an hour I was told they weren't coming until the next day, so I left and went back to what I was doing.

The boss was sitting in the parking lot the whole time watching me, but instead of just walking up and asking what I was doing, he waited three days to confront me about it. I eventually quit that job.

Of course, the boss who burned an hour spying on you from the parking lot wasn't in trouble...


That's the irony of the whole thing, he sat there slacking off for an hour watching me because he assumed I was slacking off.
 
Bslim [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 4:22:30 PM  
"I once had a supervisor ding me for playing a game," another Twitter user said. "It was a YouTube video running while data was crunching on the other screen."
Yes, that's my favorite game. YouTube.

Tell me the supervisor was a useless boomer without telling me
 
natazha [BareFark]
2023-01-27 4:38:29 PM  

ZMugg: SirDigbyChickenCaesar: I was in the navy in the 90's.  Every computer had Harpoon on it and we'd play it all the time.

I was in the navy in the 70's. Was the first in my Division (B) to get Pong.


Lucky you. None of the computers on my sub even had screens. Most of them were analog with a bunch of dials.
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 4:48:32 PM  

natazha: ZMugg: SirDigbyChickenCaesar: I was in the navy in the 90's.  Every computer had Harpoon on it and we'd play it all the time.

I was in the navy in the 70's. Was the first in my Division (B) to get Pong.

Lucky you. None of the computers on my sub even had screens. Most of them were analog with a bunch of dials.


Our TV's were the same as the 'monitor' in the "First Home Computer" PhotoShop.
 
AtlanticCoast63
2023-01-27 4:49:21 PM  

Sgt. Expendable: SirDigbyChickenCaesar: I was in the navy in the 90's.  Every computer had Harpoon on it and we'd play it all the time.

Harpoon is a name I've not heard in a long, long time.


It's still out there with a pretty robust player base, though technical development pretty much ended with Harpoon III.  Check out COMMAND: Modern Operations - the spiritual descendant of Harpoon with 10K % more awesome.
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-01-27 7:56:00 PM  
If it isn't explicitly and EXACTLY defined in the government employee handbook and code of conduct, they can't be fired.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/civil-servant-protection-system-could-keep-problematic-government-employees-from-being-fired/
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-01-27 8:09:00 PM  
Well, I was going to post links to Frontline: Global Spyware Scandle parts 1 and 2 but they are not on YouTube anymore.

The enemy is tracking you with pegasus software, if you have ANYTHING to do with whatever they don't like.
 
AmbassadorBooze [SwearJar]
2023-01-27 8:09:31 PM  

AmbassadorBooze: Well, I was going to post links to Frontline: Global Spyware Scandle parts 1 and 2 but they are not on YouTube anymore.

The enemy is tracking you with pegasus software, if you have ANYTHING to do with whatever they don't like.


And wrong thread.  Fuck
 
freakdiablo [TotalFark]
2023-01-27 8:47:55 PM  

AmbassadorBooze: AmbassadorBooze: Well, I was going to post links to Frontline: Global Spyware Scandle parts 1 and 2 but they are not on YouTube anymore.

The enemy is tracking you with pegasus software, if you have ANYTHING to do with whatever they don't like.

And wrong thread.  fark


Nah, that sounds like an awesome game.

Please, proceed.
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-27 9:26:40 PM  
Perhaps boss keys should come back.

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Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-27 9:27:15 PM  
Not a gamer, but i know Crysis is a game. Can an ignorant non PC-Master Race type get a clarification here?
 
Last Man on Earth
2023-01-27 9:32:29 PM  

Capo Del Bandito: Not a gamer, but i know Crysis is a game. Can an ignorant non PC-Master Race type get a clarification here?


At the time it came out, Crysis featured extremely high-quality graphics.  As a result, it became kind of infamous for its high system requirements in order to run it on high/max settings.  "But can it run Crysis" became a meme whenever someone presented a new piece of computer hardware, almost the inverse of "but can it run Doom".
 
Capo Del Bandito
2023-01-27 9:34:25 PM  

Last Man on Earth: Capo Del Bandito: Not a gamer, but i know Crysis is a game. Can an ignorant non PC-Master Race type get a clarification here?

At the time it came out, Crysis featured extremely high-quality graphics.  As a result, it became kind of infamous for its high system requirements in order to run it on high/max settings.  "But can it run Crysis" became a meme whenever someone presented a new piece of computer hardware, almost the inverse of "but can it run Doom".


Ok this makes sense.

Sorry, the last time I was playing PC games, Unreal was brand new and it blew my mind.
 
zeroflight222
2023-01-27 11:18:11 PM  

Last Man on Earth: Capo Del Bandito: Not a gamer, but i know Crysis is a game. Can an ignorant non PC-Master Race type get a clarification here?

At the time it came out, Crysis featured extremely high-quality graphics.  As a result, it became kind of infamous for its high system requirements in order to run it on high/max settings.  "But can it run Crysis" became a meme whenever someone presented a new piece of computer hardware, almost the inverse of "but can it run Doom".


IIRC it was many years before hardware advanced enough for people to be able to run it at max quality.  Our was that an urban legend tied to the meme?
 
Noah_Tall
2023-01-28 12:23:39 AM  
He wasn't playing Call of Duty.  He was just watching a streamer play it.
 
DrunkenBob
2023-01-28 2:24:54 AM  

zeroflight222: IIRC it was many years before hardware advanced enough for people to be able to run it at max quality.  Our was that an urban legend tied to the meme?


It was true.  The main problem with Crysis was they designed for using a single core just before the market CPUs shifted to multi-core processing.  They never changed the code to multiple cores (assuming it was possible), so it always had a bottleneck it could never get over.
 
MythDragon [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 9:05:44 AM  
Fun fact: America's Army was authorized to be run on government computers. I installed it on mine and played on lunch breaks. Supervisor tried to tell me it was illegal software. He took it up the chain and was told as long as it's on my time, they didn't care.

Though...I did have a game I would play sometimes during dead work periods.
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But Uplink looked like I was doing IT work, so no one ever said anything.
 
WilderKWight
2023-01-28 10:00:51 AM  
Or he was playing on a cloud gaming service like Game Pass Unlimited, Luna, Stadia, or GeForce Now. You don't need powerful hardware for that; You just need a decent Internet connection. I can do cloud gaming via my Samsung television, as in the cloud gaming apps are built in to the TV and they work really well once you pair a controller or keyboard/mouse to the TV.

Needing a powerful GPU is no longer a requirement if you have good Internet bandwidth speed.
 
Fark_Guy_Rob
2023-01-28 2:59:46 PM  
This feels like b.s. to me.

First because non-gamers constantly misidentify games. Certainly the machine could have played *some* game.

Secondly they don't give a date and there are lots of Crysis games. If it's recent, there are all sorts of ways you can stream games. It's pretty awful for FPS games, but even still, lots of them have something you could do even with high latency.

My cellphone can't run Midnight Suns, but I play on my cellphone. There is just a PS5 you aren't seeing involved.

Third because from across the room my watching a video of a game is indistinguishable from my playing the game. Maybe I can't really play the game, but spending all day watching videos of the game is just as bad as playing the game all day.

Fourth because even if you don't meet the started requirements there are almost always ways to get the game to run. This is from 2008:

Windows 7: Play Crysis Without a GPU

This week, Microsoft unveiled one of Windows 7's new features, which will allow games and other DirectX 10 and 10.1-based applications to run fully accelerated on obsolete graphics hardware, and even on systems with no graphics acceleration at all.

Sure, these fixes/hacks might not actually speed up your system, the game might run like crap, but it will let you install it and run it.

It's like arguing that I didn't drink alcohol at 20, because I wasn't old enough to obtain alcohol.
 
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