Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words of the Game Developer....

What did you say that you instantly regretted?

Admit it; we've all done it at one time or another. We've all said something in a proud and arrogant voice, full of pompousness and certainty, facing down in righteous indignation anybody who disagreed with us...and then had it blow up in our faces roughly 2 minutes later. We can't help it...we're game developers and, by definition, prima-donnas.

This page is sort of a companion to the You Know Your Game is in Trouble... page. Suggested by Andreas Stieger, a frequent visitor to these pages, this is where you can confess in front of everybody...where you can repeat for all of your fellow developers whatever really, really dumb thing you said just before you spent the entire weekend at work fixing it.

Come'on, share: Send me your Famous Last Words (and yes, if you want to post anonymously nobody will mind...we all understand, believe me....)

New Contributions

"Yeah, just run that batch file...it should be fine." (06/17/05)

Courtesy of Abid Rana

Previous Contributions

"I'm sure I plugged it in.... (01/04/05)

Courtesy of Martin

"I just upgraded the DVD burner...now those masters will be done on time for the FedEx pickup." (04/25/04)
"We'll hire a replacement for that guy in no time." (04/25/04)
"Don't worry, that font is in all versions of Windows." (04/25/04)

Courtesy of Javier Arevalo

"Sure, that thread is class safe." (02/25/04)
"I'll update that tomorrow." (02/25/04)
"These servers are perfectly synced." (02/25/04)

Courtesy of Lennart Steinke

"The collision detection works perfectly now." (01/08/04)

Courtesy of Silencer

"So if you click on 'Help' then...oops." (09/02/03)
"Yes, we have a virus checker and yes, it's working." (09/02/03)
"There's no way he could screw that up." (09/02/03)

Courtesy of Dark Knight

"I don't like unsolved problems, I'm getting this bug fixed!" (08/17/03)
"Funny, I never noticed that before." (08/17/03)

Courtesy of Ryan Burg

"No need to do a test run. All we did was change the order of a couple of procedures." (07/27/03)

Courtesy of Frank Luke

"That error just happened because we ran it too many times." (07/08/03)
"It works fine on ATI cards...let's do a quick test on Nvidia now." (07/08/03)

Courtesy of Thomas Perry

"Trust me, it's completely intuitive." (06/14/03)

Courtesy of Wes Hokkinen

"OK, that's the last memory leak." (05/22/03)
"Someone should fix the camera system." (05/22/03)

Courtesy of Jason Persampien

"We have full migration documents from Microsoft....there won't be any problems with the server upgrade." (04/21/03)

Courtesy of Michael Hoffman

"There's the problem! Why didn't I think of that before? I can fix that in a jiffy!" (03/30/03)

Courtesy of Chris Graham

"Two weeks' salary says that progress is glitchless!" (03/13/03)
"Sure, go ahead and delete those Notepad files...they all got converted to Word days ago." (03/13/03)

Courtesy of jeeves

"Go ahead and erase it, that's only a shortcut." (02/25/03)
"Couldn't hurt... (02/25/03)
"I thought it autosaved?" (02/25/03)

Courtesy of SOL Norgad

"What do you mean I should have compiled the code before checking it in? I only changed a few lines." (02/09/03)

Courtesy of Core Shrike

"I don't need a backup. The computer won't crash while it's repartitioning the hard drive!" (1/10/03)

Courtesy of sAm_vdP

"You can't activate a virus just by...." (11/12/02)

Courtesy of VenDrake

"Who needs version control when you have backups?" (11/07/02)

"This shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to change; it's only one line of code." (11/07/02)

"You'll have it in the morning." (11/07/02)

"I'll finish that before I leave tonight." (11/07/02)

"I'm sure it's compatible". (11/07/02)

"Don't worry about turning that off--there's nobody connected to it at the moment." (11/07/02)

The Ever Amazing

Timkin!

"If I just change this bit of coding, it should work." (10/29/02)
"Let's see, I guess that cable plugs into this..." (10/29/02)
"What does this button do?" (10/29/02)

Courtesy of Coollooc....

"Relax...there's no way the boss will catch us." (09/07/02)

Courtesy of the Mysterious Corndog

"God, I love overtime! (08/28/02)

Courtesy of Arklan

"Don't worry, we're running NT 4.0. Your data is secure." (08/28/02)

Courtesy of Chris Olstrom

"I'm certain I've fixed the problem now..I dare you to break it!" (07/27/02)

Courtesy of Scorch

"Naw, you go ahead and press them all. We tested it before we sent out the tape master--is 100,000 copies good?" (02/25/02)
(On the phone with the wife): "No problem love. This'll just take a minute or two more. I'll pick them up on the way home...have a nice trip!"" (02/25/02)
"It works on Win 95/98/NT...no reason why it won't work on XP too!" (02/25/02)

Courtesy of Jocce "Twitcher" Ekstrom

"It's just small change, go ahead and check it in." (01/31/02)
"As long as it doesn't crash." (01/31/02)
"Just get the latest. That will fix it." (01/31/02)

Courtesy of SuperMike

"It's sure taking that batchfile a long time to finish..." (01/22/02)

Damion Schubert

"I need Friday off please." (01/11/02)

Twistybass (weird name)

"This is the Final Release." (12/29/01)

Courtesy of Darkheart

"Ooops, sorry...you saved it, didn't you?" (12/22/01)
"You wanted more than 16 colors?! I thought you said no more than 16 colors!" (12/22/01)

Courtesy of the one and only Simon Boyks

"Well, that looks like the last sniper. It should be safe now..." (10/28/01)
"Don't worry, it autosaves for you." (10/28/01)

Courtesy of Dan

"We have a fully working backup system." (10/24/01)
"That's the cable that goes there, honest." (10/24/01)
"Hmmm...never seen that file before, wonder what it does? *click*" (10/24/01)

Courtesy of Ash, a soon-to-be-(hopefully)-game-programmer

"Theoretically, it should work!" (10/14/01)
"Forty gigs ought to be plenty!" (10/14/01)

Courtesy of wootkoos

"I'm positive...that was just a link to the Project folder. You can empty the bin...." (8/27/01)

Courtesy of ToohrVyk, freelancer

"Oh sure; it's saved on the RAM drive." (7/18/01)
"I don't need that function anymore...". (7/18/01)
"Saving it once should be enough." (7/18/01)
"That hard drive is brand new; you can trust it." (7/18/01)
"I'll come back later and re-cde it..." (7/18/01)
"Nah, that'll never happen again...don't bother to fix it." (7/18/01)

Courtesy of the very pyschotic Phil "Hangman" Aumayr

"WHAT WOULD ANYONE WANT LOWER CASE FOR?" (7/12/01)

Courtesy of Jerry Mings

"Hey, what's this 'rm -rf' file doing in the root directory? Guess I'd better delete it...." (this one's for Unix heads) (6/19/01)

Courtesy of Scott

"That couldn't possibly have been my code, I submitted that bug fix yesterday...." (5/02/01)

Courtesy of David Skoumbourdis

"A Glide-based 3D engine is fine, It's not like people will just stop buying 3dfx cards...." (4/21/01)

Courtesy of Anthony

"I'm positive that deltree is the right command!" (4/19/01)

Zable Fahr

"The players will never notice the difference...." (4/16/01)
"I'm sure I didn't burn the debug build onto the master...the master is right...um...." (4/16/01)

Courtesy of David Dickhaut

"Heh...that's funny...." (3/09/01)

Courtesy of Gerjan Timmerman

"I'm giving this just 10 more minutes and that's it..." (3/02/01)
"OK...that should be good enough." (3/02/01)

The one and only Simon Henman

"Yes, I'm sure the initial development can be done for the price in the contract...." (7/27/01)
"Careful...don't drop that magnet! (clunk)" (3/01/01)

Courtesy of Chuck Lee

"I'm sure that if it runs correctly on one server it'll run on correctly on all of them...we don't need to check it." (4/18/01)
"Stop worrying. You can update the database tables without having any users get out of the system." (4/18/01)
"Having two servers mirrored is just as good as a tape backup." (4/18/01)
"There's nothing you could do to Windows that I couldn't fix..." (2/21/01)
"The monitor cable can only go on one way!" (2/21/01)
"Don't worry...this is a big company. I'm sure somebody makes backups of her database...go ahead and erase it." (2/21/01)

Risq

"It worked yesterday." (11/02/00)
"What did I do with that password....?" (11/02/00)

Courtesy of Kris Robbins

"Nah, it will prompt you before it does that." (10/19/00)
"I don't think that matters." (10/19/00)
"Go ahead, I've got another copy of that somewhere." (10/19/00)
"Run it and see what it does." (10/19/00)
"Just click "OK" for everything." (10/19/00)
"Yeah, it's designed to handle that." (10/19/00)
"I'll just memorize these settings." (10/19/00)
"I've seen it done a million times." (10/19/00)
"Yeah, that snaps right in..." (10/19/00)
"Oh come'on...don't you think they would've thought of that?" (10/19/00)

Courtesy of XealotX.

"Don't worry, the salesman didn't know what he was talking about." (07/27/00)
"...well then, that plug must go here..." (07/27/00)

Courtesy of Ibex

"OK, let's change this one registry setting." (07/19/00)

Courtesy of Harry Trautmann

"Hey..watch this!" (06/28/00)

John Olsen

"Sure, I can do that...no problem!" (06/20/00)

Jesse Dugenske

"No problem...I'll have it ready in 5 minutes." (6/10/00)

AJ Lott

"All we have to do is reboot!" (2/29/2000)

"Thankfully the computer makes a .bak file..." (2/29/2000)

Courtesy of Eric Sutton

"Don't worry...the power's off." (2/08/2000)

Courtesy of Paul Bingham (I should have thought of this one myself!)

"I'll put that in c:\temp." (05/01/03)

"You can't fire me!" (2/14/2000)

"I'll just finish this procedure before I make the backup." (1/8/2000)

"The factory says these two components are compatible." (1/8/2000)

"I don't think there are any viruses on this disk." (1/8/2000)

"You can shut down the system...I've got all this stuff backed up." (1/8/2000)

"I don't think there are any important files on that disk." (1/8/2000)

"You can delete the whole folder...I've got a second copy of this." (1/8/2000)

"My notebook batteries have plenty of power left." (1/8/2000)

"I'm sure that's the printer port." (1/8/2000)

"You can leave the computer on during the thunder storm...the UPS will protect it." (1/8/2000)

"Hey! Watch that wire!" (1/8/2000)

Courtesy of Andreas Stieger, a developer from Germany who's obviously had some hard times....

"No, I always turn it off before I leave." (08/11/04)
"Don't worry, the sound is on low." (08/11/04)
"Have I ever not been right?" (08/11/04)
"What the hell is that?" (09/23/03)
"That? I wouldn't worry about that..." (10/08/03)
"Let's just combine our different version trees together...neither of us changed that much." (03/06/03)
"I don't think I need that file; I'll just delete it. What's the worst that could happen?" (11/21/02)
"I found that same problem once before--I'll have it fixed tonight." (10/27/02)
"400 testers reported this bug. They must not have patched; we fixed that problem in a previous patch." (10/27/02)
"I've got it under control now." (09/27/02)
"Yeah, but they can't prove it." (09/27/02)
"That doesn't matter, it was part of an older version." (09/27/02)
"No need to write it down, I'll remember." (09/27/02)
"Don't worry, that file doesn't matter....I copied it." (08/27/02)
"Watch this...." (07/27/02)
"Was that your modified code I just deleted, or the old stuff?" (07/27/02)
"We'll throw away the prototype once the project gets the green light." (05/26/02)
"It's fine, I just tested it." (05/26/02)
"I don't remember that!" (05/22/02)
"I am working to the spec. It is not in the spec. I am working to the spec." (05/22/02)
"Oops." (05/16/02)
"It's OK, it's OK..." (04/03/02)
"Trust me!" (03/13/02)
"I'm not going to spill my drink!" (03/13/02)
"That doesn't do anything..." (03/13/02)
"Thank God for coffee, I probably never would have finished this...ooops..." (12/06/01)
"If I keep reviewing and updating the program's specs I'll be wasting precious coding time! Besides, the program won't get much more complex anyways...." (6/12/01)
"Let's make it work first, then we'll start a testing phase." (6/12/01)
"I wonder how you undo that...." (6/07/01)
"Just one more recompile..." (2/14/01)
"I finally got it to work!" (01/15/01)
"Nah...those static bracelets are a waste of cash!" (01/15/01)
"Well, I don't see how it could do any harm..." (01/15/01)
"This wire is never live." (01/15/01)
"Overclocking won't hurt a thing so long as I use a fan." (01/15/01)
"OpenGL, DirectX...they're interchangeable." (01/15/01)
"That deadline is way off." (11/20/00)
"Here's the easy way..." (11/20/00)
"Nobody uses those registry keys anyway..." (11/20/00)
"It's already done, I just have to check it in...." (11/20/00)
"We can always release a patch later..." (10/09/00)
"What could possibly go wrong?" (10/04/00)
"The compiler will take care of that." (10/04/00)
"Those compiler warnings don't really mean anything." (10/04/00)
"The OS will clean that up when you exit." (10/04/00)
"I didn't touch that part of the code." (10/04/00)
"Don't worry...I had AutoBackup turned on." (10/03/00)
"Who needs to be grounded?" (09/16/00)
"Remember this number..." (09/16/00)
"Oh, we should be able to port that with no problem!" (09/8/00)
"Of course I've done that before." (07/16/00)
"It'll ship tomorrow." (07/16/00)
"It's really very, very easy...just go home and go to bed, I'll have it ready in the morning." (07/16/00)
"It seemed like a good idea at the time..." (06/20/00)
"This is nothing a clean make won't fix..." (5/12/00)
"Here comes the easy part..." (4/24/2000)
"That never happened before..." (4/15/2000)
"This will only take a minute." (4/11/2000)
"We have a firewall installed." (4/11/2000)
"It will be ready on time!" (4/11/2000)
"The probability of that happening is so small..." (4/11/2000)
"Sure, I know how to safely reboot the server." (4/11/2000)
"Don't worry...I've done this a million times before..." (3/21/2000)
"We'll be fine...there's no reason why this shouldn't work." (3/21/2000)
"Well, that looks like the right command..." (3/19/2000)
"It's supposed to do that, right? Right?" (3/19/2000)
"Of course I know what I'm doing!" (3/8/2000)
"No problem...I still have lotsa time..." (3/7/2000)
"What do you think about putting a little message here? Heheheheh...nobody will ever see it..." (3/7/2000)
"Oh well...they'll never find out...." (2/08/2000)
"Yes, I'm sure I'm static free!" (1/24/2000)
"That works on my machine..." (1/21/2000)
"Yes, I'm sure I set the right voltage!" (1/12/2000)

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