Back in like 2008 I used to play a small indie MMO kind of game called Armada Online. It's actually a fun little game made by two guys, but sadly I do believe it has long since died.
That being said, the game was made by just two people and you would be amazed how well it worked, but there were still some tiny bugs here and there one could stumble upon.
One day I was making a new alt and I was too lazy to type in names so I was copy and pasting some randomly generated names and I found out that if I pasted something 5 characters long. Used Ctrl+a and deleted it I could make a character with an empty string for a name!
Of course I thought this was an awesome little trick so I jump in the game to go find some of the regulars (at this point the game had a good 1000 players, with about 100-200 highly dedicated players forming a nice little community). To my surprise everyone in the little world chat starts freaking out about all the menus in the game getting messed up and games crashing.
Well in spectacular fashion somehow my making a empty string character replaced all instance of empty strings in the game with a reference to my character/character portrait. All of the menus were showing repeats of my characters portrait, all empty friends list slots were replaced by me, etc. For ALL players.
It was hilarious for about 5 minutes, then I did the right thing and reported the bug to the dev and deleted the character. All of this happened long before I became a programmer, but it made 16 year old me feel like some kind of 1337 hacker hahaha. Good times
Something similar happened to me last Thanksgiving. My company’s software has a built-in Twitter feed. I quoted one of their tweets, added an emoji at the end, and they retweeted it. Apparently the Twitter app in the software wasn’t designed to support emojis, and I ended up breaking the software. Customers started calling and emailing in saying the software wasn’t working, and I had to delete the tweet because marketing couldn’t figure out how to undo the retweet. I had only been with the company for around 6 months, so I was pretty embarrassed.
scratchisthebest on November 20th, 2017 at 14:30 UTC »
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Etane on November 20th, 2017 at 14:40 UTC »
Back in like 2008 I used to play a small indie MMO kind of game called Armada Online. It's actually a fun little game made by two guys, but sadly I do believe it has long since died.
That being said, the game was made by just two people and you would be amazed how well it worked, but there were still some tiny bugs here and there one could stumble upon.
One day I was making a new alt and I was too lazy to type in names so I was copy and pasting some randomly generated names and I found out that if I pasted something 5 characters long. Used Ctrl+a and deleted it I could make a character with an empty string for a name!
Of course I thought this was an awesome little trick so I jump in the game to go find some of the regulars (at this point the game had a good 1000 players, with about 100-200 highly dedicated players forming a nice little community). To my surprise everyone in the little world chat starts freaking out about all the menus in the game getting messed up and games crashing.
Well in spectacular fashion somehow my making a empty string character replaced all instance of empty strings in the game with a reference to my character/character portrait. All of the menus were showing repeats of my characters portrait, all empty friends list slots were replaced by me, etc. For ALL players.
It was hilarious for about 5 minutes, then I did the right thing and reported the bug to the dev and deleted the character. All of this happened long before I became a programmer, but it made 16 year old me feel like some kind of 1337 hacker hahaha. Good times
jghike on November 20th, 2017 at 15:02 UTC »
Something similar happened to me last Thanksgiving. My company’s software has a built-in Twitter feed. I quoted one of their tweets, added an emoji at the end, and they retweeted it. Apparently the Twitter app in the software wasn’t designed to support emojis, and I ended up breaking the software. Customers started calling and emailing in saying the software wasn’t working, and I had to delete the tweet because marketing couldn’t figure out how to undo the retweet. I had only been with the company for around 6 months, so I was pretty embarrassed.