Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:09am 09/09/11 | 22 Comments
The "FeministWhorePurna" line was find within the Data0.pak\Data\default_player_setup.scr path by Steam Forum goers, and subsequently became the bane of Techland's existence.
"It obviously violates professional and ethical standards at Techland and should never have happened," the game's international brand manager, Blazej Krakowiak, told the site.
"We're investigating this right now and we'll issue a statement later. For now, I can only express my sincerest apologies for this incident and assure you that whoever acted so irresponsibly did not represent the views and opinions of Techland," he added.
"I'm equally sure that aside from the author of that unfortunate line of code, everyone at the office is as disturbed by this as you are."
We have a lot of coding type readers across AusGamers, are shenanigans like this commonplace in the coding world, or was this simply a douche stepping over a line?
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Posted 11:16am 09/9/11
Hell even if the ability was going to be called Feminist Whore, the only thing that matters is that they DID flag it as inappropriate and remove it from the final game.
Posted 11:29am 09/9/11
Ohhhh man if I could copy+paste you my email folder 'funny found work code snippets'... without breaking various contracts... you would laugh your arse off.
But yeah... Don’t go digging thru code if you’re going to be that easily offended.
Posted 11:33am 09/9/11
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Posted 11:54am 09/9/11
get a f*****g life
Posted 11:59am 09/9/11
Posted 12:04pm 09/9/11
The most fun is using #pragma directives to put fake compile warnings in the code. It wasn't uncommon to be building the code for the game and see a "Warning: Excessive David Hasslehoff found on line 2841" or something pop up in the compiler output window.
Posted 12:05pm 09/9/11
My brain hurts :S
Posted 12:06pm 09/9/11
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Posted 12:49pm 09/9/11
hehe
Posted 12:56pm 09/9/11
Very much so.
Just go to google.com/codesearch and search for explicit language terms if you're not convinced.
http://google.com/codesearch#iCXnLOj7beI/fs/pipe.c&q=whore&type=cs&l=1244
http://google.com/codesearch#pZq1eZLfogo/inc/app/sitellite/lib/geshi/contrib/aliased.php&q=d*******&type=cs&l=28
http://google.com/codesearch#oOy_5JrVRNM/trunk/external/netcat/netcat.c&q=f***head&type=cs&l=498
Posted 01:21pm 09/9/11
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Posted 05:28pm 09/9/11
As mentioned, usually a coder ranting in a comment somewhere.
In the end I think the tests were all scripted, and updated each time with new words, so you'd think it would be common practice to check...
Posted 06:08pm 09/9/11
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Posted 02:10pm 11/9/11
If anyone said anything other than 'thank you' if I held a door open for them (man or woman) I'd slam it back in their face.
Posted 06:56pm 11/9/11
Some perspective is sorely needed though - the game in front of them has both female protagonists scantily clad, the entire female NPC roundup seem to only wear bikinis and one of the main male protagonists sings a fake hit song "who do you voodoo, b****?" and their worst complaint is some small piece of code that wasn't even meant for the final build?