   Thanks to CSI:Miami...
  For its illuminating and entirely accurate portrayal of live in a games development company - Channel5 in the UK last night - the episode with the skateboarder-turned-skateboard-game-developer.I wonder has anyone worked anywhere like that in real life - 48-hour shifts etc?   
  Yes.Well, I haven't seen the episode in question -- TV reception sucks here -- but I pulled a few 48-hour shifts in my time. I suspect things have improved a little since the. (Well, I _hope_ they have.) I still break into a cold sweat whenever I recall the two weeks I spent working night shifts in an office "conducting" Amiga floppy disk drives to relieve the tedium. (And this was in the mid-1990s.)The game was a port of a PC football management sim to the Amiga and it would take literally _hours_ to play through a single season with all the debug code switched on. Someday, I shall write a novel based on my experiences. I suspect it'd make quite a funny film too, if you liked "The Office". (I couldn't watch it; it was way too close to my own experiences.)Anyway, er, yes. It has been known. It is not a good practice and if your company insists on such shift lengths, I'd start preparing my CV if I were you.;  Also how does a tiny woman knock a guy out cold with a skateboard?It was a girly hissyfit type hitting and the guy drops like a sack of spuds.And why did the fat dude cover him in water then electricute him by touching his flesh rather than the water....it was obviously going to leave contact burns so what was the point of the water?It was hardly a very clever crime... the water cooler was standing there with its wires pulled out for any one to stumble accross...Really shitty eppisode... but then CSI: Vegas is really the only one worth watching IMO.   ;Quote:Original post by stimarcoThe game was a port of a PC football management sim to the Amiga and it would take literally _hours_ to play through a single season with all the debug code switched on. Someday, I shall write a novel based on my experiences. I suspect it'd make quite a funny film too, if you liked "The Office". (I couldn't watch it; it was way too close to my own experiences.)You could pen a sequel to Ellen Ullman's The Bug.   