Kynetyk
@kynetyk.bsky.social
Veteran game QA professional of more than 2 decades.
Star Trek, Wrestling, and Simpsons fan. Fascinated by Killer7. Gigantic dork
Star Trek, Wrestling, and Simpsons fan. Fascinated by Killer7. Gigantic dork
"Developers often make a lot of assumptions"
Testing has to run on a lot of assumptions, too. Especially on a live service application. "You submitted a change to feature A. Feature B is unrelated and you marked no change there, so I didn't look there because I can't check everything every time"
Testing has to run on a lot of assumptions, too. Especially on a live service application. "You submitted a change to feature A. Feature B is unrelated and you marked no change there, so I didn't look there because I can't check everything every time"
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Developers often make a lot of assumptions"
Testing has to run on a lot of assumptions, too. Especially on a live service application. "You submitted a change to feature A. Feature B is unrelated and you marked no change there, so I didn't look there because I can't check everything every time"
Testing has to run on a lot of assumptions, too. Especially on a live service application. "You submitted a change to feature A. Feature B is unrelated and you marked no change there, so I didn't look there because I can't check everything every time"
Today's spoiler is fun with double negatives
October 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Today's spoiler is fun with double negatives
I JUST updated, and it logged me out of EVERYTHING
If it does that again, I swear to GOD!
If it does that again, I swear to GOD!
October 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I JUST updated, and it logged me out of EVERYTHING
If it does that again, I swear to GOD!
If it does that again, I swear to GOD!
Dealing with another one of these "I'M A MYSTERY! I'M A MYSTERY!" issues, so I had to get the clip from Vivarium.
September 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Dealing with another one of these "I'M A MYSTERY! I'M A MYSTERY!" issues, so I had to get the clip from Vivarium.
Providing technical assistance to address customer support tickets...
September 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Providing technical assistance to address customer support tickets...
Me at work, just about every other day
July 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Me at work, just about every other day
July 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This plays in my head every time I hear a producer or executive make a light remark about a release where I put in the OT work to do the testing, and did the extra coordination work like functional engineering management (not my job!) to get everything done to make that release happen.
April 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This plays in my head every time I hear a producer or executive make a light remark about a release where I put in the OT work to do the testing, and did the extra coordination work like functional engineering management (not my job!) to get everything done to make that release happen.
Me facing off with bugs in a release candidate that needs to be out in 2 days.
March 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Me facing off with bugs in a release candidate that needs to be out in 2 days.
When the engineer wants QA to look at something but doesn't explain what they changed that needs to be tested
March 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
When the engineer wants QA to look at something but doesn't explain what they changed that needs to be tested
Spreadsheet trouble?
Put me in, coach!
Put me in, coach!
January 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Spreadsheet trouble?
Put me in, coach!
Put me in, coach!
Sheesh, I think over my career I'm averaging something like this about once per week.
January 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Sheesh, I think over my career I'm averaging something like this about once per week.
The Doomslayer with a Rygar shield?
January 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Doomslayer with a Rygar shield?
What it feels like in QA sometimes, making diving catches to save people from themselves.
December 29, 2024 at 6:53 PM
What it feels like in QA sometimes, making diving catches to save people from themselves.
Just having it fade out earlier would have been easier than adding more to the image.
This took more effort to get wrong. Comes across like someone looking for an excuse to use the thing.
Reminds me of that bewildering generated Nosferatu cover
This took more effort to get wrong. Comes across like someone looking for an excuse to use the thing.
Reminds me of that bewildering generated Nosferatu cover
November 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Just having it fade out earlier would have been easier than adding more to the image.
This took more effort to get wrong. Comes across like someone looking for an excuse to use the thing.
Reminds me of that bewildering generated Nosferatu cover
This took more effort to get wrong. Comes across like someone looking for an excuse to use the thing.
Reminds me of that bewildering generated Nosferatu cover
