More Awesome Than You!

There is this "Stupid String" pop-up (where the promotions are, etc.) that comes up occasionally and although it doesn't seem to affect anything, nevertheless I wondered what it is.  I know it's a programmer's phrase of some sort, but what exactly does it mean?

Uhh, was that necessary?  ::)

I think Ancient is being affected by Cassandra-Syndrome!

For some reason that response by Ancient Sim made me laugh. Really hard.
I had to revisit this this thread a couple of times, just to giggle.

She has that effect on most of us!  I think she does it deliberately because she thinks we need cheering up!

I've never seen a "stupid string" popup. Presumably, it means your string is stupid in some way, either being nonexistent or malformed.

It is also clearly the work of the non-awesome. And Ancient Sim sucks.

Yes, definitely a good thread for a giggle...  and yes, it did cheer me up!

It's a real thing, not a joke.  Anyway, I talked to twojeffs and I think I know what it is after that.

Pescado, it is not the work of the non-awesome.  Apparently it may be a Maxis debug string, left over, as there are a lot of those.

I think that would rate as non-awesome to JM!

Just to clear up the mystery, it is a Maxis string. It can show up during the headmaster scenario and possibly the join greek house scenario and it doesn't hurt anything.

Hmm...so twojeffs are now officially More Awesome Than Pescado.

Thanks for clearing up the mystery, TJ.  ;D

He's also politer!

Heh. I kinda figured it was a debug possible placeholder. I don't think it's a common, coder/programmer specific thing, as I personally have never heard of that specific phrase. But then again, I sort of haven't been up to speed on things in the coder/programming/hacker community. So if it's new, it's new(s) to me. :P

It is somewhat common practice to use random words as placeholders for variables and debugging stuff. Foo, bar or foobar are very common. When I was in school... heh, a majority of my debugging comments often involved colorful phrases such as:

This fucking thing doesn't work!

Fuckity, fuck, fuck fuck!

Frickfrackinfuck!

Shitty piece of shit!

And the like. :P Kind of funny when you're working on a group project, and something craps out, and my partners see my debugging messages. lol. The majortiy of my classes, I almost always had solo projects, so I never had to worry about that before. Not exactly the most professional, but hey, it works, and it was good for a laugh. ;D

Stupid string probably just refers to that, it's a stupid string. :P I attempted to google this, and although I found a few references to stupid string, I don't think 'stupid string' is necessarily a specific phrase. Strings tend to just be stupid sometimes, especially a pain when it comes to trying to modify them. In some languages, strings aren't mutable (not easily manipulated) unless you use specific string functions.

As for in-game, I don't think I've personally witnessed this yet. But I have seen some debugging comments in Maxian code before with some funny messages.

Ste

There are a few of those "more colorful" phrases left in also, although not quite that colorful. :o Mainly in the debug objects and stuff.