http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1060825092-80395900
"Various types of mappers
El Explicito:
“I tried the thing, ya know, and it worked, ya know, but now it doesn’t, ya know?”
Advantages: Provides interesting communication challenges.
Disadvantages: So do chimps.
Symptoms: Complete inability to use proper nouns
Mad Bomber:
“Well, I hit Ctrl-Z, Alt-Q, Shift-S, ‘Apply Texture,’ and F2, and now it looks all weird.”
Advantages: Will try to find own solution to problems.
Disadvantages: User might have made every brush into an empty entity without meaning to.
Symptoms: Help files in Navajo as opposed to English; players come out upside-down in the map
Frying Pan/Fire Tactician:
“It didn’t work with the data set we had, so I fed in my aunt’s recipe for key lime pie.”
Advantages: Will usually fix error.
Disadvantages: ‘Fix’ is defined VERY loosely here.
Symptoms: A tendency to delete lines that get errors instead of fixing them.
X-user:
“Will you look at those…um, that resolution, quite impressive, really.”
Advantages: Using the cutting-edge in mapping technology.
Disadvantages: Has little or no idea how to use the cutting-edge in mapping technology.
Symptoms: Frequent “I remember now…” replies when questions are answered
Miracle Worker:
“But it read compiled yesterday!” ‘Sir, at a guess, this map’s code has been maliciously malformed.’ “But I did that a month ago, and it compiled yesterday!”
Advantages: Apparently has remarkable luck when you aren’t around.
Disadvantages: People complain when experienced mappers actually use the word “horse-puckey”.
Symptoms: Loses all ability to do impossible when you’re around. Must be the kryptonite in your pocket.
Maestro:
“Well, first I sat down, like this. Then I logged on, like this, and after that, I typed in my password, like this, and after that I edited my file, like this, and after that I went to this line here, like this, and after that I picked my nose, like this…”
Advantages: Willing to show you exactly what they did to get an error.
Disadvantages: For as long as five or six hours.
Symptoms: Selective deafness to the phrases, “Right, right, okay, but what was the ERROR?”, and a strong fondness for the phrase, “Well, I’m getting to that.”
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