He restarted the game. The intro sequence played. The drums pounded. The future called.
“No,” Leo said quietly. “I caught an exception.”
For a long moment, Leo didn’t press “OK.” He just sat there, listening to the hum of his Xbox 360’s fan. He imagined a tiny, exhausted programmer at Treyarch, three weeks into a crunch, who had typed that very message as a joke—a placeholder. “We’ll never see this,” the programmer had thought. “It’s just for debugging.”
Leo ignored him. He stared at the error box. It wasn’t just a crash. It was a confession. The game had encountered something it couldn’t classify. A rule broken that no rule was written for. A zombie that tried to pathfind through a wall at the exact nanosecond the game tried to load a tank shell explosion while his controller vibrated at 60Hz. The code had looked at the situation, shrugged, and said: “Exception.”
Black Ops 2 Unexpected | Exception Caught
He restarted the game. The intro sequence played. The drums pounded. The future called.
“No,” Leo said quietly. “I caught an exception.”
For a long moment, Leo didn’t press “OK.” He just sat there, listening to the hum of his Xbox 360’s fan. He imagined a tiny, exhausted programmer at Treyarch, three weeks into a crunch, who had typed that very message as a joke—a placeholder. “We’ll never see this,” the programmer had thought. “It’s just for debugging.”
Leo ignored him. He stared at the error box. It wasn’t just a crash. It was a confession. The game had encountered something it couldn’t classify. A rule broken that no rule was written for. A zombie that tried to pathfind through a wall at the exact nanosecond the game tried to load a tank shell explosion while his controller vibrated at 60Hz. The code had looked at the situation, shrugged, and said: “Exception.”