These Bug Reports Suck

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These Bug Reports Suck

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When your user reports that the app "glitches and summons a tornado" on their house, you know you're dealing with a special kind of bug report. The expected behavior? "The app crashes instead of summoning a tornado." Because apparently crashing is the reasonable alternative here.

The actual behavior is even better: their insurance company dropped them. And the steps to reproduce? "I have no idea. It happens rarely, randomly, and with seemingly no common cause." Chef's kiss. That's the holy trinity of impossible-to-debug issues right there.

But wait, there's more! They helpfully included a picture of the tornado. Because nothing says "professional bug report" like attaching evidence of property damage. At least they provided system info though—Ubuntu 25.04 with dual GPUs. Clearly the tornado is a GPU driver conflict.

Username "TheBrokenRail" checks out. Can't reproduce, closing as "works on my machine." 🌪️

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