peter gabriel posted:

Just talking to a mate of mine who has spent a year making a VR game, he is loving destroyed.
£520

peter gabriel posted:

I've had these since DK1 days, so I've had years of owning them now.
Everyone, and I do mean everyone really wants one after trying it, but no one, and I do mean, no one has ever bought one that I know after trying it.
These things need to be hung up in Walmart for $150 for them to become mega popular. They need to be seen as just another peripheral instead of some second coming of Christ.
$600, nope not gonna happen.

Bait and Swatch posted:

Step right up to see this next one ladies and gentlemen, truly the wonders of the 'verse never cease. It is sure to and you. I have titled it Brought to you by SCforum member Zealot:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/310241/the-sickening-and-heartbreaking-truths-of-the-fourth-stimpire

"Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will."

Bait and Swatch posted:

Step right up to see this next one ladies and gentlemen, truly the wonders of the 'verse never cease. It is sure to and you. I have titled it Brought to you by SCforum member Zealot:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/310241/the-sickening-and-heartbreaking-truths-of-the-fourth-stimpire

"Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will."

Bait and Swatch posted:

Step right up to see this next one ladies and gentlemen, truly the wonders of the 'verse never cease. It is sure to and you. I have titled it Brought to you by SCforum member Zealot:

https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/310241/the-sickening-and-heartbreaking-truths-of-the-fourth-stimpire

"Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will."

D_Smart posted:

Wait! Get out! Just get the gently caress out. Now. And don't you come back here.

Sarsapariller posted:

I saw it coming because I've been watching Facebook's positioning on this, but I'm still disappointed. Two bundled games announced in the last week, and they gave a free one to all of the original kickstarter backers- but in the end none of that matters. Nobody's going to make games exclusively for what is effectively a new type of monitor that costs twice as much as a console and still requires you to have a full price computer to use it. And you don't even get the controllers! This is really going to damage VR adoption, and by extension, VR developers. gently caress you Facebook, and gently caress you Palmer for selling to Facebook.

The only hope now is that the Vive blows Oculus out of the water. I bought a DK1 and DK2 and loved both of them, but they've totally scuppered any brand loyalty I might have felt.

Sarsapariller posted:

I saw it coming because I've been watching Facebook's positioning on this, but I'm still disappointed. Two bundled games announced in the last week, and they gave a free one to all of the original kickstarter backers- but in the end none of that matters. Nobody's going to make games exclusively for what is effectively a new type of monitor that costs twice as much as a console and still requires you to have a full price computer to use it. And you don't even get the controllers! This is really going to damage VR adoption, and by extension, VR developers. gently caress you Facebook, and gently caress you Palmer for selling to Facebook.

The only hope now is that the Vive blows Oculus out of the water. I bought a DK1 and DK2 and loved both of them, but they've totally scuppered any brand loyalty I might have felt.

OWLS! posted:

OUTPOSTED BY DEREKSMARTED.

D_Smart posted:

I was actually on two phone calls yesterday in which we were discussing that very premise. However, if that was the case, she could have easily overturned the forum ban and somehow declared it a win if Beer (who was so polite in his exchange, I simply couldn't stop laughing. Because, seriously, all I kept thinking was him just playing her like a goddamn fiddle) thanked her, said some shockingly nice things in his closing email.

So no, I don't think that's it because she had to know that refusing to reverse the ban wouldn't achieve that goal.

Right off the bat, she knew who Beer was when she became aware that it was him in the exchange. So I simply have no clue what her motivation was. Notice how did disappeared (6 days) after she had finished with her diatribe. Her equivalent of a [rude] mic drop.

So this exchange was quite possibly a way for her to vent; and in a manner that she couldn't do before. Naturally, not being a very smart person, it backfired. Spectacularly. And we get all the LOLs.

I am hearing (this morning) that yesterday wasn't a good day in the office once she got wind (someone supposedly told her about my tweet) that Beer had made the exchange public.

Sarsapariller posted:

I saw it coming because I've been watching Facebook's positioning on this, but I'm still disappointed. Two bundled games announced in the last week, and they gave a free one to all of the original kickstarter backers- but in the end none of that matters. Nobody's going to make games exclusively for what is effectively a new type of monitor that costs twice as much as a console and still requires you to have a full price computer to use it. And you don't even get the controllers! This is really going to damage VR adoption, and by extension, VR developers. gently caress you Facebook, and gently caress you Palmer for selling to Facebook.

The only hope now is that the Vive blows Oculus out of the water. I bought a DK1 and DK2 and loved both of them, but they've totally scuppered any brand loyalty I might have felt.

KiddieGrinder posted:

Interesting choice of words from Eurogamer.

"The 50 most exciting games of 2016"

Otto Xander posted:

What I'm saying is that Goons and Derek are cool and good.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Rift would be €700, about $750 plus shipping for me

Holy poo poo

A Neurotic Jew posted:

I think Sandi was still really hurt by Beer's statement about SC backers potentially killing themselves and how that would be on Sandi's shoulders

Berious posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/misc.php?action=whoposted&threadid=3748466

gently caress yes, I made the cut. Best thread ever.

spacetoaster posted:

Wow that's bad.

Have you got the link to the one where Ben is the horrible overlord raping people to death while eating bacon wrapped turkeys?

Iglocska posted:

Aren't you paying customs on the price including the delivery in Swedenland? It's (600 euroes + deliver) * vat + whatever your dear customs office decides to charge as the handling fee. Over here in Norway this would be around 820 euroes

Tippis posted:

Well, that's only fair. You have to be punished for 1814 and all that oil money somehow.

Iglocska posted:

I cannot take a list like that seriously. No Homeworld? GTFO.

Bait and Swatch posted: