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Beer, please stop sending imaginary emails to CIG CS, you're keeping their imaginary support staff from dealing with real space issues!!!
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Jan 23, 2016 09:33
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Jonny Nox posted:X-wing also had a button that turned off the cockpit for dogfighting. It left the radar circles on though so you could maintain situational awareness. My immersion!
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Jan 23, 2016 09:33
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Jan 23, 2016 09:36
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Agrajag posted:no amount of "fat shaming is bad" posts are going to make me stop making fun of the mess t-rex is Hi Sandi I know you're not really sweating stressing Ben into an early grave but you should watch Akira sometime and take the fate of Tetsuo's girlfriend as a cautionary tale.
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Jan 23, 2016 09:42
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TTerrible posted:Phone posting too so I can't link it - but he claimed there was going to be a congress of the damned led by Croberts in LA in two weeks. They were going to outline how they were going to cancel things and cut features going forward. Oh snap This is gonna be amazing.
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Jan 23, 2016 09:44
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Daztek posted:Beer, please stop sending imaginary emails to CIG CS, you're keeping their imaginary support staff from dealing with real space issues!!! i sure hope its not goons sending CS tickets and that its really disillusioned backers requesting refunds.
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Jan 23, 2016 10:04
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ZenMaster posted:Why does the rift need 2x the processing power? Couldn't you just have the left eye monitor take a photo of what the right eye is seeing and display it at the same time (or fast enough to not notice) or is our eyeline that offset that you need two slightly different views? Couldn't you trick the brain? I assume they thought of this, but it seems simple enough! 1. Because it is displaying two slightly different view perspectives, which, as far as the GPU is concerned, requires two complete renders - occlusion, visibility culling, shadow volumes... everything needs to be recalculated. 2. a) No, because that would be perceived as 2D by the brain (and might even make you a little disoriented) b) Yes, the spacing between the eyes (called the interpupillary distance) is what grants a significant enough perspective shift that the brain can interpret a scene as three-dimensional 3. We are already tricking the brain... we are presenting two completely separate 2D renders simultaneously to trick the brain into perceiving it as a three-dimensional scene ;-) The concept is simple enough... the tech required to actually pull it off convincingly is not. The Rift represents the first device approaching the mainstream market to deliver a solid VR experience that doesn't make you blow chunks as soon as you move your head.
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Jan 23, 2016 10:11
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Jan 23, 2016 10:12
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It is weird and mean spirited to keep riffing on a weight problem. I'm not your mom, so say whatever you want. But it's usually considered equally mean spirited to make fun of poverty or depression or drug abuse. We can make fun of his weird devotion to Wing Commander instead.
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Jan 23, 2016 10:26
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Nemo2342 posted:I have a couple hundred pages to go before I catch up with the thread again, but can someone please tell me if we freed Kimsemus yet? holy...you are really back there lol
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Jan 23, 2016 10:30
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Mendrian posted:It is weird and mean spirited to keep riffing on a weight problem. I'm not your mom, so say whatever you want. But it's usually considered equally mean spirited to make fun of poverty or depression or drug abuse. Which ties in with his complete disconnection from reality! (Jealous of him being married to an actual woman.  )
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Jan 23, 2016 10:34
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ben fat also I submitted about 25 bogus CS tickets today, been averaging over twenty a day probably
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Jan 23, 2016 10:39
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Mendrian posted:It is weird and mean spirited to keep riffing on a weight problem. I'm not your mom, so say whatever you want. But it's usually considered equally mean spirited to make fun of poverty or depression or drug abuse. where do 9/11 jokes fall on this scale of laughing at people falling to fat/poor shaming?
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Speaking of which, here's her from an old Soundcloud profile (the skinny Ben post made me think of it.) And now...  Don't you Citizenry fools see it! CIG KILLS, MAN, CIG KILLS! And all to amuse your pointy little heads! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Samizdata posted:Speaking of which, here's her from an old Soundcloud profile (the skinny Ben post made me think of it.) Come on man.......seriously  I'm all for making jokes about a fatman and skeletor but leave the woman out of it *whiteknight my work is done* *this post is mildly sarcastic*
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Mendrian posted:It is weird and mean spirited to keep riffing on a weight problem. I'm not your mom, so say whatever you want. But it's usually considered equally mean spirited to make fun of poverty or depression or drug abuse. Yeah but it's easier to control your weight than it is your finial situation or drug abuse. Like, dude blew up in 3 years. That's actually amazing that someone gained possibly 200 lbs in such a short amount of time. Obligatory Ben is a fat gently caress who has bigger tits than his wife post.
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Romes128 posted:Yeah but it's easier to control your weight than it is your finial situation or drug abuse. Ben is a medical marvel who will be studied by future scientists
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Jan 23, 2016 11:38
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Getting back to the discussion of spaceship aesthetics, I think what bothers me about SC's designs is not so much the disparity between them, but the lack of any in-universe rules governing their appearance. To use Star Trek as an example, while Federation and Klingon starships are instantly recognisable as being distinct from one another, the rules of the universe mean there are common design elements between the two. The engines are the big blue rails mounted away from the ship, and the nature of 25th century combat means the weapons are all recessed. There's also the fact that, until Deep Space Nine, the ships all had to exist as physical models. Designers had to work within the budgetary and practical limitations imposed upon them. CR's games have no deep thought put into the practicalities of how their ships get from A to B. There are no rules about how propulsion works, what scientific breakthroughs brought them into an age of relatively easy and accessible interstellar travel. Weapons protrude from the hull or are mounted in turrets, even when such design choices make absolutely no sense. Their incorporation in the PU shows that "make it so it will work" wasn't an instruction SC's artists heard nearly often enough, if at all. You can accept a bit of artistic licence and suspend disbelief when something just needs to look cool and distinctive. But when absolutely everything has to look boss, when that's the only design rule artists have been given to work with, what you end up with is a mess. SC's ships don't even look like they serve the same purpose or follow the same physical laws, let alone belong in the same universe as each other. poo poo, maybe that's the whole point? Maybe this is like Light by M John Harrison, where absolutely any set of halfway-grounded scientific theories eventually gets you to the stars.
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What with the ships looking like they are made for atmospheric flight, I guess all the pointy gun bits would melt off when entering athnosphere at speed, right?
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LachlanJ posted:Getting back to the discussion of spaceship aesthetics But enough about Ben.
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Hopper posted:What with the ships looking like they are made for atmospheric flight, I guess all the pointy gun bits would melt off when entering athnosphere at speed, right? Literally more thought than CIG have put into this.
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CrazyLoon posted:In case you haven't noticed, this thread is definitely not just about 'real issues worthy of discussion'. To be sure, that tends to be the case whenever goons argue anything on Reddit or elsewhere, but ITT the focus shifts from it primarily, because they have been discussed dozens upon dozens of times already by those of us, who have watched this trainwreck for 2 or 3 years now. So because sperging about CIG's litany of problems becomes tired and old at some point, this thread finds other ways to amuse itself. I pretty much agree with this. And I don't get the Ben pity, yeah he went into this with the delusion that Croberts was the second coming of space Jesus and it's legit sad to see someone have their faith broken like that but Ben is a huge shitheel of a toady and unlike Chris and Sandi who are in it for the money the only thing he gets from going out of his way to be an rear end in a top hat is the satisfaction of lording it over the community he was supposed to nourish. The Star Citizen community is the worst part of this whole trainwreck and it became this bad largely because of Ben. Let's face it, this motherfucker was never the most popular guy at school and here he is with the power to crush dissent and do as he will with griefers and goons. You give him a little power he became a petty tyrant. I don't give a poo poo if it's fat shaming, if he was thin or had big ears or a big nose or terrible clothes or used glasses or was bald I'd mock him for that. gently caress you Ben.
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Jan 23, 2016 12:02
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Awyeah, another 8gb patch to update some xml files.
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I wonder if Ben ever wakes up in the night in a cold sweat because he's literally killing himself for a scam game by a hack movie director who'll trample over anyone to worm his way back into Hollywood. Also the sleep apnea.
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Daztek posted:Awyeah, another 8gb patch to update some xml files. All these gigabytes means development is faster than ever, checkmate goonies
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Hopper posted:What with the ships looking like they are made for atmospheric flight, I guess all the pointy gun bits would melt off when entering athnosphere at speed, right? No because space-magic shields protect them, something that humanity will come up with by the year 3000 something when the game is set. Unlike weapons that have a range beyond 5km, technology for that just isn't there yet.
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Justin Tyme posted:also I submitted about 25 bogus CS tickets today, been averaging over twenty a day probably I don't even own Star Citizen and they're still trying to answer my tickets it's pretty great. I've been getting step by step instructions on how to climb a ladder for the last week and they've bounced me across three different people trying to figure out why I'm not able to get in my spaceship. I'm waiting a week before I clarify the ladder isn't actually in game and leads to my roof and that I have to keep climbing back down it to report my relative successes to them.
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I don't even own Star Citizen and they're still trying to answer my tickets it's pretty great. I've been getting step by step instructions on how to climb a ladder for the last week and they've bounced me across three different people trying to figure out why I'm not able to get in my spaceship. I'm waiting a week before I clarify the ladder isn't actually in game and leads to my roof and that I have to keep climbing back down it to report my relative successes to them.   now that's a good post!
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I don't even own Star Citizen and they're still trying to answer my tickets it's pretty great. I've been getting step by step instructions on how to climb a ladder for the last week and they've bounced me across three different people trying to figure out why I'm not able to get in my spaceship. I'm waiting a week before I clarify the ladder isn't actually in game and leads to my roof and that I have to keep climbing back down it to report my relative successes to them. lmao post the email
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Ghostlight posted:fukken cattebeasts  goons posted:
instead of posting about how sad it is that he put on a lot of weight maybe we could post examples of how lovely he has been to the community? I've only seen a few of the videos he's in and every time he seemed like he was having a good time and not being a dick.
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I miss when atleast 10% of the thread was about the game. Now people just come here to make the 1000th hrrrr Lesnick is fat:  me too +1joke when you know half these fkers are covered in Cheeto dust.
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mrking posted:i sure hope its not goons sending CS tickets and that its really disillusioned backers requesting refunds. Right now, CIG claims to have 1,177,197 backers, if we assume that number is grossly inflated, we can guess that there are 500,000 people who have invested something into the game. If only 1% of those people have some kind of question or comment, that's 5,000 CS tickets. Even if everyone in this thread sent them some stupid question about space cats, it would still be a drop in the bucket compared to what they should be getting from non-goon sources. sanctimoniousqfd posted:1. Because it is displaying two slightly different view perspectives, which, as far as the GPU is concerned, requires two complete renders - occlusion, visibility culling, shadow volumes... everything needs to be recalculated. The two cameras are right next to each other though, is there really no way to re-use calculations from the one render pass in the other? Though now I think about it, I guess that kind of optimization would require a render pipeline specifially optimized for VR, which isn't what most games are going to offer.
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mrking posted:instead of posting about how sad it is that he put on a lot of weight maybe we could post examples of how lovely he has been to the community? I've only seen a few of the videos he's in and every time he seemed like he was having a good time and not being a dick. Agreed, whenever I see the guy in a video he seems pretty friendly and nice. His forum posts make me want to stab my monitor though.
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ewe2 posted:
I fully expect this to be the last thing I ever see when the saucers come for us all. Catte typing on the keyboard isn't just random. Its encrypted messages for the mothership sdckljzsdlkchjzlskdhjfljkefklsjerh indeed doctor catte. wewerwerwxdrgxdrgxdrg indeed.
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fuzzknot posted:1/2 cup (2 sticks) butter your baking math is hosed
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Officer Sandvich posted:your baking math is hosed All this "sticks" and "cups" bullshit it what's hosed. Civilised people use weights, preferably grams. A gram is a gram is a gram, no need to worry if a store has packaged something in an unusual way or if you've chopped something too finely or coarsely or left air pockets in your weird scoop. Plus no need to cram butter into a second container, just cut a bit off the block and weigh it.
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Fatkraken posted:All this "sticks" and "cups" bullshit it what's hosed. Civilised people use weights, preferably grams. A gram is a gram is a gram, no need to worry if a store has packaged something in an unusual way or if you've chopped something too finely or coarsely or left air pockets in your weird scoop. Plus no need to cram butter into a second container, just cut a bit off the block and weigh it. loving oath.
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