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brand engager
Mar 23, 2011


~My omen~ was there.

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hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
I never played eve but I did play another game with balistafreak and he was great I miss him you guys would be lucky to have him especially in your mumble.

FruitNYogurtParfait
Mar 29, 2006

Sion lied. Deadtear died for our sins. #VengeanceForDeadtear
#PunGateNeverForget
#ModLivesMatter

hakimashou posted:

I never played eve but I did play another game with balistafreak and he was great I miss him you guys would be lucky to have him especially in your mumble.
damning with faint praise tbh

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




hakimashou posted:

I never played eve but I did play another game with balistafreak and he was great I miss him you guys would be lucky to have him especially in your mumble.

We're not fun enough for him.

balistafreak
Oct 30, 2012

Dalael posted:

I think you either have lovely friends, or they know better than to spend valuable time with you.

Nah, we did/do stuff every week. It's just where I'd say "I have to spend time with the girl this weekend, so let's do something after work on Friday", he would say "I have to hellcamp a station". When I'd say "I have to head out of town to pick up my brother from the airport Tuesday", he'd reply with "we can't do Wednesday myself, that's when I have to FC", and then we'd end up getting lunch on Thursday. Basically used EVE online as a catch-all excuse.

It's interesting seeing how much of a better rounded person he is now that he isn't replacing all legitimate ways to be busy with EVE. I found out he's into car engines, for example. Not that EVE isn't a legit way to be busy, heh.

Kiryen posted:

If you need to jack off, you can get porn with a lot less effort than assembling a collection of perfectly good ships to take up hangar space.

Honestly that hangar didn't start as an intentionally constructed monument to dickery or anything. It literally got started because we had enough money from the ISK part of the "ransoms" to pay for everything we needed: first ships, then blingy ships, then PLEX to resub, then second and third accounts, and then purchased characters to fill out all the niches. It got to the point where every time we said amongst ourselves "we should get the modules off that [recent acquisition] and ship it to jita", everyone would agree, and then no one would get around to doing it. When we had fifteen or so ships stacked up the suggestion was raised to just keep it that way and mothball all future ships there as well for the sake of tidiness. The rest is history.

Berious
Nov 13, 2005

balistafreak posted:

Social pressure is a helluva thing. I've heard enough griping and groaning about the latest "man I was up until __________ because I had to shoot a structure/make a reinforcement timer/stick with a committed fleet that escalated and went to TIDI/stay with a roam". Sure, there's a narrative of "we don't force anyone to do anything", but in every organization/guild/clan/whatever there's expectations and a culture to help out the guy next to you and listen to some degree about what anyone in leadership says, and they felt it, they felt that they "had to" do things they didn't want to and/or like. Don't tell me that doesn't exist in GSF, because otherwise GSF would never have gotten anything done. You might not call it a CTA and you might not mandate attendance, but at the end of the day there's going to be big group stuff happening that people will be getting involved with and unfortunately 100% of that is so unappealing to me I really just want to distance myself from it as far as possible.

To make an analogy, I consider big nullsec stuff to be like a cult that you absolutely cannot stomach the idea of. The people in the cult might be super pleasant and cool outside of that cult, but at the end of the day the fact that they're in that cult bothers you so much that you just can't bring yourself to become extremely close friends with them, the kind who would be your best man at a wedding or give you a place to sleep when your house burns down, because you know that inevitably the cult is going to become part of that friendship; because it's such a big part of the other person's life, befriending them means getting involved with that cult to some degree. Not saying that GSF is a cult (lol) but that's just how I feel.

I afk ratted for a super while a million TIDI fights went on and never felt any social pressure to do anything. Anyone who gave you poo poo about doing your own thing would be laughed out of the space guild. Your hang ups about 0.0 are in your head. at least where goons are concerned

Berious
Nov 13, 2005

Eonwe posted:

eve is really bad

:agreed:

Berious
Nov 13, 2005

One DOT vs two DOTS. The outcome was never really in doubt.

Kimsemus
Dec 4, 2013

by Reene
Toilet Rascal

Xolve posted:

By the time I had logged in (late US TZ) we were told not to login supers, and Phal had started tallying losses for reimbursement.

Anyone saying we weren't hosed from the moment Manny dropped sov is an idiot and a liar.

I have said this from the time B-R has happened and people still feel the need to white knight Manny and his obviously poor judgment. It is good to see I'm not the only one who felt like we were screwed pretty much from the moment the first cynos went up.

justsharkbait
Dec 20, 2013

HOO HA HA
Grimey Drawer

Kimsemus posted:

I have said this from the time B-R has happened and people still feel the need to white knight Manny and his obviously poor judgment. It is good to see I'm not the only one who felt like we were screwed pretty much from the moment the first cynos went up.

I still don't know why people think that though. Never once did I hear anything like "oh we got this boyz!!" It was understood we were hosed. PL may have been a bit.....overly optimistic, but I mean we knew what we were losing versus killing.

CashEnsign
Feb 7, 2015
I played Elite Dangerous today for the first time and had to self destruct my ship because I ran out of fuel and the station wouldn't let me dock. I have found first person Eve and it's more desolate than my love life. 10/10

Kesper North
Nov 3, 2011

EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

CashEnsign posted:

I played Elite Dangerous today for the first time and had to self destruct my ship because I ran out of fuel and the station wouldn't let me dock. I have found first person Eve and it's more desolate than my love life. 10/10

A hundred thousand lightyears across and an inch deep, I'm afraid.

balistafreak
Oct 30, 2012

CashEnsign posted:

I played Elite Dangerous today for the first time and had to self destruct my ship because I ran out of fuel and the station wouldn't let me dock. I have found first person Eve and it's more desolate than my love life. 10/10

This:

Kesper North posted:

A hundred thousand lightyears across and an inch deep, I'm afraid.

They advertise some really huge numbers that make it sound like there's tons of content (omigod, literally a billion different planets and systems and whatever! literally more content than you can experience in an entire lifetime!!!1!!one) but anyone with a brain will predict/quickly realize that that's only because they're all pretty much the same. Once you've seen a few, you've seen them all. Last I played the PVP was poo poo too. Sure, two idiots with lovely ships might have an amusing squeaky-mallet fight to find out who's slightly less incompetent than the other, but anyone with high-tier equipment,, half a brain, and a willingness to drop money on consumables kills said idiot as a matter of course, and in the absolutely miraculous happenstance encounter with another said "expert" (for certain, low-bar definitions of expert) the battle swiftly becomes "who's used less of their consumables on other players before this fight". I hope it's gotten better since release but from what I've heard through the grapevine it really hasn't.

Elite is a 20 year old game wrapped up in a modern-day engine. It looks pretty and some fundamentals of spehss combat are occasionally entertaining, but the meta-tier gameplay is pretty much nonexistent and by modern standards is absolutely inadequate.

Haquer
Nov 15, 2009

That windswept look...

Kesper North posted:

A hundred thousand lightyears across and an inch deep, I'm afraid.

H-how did you find a picture of my dick???

Xolve
Oct 12, 2012

Well, shoot! We ain't come this far just to dump this thing in the drink. What's the nearest target opportunity?

justsharkbait posted:

I still don't know why people think that though. Never once did I hear anything like "oh we got this boyz!!" It was understood we were hosed. PL may have been a bit.....overly optimistic, but I mean we knew what we were losing versus killing.

We killed Sort Dragon, for most of PL- that was enough.

Xolve fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Feb 2, 2016

DarkMalfunction
Sep 5, 2014

balistafreak posted:

Elite EVE Online is a 20 13 year old game wrapped up in a modern-day buggy engine. It looks pretty like a college student's Unity project and some fundamentals of spehss sperge combat are occasionally entertaining functional, but the meta-tier gameplay is pretty much non-existent the same stuff done to death over the last decade and by modern standards is absolutely inadequate.

fyp

Jon Von Anchovi
Sep 5, 2014

:australia:
Hello eonwe and fellow goons I am new to this forum but I was told that since I have paid I am welcome to join all threads. This game looks cool and fun can I join your clan?

Blazing Zero
Sep 7, 2012

*sigh* sure. it's a weed joke
yeah, welcome to the clan

mehall
Aug 27, 2010



Yeah, about that.....

Jon Von Anchovi
Sep 5, 2014

:australia:

Blazing Zero posted:

yeah, welcome to the clan

thank you friend

Jon Von Anchovi
Sep 5, 2014

:australia:

mehall posted:

Yeah, about that.....

sorry fellows and ladies i dont mind :heysexy:

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Blazing Zero posted:

yeah, welcome to the clan

Boosh me in AO. TIA.

WhoNeedsAName
Nov 30, 2013

mehall posted:

Yeah, about that.....

Jon Von Anchovi posted:

sorry fellows and ladies i dont mind :heysexy:


Considering that a lot of us are sexually identified as porpoise I also find that offensive.

Jon Von Anchovi
Sep 5, 2014

:australia:

WhoNeedsAName posted:

Considering that a lot of us are sexually identified as porpoise I also find that offensive.

I sexually Identify as an suicide Catalyst. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the asteroid belts dropping hot sticky plasma on disgusting miners.

Blazing Zero
Sep 7, 2012

*sigh* sure. it's a weed joke

Unfunny Poster posted:

Boosh me in AO. TIA.
im not playing that game until SI stops going in the aggressively bad direction, development wise

Zakrello
Feb 17, 2015

missile imbound

Jon Von Anchovi posted:

I sexually Identify as an suicide Catalyst. Ever since I was a boy I dreamed of soaring over the asteroid belts dropping hot sticky plasma on disgusting miners.

okay

dream bigger, go shoot a butt sized freighter

1001 Arabian dicks
Sep 16, 2013

EVE ONLINE IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY BECAUSE IM A FRIENDLESS SEMILITERATE LOSER WHO WILL PEDANTICALLY DEMAND PROOF FOR BASIC THINGS LIKE GRAVITY OR THE EXISTENCE OF SELF. ASK ME ABOUT CHEATING AT TARKOV BECAUSE, WELL, SEE ABOVE
So I posted something in the albion online subreddit and AOMonochrome responded to me, that's the CCP Greyscale dude right?

1001 Arabian dicks fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Feb 3, 2016

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




avatarinwin posted:

So I posted something in the albion onlike subreddit and AOMonochrome responded to me, that's the CCP Greyscale dude right?

The one and only

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
DUST 514 is being shut down on May 30th, and CCP confirmed they're still working on a PC version

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=225484

quote:

Dear DUST 514 Community,

CCP’s development team in Shanghai has been working on a prototype for a first-person shooter for PC with the goal of building a great FPS set in our sci-fi universe of New Eden (the universe in which EVE Online, DUST 514, EVE: Valkyrie, and Gunjack are set). Their experience is being utilized to build a new game from scratch using Unreal Engine 4 while harnessing all our learnings from DUST 514. This is in many ways an evolution of Project Legion, the concept we announced at EVE Fanfest 2014, but without the limitations of technical debt and development paths we quickly discovered in that effort that could never serve as a future-proof technology base for a full production game. This new project is still in an early phase of production, and we feel like we’re on the right track and plan to give an update at EVE Fanfest on April 21st as a part of the free livestream of the event. Since this new game will be different from DUST 514 (although keeping many of its great parts), we will provide tiered recognition rewards to our loyal DUST customers, details to be announced.

We are very proud of what we’ve learned and accomplished with DUST 514 on PlayStation 3 over the past three years and it is an honor to be a part of such a dedicated community. We consider DUST 514 one of the best free-to-play offerings on the platform, but the years have caught up with us. It is with a heavy heart that we inform you that DUST 514 will be shutting down on May 30th, 2016. We therefore will not be releasing the 1.3 update as we had planned. Players will continue to be able to play for free on our servers until then, but all further PSN packs and purchases have been removed and disabled from the in-game marketplace and the PlayStation Store. Players with existing Aurum will be able to continue to purchase items from the in-game marketplace.

Thank you for being a part of DUST 514 on the PlayStation 3. We look forward to the next chapter, and hope you’ll be a part of it and continue the journey with us.

Cannon_Fodder
Jul 17, 2007

"Hey, where did Steve go?"
Design by Kamoc
Why do we STILL have 2 threads?

And why is one run by a total goddamn moron?

Hint: Not Endie

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cannon_Fodder posted:

Why do we STILL have 2 threads?

And why is one run by a total goddamn moron?

Hint: Not Endie

This is the chill thread. You need to be chill to post here.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Cannon_Fodder posted:

Why do we STILL have 2 threads?

And why is one run by a total goddamn moron?

Hint: Not Endie

lol

Hexel
Nov 18, 2011




Cannon_Fodder posted:

Why do we STILL have 2 threads?

And why is one run by a total goddamn moron?

Hint: Not Endie

Two threads = twice the opportunity to post :shibe:

FruitNYogurtParfait
Mar 29, 2006

Sion lied. Deadtear died for our sins. #VengeanceForDeadtear
#PunGateNeverForget
#ModLivesMatter

Cannon_Fodder posted:

Why do we STILL have 2 threads?

And why is one run by a total goddamn moron?

Hint: Not Endie

calm down

Foehammer007
Dec 7, 2011

by Pragmatica
got some toonies

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
its sad that the Bernie supporter thinks im an idiot when I got the sanderistas tag added to SA

JERK!!!!!!!!!!

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
nice meltdown

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
or alternatively, im sorry you have to...idk? look at two topics on the topic list?

it must be tough

FruitNYogurtParfait
Mar 29, 2006

Sion lied. Deadtear died for our sins. #VengeanceForDeadtear
#PunGateNeverForget
#ModLivesMatter

Eonwe posted:

nice meltdown

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Probation
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Unfunny Poster posted:

DUST 514 is being shut down on May 30th, and CCP confirmed they're still working on a PC version

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=225484

lmao called it a long rear end time ago that this was going to happen. Laughing at the people who told me that Dust 514 was going to grow into something that wasn't the piece of poo poo its been since day one.

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