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alf_pogs posted:also the thread title is heinal The thread title is what this thread deserves (it sucks) No Mods No Masters posted:As for myself, I don't think there should be any mods  but you have to work within the system we have even if one day you will overthrow it
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No Mods No Masters posted:As for myself, I don't think there should be any mods close thread
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the best thing i get out of this is how the SC community thinks SA is composed of nothing but 100% SC haters and trolls, and forgets it's one lovely thread in a cesspool of green and brown and think this forum is irrelevant
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No Starfarer this month?    I don't know who the trolls are anymore
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Daztek posted:I don't know who the trolls are anymore chris roberts and derek smart
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grimcreaper posted:This means war. The best worst kind of war that doubles every second. Prepare to be litigated. The legal fees triple every second!
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Daztek posted:No Starfarer this month? He's not wrong, Star Citizen is marching forward towards its grave faster than anyone else out there.
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Feb 21, 2016 11:32
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Will Derek produce his lines before Star Citizen tanks?
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ZenMaster posted:Is there any reason why CIG wouldn't want to finish the game? Like The Producers. Derek, Beer? Any reason why they would be incentivized to not finish and keep restarting the dev cycle as they have been doing? I can think of one good reason to keep doing what they've been doing:  if untappedMoney > 0: jpg() else: go(cuba) If they keep getting ridiculous amounts of money for little-to-no output, what's their incentive to increase output and potentially reduce their income because of disappointed backers?
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Something deja vu-ish in my head of late, finally figured it out. I've seen a lot of the Citizen thought process before in audiophiles. Talk of "fidelity", acceptance of stupid expenses for imaginary benefits, hardware porn, the posturing by the whales - it all fits.  I just paid $15,000 for machine park of audio equipment - gold cables (none of that gold-plated poo poo lol), electrostatic speakers, laserdisc player, amp, receivers, the works Uh, cool I guess. What you gonna listen to? Huh? Oh, some Eric Clapton and Dire Straits I guess I wonder how many SC whales are audiophiles as well
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Something deja vu-ish in my head of late, finally figured it out. I've seen a lot of the Citizen thought process before in audiophiles. Only DIAMOND-PLATED audio equipment is good enough to listen to Full Burn
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Enchanted Hat posted:Only DIAMOND-PLATED audio equipment is good enough to listen to Full Burn Can confirm. I tried listening with pleb copper cables and my speakers began FULL BURNING
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Thankfully, digital cables have killed much of the cable porn which was the stupidest part of audiophilia Still lot of stupid to go though
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googlebutt is right and this thread is dog poo poo now. i nominate gorf to do a massive effort-post detailing all the hilarious poo poo as the new op. i also posit that only gorf, b4tbg, derek, eightace (rip), minificus, bootcha, the guy who does the stimpire comics and the two guys that modify classic artwork into unbelievably good owns are allowed to post there.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Thankfully, digital cables have killed much of the cable porn which was the stupidest part of audiophilia So you'd think. Gold plated digital cables baby, Monster still needs to make a livin' off of fools.
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Marching Powder posted:googlebutt is right and this thread is dog poo poo now. i decided not to do the stimpire gang tags after much soul searching but i still have one comic to go to wrap up that saga
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I'd contend that the move into everything digital has made audiophiles even worse. Exhibit A: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2012/03/26/wiredream-silver-sata/1 Exhibit B: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/07/gallery-we-tear-apart-a-340-audiophile-ethernet-cable-and-look-inside/
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Iglocska posted:So you'd think. Gold plated digital cables baby, Monster still needs to make a livin' off of fools.  Oh, you're not kidding. Still a fair bit cheaper than ye olde SHIELDED FIDRLITY MAXX style analog cables I just hope people know they're burning money 
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:
It depends. I think most of the target audience is gaining real value out of it, by buying the right to be smug cunts and feeling superior infront of their buddies. $80 is peanuts for that! It's basically made for the Wesha Archetype.
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TTerrible posted:I'd contend that the move into everything digital has made audiophiles even worse. what the gently caress
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Ok I knew audiophiles were pretty resistent to evidence, but now it's just unashamed techno-homeopathy
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Marching Powder posted:googlebutt is right and this thread is dog poo poo now. The problem is SC literally generates no content. Leaving it to people like me and you to post absolute dogshit and nothing else. Nothing.
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I always wanted to make money selling nonsense to audiophiles but the marketing budget required is such a cock block.
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hottubrhymemachine posted:I always wanted to make money selling nonsense to audiophiles but the marketing budget required is such a cock block. just use kickstarter
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hottubrhymemachine posted:I always wanted to make money selling nonsense to audiophiles but the marketing budget required is such a cock block. Get a kickstarter. All you need is a good pitch. efb
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Mirificus posted:
Automatically? I don't think B'tak understands game development. If there are space hall monitors there will be a space hall monitor jpeg
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Marching Powder posted:i also posit that only gorf, b4tbg, derek, eightace (rip), minificus, bootcha, the guy who does the stimpire comics and the two guys that modify classic artwork into unbelievably good owns are allowed to post there. no  ? a shocking oversight
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alf_pogs posted:no shameful. but based on that frog video he seems spacesick and maybe could use a rest
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peter gabriel posted:*Meanwhile at Blizzard HQ* Wow this is some good lore man 
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Timeboxing is a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Look inside yourself, you gotta timebox him out of existence!" TMEBOX YEEEAH!
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Toops posted:True fact: I just implemented Bird AI to Solar Plebeian's first animated bird. Hell. Yes.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:what the gently caress A friend runs this to collate examples of terrible people who are bad with money.
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I've only been following this thread since around page 1700, so apologies if this has been mentioned before, but something that bugs me is the constant insistence that 'all money goes towards development of the game', which although technically correct, could include the top management paying themselves outrageous salaries ($1 million per annum each for example), the possibility of money being spent on shady 'consultants', what seems to me to be an overly-complicated network of companies in various legal/financial jurisdictions (making following the money tricky), and I can see numerous ways of siphoning off millions of dollars while still being able to say that 'all money goes towards development of the game'. This is all guesswork on my part, I have no proof and am not saying that this IS what's happening, but it would explain why CIG are so reluctant to release any financials
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I think it's pretty much assumed that they are taking a sizable chunk for themselves and their friends. Probably expected to spend far less on developing the game than they have accounted for while drawing huge salaries as well. "The backers will never know" and all that. Can they even be held personally liable when this finally goes tits up and jank rear end squad 42: chapter 7 bankruptcy edition is all that's released?
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If there's one kind of shitposting we should discourage it's the "buuuhhh threadd sux close thread" thing It's more annoying than Derek's copyright teachings Ponzi posted:I've only been following this thread since around page 1700, so apologies if this has been mentioned before, but something that bugs me is the constant insistence that 'all money goes towards development of the game', which although technically correct, could include the top management paying themselves outrageous salaries ($1 million per annum each for example), the possibility of money being spent on shady 'consultants', what seems to me to be an overly-complicated network of companies in various legal/financial jurisdictions (making following the money tricky), and I can see numerous ways of siphoning off millions of dollars while still being able to say that 'all money goes towards development of the game'. This is a good point. I mean, when it came out Sandi had used CIG resources for stuff for her  actress career she claimed she had paid for it herself. Like, how?
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Ponzi posted:This is all guesswork on my part, I have no proof and am not saying that this IS what's happening, but it would explain why CIG are so reluctant to release any financials I assure you that it is not a big revelation that CIG hands out cushy jobs to family and friends.
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Per Eightace, they extract money by starting up lots of companies with people at the top owning stock, then have CIG buy it out Probably learned a lot from the Gizmondo experience. If the Elmses, Robertses and Freyermuth came out of that shitheap not smelling of feces, they'll either manage this one great as well - or they've become overconfident and begun making stupid mistakes. My bet is they'll never have to answer for any of it
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