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revmoo: May 25, 2006; #basta

I'm going to tell my boss that "things are just too dynamic at the moment" the next time he asks for a status report on my projects.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 19:56

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MeLKoR: Dec 23, 2004; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Mar 1, 2016 19:58

Loiosh: Jul 25, 2010

Happy Sisyphus posted:

stop talking about lasers you spergs

More people need to read The Three Body Problem (great book, BTW). I wish we had more translations from that author.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 19:58

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Original Promise: We have backed Oculus Rift and will support it in Star Citizen / Squadron 42.
New Truth: "I can't answer that." (45:32)

This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver.
We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.
You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year two, oh, one, four.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/2g55qj/vr_in_star_citizen_from_vrtgo_conference_2014/

orcinus fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Mar 1, 2016

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:00

Brazilianpeanutwar: Aug 27, 2015; Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

Gradis posted:

oh my. USS Ponce. In Blighty that word is not kind

You think that's bad, I work on the USS nonce and my brother's in charge of USS bumder.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:02

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

orcinus posted:

This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver.
We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.
You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year two, oh, one, four.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/2g55qj/vr_in_star_citizen_from_vrtgo_conference_2014/

Croberts will never remove all his immersion animations for VR so best case scenario is a bunch of shitizens in googles vomiting all over their HOTAS.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:04

Mr.Tophat: Apr 7, 2007; You clearly don't understand joke development

Happy Sisyphus posted:

stop talking about lasers you spergs

Try telling a joke now and again

Mr.Tophat fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Mar 1, 2016

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:04

D_Smart: May 11, 2010; by FactsAreUseless; College Slice

We should've seen this coming from way back when.

No, this is not a Photoshop

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:04

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

Exposure posted:

You would think so, but when the whole Escapist article was still new I decided to check over on the major places I knew really supported the site for whatever reasons to see how they were taking it.

The general reaction I saw was a mix of sheer apathy and even some doubts of the claims contained within the articles. And that's from places that would be most likely to support the place out of some sense of loyalty if nothing else.

For the average gamer who required being Molyneux'd multiple times over a decade until they finally realized that maybe they should stop blindly giving the guy money if they wanted to stop being disappointed?

The type that will endlessly complain about how ___ thing in a game has caused them to lose faith in it being any good, but will pre-order the full game or even the full game + season pass anyway?

Like maybe I'm just being extremely pessimistic but I don't think anything short of the game finally crashing and burning is going to do much in convincing the actual average gamer of this game's particular state, since they seem firmly set on letting themselves be deluded about the state of their games in general.

The politics of this are definitely more unforgiving for sites that go early on a story than later, and general gamer attitudes certainly don't help. I think that Croberts diatribe had a cooling effect on interest in pursuing this story until the Emperor is PAARPing naked down the street with an airhorn up his rear end and they can bury him for good. Otherwise it really will be a repeat of Molyneux which might be a serial thing, as the Daikatana fiasco suggests, and remember, no journalist or editor or publisher suffered anything by keeping quiet until the failure was undeniable

Remember too they have to keep in mind publishers who, while no doubt quietly aghast, want a nice wrap up of this little moral tale. It could be a long haul before Star Citizen Forever crashes and burns, and somehow I don't think crowdfunding itself really will suffer if the supporters are that dim. It just sucks it had to be the FPS space genre and not some dumb farmville-clone scam.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:05

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

Wafflz posted:

Croberts will never remove all his immersion animations for VR so best case scenario is a bunch of shitizens in googles vomiting all over their HOTAS.

The worst kind of puke imaginable tripling in intensity every second.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:06

Variable 5: Apr 17, 2007; We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.; Grimey Drawer

D_Smart posted:

https://twitter.com/SandiGBestGirl/status/704692432835887104

You missed the follow-up :ughh:

https://twitter.com/SandiGBestGirl/status/704692702793900032

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:06

Mr.Tophat: Apr 7, 2007; You clearly don't understand joke development

Also, Derek, this smilie is generally seem as sarcastic :bravo:

is much more sincere.

At least that's how I see it.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:10

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

MeLKoR posted:

Let's start by seeing if we can get more than 16 identical T-Pose SpaceToughs in one instance together first, then move on to ships.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:11

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

Mr.Tophat posted:

Also, Derek, this smilie is generally seem as sarcastic

is much more sincere.

At least that's how I see it.

Now now, let Grandpa do the internet however he feels most comfortable. You have to remember, these "emotion-icons" are new to him and he gets confused easily.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:13

Mr.Tophat: Apr 7, 2007; You clearly don't understand joke development

Beet Wagon posted:

Now now, let Grandpa do the internet however he feels most comfortable. You have to remember, these "emotion-icons" are new to him and he gets confused easily.

Ok, I'll let him loving finish in his own way then

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:15

Gradis: Feb 27, 2016; GAPE APE

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

You think that's bad, I work on the USS nonce and my brother's in charge of USS bumder.

Does Dick Armey name these ships?

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:15

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

MeLKoR posted:

Has Cymelion always been like this? They appeared reasonable to me a few months ago but maybe I was mistaken. They really seem to have lost the plot.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:19

Gradis: Feb 27, 2016; GAPE APE

D_Smart posted:

We should've seen this coming from way back when.

No, this is not a Photoshop

Jesus loving Christ loving wtf take my eyes stimpy/stimperor what is THAT

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:20

Stanko-Prussian: May 22, 2006; CLEAN YOUR ROOM!, 'they' said.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK!, 'they' said.
WHY ARE YOU IN LOVE WITH A CARTOON PONY, 'they' said.
FOR GODSAKE! STOP SHOWING US YOUR BLACKHOLE'!! 'they' said.

When I lit the match....STOP SCREAMING, 'I' said

Gradis posted:

Does Dick Armey name these ships?

They subcontract it off to Canada to this guy: http://benderinspections.com/about/

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:20

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

Gradis posted:

Jesus loving Christ loving wtf take my eyes stimpy/stimperor what is THAT

Chris in his coke dipping prime.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:23

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

D_Smart posted:

We should've seen this coming from way back when.

No, this is not a Photoshop

The next thread project should be to make cigizens cosplay as this.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:24

MeLKoR: Dec 23, 2004; by FactsAreUseless

Mirificus posted:

Has Cymelion always been like this? They appeared reasonable to me a few months ago but maybe I was mistaken. They really seem to have lost the plot.

You're watching a man guzzle down coolaid in real time.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:25

hanales: Nov 3, 2013

Mr.Tophat posted:

Also, Derek, this smilie is generally seem as sarcastic

is much more sincere.

At least that's how I see it.

I thought this one was the more sarcastic one :downsbravo:

I always thought :golfclap:

was most appropriate for short witty comments or unexpected punnery.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:28

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

D_Smart posted:

We should've seen this coming from way back when.

No, this is not a Photoshop

"... a virtual universe that seems totally lifelike down to the smallest detail."

Procedurally generated micro-organisms confirmed? Someone shoot the Chairman a question about whether or not there we can get a kind of "Plague Inc." mini-game to cure procedurally generated diseases please.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:28

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

EightAce posted:

There was one delightful chap who has a pic on the forum somewhere. He dresses like a pretty hardcore lunatic and inferred he was some sort of x special forces/militia whatever in his home nation even though he was only in his early twenties. He was from somewhere in eastern Europe and he turns up at every single meeting of the cult dressed in combat fatigues and sporting serial killer shades, genuinely pissed off that he cant walk round strapped . He is physically fit looking, with a military haircut and looks like a stone murderer
He said , without the slightest hint of any bullshit that he could organize the silencing of any dissenters , he would do this for free and there were many like him in his guild/unit or whatever it was. Normally one would simply laugh at these idiots but this fruitloop had seen some poo poo, whatever that was.
He was actually one of the nicer ones. Some simply have no sense of personal space and have a strange aroma about them , others offer their girlfriends up or try and give you jewelry etc. One guy wanted to pay a small mortgage to have a star system named after himself and offered a blank cheque pretty much.
There are just too many to mention. The fourth Stimpire is just the tip of a very deep iceberg. They are mainly white , all male and the odd one has an even crazier looking girlfriend who will either be north of a healthy weight or look like Aileen Wournos.
Lots of nationalistic rhetoric , many of them see the verse as a fourth Riech. Dont know what else to say really you can see for yourself by the posts in various places what these guys are like.

Are you sure that guy wasn't the Stimperor himself?
Considering he's allegedly Serbian?

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:29

G0RF: Mar 19, 2015; Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

Live on Twitch: Baron and Disco

Baron just got kicked out of server with a new patch. 24 players supposedly live!

Lando showing off trading cards that are not available for sale yet. These aren't for a card game, he explains, they're just collectibles "meant to sit in sleeves doing nothing."

Lando explains that they don't have time for card games because they're building the biggest game in human history.

G0RF fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Mar 1, 2016

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:31

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

Why is he licking his boot?

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:33

sunaurus: Feb 13, 2012; Oh great, another bookah.

Are they streaming the patching process? Seems really fun so far.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:35

EightAce: May 10, 2015; Watch it all come crashing down on his head and wonder why any of us gave him money in the first place.

orcinus posted:

Are you sure that guy wasn't the Stimperor himself?
Considering he's allegedly Serbian?

could be . That Stimpire thing has caused a lot of embarrasment

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:35

Beer4TheBeerGod: Aug 23, 2004; Exciting Lemon

orcinus posted:

This is not a dream. We are using your brain's electrical system as a receiver.
We are unable to transmit through conscious neural interference.
You are receiving this broadcast as a dream. We are transmitting from the year two, oh, one, four.

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/2g55qj/vr_in_star_citizen_from_vrtgo_conference_2014/

Apparently Jon Dadley still works out CIG, although he's also working on a indie game called Stage Presence.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:35

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Apparently Jon Dadley still works out CIG, although he's also working on a indie game called Stage Presence.

SC should have this.

e: And a Doof Chariot.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:41

Mr.Tophat: Apr 7, 2007; You clearly don't understand joke development

hanales posted:

I thought this one was the more sarcastic one

I always thought was most appropriate for short witty comments or unexpected punnery.

Fair point, forgot that there was stupider version of that drat clap. Both of them just look condescending as gently caress to me.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:43

G0RF: Mar 19, 2015; Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

They're showing off the Million Mile High Club now, to get the whales salivating for that next level Star Citizen experience...

And then this happens...

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:46

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

EightAce posted:

could be . That Stimpire thing has caused a lot of embarrasment

Please elaborate.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:47

Scruffpuff: Dec 23, 2015; Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

EightAce posted:

could be . That Stimpire thing has caused a lot of embarrasment

I don't see why it should - surely even the employees at CIG can acknowledge that the Fourth Stimpire is far more well-thought-out, entertaining, and has more personality than anything Chris Roberts poo poo out. I'm surprised they aren't embracing it. If it's not derivative enough, tell them it's based on the reavers from Firefly.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:49

Samizdata: May 14, 2007

Klyith posted:

How small of bombs are we talking about here? Does an artillery piece count as a small bomb-pumped shell delivery device? Should we rename our rifles to micro-bomb-pumped kinetic energy weapons, would that be cooler?

Or if these bomb-pumped lasers are using big bombs, why not just forget the laser part and kill stuff with a bomb (with blackjack and hookers)?

(Also the nuclear bomb laser weapons from Reagan's Star Wars didn't turn out to work in later nuclear modelling simulations AFAIK. They were also explicitly nuclear weapons, the beam was formed from x-rays made by thermonuclear fusion. Nothing of the sort happens with a regular TNT bomb.)

drat it, man (?), why do you have to stomp on my dreams of fidelity?

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:52

Gradis: Feb 27, 2016; GAPE APE

don't say chargeback in stream

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:54

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

EightAce posted:

could be . That Stimpire thing has caused a lot of embarrasment

Of all the many great things you've shared with this thread, this has to be my favorite. I love the idea of the Stimpire being an actual problem that needs to be addressed.

How many Stimpire-focused meetings have there been? Does HR now have to address poo poo like "What to do if someone sends you torture-porn" now?

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:54

Samizdata: May 14, 2007

Tippis posted:

What is this question?

Yes. Obviously.

Pff. Orks. And of course you can't get your head around it when 'nuff dakka is already only within the realm of gods to achieve.

I was thinking more �too much to just make a hole�, since the whole point of the exercise is that you don't just want a hole � you want holes happening so fast it causes secondary explosions. Also, as mentioned, it was an entirely theoretical exercise that was never put into practice, so the hypothetical �too much dakka� is entirely rational.

And you need to overpower such a weapon, so as to maintain coherence over range in, erm, optically impaired environments. Of course, I also get spergy about lasers being constrained burst instead of beams, so I may not be the most receptive on this topic.

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EightAce: May 10, 2015; Watch it all come crashing down on his head and wonder why any of us gave him money in the first place.

its the fact that the Stimpire stayed up for as long as it did. It was only after looking at other sites that the people whos job it is to check their own loving forum suddenly realized how bad it was. This also illustrates how little of a flying gently caress CIG give about any of that fan nonsense.

# ? Mar 1, 2016 20:57

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