Tippis posted:

Preferable to machine-pressed ones, that's for sure.

Sunswipe posted:

Why just press them when you can electrify them as well? Probably not the worst kind of electricity, but good for people wanting a warmup before moving to the Stimpire.

Mirificus posted:

Gamasutra Post by CIG UK Dev Michael Barclay

Tippis posted:

I can't decide whether the product itself or the “also bought”-list is worse. In combination, it certainly qualifies as tripling every second.

quote:

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Sunswipe posted:

There's a bit in the James Bond book "You Only Live Twice" where the character Tiger Tanaka explains to Bond how sumo wrestlers train from puberty to be able to retract their testicles into their body. I remember years later seeing on QI that this is a myth. Now I have to write to Stephen Fry and tell him he was wrong, because my genitals just shot back into my body so fast they nudged my tonsils.

Sperglord posted:

Question: does anyone here think that CIG has a full list of the ships it has promised backers?

hakimashou posted:

someone make the "b'tak" chicken gif!!!

Sunswipe posted:

There's a bit in the James Bond book "You Only Live Twice" where the character Tiger Tanaka explains to Bond how sumo wrestlers train from puberty to be able to retract their testicles into their body. I remember years later seeing on QI that this is a myth. Now I have to write to Stephen Fry and tell him he was wrong, because my genitals just shot back into my body so fast they nudged my tonsils.

Tippis posted:

Derek Smart is never wrong. He is just occasionally woefully betrayed by dumb goons and the restraining hand of legal.

G0RF posted:

Not a peep from /BanditLoaf. But of course, what can he say?

MeLKoR posted:

Ghostlight posted:

The only thing better than people trying to own Derek Smart Forums Master on a technical matter based entirely on the ambiguity of a sentence structure is Derek Smart's responses to them.

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And, no, you shouldn't be using email encrypted comms because as long as it is stored, it can be cracked. Plus, you can't rely on the other party to have an end-point (e.g. PGP) key.

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That's not how PGP works. Both you and the other person have to use PGP or PGP doesn't work at all. There is no "it won't be secure" it simply won't work if both parties don't use PGP, you need your partner's public key to encrypt your message. It also won't be in plaintext when it lands in the inbox of the recipient - if you use PGP to encrypt it. If you mean TLS/SSL then indeed you are correct.

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You're kidding me, right? I think you should READ - slowly - what I've written before you continue along this path. It's not too late to save yourself.

ps: I use PGP every day.

And the point of my PGP comment is that BOTH you and the person, MUST be using PGP for it to be secure. And if the person doesn't use PGP, or know how to, then you have a problem.

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I use PGP every day too.

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So then why are you confusing...

this:

you can send email that's encrypted while in transit, but it ends up being plain text when it arrives

with this:

And if the person doesn't use PGP, or know how to, then you have a problem

They are two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS

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Derek I am not confusing anything. You said that PGP is only safe if both parties are using it, which is a requirement to use PGP in the first place. There is no "it's only safe if" - you can either use it or not.

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No. I. DID. NOT.

Here is everything I said:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...0#post458366473

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Dunno, I enjoy his posting for it's inaccuracy.

He seems to conflate 'encryption in motion' with 'encryption at rest'.

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No, only a complete moron would arrive at that conclusion.

I didn't say ANYTHING about encryption methodologies, tech or ANYTHING of the sort. The point of my missive was tell people to use encrypted services for sensitive material, and that while email is encrypted in transit (SSL, TLS etc), it CAN still be READ in plaintext at the start (sender) and end (receiver) points. So ANYONE with access to EITHER of those, CAN read the email. Either through hacking, forensics data dumps etc. THAT was the POINT.

Again, here is the complete text of my missive. And it was ONE SINGLE loving LINE which I even wrote in plain layman terms. Yet, here we are.

G0RF posted:

That post Daztek linked to earlier has produced a huge amount of discussion.

Not a peep from /BanditLoaf. But of course, what can he say? It's dead on arrival-- and backers are just going to have to accept it. Yes, it's really going to suck that BDSSE-pretender Elite is going to completely own this, and that Frontier will deliver Immersion while CIG can only muster up "immersion". But them's the breaks, man. They have to pick their battles and this is one they'll never win.

no_recall posted:

That was a good read.



Pwned.

no_recall posted:

That was a good read.



Pwned.

FrankieGoes posted:

That's the thing. That's what people that can't believe the 40k aren't understanding: there are many people that are so spergy and OCD that they basically give Croberts every spare cent they make. Combine that with all the convoluted melt/unmelt/ccu/CCu token/merch/buying accounts for your friends/12 month old daughter/for two boxing/etc and I find it very easy to believe the 40k a day.

The only reason it even dropped down to 19k or whatever last year was because it was right before their massive three month long nerd milking sale.

G0RF posted:

I'm not surprised there's a baseline -- though it does beg some questions. What's the split between new backers getting in vs. old backers buying ships, for example.

One thing that remains surprising to me is that -- for all the presumed new backers streaming in daily, we just don't see any corresponding increases in Twitch streamers playing the game. It seems like we'd see some growth here, but last time I checked it was the same middling performer it's been for months.

It's not, obviously, going to correlate exactly or necessarily even closely. But there's no growth there at all, to my last recollection. It's strange.

D_Smart posted: