Mr.Tophat posted:

"I mishead you Derek, I thought you wanted marmite on your toast."
"LIAR. LIAR LIAR LIAR. How could you possibly think I mentioned marmite, I mentioned bovril, ahhhh"

Lime Tonics posted:

I forgot, RTV was so bad today, it doesn't even deserved to get mentioned. They talked about movies alot and 2.4 talk was just "it doesn't exist yet", and it was awkward. Stoned sandi made a guest appearance.

Today ranks up there with star citizen failure.

drat Dirty Ape posted:

Take a picture of yourself writing a design document.

Melanion posted:

Bovril is a sin against humanity.

e: poo poo uhh uhh

Jason Sextro posted:

oh god the paintings

I forgot all about that one, what the gently caress was that?! I always found the Police Quest games to be excruciating too, but they were meant to model police procedure and not allow any deviation whatsoever.

Goobs posted:

did sandi get fake boobs with backer money? or did she have them before?

Mr.Tophat posted:

I was right to believe.

I hope all those who doubt Derek feel grief. Or the reverberations of a cosmic gavel slamming down over and over again in space court in order to prevent Derek Smart's smugness from being the true E.L.E, as was prophesied two weeks ago

Ragequit posted:

It's going to be a wait - he resting from another day on the front lines of war.

WebDog posted:

Well it does make sense if you consider that one bank account is hooked into that tracker. Now is there a way to work out if you pay them, where does it go to?

Now given how many shell companies CIC/RSI has I'm sure it's been quite a common occurrence to move money into that account in order to spike the sales with the objective to give the impression someone already has brought in and to encourage sales. It's the old sales tactic of getting friends to buy your produce to encourage others.

I'm sure their logic is something like "we're not actually loosing money as we're just moving it from account A to B".

Keep in mind there's at least two bank accounts for crowdfunding. One is the kickstarter one which I strongly suspect is linked to Ortwin's And the other is the RSI site which could be the company account.

And to remind people Ortwin made his mark back in the 90's when he cottoned onto the idea of allowing a two-way distribution deal with German and US cinema. Basically the local German market was sinking with poor audience attendance and lower budgets with people wanting more of what came out in the states over local cinema.
Ortwin realised he could do a two way deal where German films could get some sort of co-financing in exchange for exclusive screenings in the US market - which is what Twin Bros is.
His two big hits were The Neverending Story and Das Boot (which is why he mentions it in his meet the devs video).

After that gold mine dried up around the mid 90's Ortwin went into trade as a legal consultant who dabbled as producer and teamed up with Chris Roberts who had already failed in one attempt to make a movie production company (Point of No Return Entertainment) forming Ascendant Pictures with Digital Anvil being setup to facilitate the production of Wing Commander and some of it's visual effects while creating Freelancer. Across the seas Erin worked on Starlancer as Warthog Entertainment.

All was going reasonably well till they decided to renege on a deal with Kevin Costner and got blacklisted by Hollywood when they lost the court cases.

After that I'm not too sure other than hints that Roberts was utterly broke and tried his hand in investing into side projects while sleeping on couches and Ortwin hung around as some sort of financial advisor while still operating his legal firm.

Samizdata posted:

No, no you aren't. I have chatted with you, and you haven't mentioned the contents of anything in your home.

Mirificus posted:

I hope Sandi saw this post:


Derek Smart looks more like a celebrity to CaptionBot than Sandi Gardiner.

grimcreaper posted:

Hi, I would like to point out that i have a desk, a computer, a monitor, a mouse, a keyboard, a bean bag, a tv, a router, a modem, a glass filled with milk, a microfiber cloth, a thing of Carmex, a distinct lack of Anime movies in this room becuase they are elsewhere, a knife, a flashlight, my phone, my old phone, my watch, the watch charger (Gear S2), my phones charger, my older phones charger, some usb cables, some cabled to connect my computer to the monitor, some power cables to power everything and 1 im not sure about, my chair, my other chair, my brass Bil-lit lighter, a can of fuel for the lighter, a candle, an empty bottle of Captain Morgan Black, a mono bluetooth speaker of surprising quality from Nakamichi, some golden quarters, a silver dollar, some silver quarters, partial silver nickels, silver dimes, a few small copper bullion ingots, and a few others things that i dont care enough about, oh yeah some games, some older games, Freespace being an older game, Freespace 2, some movies, a few other older movies like Dungeons and Dragons 2 yes its bad and no i dont like it, some old cd burning software among other older softwares i should probably throw away.

I could keep going.

kirsus posted:

hottubrhymemachine posted:

Toops just wanted to say that your videos about texturing, Unity, etc. are fantastic. I look forward to more!

Im also continuously amused by the ever changing reason cultists give for poo poo sucking so much. So far Im aware of:

ITS ALPHA
dont understand game development
They are focused on S42 and dont want to release spoilers
They have created the systems for cargo, mining etc. but cant implement them until persistence is in
Its all server side blockers that we cant see
Star Marine is now part of the babbypoo
Need more data from free fly weekends to improve netcode

What am I missing?

Darkpriest667 posted:

4 weeks. It was for the opening of the Free Trade Zone in Shanghai in September of 2014. Obviously they had something to prove and I admit that there was a lot going on for show but when you look off of the massive highways during the drive between locations you can see what's going on.

Solomonic posted:

Actually, Star Citizen has only been in development for (increasingly short period of time)

(Insert other game) is bad

Tanith posted:

Toops, both your vids wereyou are great.

trucutru posted:

The best way is to find a poster you like/dislike and then keep detailed annotations about them over the years so that you can own their asses in D&D.

Melanion posted:

Bovril is a sin against humanity.

e: poo poo uhh uhh

revmoo posted:

Zoomed to the front, no regrets.

So about this $15 dispute fee...

What if they put together a list of accounts they thought might be related to Mr. Smart. Maybe a hundred or so. Then they locked them and since they know those people are on shaky ground with having bought them on the grey market, they can easily get them to pay a paltry $15 "dispute fee" thus letting them screen the credit cards used by those individuals to see if Derek signs back up. If so, they reject the transaction, and if not, he's now "locked out" and no longer has his stake.

Samizdata posted:

I bet you DO like Dungeons and Dragon 2. As a person who has, in fact, gamed with E. Gary Gygax in person, I couldn't even begin to watch that. And I am a student of cinema merde to boot.

Also, gently caress. I have an actual CIG cat pic I have stashed, and I can't get to the top of a page. Also, I really need to get a little BT speaker, mono or not. Galaxy Tab E speakers really suck, and something about my ears really don't work with earbuds.

Lonkface posted:

He really went to sleep, didn't he?