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trucutru: Jul 9, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Vax posted:

Has this "game" imploded yet?

Doesn't "implode" presume that there was something out there in the first place?

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:31

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# ? May 9, 2024 13:21

Degs: Mar 2, 2014

Have the five guys sitting in that developers office run out of coke yet?

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:32

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

grimcreaper posted:

Death Scythe Hell Custom, Epyon, and Tall Giese 3 were the only good designs

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:33

Maw: Feb 18, 2013; Mere minutes after discovering the new technology, it was used to send me a crude ASCII dong.

Christ, finally caught up with the thread. What a time to be alive.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:34

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

Making it Rain posted:

You sound so like my older brother whom passed away a few years back.

Awww, I hope he could sing better than me. And thanks for enjoying the song.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:35

Ponzi: Feb 21, 2016; DEPORTED FROM FLAVOR TOWN

ICSA 67 LOSER; Fun Shoe

Rhubarb94 posted:

Maybe but I doubt it, the effort he puts in over there would be a full time job. Have you noticed the pattern of burying negative info with a wall of vidya's to turn the page ?.

Max hasn't been seen on the ED forums for a few days. I think FoxanotBond has taken over his role now (the shills like to change posters periodically). Anyone remember Mr Nowak?

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:37

Lime Tonics: Nov 7, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

grimcreaper posted:

Assuming makes an rear end out of u and.. well, just you.

Heres a quick summation of the last 40,000 posts.

Games never coming out.
Derek said some stuff. 2 weeks.
2 weeks later, some Derek level stuff happened.
More Derek stuff happened, CiG sucks at everything and needs to refactor entire game back end.

fast forward:

2 weeks. 2 weeks.

Bens old website is found, hes a giant Anus that eats poo poo and is Fat. Hes a Developedo. Bens fat.
your caught up.

You can't reinvent belts.
Disco Lando is having small psychotic breaks.
Cats are good, Dogs are good, etc.
The best cheese is undecided.
Poutine is bad?
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# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:39

A large farva: Sep 5, 2006; Ramrod XTreme

TTerrible posted:

You've managed to incorporate GOON VALOR a bunch so I really hope this is just someones gimmick account because it is loving perfection.

Firstname Lastname strikes again.

The last dance :yarg:

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:39

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

grimcreaper posted:

Death Scythe Hell Custom, Epyon, and Tall Giese 3 were the only good designs

you Wing nostalgios will never be able to take the Turn A's glorious mustache from me

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:41

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Jobbo_Fett posted:

So much good comes from this bad thread!

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:41

Lime Tonics: Nov 7, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

If ben does get the boot and doesn't want to leave, all he has to do is sit down on the couch.

With that, have a good night.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:41

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

T.G. Xarbala posted:

you Wing nostalgios will never be able to take the Turn A's glorious mustache from me

Its not really a mustache when its coming out of the sides of his mouth... ....

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:43

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Lime Tonics posted:

If ben does get the boot and doesn't want to leave, all he has to do is sit down on the couch.

With that, have a good night.

Thanks. Almost sprayed water all over my monitor. Was not expecting such a subtle, yet amazing, punch line.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:44

Pogue Ma Hoon: Oct 17, 2013; I like a nice pair of slacks.

grimcreaper posted:

Assuming makes an rear end out of u and.. well, just you.

Heres a quick summation of the last 40,000 posts.

Games never coming out.
Derek said some stuff. 2 weeks.
2 weeks later, some Derek level stuff happened.
More Derek stuff happened, CiG sucks at everything and needs to refactor entire game back end.

fast forward:

2 weeks. 2 weeks.

Bens old website is found, hes a giant Anus that eats poo poo and is Fat. Hes a Developedo. Bens fat.
your caught up.

I saw the thread about the "baron's" website. Just when you thought he couldn't be any more repugnant.
Oh well, thanks for the tl,dr, see you in another 40,000 posts.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:45

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Gundam Wing is the only Gundam show I could watch, maybe its because all the others I've ever seen feature 12 year olds being mechwarriors committing war crimes and poo poo? :shrug:

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:45

Conspiratiorist: Nov 12, 2015; 17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the ~~fifth~~ ~~sixth~~ some day

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Gundam Wing is the only Gundam show I could watch, maybe its because all the others I've ever seen feature 12 year olds being mechwarriors committing war crimes and poo poo?

That's every gundam show though, specially wing. The latest gundam, Iron-Blooded Orphans, is rather decent because it *is* actually 12 year olds being mechwarriors instead of a gundam show.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:49

Morningwoodpecker: Jan 17, 2016; I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE TO BE THIS STUPID

BUT HERE YOU ARE

Ponzi posted:

Max hasn't been seen on the ED forums for a few days. I think FoxanotBond has taken over his role now (the shills like to change posters periodically). Anyone remember Mr Nowak?

He did a Max months ago, hasn't been back. I don't think he made the transition from reddit and RSI to FD's more genteel forum and flung insults around anytime anyone disagreed with him.

FD's forum is typically british, you can be as offensive as you like as long as it's polite.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:50

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Conspiratiorist posted:

That's every gundam show though, specially wing. The latest gundam, Iron-Blooded Orphans, is rather decent because it *is* actually 12 year olds being mechwarriors instead of a gundam show.

Yeah but in Wing they were like... 17! And they were edgy as gently caress, which was cool when I was 12!

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:50

moveable shape: Oct 18, 2015

e: wtf did I do , reply is not edit. This was my orig post

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I tried the Pepsi Taste Test back in '99, I bet that slut put pepsi in both cups. #15764

ughh these are like some bioaccumulative poison. They are entering my brain faster than it can manage. Each line is a bite of poison. Ben's musings are lead paint flakes organized into a database

e: and this was supposed to be a reply

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I made that one up I'm happy it was realistic though!

I am feeling grief... it was a brilliant forgery though :gary:

moveable shape fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Apr 18, 2016

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:51

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

moveable shape posted:

ughh these are like some bioaccumulative poison. They are entering my brain faster than it can manage. Each line is a bite of poison. Ben's musings are lead paint flakes organized into a database

I made that one up :ssh:

I'm happy it was realistic though!

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:53

Conspiratiorist: Nov 12, 2015; 17th Separate Kryvyi Rih Tank Brigade named after Konstantin Pestushko
Look to my coming on the first light of the ~~fifth~~ ~~sixth~~ some day

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Yeah but in Wing they were like... 17! And they were edgy as gently caress, which was cool when I was 12!

And in IBO they are child soldiers who avoid the awful, awful depiction of child soldiers in every form of media by instead making them young adult mercenaries who are in it for the money. And who can pilot not because they are naturally born psychic aces, but because they are implanted with dangerous mind-machine interfaces.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:54

Crazy_BlackParrot: Feb 1, 2016; Christ Roberts is way better than toilet lord...

grimcreaper posted:

Death Scythe Hell Custom, Epyon, and Tall Giese 3 were the only good designs

Nice to see another Endless Waltz fan. And agreed.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:55

Thoatse: Feb 29, 2016; Lol said the scorpion, lmao

moveable shape posted:

ughh these are like some bioaccumulative poison. They are entering my brain faster than it can manage. Each line is a bite of poison. Ben's musings are lead paint flakes organized into a database

It's like death by a thousand doughnut cuts.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 08:56

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Gundam Wing is the only Gundam show I could watch, maybe its because all the others I've ever seen feature 12 year olds being mechwarriors committing war crimes and poo poo?

I'm going to take this as an excuse to further post about Turn A because it's good as hell.

Turn A Gundam is a somewhat light-hearted, old-school globetrotting adventure in a setting that's vaguely based on pre-WW2 Earth that gets invaded by super-advanced archaeotech immigrants from The Moon, and to prevent war from starting one Moon immigrant and his adoptive earthborn family help the Queen of the Moon try to defuse the situation (with the help of some prince-and-the-pauper hijinx) while warhawks send their mooks after them. Like literally, this includes a Team Rocket-style group of ineffectual comedy villains, though if I'm honest they're actually more like the Yatterman villain gang but nobody here's going to understand that reference.

And the Turn A itself gets put to use doing stuff like drying laundry.

It's pretty unique as far as Gundam shows go and is very pleasant overall. With some lovely music.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:01

smellmycheese: Feb 1, 2016

Even by the insane standards this shitfest continues to set - the "I'm Bens friend and this was all just harmless japes" shill in the GBS thread is truly bizarre

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:02

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

There Is Always Parp And It Is Always PAAARP :yarg:

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:02

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Turn A Gundam even has commandos enjoying physicalized EVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS6JB7eGqMU

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:04

Berious: Nov 13, 2005

T.G. Xarbala posted:

I'm going to take this as an excuse to further post about Turn A because it's good as hell.

Turn A Gundam is a somewhat light-hearted, old-school globetrotting adventure in a setting that's vaguely based on pre-WW2 Earth that gets invaded by super-advanced archaeotech immigrants from The Moon, and to prevent war from starting one Moon immigrant and his adoptive earthborn family help the Queen of the Moon try to defuse the situation (with the help of some prince-and-the-pauper hijinx) while warhawks send their mooks after them. Like literally, this includes a Team Rocket-style group of ineffectual comedy villains, though if I'm honest they're actually more like the Yatterman villain gang but nobody here's going to understand that reference.

And the Turn A itself gets put to use doing stuff like drying laundry.

It's pretty unique as far as Gundam shows go and is very pleasant overall. With some lovely music.

Also the robot has a big metal erection

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:05

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Berious posted:

Also the robot has a big metal erection

it's just happy to see us

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:06

Crazy_BlackParrot: Feb 1, 2016; Christ Roberts is way better than toilet lord...

T.G. Xarbala posted:

Anime is good

Personally one of the better series isare
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:10

skaboomizzy: Nov 12, 2003; There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

I desperately want Ben to be fired so he can finally rejoin reality.

Ben gets to go into his "job" every day and profess his love for his allegedly non-creepy obsession on camera while working at the right hand of his idol. He gets paid to obsess about features that will never happen in a game that will never be released while dropping trivia about a late 90's movie that was so mediocre it couldn't even be called a massive flop.

This is the kind of life that normally happens to someone who wins a $100M Powerball jackpot and can say gently caress YOU, WORLD. And this fat gently caress is living it every day.

I can't really blame him. If I won a lotto jackpot I'd be at the local casino loving around at the poker tables all day and night after I set aside enough money to ensure my living expenses for the next 100 years.

But this isn't a lifetime gig. SC is a house of cards and it's going to collapse and bring everyone except Chris, Sandi, and Ortwin down with it. At some point Ben is going to have to rejoin the real world and society, and HOLY poo poo that website is going to disqualify him from a lot of jobs. He can't even nuke it now, it's already been archived.

So congrats, Ben. You'll definitely be remembered as a key member of the Star Citizen team forever.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:10

Iglocska: Nov 23, 2015

Tippis posted:

XML is intentionally verbose to allow humans to read the data (and the structure)

XML has to be read by humans every day in the 4th Stimpire.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:13

ewe2: Jul 1, 2009

Shilling for WebDog because drat this is a good post, and he's replying to Ben's "friend":

WebDog posted:

But you fail to make the distinction between the fact while it is immature ramblings, even when taken out of the context in which they were said, they are far from appropriate at any age.

In Ben's mind this is like when some celeb posts on twitter about some embarrassing style they wore back in the 80's. He fully expected people to laugh with him as if he didn't know better....at age 25. If this was just the spider facts page that would be the case.

Ben as a person is quite literally a mile wide and an inch deep when it comes to have any substance to his self worth.
Sure he got the short end of the stick as a kid but then no effort was really made to get him out and about and socialising with people and so he retreated into a safe space that he hasn't really been able to leave. I also get the feeling that he's been so wrapped up in cotton wool that he has quite the case of arrested development going on.

Him dropping out of college only just shows he has trouble doing things without some sort of adult assistance. And this still appears to be the case regarding him having to move states to work on SC.

He found the WC community as the one thing that accepted him and attached himself to it like some desperate leech and has spent the better part of twenty years obsessively immersing himself to the point where it's defined the only self worth he's ever known. As a result he becomes cocky and arrogant slowly pushing out other community leaders with such vitriol, even rejoicing in their deaths, till only he is left to run the ship of fools.

To make things worse this behaviour gets validated as he's eventually rewarded for his years of service as being the public face of his idol's latest creation.
You're talking about a person who at that point is verging on borderline shut-in and lives off a menial admin job at a school while writing up news posts that hallucinate potential sequels from nearly forgotten game franchises of the 90's. Now he gets paid to sit around in cushy digs with free food to live his dream - and the tragic irony is that's literally killing him.

On top of that he's given the controls to a new community from the ground up and sets up ridiculous rules about what can or can't be posted and mandatory polls dishing out the law at every moment. Plus he's an individual who has very little solid experience outside his comfort zone to deal with sensitive subjects in a proper way.

Of course he runs into the dilemma where you have backers who are just as broken and even more so as himself (see WulfKnight).
People so ostracised from social norms that they try to buy themselves some sort of community acceptance in the thousands of dollars expecting some sort of say in the creation of a dream video game or even buying people ships to try and gain their affections.

So to save the company coffers they get a light slap on the wrist for posting CP while valid concerns get banished to the wasteland as there's only so many hours in the day and free doughnuts to eat and sitting around watching all the Star Wars movies on company time.

Keep in mind this the public face of a company that has been publicly accused by former employees of racist and discriminatory hiring practices, done at a whim because the person hiring subjectively picks and chooses people based on broad assumptions of their personal grooming. Yup, someone wasn't hired because she was claimed to look like someone who doesn't shave down there.

And then you have the self described "job tourist" who claims he ran a baseball team in his teens yet until someone put the clippers to him looked like a hobo they'd let in. Said hobo leaked 34gb of game assets onto a public FTP, including a working build of the game and somehow kept his job.

TL;DR
90's video game obsessed manchild gets wrapped in cotton wool and refuses to grow up and take responsibility for his actions that are now damaging the reputation of the company he works for. Said company too afraid of community reprisals and potential loss of money to fire him.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:14

WhiskeyWhiskers: Oct 14, 2013; "هذا ليس عادلاً."
"هذا ليس عادلاً على الإطلاق."
"كان هناك وقت الآن."
(السياق الخفي: للقراءة)

skaboomizzy posted:

I desperately want Ben to be fired so he can finally rejoin reality.

Ben gets to go into his "job" every day and profess his love for his allegedly non-creepy obsession on camera while working at the right hand of his idol. He gets paid to obsess about features that will never happen in a game that will never be released while dropping trivia about a late 90's movie that was so mediocre it couldn't even be called a massive flop.

This is the kind of life that normally happens to someone who wins a $100M Powerball jackpot and can say gently caress YOU, WORLD. And this fat gently caress is living it every day.

I can't really blame him. If I won a lotto jackpot I'd be at the local casino loving around at the poker tables all day and night after I set aside enough money to ensure my living expenses for the next 100 years.

But this isn't a lifetime gig. SC is a house of cards and it's going to collapse and bring everyone except Chris, Sandi, and Ortwin down with it. At some point Ben is going to have to rejoin the real world and society, and HOLY poo poo that website is going to disqualify him from a lot of jobs. He can't even nuke it now, it's already been archived.

So congrats, Ben. You'll definitely be remembered as a key member of the Star Citizen team forever.

I'm sure he'll be able to get his old job as a IT worker at highschool back pretty easily. :downs:

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:14

boviscopophobic: Feb 5, 2016

That MISC Prospector concept sale can't come soon enough! There are backer wallets and bank accounts to be mined!

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:16

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

smellmycheese posted:

Even by the insane standards this shitfest continues to set - the "I'm Bens friend and this was all just harmless japes" shill in the GBS thread is truly bizarre

dans is cool and good, friend, though WebDog is tbh much better in no small part due to his thoughtful sincerity

you actually do need Platinum to be able to see people's out-of-thread Post History and without that you're basically left with a gaping sense of horror so I give dans full marks, 10/10

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:17

Kakarot: Jul 20, 2013; by zen death robot; Buglord

I too, will shill for you CIG! Hire me ASAP!

Here is a sample of my portfolio:

"I'm thoroughly impressed with what they've built so far and based on the future rollout, the size and skill of the team and ample funding. I believe we'll get what we are asking for."

"They're having a military tax day sale and the Super Hornet went back on sale. I'd grab it while you can. The Sabre is also an awesome ship for dogfighting. Those two are the tops."

"Re: VR - It's going to be an entirely seated experience using the visor but not the motion controls. The rotation of your head (and I'm guessing some translation) will be physicalised. Your body's movement will be controlled as normal using M/kbd but head movement will be decoupled from the mouselook."

"You dont understand game development!"

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:22

SquirrelGrip: Jul 4, 2012

I have some plastic crack robots too. RG was a good thing bandai did... The ver ka's not so much

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:23

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Crazy_BlackParrot posted:

Personally one of the better series isare
Gundam Wing Endless Waltz
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS
Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn

Its been a while since I watched any Gundams, maybe I'll give these a sbot... any eng dubs?

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:25

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# ? May 9, 2024 13:21

Runa: Feb 13, 2011

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Its been a while since I watched any Gundams, maybe I'll give these a sbot... any eng dubs?

That entire list has been licensed and dubbed though Unicorn's dub was basically hidden in the US bluray release, practically an easter egg really.

Also Unicorn has the dumbest ending holy poo poo.

# ? Apr 18, 2016 09:28

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