Star Citizen: Big MoMA's House

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thatguy: Feb 5, 2003

It's around here:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3744337&pagenumber=426&perpage=40#post451368596

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:16

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# ? May 9, 2024 08:07

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

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/743827436656263168

CIG is finished

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:17

JainDoh: Nov 5, 2002

Tippis posted:

You chose to make yourself a punching bag. There are others who have come here and integrated just fine, in spite of being far more � and far more explicitly � in favour of CIG than you claim to be.

He chose to PLAY a punching bag, coming up with 'mature', 'intelligent' arguments against anti-SC sentiment... in order to elicit responses from goons who've treated this as as an actual attempt at discourse.

It's a troll we've run on people millions of times. I've run it. Goons shouldn't be falling for weak amateur hour poo poo like this. He's scraping the bottom of the barrel for material, it's blatant.

Just say no to trolling yourself by replying to MoMA with anything besides ridicule. Don't be that guy.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:17

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

Coolguye posted:

I saw a request for dogges like 25 pages back so here we go

My little homie Chip made a buddy

These are good and cool

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:19

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

ManofManyAliases posted:

Wtf? How or why would I know this? I have no personal connections to anyone at CIG .

Dont you live in the same building?

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:20

thatguy: Feb 5, 2003

thatguy posted:

"Sk�rgin burk b�rk skork sk�b b�rg sh�rshin b�rk Chris?"

(Where's the loving money Chris?)

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:20

xiansi: Jan 26, 2012; im judjing all goons cause they have bad leader, so a noral member is associated whith thoose crasy one

Personaly i would quit the goons if i was in cause of thoose crasy ppl; Clapping Larry

Alighieri posted:

is there any way to make it not show posts from ignored users when people quote said ignored user? asking for a friend....

Not exactly as you requested, but if you...er, your friend is using Firefox or Chrome, and "said ignored user" is who I think it is, then you can hack it.

Your friend will need TamperMonkey:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tampermonkey/dhdgffkkebhmkfjojejmpbldmpobfkfo?hl=en
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/

Anything that can run user scripts will probably work too.

Since SA uses jQuery, you can do this with a one-liner - create a script for forums.somethingawful.com with this:

pre:

$('.quote_link').filter( function(ix, ql){ return $(ql).text().indexOf('ManofManyAliases') == 0 }).closest('table').hide();

And there you go. An SC thread that is funny again, and with far less posts to scroll past!

There might be a way to figure out your ignored users in script somehow, and you could certainly re-write it to support multiples, but hey, effort.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:21

Pope Corky the IX: Dec 18, 2006; What are you looking at?

Do you think ManofManyAliases could find a belt for Ben?

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:21

Propagandist: Oct 23, 2007

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Do you think ManofManyAliases could find a belt for Ben?

Prolly the last stretch goal of that stupid belt kickstarter that swindled him

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:23

thatguy: Feb 5, 2003

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Do you think ManofManyAliases could find a belt for Ben?

Has NASA developed the tether for a space elevator yet?

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:24

thatguy: Feb 5, 2003

thatguy posted:

Has NASA developed the tether for a space elevator yet?

Get it?

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:25

thatguy: Feb 5, 2003

thatguy posted:

Get it?

Because both a tether for a space elevator and a belt for :lesnick:

would require an unheard of feat of engineering.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:27

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

Kakarot posted:

CIG is finished

Ah man don't say that, I want them to survive till Citizen Con.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:30

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

So apparently in this sale the Caterpillar with LTI will be sold again, first time since November 2013. Another LTI promise broken.

The only explanation that makes sense to me for doing that is they are hurting for money bad.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:36

Ash1138: Sep 29, 2001; Get up, chief. We're just gettin' started.

AP posted:

So apparently in this sale the Caterpillar with LTI will be sold again, first time since November 2013. Another LTI promise broken.

The only explanation that makes sense to me for doing that is they are hurting for money bad.

If the shitizens don't call CIG out on this, then they truly are beyond hope.

Alternatively, this will be a different variant of the Caterpillar and thus a new "concept."

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:40

Parallelwoody: Apr 10, 2008

Cig would be doing great if it wasn't for that freespace 2 mod that killed all interest in space sims.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:40

Sperglord: Feb 6, 2016

AP posted:

So apparently in this sale the Caterpillar with LTI will be sold again, first time since November 2013. Another LTI promise broken.

The only explanation that makes sense to me for doing that is they are hurting for money bad.

This sale will be Drake Caterpillar and Dragonfly? If so, I agree with you, CIG is hurting badly for money.

Did you see how their reactions / body language are? Gorf said that CIG was extremely nervous during ATV yesterday. Has that carried over to today?

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:40

Wuxi: Apr 3, 2012

AP posted:

So apparently in this sale the Caterpillar with LTI will be sold again, first time since November 2013. Another LTI promise broken.

The only explanation that makes sense to me for doing that is they are hurting for money bad.

Thats easy, hurting for money and incompetence are the only explanations for anything CIG does.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:41

MilesK: Nov 5, 2015

AP posted:

So apparently in this sale the Caterpillar with LTI will be sold again, first time since November 2013. Another LTI promise broken.

The only explanation that makes sense to me for doing that is they are hurting for money bad.

The alternative is they have plenty of money and are just really horrible people.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:42

Madcosby: Mar 4, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

"Hello and Welcome to NASA's Engineering 2016 Symposium. Our first speaker is Mark, he works at IZOD"

*audience baffled, crickets from crowd*

"Mark developed the buttons on Ben Lesnick's shirts."

*hundreds of hands go up in unison*

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:42

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

AP posted:

So apparently in this sale the Caterpillar with LTI will be sold again, first time since November 2013. Another LTI promise broken.

The only explanation that makes sense to me for doing that is they are hurting for money bad.

Generous estimates of their daily operating costs are around 100k, they haven't been clearing that number for a long time now.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:43

Sperglord: Feb 6, 2016

Ash1138 posted:

If the shitizens don't call CIG out on this, then they truly are beyond hope.

Alternatively, this will be a different variant of the Caterpillar and thus a new "concept."

I think that most shitizens subconsciously know CIG is hurting for money. Thus, they excuse a wide range of blatant monetization efforts by CIG.

More generally, I have the theory that shitizens have a permanent mental disconnect. They subconsciously know CIG is in a bad way for money / management, but they haven't realized the ramifications of that. Consequently, they excuse a wide variety of CIG monetization and delays. It is similar to knowing that a whale (or tornado, or other massive natural / man-made object) exists and seeing it in person.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:46

OB_Juan: Nov 24, 2004; Not every day is a good day.; Dinosaur Gum

thatguy posted:

Toast hasn't told us if he pledged for Transverse yet.

It's good to remember there was a space game with an even smaller chance of coming out. :pgi:

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:47

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

thatguy posted:

It's around here:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3744337&pagenumber=426&perpage=40#post451368596

Thanks commando o9

...and everyone else that chipped in on this

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:51

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

ManofManyAliases posted:

The script had to be written during the last 4 years from scratch, whereas HBS has over 30 years of Battletech history to draw from (not from scratch).

I squeeze comparable pieces of literature through my sphincter about twice daily

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:51

Wrecked Angle: May 12, 2012; "JURASSIC PARK!"

Reddit trip report : Citizens seem confused about funds required.
ps. Hi zecumbe or whatever your name is! :yosbutt:

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:51

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

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Do you think ManofManyAliases could find a belt for Ben?

Now that's a stretch goal

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:52

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

Sperglord posted:

This sale will be Drake Caterpillar and Dragonfly? If so, I agree with you, CIG is hurting badly for money.

Did you see how their reactions / body language are? Gorf said that CIG was extremely nervous during ATV yesterday. Has that carried over to today?

I didn't watch the terrible thing.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:54

ZenMaster: Jan 24, 2006; I Saved PC Gaming

ManofManyAliases posted:

Uppity? No - if something doesn't play out well in the CIG-story, I either accept that or vote with my wallet (read: haven't donated any more). Uppity in terms of conversation? Not really. I've only really just responded/replied.

If there is a fire and goons say hey don't touch that it hurts and you keep touching it and saying "that didn't hurt I swear!" they will probably treat you like a child after a while.

tis true

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:55

Beer4TheBeerGod: Aug 23, 2004; Exciting Lemon

ManofManyAliases posted:

LA traffic is terrible. This is true.

I saw a man die on the 405. LA traffic is basically Mad Max with slightly less dust.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:55

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.

ManofManyAliases posted:

The script had to be written during the last 4 years from scratch, whereas HBS has over 30 years of Battletech history to draw from (not from scratch).

The script is over 450 pages long. It is sphincter clenchingly bad. Hours of mocap data have been captured and not one minute has been prepped in game. They do not have one mission up and running for sq42 . The net code is completely hosed and the ai doesn't work because the code has been branched internally.
Other than that I remain optimistic of a 2016 release like your good self.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:55

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.

Just not on the Gregorian calender

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:57

Tank Boy Ken: Aug 24, 2012; J4G for life; Fallen Rib

EightAce posted:

The script is over 450 pages long. It is sphincter clenchingly bad. Hours of mocap data have been captured and not one minute has been prepped in game. They do not have one mission up and running for sq42 . The net code is completely hosed and the ai doesn't work because the code has been branched internally.
Other than that I remain optimistic of a 2016 release like your good self.

Oh so that's why they didn't send anything new to AMD?

For those who missed it:

AMD dude who is part the AMD game promo thing posted: posted:

We're partnered with them [CIG], of course. We are. It's four months before E3 and we're getting our PC showcase set up. We're reaching out to get demos, sizzle reels, all kinds of different promo stuff. We hear back from a lot of people; there's some new stuff, new games, new partners, all that. Absent is a response from CIG.

Someone else here handles all that, she's calling and calling thinking there's some mistake or she's not getting through to the right people. It's now three months until the PC Gamer showcase and there's nothing on the table from CIG. She's trying to set up a conf call or a face to face with CIG and there's nothing solid set up.

She finally talks to someone over there and is assured we'll get a slice of scripted gameplay and some cutscene stuff with the big name A listers on the project. E3 is what, six weeks away? Maybe seven at this point.

A week later what we get a package with a disc, no explanation, table of contents, nothing. On it, there's nothing new, [its] a mashup of all their previous trailers. It's not even cut differently. We have the Hamil one, the Oldman speech, some fighters shooting things and some FPS segments that were lifted straight out of the last con they did. They're all just dumped into a "Promo" folder on a blu-ray.

She's thinking this is a mistake, they sent us the wrong material -- easy mistake to make, you throw in an old disc instead of the one you just cut, it got handled differently, an intern misunderstood what we wanted, whatever. So she calls them up again, no response, emails, nothing.

Two weeks later we get what is referred to around here as the "Letter." Capital "L" letter. The email is addressed to everyone high up at AMD, not even the gaming guys but the chip designers and the heads of departments. The PDF attachment is a rambling statement from Chris about how we're pushing him into something he doesn't think is necessary, he has a vision and that it's "too important" to be disrespected like this.

The decision was made to drop them from the show after that. Probably from our partnership as well, but that's above my head.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:58

Wrecked Angle: May 12, 2012; "JURASSIC PARK!"

EightAce posted:

The script is over 450 pages long. It is sphincter clenchingly bad. Hours of mocap data have been captured and not one minute has been prepped in game. They do not have one mission up and running for sq42 . The net code is completely hosed and the ai doesn't work because the code has been branched internally.
Other than that I remain optimistic of a 2016 release like your good self.

Now c'mon, stop spreading FUD

# ? Jun 17, 2016 21:59

Tank Boy Ken: Aug 24, 2012; J4G for life; Fallen Rib

Wrecked Angle posted:

Now c'mon, stop spreading FUD

You too will need to do some spreading. Otherwise you won't be able to ... insert that script!

# ? Jun 17, 2016 22:01

boviscopophobic: Feb 5, 2016

iron buns posted:

Thanks for pointing this out. I now consider it disproven that ships purchased with store credit are double counted as additional revenue. I also am skeptical of another related hypothesis often floated here, that melts are counted as revenue.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 22:01

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

Jon Do posted:

He chose to PLAY a punching bag, coming up with 'mature', 'intelligent' arguments against anti-SC sentiment... in order to elicit responses from goons who've treated this as as an actual attempt at discourse.

It's a troll we've run on people millions of times. I've run it. Goons shouldn't be falling for weak amateur hour poo poo like this. He's scraping the bottom of the barrel for material, it's blatant.

Just say no to trolling yourself by replying to MoMA with anything besides ridicule. Don't be that guy.

Come now, while MoMA's posts are apologetic nonsense, I quite liked the 'Mech derail and some of the counterposts to his narrative. It makes people formulate simpler, more concise, less brain-dependent posts that are pleasantly undemanding.

Also he outed our shared dildo kink and man I've been in the closet about that one since Taygon ruled his seasteading empire

# ? Jun 17, 2016 22:03

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.

Wrecked Angle posted:

Now c'mon, stop spreading FUD

I am Elmer FUD

# ? Jun 17, 2016 22:04

Atreiden: May 4, 2008

Much like star citizen, the AMD letter doesn't exist and it's better in our imagination anyways.

# ? Jun 17, 2016 22:05

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# ? May 9, 2024 08:07

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

AP posted:

So apparently in this sale the Caterpillar with LTI will be sold again, first time since November 2013. Another LTI promise broken.

The only explanation that makes sense to me for doing that is they are hurting for money bad.

Who the gently caress would pay for a Caterpillar in this day and age? Hasn't that one been a laughingstock for like two years?

# ? Jun 17, 2016 22:06

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