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tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Matlock Birthmark posted:

The Extra's section in their store is just filled with delightful scummy stuff. That's where they are still selling the Manual of setting up and modding a Star Citizen private server
Jesus titty tapdancing loving Christ.

Scam. It's a loving scam, and has been from the start. I don't want to hear any more bullshit about "good intentions gone awry" from any of you fuckers.

edit: bencattax

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DarkRefreshment
May 5, 2015

Nothing is funnier than a dog in a formal outfit. Look it up on the internets.

Colostomy Bag posted:

Yeah, there is "Shut up and take my money" item in the store for $5.

Or I hear you can take that $5 instead and download a legit copy of a certain "sensual" video from one of the company's founders

Fat Shat Sings
Jan 24, 2016

Io_ posted:

No Man's Sky is a case study in the opposite (bad) way to do PR/community relations. Say nothing with enough ambiguity (and a :smuggo: face) that people start inventing their own reality to fill the void. Once that happens no amount of subsequent (patchy) expectation management while dribbling information out over months is going to temper it.

I hadn't followed NMS so it's interesting to see that actually. You have the same conversation taking place for the exact opposite reason.

The lesson is : nerds are the worst

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003
Even if Sandi herself came here and posted that it was her I still wouldn't believe it.

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003
I don't mean that in some sort of shilly way either, it's just unbelievable to me.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

thatguy posted:

Even if Sandi herself came here and posted that it was her I still wouldn't believe it.

If you can watch the link below with the sound on and still tell me you don't believe its her I will stop mentioning it.

NSFW http://tinyurl.com/j2jonq2 NSFW

Theotus
Nov 8, 2014

I am surprised by the lack of a MoMA derail attempt. News still too fresh?

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

The human brain refuses to accept the new reality it finds itself in

DOMDOM
Apr 28, 2007

Fun Shoe

thatguy posted:

Derek, gently caress you. You always loving do this dumb loving poo poo where you tease something, make YOUR OWN loving deadline, and then you gently caress it up and miss it. gently caress you. This is like the fifth loving time now. Somebody loving tell me if Mae is Sandi already. I worked all loving day and you couldn't even write your dumb loving blog.

gently caress you again.

Help me out here Lazrin.
Whens the last time derek made good on any of these threats/promises?

Oh right, never

For all his bluster and hubris dude has about as much believability as cig

DarkRefreshment
May 5, 2015

Nothing is funnier than a dog in a formal outfit. Look it up on the internets.

Sickening posted:

If you can watch the link below with the sound on and still tell me you don't believe its her I will stop mentioning it.

NSFW http://tinyurl.com/j2jonq2 NSFW

Tickle me timbers

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."

Meridian posted:

I am surprised by the lack of a MoMA derail attempt. News still too fresh?

No one could possibly derail this new development of our tickling sensation, for it is far too absurd, ridiculous, yet very much so true. Lazrin popped in real quick, trying to shittalk some standard predictions, but it was the only post he made before going all :flaccid: and the tickling continued.

Ayn Marx
Dec 21, 2012

Lazrin you have won me over
Come back and bring Stimsis we'll show smart what for

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

And ragequit

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003

Sickening posted:

If you can watch the link below with the sound on and still tell me you don't believe its her I will stop mentioning it.

NSFW http://tinyurl.com/j2jonq2 NSFW
The birthmarks though.

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

thatguy posted:

I don't mean that in some sort of shilly way either, it's just unbelievable to me.

Sometimes life really is this funny.

Chalks fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Aug 14, 2016

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

Chalks posted:

It is unbelievable, but it's also almost certainly true. I'm amazed how many links there are - even down to other tickle fetishists chatting about how the guy involved is making a video game now, 5 months ago.

That part is fake. HTML embed edit.

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

thatguy posted:

The birthmarks though.

looks like someone missed the hours and hours of csi-esque birthmark, face and voice analysis.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

thatguy posted:

The birthmarks though.

Where exactly?

SomethingJones
Mar 6, 2016

<3

Snazzy Frocks posted:

wait they sell gift cards for this already??

How do you think they plan on keeping the servers running?

Look, this is already expertly explained by Chris and Ben, the Scampot Men:


Chris Roberts on REC (10 for the Chairman: Episode 84)
"you'll PROBABLY also use ALPHA UEC to buy some REC... ah, you know, sort of that META... BUYING, you know, in... in one game, it's sort of you know... (mumble mumble) how many levels down do you go, ahm... so there you go"

Ben Lesnick on REC (Bensday with Batgirl and Ben episode 51)
"No we're looking at all sorts of OPTIONS in that direction, uhm... I think REC will become less and less important cos it's gonna be the... you know it's the IN GAME IN GAME currency for Arena Commander... uhhmmm... you're gonna see some BIG CHANGES with two point four were we're introducing ah-ALPHA UEC and uhm... ah, as our economy GROWS from that and we see how people are actually PLAYING we'll make modifications to the SUBSCRIBER PROGRAM and so on."

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer

thatguy posted:

The birthmarks though.

The insta-bans from Reddit for saying 'tickle'?

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

DOMDOM posted:

Whens the last time derek made good on any of these threats/promises?

Oh right, never

For all his bluster and hubris dude has about as much believability as cig

great stuff

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

CrazyLoon posted:

I think this poo poo's been up for at least a year now. And the 'Shut up and take my money' for over 3 years now. If the gaming media actually did its loving job, it would rip them multiple assholes over this loudly and jointly.

Gaming journalism is all about access, if they start making GBS threads on games in development (even industry laughingstocks like CIG) they worry that real game developers will stop giving them early builds to gush over.

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

SurfaceDetail posted:

This is beyond slimy holy gently caress.

Update: Cloud Imperium's head of communications David Swofford got in touch to clarify a few points. As various readers have pointed out, the reason for the higher prices is because of VAT laws within the EU:

"Euro laws mandate that VAT is included in the price. If Phil had his monitor turned on to US$ currency, then it will show up just as he depicted in his screen capture (assuming he had UK listed as his country). In the US, you aren’t mandated to include sales tax in the selling price, but you can bet that when you get to check-out, that tax will be added (depending on the state where you are purchasing)."

In response to our comments that gift cards having VAT included on them meant that buyers were paying double VAT if they used the gift card - once for the gift card, then again on the items they purchased with the gift card - David explained CIG's fix:

"The system is engineered explicitly so that you don’t pay double tax. If you apply store credit to an item in your shopping cart, we decrease the base price of the package by that amount.

"If I buy a $100 gift card and my country is in the EU then I will be charged VAT. It is the law that we must display all prices inclusive of VAT.

"If I go back to the storefront and my country is in the EU I will see ships with VAT values displayed (as per the law). If I put a $100 ship in my cart (which is displayed as $120 inclusive of VAT), then go to checkout and apply $100 in store credit from my gift card, then you are done, you don’t owe anything. If you put $50 in store credit then you’d owe $50+$10 in this example, and so forth.

"In short, we don’t double charge VAT. And you’re not going to be taxed on anything but new money."

SomethingJones
Mar 6, 2016

<3

Conspiratiorist posted:

That part is fake. HTML embed edit.

It's all fake. Derek hired a look-a-likey from an agency in NY. Goons did the rest.

Tarkaroshe and Cymelion are goons, planted to make the SC community look like total nutcases. Hilariously actual nutcases joined in.

Bowtie and one of the other INN guys are on Derek's payroll, that's were some of the leaks are coming from.

The 'prelude' stage of Squadron 42 will be released to the public in March 2017, and it will be a watershed moment in gaming.

CIG have a vast cash reserve left. Vast. Like really big.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

DOMDOM posted:

Whens the last time derek made good on any of these threats/promises?

Oh right, never

For all his bluster and hubris dude has about as much believability as cig

That is exactly what makes this all this so entertaining.

orcinus
Feb 25, 2016

Fun Shoe
Jesus. Been away for 2 weeks and there are 200 new pages ITT.
Ain't nobody got time for that.

What did i miss, besides Ortwin's little kink porn thing?

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon

Matlock Birthmark posted:

The Extra's section in their store is just filled with delightful scummy stuff. That's where they are still selling the Manual of setting up and modding a Star Citizen private server

Oh yeah I forgot about that. Charging for something that they literally won't even start thinking about until after the game is released.

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003

Google Butt posted:

looks like someone missed the hours and hours of csi-esque birthmark, face and voice analysis.
I guess, I heard those were on Discord though. Discord sucks.

Sickening posted:

Where exactly?

thatguy posted:


Does Sandi have these birthmarks?

his nibs posted:

The insta-bans from Reddit for saying 'tickle'?
Reddit is known for being really good.

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

Birthmarks can be removed and noticeable scarring is almost non existent.

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003

Raskolnikov posted:

Birthmarks can be removed and noticeable scarring is almost non existent.
I didn't know that.

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003
She definitely had a nose job too but I guess that was obvious.

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003
I also don't know anything about makeup.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

thatguy posted:

I guess, I heard those were on Discord though. Discord sucks.



Reddit is known for being really good.

Isn't that the shadow from her face from lights to the left? (see the mouth and nose?) I can't see it from the rest of the video of the same part of her arm.

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003

Sickening posted:

Isn't that the shadow from her face from lights to the left? (see the mouth and nose?) I can't see it from the rest of the video of the same part of her arm.
The two dots on her jaw, friend.

Google Butt
Oct 4, 2005

Xenology is an unnatural mixture of science fiction and formal logic. At its core is a flawed assumption...

that an alien race would be psychologically human.

stop this analysis immediately it's a bad look for the narrative, furthermore, ben is quite overweight.

Sickening
Jul 16, 2007

Black summer was the best summer.

thatguy posted:

The two dots on her jaw, friend.

Dear lord, that is the easiest thing to remove and probably one of the first bits of work anyone trying to be an actress/model would do.

Hell, they look like moles to me.

Pointy
Feb 12, 2003

hello old friend
did Derek ever post anything or was it just more bullshit as usual

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



They're not even in videos other than that one. I think they might just be chocolate.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Google Butt posted:

stop this analysis immediately it's a bad look for the narrative, furthermore, ben is quite overweight.

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Pointy
Feb 12, 2003

hello old friend
If derek posts anything I will eat my hat*

*as soon as I hear back from my team of doctors which may take between 14 and infinity days

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