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January 10, 2935, started like any other day for those aboard OP Station Demien. Security personnel conducted their routine patrols around the station, but (based on security accounts), everything was quiet. Haulers offloaded supplies and stayed to enjoy a hot meal outside of their ship. Station staff restocked vending machines and reshuffled cargo containers for pick up. Little did they know, a stealth dropship silently drew nearer. Meanwhile, in the temporary housing habs, the family of Advocacy Agent Emily Walzer received good news. A permanent residence on Lago had been secured for them, and a military transport on a supply run would bring them in the following day. Francis Walzer and his three children had been waiting at OP Station Demien for days. Though they knew the system was still dangerous, sweetheart land deals on Lago offered to government officials and their families were too good to pass up. Now that their lot had been secured, the family could all be together for the first time since Agent Emily Walzer transferred to Lago the previous year. Following the call with his wife, Francis Walzer sent his son, Arjun, to grab a few bottles of Pips while he read to twins Joyce and Joanne. Arjun rushed out of the hab, as if going faster also accelerated time. Though only fourteen, Arjun wanted to join the Advocacy like his mother. Friends and family described him as observant and endless inquisitive, so the fact that he was the first civilian aboard the station to notice that things weren’t quite right seems fitting. At some point in his journey to the Pips machine, he became aware that the hallways were eerily quiet and that select security doors had been closed and elevators deactivated. Not long after, Arjun spotted the now-famous bloody handprint. Ten minutes earlier, the station’s security officers had stepped away from their posts for a shift change. It was during that vulnerable window that a small squad of well-armed outlaws took the security team by surprise. Security footage showed that the speed and precision of the attack was such that none of the security officers even had a chance to raise their weapon. With the station’s security apparatus under their control, additional Horizon Crew ships landed. Assault teams spread across the station, systematically moving from room to room and killing anyone they encountered. Many victims were found executed, a single shot in the back of the head, never knowing what hit them. Supposedly, the Horizon Crew’s plan was to secretly take over OP Station Demien, fortify and secure it and then use it at a new center for their operations in the Nexus System. Essential to the plan’s success was ensuring that word of their assault didn’t leave the station. It would afford them the time to entrench and notify others that the station was now under their control. It almost happened too, if it hadn’t been for Arjun Walzer and that bloody handprint. Over 20 different retellings of the Walzer massacre have appeared on the spectrum since this fateful day. Each one uses the iconic image of the bloody handprint that reportedly begins Arjun’s comm to his mother. Incredibly, Arjun stayed on the comm with his mother for nearly 50 minutes. With her guidance, he documented the horrors the Horizon Crew inflicted on the station and evaded the assailants. Arjun’s brave efforts continued until an outlaw noticed an unknown signal coming from the station and decided to hunt it down. Although the final moments of that fateful comm are known only by those who have seen it, there is one word consistently used to describe it: devastating. Sadly, Arjun’s tragic demise was far from unique, as no one on OP Station Demien during the assault would survive it. Yet, thanks to Arjun’s bravery, local law enforcement officials received word of the assault and launched their counterattack before the Horizon Crew could fully enact their security plan for the entire station. A local militia was first on the scene but had little warning of what awaited them. Within moments of exiting their ships, most militia members found themselves caught in a kill zone. The outlaws’ strategically advantageous position proved to be too much for inexperienced local law enforcement to overcome, making it apparent that the UEE Marines were needed. The Marine assault to retake OP Station Demien lasted six hours. The battle-hardened Horizon Crew fought for every last inch of space and surface. With nowhere else to go, the Crew knew their plan would either work or be their ultimate demise. Thanks to the Marines, it proved to be the latter. After three years of perceived progress against outlaw elements in the Nexus System, the Walzer Massacre, as it came to be called, was a stark reminder that there was much work still to be done. Despite its impact on the UEE at the time, the Walzer Massacre is now only the second most famous thing associated with OP Station Demien. Today, it’s better known as a location in the popular video game Star Marine and the recent vid Star Marine 2: BloodLock. This distinction isn’t without controversy, as some believe InterDimension Software intentionally chose to base their game level on the station to stir controversy and receive free publicity for the title.
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I like how WTFO wasn't invited to be on the new show and has to join the game like all the other plebs.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:14
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phosdex posted:how does lethality have like 4.5k followers yet his tweets usually only get 1 like or whatever? is it all you guys and a bunch of bots There's only like 100 people in here, and that's being generous. A small room full of people are the boogey men bringing down a $141 million dollar multinational game corporation. XK fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Jan 13, 2017 21:15
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And no I did not read it all. And no I did not go look for it. They keep sending me emails with this poo poo.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:15
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D_Smart posted:Nope. It's a hobby now. I'm semi-retired and have nothing but time on my hands. Hell hath no fury like an autistic man who feels he has been personally wronged, has lots of free time, and takes up the response as a hobby.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:20
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Inkel posted:I like how WTFO wasn't invited to be on the new show and has to join the game like all the other plebs. A whopping 1,200 viewers.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:24
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Jan 13, 2017 21:32
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Inkel posted:Crossposting from the Awful Kickstarters thread in PYF:   quote:But at some point, you cross over from aspirational to fraudulent, and the DA’s suit alleges that Lily’s video is demonstrably the latter. Maybe the authorities will look into the hundreds of millions of dollars being paid for literally fake videos that are not representative of the product that is more than two years late? Fat Shat Sings fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Jan 13, 2017 21:33
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Inkel posted:Crossposting from the Awful Kickstarters thread in PYF: Yup. This is precisely what I had said was going to happen to Star Citizen if they fail to deliver. Just wait.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:35
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D_Smart posted:
And wait, and wait, and.... wait? We've been waiting since your BLOG man. C'mon already! ManofManyAliases fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Jan 13, 2017 21:37
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XK posted:There's only like 100 people in here, and that's being generous. A small room full of people are the boogey men bringing down a $141 million dollar multinational game corporation. Derek Smart is their Baba Yaga. 
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Jan 13, 2017 21:37
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ManofManyAliases posted:Yup. This is precisely what I had said was going to happen to Star Citizen if they fail to deliver. Just wait. And wait, and wait, and.... wait? We've been waiting since your BLOG man. C'mon already! [/quote] Holy poo poo I agree with moma
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Jan 13, 2017 21:41
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Hav posted:'IT' terrified me, mainly because I used to bike/walk to a job in the next village and the drains would gurgle. Couple that with English fog and a teenage imagination and you get glutes of steel from the fast walk. 'Christine' was a seminal work of characterisation, making the evil somehow familiar and homely, and tapping into that feeling you get when you lose your friends to a girl. 'The Shining' was creeping horror and the subversion of hopes and dreams. The clenching helped Dark Tower 
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Jan 13, 2017 21:45
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Called it!! https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/819977559031083008 
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Jan 13, 2017 21:48
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Man that stream is bad, you can watch 3 people at once play a game and none of them are having any fun. Their game is all sizzle, no sausage.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:50
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ManofManyAliases posted:They did, and then they didn't. And you either agreed to this, or you didn't. Honestly? They got creative with the TOS and played around with delivery dates to suit themselves. So what. Don't like it? Get your money back and move on. or don't
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Jan 13, 2017 21:52
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ManofManyAliases posted:Old news Derek. Is this how your book will read? 768 pages of "This is how If We Got There: Confessions Of The Warlord
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Jan 13, 2017 21:52
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D_Smart posted:Called it!! Some people got a bit of time off in lieu it would appear. Two weeks into January *waiting* for people to come back in (ie not 'executive'). Thoatse posted:The clenching helped The fog, the dark, the gurgling drains that you'd pass, swearing there was a voice on the edge of the gurgle... *walks faster* ManofManyAliases posted:And wait, and wait, and.... wait? We've been waiting since your BLOG man. C'mon already! As long as they can point to an MVP, they have a deliverable... ...but they just refined the goals for 2017. You should consider a refund.
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Jan 13, 2017 21:54
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ManofManyAliases posted:They did, and then they didn't. And you either agreed to this, or you didn't. Honestly? They got creative with the TOS and played around with delivery dates to suit themselves. So what. Don't like it? Get your money back and move on.  I like you moma, there's nothing quite like you in this grand tapestry of rhyme and 'verse
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Jan 13, 2017 21:58
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https://www.twitch.tv/starcitizen happy friday 
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Jan 13, 2017 21:59
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ManofManyAliases posted:And wait, and wait, and.... wait? We've been waiting since your BLOG man. C'mon already! https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/12/sf-district-attorney-lawsuit-against-lily-may-have-prompted-refund/ quote:The lawsuit is the result of several months of investigation, a statement from the DA’s office explained.
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(Waits 4 plus years for a video game after dumping a bunch of money into it, is willing to wait a couple more) COME ON DEREK STOP MAKING ME WAIT.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:05
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That doesn't say anything about alien languages. It's almost like they wrote the subject line first, couldn't figure out what to put in the body, then forgot what they had put in the subject. I've done that before.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:06
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ManofManyAliases posted:You paid an attorney and got an unsigned letter? drat. Did MoMA just toss Derek's word salad?
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Jan 13, 2017 22:09
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Talking of space games that actually exist, I'm enjoying watching a guy streaming E:D at the moment using VR: https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage It's really impressive how this game looks these days. It looks like it'd be amazing in VR. Star Citizen is so far from the mark with it's "animation first" head controls. It's incredible that they're going about it in precisely the opposite way that you need to in a simulator with VR support.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:10
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I can confirm the LA DA and FTC are both conducting initial investigations and collecting stories from refunded people. This was outright confirmed to me by Anthony Wai when I spoke with him regarding my refund. That was back in Sept and earlier.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:12
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XK posted:That doesn't say anything about alien languages. It's almost like they wrote the subject line first, couldn't figure out what to put in the body, then forgot what they had put in the subject. It's so generic it's almost completely unreadable. I love that they stick Crizzer's name on all of these though
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XK posted:That doesn't say anything about alien languages. It's almost like they wrote the subject line first, couldn't figure out what to put in the body, then forgot what they had put in the subject. Yeah, I noticed that as well. It's what happens when you start off with lies. Then lose track.
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Thronde posted:I can confirm the LA DA and FTC are both conducting initial investigations and collecting stories from refunded people. This was outright confirmed to me by Anthony Wai when I spoke with him regarding my refund. That was back in Sept and earlier. Yeah, we know. Ignore MoMa. He's in denial as always.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:14
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Taking a break from the MoMA roasting.... Read this. You'll die laughing. http://www.bet.com/news/national/2017/01/12/black-student-trolls-white-students-who-ask-for-his-seat.html
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ManofManyAliases posted:And wait, and wait, and.... wait? We've been waiting since your BLOG man. C'mon already! It only took ~$35M a year to make Derek look so foolish. Money well spent imo. MilesK fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Jan 13, 2017 22:17
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MilesK posted:It only took ~$35M a years to make Derek look so foolish. Money well spent imo. I'm seriously considering getting a refund on the money I paid Derek for his book.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:19
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MilesK posted:It only took ~$35M a years to make Derek look so foolish. Money well spent imo. I see what you did there 
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Jan 13, 2017 22:20
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Sunswipe posted:I'm seriously considering getting a refund on the money I paid Derek for his book. No refunds! Didn't you read the cast-iron ToS? 
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Jan 13, 2017 22:22
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ManofManyAliases posted:You paid an attorney and got an unsigned letter? drat. well u spent all that time on a tos that was invalid so drat.
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Jan 13, 2017 22:22
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Star Citizen: the hangin titty with no nipple is Q
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XK posted:That doesn't say anything about alien languages. It's almost like they wrote the subject line first, couldn't figure out what to put in the body, then forgot what they had put in the subject. I was thinking the same thing while reading it. Also the have a "production schedule" so vague and up in the air that once 2.6 shipped they don't have any idea what they're doing until Chris flys around the world going to face to face meetings., so what exactly are they working on now?
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ManofManyAliases posted:And wait, and wait, and.... wait? We've been waiting since your BLOG man. C'mon already! Maybe he should make a trailer with footage of legal action from 2014 and some clearly prerendered, not in engine footage along with a blog presale (war-bonded fresh cash only)?
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D_Smart posted:Taking a break from the MoMA roasting.... Stuff that didn't happen, in 50 tweets. https://i.imgur.com/IOyGbe0.gifv
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