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peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos
All I know is I've never seen Toast's trousers fall down randomly as if he has some kind of fancy belt. It's pretty conclusive imo

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peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos

ManofManyAliases posted:

And no more since.

Well it's still up on his website, you should totally go remind him he may have forgotten






















areyoutoastthough?

neonbregna
Aug 20, 2007

ManofManyAliases posted:

And no more since.

How could you be sure unless you are Christ Roberts? Nice doxxing yourself

Inkel
Feb 19, 2004

College Slice

ManofManyAliases posted:

And no more since.

That's still 8 hours too many.

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

ManofManyAliases posted:

Nope. He won't give him the time of day. I know things.

edit: CAT!



I have it on good authority that Ortwin is readying the papers.

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016

Sunswipe posted:

Do it, Chris! JUST DO IT! It's not like anything could go wrong.

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016

Quavers posted:

MoMa is still Cymelion.

No. As someone that has chatted with that chap more than enough, his posting style is far too different and on a consistent basis than MoMa. With Cymelion, you can see he honestly believes in what he is doing. There is a definite strength of his convictions that is just not there with MoMa.

ManofManyAliases
Mar 21, 2016
ToastOfManySmarts


Can't post for 3 hours!

DapperDon posted:

No. As someone that has chatted with that chap more than enough, his posting style is far too different and on a consistent basis than MoMa. With Cymelion, you can see he honestly believes in what he is doing. There is a definite strength of his convictions that is just not there with MoMa.

= ( My convictions are strong = /

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016

ManofManyAliases posted:

= ( My convictions are strong = /

Not about this. This is an amusing plaything to you. As much as you enjoy Star Citizen and its modules, you enjoy coming here to joust with us just as much. This has never been an us vs. you thing. And to be honest, we have come to really enjoy you coming here to play with us as well. That can actually be said to every single one of you guys/gals too.

Fain80
Jan 18, 2013

Free Hugs

DapperDon posted:

Not about this. This is an amusing plaything to you. As much as you enjoy Star Citizen and its modules, you enjoy coming here to joust with us just as much. This has never been an us vs. you thing. And to be honest, we have come to really enjoy you coming here to play with us as well. That can actually be said to every single one of you guys/gals too.


If MoMA isn't toast, it will crush my spirit almost as much as cribbets has.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

ManofManyAliases posted:

= ( My convictions are strong = /

Shh shh don't fight it

Just let the water cover your face

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

ManofManyAliases
Mar 21, 2016
ToastOfManySmarts


Can't post for 3 hours!

Fain80 posted:

If MoMA isn't toast, it will crush my spirit almost as much as cribbets has.

Perhaps one day you'll find out . . . Depends on Derek and whether or not he releases all of our CIG's info.

VealCutlet
Dec 21, 2015

I am a marketing god, shave that shit

ManofManyAliases posted:

live in sunny CA

:smuggo:

grimcreaper
Jan 7, 2012

ManofManyAliases posted:

Aggregation of public data? No problem. Using it against people with malicious intent? Doxxing.

You'll say: No malicious intent here! Only publicizing the devs! Ok fine, but no one requested that you do so in any capacity and there is NO reason for you to do so. You have no proof of people leaving or coming or otherwise, and your only intent is to further make public and put into the spotlight people who do not wish to be anymore than they are currently. If so, they'd take measures to make their information more readily available.

No, the only reason you are doing this is in the hopes that you get someone angry enough to say "I'm suing you." LOL. Please do it Derek. Do it and try and wait until you are ignored by CIG (yet again).

Hey Chris, you should be nice to Mr. Smart. He has shown you nothing but awesomeness.

Skellybones
May 31, 2011




Fun Shoe
The Leonard Skinly saga was so good. Definitely in my top ten Star Citizen stories.

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

Skellybones posted:

The Leonard Skinly saga was so good. Definitely in my top ten Star Citizen stories.
I still can't get over the horse racing odds dude out of the blue tweeting at Derek about SC.

Fain80
Jan 18, 2013

Free Hugs

Skellybones posted:

The Leonard Skinly saga was so good. Definitely in my top ten Star Citizen stories.


What story is this? Tell me moar?

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009


wikipeda posted:

Just Do It (stylized as JUST DO IT.)[1] is a trademark of shoe company Nike, and one of the core components of Nike's brand. The slogan was coined in 1988 at an advertising agency meeting. The founder of Wieden+Kennedy agency, Dan Wieden credits the inspiration for his "Just Do It" Nike slogan to Gary Gilmore’s last words: "Let's do it."

How appropriate for a scam game.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

ewe2 posted:

How appropriate for a scam game.

LOL Derek quick send Nike the video of Crobbers screaming just do it ! And attach a funding graph

Trilobite
Aug 15, 2001

TheAgent posted:

guess its the last holdouts of actual devs who had previous management experience on titles

now you gonna have dudes straight outta college running an entire department of dozens of people, working 60+ hours a week for $40k/yr

lol
This is good for Star Citizen!

The problem with experienced game developers is that when you yell REALLY HARD them to do something, they feel entitled to tell you their pointless opinions. Generally dumb things like "That's not how netcode works" or "The engine absolutely cannot support that" or "That's a bad use of our limited time and budget." They might also have ideas of their own, which is like letting the parking attendant suggest menu items to the celebrity chef. And worst of all, experienced game developers can potentially get jobs elsewhere.

But if you get all of your game developers straight out of college, all of those problems go away. They can't claim to know for sure what's impossible and they don't have any other job offers, so when you yell at them to do it, they'll just say "YES SIR" and scurry back to their desk to put a layer of code over everything or mesh some servers or whatever it is people like that do when you can't spare the time to hover over their shoulder and yell at them about your vision or make suggestions based on things you vaguely remember from the '90s or present them with challenges that you're pretty sure have only never been solved because nobody's been yelled at hard enough to solve them yet.

ComfyPants
Mar 20, 2002

TheAgent posted:

heard it was more layoffs than leaving

Wait, laying off the experienced managers? Leaving a bunch of kids to run the show?
Why would you do this, unless you wouldn't want people around to challenge Chris, or to save some money, or maybe to deliberately sabotage the project so when the money runs out he can go, "Welp, we tried, so sorry, read the TOS you get nothing good day sirs," and head for a country with no extradition treaty.

No matter what the reason, :munch:

Fain80
Jan 18, 2013

Free Hugs


Can we put Croberts head on this?

Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Madcosby posted:

Hahahaha havent seen someone use "websters dictionary defines. .." in an argument since 4th grade

Eldragon posted:

Don't forget lovely graduation speeches.

I did the other day on Reddit. When the Citizenry were discussing how they would stop mocking Derek IF they had more fun things to do in SC and I was like "But, a game, by definition is fun things to do. Why are you paying all this money to get something that isn't fun?" or something like that.

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016

Fain80 posted:

If MoMA isn't toast, it will crush my spirit almost as much as cribbets has.

It can't be toast. Toast acutally has taste in his appearance and would have inside knowledge. Not scramble and hide like MoMa did.

no_recall
Aug 17, 2015

Lipstick Apathy
I finally opened the Vive I got for Christmas from the SO, booted up ED and I don't think SC can ever reach that kind of fidelity ED has in VR.

Everyone would start puking from CRobits awesome animations before they can appreciate their overpriced ships.

Runa
Feb 13, 2011

Fain80 posted:

What story is this? Tell me moar?

A goon was pretending to be a Vietnam vet named Leonard Skinly and trolling CIG with transparently fake encouragement on twitter.

For some reason or another Derek saw this and decided he was going to take this guy down (apparently he takes Stolen Valor scams especially seriously?), and then liveposted throughout his investigation about how he and his people were looking into the matter, because of course he did.

What he didn't realize was that the goon was also liveposting in this thread about how Derek started going after him on twitter and threatening to investigate his claims and how hilarious it was that Derek didn't realize it was him. Because, for some reason or another, D_Smart had put that goon on his ignore list some time before then.

Cue a few hours of unintentional comedy where Derek getting very excited at how he caught a stolen valor scammer in the act who, as icing, was also supposedly a Star Citizen, while at the same time the person behind the stolen valor account was basically saying, "Hey, I did it. It was me all along, Derek. Here's the proof." And people were trying to explain to Derek what was actually going on but he wasn't having any of it, he just kept going and going while the thread collapsed into laughter around him.

Good times.

no_recall
Aug 17, 2015

Lipstick Apathy
Derek, please don't ever change.

Goobs
Jan 30, 2016

Doxcat is watching you PU.

Xarbala posted:

A goon was pretending to be a Vietnam vet named Leonard Skinly and trolling CIG with transparently fake encouragement on twitter.

For some reason or another Derek saw this and decided he was going to take this guy down (apparently he takes Stolen Valor scams especially seriously?), and then liveposted throughout his investigation about how he and his people were looking into the matter, because of course he did.

What he didn't realize was that the goon was also liveposting in this thread about how Derek started going after him on twitter and threatening to investigate his claims and how hilarious it was that Derek didn't realize it was him. Because, for some reason or another, D_Smart had put that goon on his ignore list some time before then.

Cue a few hours of unintentional comedy where Derek getting very excited at how he caught a stolen valor scammer in the act who, as icing, was also supposedly a Star Citizen, while at the same time the person behind the stolen valor account was basically saying, "Hey, I did it. It was me all along, Derek. Here's the proof." And people were trying to explain to Derek what was actually going on but he wasn't having any of it, he just kept going and going while the thread collapsed into laughter around him.

Good times.

Man..those were the good ol days.

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

I hope that Derek never stops going Full Warlord.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Tippis posted:

At $140M and ~400 employees, you're no longer a start-up.

With multiple studios in multiple countries. And at least 13 or so shell companies.

This sure is a start up corp! It's basically out of a garage! And the garage no longer opens because the opener was taken to make a space door or something.

Zzr
Oct 6, 2016

The Titanic posted:

With multiple studios in multiple countries. And at least 13 or so shell companies.

This sure is a start up corp! It's basically out of a garage! And the garage no longer opens because the opener was taken to make a space door or something.

The something is Ben stuck on the door.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

TrustmeImLegit posted:

Guys listen, I know SQ42 wasn't all it was cracked up to be (I personally loved it), but this a first time outing from a rookie studio. Its not really fair to give them so much grief over this. Subsequent games as the team becomes more cohesive should be much better!

I have to disagree with you. I personally enjoyed every second of it. From the tutorial three hour cutscene where Hamill "Old Man" gave his riveting 'y'all poor fool newbies' to the first sighting of the Vanduul ship with that $50 DLC in game warning. I personally thought it was so cool that I could read my credit card to the mother ship and actually watch them charge me over the com.

During the first gameplay segment 4 hours in, it was the best 30 seconds of gameplay of any AAA game. When I looked around during that shuttle ride, I was literally in space. It made me feel insignificant.

When I finally beat the Prelude after 10 hours, I was totally ready for another 20 minutes of gameplay like the game offered me. I was wowed and floored. The acting, the memorable characters (lol Derek Tasmr!) and the cutting edge graphics the likes of which 2007 is jealous of... I'm soooo stoked for Sq42 Part 1!

Can't wait for the Pusher romance line to evolve too. My bald male character is soooo ready to get it on with her that I can't stand it! The acting was top notch! It was like I was literally watching Pornhub!

Come on Part 1! Prelude was awesomeness! Can't wait for more!!! 11/10!!

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

CrazyTolradi posted:

I still can't get over the horse racing odds dude out of the blue tweeting at Derek about SC.

Wait, I missed this. Please tell me it was "Walt Gekko" who did that, because I will never stop laughing if it was.

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

AlbieQuirky posted:

Wait, I missed this. Please tell me it was "Walt Gekko" who did that, because I will never stop laughing if it was.
IIRC I think it was a dude who just does horse racing odds and stuff, he tweeted Derek out of the blue to check out the horse that Crobbers had bought recently or something?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

:holymoley:

On the subject of bow ties, whatever happened to bowtie INNNNNNNNNNNN dude?

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard
Remember zanorith1?





zanorith1 - RSI MaTeRiX


The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

hot balls man no homo posted:

So what do you think is going to happen when Citizens see all the people heading for the escape pods of the UEE Titanic? :gary:

What is it with people wanting to flee all the time? :colbert:

Don't you know going down with the ship is totally the in thing to do these days?

Dirty leavers.

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ZenMaster
Jan 24, 2006

I Saved PC Gaming

ManofManyAliases posted:

CIG is not Elite. The models are not the same, whereas elite is a build first add later approach.

This should be the only approach dingleberry.

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