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ewe2
Jul 1, 2009


Oi, catte taxxe, pronto.

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Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

ewe2 posted:

Oi, catte taxxe, pronto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYFALyP2e7U&t=54s

these dudes are cool af

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo
It's like they know they're one of nature's weirdest punchlines and decide to make the most of it

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



DisturbedJim is so colourblind unracist he can't tell the difference between arab and asian stereotypes.

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

Someone please explain to me how "man hires receptionist, receptionist rates him 5/5 on website" is something to tweet about?

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

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

Chalks posted:

Someone please explain to me how "man hires receptionist, receptionist rates him 5/5 on website" is something to tweet about?
It seems important when you're a stalker.

Good Dumplings
Mar 30, 2011

Excuse my worthless shitposting because all I can ever hope to accomplish in life is to rot away the braincells of strangers on the internet with my irredeemable brainworms.

Chalks posted:

Someone please explain to me how "man hires receptionist, receptionist rates him 5/5 on website" is something to tweet about?

that's him in the massage chair I guess? poo poo, not even that
that's him in the office chair or something

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Chalks posted:

Someone please explain to me how "man hires receptionist, receptionist rates him 5/5 on website" is something to tweet about?

I'd tell you if I could parse enough of that tweet to get what he's saying. Like, "too busy" for what? If he thinks "receptionist" means whore, why would he claim he gets "no happy endings"?

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I'd tell you if I could parse enough of that tweet to get what he's saying. Like, "too busy" for what? If he thinks "receptionist" means whore, why would he claim he gets "no happy endings"?

I'm trying to work out how to parse the sentence so that "stalker" and "hateboner" are referring to himself, because it would make a lot more sense that way.

intardnation
Feb 18, 2016

I'm going to space!

:gary: :yarg:

ComfyPants posted:

Frogbear had a moment



more sentient than a whale and asks more questions too.

Sillybones
Aug 10, 2013

go away,
spooky skeleton,
go away

cool new Polack jokes posted:

In our setting of Banshee, there were ten stimpires which were united under ten galaxies. They were all allied as the United Galactic Stimpires, until one day, when the Sixth Stimpire noticed that the Fourth Stimpire was adopting laws that were against the regulations of the UGS. High-ranking military servants noticed that at the end of their favourite sporting event, the losing side was being rounded up, with all 11 players wailing in despair. They then noticed that the center of the stadium was now revealing a large, cylindrical container with a sharp floor. The floor was in the shape of a grinding grater, except there were several discs each turning very slowly, one being further out than the other from its center point. They were then pushed in by very powerful cybernetic stadium security officers, and the container was sealed up. It was then, to the horror of the colonels, that there was blood being smeared against the glass of the machine. They both left for their transit van, only to be stopped by Fourth Stimpire Enforcers. They demanded that they get past, only to be told that the Fourth Stimpire is a sovereign, socialist empire which listens to its people. They were then being transported to a greyscale soundproof room, with very sharp machinery decorating the room from all over.

They were never heard from or even seen again. The only traces of them were blood trails located in the very room. The Fourth Stimpire had announced to the UGC that it was now allied with Vanduul forces, and any attack will result in immediate deplanetation, much to the dismay of the UGC. The Seventh Stimpire warned them that the other nine would revoke their UGC rights if they carried on, but they did far from what they were demanding. The Fourth Stimpire didn't massacre the First Landmass population, but left them in the worst pain known in the universe for eternity. The drug was capable of keeping the victim the same age as they were, halting growth and aging, whilst keeping them alive forever. All growth cells are killed and the drug repeats any respiratory cycles.

The other nine declared war on the Fourth Stimpire, which ultimately led to the demise of the First, Eighth, Ninth, Fifth and Tenth Stimpires. They were deplanetated, all of their planets were razed and reduced to nothing but an asteroid field, a reminder of the power of the Fourth Stimpire, and a historical monument, and a book, a tale of what was once a mighty, populated planet.

The Seventh Stimpire ordered their planets to be relocated out of the range of the Fourth Stimpire Satelitation Force through the use of planet movement technology. As the Seventh Stimpire was completely artificial, the planets were able to be relocated to a faraway place in the universe. The Second Stimpire however were unable to relocate, as they were natural to the full extent and had a ban on fighting on any kind. Weapons were not permitted in the territory, and anyone caught fighting would be exiled permanently from the planet. They were the Second Law, as the rest of the universe know them by.

The other stimpires were unable to relocate aswell, and ordered their planets to be mined until they were fresh clean, and turn artificial, so they could be moved away from threat. They did not want to meet the same fate as their brethren. As a result, the war that remains going on to this day, is now a fierce, stalemate battle. The United Earth Empire eventually joined to help them against the Fourth Stimpire in 2754, 100 years after the war began, but this would also lead to Vanduul interception, as the Vanduul were warmongering to the point of following the UEE's every move and intercepting it.

Endnote.

foreverally chewed up spinning blades cutting meat enforcer pushing into box sharp cutting blade stab permanently pain triple doubling

intardnation
Feb 18, 2016

I'm going to space!

:gary: :yarg:
I am Chris Roberts and I am here to ask you a question:
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Yes, says the man in Basement. It belongs to the CiG.
Yes, says the man in the Cat Suit. It belongs to CiG.
Yes, says the man in the belt. It belongs to CiG.

I accepted those answers.So, I made a kickstarter.
I chose the impossible scam. I chose...
Star Citizen

- Chris Roberts

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I'd tell you if I could parse enough of that tweet to get what he's saying. Like, "too busy" for what? If he thinks "receptionist" means whore, why would he claim he gets "no happy endings"?

He also thinks that sex workers use glassdoor LMAO.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

intardnation posted:

I am Chris Roberts and I am here to ask you a question:
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Yes, says the man in Basement. It belongs to the CiG.
Yes, says the man in the Cat Suit. It belongs to CiG.
Yes, says the man in the belt. It belongs to CiG.

I accepted those answers.So, I made a kickstarter.
I chose the impossible scam. I chose...
Star Citizen

- Chris Roberts

This is it, I'm moving to Ben's Gulch.

no_recall
Aug 17, 2015

Lipstick Apathy
Space Trees in Elite. Star Citizen, what do?

AbstractNapper
Jun 5, 2011

I can help

Quavers posted:

The Early Access launch of Hellion has been delayed to Feb 24th:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ttU1q8qRI

The feature-progress page is suspiciously open development: https://www.playhellion.com/features


Looks interesting and ambitious but more grounded than Star Citizen's dreams. It will be early access and it's multiplayer only so I'd still be cautious to buy this day one, but I'll keep an eye on it.

They state that many of their planned features are "complete"; they will be included in the Early Access release but they will be expanded upon and improved based on feedback.

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

What does this rear end in a top hat know about videogame development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcJ1Jvtef0&t=262s

Fidelity! Fidelity! Fidelity!!!

He's a hack this is awesome and you should watch it. This is probably where you've recently seen his work: http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/

Raskolnikov fucked around with this message at 11:09 on Jan 26, 2017

Sillybones
Aug 10, 2013

go away,
spooky skeleton,
go away

intardnation posted:

I am Chris Roberts and I am here to ask you a question:
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Yes, says the man in Basement. It belongs to the CiG.
Yes, says the man in the Cat Suit. It belongs to CiG.
Yes, says the man in the belt. It belongs to CiG.

I accepted those answers.So, I made a kickstarter.
I chose the impossible scam. I chose...
Star Citizen

- Chris Roberts



Sure this has already been done better before. Well, gently caress you.

Sillybones fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Jan 26, 2017

well why not
Feb 10, 2009




sent an email for a refund 10 days ago, got a basic response saying it'd be escalated. Just received a response basically saying "THE GAME IS GOOD THOUGH HERE'S MORE INFO". Didn't actually address the fact that I'd asked for a refund at all. Googling strings from the email reveal it's basically a form letter.

My initial refund mentioned ACCC and they still put me off. Super shady, basically. I've now had respond and tell them that yes, I do actually want a refund and no, I didn't actually buttdial an email to CiG asking for a refund.

AbstractNapper
Jun 5, 2011

I can help
That's their standard process for refunds, and, albeit it seems like you are talking to some polite robot I think they are not entirely automated and they do update this (maybe trying different stuff to convince you to have a change of mind).

All of the people who request a refund will get an e-mail with a bunch of videos and text that says that you will be missing out on this great game they are making and talking about weekly and showcasing at conventions. Mine did mention at the end that if I still wanted a refund all I had was to confirm that (again) and then send my Paypal info.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

The Titanic posted:

Derek is threatening this leak of names working at CIG with linked in profiles and forum names and who knows what else. This has been the "just do it doxx" thing for the past day or two. It's a bit silly to do, but it's his agenda that he feels he can further by work-shaming individuals.

CIG is burning because they can't actually make a game or show game related footage (because there is none). I feel like Derek releasing this would just cause an uproar to "protect the innocent CIG workers" amongst the audience. The focus would again move away from CIG being a complete failure to the personal image of people hurt by the revelations.

Not a threat. Not a doxx. Not harassment.

Regardless of what other people say my intent is, that's on you guys who listen to them.

As I said on Twitter, it is a blog listing all key people - past and present - working on the project. Short bios and links to LinkedIn (and where possible, RSI profiles) profiles. No different from any company website or crowd-funded project in which the people are listed.

Heck, you could go right now on LinkedIn do a search for "people who work at cloud imperium" and come up with a list. Similarly, you could go on any crowd-funded project page and see the people asking for money and making the product. What makes Star Citizen any different or special?

Faux outrage never concerned me one bit. So all this is just noise.

intardnation
Feb 18, 2016

I'm going to space!

:gary: :yarg:

MeLKoR posted:

This is it, I'm moving to Ben's Gulch.

I chose rupture

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

intardnation posted:

I chose rupture

Parpture

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

D_Smart posted:

Not a threat. Not a doxx. Not harassment.

Regardless of what other people say my intent is, that's on you guys who listen to them.

As I said on Twitter, it is a blog listing all key people - past and present - working on the project. Short bios and links to LinkedIn (and where possible, RSI profiles) profiles. No different from any company website or crowd-funded project in which the people are listed.

Heck, you could go right now on LinkedIn do a search for "people who work at cloud imperium" and come up with a list. Similarly, you could go on any crowd-funded project page and see the people asking for money and making the product. What makes Star Citizen any different or special?

Faux outrage never concerned me one bit. So all this is just noise.

Be that as it may you are aware that there's a group of assholes trying to get the thread shut down. The last thing we need is a repeat of the Deloria debacle so the concearn brigade can drag some mod that never read the thread before and get it shut down on account of "the repeated doxxing incidents".

Just post it in your blog/tweeter and don't comment about it here, people will find it soon enough.

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Jan 26, 2017

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Or don't do it at all, most of the people working at CIG are just inocent baby gamedevs and don't desvere to get warlorded.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
Telling the Warlord not to do something is an exercise in futility.

TheLastRoboKy
May 2, 2009

Finishing the game with everyone else's continues
I can't say I really care to know who even works there, because so long as Chris is there they all exist in a terrible hellscape of incompetence and fear.

Sum Mors
Feb 21, 2008

intardnation posted:

I am Chris Roberts and I am here to ask you a question:
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Yes, says the man in Basement. It belongs to the CiG.
Yes, says the man in the Cat Suit. It belongs to CiG.
Yes, says the man in the belt. It belongs to CiG.

I accepted those answers.So, I made a kickstarter.
I chose the impossible scam. I chose...
Star Citizen

- Chris Roberts

In the end what separates a whale from a shitizen? Funds? Dreams? No, a whale pledges, a shitizen PAAAAAAAAARPs.

CrazyTolradi
Oct 2, 2011

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

I can't say I really see the point in outing the little people at CIG, they're just green rookies in the gaming industry, trying to keep a roof over their heads and avoid going bankrupt from student debt. It's a loving hard industry to get into so I can't say I blame those kids for staying on even if they know it's futile, a paying job is a paying job.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Has anyone said Doxxtor Smart yet?

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?
The scam is bad, hate the scam not the teenage intern, actually scratch that just hate chris, sandi, ben and a few others.

Goobs
Jan 30, 2016

Doxcat is watching you PU.

Ghostlight posted:

Whinging is a completely different word.

Just Googled it. I'm Canadian and have never heard of it before. Learn something new every day.

Ayn Marx
Dec 21, 2012

MeLKoR posted:

Be that as it may you are aware that there's a group of assholes trying to get the thread shut down. The last thing we need is a repeat of the Deloria debacle so the concearn brigade can drag some mod that never read the thread before and get it shut down on account of "the repeated doxxing incidents".

Just post it in your blog/tweeter and don't comment about it here, people will find it soon enough.

Our own mods will probate this ruthlessly

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

I can't even hate them, Ben is just a broken Wing Commander fan, Sandi just wanted to be an actor, Chris just wanted to make a movie. They are all sad stories about how easy it is to get lost in our modern society. The schadenfreude I get from watching the idiot backers throwing money at them make it worth it. Never stop giving them money Citizens, I want to see what Chris comes up with next. The homestead video was an amazing uninspired little video of archered ideas. Star Marine is the groundbreaking team based multiplayer FPS in the cryengine. The PU is a broken mess and Arena Commander is a joke. What is next for Chris and his crew? Probably a concept sale.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

aleksendr posted:

Its a nice game. The best way to describe it is "Serious Casual". You feel no pressure at all and can just chill in your fields, trucking around in various machinery but the attention to the details of such tractors is top notch.

Its Stardew Valley but for simulation fans.

It's FarmVille with 3D graphics and less depth. :colbert:

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

CrazyTolradi posted:

I can't say I really see the point in outing the little people at CIG, they're just green rookies in the gaming industry, trying to keep a roof over their heads and avoid going bankrupt from student debt. It's a loving hard industry to get into so I can't say I blame those kids for staying on even if they know it's futile, a paying job is a paying job.

Are your feeling the same for anyone who appears on those marketing videos hyping poo poo that doesn't exist and never will exist to gullible idiots?

Personally if I worked at CIG I wouldn't really be worried about anyone here, it's the insane cultists in for thousands that would concern me. Anyone who reads this thread and still has money involved has at least had a few years worth of entertainment out of Star Citizen and they should be fully aware that the fault is all theirs if they haven't bailed out by now.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Goobs posted:

Just Googled it. I'm Canadian and have never heard of it before. Learn something new every day.

No one in the US says it either and I also thought it was a misspelling the first time I encountered brits on the internet.

Ayn Marx
Dec 21, 2012

AP posted:

Personally if I worked at CIG I wouldn't really be worried about anyone here, it's the insane cultists in for thousands that would concern me. Anyone who reads this thread and still has money involved has at least had a few years worth of entertainment out of Star Citizen and they should be fully aware that the fault is all theirs if they haven't bailed out by now.

But... as long as you believe, the dream is alive!

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

CrazyTolradi posted:

I can't say I really see the point in outing the little people at CIG, they're just green rookies in the gaming industry, trying to keep a roof over their heads and avoid going bankrupt from student debt. It's a loving hard industry to get into so I can't say I blame those kids for staying on even if they know it's futile, a paying job is a paying job.

I'm not sure if there's a point or not but how on earth could searching for CIG on LinkedIn and publishing the results be considered doxxing?

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D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

MeLKoR posted:

Be that as it may you are aware that there's a group of assholes trying to get the thread shut down. The last thing we need is a repeat of the Deloria debacle so the concearn brigade can drag some mod that never read the thread before and get it shut down on account of "the repeated doxxing incidents".

Just post it in your blog/tweeter and don't comment about it here, people will find it soon enough.

Who said that I was going to post it here? Do I publish my blogs here on SA?

And we can comment and discuss anything we want here; and if someone chooses to cross the line on what's acceptable, that's between them and the mods.

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