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Xaerael: Aug 25, 2010; Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Sabreseven posted:

"I ASKED YOU NOT TO BOTHER ME WHEN I'M USING THE VACUUM MOM!!!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL9zWeFifcE&t=133s

# ? Mar 2, 2017 11:32

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# ? May 15, 2024 09:37

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

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/837055992395358208

Hey moma, any thoughts on this?

# ? Mar 2, 2017 12:01

Chalks: Sep 30, 2009

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/837055992395358208

Hey moma, any thoughts on this?

The artwork on that subreddit is wonderful.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 12:14

Sandweed: Sep 7, 2006; All your friends are me.

Why did he not get a refund? All ships bought on the grey market?

# ? Mar 2, 2017 12:49

Beer4TheBeerGod: Aug 23, 2004; Exciting Lemon

Sandweed posted:

Why did he not get a refund? All ships bought on the grey market?

Could be. I can't imagine he would have bought a lot of ships after June, but it's entirely possible.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 12:52

Decrepus: May 21, 2008; In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.

Mirificus posted:

So close yet so far away. :laffo:

# ? Mar 2, 2017 12:53

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

Sandweed posted:

Why did he not get a refund? All ships bought on the grey market?

I love his reddit username.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 12:57

CrazyTolradi: Oct 2, 2011; It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

Mirificus posted:

He doesn't have a social life and lives on cheap food, so that means his gaming dollars are four times more effective!

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:04

CrazyLoon: Aug 10, 2015; "..."

Pelican Dunderhead posted:

this remains my favorite Star Shitizen TBH

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:18

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

Chin posted:

I'm not seeing a lot of reasons to laud CR and a handful of CIG employees for spending ten seconds signing a get well soon card for that guy with cancer. They've already conned the poor kid out of almost a thousand bucks. It was the least they could do.

If Bernie Madoff at the height of his scam had sent his condolences to one of his victims who'd taken sick I wouldn't say, "Good on you, Bernie!" Certainly it's better than them not responding at all, but they're still evil fucks. They absolutely saw it primarily as an opportunity for some positive PR. Chris is probably pissed Kotaku didn't write an article about his benevolence.

Agreed

Besides of which it's incredibly vain to send a kid with cancer a sales brochure with your signature on it , like you're a loving rock star (hint: Crobberts you're not)

Did they even gift him the ship that goes along with the brochure ? I didn't bother reading the whole thing

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:35

JugbandDude: Jul 19, 2016; Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun

Shine on you crazy diamond!

I would like to thank the thread for recommending The Expanse. While not perfect (missing nipple jets), it's enjoyable and a fair take at sci-fi.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:37

TrustmeImLegit: Jan 14, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

Sappo569 posted:

Agreed

Besides of which it's incredibly vain to send a kid with cancer a sales brochure with your signature on it , like you're a loving rock star (hint: Crobberts you're not)

Did they even gift him the ship that goes along with the brochure ? I didn't bother reading the whole thing

Usually when you spend 1000 bucks on trivial things they come signed so he's really just getting what he should have gotten in the first place.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:39

Beer4TheBeerGod: Aug 23, 2004; Exciting Lemon

Sappo569 posted:

Agreed

Besides of which it's incredibly vain to send a kid with cancer a sales brochure with your signature on it , like you're a loving rock star (hint: Crobberts you're not)

Did they even gift him the ship that goes along with the brochure ? I didn't bother reading the whole thing

They did something nice and they didn't have to. There's plenty of reasons to give CIG poo poo, but this isn't one of them.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:39

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

trucutru posted:

In his defense, you don't have many needs (that your parents don't cover) when you sound 16 or so.

this is your brain... on doping

I make it a point that when I cheat at sports, I am doping. I don't want to go doping alone and I know everybody will bend to peer pressure and we will all get dopinged together and win at sports.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:39

TrustmeImLegit: Jan 14, 2017; by FactsAreUseless

I think as fans we are owed the best athletes science can create.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:41

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

They did something nice and they didn't have to. There's plenty of reasons to give CIG poo poo, but this isn't one of them.

I disagree. They deserve all the poo poo they get and then some

Just because someone makes a kind gesture they don't suddenly become forgiven of all their previous lovely behaviour

Most of us are probably jaded enough now that CIG could build a new hospital for kids and we would still call them assholes , but we'll they only have themselves to blame for their past behaviour

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:43

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

They did something nice and they didn't have to. There's plenty of reasons to give CIG poo poo, but this isn't one of them.

Gonna Derek ^this this.

I know everybody wants cig to be the worst at everything, but just like it's ok to call them out on their stupidity, it's also ok to call them out for doing good things as well. What they did was good and nice and it probably made both of those guys days and made life a little happier for a while.

I'm good with that and kudos to cig for doing it. They didn't have to. They chose to.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:44

Sunswipe: Feb 5, 2016; by Fluffdaddy

Mangoose posted:

"Hey man, it's all about setting up the life you wanna live. Cut down on costs and get loads of money to spend on stupid poo poo furthermore... MOM! I told you to KNOCK!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXxBq3FgrY

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:47

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Sappo569 posted:

I disagree. They deserve all the poo poo they get and then some

Just because someone makes a kind gesture they don't suddenly become forgiven of all their previous lovely behaviour

Most of us are probably jaded enough now that CIG could build a new hospital for kids and we would still call them assholes , but we'll they only have themselves to blame for their past behaviour

There's a difference between saying "this is a good thing you did" and absolving them of being otherwise horrible at their jobs and possibly employees. I'm not forgiving them for being terrible at making a video game. I'm just acknowledging they did something good and recognizing that fact as well.

I'm sorry you don't see it that way, and it's ok. Just try to not let blind disgust for something prevent you from seeing the flowers along the path, if possible.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:48

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

The Titanic posted:

There's a difference between saying "this is a good thing you did" and absolving them of being otherwise horrible at their jobs and possibly employees. I'm not forgiving them for being terrible at making a video game. I'm just acknowledging they did something good and recognizing that fact as well.

I'm sorry you don't see it that way, and it's ok. Just try to not let blind disgust for something prevent you from seeing the flowers along the path, if possible.

But blind disgust is all I have left in life !

Ok fine they did something nice , I give it 24 hours until they make up for that in spades

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:50

D_Smart: May 11, 2010; by FactsAreUseless; College Slice

Sandweed posted:

Why did he not get a refund? All ships bought on the grey market?

Yeah. Also, he probably needed to get out urgently because he could very well have sold the other $2K in ships on the Black market. Unless of course they were worthless; seeing as the Black market has pretty much collapsed now.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 13:59

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:01

Tijuana Bibliophile: Dec 30, 2008; Scratchmo

Headbob 2.0 is in

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:01

Harold Stassen: Jan 24, 2016

Chin posted:

I'm not seeing a lot of reasons to laud CR and a handful of CIG employees for spending ten seconds signing a get well soon card for that guy with cancer. They've already conned the poor kid out of almost a thousand bucks. It was the least they could do.

If Bernie Madoff at the height of his scam had sent his condolences to one of his victims who'd taken sick I wouldn't say, "Good on you, Bernie!" Certainly it's better than them not responding at all, but they're still evil fucks. They absolutely saw it primarily as an opportunity for some positive PR. Chris is probably pissed Kotaku didn't write an article about his benevolence.

Here's a brochure, consider putting us in your will

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:08

radd: Jun 16, 2001; Super Spacefortress

D_Smart posted:

Yeah. Also, he probably needed to get out urgently because he could very well have sold the other $2K in ships on the Black market. Unless of course they were worthless; seeing as the Black market has pretty much collapsed now.

Could be that his entire list of ships were all account bound after being traded, so the whole account was all or nothing.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:08

Sandweed: Sep 7, 2006; All your friends are me.

D_Smart posted:

Yeah. Also, he probably needed to get out urgently because he could very well have sold the other $2K in ships on the Black market. Unless of course they were worthless; seeing as the Black market has pretty much collapsed now.

I would LOL so hard if CIG found out what account it was and banned it for account sharing or something. I bet there is an ironclad TOS that prohibits this kind of transactions.

EDIT: What is the difference between the grey and black market?

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:09

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

Sandweed posted:

I would LOL so hard if CIG found out what account it was and banned it for account sharing or something. I bet there is an ironclad TOS that prohibits this kind of transactions.

EDIT: What is the difference between the grey and black market?

Someone more knowledgeable can chime in , but I think the black market is for legit ship transactions (which were publicly sanctioned by CIG for the longest time)

The grey market is for selling of entire accounts (which CIG has washed their hands of but still allow to happen)

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:39

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

Sandweed posted:

I would LOL so hard if CIG found out what account it was and banned it for account sharing or something. I bet there is an ironclad TOS that prohibits this kind of transactions.

EDIT: What is the difference between the grey and black market?

50 Shades.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:40

TheLastRoboKy: May 2, 2009; Finishing the game with everyone else's continues

The Titanic posted:

I make it a point that when I cheat at sports, I am doping. I don't want to go doping alone and I know everybody will bend to peer pressure and we will all get dopinged together and win at sports.

Well that excuse worked for Lance Armstrong.

Oh wait.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:43

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

In opposite land Oculus just gave me �50 store credit and a game called Robo Recall for free because they dropped the price of the touch controllers

Corporations :argh:

# ? Mar 2, 2017 14:59

Quavers: Feb 26, 2016; You clearly don't understand game development

http://steamcommunity.com/id/pastpresentfuture/reviews/

"This is my review for this game. Don't buy it, buy Star Citizen instead!"

# ? Mar 2, 2017 15:04

Variable 5: Apr 17, 2007; We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.; Grimey Drawer

Sappo569 posted:

Someone more knowledgeable can chime in , but I think the black market is for legit ship transactions (which were publicly sanctioned by CIG for the longest time)

The grey market is for selling of entire accounts (which CIG has washed their hands of but still allow to happen)

Other way around.

# ? Mar 2, 2017 15:04