Zzr posted:

If someone want to doxx a pedo-defender, I , as a non-mod and non-admin, will permit it.

Tippis posted:

So the question is what on earth they actually mean by that number, because none of the options make any sense or end up being all that impressive.

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<Ghost> it would be fun if God plays with us like a Civ or SimEarth game <LOAF> That'd explain gay people.

Hav posted:

I read a scifi book back in the 1980s that liked to use 'Ergs' for starship engine output. Ergs are 10^-7 joules. Stupidly small units to express large numbers. It's why I liked Banks, he didn't try to sound scientific and got away with really good science fiction.

'Planck' BTW.

Dementropy posted:

Sandweed posted:

He also allowed harassing girls on the forums if you had backed for enough.

spacetoaster posted:

Is the Big Bennie's dispenser a joke about Lesnick?

Here's a snippet from Ben quotes:


Good job Ben. Didn't Ben actually allow gay bashing and ban gay people in the early days of the RSI forums? I seem to remember a bunch of people upset about the homophobia on the forums.

Ash1138 posted:

ben lesnick is a garbage person who tries to use his life's problems as an excuse for his racism, homophobia, and misogyny

Thoatse posted:

lol at this dude's desperation to spin this into something awful when the reality is reddit vehemently defended their spaceship hero, Chris and Sandi Roberts' personal friend FuzzyModem, noted finalist on Cloud Imperium Games' The Next Great Starship segment, for his 'alleged' pedophilia. while SA mods permabanned him as soon as the story saw the light of day.

Sandweed posted:

He also allowed harassing girls on the forums if you had backed for enough.

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Don't forget his incest and paedophilia!

Mirificus posted:

Sabreseven posted:

Checking in to confirm I'm not in jail today.



(OTF is a bit weird really isn't he?)

thatguy posted:

spacetoaster posted:

Am I crazy or did Sandi just say they began working on Star Citizen in 2009?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ePYE2hd3I&t=48s

grimcreaper posted:

No, she said that she started the crowdfunding stuff in 2012, 3 years ago from that presentation. That speech was done in 2015.

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I have got all of you beat and it's not even by a little bit.


Lets start at the beginning, I'm a moderately successful guy, I've been lucky to work with some really high quality people who have made me look like an absolute rockstar. I actually even got some decent B-List actors to work for me on a few projects and even got a reasonably hot, albeit failed commercial actress to marry me. I was a movie producer for a minute and even though I lost more money than I made, the "hollywood" contacts I made put me in good enough standing to be able to piggyback smaller amount of funding on to larger projects and turn a pretty solid net.

Problem is my wife really started to just grate on me about her getting work, and the loving Turtle of my RL Entourage kept telling people we were gonna make a big gently caress off videogame. So I'm kinda stuck in a weird spot where I just wanna start funding high budget porno and maybe trade in the wife for a different kind of actress before the money starts to come in and she's entitled to a lot more. Seriously, I've never seen a girl with such a long neck not be able to make it down to the balls, but whatever that's not part of this story. So fuckin Turtle gets me stuck telling potential investors about a videogame that I am literally just making up as I talk to them while throwing out some buzzwords I read in Wired, but the crazy part is they start to eat this poo poo up. Talking about the "upward profit paradigm" in gaming starts to get these loving app developers turned investors as hard as a rock so I see a chance to do something.

So I get Turtle to call some friends and we set up on this website where you make empty promises to nerds and they throw cash at you. So I get a youtube made by my buddy Gil who has a business making music videos for teenage girls who think they're gonna be the next Kesha/Iggy and he green screens my poo poo up so I look like pudgy Scottish Spaceman Spiff. I'm thinking we might make like 2 mil and I can finance a 300K game, pocket the rest and start shooting facial scat porn by Q2 2013. But something far crazier happens, loving nerds start making GBS threads their entire lifesavings on my fiscal chest like some kind of Gordon Gecko inspired Cleveland Steamer. By the end of it I'm sitting on like 12 mil. Nerds, dude. Fuckin nerds.


So Now I'm thinking "How far can I ride this gravytrain before I actually have to do anything?" so I start up my own website, hired some kid out of Irvine of Craigslist to do it (because gently caress Angie's List, I ain't paying poo poo to get some pimple faced kid to poo poo out a paypal button and spaceship drawings) and sure enough I've got 30 million USD and loving Turtle has promoted himself to my assistant. Which would be fine but he keeps insisting on setting up his office near mine but that poo poo's on the East side of the building, so every morning it smells like someone is cooking maple bacon when the sunlight hits his chair. But then the dreams started. I kept having this nightmare where it starts off awesome, I'm banging some coked out 19 year old starlet on a space yacht, but then the space-IRS shows up with my wife, they use her cheekbones to cut through my hull and they tell me I'm going to jail for spaceship-fraud.

So I finally decide to actually make it look like I'm going to make a game and I get my little bro, who's actually a pretty bitchin programmer/producer and I get him to hire a bunch of his work buddies to work in our hometown. But then my loving wife decides that our house in Texas sucks so we have to move back to LA and open an office there so she can "pursue her career", I wanted to tell her they don't make fish-stick commercials any more and no one is going to be casting any parts for "Mostly Fuckable Witch" now that Angie Jolie has fallen to doing Disney poo poo other than the Sci Fi channel. But whatever, LA gets me closer to those desperate 23 year old college drop outs that can pass for 18, so I go with it.

Problem with LA is ol' Turtle decides he needs to still be near me, so I end up realizing the Maple bacon smell from his office isn't from the sunlight hitting his chair, it's from him drinking pancake and bacon smoothies. But now I have to look "active" so I start doing a weekly internet interview where nerds ask me stupid rear end questions about the "game" and I answer them. At first they wanted to have some of the nerds who run the site look at the questions first so they could type up answers for me, but I got bored reading their answers 3 questions in and now I'm making a space game where you can play Call of Duty and the Sims at the same time. Seriously kids, stay away from cocaine, I had to be hit with a tranq dart when someone started to ask me about voxels.

But then after like 20 of these one of the guys working on the game decides I can't be trusted talking to people, so he wants to make a new Youtube show. I figure this is my chance to get rid of my two biggest problems, so I get Turtle and my wife to make this fake news show where they get random nerds from IT and poo poo to talk about spaceships and the right way to draw them or whatever while I go to gaming conventions, where pussy flows like wine if you've got a "Special Presenter" Pass, just wish I could have got on this circuit back when Olivia Munn hadn't yet realized she could do better than videogame news.

It also helps that I'm like 70 million deep at this point too, so I'm actually bagging booth babes, not just the girls with low enough self esteem to dress up like animes and not get paid. So I think "what the hell, lets see what happens when I start selling spaceships I just drew in paint and make my dorky brother actually put them in the game, and the weirdest loving thing happens, I make another 20 million and magazines are writing stories about how much of a genius I am. And everytime I tell some nerd about something, it will always make some other nerds so mad they spend days freaking out on the internet. I'm pretty sure if I announce a partnership with My Little Pony, I could probably make 50 million and cause a few dozen suicides.

gently caress I love griefing

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/Olafbodde/status/860518978841653249

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I, truly, when I come to work every day, I see the backers as our publisher. that's how I, personally myself, that's how I view it. So, when I'm sharing material, it is me sharing, updating, "hey publisher, look, this is what we've done so far."

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Might also just mean that the horror stories are already widely known and no employer is willing to take the risk on someone who worked at CIG

TrustmeImLegit posted:

Brian almost gets it but he hasn't made the moral decision to leave yet. He thinks he can change the minds of all the higher management through his example. When in reality every second he pushes this hes just contributing to the scam by making backers think people give a poo poo there.

Hav posted:

Yipe. Second most awkward origin story after Power Pack.

DarkRefreshment posted:

Show me on the dust bunny where the Dyson touched you

WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Might also just mean that the horror stories are already widely known and no employer is willing to take the risk on someone who worked at CIG

Berious posted:

James Dyson is a piece of poo poo who vocally backs Brexit because the mean EU told him he couldn't make vacuums that used more power than a small car.

Samizdata posted:

Since, you know, citing facts is lovely when it comes to the SC thread.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5614844/?ref_=nv_sr_1