peter gabriel posted:

Yes but this woiuld mean Chris put more thought into anything than 'saw Top Gun that one time'

Bootcha posted:

So hey everyone I hope you all are fine to include people who are goons here to the people just casually browsing this shining example of community interaction.

So I wanted to give people a heads up if you haven't seen anything beyond this thread, but I occasionally ask for facts and clarification in the attempt to produce a fair and balanced account of the Star Citizen Saga.

You can check it out in this thread here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3832959

Cool and useful stuff will be credited to you as a Research Associate in the final product. Your name will be on YouTube for a few seconds.

I want to remind people that everything is on fire and you should all panic in the most physical and emotional way.

And remember your Star Citizen may be used as a flotation token to be reimbursed in the case of a water situation.

May your pain triple every second.

And also get a refund.

Mirificus posted:

Colostomy Bag posted:

Interesting movie trivia. The volleyball scene with Ben was scrapped.

D_Smart posted:

A stroke

Conspiratiorist posted:

Star Citizen is like when you invite your scrawny goony friend and his really fat girlfriend over, and they drop the good news on you: they're expecting. And you're like "that's great!" and ask when the baby's due, and they're like "we're not sure, probably anytime now" and that raises your red flags, and so you inquire further while they talk about how they're setting up the baby room and baby clothes and how daycare prices are atrocious and the schools nearby and all that jazz, and you find she stopped having her period like 8 months ago and they've never gone for a prenatal. Because she doesn't believe in doctors, you see. So they're going to do a natural birth with a certified midwife, of course. "Oh" you reply, and you desperately want to drop the topic, but you really can't hold it in, so instead you point out a checkup would still be a good idea, which gets her upset, but your friend tries to smooth over the situation and eventually they kind of nod that yeah they'll make an appointment.

So a couple months pass and you're having a cup of coffee with your friend and you go "so how's the baby doing?" and he goes "oh, it's all good, it's taking its time". And alarms start blaring in the back of your head so you ask "I thought you said it was almost due" and he goes "we must've miscalculated the date" and you go "oh, so what did the doctor say, is it going to be a boy or a girl?" and you can see the emptiness behind his eyes as with an awkward smile he tells you how they still haven't gone for a prenatal checkup.

Then a month later you spot your friend online and you really haven't seen him around these past few weeks, so you go for some PUBG duos and you're having fun, right, and you casually drop "so how's the girlfriend?" and you regret it almost immediately. Of course, she's doing fine. Of course, she's still pregnant. Of course, they haven't gone to the doctor. And with a sinking feeling on your stomach you tell your friend that they really ought to go for a checkup because the "baby" could be having issues.

And he just flips out, that you should mind your own loving business, the baby is doing fine, okay? It's just taking its time, and they want the gender to be a surprise so they aren't doing an ultra-sound. So why don't you shut up about it?

But a couple days later he messages you through facebook, apologizing for yelling at you, that was uncalled for. And you say it's cool, you're just worried about him. And he says he understands, but everything is fine, really, and he starts linking you to all these 'medical' articles about how sometimes pregnancies last more than usual and it's all healthy and natural so you've got nothing to worry about.

And so you're staring at the chat window, in which your friend is telling you how his girlfriends 11 months "pregnancy" is fine and healthy, and his wall is filled with pictures of how they've arranged the baby's room with so many comments expressing congratulations and support, and you can just tell that if you suggest a doctor one more time you won't be friends anymore.

Potato Salad posted:

Don't doxx me, I quite like it in here thank you very much.

Furia posted:

Also again in a vacuum what would be stopping me from picking the "fastest" ship and duct taping a massive cargo cube in the back? Why would the ship itself need to be big?

Sabreseven posted:

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Sabreseven posted:

Tippis posted:

Realistically, because of the pendulum effect — you want your thrust to be behind your mass, not in front of it or it will start flipping around in very inefficient ways. Also, to haul all that additional mass, you'd want a bigger ship to carry the (far larger) reaction mass and fuel that would be required to get the whole thing going and then stopping it again.

The main problem of moving around in space is that, unless you go into exotic and “free” propulsion systems such as light sails or Bussard ramjets, or just go for straight magic reactionless drives, every bit of cary you want to bring will require many many times more propulsion mass (reaction mass to throw behind you + fuel to expel that mass), and that mass will then require even more of itself just to carry itself around. Diminishing returns hit you pretty much instantly as you try to go either faster or heavier.

Of course, if you're going to assume free energy, all of that goes out the window, but at that point, vacuum is no longer a factor either — it's all magic.

Furia posted:

I see

Ok fair enough then SC game of the year every year

Colostomy Bag posted:

I always imagine the pudding scene from "Hot Shots" when I see that dumb pic.

Sabreseven posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3832959

There's a good 'before' and 'after' couple of pics of the worktops the CIG coffee machine sit on in your thread Bootcha. I remember we all had a minor discussion about the disgusting state of their worktops and couldn't work out if it was the worktop pattern or just really disgustingly filthy.

Good to have some closure on it tbh, turns out it is indeed disgustingly filthy in a 'breach of health and safety in the workplace' and 'high risk of biohazard' kind of way.

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Foo Diddley posted:

e: Do you have a source for the first picture? I'd like to know how long ago it was compared to the second

Sabreseven posted:

Annoyingly no, the 'clean' pic found it's way into the old thread during March of 2016 posted by AP ( https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3748466&pagenumber=2889&perpage=40#post458227907 ) and the 'filthy' one was March 2017.

A year in the life of a CIG kitchen though, drat it's a hard life.

Tippis posted:

Nah. That would be KSP.

First lesson of KSP is: to travel farther, you have to bring less fuel.
(Second lesson: to catch up, you have to go slower.)

Foo Diddley posted:

I guess they don't pay their barista enough to wipe down the counters

Rad Russian posted:

Derek hates Evocati, therefore Evocati good now.

Derek - you should declare that Star Citizen is the best game of this generation and everyone needs to buy in for at least $2.5K and that you will be now stream SC 7 hours a day. All the broke-brains will immediately refund to spite you.

D_Smart posted:

I swear those broken brained nutjobs are the reason that aliens come to Earth, grab a bunch of them - and go probing.

Hav posted:

To be fair concrete tops tend to gather stains fairly easily, especially if unsealed.

McGiggins posted:

So when do the avocados get to talk about 3.0 and or when will the rest of you still faithful who have not refunded be able to play the third version of the pre-alpha that has not yet begun development?

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Dude, I'm serious! Let me back my statement up. This project currently simultaneously encompasses pre-Alpha (features yet to be properly designed and coded), Alpha (features need a good amount of polish), and Beta (features complete, but needs proper testing for release).

The amount of work they're putting into making this release is highly unusual. For the feature set they've implemented in 3.0, I'd say most have achieved Beta status. But there's a good chunk of the project still pre-Alpha or Alpha. It's actually kinda interesting to see it develop. I haven't seen anything like it, and I've been involved in a number of software projects.

CIG may call it Alpha, but they're dumbing it down for the sake of making it more comprehensible to people. The actual state is much fuzzier than what that simplistic label can indicate.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/JohnnyBlue007/status/916373898517676032

D_Smart posted:

I swear those broken brained nutjobs are the reason that aliens come to Earth, grab a bunch of them - and go probing.

I wrote an entire loving blog on April 12, 2016 the minute they started the Evocati bullshit. But all of a sudden, he apparently "staked his position on it long before I did". Which is obviously pure bullshit.

loving clowns.