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Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

G0RF posted:

How dare you, sir...



“...and spaceships.”

I'm not going to claim that whiteboard meetings often don't end up like that. You know, where the stuff on the whiteboard looks like scribbles. That said, seeing the child's spaceship drawing with Lando and Ben there. Well somehow it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.


Edit: Whiteboard Catte.

Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Oct 23, 2017

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Goosfraba
Feb 26, 2016

reverend crabhands posted:

Ugh Pacific Rim 2!

Please don't be poo poo.



Better not be some lovely Transformers-like, I loved the first PR film.

The blue one is fine, the rest look like Transformers, except for the red and grey one that looks like a Tau battlesuit.

Goosfraba fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Oct 23, 2017

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

I don't think anyone here is shocked or surprised that other games besides SC also have idiot whales wasting money on them.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

ManofManyAliases posted:

Because I don't work a CIG.

What's the fastest animal?

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





quote:

I have no respect for their "journalism".

Escapist had an author (Lizzy Finnegan) who worked with Derek Smart on a Gamergate article. Derek Smart is a known pathological liar with decades of evidence showing he should never be trusted on anything, including his repeated claims to fake PHDs. He is one of the most well known internet trolls out there.

In Derek Smart's subreddit, they were looking for new ways to make Star Citizen look bad. Someone suggested that anyone can post anonymous employee reviews on Glass Door. A few days after that Reddit post, several anonymous Glass Door posts appear at once.

Lizzy says she gets a phone call from a contact who has her number (again she worked with Derek before, but no CIG employees/Star Citizen devs would have her phone number) and gave her direct quotes about how terrible it was at CIG. Her quotes were taken almost verbatim from the anonymous Glass Door posts.

She accused CIG of violating several labor laws, refusing to hire anyone who was Black, or over the age of 40. She also said Chris Roberts and his wife stole all the backer money for personal use and weren't making the game. No one from The Escapist ever once tried to contact CIG to do fact checking and verify the claims.

The Escapist said Lizzy did fact check the article by taking directly to the employees in question and didn't get the quotes from Glass Door. As proof, the employees showed their photo badges from CIG to her. Except, CIG doesn't use photo badges.

CIG employees took to Reddit, Twitter, their forums, etc. to defend the company and Chris Roberts. They posted pictures of their employee badges, which are plain white. They talked about having Black coworkers, and coworkers over 40. And despite Derek Smart insisting that CIG was laying everyone off and closing the studio because they were bankrupt, CIG actually opened yet another studio and has something like 400 employees right now working on Star Citizen, Arena Commander, Star Marine, and Squadron 42 across 4 studios.

CIG invited all media outlets to tour their studios. Maybe employees publicly offered themselves up for interviews to clear the air, etc.

The Escapist maintained the whole time that Lizzy wouldn't have lied and that the site owner personally vouched for the authenticity of the story which was a bunch of lies.
Yet, the articles have since been deleted from their site.

:reddit: weighs in on why the Escapist should probably die, and surprise it's because Derek Smart is a bad man.

Dooguk
Oct 11, 2016

Pillbug

History Comes Inside! posted:

Has anyone who wasn't out actually climbing something had a reason to have a loving caribiner on their person ever at any point in the history of mankind?

The caribiner is to tether the wearer to their carer.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

Trillhouse posted:

I've always wondered, what is a "fluke" and a "hideaway"? I thought I knew what those words mean but apparently it's something NASA IT workers need in case of a terrorist attack on the servers?

'Fluke' is a generic term for any really highly priced multimeter, as they used to be built like brick shithouses.

'Hideaway' could be any number of tactilol options including badge ID or a knife.

Incitatus
Dec 16, 2005

The Meat Man was out of wings, Mr. William Ash More!:argh:

fritzgryphon
Jul 15, 2017

by Lowtax

:prepop:

What's that from?

Toops
Nov 5, 2015

-find mood stabilizers
-also,

Like peering out a crack from the hull of a slave ship.

Toops
Nov 5, 2015

-find mood stabilizers
-also,

fritzgryphon posted:

:prepop:

What's that from?

Roots I think

Strangler 42
Jan 8, 2007

SHAVE IT ALL OFF
ALL OF IT

I really missed these. The slow look of realization followed by them trying to laugh it off was gold. Of course that was before the latest batch of refund denials, the horrible leaks from evocati and the looming threat of Citcon. Now I think it might actually set some of these clowns off.

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao
is this Legal? :ohdear:

Hobold
Jan 10, 2012


I love my Cutlass
I love big stompy mechs
I love my HOTAS
I love to salvage wrecks
I love Star Citizen, and all it's craziness
GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA
College Slice

AlbieQuirky posted:

I don't think anyone here is shocked or surprised that other games besides SC also have idiot whales wasting money on them.

There is a difference between outright scamming people, and preying on gambling addictions. Albeit a minor one.

But I don't expect :reddit: to acknowledge that.

Incitatus
Dec 16, 2005

The Meat Man was out of wings, Mr. William Ash More!:argh:
Well WTFO permaed me for daring to say that Star Citizen had been delayed. He asked in what way. I pointed to the 2014 delivery from Kickstarter and the December 2016 date given for 3.0. Is he always that touchy?

BloodyScab
Sep 12, 2017

by Smythe

Incitatus posted:

Well WTFO permaed me for daring to say that Star Citizen had been delayed. He asked in what way. I pointed to the 2014 delivery from Kickstarter and the December 2016 date given for 3.0. Is he always that touchy?

Thats weird hes always so calm and collected about star citizen

intardnation
Feb 18, 2016

I'm going to space!

:gary: :yarg:

Colostomy Bag posted:

What's the fastest animal?

CR cashing out.

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
I find it hard to believe that Ben Lesnick (Game Developer) could ever punch above his own weight.

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Incitatus posted:

Is he always that touchy?
He's a very "touchy" kinda guy.



You got off lightly tbh.

Incitatus
Dec 16, 2005

The Meat Man was out of wings, Mr. William Ash More!:argh:

BloodyScab posted:

Thats weird hes always so calm and collected about star citizen

It was weird. He was showing the Twitch panel, and Huckabee was making the points of crowdfunding and open development the main focus. I said that my concern was with the focus on those two subjects, why haven't they disclosed their financials and he said why does that matter. I told him that at traditional companies the personal would have to be answer to higher ups, shareholders etc. I even prefaced it by saying I wasn't expecting a list itemizing everything to the dollar, which is how the conversation segwayed into the delays. Instaperma. Even tried to send a level headed message to him, but he don't take messages from people he doesn't follow. Apparently questioning things about SC in a SC stream isn't allowed?

Unless you were being facetious with your response.

BloodyScab
Sep 12, 2017

by Smythe
Its one or the other

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/RobertsSpaceInd/status/922575879443767296

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Ah CIG is going to start selling antiques now

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Its not about the performance of these ships. Its not about the best bang for your buck. These ships are about owning a piece of star citizens history that we just literally made up right now. Warbond version on sale tomorrow for 699 dollars

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Ah CIG is going to start selling antiques now

Antiques Shipshow, where derelict scavengers see just how much their loot is worth!

I mean, that would be an actually cool thing to do, find old relics and restore them to working order. Instead they’ll probably just sell it to you for hundreds of dollars of American old money

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Its not about the performance of these ships. Its not about the best bang for your buck. These ships are about owning a piece of star citizens history that we just literally made up right now. Warbond version on sale tomorrow for 699 dollars

But does it punch above its weight

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014


Icky.

:preacher:

Drunk Theory
Aug 20, 2016


Oven Wrangler

Oh.... guess that Avacado period is going to last longer than anyone thought.

Nanako the Narc
Sep 6, 2011

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Ah CIG is going to start selling antiques now

Oh boy, looks like CIG are rolling out the 'tweet a piece of SC history* a day in the lead up to CitizenCon" gimmick.

*History made up on the spot by an unpaid intern

ComfyPants
Mar 20, 2002


It's been a long time
Gettin' through year to year
It's been a long scam
And the cash flow's dryin' here

And you will see your dreams burn and crash at last
We will wave bye-bye
And we're not gonna refund you no more, and we're not gonna change our mind

Cause we've got faith in the TOS
The one that comes with 3-oh downloads
We've got faith to believe
You'll accept anything
We've got lan-guage inside, that says this is our MVP
And we'll flee from the courts
We've got faith
We've got faith
Faith in the TOS

Orange Carlisle
Jul 14, 2007

I love citizen con because every year they show just enough made up bullshit on powerpoint slides to keep that sweet sweet whale blubber flowing for yet another year

BloodyScab
Sep 12, 2017

by Smythe

Mr. Carlisle posted:

I love citizen con because every year they show just enough made up bullshit on powerpoint slides to keep that sweet sweet whale blubber flowing for yet another year
I dont even think they're doing a demo. Just 9 hours of "gish gallop"

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





lol I know people like to poo poo on Blizzard, but they just quietly launched their own Discord clone that runs in the launcher and is probably 100 times less stupid than Spectrum.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/922587524551208960 :grin:

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D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

ManofManyAliases posted:

I vocally support CIG, RSI and the game.

I have decreased my posting because my duties at work have increased. Lots to do before the end of the year and all . . .

Wait! So vocally. Does that mean no longer financially? :laffo:

ps. According to /r/ds, you guys are busy with that lawsuit CIG is going to file against me for saying bad stuff about them.

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big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

I think legal missed an apostrophe while proofreading that tweet.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

VictorianQueerLit posted:

Yes. The escapist having trouble is surely because they dared to challenge the gaming juggernaut Chris Roberts with an article a couple years ago.

No other factors were at play and the shocking act of criticizing Star Citizen was the lynchpin of their decline.

Also Sears is closing a bunch of stores because of this really rude cashier that snapped at me when I asked a question. I am not at all insane and connecting events in my own mind.

Nobody pays attention to those lunatics.

https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2017/10/escapist-lays-off-paid-staff-states-may-not-last-long/42497/

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D1E
Nov 25, 2001


big nipples big life posted:

I think legal missed an apostrophe while proofreading that tweet.

I’m pretty sure Derek will tell you that he’s a certified genius and a member of MENSA and he meant to type “want’s” like that.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Sabreseven posted:

Take a breath from a helium ballon before repeating...

"Star Citizen is an epic first person experience spanning hundreds of solar systems, where players can fly highly detailed spaceships, battle on foot through massive space stations, explore life sized planets, and discover adventure in an ever expanding and changing galaxy."

Chris Roberts, absolutely word for word what he said in that vid, the very first sentance he uttered in fact.

There seems to be one or two lies in that one solitary sentance, if I hadn't already refunded or was in any way holding out hope, this is the CR branded verbal bollocks that would've pushed me over the edge. He's such a scammy, deluded, smug oval office.

loving disgusting.

Looking forward to when karma catches up with him. I hear it’s hitting his actress wife kind of hard these days.

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Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.
Star Citizen: * Not actual game footage

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