Regrettable posted:

Uh, so the surface area is 268% the size of the US but using the US population density you get 1/3 of the population of the US? I haven't been awake for very long so maybe I'm reading this incorrectly.

hot balls man no homo posted:

So what is there to look forward to between now and the holiday livestream? All I can really see them doing is stalling 3.0 for a few more weeks, every week. Maybe a high profile quitter? A check to Citcon vendors bouncing? Maybe some low-level legal action?

Goredema posted:

If they're desperate for cash, really desperate, they should do this:

1. Chris announces that with the development of Squadron 42 more than halfway done, he's decided that the Cutlass Black is now "Release Ready". He explains that it means that the Cutlass is now at the level he wants it to be at for the full release of the game.
2. Since it's "Release Ready" now, he explains that in a week or so, they're going to adjust the Cutlass game package to the price it will be at retail when the game releases. Eventually they'll be doing this with all the ships, as each one gets the the "Release Ready" level of polish.
3. To celebrate, they run a countdown on the package page, and show some Cutlass videos on ATV that week. No big sales push here. IN fact, they play it down a bit.
4. The countdown timer wraps up, and they take down the Cutlass game package from the store.
5. A few days later, with no announcement or fanfare, they put the Cutlass game package back up. It has now doubled in price.
6. CIG does their best to give vague non-answers to the questions this raises, only saying vague stuff like "we've made clear that the ships will cost more in game" and "we have been selling the game packages at a discount to pre-release backers."
7. A couple weeks later, Chris announces that the Constellation is now "Release Ready". A countdown timer appears on the Constellation game package page.
8. The true believers re-re-re-re-re-re-finance their house so they can buy up Constellations while they're still a bargain.

I actually feel a little disgusted with myself for having spelled that out...

McGiggins posted:

So none of the genteel citizens are upset that the con they went to was a literal waste of time in terms of game development showcasing?

Like, they paid more in tickets, accommodation and flights than it would have taken to buy the magic ssd (and get a free copy of the game) just to get the chance to play Willy Wonka and the Crobbler Factory with the golden tickets, didn't get any solid info on the game (as I understand it) and instead got to listen to theory crafting about the game which they see in the ATV stuff already?

MoMA, defend this!

Sabreseven posted:

gently caress, what is wrong with these people?

Golli posted:

861,000,000 total
86,100,000 players

decimal points count I guess

tuo posted:

gently caress that box was so cringy. This Intel NVM SSD is a perfect match for Star Citizen backers.

BTW: is there a more technical article somewhere regarding what exactly Intel hosed up with this? If I understand the general implication of what they tried to do, it's actually a hybrid SSD, with a certain amount of RAM that acts as a cache, similar to how hybrid HDDs worked. While this is possible nowadays with RamCaches, most of them live in user space and thus there is a problem regarding power loss/OS crash if cache and SSD are not in sync...you're cached data is basically hosed. Intel - if I understand them correctly - implemented this on hardware level, so that it is still able to sync cache and SSD if the OS crashes or - if the capacitors allow it - power is lost.

How did they gently caress this up so it is slower than "normal" NVM SSDs?

monkeytek posted:

So what voodoo technology will be handling the processing requirements for this incredibly large number of AI NPC's? Will there be causality? Will player 1 and player 2 see the same action by NPC A? Will this information pass between instances if the two players are on different servers? Just wondering is all.

Bofast posted:

Hopefully, in a few years it will work they way they wanted it to, but Intel really just jumped the gun and promised the world while the product was nowhere near ready to fulfill said promises. Micron did the smart thing and have not announced any products, probably because they know it's not ready to go yet.

The Titanic posted:

Are those urinals? There’s no walls between them? Gross.

XK posted:

This is one of my favorite demonstrations of draw order problems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2haKPefO3E&t=180s

Beet Wagon posted:

Hahahaha like holy gently caress how do you even post this poo poo with a straight face


Star Citizen Then To Now 3.0 an emotional journey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHKnzOKMT08

Rad Russian posted:

Adult men crying over a non-existent video game.

Bofast posted:

It's more that they were trying to turn Xpoint, a different type of non-volatile memory than flash, into a product that could be used as two different things:
1) giant amounts of (admittedly somewhat slower) main memory that would not have to be continuously refreshed to retain data (which has to be done to regular DRAM).
or
2) ridiculously fast storage.

The idea was that you could mix Optane memory DIMMs with regular DRAM DIMMs and the memory controller hardware would autodetect and handle the different types of memory in a proper way without the customer having to do much.

Intel originally claimed on slides that it would be 1000 times as fast as flash, with 1000 times the durability of flash and about 10 times the density of DRAM.
Later slides suddenly showed it as 10 times as fast as flash, with 3 times the durability of flash and 4 times the density of DRAM.
Actual products seem to have trouble reaching even that level of durability, though, which makes it less interesting for potential customers. They also dropped all mentions of the DIMM versions, which could not possibly work for any meaningful length of time at current levels of durability, given how much more wear they would suffer from writes compared to an SSD.

As of right now, it does have some advantages in specific cases, such as latency and being able to address far smaller writes than flash, meaning you don't have to erase and rewrite an entire block like you would on flash when you only want to change parts of the data. It's rather niche, though.

Hopefully, in a few years it will work they way they wanted it to, but Intel really just jumped the gun and promised the world while the product was nowhere near ready to fulfill said promises. Micron did the smart thing and have not announced any products, probably because they know it's not ready to go yet.

Quavers posted:

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

Goobs posted:

AutismVaccine posted:

define adultness

MinorInconvenience posted:

I hope nobody lives near these fuckers when Star Citizen final implodes... and if you do live near them, I hope these fuckers don't have access to weapons...

MinorInconvenience posted:

I hope nobody lives near these fuckers when Star Citizen final implodes... and if you do live near them, I hope these fuckers don't have access to weapons...

fritzgryphon posted:

I'm sure when it does implode SC will instantly be old hat compared to their new fad, and they won't skip a beat.

fritzgryphon posted:

I'm sure when it does implode SC will instantly be old hat compared to their new fad, and they won't skip a beat.

CrazyLoon posted:

Plus this - they won't ever admit to defeat. Even if Crobblers would literally run off to some banana republic with most of the cash, and write a 'gently caress YOU GOT MINE' letter, they'd still be rationalizing blowing 10,000$ or so with: "You know what...it was still an unforgettable experience, that I'm proud to have PLEDGED to!" and gloss over the fact they could've experienced p much the same without spending a penny.

Toops posted:

People who do not enjoy anime or superhero movies.

CrazyLoon posted:

Plus this - they won't ever admit to defeat. Even if Crobblers would literally run off to some banana republic with most of the cash, and write a 'gently caress YOU GOT MINE' letter, they'd still be rationalizing blowing 10,000$ or so with: "You know what...it was still an unforgettable experience, that I'm proud to have PLEDGED to!" and gloss over the fact they could've experienced p much the same without spending a penny.

Goobs posted:

Tarquinn posted:

gently caress adultness (sic) then.

I just watched the new Thor and holy gently caress was that fun!

Foo Diddley posted:

I've got chills, I'm hysterical, I'm cryin'

Is it a Star Citizen video or a really bad fever? Who knows

Rad Russian posted:

Adult men crying over a non-existent video game.

Goobs posted:

Sunswipe posted:

We just need to find common ground with Shitizens. For example, both sides can agree that the progress that has been made from the original concepts to the current reality in 5 years IS incredible.