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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/mmanning012/status/928274508255055873

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:00

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# ? May 21, 2024 23:16

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

https://twitter.com/Bertieschip/status/927996027298369537

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:01

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

Also what's xi'an for "where's the 3.0, crobber?"

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:02

beep_boop: Feb 2, 2016

alphabettitouretti posted:

youtube.com/watch?v=Igb9IkVOiAE

$164m well spent. 3.0 is surely just days away from release.

crobber ya game all hosed up. Although if your goal was to make a sequel to octodad, good job I guess.

There are a bunch of people who know something about making video games here - can someone explain how the gently caress this happens? How does a player model get all spaghettified?

Is it because Star Citizen has physics so real that you actually go through spaghettification? They must have put a black hole near the space station, so its a feature, not a bug.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:08

zcrow: May 6, 2014; Ah.. yeah... um... tup tup tup tup tup.. this is something we'll add down the line

beep_boop posted:

There are a bunch of people who know something about making video games here - can someone explain how the gently caress this happens? How does a player model get all spaghettified?

Is it because Star Citizen has physics so real that you actually go through spaghettification? They must have put a black hole near the space station, so its a feature, not a bug.

Probably something dumb like the transforms on the bones in the rig are messed up, so the mesh thats skinned to the character rig has to interpolate best it can, which leaves the mesh stretched out and distorted like you see.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:12

Eldragon: Feb 22, 2003

Combat Theory posted:

You know how breaking bad would have ended in Europe? With the dude getting his bloody cancer treatment in episode 2

Walter White was a public school teacher; he's got a state health plan. But that wouldn't make a very good show.

I doubt there is a single work of fiction that doesn't have a pedantic response to resolve the main story conflict.

Also, endless crunch time is illegal in the US, its just not enforced because people are dumb enough to put up with it.

Eldragon fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Nov 8, 2017

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:23

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

if Eve offered Adam a hot dog instead of an goddam apple I feel that mankind would be a lot more chill in general

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:28

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

peter gabriel posted:

if Eve offered Adam a hot dog instead of an goddam apple I feel that mankind would be a lot more chill in general

Adam gave Eve his hot dog and this is why we can't have nice things.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:36

it dont matter: Aug 29, 2008

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Cloud-Imperium-Games-RVW17730194.htm

quote:

Pros
* However this project and business turn out I'm happy I got to work on this once in a lifetime project that has really pushed boundaries in many areas of software development, games development, networking, and computer science.
* Despite a lot of my ex-colleagues being younger, newer in the industry and sometimes inexperienced / na�ve, they really worked incredibly hard and with huge amounts of enthusiasm, sometimes to the detriment of their own wellbeing and personal lives.
* The offices and infrastructure are great with absolutely no expense spared in allowing us to get our jobs done.
* Despite some of my criticisms below I would definitely do it all over again but I would also get out earlier.

Cons
* A lot of the management have little to no idea what they are doing, use software development methodologies from the last century and are frankly out of their depth. This causes an exponentially increasing spiral of delays that a modern experienced project manager would see coming from a mile away and know how to deal with. The project is getting ever further away from completion despite what public statements to the contrary say. These managers may have been the best of the best back in their day, but it is no longer that day and people rarely have consistent hits their entire career.
* This issue is compounded by the fact that CIG pays below industry average salaries, because they correctly think many people will want the prestige of having worked on such an exciting project to be on their CV, however you also don't get the best talent this way.
* Both the salary and management issues have caused a lot of more experienced staff who were really making the most progress to leave. A lot of the people left are fairly wet behind the ears and need a lot more mentoring before stepping up to the plate. I spent over half my time mentoring other members of staff even in areas I only have a vague passing knowledge of.
* Collectively we ended up grinding harder and harder, losing increasingly more of our lives, over smaller and smaller irrelevant things that the CEO dreamed up. This has been getting worse recently not better, especially with recent technologies added to the game that should have been implemented at the end, not now.

Advice to Management
Hire experienced executives and professional project managers with current decade skills and qualifications - Not family members, friends or old contacts.

Keep on doing what you're doing.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:42

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/StarCitizenAA/status/928000254615617536

Well now that sounds like Ben's been told not to do any more interviews, and they've softened how they've told him this with a bit of a line of 'oh we don't want employees doing recurring shows'

Ben IS the only employee doing recurring shows

So what did he say that's had them stop him doing interviews?

If anyone has the time to have a flick through the last Ben interview Batgirl did I'll transcribe it when I get a chunk of downtime.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:46

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

Holy poo poo that Glassdoor.

The vacancy for the backend networking tech also had the requirement of 'mentoring others', because after 6 years you totally expect to have to bring in external expertise.

I expect (hope) more glassdoors to appear soon because rumours of more leavers abound. That's why I've been checking the job listings.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:52

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

Lladre posted:

Adam gave Eve his hot dog and this is why we can't have nice things.

Yeah but God gave her the snake

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:53

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

alphabettitouretti posted:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Cloud-Imperium-Games-RVW17730194.htm

Keep on doing what you're doing.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:55

Virtual Captain: Feb 20, 2017; Archive Priest of the Stimperial Order

Star Citizen Good, in all things forevermore. Amen.

alphabettitouretti posted:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Cloud-Imperium-Games-RVW17730194.htm

Obviously TheAgent posted this to make his leaks sound more credible. Glassdoor more like FUDdoor!

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:56

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

Lladre posted:

Adam gave Eve his hot dog and this is why we can't have nice things.

boiled onions

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:58

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

AP posted:

Easing out the door is my guess, also it's been obvious for a while he has not a clue what's going on as they don't really involve him anymore.

Batgirl just confirmed by tweeting that btw that Ben is an employee, as in he's on the payroll.

A few folks might know the significance of this.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 16:59

AutismVaccine: Feb 26, 2017; SPECIAL NEEDS
SQUAD

alphabettitouretti posted:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Cloud-Imperium-Games-RVW17730194.htm

Keep on doing what you're doing.

LIES! STOP SPREADING LIES! WHY DO U WANT TO DESTROY THE GAME?

YOU loving GOONS ARE JUST SORE LOSERS CAUSE CIG WONT MAKE EVE ONLINE 2.

YOU ALL JUST MUST DIED.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:02

AutismVaccine: Feb 26, 2017; SPECIAL NEEDS
SQUAD

On a more rational note

Imo all the reviews in the world wont stop people from supporting or working for CIG. Even if they would slaughter baby kittens on that dirty concrete counter and use the blood to draw concept art.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:05

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

SomethingJones posted:

Batgirl just confirmed by tweeting that btw that Ben is an employee, as in he's on the payroll.

A few folks might know the significance of this.

She didn't really, I assume she just repeated the excuse :lesnick:

gave her. Either he was told that or not, :lesnick:

has said a load of stuff over the years that turned out to be 100% wrong. I assume they are still paying him in some form but I don't see how his exact employment status matters, I doubt very much he's going to want to rock the boat.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:17

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

alphabettitouretti posted:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Cloud-Imperium-Games-RVW17730194.htm

Keep on doing what you're doing.

At this point I'm just shocked every time one of these glassdoor reviews doesn't have a paragraph dedicated to how great the VP of Marketing is at acting and doing other things good too.

quote:

I worked at Cloud Imperium Games full-time

Pros
Good benefits, cool tech, free snacks, neat people to work with

Cons
Lack of communication, unprofessionalism, lack of work/life balance. Not a lot of upward mobility. Drama.

Beet Wagon fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Nov 8, 2017

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:19

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

AP posted:

She didn't really, I assume she just repeated the excuse gave her. Either he was told that or not, has said a load of stuff over the years that turned out to be 100% wrong. I assume they are still paying him in some form but I don't see how his exact employment status matters, I doubt very much he's going to want to rock the boat.

True enough, there's plenty of reason to believe that this is just another piece of bullshit from Ben.

I wonder will Batgirl do a little digging herself as to why Ben isn't coming back. Ben's basically dropped her like a wet poo poo.

e: that's like 80% of her content gone right there. And like all of these SC streamers for reasons that I cannot understand but endlessly hypothesize about she has no passion for other games whatsoever, as she demonstrated with her XPlane videos

SomethingJones fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Nov 8, 2017

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:20

Beexoffel: Oct 4, 2015; Herald of the Stimpire

https://nezakhan.deviantart.com/gallery/

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:24

TheAgent: Feb 16, 2002; The call is coming from inside Dr. House; Grimey Drawer

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Oh, so its just like the Odyssey?

more like this

http://store.steampowered.com/app/284050/Sanitarium/

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:24

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

SomethingJones posted:

True enough, there's plenty of reason to believe that this is just another piece of bullshit from Ben.

I wonder will Batgirl do a little digging herself as to why Ben isn't coming back. Ben's basically dropped her like a wet poo poo.

e: that's like 80% of her content gone right there. And like all of these SC streamers for reasons that I cannot understand but endlessly hypothesize about she has no passion for other games whatsoever, as she demonstrated with her XPlane videos

Since Sept 10th, all but one of Batgirl's twitch streams have been her playing Elite Dangerous: https://go.twitch.tv/starcitizenaa/videos/all

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:27

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/mmanning012/status/928274508255055873

It really will.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:27

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

Quavers posted:

Since Sept 10th, all but one of Batgirl's twitch streams have been her playing Elite Dangerous: https://go.twitch.tv/starcitizenaa/videos/all

gently caress!

I'm well surprised by that. Is that why Ben's given her the finger (so to speak)

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:29

peter gabriel: Nov 8, 2011; Hello Commandos

Quavers posted:

Since Sept 10th, all but one of Batgirl's twitch streams have been her playing Elite Dangerous: https://go.twitch.tv/starcitizenaa/videos/all

Good, she seems like a cool person and deserves a better game to enjoy

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:30

Erenthal: Jan 1, 2008; A relaxing walk in the woods; Grimey Drawer

TheAgent posted:

more like this

http://store.steampowered.com/app/284050/Sanitarium/

Good game, very creepy graphics to a 14-year old me.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:31

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

Quavers posted:

Since Sept 10th, all but one of Batgirl's twitch streams have been her playing Elite Dangerous: https://go.twitch.tv/starcitizenaa/videos/all

https://go.twitch.tv/videos/188522103
@ 1:30

"[my twitch name] is STARCITIZENAA, because you know I was dedicating my life to that drat game. Now I'm gonna be playing SOUTH PARK or DESTINY 2. Forget it, I'm gonna start a new show, it's gonna be called DS DAY."

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:34

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

Batgirl, please come post.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:35

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

Truga posted:

Also what's xi'an for "where's the 3.0, crobber?"

Xi'an use base 2.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:40

tooterfish: Jul 13, 2013

SomethingJones posted:

https://go.twitch.tv/videos/188522103
@ 1:30

"[my twitch name] is STARCITIZENAA, because you know I was dedicating my life to that drat game. Now I'm gonna be playing SOUTH PARK or DESTINY 2. Forget it, I'm gonna start a new show, it's gonna be called DS DAY."

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:40

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

peter gabriel posted:

if Eve offered Adam a hot dog instead of an goddam apple I feel that mankind would be a lot more chill in general

"For the prettiest one"

alphabettitouretti posted:

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Cloud-Imperium-Games-RVW17730194.htm

Keep on doing what you're doing.

"Despite a lot of my ex-colleagues being younger, newer in the industry and sometimes inexperienced / na�ve, they really worked incredibly hard and with huge amounts of enthusiasm, sometimes to the detriment of their own wellbeing and personal lives."

There's always suckers leaving college. I wonder if they're giving finders fees.

# ? Nov 8, 2017 17:41