Solarin posted:

release the 3.0 you scamming thumb

Truga posted:

a cheapass t-34 is better than both

The Titanic posted:

This is that magic moment when, if Chris Roberts actually knew what he was doing, he and his team would get that cold chill up their spine. That realization that not only did you miss the project goal, but you missed it by such a large volume almost the whole thing needs to be redeveloped almost from the very core level. What’s worse is you already set expectations to your customers, and are hugely over budget and have blown past even the worst of your time projections.

Somehow I don’t think he realizes this though, or even worse he just doesn’t even care anymore. Star Citizen will pretty much never be an mmo. People are spending tons of money to play warlord in a 6 player instance where they’ll never have their huge orgs, won’t be able to have any meaningful impact on the game or it’s economy in any way, and in some cases people will have more crew requirements than the game will support actual players.

Enjoy Arena Commander 2: Revenge of the Vanfuckedover.

Codezombie posted:

Quantity has a quality all of its own?

Truga posted:

Basically, yeah.

Panzers ware quality built tanks that only broke down beyond any repair after about 400-600km of travel IIRC (this is just driving the tank, not any battle damage or anything), while t-34s only managed between 100 and 300km most of the time, but the amount of manhours that went into a t-34 was like a tenth, and the factories, tooling and assembly were simple. And apart from breaking down more often, they weren't that worse off as far as battle effectiveness goes. Soviets built like 60k from 1941 until the end of the war. By comparison, Panzer 3 and 4 combined saw something like 15k, and Germany started tank mass production well before the war.

Truga posted:

Basically, yeah.

Panzers ware quality built tanks that only broke down beyond any repair after about 400-600km of travel IIRC (this is just driving the tank, not any battle damage or anything), while t-34s only managed between 100 and 300km most of the time, but the amount of manhours that went into a t-34 was like a tenth, and the factories, tooling and assembly were simple. And apart from breaking down more often, they weren't that worse off as far as battle effectiveness goes. Soviets built like 60k from 1941 until the end of the war. By comparison, Panzer 3 and 4 combined saw something like 15k, and Germany started tank mass production well before the war.

Combat Theory posted:

To be fair both Panzer III and Panzer IV were really designs for the Western Europe campaign, in which they prevailed against all competitors by a large margin.

Battle effectiveness of the entire tank system t34 was well below German standards as with all Russian designs of that time, not for the mechanical part, which was superior in the eastern environment, but due to the lack of any internal or radio communication equipment. Lack of coordination can render an advantage by an order of magnitude inefficient under complex circumstances.

Then again, the entire eastern winter war and it's outcome clearly gives the Soviet doctrine of quantity over quality the edge for the time.

Truga posted:

Basically, yeah.

Panzers ware quality built tanks that only broke down beyond any repair after about 400-600km of travel IIRC (this is just driving the tank, not any battle damage or anything), while t-34s only managed between 100 and 300km most of the time, but the amount of manhours that went into a t-34 was like a tenth, and the factories, tooling and assembly were simple. And apart from breaking down more often, they weren't that worse off as far as battle effectiveness goes. Soviets built like 60k from 1941 until the end of the war. By comparison, Panzer 3 and 4 combined saw something like 15k, and Germany started tank mass production well before the war.

Toops posted:

Now imagine for a moment you too are an awkward dork who relies on escapism just to get through the day and loves outer space.

reverend crabhands posted:

Breetai posted:

XENOMORPH

Solarin posted:

release the 3.0 you scamming thumb

Daztek posted:

https://pastebin.com/FsQw5kUk


Star Citizen: the performance was acceptable. (20~30 FPS)

quote:

The Aurora series should no longer be leaking quantum fuel

Bofast posted:

How does this even happen?!?

SelenicMartian posted:

The gravity goo corrodes the seals.

Truga posted:

A non-insignificant part of that being the nazi brass masturbating about their superweapons, I bet.

D_Smart posted:

Just another DS alt of course. Why do you ask?

peter gabriel posted:

SCtrumpHaters posted:

The reason they jacked off on superweapons is because they knew they couldnt win a prolonged war of attrition against 3/4s of the planets redources so they desperately looked for force multipliers. Did get cool poo poo like rockets and jets out of it. It worked to a small extent goofy poo poo aside a ww2 german soldier was much more combat effective than the average allied soldier. US soldiers came close after they got into it and got exp. but in the end it wasnt even close.

Mr Fronts posted:

When Humility is happy, I am happy.

Stay safe, seal ghost.

DapperDon posted:

This is a good post. But I would like to discuss 2 points you have raised.

1. Your absolutely correct that they are remembering the good old days and hoping that with todays technology that they could be even better than before. So more features mean more of theor dreams get to be relived. The problem with that is the good ol' days weren't all that good. It's like when you think about your favorite movie as a kid and then try and re-watch it as an adult and with each passing scene, that same movie you once loved turns out to be poo poo smeared on film stock.

2. Chris Roberts knew drat well that he could not make the game he pitched with the money he was asking for. I refuse to give him a pass on being that ignorant. After all didn't he pay the Crytek guys to make his demo? And what did just that demo cost? Now compare that to what he was asking for and then you be the judge of that. And even if he IS that ignorant, I am not giving him a pass because gently caress that guy.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

whales have started receiving their VIP black cards in the mail.



The Latin reads "loyalty until the end"

Codezombie posted:

We certainly did not get jets out of the Germans, they were well behind the curve in regards to jet engines
Good lord while Whittles engine may have had a piss poor 80 hour service life, it was still a wee bit better than the J004 in the Me262 which had a service life of somewhere just under ten hours. The german jets were so poor their engines were literally melting in flight.

however, as you rightly point out, the Germans were absolutely desperate, so they used what they had.

The Titanic posted:

I’d give this guys left testicle too. And if he used it already I’ll be glad to donate his right one. I think that should help keep mistakes like this from potentially happening again in the distant future.

AlbieQuirky posted:

No it doesn't.

They think it does.

Edit to add, because I brought it up before and didn't want to be boring, but now I want to be boring:

Quoad with any form of the indicative means "as long as." To make quoad mean "until", you need the subjunctive.

"Faithful as long as we will die" is ridiculous.

The reason they got into this trap is that they didn't want to use "dum", a much easier adverb to work with. But it looks like "dumb", which they are.

Baxta posted:

The faithful die?

AlbieQuirky posted:

No it doesn't.

They think it does.

Edit to add, because I brought it up before and didn't want to be boring, but now I want to be boring:

Quoad with any form of the indicative means "as long as." To make quoad mean "until", you need the subjunctive.

"Faithful as long as we will die" is ridiculous.

The reason they got into this trap is that they didn't want to use "dum", a much easier adverb to work with. But it looks like "dumb", which they are.

Thoatse posted:

https://i.imgur.com/aYzZ4ns.gifv