Quavers posted:

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"But what I absolutely loving hate is the absolute lack of criticism on ANYTHING CIG does, from the community."
Then you are probably using an alternative internet...

Mirificus posted:

VictorianQueerLit posted:

This is like an elaborate and choreographed Olympic level mental gymnastics floor routine by a seasoned master.

It isn't even about what he is saying. It's about the technique and mastery in which he vaults onto tangents, backflips from things that make him wrong and spins like a top so that nobody can ever actually say he faces any one direction.

Sabreseven posted:

Nicely driven, little bit of showboating but not so much that it slowed him down.

Went there about 20 years ago and stayed in a b&b in the village, one of the things I remember most was seeing a very shiny Ford Mondeo with a fart can exhaust and very low suspension (scraping everywhere) that had been blaping around the village like a tit, it went for a run around the 'ring the next day and I remember vividly hearing it from a picnic area that is quite close to the track, farting its way around one of the corners, then the sound of locked brakes and tortured tyres, then a very satisfying 'thump'.

The driver was fine if a little sore, but the Mondeo was about 3ft shorter and no longer farted anywhere.

Raskolnikov posted:

So what you're saying is, star citizen is good?

Raskolnikov posted:

So what you're saying is, star citizen is good?

Mirificus posted:

Kosumo posted:

Who was the Goonie that was keeping track of the number of people playing the different modes?

Was wondering if Star Marine has seen a bump in numbers due to Star Wars Battlefront 2 and its loot create problem Chris Roberts masterful game design and dedication to improving it with regular patches.

IcarusUpHigh posted:

Star Citizen fans are the dumbest mother-fuckers on the planet.

Rugganovich posted:

Still my favourite movie filmed at Adenauer Forst on the Nurburgring Nordschleife in the 70's. It's in 4 parts but worth a watch.

Here's part 1 and the links to the other parts are in the description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWlF4sT0HWs

alf_pogs posted:

i think ive started loving star citizen again. its like duke nukem forever, alien colonial marines, grimoire. total hype bullshit destined to be talked about across decades until finally ending with a dismal mvp release and a bunch of "what went wrong" retrospectives. the ultimate in videogame cautionary tales. a persistent entry at #1 for "game dev hell" clickbait articles. a parable for 2017.

G0RF posted:

“I don't think there is any other game that is trying to do as much as we're trying to do. So, degree of difficulty 11, not 10.”

Everything is difficulty level 11 when you’re a dumbass. Even moreso when you’re a dumbass who sees a genius looking back at you in the mirror.

I’ve come to appreciate the true genius of “Around the Verse” and related programming isn’t in the intimate look at Development, for as we see with dozens of abandoned prior efforts and misleading disclosures over the years, the view is anything but privileged or trustworthy.

The true genius of CIG programming is in its metronomic, anondyne normalization / sanitization of their absolute, inarguable developmental dysfunction.

“Burndown” captures that spirit so perfectly, with the agreeable Eric Davis putting a friendly (if somewhat patronizing at times) face on what would otherwise be seen as salt-on-the-wound proof of CIG’s abject inability to overcome the curse of the Frankenengine, to deliver upon the hubristic claims of Chris Roberts, to prioritize the core space sim essentials (designing satisfying game loops, perfecting flight models, fleshing out those basic features pitched five years ago, etc.) and all the rest.

The Sean Tracy NewEgg livestream I dropped in earlier is the same thing. Sean went right on that show and delivered a complete fiction of the present game state with absolutely no hesitation whatsoever, just as his exemplar leader has done for years with bald-faced bullcrap like this, this, and this.

Lies. Massive lies. Constant lies. And continuum of lying so persistent and inescapable it actually becomes immersive.

Normalization of managerial deviance — and pathological public dishonesty is exactly that, CIG — is just as effectively achieved via their programming. The quote above from 10ftC delivered with benign confidence is itself an example of it. The message as delivered is, contrary to all the early bluster and constant mugging confidence, a concession of an anticipated failure to deliver on original scope promises all sugar-coated in Chris’s noxious entitlement. For though he has no plans to deliver what he originally pitched, he has expectations of perpetual subsidy from the chump army to get there, or partly there, or somewhere eventually.

And wherever he’s standing when the money finally runs out will be declared the destination. The journey itself — one of a portly goofball false prophet staggering, stumbling, gasping for breath, leading the exiles through the wilderness without map, compass, or North Star and spouting constant word of the Promised Land over yon horizon — will be declared their promised home and those still following may even believe it. Yet what Chris will no longer enjoy, and indeed what he has already lost, is control of his own narrative. The early years allowed him to project a narrative arc about himself, his game and his studio that was readily believed by most, even many goons, and his claims were repeated breathlessly as fact by the supplicant gaming press eager to amplify hype for the easy clicks.

Those days are long since behind us and they aren’t coming back. The narrative of ascent once so forceful and certain is in now very clearly in terminal decay, a slow downward spiral towards yet another cautionary gaming tale about squandered opportunities and abused trust. About the perils of trusting micromanging asset fetishists and the tragic, underappreciated virtues of proper scope design and competent project management. Chris had a chance to make history here, perhaps the most opportune chance in this history of gaming. And through deficits of both competence and character, he absolutely blew it, and the price he will pay for his hubris, deceit, greed and stupidity is that the history he could’ve written will instead be written for him.

The best he can hope for at this point is that some salvageable mediocrity survives and that he’s cast as fool in an epic tale of gaming folly. It would be a generous appraisal and it’s more truly stated that any man who profits so handsomely by lying so often for so long is a villain at heart. His only plausible defense is one he lacks the self-awareness and humility to make — that he was lying to himself the whole time, too, and because he so normalized the act of lying to himself, his employees and his backers, and because he drove away the very sorts he needed to call him out, there was no one left to correct him.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

How many accounts exist for Star Citizen that have been created for the free fly weekends or that are duplicates/non-paying?

The claim of 86$ per person might actually be a lot higher if 1/4 to 1/3 never paid in the first place

Wise Learned Man posted:

There was also a surge in new accounts like three years ago (found it; actually over 4 years ago) when they announced that if you had a second (or third or fourth) base game package you could created a fully-customizable NPC companion character to be your copilot/wingman. IIRC theorycrafters got nervous that if their main account got banned they would lose too much, so setting up multiple accounts was en vogue for a while because they interpreted that article as an implication that you could give your stuff away and just resume play as your NPC pal.

I don't know if they ever mentioned that again, but I'm sure guys like Clifford bought a dozen new accounts to create their dream space team harem.

The Titanic posted:

Citizen Con 2015

ManofManyAliases posted:

You're really an old and stubborn person. This typo is not nearly the issue you seem to think it is.

Toops posted:

This is what has always killed me. The evidence never lines up with their claims. Literally never. Star Citizen is a confidence scam, and before this is all said and done, it might turn out to be a ponzi scheme. Let's revisit the definition, shall we?

"A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator generates returns for older investors through revenue paid by new investors, rather than from legitimate business activities or profit of financial trading."

Daztek posted:

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