thatguy posted:

Be nice to Fandred if he posts here you loving idiots. I need this.

Mirificus posted:

Dogeh posted:

Goon 2:5 And in the beginning of the ELE, all was good in the Star Citizen community. The whales were brought forth and did purchase of the jpegs in copious amounts. The people asked 'Was Star Citizen good?' and the Shills replied 'Yea verily, for unto you a ship is born and it shall be called Idris and you will land the ship on many moons of your choice' and the people were glad.

Goon 2:6 But in all the lands did a darkness dwell. For hidden from the people, a great untruth was lying. And people knew it not. The base god of the people had maketh a falsehood and had told the people that Star Citizen was good and that they should buyeth of it, and that he would finish it, in fidelity. The fidelity was to be good and the fidelity was to be real.

Goon 2:7 But lo, a great prophet came at that time and his name was Derek. Derek was the counting of his name and the people were mightily puzzled. 'Derek', they cried, 'whence come thee to this land of darkness?'

Goon 2:8 And the Derek replied "Oh great people for whom doth thou not knowest the truth, verily this day an evil lies in the land and you can read about it in my July blog'. And the people did readest of the July blog and it took them many days for Derek was not light of typing.

Goon 2:9 But gradually the people knew of the blog and they knew Derek. But yet, there were those who had not taketh of the blogs and they were mightily afraid.

Goon 2:10 They had come from a far off place, a land where darkness walked in perpetuity, called r/ds. They greatly envied his genitals and spoketh about them in hushed tones.

Goon 2:11 "Oh Derek," they cried, "Why are thy genitals so superior to ours?". And Derek smiled on them and blocked them.

Goon 2:12 Then it came to pass, that the owner of the land of r/ds, a man called Jester, did tire of the people from r/ds, and closed off the land to others. Derek was mightily pleased and shouted gaily, "I closed those rear end-clowns down."

Goon 2:13 And the people from r/ds did gnash their teeth and wail epithets at the prophet and he smiled all the more.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/932395262844293120
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/932408892268584960
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/932409047197896704

Beet Wagon posted:

I'll pretty much be an rear end in a top hat to that dude guaranteed. He's the worst.

SCtrumpHaters posted:

If he describes how he was a secret agent for SC like he said on reddit I'll welcome him as a brother.

Toops posted:

Fandred is at the very least capable of self-reflection and considering changing his/her mind, and talking about that, which is better than 99.9% of internet users.

Beet Wagon posted:

I'll pretty much be an rear end in a top hat to that dude guaranteed. He's the worst.

CrazyLoon posted:

To be fair, considering The Wulge made me uncomfortable back when he thought I was anonymously exposing his poo poo (but wasn't) and kept 'calling me out' everywhere I wasn't, I can understand Beet being such too with someone that supposedly stalked him over Reddit.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I, for one, welcome Fandred and his dissenting opinion on Goons and Star Citizen.

TheAgent posted:

due to an ongoing and targeted harassment campaign, I'll be taking a break from this thread for awhile

at least while sober

TheAgent posted:

due to an ongoing and targeted harassment campaign, I'll be taking a break from this thread for awhile

at least while sober

EightAce posted:

you do know that all this time Derek has been banging on about an ELE he was in fact referring to R/DSmart and he was right , wasn't he !

Mirificus posted:

TheAgent posted:

due to an ongoing and targeted harassment campaign, I'll be taking a break from this thread for awhile

at least while sober

TheAgent posted:

last year they pulled in an amazing $6,738,501 during their 12 day anniversary sale, so it could happen! of course, speculation last year was that 3.0 and a huge number of game systems were right around the corner for jan/feb 2017 at the absolute latest, along with a hanger or flight ready status for a ton of new concept ships

Beet Wagon posted:

I'll pretty much be an rear end in a top hat to that dude guaranteed. He's the worst.

DapperDon posted:

It's me. The goon laughing my rear end off at how uncomfortable Fandred makes Beet feel.

Solarin posted:

if he gets an account please ban him immediately (before he posts ideally) for prior mod sass when he stalked you on reddit

Nov 19, 2017

"Nice people but no idea what they wanted"

2 of 5 Stars

Former Employee - Network Engineer in Houston, TX

— Doesn't Recommend
— Negative Outlook
— CEO

I worked at Cloud Imperium Games full-time (More than 3 years)

Pros
Really cool company to work for and everyone wants to talk to you about it. Have some great equipment especially stuff donated from Amazon.

Cons
My job wasn't really needed at the stage in the project I was hired, and won't be needed for quite some time. My advise was taken but not listened to, and more senior people were posted above me from other departments with absolutely no history of networking - like art / marketing

G0RF posted:

[url=https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Cloud-Imperium-Games-Reviews-E776546.htm]


Well friend, that’s because Cloud Imperium Games isn’t a gaming studio, it’s a company whose core business model is now and has always been the marketing and selling of high-poly spaceship assets or even more desirably the promise of them. It is led by a troika of amoral family members who are hopelessly unfit to lead a 2017-era gaming studio yet uniquely gifted at rationalizing their opportunistic financial exploitation of a credulous customer base and considerably proficient at employing cinematic propaganda to achieve those ends. So effective have they been at the unthinkable that their core financiers are now more invested in playing a psychosocial game — that being one of ritualized anticipation of the next ship sale, the next fan conference, the next TV show — than in playing the previously promised actual game.

Had they been making that from the start, well, you might’ve been a valued employee rather than a whiny packet nerd forced to report to a management-tier compromised of a hangars-on society of longtime Hollywood cronies and even longer-time game industry friends from a bygone era in which the founder was relevant. Oh, and his wife, who lacks the talent to have even been either.

Combat Theory posted:

I missed fandred chat and rim chat... Thanks EA for fuckin up the week something funny happens again

The Titanic posted:

Fandred1 is learning that it’s not goons or Derek who make CIG look like a comedy and a bad studio, it’s CIG.

Pretty sure nobody here can wave a wand and say, “abracadabra, no progress for 6 years and no game to show for it, but tons of YouTube content and aimless merchandising!” Unless really Mel Brooks is here because he could probably do that.

G0RF posted:

[url=https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Cloud-Imperium-Games-Reviews-E776546.htm]


Well friend, that’s because Cloud Imperium Games isn’t a gaming studio, it’s a company whose core business model is now and has always been the marketing and selling of high-poly spaceship assets or even more desirably the promise of them. It is led by a troika of amoral family members who are hopelessly unfit to lead a 2017-era gaming studio yet uniquely gifted at rationalizing their opportunistic financial exploitation of a credulous customer base and considerably proficient at employing cinematic propaganda to achieve those ends. So effective have they been at the unthinkable that their core financiers are now more invested in playing a psychosocial game — that being one of ritualized anticipation of the next ship sale, the next fan conference, the next TV show — than in playing the previously promised actual game.

Had they been making that from the start, well, you might’ve been a valued employee rather than a whiny packet nerd forced to report to a management-tier compromised of a hangars-on society of longtime Hollywood cronies and even longer-time game industry friends from a bygone era in which the founder was relevant. Oh, and his wife, who lacks the talent to have even been either.

Quavers posted:

TheAgent posted:

they have 10 days to make $6.5 million in order to match last years funding

lol

Total in November 2017 (so far): $1,081,927
Total in November 2016 (total): $7,776,767

last year they pulled in an amazing $6,738,501 during their 12 day anniversary sale, so it could happen! of course, speculation last year was that 3.0 and a huge number of game systems were right around the corner for jan/feb 2017 at the absolute latest, along with a hanger or flight ready status for a ton of new concept ships

they need about the same level of funding as last year, but I'm thinking they won't hit above $5m this november (prediction models indicate sub $4m, but never underestimate how loving stupid these people are)