Mirificus posted:

thatguy posted:

Space Court.

Dementropy posted:

Daztek posted:

The Rabbi T. White posted:

I see Derek finally defeated the vending machine.

doingitwrong posted:

* The last new person to buy in to Star Citizen. This person is the most interesting to me. Not the invested fools trying to untangle themselves from sunk cost fallacy, but the last person to come to this thing fresh and think “yeah, sounds good, I’m in.” Maybe this person is already known. Maybe SC exhausted its ability to attract new money ages ago. Or maybe there are still new citizens to come. Maybe it’ll be The Titanic.

Daztek posted:

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

SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:

I was the same way. I saw Privateer the MMO and had no idea about freelancer until the fans of that game began to show up in 2013. Sometime around 2013 or 2014 I found a copy of Freelancer at an estate sale for $1 and loaded it up to play it and went: "WTF is this poo poo". Then suddenly the whole mouse aim thing became apparent and there were two very different fan bases wanting to very different games delivered in terms of the feel of flight. Most of the original backers I felt were like myself and fans of the 90's era Wing Commander, Xwing Series, and Freespace games. Hence the Controller Katamari thread that went on for years until finally in summer of 2015 we asked for them to explain how the flight model was going to work...and they couldn't. They gave us a write up about different flight "modes", but not how the game was supposed to feel. Elite went with nerfed yaw to make it more like airplanes in space because they thought it was more fun. You can argue about not liking that control scheme, but you can't say that Frontier didn't nail what they were aiming for, but they knew what they were aiming for where as CIG never did.

Last year I decided to wait and see if they delivered 3.0 by the end of Jan 2017. They didn't so I got a refund.

Abuminable posted:

Derek linked to Breitbart?? Pardon me while I glue my jaw back on.

doingitwrong posted:

As the whole scheme seems to be winding down (or is the lawsuit the start of a new chapter?) I’ve been thinking a lot about endings. Because if there is going to be a ending to this thing, there are going to be a lot of lasts. Many of them we’ll never get to know, their contributions will be hidden in confidential files and other dark places unlikely ever to see the light of day. Here are some soon to be unsung figures and moments. Are they in the future or the past?

* The last person to ever pledge. Probably a whale, desperate to fund this thing past the ever receding finish line. This person is probably in the future.
* The last person to buy (and the last person to sell) a grey market ship.
* The last new person to buy in to Star Citizen. This person is the most interesting to me. Not the invested fools trying to untangle themselves from sunk cost fallacy, but the last person to come to this thing fresh and think “yeah, sounds good, I’m in.” Maybe this person is already known. Maybe SC exhausted its ability to attract new money ages ago. Or maybe there are still new citizens to come. Maybe it’ll be The Titanic.
* The last person to check in code to the SC/SQ42 repository.
* The cast and crew of the last ‘Round the Verse.
* The last SC stream.
* The last Chris Roberts stage appearance.
* The last PC Gamer cover story.
* The last Spectrum post.
* The last version number.
* The last concept ship.

D_Smart posted:

Don't shoot the messenger. Everyone's gotta eat.

D_Smart posted:

I know the writer, Nate Church. Don't shoot the messenger. Everyone's gotta eat.

Raskolnikov posted:

TheAgent posted:

for most of these backers, pc gaming equals a $5,000 PC and the select few games meant to take advantage of nerds with too much money

everything else is downgraded trash and how dare the companies that produce games care about things like "sales" or "money" or "keeping a business running"

its a total elitist attitude which I find hilarious because the next iteration of consoles are going to be insanely powerful as the price and size of components continues to drop

you find these guys in every part of society and they are always saying the same fundamentalist poo poo

Loxbourne posted:

This isn't as knee-jerk as it sounds. The citizens probably really DID perceive Derek's words as INSERT AUTISTIC SCREECHING HERE. They don't process the content of the media they consume, they process the emotions it made them feel. No citizen can remember what Ben or Chris or Tony said in episode 172 of Reverse the Hearse two years ago. But they can remember a powerful, idolised man told them he would give them their dreams, and that's all that registered in their brains. Does something make them feel hyped and pumped for Star Citizen? It goes in the GOOD category, is welcomed into their worldview, and the theorycrafting begins about how awesome this will be. Does something make them feel nervous or anxious or attacked? Then it goes in the BAD category and cannot be allowed to be real, ever.

To an extent this is the basis of all marketing, but a worldview this far gone is endemic to the kind of unsocialised, poorly-socially-developed, alienated person who is most vulnerable to cult recruitment. They don't have the self-worth that comes from a sense of their own accomplishments and an established place in a community to allow them to properly evaluate the marketing hype. They don't have other voices in their lives to provide something they can compare that hype to. Actually evaluating a statement means understanding it and sorting it into concepts the reader's mind can grasp, and that's scary when the statement includes criticism of the core of your self-identity. A cultist cannot do that. Their emotions are the only legitimate response to CIG marketing a cultist will accept.

Announcing a new ship? That makes them feel psyched! It's gonna be great flying that with their friends and their orgs, and Chris said orgs will seek you out if you have one (the Pioneer). Calling out the hefty price tag of a new ship? That makes them feel attacked, stop making them feel bad about a thing they were feeling good about a moment ago. You must be a goon or an alt or a shill or another evil word, because you want to harm me by making me feel bad. The backers evaluate all criticism by the disappointment and defensiveness the cultists themselves feel when they hear it. Not what the actual critic said.

You don't embrace Star Citizen with the same level of enthusiasm I do and that makes me sad. That hurts.

Why did you hurt me? You must have wanted to hurt me. Your motive cannot have been critique or evaluation or even well-intentioned concern, it can ONLY be to hurt me. You must hate me. So you hate Star Citizen. You are coming for me and I must ATTACK, ATTACK, ATTACK to stop you hurting me again!. The rest is mob mentality and nerds being shitlords in predictable ways.

We call Citizens "manchildren", this is how they behave like children. The content doesn't matter, only the way it makes them feel. Intent does not matter, if it hurts them to hear your words you must have meant to hurt them. You cannot be merely a critic or just curious about the project, you must be a hater who wants to harm them.

This is why they're so strangely blasé about release dates and feature lists. All that matters is how awesome it will be when 3.0 is released. If not 3.0, 3.1. If not 3.1, 4.0. It's gonna feel so awesome.

This is why critical bloggers and streamers must be attacked so viciously (setting aside considerations about grey market prices). Your words make me feel sad and that hurts so you must be deliberately attacking me. I will react as if you have directly assaulted me.

This is why they cheered when Chris said he won't give release dates. Release dates are just words in the mouths of people who hurt us. If Chris does not make promises, the haters have less ammunition!

This is why the hardcore cultists freeze and lock up when CIG fucks up the marketing, But but but CIG makes me feel GOOD and now I feel bad! Whyyyyyyyyyy...!.

Ultimately this is why they're pathologically incapable of evaluating the Crytek lawsuit. The lawsuit manifests in their heads as nothing but giant documents reading WE ARE HERE TO TAKE YOUR DREAMS AWAY. YES YOURS, CITIZEN 415762, YOUR DREAMS PERSONALLY. NYAR HAR HAR WE'RE SO EVIL, SO VERY VERY EVIL. They don't see the words on the page. They don't respond to the points raised. They respond to their emotional reaction of knowing a lawsuit was filed. That reaction is a combination of nervousness and bravado, grasping at any passing piece of information that might provide a way back out of the scary introspection - "mighty CIG will crush all before it!" "ORTWIN WILL BRING THE FUREH!" "This is just a Crytek cash grab!" "Please please please can that be true I'm scared!"

There's no point arguing with a Cultist over the substantive content of anything, lawsuit or critique or forum post, because the Citizens aren't reading the content. The content doesn't matter. The meaning doesn't matter. All that matters is that the lawsuit, the GOONS, the words of a critic or Chris's failure to play his own game or whatever it is...suddenly makes them feel anxious. So it must be rejected as hard and as thoroughly as possible to make the anxiety stop.

EDIT: I've been linked to this post on reddit as a perfect example of my post in action. I wasn't expecting something quite so picture-perfect, but hey I'll take it.

peter gabriel posted:

It literally comes from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhsgiliheP0

It's citizens not having a brain so they repeat parrot fashion what CIG tell them to. You have to appreciate that the last time a lot of these twats played a game it came on a floppy disc, so much like Chris they know gently caress all about modern gaming.
Saying a PS4 Pro can't run a Cryengine game is laughable, the only saving grace is pretty soon it won't be a Cryengine game lol

doingitwrong posted:

As the whole scheme seems to be winding down (or is the lawsuit the start of a new chapter?) I’ve been thinking a lot about endings. Because if there is going to be a ending to this thing, there are going to be a lot of lasts. Many of them we’ll never get to know, their contributions will be hidden in confidential files and other dark places unlikely ever to see the light of day. Here are some soon to be unsung figures and moments. Are they in the future or the past?

* The last person to ever pledge. Probably a whale, desperate to fund this thing past the ever receding finish line. This person is probably in the future.
* The last person to buy (and the last person to sell) a grey market ship.
* The last new person to buy in to Star Citizen. This person is the most interesting to me. Not the invested fools trying to untangle themselves from sunk cost fallacy, but the last person to come to this thing fresh and think “yeah, sounds good, I’m in.” Maybe this person is already known. Maybe SC exhausted its ability to attract new money ages ago. Or maybe there are still new citizens to come. Maybe it’ll be The Titanic.
* The last person to check in code to the SC/SQ42 repository.
* The cast and crew of the last ‘Round the Verse.
* The last SC stream.
* The last Chris Roberts stage appearance.
* The last PC Gamer cover story.
* The last Spectrum post.
* The last version number.
* The last concept ship.

D_Smart posted:

I still think it's the subs. There is no other explanation for it to be so consistent on a daily/regular basis.

loving scammers.

PederP posted:

Where does this strange hatred of consoles come from?

D_Smart posted:

I still think it's the subs. There is no other explanation for it to be so consistent on a daily/regular basis.

loving scammers.

hot balls man no homo posted:

LOL so did somebody wake up this morning around 10 and decide today is a good day to buy a completionist package and an Idris?

VealCutlet posted:

You're a good person despite what r/ds thinks.

hot balls man no homo posted:

LOL so did somebody wake up this morning around 10 and decide today is a good day to buy a completionist package and an Idris?

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

The last "phone your parents"

the last "tane"

the last "ben fat"

the last catte tax

the last "see my blog i wrote ten months ago"

*sniff*