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The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Is he doing a magic trick over the cup? :confused:

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Dr. Despair
Nov 4, 2009


39 perfect posts with each roll.

The Titanic posted:

Is he doing a magic trick over the cup? :confused:

It's how you make the audience's money disappear

Propagandist
Oct 23, 2007

WE'RE SAYING MERRY CHRISTMAS AGAIN

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Spiderdrake posted:

Let's be honest, we're all expecting this



Pretty sure it’s breaking an nda to show 3.1 footage. :argh:

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."

The Titanic posted:

I wish there was. :)

The funny part about computer gaming in general is that as things got prettier, the scopes shrank.

I’d love a great new Starflight, with the same general gameplay mechanics and a fresh skin of paint for this generation.

Same for Star Control 2 TBH.

Bootcha
Nov 13, 2012

Truly, the pinnacle of goaltending
Grimey Drawer
Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Gosts posted:

There's a game called Cortex Command that's got a similar concept; you are a brain in a jar, with a pile of remote bodies. You can pick any of the bodies and control them, and if it gets blown up, it means nothing, you just make more. You only die if someone gets through your base and shoots 'you', your brain.

It's a lovely idea and very original, but unfortunately the game is very buggy and eternally incomplete. (Early Obsidian / Bethesda-tier incomplete; not CIG tier. It's still playable.)

Really I can't see why people don't try more interesting styles of future warfare.

Tabletop RPG Eclipse Phase has copyable consciousness, where you can "fork" you into other bodies. It would make it make it easy explanation for gameplay restarting after death, characters reappearing, etc.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Beet Wagon posted:

Here it is, the entirety of my first experience with the live version of Star Citizen's long-awaited Alpha 3.0 patch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ghK6glerU

Haha! Thanks for subtitling your epic journey. I was really riveted when you got out of bed! I just knew it was too good for me to experience and apparently your game felt the same way. :)

Dusty Lens
Jul 1, 2015

All Glory unto the Stimpire. Give up your arms and legs and embrace the beautiful agony of electricity that doubles in pain every second.

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

Ground loving floor. What a lovely gift.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

Chris has made a rare appearance on his weird discord knock-off in order to provide the base with some fresh talking points for the new year.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/1/thread/star-citizen-alpha-3-0-performance-tidbits

This is literally the dumbest version of network communication I’ve heard in a while. They have an arena shooter that monitors all objects via the server side functionality, which means anybody can destroy a server even if they are the only player.

They are a decade away from a functional mmo. Longer for one that will do all their promises, if it’s even technically feasible yet.

SomethingJones
Mar 6, 2016

<3

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

Owns.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

nnnotime posted:

Crazy things? You mean crazy things, like, oh, I don't know: your customers trying to play a sandbox game like a sandbox game, which was the expectations that you set from Star Citizen's very beginning?

You should see plainly now, Citizens: Croberts is already the first to blame you, the esteemed pledgers, when anything starts to go wrong with his game.

Alas: be prepared in the future for more condemnations from Croberts about any of SC or SQ42's failings.

I bet those crazy bastard players tried to exit their wankpod. They should just sit there motionless for several minutes, enjoying the cinematography and texture work without actually looking around. After a while, they can very slowly start to look at the room. No fast movement, just very slow. Maybe after a while longer if it’s ok, they can slowly approach the door. One step at a time.

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

That's the preamble, and there's 18 more? Don't make us wait too long.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

Holy gently caress dude that’s an undertaking if I’ve ever seen one

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Propagandist posted:

'Twas the night before Paarpmas, and all through the 'Verse,
Not a backer was pledging, for it just got worse

Delusions were posted on Reddit with care,
In hopes that St. Christopher soon would be there;

Citizens were nestled all snug in their beds,
While autism chariots danced in their heads

Titanic with her iceberg, and I with by bunnes,
Had just finished a season of Friends reruns

When out of the blue there came a new Tweet,
I sprang from the chair to the Warlord's drumbeat

Away to the forums I flew like a flash,
I refreshed the thread and stroked my moustache

The goons were elated, while MoMA was stunned,
For lawyers had seized their millions of funds

When, what to my wondering eyes do I see,
The Warlord himself is now claiming a V

A "washed-up developer", so salty and tart,
I knew in a moment it must be D_Smart.

More wordy than EULAs his topics they came
He tweeted, and posted, and blogged them by name:

"Now! Archer, now! Legal, now! Lesnick and Lando,
"On! Sandi, on! Zendesk, you're snowflakes, commandos!

"To the federal building! To the town city hall!
"Now litigate! Litigate! Litigate all!"

As interns that 'fore the bankruptcy will flee,
When parted with paycheck, sans college degree;

So up to the jailhouse the p'licemen they flew,
With the car full of staff - and St. Christopher too:

And then in a minute, I heard in the thread
The anger of backers was fin'lly widespread

As I refreshed the thread, and was getting right sauced
A new blog from D_Smart, so smug and aroused

He typed in all caps, was having a cow
His sources were leaking: "Apocolypse, Now!"

A bundle of links were slapp'd right at the end,
His first July blog post, "Read it!" he contends

His eyes - how they twinkled! His hairline, how thinning,
Old Greybeard had won; on his chair he sat spinning

His poo poo-eating grin displayed a bright glow,
And his message was thus: "loving told you so!"

"They switched the game's engine", he wrote with a curse.
"There is always more, and it is always worse!"

The crossed arms of :colbert: he showed with an air
He cackled with glee, and leaned back in his chair

His post had that rhythm, that rhyme, and that station
"Forty-two is eighty-sixed, sweet vindication!"

But I saw him exclaim, when this fire he set alight
"Happy Paarpmas to all, and to all a good night!"

e: reupped from last year with minor revisions

Wow! :aaaaa:

Amazing!!! One of the better ones, had me giggling through it with your creativity! You should do hallmark cards. :D

Lack of Gravitas
Oct 11, 2012

Grimey Drawer

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

:tviv:

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

Thread is good again.

Exinos
Mar 1, 2009

OSHA approved squiq

Beet Wagon posted:

Thread is good again.

Thread always good, it's just been refactored into better thanks to recent events.

ComfyPants
Mar 20, 2002

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

More more more!

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


hope Bootcha's video pipeline doesnt need refactoring

Toops
Nov 5, 2015

-find mood stabilizers
-also,

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

:five:

gently caress yeah

Beef Hardcheese
Jan 21, 2003

HOW ABOUT I LASH YOUR SHIT


Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

:swoon: My body is ready

What's the song in the latter half?

Dogeh
Aug 30, 2017

ShitMeter: -------------|- 99%
Star Citizen: The Only Solution is Not to Play

Dogeh
Aug 30, 2017

ShitMeter: -------------|- 99%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DGNZnfKYnU

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

Someone on the Frontier forums referenced the interesting case of the Icon A5, a recreational amphibian LSA (light sport aircraft). Along with strangely familiar production issues, the real twister was the EULA-style contract that, among other things, demanded an extra $10K in case you want to sue Icon for any reason: here's a quote from one story back in 2016:

quote:

There are strong restrictions on who may fly it, operate it, maintain it, and control the operation of the aircraft. Icon is putting a data collection device in the airplane that belongs to them, and all the data that results. You may not tamper with it or remove it -- and if you do, it could cost you.

"Buyer understands and agrees that, in the interest of safety of Buyer and others in the ICON pilot and owner community, the Aircraft will be equipped with a flight data recorder and that data regarding operation of the Aircraft, which may include flight and cockpit video data, will be collected by, and may be transmitted directly to, ICON or its designees. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the flight data recorder and the data collected thereon is and remains after Closing the sole property of ICON. ICON hereby grants to Buyer, effective upon Closing, the limited, revocable, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to use the flight data recorder in the Aircraft and data thereon for its own non-commercial purposes related to its operation of the Aircraft. Buyer agrees not to remove or disable the flight data recorder and to keep it in good working order throughout Buyer's ownership of the Aircraft. ICON reserves the right to replace or upgrade the flight data recorder at any time."

...


But the real question, ultimately, is this… Is this any way to treat a customer? And... is this truly the type of behavior that we should expect from a company that claims to be building part of aviation's future? Among those disappointed in Icon's hype/bluster and other concerns, the names of several of sport aviation's bitter historical disappointments are brought up... Revolution Helicopter, the BD-5, and so forth. More than a few folks are holding their breath to see if Icon can do what they say and ALSO be good aviation citizens... or if storm clouds are gathering.

Let me repeat that: they required you to maintain a device to snoop on you that you could not turn off or tamper with and that they still OWNED. You were held liable for damage to it. And the cost of the plane is closer to half a million dollars including servicing and normal limitations on actual flight time.

Needless to say this ruffled feathers. The story to date is continued on Wikipedia, eventually the company relented on most of these demands but not all.

It doesn't look like a high volume winner, only 23 have been made so far, and there have been two fatal crashes (pilot error). So perhaps there's hope in that CIG/RSI will be forced to account for their more outrageous legal claims.

AlmightyPants
Mar 14, 2001

King of Scheduling
Pillbug

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

Can't wait for the rest of it!

AbstractNapper
Jun 5, 2011

I can help

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

I'm hooked.

Zzr
Oct 6, 2016

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

"Ouverture"

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



Merry Christmas, friends :shobon:

AbstractNapper
Jun 5, 2011

I can help
Merry Jesus Patch, PC Gamers.
Praise Crobblers for he has delivered you from the bog by clipping you through it.

A Happy New Beer to get you through the hard times of laggy crashy gameplay.


And only plain ol' Merry Christmas, to goons and friends.

BluesShaman
Apr 25, 2016

She wore Blue Velvet.

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA


This is good.

Merry Christmas, thread.

BluesShaman fucked around with this message at 10:39 on Dec 25, 2017

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA

Lovely stuff! Nipples dude enhances it for sure.

BluesShaman
Apr 25, 2016

She wore Blue Velvet.

Beef Hardcheese posted:

:swoon: My body is ready

What's the song in the latter half?

'When the Levee Breaks' by a little blues-rock group from England named Led Zeppelin.

It's a cover of an old blues song by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEa8vuP6U

BluesShaman
Apr 25, 2016

She wore Blue Velvet.

Propagandist posted:


Citizens were nestled all snug smug in their beds,

Combat Theory
Jul 16, 2017

Bootcha posted:

Let's try this again, Merry Christmas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU3uEBUBIEA



tuo
Jun 17, 2016

Merry chris robert's mess, everyone!

BluesShaman
Apr 25, 2016

She wore Blue Velvet.

Fargin Icehole posted:

How is this not a segment made by Crowbcat?

Hopefully we'll get something from him when the end times roll around. His videos are more post-mortem style.

The trainwreck is still unfolding.

G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.
Merry Christmas all ye gentlemen and lady folk. Thanks to all who participate and make this such essential, informative and hilarious reading day in and out!

G0RF fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Dec 25, 2017

Nyast
Nov 14, 2017

BLAZING AT THE
SPEED OF LIGHT

XK posted:

quote:

One other common issue that can kill performance is interpenetration of objects

??

One of the heaviest part of a physics engine is collision response. For that you need to determine contact points between physics bodies. When two bodies are very close together ( or interpenetrating ) they generate some collision points, which in turn generate collision forces that get processed by the physics engine to "push away" the two bodies from each other.

If your game is badly implemented, it is possible that the result of pushing these two bodies from each other does not work. Aka they're somehow stuck AND interpenetrating. This is the worst case scenario, because your physics engine starts to suck out performance and everything performs badly for no visible reason.

So next time you see two bodies stuck to each other, you'll know that's the reason you have a sub part framerate.

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mrchinchin25
Apr 14, 2012

Dat BDSSE
The important thing I took from Christmas Roberts' post was not about performance but that they'd be on a Christmas break until mid jan. So don't any of you entitled cuntifilas start tearing up concern posts right now

Side-plot- like many struggling businesses I wonder if CIG is doing the old shutdown for Christmas to cut costs routine? Imagine...

1) all staff must now take holidays or unpaid leave for a few weeks
2) release 3.0 into the wild just before
3) gently caress up insurance mechanics
4) ...
5) profit

(Calling it)

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