Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > The Goodmine > Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

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.

The Titanic posted:

I saw that one. Though I don’t know the relevance. I guess we can also tell me about Shmorkie too because that’s also relevant.

My whole point was both sides are making GBS threads on people on the other side. Just because you are on one side doesn’t make it any better or worse than what the other side is doing.

I held my breath for five whole minutes and I still haven't come to terms with this. Maybe six is the ticket.

Dusty Lens fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Dec 29, 2017

# ? Dec 29, 2017 05:32

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ? Jun 8, 2024 12:14

ripptide: Jul 28, 2016

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/scireimperium/status/946521550748045312
https://twitter.com/_Yokorose_/status/946517649286189056
https://twitter.com/_Yokorose_/status/946515031864340480

See what happens when you forget to put /s at the end of your articles!

# ? Dec 29, 2017 05:39

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

Ghostlight posted:

He kept buying motorcycles that the forums would tell him were way too powerful for a novice motorcyclist and to buy something smaller until he finally blew his arm off in a collision and got some sweet insurance money that he used to buy a manual transmission.

Weird. Unfortunately I know people who had various types of motorcycle accidents too.

I guess the moral of the story is: don�t keep risking everything until it�s gone, and then go one further stupid just because.

And this applies to an us vs them system of who is more right to poo poo on other people... not loving at all? :shrug:

Consider me educated.

*keeps pressing the escape key but the menu never has the option to quit*

# ? Dec 29, 2017 05:46

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

https://giant.gfycat.com/HelplessEcstaticIntermediateegret.mp4

# ? Dec 29, 2017 05:49

The Titanic: Sep 15, 2016; Unsinkable

CrazyTolradi posted:

I guess Blue Story just stands out more in the same sort of mindset as SC backers, mostly because her husband and her were dumping so much cash into useless crap despite wanting to pay down multiple debts and beef up some savings. The thread was a constant slew of bad decisions on the OP's part and how someone could so firmly believe their choices were the right and proper ones to make, in the face of a ton of good financial advice no less.

I totally get you and I totally see the similarities between them and backers.

That was not my point though.

My point was people on both sides are making GBS threads on other people (and themselves), but because we see it as a scam doesn�t magically justify us doing it.

I totally don�t care enough to get all controversial about this anymore though. You guys win.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 05:52

CrazyTolradi: Oct 2, 2011; It feels so good to be so bad.....at posting.

The Titanic posted:

I totally get you and I totally see the similarities between them and backers.

That was not my point though.

My point was people on both sides are making GBS threads on other people (and themselves), but because we see it as a scam doesn�t magically justify us doing it.

I totally don�t care enough to get all controversial about this anymore though. You guys win.

But that's what the internet is for, even in the UseNet days. :P

# ? Dec 29, 2017 05:54

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

The latest atv is a loving clip show?

Milky Moor posted:

lol

Now, Mark's story is he's never been in S42, and CIG 3d modelling team are making it easy to believe.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 05:54

boviscopophobic: Feb 5, 2016

It's time for our inaugural look at the 3.0 leaderboards! How swamped are the servers for this long-anticipated, massively hyped release?

Star Marine: 28.7 average users; 10,988 unique users.
Arena Commander: 8.3 average users; 1,894 uniques.
Murray Cup (racing): 1.4 average users; 724 uniques.

Total: 38.4 average users; 12,336 uniques.

This isn't a huge change from the numbers at the end of 2.6.3. Average concurrent users have stayed about the same or maybe gone up 5-ish from the record lows. What is interesting is the relative shift toward Star Marine and away from Arena Commander; in 2.6.3 they were approximately even in terms of average usage. If the trend away from AC holds in subsequent weeks, it may reflect dissatisfaction with the ever-worsening state of the flight model.

The period covered by this report was December 24 16:30 through December 29 04:00 (all times UTC).

boviscopophobic fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Dec 29, 2017

# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:00

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.

Who the hell is playing Star Marine.

Flying portions sure. You've bought in and you're gonna keep banging away at it because this is what you wanted drat it. But if you want to actually play an FPS the market isn't short on vastly superior options and I really, really doubt that a significant number cashed into SC in order to play the FPS portion.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:09

Solarin: Nov 15, 2007

Tokamak posted:

https://giant.gfycat.com/HelplessEcstaticIntermediateegret.mp4

# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:26

Solarin: Nov 15, 2007

The Titanic posted:

I totally get you and I totally see the similarities between them and backers.

That was not my point though.

My point was people on both sides are making GBS threads on other people (and themselves), but because we see it as a scam doesn�t magically justify us doing it.

I totally don�t care enough to get all controversial about this anymore though. You guys win.

let's all have a good time laughing at the video game

# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:30

bandaid.friend: Apr 25, 2017; My first car was a stick

Milky Moor posted:

quote:
Canto Bight, the opulent locale in The Last Jedi, brought us fathiers, Benicio del Toro�s DJ, a bevy of fancy attire, and a little drunk alien trying to shove coins into BB-8. The guy that mistook our favorite spherical droid for a slot machine is Dobbu Scay, and though he�s a purely CG character, he was brought to life in a motion capture performance by none other than Mark Hamill.

The Last Jedi VFX supervisor Ben Morris told Nerdist, �Mark came to Rian [Johnson]. Mark�s done an awful lot of computer game voices for characters, but he�s never had the chance [to do mo-cap]. So, he said, �I want to put the dots on, man. I want to do that mo-cap thing.'�

The director obliged. �Rian made a little cameo for Mark,� Morris said. �We brought him after the main shoot to our ILM and performance capture stage in London. We spent an afternoon with him, staging those moments with Rian. That was quite bizarre.�

Morris continued, �We actually built the gigantic wire frame BB-8 that was a little to the right side so that Mark was the same height as the toad dude. So, we�ve got this enormous BB-8, like the Christmas bauble, that�s made out of wire. I think Mark had a great time. And we leave that as the basis for his performance ideas for the character.�

Creature shop head Neal Scanlan said they made a maquette of Dobbu Scay, who Morris affectionately calls �the toad dude� and combined Hamill�s mo-cap performance with puppeteers�Scanlan and Morris really work in tandem to bring the creatures to the galaxy.

Scanlan explained, �Digital made a very big version of BB-8, and so we performed it. Warwick [Davis] and Jimmy Vee played the real scale character with the real sized BB-8, and then the digital guys had a big BB-8 made and Mark played the character to the big BB-8. They motion captured his performance and then scanned in the characters and created it as a full digital character, which is great.�

So next time you watch The Last Jedi and see the little wobbly alien stuffing coins into BB-8, remember that�s Hamill in a mo-cap suit. If we�re lucky, Lucasfilm will share behind-the-scenes photos.
lol

This is great

The Titanic posted:

I totally get you and I totally see the similarities between them and backers.

That was not my point though.

My point was people on both sides are making GBS threads on other people (and themselves), but because we see it as a scam doesn�t magically justify us doing it.

I totally don�t care enough to get all controversial about this anymore though. You guys win.

It really isn't helpful image-wise that the 'face' of one side is Derek "Derek loving Smart" Smart

# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:41

Zzr: Oct 6, 2016

Space whale. The only true accomplishment of CIG is to unearth them.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:44

boviscopophobic: Feb 5, 2016

Star Citizen is good because, as a paid PC game, it won't adopt the worst of freemium mechanics.

...oh.

Good news, though! Lack of persistence to the rescue!

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7mopz9/15_hour_insurance_time/

# ? Dec 29, 2017 06:49

Sabreseven: Feb 27, 2016

Tokamak posted:

https://giant.gfycat.com/HelplessEcstaticIntermediateegret.mp4

Why is the camera behaving more drunk than I intend to get on New Years Eve?

Imagine that cinematic playing out just like that, but in VR. :barf:

# ? Dec 29, 2017 07:02

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Sabreseven posted:

Why is the camera behaving more drunk than I intend to get on New Years Eve?

crobbler told them to mimic the way he filmed his home videos.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 07:06

Dementropy: Aug 23, 2010

# ? Dec 29, 2017 07:22

Gosts: Jan 15, 2016

Dementropy posted:

He's right, all the promises were fulfilled.

Crobberts never promised that the planets would not violently shake at all times.

Crobberts never promised you'd be able to touch the planet without clipping into it or exploding.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 07:41

Bofast: Feb 21, 2011; Grimey Drawer

Mirificus posted:

On the topic of ladders, Larian implemented ladders successfully in Gamebryo when making Divinity 2 (no, not the Divinity: Original Sin 2 that recently came out). They even have the player character do a fancy handstand maneuver at the top of the ladder. That was released about a year after Fallout 3.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 07:46

Strangler 42: Jan 8, 2007; SHAVE IT ALL OFF
ALL OF IT

Dementropy posted:

Well we believed that if they somehow hacked together some fix, it would make the game run like rear end. I guess they showed us.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 07:54

Solarin: Nov 15, 2007

Chris Roberts

# ? Dec 29, 2017 08:31

Rudager: Apr 29, 2008

Dementropy posted:

Has anyone flown around a planetoid close to the surface yet? That seems like something that should have happened by now to prove it wasn't "just a level"

# ? Dec 29, 2017 08:36

Hobold: Jan 10, 2012; I love my Cutlass
I love big stompy mechs
I love my HOTAS
I love to salvage wrecks
I love Star Citizen, and all it's craziness
GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA; College Slice

Rudager posted:

Has anyone flown around a planetoid close to the surface yet? That seems like something that should have happened by now to prove it wasn't "just a level"

To that point, I kinda expected had anyone actually found any level boundries, we'd've heard about it by now.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 08:45

Foo Diddley: Oct 29, 2011; cat

Hobold posted:

To that point, I kinda expected had anyone actually found any level boundries, we'd've heard about it by now.

I watched a streamer drive away from the place where he and his buddies landed and then suddenly his rover was floating in space. I'm not sure if it was just normal jank or if he hit a boundary or what

Whatever it was, it was definitely a victory for the citizens. They sure showed us all

# ? Dec 29, 2017 09:04

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

Sabreseven posted:

Why is the camera behaving more drunk than I intend to get on New Years Eve?

It's attached to a model going through its idle animations because that's the level of talent they have left.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 09:05

no_recall: Aug 17, 2015; Lipstick Apathy

Holiday Sale To Date:

2017-12-22 $68,832
2017-12-23 $188,723
2017-12-24 $190,559
2017-12-25 $152,451
2017-12-26 $147,661
2017-12-27 $149,847
2017-12-28 $141,118

Total Tally: $1.039M WTF.

:rip:

Phi230
EminusSleepus
Lack of Gravitas
Sarsapariller
Drunk Theory
Mr Fronts

# ? Dec 29, 2017 09:21

G0RF: Mar 19, 2015; Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

no_recall posted:

Holiday Sale To Date:

2017-12-22 $68,832
2017-12-23 $188,723
2017-12-24 $190,559
2017-12-25 $152,451
2017-12-26 $147,661
2017-12-27 $149,847
2017-12-28 $141,118

Total Tally: $1.039M WTF.

Phi230
EminusSleepus
Lack of Gravitas
Sarsapariller
Drunk Theory
Mr Fronts

How much more need they raise this year to be even with the complete 2016 haul, No Recall?

# ? Dec 29, 2017 09:33

MedicineHut: Feb 25, 2016

Lladre posted:

State of the game.

Holy poo poo

# ? Dec 29, 2017 09:33

Abuminable: Mar 30, 2017; Now, aside from the Abuminable, business goes on as usual.

no_recall posted:

Holiday Sale To Date:

Total Tally: $1.039M WTF.

I wonder if CIG intentionally held back on a release or promotion of some sort that would have brought in more cash. ATV was delayed by a day and it could have been to redo Hobo Felonius' segment as well as Chris & Sandi's outro. It's hard to fathom why they didn't capitalize on SQ42 in some way, unless the decision not to was premeditated.

This sale is occurring right in the middle of the Skadden filing and CIG response. Makes you wonder.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 09:33

no_recall: Aug 17, 2015; Lipstick Apathy

G0RF posted:

How much more need they raise this year to be even with the complete 2016 haul, No Recall?

2016-12-22 $72,811
2016-12-23 $92,981
2016-12-24 $193,370
2016-12-25 $187,200
2016-12-26 $282,453
2016-12-27 $483,760
2016-12-28 $95,280
2016-12-29 $93,746
2016-12-30 $91,448
2016-12-31 $83,489

Total for 2016 for the same period :1.676M

3 days to go to match it.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 09:51

Xaerael: Aug 25, 2010; Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

Abuminable posted:

I wonder if CIG intentionally held back on a release or promotion of some sort that would have brought in more cash. ATV was delayed by a day and it could have been to redo Hobo Felonius' segment as well as Chris & Sandi's outro. It's hard to fathom why they didn't capitalize on SQ42 in some way, unless the decision not to was premeditated.

This sale is occurring right in the middle of the Skadden filing and CIG response. Makes you wonder.

It's entirely possible they're rigging poo poo to counter-sue Crytek for loss of "earnings".

# ? Dec 29, 2017 10:02

no_recall: Aug 17, 2015; Lipstick Apathy

Its quite amazing that there was no new "Concept" this sale.

Thats a new one for them.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 10:03

Sandweed: Sep 7, 2006; All your friends are me.

intardnation posted:

willing to bet he has the CIG/SC collapsed and the warning signs were there piece ready to go

Everyone in the games media has this piece ready to go.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 10:08

tuo: Jun 17, 2016

Dusty Lens posted:

I held my breath for five whole minutes and I still haven't come to terms with this. Maybe six is the ticket.

I once had that in my fish tank. That worm was no joke, let me tell you that. RIP rear end in a top hat Eunice sp.

# ? Dec 29, 2017 10:12

Tarquinn: Jul 3, 2007; I know I�ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.; Hell Gem