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If I ever get shot and killed I hope it's by a cop and not some guy in fingerless gloves wearing a t-shirt, shin guards, and a trilby.
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Preen Dog posted:They made a million dollars less than last year. It’s still close enough to reinforce the narrative of steady state demand and thus reinforce general confidence to the mega-whales, And that is a “victory” in itself because YTD trends looked quite dismal only two months prior and a massive multi-claim lawsuit went public only two weeks prior. Yet the miracle tracking turnaround transpired anyway... (as predicted in my blog!) G0RF fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Jan 1, 2018 02:32
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boviscopophobic posted:2017 is officially in the books, by UTC time anyway! Here are the yearly funding totals: This is totally normal and not at all suspicious that a company that has yet to even release a product is making the exact same amount of money year in year out with a variance of a few million dollars
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It really is insane how high the graph tilted with the land sale. And its not appreciable anywhere. The communities are as insular as they have always been, dissent is on the rise, the product continues to be junk and the content they are showing off has never been more smoke and mirrors. I can understand last years surge during Gamescon, there was a whole lot more hype around it. But all of it ended up being fake considering that a year and half after showing it off is it actually out for players and its a fraction of what they promised and performance issues that can drop a servers fps to the single digits. I'm not seeing that sort of hype the past few months, quite the opposite. Its sort of anti hype. Cao Ni Ma fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Jan 1, 2018 02:38
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thatguy posted:The blocked clowns are beginning to revolt. The thread will be cast into 100 pages of darkness unless Skadden, Bootcha, or Agent can save us. I'm sure there is one lawsuit that will rule us all.
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The funding tracker nearly hit 0 for an hour the day the CryTek lawsuit showed up. Backer's open-wallet approach has me coinvinced it could be 100% accurate outside of refunds and the only way to know for sure is full on discovery.
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Virtual Captain posted:The funding tracker nearly hit 0 for an hour the day the CryTek lawsuit showed up. Backer's open-wallet approach has me coinvinced it could be 100% accurate outside of refunds and the only way to know for sure is full on discovery. That funding tracker is about as accurate as asking yourself how big your dick is on prom night.
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Jan 1, 2018 02:47
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Mr Fronts posted:
He sure aint using his cock...or mine... Perhaps he is using laser cock Baldness fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Jan 1, 2018 02:51
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how do you get one of those blocked buddies gangtags?
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Jan 1, 2018 02:56
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It would be handy to have some kind of way to evaluate the number of subscribers active at any given time.
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juggalo baby coffin posted:how do you get one of those blocked buddies gangtags? This
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Berious posted:Hail yourselves! hail gein
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star citizen is a waste
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Solarin posted:star citizen is a waste So this must be tracking expanding wastelines 
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boviscopophobic posted:2017 is officially in the books, by UTC time anyway! Here are the yearly funding totals: Maybe the Coutts loan got put to the best use possible — fuel injected demand to keep confidence afloat. The deflation is perceptible externally yet negated via the internally controlled authority of the tracker. I’m also increasingly convinced that the year-end livestream was constructed with a new 3rd party audience primarily in mind: either the British Tax authority or Coutts (though it could be both.) The entire non-game segments were remedial, introductory, and at times conspicuously false. Now it’s possible that the hope for it was to educate the general gaming public about Squadron 42 and stoke opt-in demand for their mailing list. Yet we can intuitively discern invisible machinery at work here; we don’t need to see the gears turning and pistons firing to sense the directed movement. It’s in the miracle correction in the tracker and in that year-end video.. I made note recently of a conspicuous moment of falsehood in the year-end livestream. It may seem a minor thing, Chambers claim that everyone under Hannes is solely dedicated to Squadron 42. Yet we know this hasn’t ever been historically true and “The Road to CitizenCon” is but one of many CIG transmissions that invalidates his claim. Who is the audience that needs to believe the Director of Cinematics is leading a team solely dedicated to Squadron? It’s not the mega-whales; by and large such news would be bad news because they’re invested in Star Citizen ships. Yet the specificity of the claim would render it extraneous to the prospective Squadron tire-kickers. So who are really talking to, CIG? And a wee bit falsely? It wouldn’t be the first time Chambers hit a false note for the team. He was one of those offering the “we can’t show any of Squadron because spoilers!” excuse that CIG cooked up in the months after supposedly pulling their hour long Squadron vertical slice at the last minute. It was bogus and the year-end demo makes that plainly clear. Their year ends in a highly atypical fashion. Prior year-end livestreams traditionally served a real-time comedy of unforced errors aimed at and forgiven by the core faithful. The carelessness and clumsiness was always a selling feature. The stakes were always high, as the year-end fundraising drive was the topping off of the cash tank maneuver that needed to fuel them throughout the slow season, yet you’d never have guessed it from CIG’s bumbling. They never even bothered with technical redundancy or rehearsals. Chris and Sandi didn’t care if they looked stupid or unprepared. Ill-advised though it always was, it conveyed confidence of self. This year was different, very different. Nothing left to chance. A message aimed at a different audience about a game that is not now nor ever has been a meaningful revenue contributor. Why? Why when release is so far away and pre-sales a harder sell with a much lower, fixed per unit yield? What changed, CIG? What’s really behind all these weird deviations from script. It’s hard to fully make sense of what’s afoot but it’s clear something’s different and it looks a lot like fear. G0RF fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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G0RF posted:Maybe the Coutts loan got put to the best use possible — fuel injected demand to keep confidence afloat. The deflation is perceptible externally yet negated via the internally controlled authority of the tracker. Good post. The central question is pertinent: why was this year's livestream so different? It was aimed at a different audience, about a different product, showing footage of each invididual studio, one at a time, as if displaying evidence before it's requested. Backers didn't need to see any of that - they already bought CIG's narrative. Who needed to see this? Once you start thinking along those lines, the last-minute 24-hour delay starts looking more interesting.
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2018 is the year of subtle hype.
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Gosts posted:
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D_Smart posted:Now that Montoya has forced my hand, I'm not going to spend time and resources on a single lawsuit, seeing as I've been working on this for months now. It's a complete mystery how /r/ds just closed up shop. It would be highly amusing if all cig streamers were pulled off the air because of a lawsuit.
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D_Smart posted:Because I know he's going to delete it. to the SPACE COURT! LOL why does everyone who gets offended goes to court? settle it like man-child and do a fist fight!!
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Jan 1, 2018 04:55
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I did not know that citizencon had a photo booth that posted photos online. https://gcphotobooth.smugmug.com/Green-Screen-Events/Citizencon-2014/Citizencon-PhotoBooth-Prints/ Take a look at some very cringeworthy shots. Post your favorites. Here's mine:  We all know Chris immediately snatched that money out of his hand after the photo.
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Tarquinn posted:Hacking in game confirmed! Game's getting better and better! Eat your heart out, goonies!
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"I got yo money!!"
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spacetoaster posted:Here's the full thing: I remember this now. I thought it was sick then too. 
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This album is pretty funny because you can see Chris getting progressively dunk as the night goes on. https://gcphotobooth.smugmug.com/Green-Screen-Events/Citizencon-2014/Citizencon-Green-Screen-Prints/
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Virtual Captain posted:The funding tracker nearly hit 0 for an hour the day the CryTek lawsuit showed up. Backer's open-wallet approach has me coinvinced it could be 100% accurate outside of refunds and the only way to know for sure is full on discovery. surely there must be down time over the past 5 years where there has been 0 income. I cant think of time where it has never been at 0 and just look at any other funding and there is regular down time and spikes of high volume. Here there is a floor that never gets below a certain amount and that is what seems wrong.
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spacetoaster posted:I did not know that citizencon had a photo booth that posted photos online. https://gcphotobooth.smugmug.com/Green-Screen-Events/Citizencon-2014/Citizencon-PhotoBooth-Prints/ If I was in Chris Roberts' position I wouldn't even be able to look backers in the eye, let alone pal around with them like I wasn't tossing their life savings into a furnace. What an rear end.
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Imagine if Coutts, when getting wind of the CryTek lawsuit, and being owners of the Squadron 42 IP, found their loan agreement in jeopardy. Particularly if the value of their collateral was suddenly in question. Such an event would definitely warrant some confidence-building on CIG's part that Coutts' trust and money was not misplaced - perhaps in the form of a holiday video focusing purely on that IP, and displaying evidence of a worldwide programming effort toward its completion. A nice in-game walkthrough of some hallways - paper-thin to real gamers, but convincing to pencil-pushers - completes the look. Of course, if any of that were true, the bank would obviously want to give the video a once-over before allowing CIG to release it to the general public, particularly since it could affect the value of their investment. If knowledge of the broadcast was brought to their attention last-minute, they'd likely request a delay until they could review it. Sometimes you can't release things on their target dates, you understand - bureaucracy, red tape, etc. Finding out last-minute that you aren't approved isn't all that rare. Blaming it on water main breaks, on the other hand, is not so common.
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Wise Learned Man posted:If I was in Chris Roberts' position I wouldn't even be able to look backers in the eye, let alone pal around with them like I wasn't tossing their life savings into a furnace. What an rear end. Doing a google search for citizencon photos is ...pretty strange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOSJIGPLxRE
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EminusSleepus posted:to the SPACE COURT! LOL A thumb fight is more appropriated here.
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spacetoaster posted:"I got yo money!!" was that a BeerGod beer?
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spacetoaster posted:"I got yo money!!" I guess he liked the taste. Beer4TheBeerGod fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I guess he liked the taste. This is why he's mad at you. He loves the beer but every time he drinks it he thinks of you.
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D_Smart posted:
How the gently caress does a company do that, and not get mountains of backlash from everyone licensing poo poo from them?
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TheLastRoboKy posted:This is why he's mad at you. He loves the beer but every time he drinks it he thinks of you. I assume it's because I humiliated his wife and forced him to read a rather unpleasant criticism of his behavior and failings.
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Scruffpuff posted:...If knowledge of the broadcast was brought to their attention last-minute, they'd likely request a delay until they could review it. Sometimes you can't release things on their target dates, you understand - bureaucracy, red tape, etc. Finding out last-minute that you aren't approved isn't all that rare... You mean Chris' work on SQ42 may have been unapproved by Coutts at the last minute?
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