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Mr.Tophat posted:"The only jerk around here...is you!" I say as I re-enact that scene from a bug's life where all the acorns join arms to take on Hopper and pals expect instead of joining arms with acorns it's every post I've made about Star Citizen and Hopper is Derek and then the moderator bird almost kills me and my posts Now do the scene at the end of Antz where General Mandible shouts that he's the colony. 
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SoftNum posted:Also I'm sick of this whole "Companies get sued all the time by people without a case." It is some sort of right-wing hard on fiction. Sure, you might settle if you think you can get a better deal than the court, but few actually-meritless suits get filed. There is some degree of truth there. Big companies can be big targets for people. The problem here though is that it’s not some random dudes. It’s the builders of your original pitch demo, and the owners of your engine you’ve built your product on, a coming at you because you broke a lot of legally binding agreements that you yourself agreed to in conjunction with them. I guess if you squint a lot and look at it through your rose colored Star Citizen glasses, it’s totally just some random dude coming after CIG without any basis at all.
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Jan 4, 2018 02:37
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ZenMaster posted:Who knows cat breeds? If I were to get one for a niece about 13 year old (with permission), what breed should I get? Need it to be playful and smart, but no tearing up stuff and biting and being a general turd in life. Uh... a not-cat? Oh! I know! One of those kitty tamogatchis! Or a stuffed animal cat!
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SoftNum posted:Also I'm sick of this whole "Companies get sued all the time by people without a case." It is some sort of right-wing hard on fiction. Sure, you might settle if you think you can get a better deal than the court, but few actually-meritless suits get filed. They really do, it's just usually patent trolling that's settled because it's cheaper than fighting it which is like saying "we have a problem with car thefts so this murder is probably a bullshit nothingburger"
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Dusty Lens posted:Now do the scene at the end of Antz where General Mandible shouts that he's the colony. Sorry I didn't watch Antz enough to really do this but "Do you like jazz?" General Mandible asks only instead of jazz it's blogs and instead of General Mandible it's Derek and then he delivers the line and then a lawsuit happens and then the honey (game) is never released to anyone ever again
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Jan 4, 2018 02:43
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alphabettitouretti posted:Add those stupid glasses and the Willy Wonka costume is complete.
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D_Smart posted:Are you skipping pages or something? The amended complaint gives them another 14 days to respond. Like, literally loving Two Weeks Somewhere, a law writer who wrote the book and is a fan of this thread is shaking his fists and giggling “This is my moment! Then long con is finally here!”
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thatguy posted:I remember years ago when Sandi wore that same wig and I made the same joke by Photoshopping her as Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka.  https://www.instagram.com/p/BdP_tq-hbUS/ Even has the dumb little black triangles.
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It's me, I am hammering [would you like to know more?]
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Mr.Tophat posted:A plague of comedy gives rise to strange hangers on and bedfellows, the entourage of the warlord's impressive bluster and blogbespoke war treasury that gives gleam to goons who have fallen for such allures, those who place their independent banners upon separate hills to die upon, those who merely chew at the cud and stare on at the grand field conflict to unfold...perhaps unwitting to the tragedy to play out. All are merely actors upon this inexplainable stage, this setting demands to be experienced to be understood. One with wisdom, if not poise, might pivot one's understanding to the gravity of the drama that unfolds to appreciate this to its full extent. Alas, all reports and details are not yet quite comprehensive, for history is written by the victors, and there is no absolute winner to ascribe such events their place in history just yet. Just predictions, calls, and sonorous echos of parlaying tribes. 
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Bootcha posted:Now, there's a find, thank yooooooooooooou. Really interesting and depressing that he used SWTOR as an example of "success". I guess this really goes to show the difference between "Good Game" and "Good Product". While they may have been turning money (from loot boxes that were random, shady, and essentially the sole source of new armor models), the game continued to dwindle and die in terms of playerbase and non-microtransaction content. It's a shame because SWTOR had some really incredible story elements, the full voice acting, etc. God I hate seeing what this industry has turned into. I mean I get that it's a business, but it just sucks. Games used to feel like a development team put their heart and soul into it. Now they all feel like a Marketing Team put their heart and soul into it.
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How much do people here think that Shitizens will start trying to harass or "explain the truth of Star Citizen" to the judge of this case once it starts going?
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It saddens me that we'll never see Crobberts testify in court. Fucker's going to become the Dork Lord of the Fifth the instant he gets on the stand.
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Stupid question... If you were a SC backer and were asked to sit on the jury, would you have to make this known, and would it prevent you from participating?
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CrazyTolradi posted:How much do people here think that Shitizens will start trying to harass or "explain the truth of Star Citizen" to the judge of this case once it starts going? You know what? I never thought of that as a possibility and it is going to be the most hysterical thing ever when some sperg goes over the line and contacts the Judge directly with a full dose of Stimpire.txt and gets made an example of. This loving ride just keeps on going.
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In other news. 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 2017-12-29 $143,248 2017-12-30 $128,102 2017-12-31 $135,254 2018-01-01 $105,806 2018-01-02 $108,695 2018-01-03 $100,408 Total : $1.76M with 12 more days to go. If TheAgent is correct, this looks like an amortized 2M dump starting from the 22/23rd of Dec.  Phi230 EminusSleepus Lack of Gravitas Sarsapariller Drunk Theory Mr Fronts Quinntan Thirsty Dog VealCutlet Golli
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ZenMaster posted:Who knows cat breeds? If I were to get one for a niece about 13 year old (with permission), what breed should I get? Need it to be playful and smart, but no tearing up stuff and biting and being a general turd in life. 
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DapperDon posted:You know what? I never thought of that as a possibility and it is going to be the most hysterical thing ever when some sperg goes over the line and contacts the Judge directly with a full dose of Stimpire.txt and gets made an example of. This loving ride just keeps on going. I can honestly see a few of the more invested crazies like Tarka getting into their heads that, if only the judge could understand just what Star Citizen is, this case would be dismissed in an instant.
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DapperDon posted:You know what? I never thought of that as a possibility and it is going to be the most hysterical thing ever when some sperg goes over the line and contacts the Judge directly with a full dose of Stimpire.txt and gets made an example of. This loving ride just keeps on going. I can't wait until they start accusing federal judges of doxxing.
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reverend crabhands posted:Stupid question... If they asked you the question when in the box, then yes. And both sides would be stupid to not ask it. Along with the usual ones if you have friends/family members that are in law enforcement, etc. A simple "Are you aware of who Chris Roberts is?" would be enough. Combine that with a questionnaire that can come back to haunt you. Granted civil jury trials are quite a different beast compared to criminal ones, but I sort of weep on how most folks approach the matters at hand.
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reverend crabhands posted:Stupid question... Preface: I don't know poo poo from shinola You would be required to disclose financial investment or a bias in favor of one side or the other during the initial jury selection phase. This is the phase during which bias or relationship that would sway your decision beyond the information presented during the trial should be expressed. Usually to the judge, possibly to the attorneys. Though attorney selection of jury takes place in the followup phase. Postface: Don't use the doorknobs in my house
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no_recall posted:In other news. Oh, so you extended the sale/guessing game. I thought you were pinching this turd off on 12/31.
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how could any of us anticipate cig would sell swamp land futures to make da money this year.
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Colostomy Bag posted:If they asked you the question when in the box, then yes. And both sides would be stupid to not ask it. Along with the usual ones if you have friends/family members that are in law enforcement, etc. A simple "Are you aware of who Chris Roberts is?" would be enough. Combine that with a questionnaire that can come back to haunt you. Judge: do you know who Derek Smart is? *potential juror begins foaming at the mouth * Judge: the juror is dismissed
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Jst0rm posted:how could any of us anticipate cig would sell swamp land futures to make da money this year.
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What are the odds the Derek has contacted Skadden trying to get his name into the case somehow?
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thatguy posted:I remember years ago when Sandi wore that same wig and I made the same joke by Photoshopping her as Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. Say no more fam.  
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big nipples big life posted:What are the odds the Derek has contacted Skadden trying to get his name into the case somehow? Slightly lower than the odds that it will be heavily implied that he was contacted by them.
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Dusty Lens posted:Slightly lower than the odds that it will be heavily implied that he was contacted by them. so 99.9% then
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Colostomy Bag posted:Oh, so you extended the sale/guessing game. I thought you were pinching this turd off on 12/31. I'll prolly have 2 winners, surprises galore. At least its better than Star Citizen (The Game).
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Also its fun to see "consumer sentiments" depending on the lawsuit, if it does dent their fudtracker.
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To be fair CIG's pixel scientists did find a way to keep the normal two week sale production schedule running for a quarter of the year. We laughed them off as frauds and now we're paying the fool's price.
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Also now that 3.0 is out, will we see the Hull Series ship get primed for debut? I mean all that cargo isn't going to haul itself, right?
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Jonny Nox posted:So is subsumption supposed to be code for magick? It's like some of these people have a child's perception about what goes into even a simple decision. So the funny thing about seeing commandos pinning so many hopes on subsumption, while claiming SC is never-done-before cutting edge stuff, is that subsumption is something I first learned about during an undergrad robotics project course. That was about 20 years ago. And it had already been around for some time when I read about it, because it wasn’t new material you had to scour just-published papers for, it was in the class textbook. Subsumption AI research was about building swarms of individually-stupid micro-robots that would collaborate to accomplish some slightly complex task by mimicing a computer scientist’s understanding of how individual ants work together in an ant colony. Each ant-bot was programmed with a set of several primitive, simple behaviors. The idea is that only one of those canned behaviors gets to control the bot at a time; selection of the active behavior loop was determined by sensory feedback and comm messages from other nearby bots. Inactive behaviors are ‘subsumed’ beneath the active one, hence the name. They used this concept to successfully do things vaguely similar to an ant colony. Let the worker bots roam free in a little environment, and some of them would fall into gathering behaviors to move “food” (crumpled up balls of aluminum foil) to a staging area while others settled into moving it from the staging area into the “nest” for storage. Stuff like that. The theme was trying to make simple individual rules create more complex, emergent herd behavior, and it was all MIT Media Lab as gently caress, that being the lab which invented it. For those not in the know, MIT’s Media Lab is an academic compsci research lab which gets a disproportionate amount of publicity and funding due to a combo of friends in very high places and a focus on doing wacky, press friendly things. So that’s the revolutionary AI tech which is going to make SC NPCs behave in a super fidelitous lifelike fashion: something invented a quarter century ago as a crude way of emulating ant brains. But not real ant brains, ant brains as understood by a bunch of compsci grad students and/or profs whose grasp of insect behavior was probably poor. And (so far as I can tell) this super advanced thing has not seen much use outside of pie in the sky academic research, because most real world robots are automated welders and CNC milling machines which just need to mindlessly repeat a control program over and over. On that last point, don’t get me wrong. It’s cool and good to spend a little bit of society’s wealth on goofy stuff that has no immediate use irl, and you are always going to have to accept that some of it won’t have any use ever because it’s tricky to figure out which is which ahead of time. It’s just - lol no, cultists, subsumption is not gonna make the game good (or a game). It’s not the right way to make NPCs behave like people, or in a way that is fun to interact with. It’s also easy to guess how this idea became a big thing at CIG. Junior grade AI programmer is told to figure out how to make lifelike NPCs, finds this One Weird Trick that seems to make cool stuff happen out of extremely simple base rules, doesn’t realize that maybe it’s not quite so easy to make it generate convincing human behavior or that those apparently simple rules may have needed a ton of tweaking to get right, sells it to Chris, and pretty soon it’s on the list of gee whiz material used to milk whales.
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