Star Citizen: Death of a Space Thread?

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tuo: Jun 17, 2016

Beet Wagon posted:

Oh, whoops, I forgot to check if it got uploaded.

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aren't gangtags awared for free by the mods in some cases?

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:03

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DapperDon: Sep 7, 2016

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I think all officially recognized "Blocked Buddies" should get it free.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:04

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Beet Wagon posted:

Oh, whoops, I forgot to check if it got uploaded.

Blocked Buddies gangtag is now open for business. Get yours today for the low low price of fivebux:

as the creator and one of the original blockees I think you should replace my killfeed thingy with it

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:05

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

tuo posted:

aren't gangtags awared for free by the mods in some cases?

Sometimes, yes. Usually as a reward for some kind of Very Good Post.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:05

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

tuo posted:

aren't gangtags awared for free by the mods in some cases?

Lowtax is broke

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:05

ZenMaster: Jan 24, 2006; I Saved PC Gaming

ManofManyAliases posted:

What do you think is going to happen with the CryTek/CIG suit?

I... most of the officers at the academy didn't trust me because my mother was a Pilgrim.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:07

tuo: Jun 17, 2016

Beet Wagon posted:

Sometimes, yes. Usually as a reward for some kind of Very Good Post.

Some of those posts made the warlord melt down....I mean, that's a sight to behold

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:10

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

PederP posted:

It can be compared in the sense that XML is very often used when (custom-format) binary data should be used instead. Games should use highly optimized, bespoke, binary formats for almost everything. The fact that CIG has used XML to send mesh data is insane. This isn't data to be shared among applications from different vendors. JSON, XML, etc. can be used in various parts of the production pipeline, but it has no place in run-time data for games. Config files being an exception, as they need to be edited by humans and are not really a performance bottleneck.

This isn't CiG fault so much as this is the poo poo Crytek came up with to use in their engine. Which is why I have no sympathy when this lawsuit destroys them both.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:14

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.

tuo posted:

Some of those posts made the warlord melt down....I mean, that's a sight to behold

To be fair scoring a warlord meltdown is up there with predicting if Seth Meyers is going to discuss Trump on any particular evening.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:14

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

Dusty Lens posted:

To be fair scoring a warlord meltdown is up there with predicting if Seth Meyers is going to discuss Trump on any particular evening.

Getting a double inverse uber troll against him is always worthy, imo.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:16

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

lowtax needs money

e: hell yeah

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:17

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.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Getting a double inverse uber troll against him is always worthy, imo.

Well yeah for sure among us there are legends.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:18

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

fun fact - dogs can't look up.

Counter Point:

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:21

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W86cTIoMv2U

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:26

iospace: Jan 19, 2038

https://i.imgur.com/yd3y6dn.mp4

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:29

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

Lladre posted:

Counter Point:

I love that pup

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:29

monkeytek: Jun 8, 2010; It wasn't an ELE that wiped out the backer funds. It was Tristan Timothy Taylor.

Hav posted:

<Leans forward and knocks out his pipe on his boot>

Usenet was really the wild west in it's day. Mainly because there was no perceived etiquette, and secondly that we'd gone from a relatively Nerdy enclave before the summer that never ended spewed Aol users through the BOOTP gateway. On the one hand, 'me too' chains had a completely different resonance, and on the other hand it was a fertile ground of absolute insanity to cross and poo poo post your way through. There was an ebb and flow of nearly hundreds of accounts, and you could draw people into some crazy, crazy poo poo.

The trick is to be detached. Don't take it personally. If you do find yourself taking it personally, walk away and do something that makes you happy. it's one of the reasons I don't really engage with Citizens, because at least three of the boosters are career trolls. The rest of the shitheads on the internet are the bored tween coming into his first bloom of manhood before saying the wrong thing and getting the first slap; the internet makes it easier for this variant of shitlord to flourish, right up until they overstep the line and someone gets hurt.

It's easier if you're using a persona to do this. As a real person, I wouldn't engage. One of the things I learned in those usenet years was that the supply of idiots was inexhaustible, and it's not the one that are out for the fun of denigrating someone else, but those that have _nothing else_ to do than denigrate other people. We're hitting peak societal penetration of the internet, which means the whole thing is becoming an interesting projection of the human Id.

My most successful tactic in the old usenet days was to identify the one thing they have an irrational attachment to/belief in and then go to town. In the case of these shitizens the thing that drives them into uncontrollable rages is the fact "you" are taking money from "their" dream. The money is no longer yours you have no right to it.

I'd build on that to the point of pondering that maybe my money had already been used so perhaps I received the money they "donated" maybe get into theoretical situations where that money was so desperately needed, how I withdrew said currency in singles and am now rubbing them all over my body, etc. The resulting sperging would be well worth their vitriol.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:32

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

Chalks posted:

That clause also says they can't use any competing engine for a two year period after termination, so can you explain how the circumstances of the termination would affect this clause?

Also interested in which termination clause you think they used.

Lumberyard isn't a competing engine though.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:35

D_Smart: May 11, 2010; by FactsAreUseless; College Slice

ManofManyAliases posted:

We don't know the circumstances of the termination (if any, and if it was done properly), so we can't say otherwise right now.

GTFO. There was no termination or it would have been in the CIG response.

And CIG never - ever - claimed anything of the sort. They basically said they stopped using the engine. That's it. The End.

That aside from the fact that NOTHING in the GLA gives CIG or Crytek ANY "at will" termination option.

Jeez man, don't you ever get anything right?

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Streetroller: Jun 11, 2016

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:37

D_Smart: May 11, 2010; by FactsAreUseless; College Slice

Dusty Lens posted:

That's like paying for a parking spot at work.

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# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:37

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.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:39

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

Beet Wagon posted:

Sometimes, yes. Usually as a reward for some kind of Very Good Post.

So much for free then.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:40

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

Street, I love you buddy, but you're coming dangerously close to appearing to care about something on the internet. Abandon the youtube comments, there are only ghouls there.

Seriously, just post videos and never read the comments - it'll make them furious to know their shots didn't land.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:41

ManofManyAliases: Mar 21, 2016; ToastOfManySmarts

Can't post for 3 hours!

Chalks posted:

That clause also says they can't use any competing engine for a two year period after termination, so can you explain how the circumstances of the termination would affect this clause?

Also interested in which termination clause you think they used.

If they are utilizing LY, and Amazon purchased a full license and right to sub license from CryTek, how is that a competing engine? I read that as UE4, Unity, etc...

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:43

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

It's a game engine that CryTek doesn't receive any money for someone using, of course LY is a competitor. Don't be ridiculous.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:45

Jobbo_Fett: Mar 7, 2014; Slava Ukrayini; Clapping Larry

ManofManyAliases posted:

If they are utilizing LY, and Amazon purchased a full license and right to sub license from CryTek, how is that a competing engine? I read that as UE4, Unity, etc...

"Amazon Lumberyard

Amazon Lumberyard�is a free�cross-platform�triple-A�game engine�developed by�Amazon�and based on the architecture of�CryEngine, which was licensed from�Crytek�in 2015."

So its based on CryEngine source code, which means that CIG either violated their engine agreement by using a different engine then the one they agreed on or they openly displayed CryEngine source code via bugsmashers, another contract violation.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:46

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

Lladre posted:

Lumberyard isn't a competing engine though.

Of course it's a competing engine. Amazon bought full rights to the engine, everything short of actually buying it outright, makes it available under a different name, and is heavily modifying it. It's legally a different engine.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:50

TheAgent: Feb 16, 2002; The call is coming from inside Dr. House; Grimey Drawer

The Titanic posted:

A strip club for lunch? Uhhh.. what�d you... eat?

sushi

no this isn't a joke, it was p good

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:50

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

ManofManyAliases posted:

If they are utilizing LY, and Amazon purchased a full license and right to sub license from CryTek, how is that a competing engine? I read that as UE4, Unity, etc...

Don't be willfully dumb.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:51

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

*CIG abandons CryEngine and its services and switches to Lumberyard*

MoMA: I don't understand how people could think of Lumberyard as a competing engine to CryEngine though.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:53

Brazilianpeanutwar: Aug 27, 2015; Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

Lladre posted:

Counter Point:

That's clearly not a dog,it's a small monkey in a suit.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:54

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.

TheAgent posted:

sushi

no this isn't a joke, it was p good

Gosh darn I could really go for some calamari.

Moma are you saying that if you bang your wife's twin sister it's not cheating or if you bang someone else in your marital bed it's not cheating.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:55

AlbieQuirky: Oct 9, 2012; Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

monkeytek posted:

My most successful tactic in the old usenet days was to identify the one thing they have an irrational attachment to/belief in and then go to town.

People who threatened to sue me over Usenet postings: Edmond H. "Pantyhead" Wollmann, SOLLOG, that Bob Dylan lady, Ray Gordon

People who actually did sue me over Usenet postings: Ray Gordon (fortunately, Google's lawyers dealt with him on all of our behalf)

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:56

zcrow: May 6, 2014; Ah.. yeah... um... tup tup tup tup tup.. this is something we'll add down the line

Dusty Lens posted:

Moma
bang

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:57

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

XK posted:

Of course it's a competing engine. Amazon bought full rights to the engine, everything short of actually buying it outright, makes it available under a different name, and is heavily modifying it. It's legally a different engine.

You of all people shouldn't be reading my post as serious. :justpost:

# ? Jan 12, 2018 17:58

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.

zcrow posted:

Discussing a hypothetical game allows for fantasies beyond count.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 18:00

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

When dealing with Sammie it helps to use a rhyme to remember.
Righty sight-y, lefty loss-y.

_{Cause he's blind in the one eye.}

# ? Jan 12, 2018 18:01

Toops: Nov 5, 2015; -find mood stabilizers
-also,

tuo posted:

aren't gangtags awared for free by the mods in some cases?

I think I deserve a blocked buddies tag even though I was eventually unblocked, since it was my scurrilous quoting of a blocked rear end-clown that started this whole mess.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 18:02

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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

Lladre posted:

You of all people shouldn't be reading my post as serious.

I do it for the audience. Some people actually believe that argument.

# ? Jan 12, 2018 18:02

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