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exploded mummy posted:most if my co-workers aren't bad about bubble stuff except for the one dude who spent tens of thousands of dollars on star citizen and more recently took out ten thousand dollars in credit card debt so he can mine bitcoin i've really been avoiding the whole star citizen thing, so forgive my ignorance, but what are people dumping money into this game for? Did this dude's ten grand go towards dev costs, or is he buying in-game soylent or some poo poo?
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Jan 26, 2018 18:06
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President Beep posted:i've really been avoiding the whole star citizen thing, so forgive my ignorance, but what are people dumping money into this game for? Did this dude's ten grand go towards dev costs, or is he buying in-game soylent or some poo poo? video game space ships
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President Beep posted:i've really been avoiding the whole star citizen thing, so forgive my ignorance, but what are people dumping money into this game for? Did this dude's ten grand go towards dev costs, or is he buying in-game soylent or some poo poo? You buy pictures of starships and one day* you can fly them around in space or sell your virtual nonexistent spaceships to other suckers *- eta: heat death of the universe
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Jan 26, 2018 18:08
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graph posted:video game space ships  exploded mummy posted:You buy pictures of starships
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Jan 26, 2018 18:09
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President Beep posted:i've really been avoiding the whole star citizen thing, so forgive my ignorance, but what are people dumping money into this game for? Did this dude's ten grand go towards dev costs, or is he buying in-game soylent or some poo poo? chris roberts made a popular video game series about a million years ago so now people are sending him money for cocaine and a promise of my_spaceship.jpg appearing in a game vastly less practical than a daikatana-no mans sky merger, and infinitely less likely to be released in any form
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Jan 26, 2018 18:10
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so is there even a video game you can play yet or is it like a tech demo still
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Lysidas posted:it must be very interesting and disturbing to work with uncanny-valley-type caricatures of real human beings this guy came in with a group of like, 3 other hires (including our new CTO) that all came from the same company and they're all like this. apparently that company "took off and became a unicorn" though i never bothered to find out what it was, so i guess the process of doing that melts people's brains
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Jan 26, 2018 18:14
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cool startup feel posted:so is there even a video game you can play yet or is it like a tech demo still there's like 3 disjoint, incomplete videogames you can play that amount to the kind of stuff you'd expect to be on the meh section of steam for like $10
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cool startup feel posted:so is there even a video game you can play yet or is it like a tech demo still lol
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cool startup feel posted:so is there even a video game you can play yet or is it like a tech demo still i think there are some woefully lacking demos, but i try not to focus on it, since this entire internet drama has been going on so long that both sides have degenerated into poop flinging monkeys
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ate all the Oreos posted:there's like 3 disjoint, incomplete videogames you can play that amount to the kind of stuff you'd expect to be on the meh section of steam for like $10 they're also getting sued by the company they licensed the engine from because the contract and payment were for only 1 game
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Jan 26, 2018 18:23
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exploded mummy posted:most if my co-workers aren't bad about bubble stuff except for the one dude who spent tens of thousands of dollars on star citizen and more recently took out ten thousand dollars in credit card debt so he can mine bitcoin  jesus
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seriously. that's not something a mentally healthy person does. it sounds like a gambling addiction or some poo poo.
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exploded mummy posted:i think there are some woefully lacking demos, but i try not to focus on it, since this entire internet drama has been going on so long that both sides have degenerated into poop flinging monkeys there’s a star citizen brokebrain who’s also a bitcoiner that posts in the bitcoin thread here he’s been permabanned and by my count has reregged over 20 times since then e: 30 times H.P. Hovercraft fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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Jan 26, 2018 18:26
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President Beep posted:seriously. that's not something a mentally healthy person does. it sounds like a gambling addiction or some poo poo. probably cheaper than flyff that poor guy
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Jan 26, 2018 18:27
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President Beep posted:seriously. that's not something a mentally healthy person does. it sounds like a gambling addiction or some poo poo. actually, they're way smarter than you
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Jan 26, 2018 18:28
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graph posted:actually, they're way smarter than you 
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Jan 26, 2018 18:29
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President Beep posted:seriously. that's not something a mentally healthy person does. it sounds like a gambling addiction or some poo poo. did i mention that he's on his third wife
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Jan 26, 2018 18:34
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don't forget that star citizen spent a bunch of money to pay gary oldman so they could put him in the game and then he yanked the rights to his likeness after he saw what they were doing with it. that's how we have 
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exploded mummy posted:did i mention that he's on his third wife he's found three people willing to marry him??? 
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Jan 26, 2018 18:39
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Mr. Nice! posted:don't forget that star citizen spent a bunch of money to pay gary oldman so they could put him in the game and then he yanked the rights to his likeness after he saw what they were doing with it. wait what this sounds hilarious please tell me more
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Jan 26, 2018 18:48
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President Beep posted:he's found three people willing to marry him??? his kid convinced him to bitcoin mine
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Jan 26, 2018 18:50
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exploded mummy posted:his kid convinced him to bitcoin mine lol. that's perfect.
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wouldn’t be surprised if he had little to do with the bitcoin stuff and might not even have access anymore
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:there’s a star citizen brokebrain who’s also a bitcoiner that posts in the bitcoin thread here someone did a little checking and discovered that the picture was the #1 google image result for "girlfriend"
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Mr. Nice! posted:don't forget that star citizen spent a bunch of money to pay gary oldman so they could put him in the game and then he yanked the rights to his likeness after he saw what they were doing with it. why would you pay for gary oldman's likeness of all people, he's so good at completely disappearing into whatever character he's playing he barely even has a likeness 
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FMguru posted:he bragged on having a hot girlfriend (unlike all his permavirgin critics) and posted a picture of her to prove it didn’t he also stick his star citizenship card or w/e in his asscrack and claim that was his gf’s butt
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ate all the Oreos posted:why would you pay for gary oldman's likeness of all people, he's so good at completely disappearing into whatever character he's playing he barely even has a likeness
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Jan 26, 2018 19:38
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imagine if we traded money with the expectation that money is gunna go up with no other purpose for ownership other than its gunna go up lmao at everything
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Jan 26, 2018 19:40
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President Beep posted:i would do this for real. A friend's boss literally does this, commuting in his Cessna from somewhere down near Monterey to San Jose.
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having to get somewhere at a certain time is a good way to get killed in general aviation luckily there isn’t much weather in the area I guess
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:didn’t he also stick his star citizenship card or w/e in his asscrack and claim that was his gf’s butt he's also a sex weird according to fishmech who is never wrong
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isn't there some weird lil suburb around Sacramento or somewhere where there's an airstrip and all the streets are technically taxi ways and instead of garages people have little hangars?
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hobbesmaster posted:having to get somewhere at a certain time is a good way to get killed in general aviation bosses dont "have to" be anywhere at any time
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