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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
https://twitter.com/discolando/status/957036870700957696

Gold armour? Is this some concierge thing I missed?

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Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao
https://i.imgur.com/E1zhfDW.gifv

EminusSleepus
Sep 28, 2015


succubus at its finest

Pixelate
Jan 6, 2018

"You win by having fun"
I've transcribed Crobert's mind during that interview:

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

EminusSleepus posted:

succubus at its finest


the succubest saleswoman ever since she was a little girl

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:

Kind of like how the original ships like the Origin 300i or whatever was supposed to be like a great BMW in space and the other ships were amazing.

To be fair an old classic, the Super Hornet, was their best seller for a very, very long time running. They've probably sold thousands of the things without a clear upgrade path and as a result spent a fair bit of time wondering how they could get all of those people squatting on their super fighter to drop another $80.

Yup.

IncredibleIgloo
Feb 17, 2011






I would crowdfund this

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.

Moxxis Endowment
Dec 11, 2017

by Nyc_Tattoo
Mmm-yeah baby, talk uterectomy to me.

IncredibleIgloo
Feb 17, 2011





The real tragedy to this is that when everything folds we will never get a sequel to find out what happens next in the Stimpire.

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.

IncredibleIgloo posted:

The real tragedy to this is that when everything folds we will never get a sequel to find out what happens next in the Stimpire.

The heartbreaking truth

G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/discolando/status/957036870700957696

Gold armour? Is this some concierge thing I missed?

It’s got class out the rear end.

And yet...




That’s next level Open Development. Wow.

G0RF fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jan 27, 2018

MilesK
Nov 5, 2015

G0RF posted:

He got the full Ladyman goodbye package, with CIG’s marketing might being bent to promote his GoFundMe salvage operation for cultural detritus. At least Ladyman put a game out.

What's the Ladyman goodbye package? Doesn't he still publish that stupid CIG magazine?

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat
Posting on page 3600

G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

MilesK posted:

What's the Ladyman goodbye package? Doesn't he still publish that stupid CIG magazine?

Maybe we should call it the Wingman Salute.Basically it’s when certain Friends of Chris launch separate ventures and get their exits (or switch to part time roles) boosted vis the full force of CIG marketing efforts.

Ladyman has Star Traders (promoted by CIG and Batgirl)
Wingman’s Descent reboot got Chris’s endorsement and (I believe) some cig marketing pushes
Ben got his garbage collection project juiced by CIG

The details of Ladyman’s situation are just assumed by me. I think he still does Jump Point on contract. I mean, who knows, maybe Ben’s not really done either. It looks like it externally but I don’t think we have hard confirmations. He could be on salary yet tucked in a corner, scanning away. The work is very important.

But if CIG needs to lower costs or otherwise get someone out, there are a lot of people he might want to take care of in some way that doesn’t sting. Endorsing their outside projects and directing the loyalists like Cliff to throw money that direction seem like a very good way to do that.

Propagandist
Oct 23, 2007


holy poo poo what

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Propagandist posted:

holy poo poo what

It seems the laughs are already over, sadly:

tuo
Jun 17, 2016

Foo Diddley posted:

It seems the laughs are already over, sadly:



This is such a loving big security fuckup...I mean, not only are the credentials all over their logfiles in plaintext, if you click an outgoing link (don't know how many are there on the RSI website), you basically send them to third parties as well. Goddamn CIG/Turbulent...

PS: so is Bootcha dead? :ohdear:

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

Turbulent must be so busy building Squadron 42 sizzle reels they don't have anyone competent left to keep up appearances as "just CIG's website people".

tuo
Jun 17, 2016

That's what happens when you "layer on the jQuery", gently caress that up, and forgot to correctly setup the <form /> in the first place. Submit-event is not handled due to JS error (thus for example an AJAX POST request that normally handles the form is not executed), <form /> is not set to POST, bam....form data in the URL. This is so incredibly CIG-like, it's impressive it comes from a third party actually.

I mean, this poo poo can happen because it's a small oversight, but normally a IDE screams at you in the security audit a couple times for <form />s which are still transmitting data via GET instead of POST. Of course, it should also never make it to a live site, because you normally check a site with JS off for such flaws....but I guess Turbulent got infected by CIG QA.

Nebiros
Apr 25, 2013

The scarf is nice.
I've been skimming this shitshow, when is the next (non-balls related) legal thing happen?

Combat Theory
Jul 16, 2017

Nebiros posted:

I've been skimming this shitshow, when is the next (non-balls related) legal thing happen?

9th of Feb

then the judge decides about the motion to dismiss

Toops
Nov 5, 2015

-find mood stabilizers
-also,

Colostomy Bag posted:

Reached peak analogy with DeLorean.

1) Used car dealer
2) Eh, drug use
3) Underpowered engine

It's a real grower, this analogy.

SPERMCUBE.ORG
Nov 3, 2011

Space commies are th' biggest threat t' red-blooded American Freedom we got in th' future. So me and my boys got to talking over a few hot dogs the other day and this is what we came up with...

The Titanic posted:

I think SC is one of the first games where the original stuff is old and broken before the game itself actually ever comes out.

Star Citizen: Where the game is made up but the mudflation's real

AbstractNapper
Jun 5, 2011

I can help

I know they hot-fixed it now, but that will do for my weekly laughs from CIG's how-much-worse-can-it-get poo poo show.

That will definitely do.

tuo
Jun 17, 2016

AbstractNapper posted:

I know they hot-fixed it now, but that will do for my weekly laughs from CIG's how-much-worse-can-it-get poo poo show.

That will definitely do.

"But the url bar says it's secure!"

Tortolia
Dec 29, 2005

Hindustan Electronics Employee of the Month, July 2008
Grimey Drawer

trucutru posted:

Which reminds me the new monster hunter game should be out by now.

It is quite fun! You get to create a cat buddy with realistic enough meows to cause actual confusion and concern in real cats, then hunt monsters. Like the title implies. It's very entertaining and silly in a good way, unlike Star Citizen, which has rolled over from entertaining and silly to horribly sad and embarrassing.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

intardnation posted:

I would love a bug eb 110 gt for me

or there was only one thing that I could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

Ferrari F355 Spider.


I got the need... The Need for Speed (II: HOT PURSUIT)

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Only CIG can take a perfectly functional website and make it somehow worse with a revamp

Streetroller
Jun 11, 2016

tuo posted:

That's what happens when you "layer on the jQuery", gently caress that up, and forgot to correctly setup the <form /> in the first place. Submit-event is not handled due to JS error (thus for example an AJAX POST request that normally handles the form is not executed), <form /> is not set to POST, bam....form data in the URL. This is so incredibly CIG-like, it's impressive it comes from a third party actually.

I mean, this poo poo can happen because it's a small oversight, but normally a IDE screams at you in the security audit a couple times for <form />s which are still transmitting data via GET instead of POST. Of course, it should also never make it to a live site, because you normally check a site with JS off for such flaws....but I guess Turbulent got infected by CIG QA.

Uhhh.
Hate to jump in but this is kinda a specialty of mine.

Login requests through JQuery should be sent through some kind of internal secure api via a post script.
(honestly, who writes in plain JQuery anymore anyway? Sheesh)
Even if You're trying to be backward compatible for say Netscape Navigator with a <form /> tag, there literally should be no event in which form data shows up in an address line.
Unless you do something like a hotlink to a php page with form data in the address line such as:
php:
<?
<a href="reallyBadFormExample.php?Param_A=[a]&Param_B=[b]" />?>
This is like... a high-schooler's approach to param handling. It's almost intentional.
(*Okay, guess you could do a Get request... but who the gently caress puts a get request on a form?)
Hey, CIG... CHECK THIS OUT https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

Streetroller fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jan 27, 2018

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Streetroller posted:

Star Citizen: It's almost intentional.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

But people have been saying Turbulent are the competent ones.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

SelenicMartian posted:

But people have been saying Turbulent are the competent ones.

Well, all is relative isn't it?

Anyways, the year is starting strong. Can't wait to see those quarterly patches.

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao
https://i.imgur.com/OwLGym8.gifv

Experimental Skin
Apr 16, 2016

SelenicMartian posted:

But people have been saying Turbulent are the competent ones.

Are Turbulent still involved though? Rumor abounds.

MedicineHut
Feb 25, 2016

Let´s take a step back for a moment and look at 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GUDQuFb1A&t=5522s

MedicineHut fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Jan 27, 2018

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

MedicineHut posted:

Let´s take a step back for a moment and look at 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1GUDQuFb1A&t=5522s

So? If the backers had not voted to extend the scope of the game then CIG would have delivered that.

Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




https://vimeo.com/245648277/494546358c
2 months ago.
still stuff to be done. engineering is unfinished, powerplants is unfinished, missile rooms are unfinished. Theres lots of stuff to be done in idris. Remember this was supposed to be 1 room from completion in november 2016.

SomethingJones posted:

Reverse The Verse Jan 26 2018
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/222623015?t=44m32s

@44:32


Q:
We just released a public roadmap for Star Citizen, will there be a roadmap for Squadron 42 at some point?

Chris Roberts:
There will be at some point in the future.

So um, it, you know, ss... sss... Squadron's... a little different because, ah, we're not so... we're not doing our quarterly releases... but I still wanna... I... but we are managing it exactly the same way... the roa... the THING that's really COOL about the ROADMAP, and... I know I saw some discussion where people were like, 'Hey! What about THIS and what about THIS?', ah... but DON'T WORRY there's a lot of STUFF that... it... still needs to...

But there... there... the... yeah, you know the whole season's definitely in pro... the only reason why it wasn't put in as a task there is because there is a TECHNICAL ISSUE with the INTERIOR GRIDS because the whole scene CONTRACTS and then EXPANDS and 100% the art's finished, it's GOING to be in the game, ah... but... ah, the sca... the BIT where we were CONTRACTING, I explained the INTERIOR GRID which isn't like 'we don't know how to do it', or it's, you know, a YEAR task or anything, it's not... at all

It just doesn't have a RESOURCE currently assigned to DO THAT so... they didn't want to EXPOSE that EPIC on the ROADMAP until, ah, they had that and it was done

So that's kinda what's happening right now is that we've switched our development methodology to be a much... especially on Star Citizen... ahm, to be... sort of more DAY DRIVEN but we've also switched how we're running the teams INTERNALLY, ah... to be much more AGILE team based so... before we were more PIPELINE based, programmers had a list of all the things they were working on, the designers had a list of things THEY were working on, artists and...

I mean we still have some pipeline aspects like the SHIPS, you know, WEAPONS, CHARACTERS... still pretty much a PIPELINE... but in terms of FEATURE development we've CHANGED IT AROUND so we're building AGILE teams where you have, you know, the ENGINEER and the DESIGNER and the ARTISTS that will be supporting us helping that... ah, all sort of EMBEDDED together working on the FEATURE

And, ah... that is... fair amount... it's fairly different that how we were doing it previously where a lot of it was... you know... the ENGINEER was given... you know... we had a TDD, here's an attachment from ENGINEERING, they would go and WORK IT, here's the things DESIGN needs to do once we get ENGINEERING here's the thing we need from the ARTISTS

There would... you know... there's COMMUNICATION and FRICTION that happens in that, so this is much more about having the sort of, kind of small team AGILE STYLE working

So but that does mean that we have to ah, we... ah... we CHANGE how we're utilising JIRA which is our project management TASK TOOL that we use... ah, from sort of... a more... ss... more... ah, you know... a bit, set up more like a PIPELINE, especially for the ENGINEERING DESIGN... to more the sort of TEAM TASK user story based which is where we're going to

Now we did a LITTLE bit of it last year, uh... towards the end, ah... but now we're doing it... CROSS... it's gonna be EXACTLY THE SAME for EVERY SINGLE STUDIO across the COMPANY, ah, and we've... everyone's... you know... fully on board with that, we have all our senior production over right now in the UK, ah... I think they'll be in Germany next week, ah we're working... we're working on finishing it out

And the IDEA is that we ss... we... cos we... you know, UPDATING the... the ROADMAP like we did for 3.0 every FRIDAY was always just... a BIG SONG AND DANCE because we had things in JIRA but were displaying them this OTHER WAY then there was the LONGER TERM ROADMAP had so much stuff in it that the PRODUCTION was so busy doing other stuff that they didn't really have the time to maintain it so it totally got OUT OF DATE

So they were updating the stuff that was for, ah... 3.0 but not later and it just... it just was... it was a lot of extra work

So we decided we wanted to expose essentially OUR project management software, the JIRA software stuff to the WEBSITE so TURBULENT built that whole roadmap TOOL, it basically takes it via the JIRA roadmap and we have settings inside our EPICS where we can say this is a PUBLIC EPIC, ah... and then we can put user facing descriptions, we can even add USER PICTURES

So DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION, when they set up the EPIC that they're working on they can set it up also for the PUBLIC FACING and it SCRUBS AUTOMATICALLY in

So the ADVANTAGE of that is we don't have to manually update anything cos there's lot's of MISTAKES when you're manually updating stuff. Everything will just reflect the state of the tool that we're using to manage everyone across the company

Of course we're not showing every single task because there's THOUSANDS of tasks and the information is OVERWHELMING




Citizencon Schedule, posted October 2017:
"Squadron 42 will be the focus of our Holiday Livestream in December, where we will preview some gameplay and share our roadmap for its completion." - Chris Roberts
https://mailchi.mp/cloudimperiumgames/meet-the-defender-of-the-banu-140549

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/222623015?t=50m23s even lando is wondering what chris is talking about :allears:
and can someone explain this epic saga's of Jira?

MedicineHut
Feb 25, 2016

trucutru posted:

So? If the backers had not voted to extend the scope of the game then CIG would have delivered that.

The last vote for that was in 2014 you cuntiflas

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his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
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Grimey Drawer

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