peter gabriel posted:

Could be, it spun around a bit then broke if you clicked it

Lack of Gravitas posted:

that doesn't really help with narrowing it down, peter

grimcreaper posted:

Um yeah... cig just paid off crytek. Case over. Total damages pay out $156,901.21

Wtf

Galarox posted:

I have just come out of a dispute with HMRC about taxxe paid or not paid. I am still awaiting their final verdict on my returns. I am not holding out hope that sanity will prevail, it's the tax-man after all.

grimcreaper posted:

Um yeah... cig just paid off crytek. Case over. Total damages pay out $156,901.21

Wtf

Loxbourne posted:

Legal drama

Galarox posted:

I have just come out of a dispute with HMRC about taxxe paid or not paid. I am still awaiting their final verdict on my returns. I am not holding out hope that sanity will prevail, it's the tax-man after all.

quote:

From 1992 to 1995 he was audited 27 times after claiming a GST refund and the Inland Revenue Department demanded he pay $NZ924,341 in taxes and penalties. He was charged with fraud, his business failed and he was bankrupted and had to sell his house. The IRD eventually conceded that he did not owe it $NZ924,341, and fraud charges against him were dropped. They also admitted that they owed him $NZ64,000.

The Titanic posted:

I bet by the time I catch up to the thread, Derek will have seen the error in his ways and is penning an apology letter to all the wheelchair bound people he’s hurt, and applying for the open PR representative position at CIG to make good for the fault in his ways.

Just going to say now, good job guys. I never thought I’d see the day, but you did it! Together and in peace!

peter gabriel posted:

hi there I am Robert Chrislopher

Galarox posted:

Galarox posted:

G0RF posted:

There are probably artists and modelers at CIG LA and elsewhere working up the next great monetizable pixeldream - player housing. Hideouts for pirates, mansions for the 890 Jump types, and a wide variety in between. Chris can’t grow the revenues outward right now — the market too small and brand damage to dire. But he can count on the Errises and Mikus and other Concierge Level whales, even if they’re cash strapped, to be ready, willing and eager to buy themselves a little plot of land, a place to park their ship, a dwelling to call home.

I assume Chris will ape Garriott’s model shamelessly and squeeze even more oil out of the super whales. Structures don’t have to deal with physics grids and flight models yet can command prices commensurate with ships. A little hideout might be $50 (plus your protection racket land claim fee). A full scale, multiroom luxury villa with the works and a view might be $1000.

However he does it, Chris will squeeze the whales as hard as he can until they can get Squadron to a releasable state. It’s a tall order that hasn’t had any urgency after the cessation of work in early 2016 but it’s clearly the front burner for Chris again. He sees that as a windfall that buys them the more time to try to figure out all the stuff they ignored for five years. You know, the Game part.

Latin Pheonix posted:

While earlier I was thinking on bidding on low-hanging fruit like 'Ortwin throws Chris/Sandi under the bus to save his career', after looking at this bit again, I think I might go for something else. I think mine is going to be 'CIG actually has another loan that it took out to save itself and leveraged most/all its US assets against, and Crobberts is desperately shifting money from the UK to the US and vice versa to pay off the instalments as they fall due.'

Galarox posted:

The Titanic posted:

I’m afraid there is no picture you could do that could come close to the supernatural insanity that another AdzAdama piece manages to bring forth. He is either doing some amazing angel dust or other drug and hits photoshop like a mad monkey, or he is just hugely keyed into his crazy side.

AlbieQuirky posted:

drat, I was busy all day and missed some good slapfighting.

Derek, did you really look up Chris and Sandi's second marriage certificate? That's impressive in a way. I'm surprised anyone in the year of our lord whenever they got remarried could be bothered to maintain a married name and a stage name (even if it is her birth name), but I guess Our Sandi was the best at all this stuff ever since she was a little girl? It's very 1933.

Now I am picturing Sandi at the end of A Star Is Born, coming up to the CitCon microphone after Chris's tragic demise, and huskily emoting, "Hello, Germany. This is...MRS. CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS."

AlbieQuirky posted:

AdzAdama is the David Dees of Star Citizer.

AlbieQuirky posted:

drat, I was busy all day and missed some good slapfighting.

Derek, did you really look up Chris and Sandi's second marriage certificate? That's impressive in a way. I'm surprised anyone in the year of our lord whenever they got remarried could be bothered to maintain a married name and a stage name (even if it is her birth name), but I guess Our Sandi was the best at all this stuff ever since she was a little girl? It's very 1933.

Now I am picturing Sandi at the end of A Star Is Born, coming up to the CitCon microphone after Chris's tragic demise, and huskily emoting, "Hello, Germany. This is...MRS. CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS."

Taintrunner posted:

oh god don't tell me the lawsuit's already over

Taintrunner posted:

oh god don't tell me the lawsuit's already over

grimcreaper posted:

Um yeah... cig just paid off crytek. Case over. Total damages pay out $156,901.21

Wtf

Malachite_Dragon posted:

It's not, grimcreaper has a history of talking out of his rear end

AlbieQuirky posted:

drat, I was busy all day and missed some good slapfighting.

Hav posted:

It's part of their very being. Part of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is 'belonging', the concept of being in a group, or otherwise supported by people that accept you for you. Star Citizen has become a symbol of that need to belong to something bigger than themselves. I'm not pointing fingers, either, everyone has causes of differing levels of objective importance, but the reason why people will normalize, explain or otherwise attempt to minimize the impact of something is because they're invested emotionally; ignoring the obvious financial entanglements, protecting the self is what people go to the mat for.

It's actually kind of fun to watch, but I get the sheer bone crushing stupidity of attempting to defend someone/something that there is no actual connection with other than a fondly held belief.


The reverence is a blind; it means nothing. If someone else popped up and offered them the same level of agency in their second-life knock-off, they'd pivot in a minute.

Streetroller posted:

Wasn't really a slap fight, Derek doxxed me like the champ he can only be and claims drama when I go "Seriously? like, why?"

It's analogous to leaving burning poo poo in a bag on a door step, ringing your neighbors door, and hiding in the bushes.
Yeah, it might be funny for you -- but seeing as everyone else knows and it's nothing funny, I walk away with the knowledge that you had to smell your own burning poo poo.

AlbieQuirky posted:

AdzAdama is the David Dees of Star Citizer.

The Titanic posted:

You hit the nail so hard on the head it came out in Australia and forced ET to touch the penis shaped mushroom while he was in that time zone.

grimcreaper posted:

Wait.. your "thats him, in the wheelchair!" Guy?

peter gabriel posted:

I'll never forget the first time I loaded my hangar, I hadn't read anything about the game at all so when I was confronted with this huge grey loving shed I spent about ten minutes running around it thinking 'eehhhhhhhh' then logged off.
That was probably the highlight of the game so far