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Agony Aunt
Apr 17, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Quavers posted:

:siren: Spectrum is hotting up, have the mods there quit? :siren:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJsap-vZgiE



:ohdear:



:psypop:

This is good for Star Citizen

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G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

Virtual Captain posted:

Script says these are all the changes to https://starcitizentracker.github.io since April 14th:



Nice to see they’re making good progress on the Stagnant front.

Sample_text
Apr 28, 2018

by VideoGames

Agony Aunt posted:

This is good for Star Citizen

This sound like the diametrical opposite of "concern trolling".
"Concern spiting"?

This is like one of those temper tantrums kids throw when they're told they have to take out the trash or brush their teeth.
"I DON'T HAFF TO DO NUFFIN AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!!!!!"

Meanwhile I'm having a good hard laugh at the idea of calling your evil barbarian in space race the "Vanduul"

"Oh right, the evil empire that's threatening the world is called the.... um.... Ruu 'shan Empire. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJzBopVRKPo


Also:

Hey , Billy-Bob-duul, does it ever worry you that every single edge of our space ships is sharpened to a fine-point and you can accidentally cut open your urethra on the flight stick?
Shush! Jerimiah-duul. The ships were designed by our Emperor's wife, the Vice-Empress of ship-design. You don't want her to hear you.... the last person who spoke out ......"

Sample_text fucked around with this message at 18:02 on May 1, 2018

Nyast
Nov 14, 2017

BLAZING AT THE
SPEED OF LIGHT

Mattjpwns posted:

If only croberts was a man of word, singular.

But he is a man of word.

A man of one word, to be more precise.

Scam.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard



ZenMaster
Jan 24, 2006

I Saved PC Gaming

Virtual Captain posted:

lol nice self-ownage.

I would like everyone to know that even after ten + years I still have faith in Enron. I didn't sell my stock, even though they worth less than toilet paper. I didn't throw baby tantrums like most did. I do NOT support the prosecution of the Enron leadership. They earned my money by doing the one thing no one else ever has: they tried.

Sample_text
Apr 28, 2018

by VideoGames

Star Citizen will have a 10-90 player to NPC ratio

Two years later

Star Citizen will have a 5-95 player to NPC ratio

Four years later

Star Citizen will be the first self-playing game populated entirely by NPC's

Two weeks later

Crytek takes all their money

Skadden takes all the money

EDIT:
No disrespect meant to TB, tho.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe



Because the internet MD is everywhere, talking about cancer cures.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

ZenMaster posted:

I would like everyone to know that even after ten + years I still have faith in Enron. I didn't sell my stock, even though they worth less than toilet paper. I didn't throw baby tantrums like most did. I do NOT support the prosecution of the Enron leadership. They earned my money by doing the one thing no one else ever has: they tried.

Say what you like about Hitler, but he killed Hitler.

ManofManyAliases
Mar 21, 2016
ToastOfManySmarts


Can't post for 3 hours!

The Titanic posted:

I'm also curious how these came about and what the agreements are.

I imagine they are direct from CIG and not some third party like Oasis because they directly thanked CIG and didn't act all "but I don't get paid by CIG! *cashes Oasis check*"

So i can't imagine it's a hard core "contract", but I wouldn't doubt if there wasn't some kind of Skype or even face to face communication about what CIG expects in return. There will be nothing in email or written, as I'm betting right now CIG is at defcon 5 with trying to shore in all their correspondences due to the impending CryTek discovery. It's hard to hide email but a face to face conversation may as well have never happened maybe possibly wink wink nudge nudge.

I'm pretty sure everybody has hit the nail on the head though.

"Use this rig to play and promote Star Citizen running as best it possibly can. And also show how much fun you are having while doing it."

CIG is well aware their poo poo grade programming has more holes in it than a block of Swiss cheese after a shotgun shell factory accident. It needs these beefy, unrealistic computers to appear to be almost decent. People will obviously see it (all six of them), and maybe be encouraged to buy it themselves to join in on the fun.

I guess the real fun will happen when one of these guys finally has had enough and blows their top at it and CIG employees come rushing the channel to damage control and "remind" the streamer how much fun they should be having.

We sort of have seen glompses of the CIG money pipeline and how it breaks. There have been a few times where suddenly out of thin air all of the streamers start to get upset with Star Citizen and swear to never play it again, etc etc.

But suddenly something happens, and then the next day they are all back on track and having fun and deleting the former videos and swearing they never did such things. It hasn't happened for a while, but when it does it makes you run your chin because it's usually not just a single streamer but a few of them simultaneously; if I recall correctly.

We may never know the intricacies of the business, but I also recall that one of the popular streamers couldn't go to any CIG events because they are in Canada, and apparently Canada has some interesting laws that force people like them to state what their exact relationship is with whatever they are promoting... so CIG of course couldn't have that happen.

Lots of fun things that we may never know the truth or untruth of. Maybe Skadden will figure it all out. Maybe I'm totally wrong and everything is totally real and these guys just really love Star Citizen and CIG really just gave them computers for no reason beyond being super nice and cool.

I'm sure one of these is reality. :)

Lol. You guys should band together to write some fiction.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

ManofManyAliases posted:

Lol. You guys should band together to write some fiction.

Yeah, I personally think they're closer to Defcon 4; Defcon 3 being selling the furniture to raise cash.

ManofManyAliases
Mar 21, 2016
ToastOfManySmarts


Can't post for 3 hours!

Hav posted:

Yeah, I personally think they're closer to Defcon 4; Defcon 3 being selling the furniture to raise cash.

Let's crowdfund it.

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



ManofManyAliases posted:

Let's crowdfund it.

Are you the "Refund Specialist" Don Karnage always talks about???

Please post less on SA and process more refunds

Agony Aunt
Apr 17, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

ManofManyAliases posted:

Lol. You guys should band together to write some fiction.

Do you want stimpire.txt? Because that is how you get stimpire.txt.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:


gently caress that, that post deserves the :parpcorn:

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Hav posted:



Because the internet MD is everywhere, talking about cancer cures.

Man remember when that one guy with cancer poo poo all over Star Citizen and the community got together and proudly wished he could die faster?

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

ManofManyAliases posted:

Lol. You guys should band together to write some fiction.

Hey guys, have we figured out yet that whenever a poster here posits a conspiracy theory that hits a little too close to the truth, the intern controlling the moma account comes on to tell us were crazy? Like, maybe we should pay a little more attention to what moma responds to, he could lead us to the truth. When the moma account truely flips his poo poo, we'll know we struck gold.

Basically, moma is the voice telling us not to pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

radd posted:

To ensure maximum thread fidelity, DEFCON 1 is ‘nuclear war imminent’ and DEFCON 5 is lowest state of readiness.

In that case change the defcon to something else. I'm not all versed in my nuclear war terminology. Sorry, friend. :negative:

Tsar Mikey
Nov 30, 2005


When will then be now?



MoMa is just salty that CIG didn't get him a new rig.

Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?
From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

Tsar Mikey
Nov 30, 2005


When will then be now?



Scruffpuff posted:

From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

I don't care if this is fake or not, it's plausible and I love it.

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011

X-Ultron posted:

MoMa is just salty that CIG didn't get him a new rig.

he doesn't need it he's already seen/played all of SQ42

Slow_Moe
Feb 18, 2013

Scruffpuff posted:

From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

Well at least we wont have to wait 2 weeks to see if the rumour is true.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

X-Ultron posted:

I don't care if this is fake or not, it's plausible and I love it.

More plausible than Ben Lesnick, Developer.

Virtual Captain
Feb 20, 2017

Archive Priest of the Stimperial Order

Star Citizen Good, in all things forevermore. Amen.
:pray:
Has anybody said "best gaming community ever" lately?

CellarDweller
Jan 19, 2014

Down In The Pit... There's It!

Scruffpuff posted:

From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

I assume refunds were not discussed.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

ManofManyAliases posted:

Lol. You guys should band together to write some fiction.

I guess that you got handed that from the intern. Good job, continue to fight the good fight, friend!

Also continue to enjoy playing Star Citizen with your massive fleet but never, ever tell anyone who you are because your secret identity as Clark Kent can never be jeopardized. :shrug:

TheAgent
Feb 16, 2002

The call is coming from inside Dr. House
Grimey Drawer
*takes a look in the back of CIG's custom breakroom, sees Ben Lesnick casually flipping through a Wing Commander styled book, titled: "TO SERVE BACKERS"*

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

The Titanic posted:

In that case change the defcon to something else. I'm not all versed in my nuclear war terminology. Sorry, friend. :negative:

Here is a brief documentary; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xef60FAN6Vk

Scruffpuff posted:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

I don't buy any of this, but it's hella funny. Especially given Sandi's positioning to separating the incels from cash. <i_luv_it.gif>

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

TheAgent posted:

*takes a look in the back of CIG's custom breakroom, sees Ben Lesnick casually flipping through a Wing Commander styled book, titled: "TO SERVE BACKERS"*

G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

ManofManyAliases posted:

Lol. You guys should band together to write some fiction.

Hey MoMA. Have you had the time to watch any of Bootcha’s videos? Since you’re now of dual citizenship, I’m curious if the Goon part of you savored its Gooniness or if the Whale part of you found it stupid and offensive.



(If one of your many aliases is Joseph Fournier then I’ll consider your opinion already stated...)

G0RF fucked around with this message at 19:22 on May 1, 2018

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Scruffpuff posted:

From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

This? This is good for Star Citizen. This is fantastic news for the 'Verse.

NO TREATS! ONLY PLEDGE!!!

Jonny Nox
Apr 26, 2008




X-Ultron posted:

MoMa is just salty that CIG didn't get him a new rig.

Why? When they shutter he'll just take his work laptop home with him.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Scruffpuff posted:

From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

I hope they write the reason quote on everybody's napkin at the $300 a plate dinner to make them feel extra special.

Tsar Mikey
Nov 30, 2005


When will then be now?



"Chris is busy working on motion capture for a special showing during CitizenCon 2018 and will not be attending tonight's dinner. We do, however, have a special recorded message from the Chairman himself."

*Bullshit video with Chris waving his hands around a lot.*

*Erin introduced via video.*

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

Scruffpuff posted:

From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

Oh, please let this be true; I just want to hear the backers telling everyone how this was what they wanted all along and they didn't get ripped off at all

Sample_text
Apr 28, 2018

by VideoGames

Scruffpuff posted:

From the rumour mill:

Chris Roberts is now trying to get out of his obligation to attend Friday's "dinner with your autistic hero" celebration.

The reason? Concern from Sandi after the crazy Canadian incel guy ran down innocent people that his backers are, and I quote, "The same kind of crazy fuckers, you know they are."

Supposedly Erin is the stand-in; I'm not convinced people who ponied up will be happy with anything less than the genuine inept fraud article.

On the bright side, we at least know the audience for "vial of Chris Roberts' blood" definitely exists.
Also what's an incel? Is that the new term on the euphemism treadmill for autism or?

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry
Great! Just great. You fuckos reveal the punchline before the joke has even started and now Chris will have time to cancel his flight and re-book his appearance at the meal.

God drat amateurs! :argh:

phosdex
Dec 16, 2005

Sample_text posted:

Also what's an incel? Is that the new term on the euphemism treadmill for autism or?

involuntary celibates. it's a terrible, dark rabbit hole to go down

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Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry

Sample_text posted:

On the bright side, we at least know the audience for "vial of Chris Roberts' blood" definitely exists.
Also what's an incel? Is that the new term on the euphemism treadmill for autism or?

Involuntary Celebate and its a bunch of lonely nerds too stupid or depressed to go outside and talk to people becoming resentful douchebags who only want to see women (in general) harmed in some fashion.

Its stupid. Its sexist. Its disgusting. Lock 'em up, I say.

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