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tooterfish posted:Alright, can we get time out here. I just want everyone to stop for a minute so we can fully take in the state of Chris' wig: He's wearing a Wing Commander shirt, and the title is how it all started, so I'm assuming this is Chris at the beginning? You know back then he probably didn't have millions of dollars to afford the more realistic hair pieces he can adorn now. A simpler time, a simpler toupee.  "Of course this is my real hair why would you ask that?" 
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The Titanic posted:He's wearing a Wing Commander shirt, and the title is how it all started, so I'm assuming this is Chris at the beginning? He could have joined the Monkees with that one, no audition required.
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May 13, 2018 03:48
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Grubby Hobo posted:He could have joined the Monkees with that one, no audition required. Though honestly I don't care about his hair. I know lots of guys suffering from lots of different stages of baldness and some are old, and some are like early 20s, but it's not something I usually target in a guy because it just is what it is and it's ok to be bald or balding. I guess though the amusing part is the attempts at hiding it and the hair always seems to be just a bit different and just a bit bit quite real each time it's seen. It could actually just be his real hair and he doesn't know how to keep himself properly maintained. I don't know. 
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Happily listening to Archive Priest's latest ARGcast recordings (with Bootcha and TheAgent) (they're great, go listen!) and Agent mentioned his old predictions. Time to have a look! (SA Search doesn't seem to look into the archives, so I'm stuck there  )TheAgent, Oct 28th 2016:   Backer responds:   TheAgent, Dec 20th 2016:  No funny backer responses  TheAgent, Jan 5th 2017:  Backers respond:  Thanks to Obey-The-Fist archiving a leak, here's an original from 9th Jan 2017: TheAgent posted:hello  Backers respond: 
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Golli posted:lending succssfl I'm posting from the past to say I'll be extremely disappointed if I catch up and this isn't the thread title
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May 13, 2018 04:00
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Quick question - Rub???
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May 13, 2018 04:08
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Someone should show Chris this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k35oY5jRxk
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May 13, 2018 04:16
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Kosumo posted:Quick question - Rub??? Never not rub
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May 13, 2018 04:32
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https://i.imgur.com/my9g5Of.gifv
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May 13, 2018 04:39
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Meanwhile, at MMORPG.com    
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Beet Wagon posted:I'm not going to arbitrarily override Beer's anime rule, so no. Just because I might be loosening the laces on my jackboots a bit (do jackboots have laces?) doesn't mean he is as well. Pretty sure madden gif time was when derek was a mod but following this trainwreck for so long has seriously affected my long and short term memory. Battletech is good, not that that is relevant to anything I have just said.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Pretty sure madden gif time was when derek was a mod but following this trainwreck for so long has seriously affected my long and short term memory. Yeah it was. By the time of the Great Sundering almost nobody was posting madden gifs anymore. Still see them pop up every now and then, but not 10 a page like they used to be lol. Battletech is good. Between that and Far Cry 5 I’m almost too busy to shitpost about star citizer. Also let’s just take a moment to appreciate that that mmorpg.com dude is naive enough to not realize Chris is trying to look like a tech genius a la Steve Jobs.
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This seems weirdly familiar... https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/check-out-this-surreal-chat-with-theranos-investor-who-says-hes-thrilled/ Crazy investor defends the company who stole his money. If it weren't for those people exposing the lies! Those jerks!
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Sum Mors posted:This seems weirdly familiar... Draper as in 6 californias draper? Heavily invested in bitcoin draper?
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Draper as in 6 californias draper? Heavily invested in bitcoin draper? https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/10/vc-draper-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-was-bullied-into-submission.html nnnotime fucked around with this message at 06:20 on May 13, 2018 |
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May 13, 2018 06:18
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I'm going to go out on a limb as suggest making an engine costs less than 200 million dollars.
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Grubby Hobo posted:And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, they will see the gold trim of your ship, and then they will fear you. I just loving knew the FREEMAN OF THE LAND and Star Citizen Venn Diagram was a single circle.
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May 13, 2018 06:57
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Mirificus posted:https://twitter.com/CliffordakaMiku/status/995045693214658561 Does Erin have motor skill issues? Poor trooper. Still manages to be the better Roberts.
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Hav posted:Playing a game of six degrees one night with some friends in London, I found I was one hop from Warhol. Nice find. Funny about you mentioning flight sims having not a lot to do. recently had a shot at FSEconomy and found it a bit "too easy" to make coin. So being the sadist that I am, I've landed in amongst the teutons with Fly the World, http://www.ftw-sim.de/ It adds an economic layer to your flight sim of choice. Currently flying in Xplane 11.
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trucutru posted:Slow trainwreck day, I'll just leave this This is actually a good idea. Let Chris play director with somebody else's money, and hire a producer who is a skilled closer to assume all responsibilities.
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May 13, 2018 08:35
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trucutru posted:Slow trainwreck day, I'll just leave this I think a show about Star Citizen is more paranormal than sci fi. But I guess the genres are pretty similar.
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Golli posted:lending succssfl 
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Joecee Florida, commenting on DaGaimez’s video posted:Joecee Florida I’ve never known what to believe about the whole car salesman thing. It’s never struck me personally as that important. From Sandi’s own Sunny’s Diner interview, it didn’t sound like Chris was spoiled for career choices prior to their crowdfunding campaign. That seems, to me, like the more salient biographical detail from that hazy chapter. Sandi reinforced that unhappy pre-historical circumstance elsewhere, too, recounting how she openly questioned his relevance to modern gamers in their pre-kickoff planning. Doesn’t sound like an especially happy time. Whatever he did or didn’t do post-Hollywood, pre-Star Citizen, it can’t be denied that Chris Roberts is the world’s greatest spaceship salesman today. CIG’s marketing is constantly burnishing that very image of Chris. They intentionally brand their ship sales like car commercials. The Galactic Tour series of commercial parodies leans even further into car culture tropes. It doesn’t mean Chris was a car salesman, but it does show he uses CIG to market and sell spaceships like cars and has from the very start. Whether from experience or just aptitude, he’s a natural.
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G0RF posted:I’ve never known what to believe about the whole car salesman thing. It’s never struck me personally as that important. From Sandi’s own Sunny’s Diner interview, it didn’t sound like Chris was spoiled for career choices prior to their crowdfunding campaign. That seems, to me, like the more salient biographical detail from that hazy chapter. Sandi reinforced that unhappy pre-historical circumstance elsewhere, too, recounting how she openly questioned his relevance to modern gamers in their pre-kickoff planning. Doesn’t sound like an especially happy time. Maybe laughable but Google seems to return absolutely nothing relevant if you used the words "Chris Roberts car rental Austin dealer" etc in the period prior to 2012. Maybe I needed to use "fidelity". I do not know man.
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A salient point https://www.twitch.tv/videos/260632263?t=01h03m29s
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G0RF posted:The Galactic Tour series of commercial parodies leans even further into car culture tropes. I'd never seen those before - a pretend Top Gear about the spaceships of Star Citizen - crazy. I can see what you mean, Gorf, the way these ships are sold and the kind talk you'd get from a car program are quite similar. One thing I've noticed from watching Top Gear is that the car is put across very much as a means of self expression, a statement about who you are. Needless to say, that kind of bullshit appeals to the citizens. What does having a 600i say about you?
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his nibs posted:A salient point I was just listening to Relay myself. Haven’t made it that far but man even the first forty five minutes has been pretty surprising. CIG’s poor marketing choices turned the Hercules sale into a psychological dirty bomb. The sale now joins a montage reel of recent short-sighted, cash-seeking changes on CIG’s part. I’ve heard the word “desperate” repeatedly on streamer shows and that’s very new. Astropub’s show earlier had grousing about how merchandise now has $35 shipping charges per item, and all items are now shipped separately. How can that not unnerve people who once could spend $35 and get a shipped issue of Jump Point or a shipped t-shirt? CIG has surely killed all demand for merchandise with this kind of gouging, and even if demand wasn’t that high to begin with, this surely killed whatever remained and sent alarming signals to the very people they most need to keep confident. Erris, as one might expect, wants a return to happier times. He starts the conversation about LTI here and eventually starts a slow-burn rant here. Again he returns to the great Heresy that CIG are supposed to be building the game they want, not, as the sacred Pledge once promised, “the game you want to play.” One thing that is palpable across nearly every recent stream and so frequently now on the subreddit is that the community is fed up with the clumsiness and carelessness of CIG’s marketing. The pragmatic voices are resigned to CIG’s transmogrification into an EA-like enterprise. The principled voices are drawing lines in the sand and decrying bad practices from a company that want to be a good company. Yet all of them — even Erris — resent the incompetence on display via CIG’s communication and everyone knows this can and should be done better. Yet it won’t and everyone knows why it won’t.
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One thing CIG does right: They refine their list of gullible and broken people even further. If someone would use it to sell some SC unrelated poo poo, i bet you can get a 1:5 ratio or better. I hope some CIG employees see the potential and copy that stuff for later use.
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Peter.Quint posted:I'd never seen those before - a pretend Top Gear about the spaceships of Star Citizen - crazy. I’m amazed anybody could’ve missed it — they did 8 distinct segments just for CitCon 2016 alone. But yeah, you’re right, the pitch is encouraging people to make statements about themselves with their preferred ship choices. And it works. People who love Drake’s stripped down ships will explain at length why they love them. Those who love Origin’s luxury stylings fetishize the beautiful detailing. It’s truly the ship of choice for the would-be Certified Millionaires out there (i.e. those who want to brand themselves in game as men of sophisticated tastes.) It’s all tied into the role play side, and nobody can deny CIG’s ship team doesn’t do breathtaking work. As Beet and others have said, the ship buying game IS the game now, and clearly this is per Chris’s design. That this should not have become the case, ever, is now very much on the minds of many of the streamers, too. Even though most are whales. Twerk was miserably frustrated about the unwillingness for the community to just let the LTI debate go. He’s become so sick of the fixation on ship talk, the “is CIG running out of money” speculation, and wants the conversations to be about Gameplay Gameplay Gameplay because isn’t that what Star Citizen is all about? A game? He’s right to want that. And you can tell many of the developers in the trenches want that and have long wanted that. It’s too bad they’re lead by a man who couldn’t have wanted the same too from the start because even if they’d not raised nearly so much money they could’ve had a killer diller space game by now... MedicineHut posted:Maybe laughable but Google seems to return absolutely nothing relevant if you used the words "Chris Roberts car rental Austin dealer" etc in the period prior to 2012. Maybe I needed to use "fidelity".
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Chris wasn't a used car salesman. He rented out hi performance and exotic cars to Hollywood types. This was way before 2012 going back to the late nineties v early 00's. He did this in partnership with a couple of other guys one of whom ripped him off
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That you're too poor to buy the 890.
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AutismVaccine posted:One thing CIG does right: It's not completely unrelated but the squatty potty dude is apparently making good sales.
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trucutru posted:It's not completely unrelated but the squatty potty dude is apparently making good sales. To be fair to him, if you were given that to sell you'd go all out for crazy marketing strategies too.
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EightAce posted:Chris wasn't a used car salesman. He rented out hi performance and exotic cars to Hollywood types. This was way before 2012 going back to the late nineties v early 00's. He did this in partnership with a couple of other guys one of whom ripped him off Could all this be some twisted revenge thing. Makes you think.
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Dooguk posted:Could all this be some twisted revenge thing. Also, Bootcha’s reply to Joecee “butt hurt” Florida seems worth including in thread: Bootcha posted:I verified the phone number that was listed on the website. It was the same phone number I had for Chairman of CIG Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame on my phone, as well as his business card. Due to the nature of the series, I felt it was not in anyone's best interest to show that phone number to the broader public. It's a case that you have to take my word for it. It's a small detail with rumor and basic amounts of corroborating anecdotes as to the nature of the business. I would not have brought it up if it was a different person.
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reverend crabhands posted:Still better than making yoghurt with vaginal yeast -pineapple- yoghurt.
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Frank_Leroux posted:Fair enough. Consider my nose duly whacked, and I won't do it again. Honest, Gov'ner! Don’t be fooled, it’s a perfectly manicured iron fist inside a velvet glove. I’m thinking a deep petrol blue.
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