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Gort: Aug 18, 2003; Good day what ho cup of tea

SoftNum posted:

Here's my dog:

At first glance I thought you'd plastered your dog into a wall

# ? May 18, 2018 16:30

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# ? May 29, 2024 19:05

Hav: Dec 11, 2009; Fun Shoe

Hobold posted:

This is hilarious, and I love her. Old cats are the best. You pet that kitty, and you pet her right.

We used to drop her food in a particular place. Now we have to follow princess around until she decides where to eat.

Dogs have leaders, cats have staff.

# ? May 18, 2018 16:33

McGiggins: Apr 4, 2014; by R. Guyovich; Lipstick Apathy

Thats funny as gently caress Hav, i hope my future years are as fun.

I own a cat that, after being removed alive from the jaws of a wild fully grown carpet python, loves to get involved with red belly black snakes.

Trust me when i say that i fully empathize with getting wiggles out of the house.

# ? May 18, 2018 16:39

McGiggins: Apr 4, 2014; by R. Guyovich; Lipstick Apathy

*you hold the tail while i hold the jaws, McGiggins-Mother, you yank the cat!*

Luckily the person issuing said instructions was an animal surgical specialist or kitty might have lost more than his balls that week. :ohdear:

# ? May 18, 2018 16:43

Bofast: Feb 21, 2011; Grimey Drawer

trucutru posted:

catte tax:

I think the main question here is whether or not her belt is nicer than MoMA's belt(s)?

# ? May 18, 2018 16:49

Pixelate: Jan 6, 2018; "You win by having fun"

Been catching up on the Bootcha/Agent ARGcasts. Lots of cool stuff on sources, industry norms & their own current perspectives.

Some old stuff that I didn't know about which jumped out:

The current CIG CFO having been the CFO for Gizmondo Europe was eye opening. Like they say, he's not implicated in all that nefariousness. But he doesn't have a great track record at spotting scams either.

His LinkedIn reference to that time is super cute:

quote:
My first appointment at Warthog (Computer) Games was rewarding, as we floated that business on AIM in 2001 and I was retained with the business until 2006, after its sale to a hardware manufacturer in 2004.

Yeah weirdly some poo poo went down between 2004 & 2006 young man.
Chris's 20 million AI 'full universe simulation' on a single server back in 2015:

quote:
Chris: [...] We actually have a full Universe simulation that runs� we actually don't need it to run on any particular bank of servers. It just actually runs on one server, and it simulates about 20 million AI agents. It simulates the AI agents in a very sort of high-level manner. Ok, you've got a mission, you're going to go from here to here, so it's not simulating it on the fidelity level that you would do when you're actually connected to the game and flying around and doing combat maneuvers or flying from point to point, it's simulating it more in the � here's the jobs, here's the missions, here's the market demand, here's the things that are happening [...]

I hope the kiosks don't break it...

Pixelate fucked around with this message at 17:17 on May 18, 2018

# ? May 18, 2018 17:11

Quavers: Feb 26, 2016; You clearly don't understand game development

Hi Sandi/CIGMarketing/Turbulent:

No doubt you're considering offering Premium Game Subscriptions to harvest more money from backers, but are unsure of managing the inevitable backlash.

I recommend this multi-tier plan for Maximum Citizen ~~Milking~~ Satisfaction�:

$15 monthly sub bonus: 1x free flair/cosmetic each month
$30 monthly sub bonus: 2x free flair/cosmetic + 1x Credit2Warbond (convert any amount) token each month
$50 monthly sub bonus: 3x free flair/cosmetic + 2x Credit2Warbond token each month
All subscriptions: all owned ships, vehicles, equipment, land, etc, upgraded to LTI
Long-term "Support Our Streamed Content" subscribers get a 25% discount

Resolve all the LTI complaints :smug:

Resolve all the Grey Marketers' whining :smug:

Resolve all OldMoney<NewMoney gripers :smug:

Get more moneys! :homebrew:

You're welcome. Please send the Paypal payment to GeniusMarketerSinceHeWasALittleBoy@gmail.com

# ? May 18, 2018 17:13

CrazyLoon: Aug 10, 2015; "..."

Bootcha posted:

LAURESH

I KNOW YOU'RE OUT THERE

WE NEED TO TALK

to see that part on the next Sunk Cost Galaxy.

# ? May 18, 2018 17:22

SoftNum: Mar 31, 2011

Quavers posted:

Hi Sandi/CIGMarketing/Turbulent:

No doubt you're considering offering Premium Game Subscriptions to harvest more money from backers, but are unsure of managing the inevitable backlash.

I recommend this multi-tier plan for Maximum Citizen ~~Milking~~ Satisfaction�:

$15 monthly sub bonus: 1x free flair/cosmetic each month

$30 monthly sub bonus: 2x free flair/cosmetic + 1x Credit2Warbond (convert any amount) token each month

$50 monthly sub bonus: 3x free flair/cosmetic + 2x Credit2Warbond token each month

All subscriptions: all owned ships, vehicles, equipment, land, etc, upgraded to LTI

Long-term "Support Our Streamed Content" subscribers get a 25% discount

Resolve all the LTI complaints Resolve all the Grey Marketers' whining Resolve all OldMoney<NewMoney gripers
Get more moneys!

You're welcome. Please send the Paypal payment to GeniusMarketerSinceHeWasALittleBoy@gmail.com

This is far too generous.

$15/mo. - Base Tier. Keep all current LTI on ships.
$30/mo. - Entered into raffle for this month's T-Shirts. Assign lowest-warbond-value ship LTI once per year. 12 month continuious sub required.
$50/mo. - Exclusive 2 day pre-access to all sales (no discount). Entered 5x into raffle for this month's T-Shirts. Same warbond as above except 6 months.

# ? May 18, 2018 17:36

Neltharak: Jun 7, 2013

CellarDweller posted:

What is an Alpha?

Slow_Moe posted:

A miserable little pile of code.

But enough talk, buy a ship !

# ? May 18, 2018 17:36

EightAce: May 10, 2015; Watch it all come crashing down on his head and wonder why any of us gave him money in the first place.

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

# ? May 18, 2018 17:36

Beet Wagon: Oct 19, 2015

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

# ? May 18, 2018 17:38

Iceclaw: Nov 4, 2009; Fa la lanky down dilly, motherfuckers.

EightAce posted:

A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

And Sandi.

# ? May 18, 2018 17:42

benzine: Oct 21, 2010

Beet Wagon posted:

# ? May 18, 2018 17:47

Hobold: Jan 10, 2012; I love my Cutlass
I love big stompy mechs
I love my HOTAS
I love to salvage wrecks
I love Star Citizen, and all it's craziness
GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA; College Slice

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

Thats that twist, innit? Small group of people make off like mad, while scores more get thrown under the bus.

Do somewhat feel bad about all the young bloods, who got into this thinking it was their chance to get a foot in the door, in an industry thats notoriously difficult to do so.

# ? May 18, 2018 17:51

TheAgent: Feb 16, 2002; The call is coming from inside Dr. House; Grimey Drawer

Hobold posted:

Thats that twist, innit? Small group of people make off like mad, while scores more get thrown under the bus.

Do somewhat feel bad about all the young bloods, who got into this thinking it was their chance to get a foot in the door, in an industry thats notoriously difficult to do so.

this is actually an excellent teaching experience re: working in games

it don't get much better and if you're actually decent at what you do, go do anything else, make twice as much and work half as hard

# ? May 18, 2018 17:54

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

So is big Ben's dismissal just the precursor to the true ele?

# ? May 18, 2018 17:55

Drunk Theory: Aug 20, 2016; Oven Wrangler

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

Ehh. Meh, no really sympathy. That's a pretty lovely opinion, but it's the one I've got. It's a pretty worthless world we live in.

Let's look on the positive, they aren't dead yet.

Drunk Theory fucked around with this message at 18:03 on May 18, 2018

# ? May 18, 2018 17:59

Hobold: Jan 10, 2012; I love my Cutlass
I love big stompy mechs
I love my HOTAS
I love to salvage wrecks
I love Star Citizen, and all it's craziness
GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA; College Slice

Blue On Blue posted:

So is big Ben's dismissal just the precursor to the true ele?

They think that moving him to the other end of the country, will keep him hidden away from the people with briefcases, and pointy questions.

# ? May 18, 2018 17:59

Pixelate: Jan 6, 2018; "You win by having fun"

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

Feel for you man. I know some here level culpability at the devs as 'enablers', but the blame sits firmly at the top of the tree for me.

Just looking for bright lights, and not trying to be facetious, but if the off ramp really is crashing down, y'all can at least show you can get work out even under some terrible loving management. Survive that, you'll survive anything.

(PS I'm sure you're aware, but Frontier are hiring UK-side. They're fricking space heads too, but hey, I figure they can't be worse

)

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

# ? May 18, 2018 17:59

his nibs: Feb 27, 2016; Welcome to the
Dream Factory; Grimey Drawer

Quavers posted:

Hi Sandi/CIGMarketing/Turbulent:

No doubt you're considering offering Premium Game Subscriptions to harvest more money from backers, but are unsure of managing the inevitable backlash.

I recommend this multi-tier plan for Maximum Citizen ~~Milking~~ Satisfaction�:

$15 monthly sub bonus: 1x free flair/cosmetic each month

$30 monthly sub bonus: 2x free flair/cosmetic + 1x Credit2Warbond (convert any amount) token each month

$50 monthly sub bonus: 3x free flair/cosmetic + 2x Credit2Warbond token each month

All subscriptions: all owned ships, vehicles, equipment, land, etc, upgraded to LTI

Long-term "Support Our Streamed Content" subscribers get a 25% discount

Resolve all the LTI complaints Resolve all the Grey Marketers' whining Resolve all OldMoney<NewMoney gripers
Get more moneys!

You're welcome. Please send the Paypal payment to GeniusMarketerSinceHeWasALittleBoy@gmail.com

Double bluff! Hi Sandi :colbert:

# ? May 18, 2018 18:03

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

I repeat that anyone losing their job sucks , especially the lower tier folks who probably live check to check and have no savings

People like Chris and ortwin can go get hosed , they have known from day 1 every cent they paid themselves was basically stolen from the actual hard workers for their own enrichment

I just hope the world remembers all the lots chris has told over the years. And reminds him every single time he tries to do something other than order a sandwich at the local diner across the street from the strip club his wife is now the marketing director for

# ? May 18, 2018 18:05

CellarDweller: Jan 19, 2014; Down In The Pit... There's It!

Blue On Blue posted:

I repeat that anyone losing their job sucks , especially the lower tier folks who probably live check to check and have no savings

People like Chris and ortwin can go get hosed , they have known from day 1 every cent they paid themselves was basically stolen from the actual hard workers for their own enrichment

I just hope the world remembers all the lots chris has told over the years. And reminds him every single time he tries to do something other than order a sandwich at the local diner across the street from the strip club his wife is now the marketing director for

They sell jpegs now.

# ? May 18, 2018 18:12

Sarsapariller: Aug 14, 2015; Occasional vampire queen

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

I will of course pour out a 40 for any well meaning person who loses their job over this.

I also want to say that I really appreciate the actual leaks and inside baseball that has been sent to this thread over the years. That said-

Please don't post about how bad it is, but you can't say anything, but it's really bad. It's just white noise at this point.

# ? May 18, 2018 18:12

Pixelate: Jan 6, 2018; "You win by having fun"

TheAgent posted:

this is actually an excellent teaching experience re: working in games

it don't get much better and if you're actually decent at what you do, go do anything else, make twice as much and work half as hard

Love Pledge is never getting an AI server is it :negative:

# ? May 18, 2018 18:13

monkeytek: Jun 8, 2010; It wasn't an ELE that wiped out the backer funds. It was Tristan Timothy Taylor.

When can I start my posting of "HAHAHA" threads towards stupid citizens, must know for maximum rubbage.

# ? May 18, 2018 18:13

G0RF: Mar 19, 2015; Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

If true, I�m genuinely sorry to read that, EightAce. Because it�s been obvious for so long where the rot was and where it was not. It makes me sick to think that the very people who could bring it to ruin might enjoy the rewards anyway. But it wouldn�t surprise me at all, given their utter lack of shame.

# ? May 18, 2018 18:15

Quavers: Feb 26, 2016; You clearly don't understand game development

his nibs posted:

Double bluff! Hi Sandi

gently caress :negative:

# ? May 18, 2018 18:15

Mr Fronts: Jan 31, 2016; Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

I'm sorry, I just re-read the shameless shilling for Star Citizer in a years-old "No Man's Sky" thread...

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/56yqsq/the_hot_older_sibling_of_nms_star_citizen_and/

...and I can guarantee I'll be dancing naked around the SC bonfire, laughing very loudly, and shitizen-quoting from threads like that, like there's no tomorrow.

# ? May 18, 2018 18:16

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

Sarsapariller posted:

Please don't post about how bad it is, but you can't say anything, but it's really bad. It's just white noise at this point.

# ? May 18, 2018 18:17

Mr Fronts: Jan 31, 2016; Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

monkeytek posted:

When can I start my posting of "HAHAHA" threads towards stupid citizens, must know for maximum rubbage.

You. I like you. We will have happy fun rolling in the ashes of many Idri, pointing and guffawing.

# ? May 18, 2018 18:18

TheAgent: Feb 16, 2002; The call is coming from inside Dr. House; Grimey Drawer

Pixelate posted:

Love Pledge is never getting an AI server is it

what do you think mirificus is

# ? May 18, 2018 18:20

Quavers: Feb 26, 2016; You clearly don't understand game development

EightAce posted:

Really had things are happening. I don't want to blue ball but I'm pretty sure I can't post the specifics.
Please spare a thought for the honest devs . Fanboys, gamers and creative's just like many on this forum. They bought into the same bullshit as the backers. Now it's obvious the whole things hosed they are scared and stressed. Many have families and mortgages to pay. Its really hard to get a job in the Industry and Its a v small pond. In the resulting glee and Derek smart was right celebrations please spare a thought .
The backbone of CIG will be out of work. A small group of childhood Friends from Manchester will be millionaires

Are staff still being paid? How many are looking for new jobs and places to live?

# ? May 18, 2018 18:22

Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

# ? May 18, 2018 18:22

Chalks: Sep 30, 2009

The spirit of Derek lives on I see

# ? May 18, 2018 18:22

his nibs: Feb 27, 2016; Welcome to the
Dream Factory; Grimey Drawer

monkeytek posted:

When can I start my posting of "HAHAHA" threads towards stupid citizens, must know for maximum rubbage.

Jokes on you.

Star Citizen is out and good, and I'm getting 90 fps with VR support shooting human-like AIs in the face and playing with my friends in 200 Vs 200 space battles.

Proc gen monocles are good too

# ? May 18, 2018 18:23