thatguy posted:

Montoya Guarantee™:
"Squadron 42 will sell over $30,000,000 in the first month."

Golli posted:

Chris has a fundamental misunderstanding of the most basic principle in .... well, in this case physics, but anything actually.

The first bit about changing the speed of rotation by changing your moment of inertia is correct (it's how figure skaters control their angular velocity during their spins).

But changing the direction or magnitude of your momentum (which is a vector quantity) requires the application of an external force - so unless you have something to push against you are not going to change direction, slow down or speed up.

CellarDweller posted:

Wrong! You could accelerate by farting.

PAAAAAAAAARP

Golli posted:

Chris has a fundamental misunderstanding of the most basic principle in .... well, in this case physics, but anything actually.

The first bit about changing the speed of rotation by changing your moment of inertia is correct (it's how figure skaters control their angular velocity during their spins).

But changing the direction or magnitude of your momentum (which is a vector quantity) requires the application of an external force - so unless you have something to push against you are not going to change direction, slow down or speed up.

big nipples big life posted:

What are the consequences of having your bare rear end exposed to the cosmos?

monkeytek posted:

Ah hah! Roberts knows every human has two reaction jets built into their bodies! Set and Match Goonie!

Now excuse me as I burp and fart through space. PAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarp.

big nipples big life posted:

I said consequences.

Golli posted:

You will attract Pirates.

Hav posted:

You have to know there's at least one publisher reading this thread on the John in morning.

A headline to cheer anyone up; "A far-right German politician had his clothes stolen while swimming in a lake, with the thief reportedly shouting: “This is no swimming area for Nazis.”

Alexander Gauland, who is co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), was forced to walk partially-naked through the streets, accompanied by a police officer, after someone absconded with his clothes as he bathed in the waters just outside Berlin."

Nebakenezzer posted:

Do you have a link for this

tuo posted:

Golli posted:

You would also benefit by just inhaling and exhaling forcefully.

Conservation of momentum would cause a slight change in momentum - depending on how much Argon is in the atmosphere (changes the mass of each breath), and how forcefully you blow (changes velocity);

Scruffpuff posted:

CIG should ship him some new clothes. $35 shipping per clothing item. Must ship separately. New money only please.

2012 Backer posted:

I not only spent 35 dollars for just the basic game package, but I also nearly spent $4,500 on ships and subscription fees in support of this project like millions of other fans have done. And we have spent 6 years defending this project from critics who said that this was a scam and giving free marketing to our friends, families and coworkers saying how great of a game Star Citizen was going to be. And after 6 years, what do we have to show for our efforts? The game looks gorgeous, but the gameplay is hollow! Its like a $100 toy with a huge cool looking Buzz Lightyear box packaging only to open it and discover that all you bought for $100 is a small stick figure. What pisses me off most is your very sketchy business practices! In the beginning of it I also defended it because you needed the money for developement and it was a cool way for players to get in on the action. But after 6 years of this, with nothing but hollow gameplay to show for it, its quickly getting old! You entice players to spend 400 to 700 up to 27,000 to basically cheat and get everything they want for no effort. You know who else does that? EA, Battlefront 2, Destiny 2 and lovely mobile games. The very people we were giving the middle finger to when we backed Star Citizen because Chris Roberts said they would be different and show publishers how cool games can be made ethically. Well...I guess its true: you can be the hero long enough to see yourself become the villain. And that is why I am going to stop defending CIG. You no longer respect our money. Do you know most of us poor blood sweat and tears to get the money we have, and you purposefully slap us in the face and tempt us to spend that kind of ridiculous price tag for just 3d objects??? Money we could have used on a newer car, or new PC or our mortgages or paying our student loans or other cool game projects that actually have a lot more content to show for our effort. What do you have to show for our money invested in you? A hollow shell compared to what we were promised. Oh, and you also promised us kickstarter backers that I would be able to get the full Squadron 42 game as a perk for being a kickstarter backer. But now you have sliced that into Episodes so you are going to seriously slice that campaign and say, you want the full story? Well, f... you give me money! And where is that Soundtrack CD that you promised me? hmmm? NO where to be found. why couldn't you just sell the starter ships with basic access for star citizen and the full campaign of squadron 42. Where you CANNOT access the cooler bigger ships unless you spend time in the missions and live that in-game life as the Sci fi character that you always wanted it to be. Because for the past 6 years I have been waiting to play that character that SC promised I could play as (Which was being a bounty hunger) and I probably wont be able to for a while longer at this rate! One big part of it is Chris Roberts management of the project. Hes trying to build everything at once and sometimes backtracking and reworking stuff they had already completed. That kind of wasted time has really hurt the project and its image.

And I don't just blame CIG and Chris for this. We the community have not kept CIG's feet to the fire like we should have. Risking pulling the plug on developement unless we got the game we deserved. CIG no longer answers to us because all we have become is a cult of fanboys who refuse to criticize them at all, and those who do they vilify, ridicule and kick them out of the community like blasphemers. Who does CIG answer to? If there was a publisher who believed in the game, they would have kept CIG accountable, making sure that the game was delivered within a reasonable amount of time and that the gameplay was fun and addictive. They don't have that accountability, so they can just continue milking our pockets holding that carrot over our head that one day they will have the game complete while they continue to pull money out of our wallet. Money I have worked very very hard for. Well, I am no longer following that carrot. I have had it with you CIG. If you refuse to have a fun, additive game by now and all you have to show is a big fancy tech demo, then I am done with you. I hope other players start to realize whats going on and pull out of the game. Maybe then you will actually care about this project and narrow its features so you can actually finish what you started! And I hate saying this because I have been devoted to Star Citizen for 6 years! And all I see is they have become the very villain that I was giving the middle finger to back in 2012. It makes me sad and I don't want to be apart of its decline anymore. Goodbye Chris Roberts and CIG. I hope you wake up one day and change your business practices to not be so shady and complete this drat game. Because at this rate, Ill be an old man with a walking stick by the time you do!

tuo posted:

He won't take them unless they are from Germany.

Dementropy posted:

A Goodbye letter to CIG from a 2012 kickstarter backer - A Rant.

Dementropy posted:

A Goodbye letter to CIG from a 2012 kickstarter backer - A Rant.

Hav posted:

I bet you could bounce pebbles off that thing.

Dementropy posted:

A Goodbye letter to CIG from a 2012 kickstarter backer - A Rant.

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Long post short:

I don't understand anything about making a company from the ground up, let alone building whole new video game tech as well as general video game production life cycles, and I under state how far the game has come in year over year...but I'm impatient and leaving.

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I fail to see how backers threatening to 'pull the plug' as the OP worded it would really do anything, or even if they went through with it and stopped funding all together I don't see how it would change anything.

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I think people over estimate their effect on this project at this stage.

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Sounds to me like the OP is blaming CIG for his inability to control his spending habits and speaking as if SC is a finished game but then in the 2nd to last sentence agrees it's not a complete game.... GG

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Quit on a unfinished product comaining of lack of gameplay and hollow gameplay??

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Ok . You turn your nose up at a cake cos it tastes like dough before it's cooked?

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Lol you spent 4,5K on a game while you actualy should be prioritizing real life stuff? Did they put a gun against your head and force you to buy ships or something?

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As a fellow Kickstarter backer myself, you of all people should be aware that we voted to extend the development longer to have a AAAA game. Already leaving? Fine, but do not even think 6 years is enough time to get a reasonable blockbuster game out. Do not even think it, really and speak for yourself in regards to, CIG Cheating us. You are not forced to buy the more expensive packages, even if all the ship artists left the company it will not make the game release faster. A game of this magnitude will not be enough in 6 years or even the next couple years to be honest because it has never been done before. Also, you have a roadmap to see what is coming which is something we never got a couple years ago, be glad we at least have that. Ever realize why publishers do not release games till a year off from release, because of people like you! You know this, bye bye.

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He's in The Corporation. They're just a bunch of trolls being run by Goonswarm.

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Stop reading something awful and del boy's stuff.

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Some people live in mommy and daddy's basement and grind 10 hours a day to earn in game assets, and others get their asses out of bed and work hard 10 hours a day and financially support the game and are rewarded in game assets. What's the difference? People who work for a living are not only supporting the development of this game, but supporting their local school system, and their local and federal government by paying taxes. There is no end game in SC, so there is no pay to win, so just stop with the cheating bullshit.

monkeytek posted:

I was more thinking as long as you have roughly 3 Tons of fuel (canned beans) and a sufficient oxygen supply you could sustain an acceleration greater than that of a solar sail. Imagine reaching the stars... citizen!

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

This would be impractical unless your butthole were gimbaled FYI

Dementropy posted:

A Goodbye letter to CIG from a 2012 kickstarter backer - A Rant.

Beet Wagon posted:

It really is loving remarkable how many computers this game has broken without even launching.

EightAce posted:

For anyone ..Gorf... concerned about Chris's whereabouts and absence from around the verse, fear not . He has been in the uk taking care of business. After dispensing with the tiresome shylock from Coutts with a firm kick up the backside and dusting of the hands . Chris then locked himself in a room with 3 keyboards and 5 4k moniters. He put on a CD of Jean Michelle jarres oxygen and sank into a code trance. His fingers dancing across the keyboards like quicksilver.
Sc is saved and he has re written the engine from ground up and implemented most of the game mechanics

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

This would be impractical unless your butthole were gimbaled FYI

Hav posted:

It’s polarizing, and provides opportunities for troll and nutter alike. To be honest, given the deaths resulting from swatting, it’s past due to start a zero tolerance approach towards anonymous toxic behavior, but there’s a bit of cover for being an idiot online from high places.

There are parallels in all spheres of life; the toxic minority IS a minority, but stop loving covering for it. Stop explaining it away as ‘part of the culture’ and wonder why girls stay the gently caress away.