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Armadillo Tank posted:Maybe this jacket will be the impetus for him to turn his life around (maybe just non-spherical). I was going to say that being in the hospital with life-threatening sepsis wasn’t the impetus to turn his life around, why would a jacket be ...but then I realized we were talking about Ben, so 
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Science can easily fix stupidity, its called getting an education and making it a priority.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:People like Chris are pathologically incapable of envisioning failure, let alone their role in it. It's part of what makes them so convincing. See this comment: ewe2 posted:What Chris is dealing in is deniability, the kind that lets you off the legal hook. The kind that honest people mistake for foolishness. Perhaps it is a cultural difference but I come from a culture where grifting is a (somewhat common and tolerated) way of life. And that whole "he's incapable of envisioning failure" is almost always bullshit and precisely what the grifter is counting on the marks to believe (and the "technically the game could be released" is just that, a technicality). In other words, an even more convincing liar is the one that pretends to be pathologically incapable of envisioning failure. That is not 4-D chess, it is a very common and useful strategy and I personally know a few people who have managed to make it their living.
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Morphix posted:Is that true? Is it like Elite's system or is QT just loading you to different maps? As far as i'm aware, this is one thing Verticse is correct about. They are not loading screens per se, QT is simply there to add travel time. A whole boatload of travel time. 10-15 minutes to get from an orbiting station to the local planet. And people complain about travel times in ED?
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trucutru posted:B'Tak is the weirdest dude in this whole saga, a guy who has been anticipating for years to play a game he knows he'll hate and who methodically writes down all the reasons why he'll be miserable playing it. That sounds like more-or-less every gamer I meet on the internet these days. See for example Anthem Chat in the past 3 or 4 pages. I'm beginning to suspect that a lot of people who profess to be gamers but more-or-less constantly poo poo on every game, are just really unhappy on a deep level and don't know how to cope with it. They want games to help them escape, but the problem with games is that they're usually intended to reflect your own self back at you in some kind of fantastical setting and that means there's a big part of you still in the product you're experiencing. If the you in the product is the angry, cynical, socially isolated person who you hate being all the rest of the time, games probably seem like a pretty big disappointment. Star Citizen's not going to make you Malcolm Reynolds if you aren't a charming southern gentleman with a dark past and an uncertain future. It's going to make you a boring angry person shouting about civil war history on the internet because that's what you are. But it'll let you do it in a spaceship. No loot-shooter or tech tree or new graphical rendering trick in the world is going to give them a moment of personal satisfaction if they don't seek it out for themselves. No game was ever going to be their "Forever home" where they don't have to be themselves anymore, and they weren't intended to be- they're transactions, and if people like doing the thing they're selling then they will probably have a good time with them until the next one comes out. If they don't and they need to argue a bunch of false boundaries into being just to protect the good vibes, maybe they are looking at the wrong pastime.
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trucutru posted:See this comment: I'll say one thing, Ja Rule is definitely better at it than McFarlane, who was so blinded by his own ego that he didn't even think of deniability and Rule saw it miles away. I have a similar feeling about Ortwin and Chris, but Chris probably has Erin looking out for him so Chris will be safe when this thing crashes.
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Morphix posted:Is that true? Is it like Elite's system or is QT just loading you to different maps? I believe it is true. There are still some substantial differences though. The main one being in Star Citizen´s QT the player has zero control other than to start/stop, and flight is in a straight line from A to B at fixed speed and with no steering possible. Whereas in Elite´s supercruise players can, accelerate, decelerate, steer the ships normally and navigate, scan objects, launch exploration probes or perform interdictions etc. Something about Star Citizen´s QT straight line / no control mechanic tells me the QT thing and 64b map thing is not as good as crobblers would have us believe. MedicineHut fucked around with this message at 09:25 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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Fidelitious posted:Speaking of Vangelis, I recently watched Blade Runner for the first time (the final cut). Fidelitious posted:You might think so but then I really liked the Neuromancer trilogy and the absurdity that is Shadowrun. Sarsapariller posted:I liked the more recent Blade Runner lmao
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MedicineHut posted:I believe it is true. There are still some substantial differences though. The main one being in Star Citizen´s QT the player has zero control other than to start/stop, and flight is in a straight line from A to B at fixed speed and with no steering possible. Whereas in Elite´s supercruise players can, accelerate, decelerate, steer the ships normally and navigate, scan objects, launch exploration probes or perform interdictions etc. Something about Star Citizen´s QT straight line / no control mechanic tells me the QT thing and 64b map thing is not as good as crobblers would have us believe. How do you mix a Hairy Roberts while launching exploration probes? QT in SC is for those intimate moments with your fellow crew members. A Hairy Robberts in hand, the hottub at full strength, with lust on everyones mind, anything can happen (within those boring 15 minutes to get to another loving place). At least that's what I understood from reddit whenever that topic came up. "Shut up, it's alpha, soon there will be sooooo much to do on your ship during QT, you never want to arrive anyway".
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Feb 4, 2019 10:50
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Imagine the Indiana Jones games/movies when everytime the map-with-flightpath-thingy turned up, you actually had to sit through hours of pure boredom. That's immersion, I guess.
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tuo posted:How do you mix a Hairy Roberts while launching exploration probes? QT in SC is for those intimate moments with your fellow crew members. A Hairy Robberts in hand, the hottub at full strength, with lust on everyones mind, anything can happen (within those boring 15 minutes to get to another loving place). I love the usual answers. "Plan their trade routes" Really, its going to take so long to plan stuff and not the sort of things you do in seconds via a spreadsheet or external tool? Come on, if the community can find ways to automate such information and plans, they will. "Perform maintainance on the ship" So, the ships are basically going to be constantly falling apart, requring you to spend many minutes fixing the ship every time you fly anywhere? Its like they just regurgitate things CI!G have said in the past without actually considering how it would actually work... just like CI!G themselves.
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Mr.Tophat posted:07 tuo, godspeed Thanks, apart from the crummy texture, it was actually quite good. As I said, I was surprised how little sugar was in the sauce compared to tins I have with have been bought recently. Your shopping list also made me realize I haven't eaten baked beans in like over a years, and I definitely need to fix that. The last time I put a bowl of backed beans under a nice big piece of pork on the grill, low-and-slowing it over like 8 hours to the desired temperature. I was hesitant of this, because my gut told me the baked beans would be nothing more than a mush after that amount of time (the idea for that came from a rather good BBQ magazine I enjoy), but it was perfect. The baked beans were perfect, had a wonderfull, slightly smokey taste and took up everything the pork needed to get rid off to become a wonderfull piece of BBQ. I think I'll have to do that again, very soon.
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Sarsapariller posted:That sounds like more-or-less every gamer I meet on the internet these days. See for example Anthem Chat in the past 3 or 4 pages. This post hits it out of the park. I've got a bunch of fun, chill guys I play with, all older, and we have the same kind of fun no matter what we're playing. No discussion of the "meta" or whether the game is poo poo because "texture pop-in" or whether or not the publisher does this or that thing. The people complaining at everything they find are the most miserable bunch of fucks and they take their schtick not only into every game, and also into everything they do in real life. They do seem to hope Star Citizen will be some kind of lotus eater machine for them but as you said, the one thing they can't escape is themselves. They can just be poo poo humans in a new setting.
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Not sure if it's been mentioned here before but the Black Mirror episode "USS Callister" is pretty much a documentary on Star Citizens. Not the game - the backers. It perfectly encapsulates how they are in real life, what they want out of the game, and how they plan to act if they get it.
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Pressing the elevator button more than once crashing the server is a know shipable.
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Beet Wagon posted:You can drop out of QT at any time and be floating around in regular space somewhere on the big star system map. I don't know if there's a difference (apparently Elite spins you up your own little instance of "local space" when you drop out of FSD, and Star Citizen doesn't, I guess?) but functionally it is a loading screen in everything but name. Particularly so if you own a fighter where you can't get up and walk around. Do you still die like half the time if you get up and walk around anyway? So (at least
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Pixelate posted:Thread is good... quote:Bunkers mission work with caveats. Turret respawns are awkward or bugged unless they are meant to repair within seconds. Turrets also cannot be targeted, and finally npcs too often stack. Beside those caveats, missions work 100% quote:For package delivery: quote:Now do you want a mission with no bugs? Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen for at least another couple of years. It's still an alpha and unfinished. SoftNum fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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trucutru posted:B'Tak is the weirdest dude in this whole saga, a guy who has been anticipating for years to play a game he knows he'll hate and who methodically writes down all the reasons why he'll be miserable playing it. colonelwest posted:B'tak, just say that you want the game to be punishingly pay-to-win B'tak is one of the last believers in one of the oldest tenets of the Cult - "Chris listens to us". I think he genuinely hopes CIG will be listening and his prayers will be answered. His faith is wavering - hence his bitter tone. But in his heart B'tak still believes.
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quote:Now do you want a mission with no bugs? Unfortunately, that's probably not going to happen for at least another couple of years. It's still an alpha and unfinished. I like quotes like this because they just take it on pure faith that CI
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MedicineHut posted:I believe it is true. There are still some substantial differences though. The main one being in Star Citizen´s QT the player has zero control other than to start/stop, and flight is in a straight line from A to B at fixed speed and with no steering possible. Whereas in Elite´s supercruise players can, accelerate, decelerate, steer the ships normally and navigate, scan objects, launch exploration probes or perform interdictions etc. Something about Star Citizen´s QT straight line / no control mechanic tells me the QT thing and 64b map thing is not as good as crobblers would have us believe. I guess like others said functionally it doesn't really matter. One works for the gameplay loop, the other is a literal time sink. It'd be hilarious though if Star Citizen ends up copying Elite's method of doing multiplayer. The endless screeeching about how Star Citizen acksuuuually has invented this method and Elite was the one who stole it will be glorious.
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A battlefield equalizer, the Cyclone AA comes equipped with  surface-to-air missle and countermeasure package to provide cover for ground troops against airborne targets.
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Virtual Captain posted:A battlefield equalizer, the Cyclone AA comes equipped with It's an anti-tank-jpeg measure for the tank jpegs
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trucutru posted:Perhaps it is a cultural difference but I come from a culture where grifting is a (somewhat common and tolerated) way of life. And that whole "he's incapable of envisioning failure" is almost always bullshit and precisely what the grifter is counting on the marks to believe (and the "technically the game could be released" is just that, a technicality). In other words, an even more convincing liar is the one that pretends to be pathologically incapable of envisioning failure. That is not 4-D chess, it is a very common and useful strategy and I personally know a few people who have managed to make it their living. It's a technicality but it's still true. That's why it's not a lie. If someone is so good at lying that you can't tell the difference between them and a True Believer does it really matter? It's certainly impossible to know which is true based on the information we have available.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:It's a technicality but it's still true. That's why it's not a lie. I maintain that Chris is in "fake it till you make it" territory. He knows it's a lie at the time he tells it, but he thinks eventually it won't be a lie. Or that once he delivers, he'll be forgiven for lying about it. "Yeah I said it was done in 2016, but you have it now, so it's all good."
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My question today: Supposing during the proceedings of the Crytek lawsuit that CIG is found to be in breach of contract even if its some kind of minor thing that doesn't get Crytek a bunch of money, does Crytek get the ability to terminate the contract and take their engine away?
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Scruffpuff posted:I maintain that Chris is in "fake it till you make it" territory. He knows it's a lie at the time he tells it, but he thinks eventually it won't be a lie. Or that once he delivers, he'll be forgiven for lying about it. "Yeah I said it was done in 2016, but you have it now, so it's all good." Always knew George Constanza was a game developer.
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Dogeh posted:It's an anti-tank-jpeg It's a strategic breaching device... SHIPS UNDER YELA quote:encountered 3 ships 2 600i's 1 Catapillar underneath the surface of Yela at JT using the surface geometry as shielding. They were able to shoot out without the risk of taking damage. Later these ships did leave the surface by what seemed to be there own will. ---  It's all skeletons and:  and:  Or: quote:Current version of Alpha: Scarface Crob is there happily upvoted. The only downvoted one is: quote:Do you have a picture of a little kid playing in his cat-turd infested sandbox with spaceship shaped rocks while wearing a bucket on his head? Because that would be it
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Scruffpuff posted:I maintain that Chris is in "fake it till you make it" territory. He knows it's a lie at the time he tells it, but he thinks eventually it won't be a lie. Or that once he delivers, he'll be forgiven for lying about it. "Yeah I said it was done in 2016, but you have it now, so it's all good." He absolved himself though.
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Sum Mors posted:My question today: Supposing during the proceedings of the Crytek lawsuit that CIG is found to be in breach of contract even if its some kind of minor thing that doesn't get Crytek a bunch of money, does Crytek get the ability to terminate the contract and take their engine away? In theory it wouldn't matter because they're on Lumberyard now anyway with a license from Amazon that anyone in the world can get by clicking "I Agree" on a sign up page somewhere so they stopped playing with Crytek's ball already, allegedly.
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That frame rate choppiness, drat. Now, there are some real world missiles that are designed to have a similar flight path, the FGM-148 Javelin in particular, because the top armor of a tank usually is the thinnest of the exposed armor (see also: the underside, but that's rarely exposed). It's also got a lot of recent play because it's "high tech" and been in CoD recently. So it's entirely in the realm of possibility they modeled the flight path after the Javelin because of CoD  Javelin flight paths, for what it's worth. Top attack:  Direct (traditional) attack:  So CI!G may have stumbled into something that actually has real world relevance! Shame about the rest. iospace fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Feb 4, 2019 |
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Colostomy Bag posted:It's nice you did a CI-G and left the watermark in the image. What you can't see is that it's stuffed with UEC
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iospace posted:That frame rate choppiness, drat. Croberts has no idea what a top attack anti tank missile is. https://i.imgur.com/5JoxDWq.jpg
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