Jonny Shiloh posted:

Khyber, Camping, and Screaming, in that order.

(Note Oxford comma).

Kyrosiris posted:

The funniest part to me is either the picture is too lovely to let my phone scan them or those QR codes don't go to anything.

Hav posted:

There was a cosplay competition in the early days, iirc, and bunnyman was an entrant. Also the kid in the full face black tracksuit.

Edit: i prefer the image in gold.

Mirificus posted:

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Just got my first warning by security staff for talking about star citizen at dreamhack



gently caress the police

Beexoffel posted:

And we're in the games forum now?
Eh... Hi there games goons! I'm sorry this thread is not about a video game.

Agony Aunt posted:

October 2016

3 years ago.

WORM WAS NOT A JOKE!

EDIT: Who has a link to the meeting notes transcription from jump point magazine with the question about how many missiles and worm was not a joke?

Agony Aunt posted:

You missed the most important backer.

Chris Roberts posted:

I wish someone had sat me down, forced me to pick four or five things that it was important to do well, and focus on those.

Pixelate posted:

Chris: Worm WAS NOT A JOKE

Full magazine (download)

Kikas posted:

Hm, Page 10 and no Mirficus-bot to be seen? Did we forget to redirect him? I've seen Dementropy here, but I liked having two bots... unless that kind of posting is a no-no in Games, then it's understandable. I need those cultist reactions to the "Gatsby" ripoff.

Agony Aunt posted:

Ah, Strike Commander.

What does CIG have to say about this game?

> At the time, Strike Commander was far over budget and a year overdue.

Well, that is rather unusual for Chris Roberts... but one presume he would have learnt his lesson after that right?

quote:

The box’s claim that it would run on an 80386 was a polite fiction at best; in reality, you needed an 80486, and one of the fastest ones at that — running at least at 50 MHz or, better yet, 66 MHz — if you wished to see anything like the silky-smooth visuals that Origin had been showing off so proudly at recent trade shows. Even Origin had to admit in their newsletter that customers had been “stunned” by the hardware Strike Commander craved. Pushed along by the kid-in-a-candy-store enthusiasm of Chris Roberts, who never had a passing fancy he didn’t want to rush right out and implement, they had badly overshot the current state of computing hardware.

quote:

No one at Origin had much time to bask in the rapturous reception accorded to Wingleader at the 1990 Summer Consumer Electronics Show. Their end-of-September deadline for shipping the game was now barely three months away, and there remained a daunting amount of work to be done.

At the beginning of July, executive producer Dallas Snell called the troops together to tell them that crunch time was beginning in earnest; everyone would need to work at least 55 hours per week from now on. Most of the people on the project only smiled bemusedly at the alleged news flash. They were already working those kinds of hours, and knew all too well that a 55-hour work week would probably seem like a part-timer’s schedule before all was said and done.

At the beginning of August, Snell unceremoniously booted Chris Roberts, the project’s founder, from his role as co-producer, leaving him with only the title of director. Manifesting a tendency anyone familiar with his more recent projects will immediately recognize, Roberts had been causing chaos on the team by approving seemingly every suggested addition or enhancement that crossed his desk. Snell, the brutal pragmatist in this company full of dreamers, appointed himself as Warren Spector’s new co-producer. His first action was to place a freeze on new features in favor of getting the game that currently existed finished and out the door.

Solarin posted:

Still laughing about 'gently caress you, got minelayer'. Instant classic

Bootcha posted:

Isn't this where we came in?

Hey GAMES folk, I'm Bootcha, the kool-aid drinking idiot that was a VC and investor with CIG and the Star Citizen Project at the beginning. As someone with an actual vested interest in the success of Star Citizen, I did my best to encourage enthusiasm and engender excitement about the project, after all, more dollars in CIG's pocket would mean more dollars for me, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppdnbrylevc

Hhahaahahaahaha gently caress no.

So what happened, to turn me into a salty, filthy leaver who has no life other than to spread FUD and lies about a project I lost any ability to influence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8oZShTkPZU

Too confusing? Okay, the jist is fellow goons started shiting up the old hugbox and calling us out on our kool-aid BS. Then Derek Smart appeared, contacted me personally, and we discussed what was going on, what questions I should ask CIG, and what leads to follow-up on. Turns out, Derek Smart was not wrong. I saw evidence and heard first and second-hand anecdotal reports of rampant mismanagement, nepotistic practices, and dishonest marketing plans to keep funding coming in. I confronted Roberts and Ortwin (the in-house lawyer and old friend of Roberts from his movie days) about these problems, but was met with deflecting denials or contradicting counter-claims to the opposite. This came to a head when my SA account was directly linked to myself by CIG staff, at which point I told CIG that it was time for our contract to be terminated and our interests to separate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-oHfJNrr0

That should have been the end of it, right? Well, it turns out that despite making a clean exit, I too, like Derek Smart, was infused with glorious purpose. There was a story to tell. Many gaming rags have attempted to make some sense of this giant dumpster fire. But that was the problem, they tried to make sense of it. The only way to know the Star Citizen story is to embrace the madness, the surrealism, and the sheer obsession. And so, the Sunk Cost Galaxy documentary series was born.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGP9fhjHyBA

It is currently a race to see who will not finish first: Star Citizen, or Sunk Cost Galaxy. Squadron 42 is slated for beta 2020, and Chapter 7 remains in development with more than half the promised series remaining.

This post, more than anything, reveals the Terrible Secrets of Space... Sims.

Aqua Seafoam Shame posted:

Did someone actually say that? I thought it was just a funny thread title.

Solarin posted:

My hopes for this thread:

-more fyad concern trolling
-less weird reddit post history mining
-frequent games posters coming in angry that this thread exists and is constantly on the first page
-more bear
-

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-poo poo tons of frivolous reporting of posters itt

Scruffpuff posted:

The Reddit reposts are the only posts I skip. The posts from the people here are almost always fun to read. Reddit posts are never, ever good. Reddit reposts are like turds floating in an otherwise enjoyable swimming pool.

TheDeadlyShoe posted:

Look, would you really rather see Spectrum reposts?

Quavers posted:

Sillybones posted:

In Training posted:

Gas.

Scruffpuff posted:

The Reddit reposts are the only posts I skip. The posts from the people here are almost always fun to read. Reddit posts are never, ever good. Reddit reposts are like turds floating in an otherwise enjoyable swimming pool.

Quavers posted:

Rap Three Times posted:

The same day as the S.C.A.M thread closes... Coincidence?...

Savy Saracen salad posted:

The question is how can someone that insane have that much money to throw around on a toy?!?!?! I would love to know... drat If I had 50k to spare I would have dropped out of work and taken months to travel the world and stay in the most luxurious intercontinental hotels and enjoy the high life and amazing scenery and 5 star food etc.... !!!! I would have spoilt myself like a king with that money!

Tsar Mikey posted:

I just swung by planet Crusader after stopping at Grim Hex (a very spooky and evil place for bad guys ONLY) to get some data on a large trade convoy passing through the system. My organization, named <Bad Grammar Latin Name> is going to pick the convoy clean and take all the loot back the base we built on Daymar (fighter of the Nightmar). Our lead fence will sell all these goods and we'll pay system officials to look the other way in the future.

There, I just had the same experience for $10 that backers have for $1000 or more.

SPERMCUBE.ORG posted:

The setting is so generic that the backers have to stamp "Star Citizen" onto themselves or else they'd forget what cult they're in.

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

My favorite thing about the new thread so far- random goons stumbling in and saying "holy poo poo, is this for real?!?"

2nd favorite thing- Tane

Saladin Rising posted:

Ah, apparently we have some new people in this thread, so I'd like to introduce you to Clifford aka miku aka SpearmintVR, a citizen who has spent a lot of money on Star Citizen, and is one of the few to show off the actual number. How much has he spent?

https://twitter.com/spearmintvr/status/1082723123823370240
Almost 58,000 dollars.

You know what else he could have done with all that money?
https://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=514


He could have gone on a months-long cruise across the world and seen stuff that I would love to be able to experience and be jealous as gently caress about. There was another cruise that I can't find now that included dinner on a private game reserve in Africa that was also for less than he's spent on Star Citizen. Sometimes you need a sanity check to realize just how much loving money people have pissed away on a lovely pre-alpha Cryengine hack that pretends it's a space game.