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TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014

Shoulda called it then.

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Pharohman777
Jan 14, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Colostomy Bag posted:

I'm assuming that crypto is the other 3rd of the big three for laughs behind this and TSLA? Not sure I can keep up.

The goon Divabot, also known as David Gerard, turned himself into a 'professional crypocurrency sceptic' via the sheer amount of research and reporting he does on cryptocurrency and its innumerable idiots and scammers.

He has a book, attack of the 50-foot blockchain that is amazing for seeing and laughing at the idiocy of buttcoiners up until about 2017.

He also has a blog where he compiles and reports on the latest stupidity to come out of cryptocurrencies.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/

If you don't have time for the bitcoin thread in YOSPOS both are a good option for following the stupidity.

RagnarokZ
May 14, 2004

Emperor of the Internet
Once Planet Zoo comes out, Frontier will be up FOUR games to Robert's ZERO.

That's good times for everyone, everyone sane that is.

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?
Star citizen : hack to the poo-ture.

Breetai
Nov 6, 2005

🥄Mah spoon is too big!🍌

Scruffpuff posted:

Considering he's only selling 10% of the valuation of the company, which somehow was over $400 million despite realistically being into negative numbers, the magic of Star Citizen is that Chris can sell "10%" as many times as he wants.

So Star Citizen is basically The Producers, only the Nazis are in the audience rather than on stage.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
whats this game about

skeletors_condom
Jul 21, 2017

eonwe posted:

whats this game about

https://i.imgur.com/qo1zGn2.gifv

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

eonwe posted:

whats this game about

what do you want it to be about? spinning pink elephants? Yes, it has that! (just $295*)






* may not include spinning pink elephants.

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea

eonwe posted:

whats this game about

Game? This is no game.

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

eonwe posted:

whats this game about



Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016


This is a fake ----- where are his two watches?

FUD, you are a FUD buddy of the Derek!

FUD alert, FUD alert!

skeletors_condom
Jul 21, 2017

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

trucutru posted:


SC Trump is the opposite. Hugely bombastic names, substandard results.

And this is why do many of them are all about it. Bless them.

Complications
Jun 19, 2014


Permaloss is just a chance to pledge again.

I said come in!
Jun 22, 2004


lmao it's almost as if spending this kinda money to fund a video game, while getting nothing back in return, is a terrible loving idea that raises all sorts of red flags. :thunk:

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Haha I love how even the Citizens don't have any idea what LTI actually is and automatically assume it protects against the ship being lost forever. It's still really ill-defined, but CIG themselves have made it pretty somewhat clear muddy that permanent ship loss is not a thing and insurance just reduces replacement costs.

Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Sep 9, 2019

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
is there a goon guild for this game yet

Pixelate
Jan 6, 2018

"You win by having fun"
Sales surge is over on the sub. Back to bugs...



e: oh wait, I tell a lie. Here's luxury space wheel vorpex guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEdnRHg4Wo

Pixelate fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Sep 9, 2019

Redundant
Sep 24, 2011

Even robots have feelings!

eonwe posted:

is there a goon guild for this game yet
It was disbanded after those evil FUDsters were unable to force the mighty Chris Roberts into changing his vision. They just wanted a gamesimple eve clone where they could use teamworkexploits in order to control regions. But Chris knew better so SC will be a libertarian utopia where nobodywhales have the advantage.

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

eonwe posted:

whats this game about

Laughing at nerds scamming themselves. I'm glad of it.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
i see

thank you all

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

eonwe posted:

whats this game about

Hopes, Dreams, and Lies.

The "Sunk Cost Galaxy" video linked in the OP is extremely good at getting up to speed on this scam.

BumbleOne
Jul 1, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

eonwe posted:

i see

thank you all

aren't you one of the veteran posters in ye olde store citizer thread?
just asking for a friend.

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



https://twitter.com/bpdgameaccounts/status/1171176114548555776

It's a steal!

Zaphod42
Sep 13, 2012

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

What's the actual retail price of those goods

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



Zaphod42 posted:

What's the actual retail price of those goods

RSI Orion: $450 USD
Freelancer MAX UVM: $150 USD

Total: $600 USD

Exchange: ~450 Euros

People are exiting.

Dementropy fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Sep 10, 2019

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

Bumble He posted:

aren't you one of the veteran posters in ye olde store citizer thread?
just asking for a friend.

this is how long it took for him to get




e:

Dementropy posted:

People are exiting.

well in this case they're not:

quote:

Ended:10 Sep, 2019
[ 0 bids ]

Klyith fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Sep 10, 2019

Zazz Razzamatazz
Apr 19, 2016

by sebmojo

Pixelate posted:

Sales surge is over on the sub. Back to bugs...



e: oh wait, I tell a lie. Here's luxury space wheel vorpex guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEdnRHg4Wo

Start CItzizer is gonna have AI indecipherable from real life humans!!! 10 to 1 ratio! Fidelity!! AI is ready and the SQ42 beta is gonna drop next year!

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Klyith posted:

this is how long it took for him to get




e:


well in this case they're not:

whys my av in a thread about this game i just found out about

Pharohman777
Jan 14, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
One of the funniest moments was when players could be a woman as well, but thanks to Chris Roberts utter rear end backwards development, the woman looked like some sort of slenderlady as the models stretched and warped to accommodate a male-only animation suite.

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

Bumble He posted:

aren't you one of the veteran posters in ye olde store citizer thread?
just asking for a friend.

Are you asking if he is that eonwe?

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

eonwe posted:

whys my av in a thread about this game i just found out about

All you need to know is that this is a sure fire investment - every dollar you put in is worth four!

You cant lose! ("what is win/lose anyway")

Have you heard of a game developer named Chris Roberts …. well this is him!

It's a Bear market!

I recommend taking out all of the loans to invest in this, Sandi told me so and she is the best financial adviser since she was a little tickle porn actress.

Terminal autist
May 17, 2018

by vyelkin
Just doing my yearly check in and wanna say it still owns people are buying spaceship jpegs

kilus aof
Mar 24, 2001

Breetai posted:

So Star Citizen is basically The Producers, only the Nazis are in the audience rather than on stage.

The Producers actually made a play.

Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?
Gaming press: "They're crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just clipped through the cockpit of another ship! This is terrible! ... Oh, the humanity! The ships are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! The commandos are running for their lives!"

Star Citizen backers: "As God as my witness, I thought JPEGs could fly."

skeletors_condom
Jul 21, 2017


Just went on CIG's website. They have massively overhauled the overall UX. Maybe just 12 months ago it was an unusable piece of poo poo. You couldn't even navigate to the main action point (give $$$ to crobo). They had that 3 pane thing with Star Citizen, SQ42 and some other poo poo.

One funny thing is that it reminds me a little bit of the UI in Deus Ex:



Here is their frontpage for comparison:

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Hav posted:

The most transparent development ever.

Admittedly, a void is pretty easy to see through.

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

eonwe posted:

whys my av in a thread about this game i just found out about

SPINNY ELEPHANT

Thread is good again

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Loxbourne posted:

I've said this before but I'll repeat it for the new thread. The Cultists project wildly and very precisely onto Elite Dangerous. They always have. With Derek quiet now, Elite is back to being Cult Satan. In the cultists' minds, ED and Star Citizen are locked into a zero-sum deathmatch with every own or point scored over ED somehow making SC better.

It dates back to the days when refunds were common and people would post that they were quitting SC for an actual game that had been released. The cult utterly hated that, and always will.

You can tell, with incredible precision, exactly what the cult is worried about in Star Citizen because they start blaming Elite Dangerous for it. Every time. The cult is worried about CIG's finances and broken promises? Well, here's an in-depth study of how Elite Dangerous totally did those things really.

I maintain that if you tried hard enough, you could show a die-hard cultist footage of Star Citizen's most broken sections and have them claim you're really showing them ED.

FailureToReport did make one video where he was playing Elite Dangerous while talking as though it was an updated version of Star Citizen. It was kind of amusing :D

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Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Colostomy Bag posted:

Heh, this is good. But you have to hand it to Roberts, at least his product has a roadmap.

On the other hand, Tesla has actual cameras, not just promises of future cameras.

Scruffpuff posted:

Gaming press: "They're crashing to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just clipped through the cockpit of another ship! This is terrible! ... Oh, the humanity! The ships are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! The commandos are running for their lives!"

Star Citizen backers: "As God as my witness, I thought JPEGs could fly."

Wasn't there an actual SC backer who was found dead from suffocation in his own spaceship themed pleasure basement or something like that? :ohdear:

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