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Portfolio: RSI posted:In the pantheon of enduring corporate entities, one would be hard pressed to find a company that has become as entwined with Humanity’s development as Roberts Space Industries. Whether sailing through the cosmos or walking down your average street, RSI’s contributions to our society are everywhere, but not many know the origin of this institution of innovation.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:04 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 08:59 |
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That pile of trash word salad came out today?
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:19 |
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Mirificus posted:https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/17268-Portfolio-RSI God, that reads like the worst kind of Mary Sue bollocks. Hands up who thinks Crobblers spent all night writing it?
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:32 |
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That reads like a super lovely fan re-imaging of Dune or maybe even Asimov's Foundation novels. The whole "Roberts Space Industries" story is one of the most cringey elements of the project. It's something a 14 year old would do when writing a lovely sci-fi short novel.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:32 |
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Colostomy Bag posted:That pile of trash word salad came out today? Look it takes a long time to come up with the brilliant ideas that power Star Citizen. Ideas like "Chris Roberts, literally the guy making the game, invented spaceflight and lived to be like 120 years old in the fictional universe that the game is set in. The company in the game is not an allusion to him, it's actually named after him." That kind of forward thinking takes time. Years, in fact. It's the kind of thing you can't rush except right before your next big ship sale.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:34 |
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Sarsapariller posted:It's really interesting how open they all are to an angle of criticism that involves the only woman in the company. I mean don't get it twisted she's completely incompetent at the job and shows no interest in it, but that's everyone at the company. So I find it kind of ironic how Citizens are looking at this particular piece and going "No, no, let's not rush to condemn this, even if they're wrong about everything else. This part definitely rings true to me." This is depressing and so probably true, at least in some cases. But I think it's more likely that they're willing to lay some blame at the feet of anyone other than Chris Roberts. They mistakenly think he's a visionary genius who's doing things nobody has done before and represents the heart and soul of what they imagine Star Citizen to be. Sandi, and everyone else at the company, are ancillary. There are just very few other people at CIG who've been as openly cynical while draining the company for their own personal use. That, and the idea of "girl being nice to me until I'm out of money" probably feels very, very familiar for the SC community. I think Chris and the game are an inseparable entity to these backers. They won't lose faith in SC until they lose faith in him, and they won't lose faith in him because there's no substance to the man to lose faith in. Chris Roberts is basically the title character from Life of Brian.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:34 |
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In other news the game has a ton of content shut the gently caress up about content look here's some content
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:35 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:37 |
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In other other news, the estimates we made earlier about a player having to hand-pick literally thousands and thousands of cave-mined minerals before they can buy the basic economic unit of one starter ship appears to be true. It's one of my favorite things about the game-as-it-exists. In any other game 33,000 "Credits" or whatever would be a nice haul. In Star Citizen it's loving nothing, because the prices for the most basic ships start around 300k, and swiftly climb into the tens of millions. None of the game rewards will ever be realistically achievable with in-game activities and it's so weird that the fans don't care.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:39 |
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Thom12255 posted:Sandi's acting 'career' is pretty sad to even hear about, wonder what she'd be doing without the SC whales. There's a clip in the latest Bootcha vid where she's doing some kind of bizarre hula dance and holy poo poo, this was years and years ago and she looks miserable as poo poo, she's hardly moving, has a huge frown, and is just looking around the set disinterestedly like she took the job at gunpoint. I guess she figured it was too much a bit part for someone of such exceptional talent - she should be able to show no ability at all and just be given the best positions and hundreds of millions of dollars for free! It's gotta kill her that her husband managed to do exactly that.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:44 |
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Scruffpuff posted:There's a clip in the latest Bootcha vid where she's doing some kind of bizarre hula dance and holy poo poo, this was years and years ago and she looks miserable as poo poo, she's hardly moving, has a huge frown, and is just looking around the set disinterestedly like she took the job at gunpoint. I guess she figured it was too much a bit part for someone of such exceptional talent - she should be able to show no ability at all and just be given the best positions and hundreds of millions of dollars for free! It's gotta kill her that her husband managed to do exactly that. Her "boss bitch firing someone over the phone" portfolio reel footage is so cringey. She's such a bad actor. Sarsapariller posted:In other other news, the estimates we made earlier about a player having to hand-pick literally thousands and thousands of cave-mined minerals before they can buy the basic economic unit of one starter ship appears to be true. Why indeed
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:46 |
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Hav posted:Pass, I need my giant robots. I sentence you to Knight's & Magic.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:50 |
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poo poo, was I supposed to save my receipts?
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:52 |
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Who was Goemo again? Wasn't he a diehard supporter?
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 18:57 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:02 |
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Thom12255 posted:She definitely still needs the project, she wasn't able to start 'acting' regularly again until they got this income source. Sleazy Hollywood producers making misleading promises and then not delivering should be held accountable.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:04 |
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I'm going to stream later today. Probably just working on blog code but if anyone wants to start u some homoerotic meme cyber...A Commando posted:Just had some terrible news about an old backer thats walking away from SC and i expect he isnt the last.. combat pilots leaving and when i say leaving they are selling their ships and getting money back. Second person this week. Virtual Captain fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Oct 2, 2019 |
# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:09 |
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Virtual Captain posted:I'm going to stream later today. Probably just working on blog code but if anyone wants to start u some homoerotic meme cyber... Why would you need combat pilots when your space yacht can instantly vaporize any ship that costs less
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:15 |
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why would you need to make money in game when you can just use real money to buy anything you need
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:20 |
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Gort posted:why would you need to make money in game when you can just use real money to buy anything you need So that you can insist that the game isn't pay-to-win, duh
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:30 |
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lol
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:31 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:31 |
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Mirificus fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Oct 2, 2019 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:40 |
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Baxta posted:Who was Goemo again? Wasn't he a diehard supporter? Annoying dumbass Fandred1 who nobody really likes who is lately doing 180s about the project every few months as Goemo.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:41 |
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Tom seems to have some issues. Has anyone suggested he take a break for a few months?
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 19:47 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:44 |
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yeah that guy needs to loosen his tin foil hat, it's cutting off blood flow to his brain.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:48 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:52 |
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Had to laugh at the bit where Sandi wanted to do an 'in universe' show. I think the best implementation that i've ever seen was Max Payne 1 and 2, and all it took was some voice actors and a handful of sprites. I ran the entire game a second time just to watch these shows to completion. The VP of Marketing, the best at business since she was a little girl came up with the idea of putting videos that market the game, in the game. Really can't fault that idea, not at all.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:53 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:53 |
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Wait did Tom_Neverwinter seriously make a subreddit called /r/StarCitizen_Refund to counter people at /r/StarCitizen_Refunds This dude is nuts
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:54 |
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:57 |
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[citation needed]
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 20:57 |
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Gross negligence. CIG's mission statement right there.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 21:09 |
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Frogbear posts more coherently than this. I think Tom might just be one of those dudes who just needs to be ignored and forgotten about tbh. Seems like he'd probably be a hoot armed with a megaphone in a busy area though, well until the cops showed up anyway.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 21:09 |
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This guy's posts read like a manifesto that will be on the news one day. Stay safe out there haters.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 21:10 |
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I genuinely hope he is being overly dramatic as a joke or as a weird RP type setup. You would never think that the meta of that whole post revolved around a video game.
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 21:14 |
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I'm streaming some highly boring stuff now. https://www.twitch.tv/virtual_captain
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# ? Oct 2, 2019 21:21 |
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He posts like that other lunatic who eventually melted down and deleted his account. Same guy?
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