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Zushio
May 8, 2008
What were Fred Saberhagen's politics like? I love me some Berserker. :black101:

Book of Swords fuckers.

Edit: Page Sniping Cat Randy (We've been fighting the weight problem for years, he is also a very large cat in general)

Zushio fucked around with this message at 00:23 on Oct 5, 2019

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Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

Zushio posted:

Edit: Page Sniping Cat Randy (We've been fighting the weight problem for years, he is also a very large cat in general)


Absolute unit. I take the fuzzy belly is a trap?

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Really gotta wonder how many of these accounts are legit to begin with and not just some hired goons by CIG to astroturf reddit with "positivity"

It was me! It's part of our initiative to make commandos look unhinged. I think Gorf is Tojal.

Zushio
May 8, 2008

Hav posted:

Absolute unit. I take the fuzzy belly is a trap?

Oh extremely. He actually really does like it rubbed and to cuddle and stuff. He just gets very overexcited sometomes and starts biting. He's gotten better over the years but it still happens.

rePool
Apr 18, 2019

Undercover Goon.

So long and thanks for all the fish

trucutru posted:

It was me! It's part of our initiative to make commandos look unhinged. I think Gorf is Tojal.

Well we know Mr. FBI isn't. I'm pretty confident in that assumption.

A goon pointed something out to me on Reddit. He edited between 40 to 50 of his most recent posts, on anything refunds/starcitizen related with links to this secret command center. No matter how out of context, it was thrown in at the bottom of every post like someone found a secret bunker.

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
:justpost:ing on page 100

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

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard




Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry
Star Citizen is bad.

nawledgelambo
Nov 8, 2016

Immersion chariot
when is the citizens sconed

Bubbacub
Apr 17, 2001

tribble A games

Owl Inspector
Sep 14, 2011

two tribble A games

Sedisp
Jun 20, 2012


TheDeadlyShoe posted:

the problem with starship troopers is that you cant just make a straight up propaganda flick, right down to the peaceniks deservedly dying, and expect that the target audience of teenage boys understand that its a satire or parody at all. Like the only way Starship Troopers is a satire is if you go into it with both a clear intellectual understanding of nazi propaganda and contempt for it. To the extent most people understood the satire, it was only at the level of the kids smashing the bugs being over the top. Even though that wasn't over the top it was literal portrayal of a mobilized fascist society.

and thats how we get star citizens

Tbf any piece of media that is satire or shot from the point of view of the villain will always be misunderstood by Star Citizen esque people.

See Breaking Bad.

LazyMaybe
Aug 18, 2013

oouagh

Dooguk posted:

Something, something, Star Citizen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npU9rT3obwo

It's doom and gloom
I absolutely love how hard he goes in to saying "I AM NOT BADMOUTHING STAR CITIZEN" in order to not piss off idiot whales

LazyMaybe
Aug 18, 2013

oouagh
I also love the part where he says "$700 for this ship? that's ridiculous, it should cost $150 max"

LazyMaybe fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Oct 5, 2019

DapperDon
Sep 7, 2016
In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire on page 100.

Dooguk
Oct 11, 2016

Pillbug
The trouble with tribble A

Kellanved
Sep 7, 2009
Stimperial Page 100

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





lol they somehow managed to make their UI worse

G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

trucutru posted:

It was me! It's part of our initiative to make commandos look unhinged. I think Gorf is Tojal.

:lol: - oh hell no!

I think... (make sure you’re sitting down before reading this folks) I think that some of the guys backing this thing are actually crazy people.

(It’s a theory anyway.)

Sanya Juutilainen
Jun 19, 2019

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Beet Wagon posted:

lol they somehow managed to make their UI worse



What the loving gently caress in the flying fuckery is that? Deus Ex 1 had better UI than that.

AbstractNapper
Jun 5, 2011

I can help

PC Gaming saved by conditioning idiots to think this is ok. Well done Crobbear.

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014

Exciting news for Reclaimer pilots!? Maybe Salvaging is in at last??



Oh.

Zushio
May 8, 2008
I like to fly in combat, but I don't want to hurt people. Is there a fighter I pilot with a guitar and can shoot speakers in to the hull of the enemy ships so they can hear my song and lose the will to fight?

LazyMaybe
Aug 18, 2013

oouagh
very excited to play a multiplayer version of a turret section in an FPS, a kind of gameplay which everyone loves

colonelwest
Jun 30, 2018

tooterfish posted:

So, America?

Pretty much, but without the thin veneer of freedom and all of the withered and vestigial institutions of democracy lying around.

Dementropy
Aug 23, 2010



https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/1180251448010891265

So Long, and Thanks for All the Cash

boviscopophobic
Feb 5, 2016

Zushio posted:

I like to fly in combat, but I don't want to hurt people. Is there a

Yes!

Zushio posted:

... fighter I pilot with a guitar and can shoot speakers in to the hull of the enemy ships so they can hear my song and lose the will to fight?

Each speaker pod is a $30 consumable.

LazyMaybe
Aug 18, 2013

oouagh
why ARE there so many SC carebears

wasn't one of the earliest things advertised being a space pirate or whatever

Wise Learned Man
Apr 22, 2008

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
Lipstick Apathy

IronicDongz posted:

why ARE there so many SC carebears

ptsdEVE

Agony Aunt
Apr 17, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

I guess they are the sort of person who doesn't care. Probably just create accounts, behave like an idiot, get banned, create a new account, rinse and repeat.

What is more telling is how many upvotes his comments got. At one point that comment about putting me in hospital had 5 upvotes. On the upside, the upvotes give visibility and therefore more people get to see the deranged idiot that support the game.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

IronicDongz posted:

why ARE there so many SC carebears

wasn't one of the earliest things advertised being a space pirate or whatever

Wouldn't you also turn carebear if you were flying a $1200 ship around?

Agony Aunt
Apr 17, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Really gotta wonder how many of these accounts are legit to begin with and not just some hired goons by CIG to astroturf reddit with "positivity"

Heh, if they were hired to spread positivity i think they misunderstood the job.

Decrepus
May 21, 2008

In the end, his dominion did not touch a single poster.


Has sand worm taming been announced yet?

LazyMaybe
Aug 18, 2013

oouagh

trucutru posted:

Wouldn't you also turn carebear if you were flying a $1200 ship around?
it's not like they're gonna lose it forever if it blows up though. that doesn't really explain why people get mad about the idea of "nonconsensual pvp"

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Agony Aunt posted:

I guess they are the sort of person who doesn't care. Probably just create accounts, behave like an idiot, get banned, create a new account, rinse and repeat.

What is more telling is how many upvotes his comments got. At one point that comment about putting me in hospital had 5 upvotes. On the upside, the upvotes give visibility and therefore more people get to see the deranged idiot that support the game.

I'll tell you a big secret about reddit.... wait for it... almost there...

There is a shitload of bots and bot-like people in that cesspool. Those people with RES and a list of enemy combatants? They just join a thread, press the "poo poo on them!" button and blammo! everybody on the list gets a downvote per post. Of course, there are all sorts o deplorables with crap opinions and an itchy downvote button too, so anything below 10 up/downvotes may as well be noise.

Also, some people just find a comment that they dislike and then they go old-style and ctrl+f your username to click that sweet, sweet downvote button as many times as possible because that will show you! it will show you good!

I have been in discussions like 30 replies deep and then, suddenly get a gaggle of downvotes in a minute when I piss some of the bigger idiots. (Tip: while your post downvotes have a built-in variation, your total karma hasn't, so you do get to know when someone uses multiple accounts to blast your post.

Reddit is serious business.

tak
Jan 31, 2003

lol demowned
Grimey Drawer
Lol all those words about reddit points

I upvote every bad post and smile quietly to myself

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer

tak posted:

Lol all those words about reddit points

I upvote every bad post and smile quietly to myself

this wasn't the decision made at the last anti-sc goon command meeting

G0RF
Mar 19, 2015

Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.
TWITCH: SaltEMike’s Day Off

I’ve been so busy these last couple months I haven’t bothered to check a Twitch stream in ages. But I figured I’d briefly sample Twerk’s (SaltEMike’s) tonight to see what he thought of 3.7.

With caves added and a big new patch to show off, he apparently took a workday off to stream. He expected ~600 viewers, given the newsworthiness of the release.

Less than 200 showed up.

“I’m not taking off work tomorrow. And I’m not taking off work for a release ever again.”

Hestogen (in comments) “PtU view count has gone down with every release.”

HansYolo (in comments) “People don’t care about a new patch because 3.5 and 3.6 were so bad.”



I don’t pay close attention to SC Twitch these days. After the Rexocalypse, things seemed to be getting dismal for the old guard. We hear tell from CIG that sales are better than ever, yet their own content has been cut down to nearly nothing. CitizenCon is, what, a third the size of last year? Squadron, the theoretical source of their next big cash infusion, keeps getting pushed further and further back. Streamer audiences for the old guard have been gutted and it’s unclear how many human viewers Rex has. 3rd party forums like MMORPG are like ghost towns compared to the old days. And Chris and Sandi are MIA.

Where is the proof of life? Backers were several times more engaged — with streamers, with social media, with CIG video content — three years ago. So where’s the pulse? (Aside from Bar Citizen hangouts and screenshot upvotes on the subreddit, I mean.) If this is the best year of their 7 year life, why does it feel so much deader than 2012-2016? Three years ago news of a new show demo could seize headlines across all the game rags and induce ecstasia in general gaming subreddits like /Games or /PCgaming. It’s just surreal that we’ve seen contracting engagement and interest everywhere yet the financials claim “biggest year yet!”

It does make me wonder if Calder money might be being used to boost revenues artificially. If they can show big growth numbers, then attracting the next investment wouldn’t be so hard. Maybe it’s too cynical to assume they’ve gone full Ponzi at this point, but it’s not like Chris, Ortwin & Friends are above it. Or above much of anything, really. Maybe there real demand out there and I’m just missing it?

CitCon is right around the corner. Devs are working as we speak on demos showing wormhole traversals to Pyro, on slicker than ever SQ42 moviegame clips, on exciting new volcanic biomes and other more-of-the-same “game changers” that change quite little for the thing that ain’t a game.

But who, besides the hangars on, cares?

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer
https://i.imgur.com/EBOxBjo.mp4

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Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars
It's hard to keep the hype going after 7 years since the release of your first trailer, especially when the title of your game becomes synonymous with vaporware, feature creep and macrotransactions and only magazines and sites that are still writing about your game are either critics or shills that publish whatever marketing departments send them.

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