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Quavers posted:I think I may have a problem... Missing Praetorian, between Wing Commander and Legatus. I think that's 15k.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 17:36 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Honestly people who own boats are uniquely qualified to be Star Citizen backers, you're constantly throwing money at something that is actively falling apart and a huge pain to use, and you celebrate when you finally unload it to someone else. Yeah. But at the end of the day you have it and not a dream jpeg. Of course you have dreams that come with boat ownership but at least you have something tangible.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 17:37 |
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Welcome back, Melvin!
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 17:39 |
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Quavers posted:Welcome back, Melvin! I forget: is Mel the Nazi apologist or the guy who is secretly Toast?
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 17:49 |
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An alt for our grand uncle and warlord.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 17:54 |
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EvilMerlin posted:Missing Praetorian, between Wing Commander and Legatus. I did nazi that coming!
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:01 |
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Quavers posted:High Admiral: $1000 Finally hit Wing Wommander "Depends on your job I guess. I have a org mate who has a legatus pack ($27,00) but he's a psychiatrist so he's on like $120,000 a year." "They raised >$200M through crowd funding alone... Why anyone would do this blows my mind Basically just evidence we need to raise taxes" "Someone has disposable income and you think they should be taxed to the point that they don't? WTF is wrong with you?" "Bro if someone drops 10 grand on a loving video game that doesn't even exist then yeah, society could make better use of that money" "Why is it up to you or society to determine what someone does with their money?"
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:03 |
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Well I for one made more money than I need this month *crams £10 notes up arse*
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:05 |
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peter gabriel posted:Well I for one made more money than I need this month .......but your regdate is from 2011
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:12 |
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I make about the same as this hypothetical psychiatrist so I guess I should be spending a lot more on Star Citizer than I thought. Cancelling our plans to buy a home and eventually retire right now!
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:14 |
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peter gabriel posted:Well I for one made more money than I need this month Five pounds of 10 dollar bills is a huge wad to shove up the fart box.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:20 |
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Colostomy Bag posted:Five pounds of 10 dollar bills is a huge wad to shove up the fart box. Still better than shoving them into crobears yacht
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:25 |
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requesting the yacht photos with the Chris quote underneath please
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:28 |
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Inacio posted:requesting the yacht photos with the Chris quote underneath please
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:31 |
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$27k is still $300/mo. on this game. $10. every single fegging day.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:32 |
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Insert clip of Sandi saying "well, won't the backers be upset if I'm flying first class on their dime to go to my movie shoot unrelated to the game?" and Chris responds "well the Backers won't even know"
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:37 |
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Chris Roberts is a genius, lets be real He fleeced so many braintroubled dorks and now he's living the grand life
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:43 |
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Fartbox posted:Chris Roberts is a genius, lets be real Yeah, it's the angry braintroubled dorks with disposable income he should be deathly afraid of.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:56 |
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Psychiatrist spending 25k on things that dont exist is almost poetic.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:58 |
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Colostomy Bag posted:Five pounds of 10 dollar bills is a huge wad to shove up the fart box. It is my disposable income I do not have to justify it to you GOOD DAY SIR
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 18:58 |
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I like how people will operate under the assumption that you want to legislate their behavior when you tell them they spent their money on something stupid.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:01 |
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What really troubles me is the overwhelming pride they have about spending that kind of money. There's a few people joking about how absurd it is, but most of them are congratulating and welcoming the poster. CIG doesn't need to do much to foster the cult mentality, they're generating it themselves.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:08 |
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EvilMerlin posted:Missing Praetorian, between Wing Commander and Legatus. Also Übermensch at 88k
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:08 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:What really troubles me is the overwhelming pride they have about spending that kind of money. There's a few people joking about how absurd it is, but most of them are congratulating and welcoming the poster. CIG doesn't need to do much to foster the cult mentality, they're generating it themselves. it's an investment. get a job sweetie
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:23 |
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Dementropy posted:"Why is it up to you or society to determine what someone does with their money?" Well, i guess we might as well do away with taxes that provide public health services (the poster is possibly from the US though and doesn't understand free public healthcare), and education. Oh, and the roads. And bridges. And aqueducts!
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:25 |
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trucutru posted:Also Übermensch at 88k What is funniest is how they name their high tier backers after a low level position for a hotel employee. Also from the wikipedia description: The concept has been applied more generally to other hospitality settings and to personal concierges who manage the errands of private clients. So basically a gofer.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:27 |
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Agony Aunt posted:Well, i guess we might as well do away with taxes that provide public health services (the poster is possibly from the US though and doesn't understand free public healthcare), and education. Oh, and the roads. And bridges. And aqueducts! as a red-blooded american capitalist I want the streets strewn with the bodies of the uneducated, filthy poor as I play with my $35,000 ship package in a pre-alpha tech demo
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:29 |
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peter gabriel posted:It is my disposable income I do not have to justify it to you GOOD DAY SIR Sounds like you share Cig's problem with blocked pipelines - plz seek help or funding
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:33 |
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Zaphod42 posted:Insert clip of Sandi saying "well, won't the backers be upset if I'm flying first class on their dime to go to my movie shoot unrelated to the game?" and Chris responds "well the Backers won't even know"
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:45 |
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Dwesa posted:that question seems to be quite out of character for her Look I'm not here to defend my husband but I wouldn't support something if I felt it wasn't a great thing no matter who it was, including my husband. I am one of the best saleswomen in the world without a shadow of a doubt and always have been since I was a very small girl and I know a great product when I see it. What I have seen this year is a vocal minority of people who get butt-hurt that they are not a special snowflake anymore and butt hurt their opinion isn't well received so they shout louder or find someone who agrees with them to try to validate their opinion. It is also interesting as a female as I receive quite a significant amount of harassment and abuse for no good reason other than being female. Used to happen a lot more earlier this year, thank god that's changed. And I think there is enough of the game out and its being optimized. I see a lot of games and try them and I am just plain and simply Bored. For $45 we are a steal! There's plenty to do for that amount and tell me which game out there in the world hasn't been late??? You want a s**** game or do you want to wait? Thing is companies aren't showing it as they go. If GTAV had been open development or Fallout 4 or Witcher 3 people probably would have been doing the same thing they are to us and they've certainly taken more than 3 years for their game! Everyone voted for more, no-one wanted a $10Million game. That doesn't buy you much. There aren't more talented people out there for the CryEngine - we have the best. Want to ask the German team or Paul Reindell or Mark Abent or Sean Tracy or a genius at CryEngine what they think of Chris' coding? He re-wrote a bunch of the code to make it do what it does now that hasn't been done before! Like I said, I am one of the best in the world at what I do and I know something great when I see it. The pupil to planet video is absolutely mind-blowing and I haven't seen any other game out there that appeals to me more than that did when I saw it. 2.0 as the bugs are fixed is also amazing and I've had more fun playing that than I've ever had playing Elite.
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:46 |
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https://twitter.com/TheCrazyTonkGuy/status/1222195972828057600 :P
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:51 |
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Agony Aunt posted:What is funniest is how they name their high tier backers after a low level position for a hotel employee. When you hit $100k in 'pledges' you earn the rank of "Moist Towelette".
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:54 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Look I'm not here to defend my husband but I wouldn't support something if I felt it wasn't a great thing no matter who it was, including my husband. I am one of the best saleswomen in the world without a shadow of a doubt and always have been since I was a very small girl and I know a great product when I see it. What I have seen this year is a vocal minority of people who get butt-hurt that they are not a special snowflake anymore and butt hurt their opinion isn't well received so they shout louder or find someone who agrees with them to try to validate their opinion. It is also interesting as a female as I receive quite a significant amount of harassment and abuse for no good reason other than being female. Used to happen a lot more earlier this year, thank god that's changed. this can't be real
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:55 |
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Asmodai_00 posted:this can't be real https://pastebin.com/jZVuT00q
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 19:55 |
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TheAgent posted:get your socialist commie bullshit outta here
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 20:00 |
Anytime I see one of those posts of a backer bragging about reaching some new Ultimus Legatus Grand Marshal level of funding I just imagine them sitting in their gamer chair swirling a glass of wine in their hand perusing the Star Citizen store pondering intently if they should go with the "wood panel" or "weathered gunmetal" for their new ships cockpit interior.
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Agony Aunt posted:What is funniest is how they name their high tier backers after a low level position for a hotel employee. A rich gofer. A gofer of means and prestige. The Crème De La Crème in gofery
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 20:08 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Want to ask the German team or Paul Reindell or Mark Abent or Sean Tracy or a genius at CryEngine what they think of Chris' coding? He re-wrote a bunch of the code to make it do what it does now that hasn't been done before! Like I said, I am one of the best in the world at what I do and I know something great when I see it. The pupil to planet video is absolutely mind-blowing and I haven't seen any other game out there that appeals to me more than that did when I saw it. I am overwhelmed with both and Chris is a moron who hasn't done serious coding in decades and definitely hasn't re-written CryEngine to do a bunch of stuff it hasn't before. A) He made demands of other engineers who did the coding B) Everything, literally everything SC does was done 5 years before. Just because it didn't materialize into a successful game doesn't mean the tech isn't old hat. C) The Irony of "I know something great when I see it" (its not great and she wouldn't, she doesn't know enough about game architecture to know the difference)
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# ? Jan 29, 2020 20:19 |
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Popete posted:Anytime I see one of those posts of a backer bragging about reaching some new Ultimus Legatus Grand Marshal level of funding I just imagine them sitting in their gamer chair swirling a glass of wine in their hand perusing the Star Citizen store pondering intently if they should go with the "wood panel" or "weathered gunmetal" for their new ships cockpit interior. Not wine...
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"SC is not pay2win. It is pay4fun" There are reasonable arguments that there is nothing to "win". Its all about the experience, the big sandbox adventure. Later in the game you will loose against people that spend either more time or more money into the game than you. I'm totally fine with that. In time (after launch), I suspect the P2W/P4F (as you put it) gap will mostly close but as it stands now I see no reason to handicap CIG’s ability to find continued development.
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