Slow_Moe posted:

35000 us dollaridoos.

Just stop for a second and think what you could do with that money.

SoftNum posted:

This made "sense" (if you squint at it) when he was trying to be a content creator. That's kinda how you get started (again not dropping $25k). He was "investing" in an audience. But reupping at $35k for a game you admit you're not even that interested in anymore... who are you signalling to? What are you getting out of doing that? He for sure owns everything in the pack already. (Also he reportedly bought 2 25k packs so he's in like 100k now)

Also I wonder when he's going to be audited because he implied he was counting these things as business expenses, and the IRS only lets you run self-owned companies at a loss against your personal income for so long before it becomes a (non-deductible) hobby.

Blue On Blue posted:

He seems to be trying to live his entire life in VR waifu simulators now

But... still has time to throw thank Chris Roberts for allowing him to upgrade his package from $27k to $35k

Inacio posted:

cig are like family to me

Thoatse posted:

ggangensis posted:

I'am pretty sure this is mutual and they don't laugh about him behind closed doors.

Foo Diddley posted:

I just want to know what his family's like that the turnover rate is the same as the staff at CIG

Mendrian posted:

Yeah like, an extra 2k would probably transform my life. The idea that there are people willing to spend 30k plus on space jpegs makes me reach for the guillotine.

Scruffpuff posted:

I understand this point of view, but for me it goes even beyond that. The reality is that they're NOT spending 30K on jpegs, they're getting robbed for that money to line the pockets of a very transparently inept con-man, and they're defending their abuser.

It's like a rich guy using a $100 bill to buy some expensive dumb poo poo like a gourmet gumball, or the same guy burning the bill to light his cigar. The second one stings more, and it's what backers are doing.

Mendrian posted:

Some of them, sure.

Many of them turn it into a contest to express how not-big-a-deal it is to drop 5 figures on space jpegs.

Guess how this makes me, a poor person, feel.

Guess.

Thoatse posted:

Scruffpuff posted:

I understand this point of view, but for me it goes even beyond that. The reality is that they're NOT spending 30K on jpegs, they're getting robbed for that money to line the pockets of a very transparently inept con-man, and they're defending their abuser.

monkeytek posted:

"I am here today to show the first ever Billion Polygon character! It takes five render farms to make it move! We are working closely with leading computer scientists in architecting the hardware necessary to run this amazing first ever AAAAAA game:

Game Requirements:

Power: 22 Gigawatts
Processing Power: 20 QuintaFLOPS
Video: We will require reaching out to Render Farms as no single GPU solution will manage at this time. We estimate monthly costs to hover around $50,000 for two hours of gameplay.
Network Bandwidth: min. 3 banded 100Gbps ISP grade fiber. Estimated build out to house $10M monthly cost $300k
Storage: SSD! Standard HD will cause less than optimal performance.

I hope you are as excited as I am and remember we'll be at E3 this year. Just find us on the floor, say the passcode: "I believe" and get a code for an amazing ingame digital item!

Yours truly Crobo!"

colonelwest posted:

Kellanved posted:

I can't really make fun of people that spend that much on Star Citizen, or any other game like it. It's scummy practice to exploit their psychology like this.

e: And I put way more responsibility on companies that do this poo poo, than on the people falling for it. Because out of a few million customers, there are going to be a few people that are extremely susceptible to your message. And companies like CIG just squeeze these people out of everything they have, it's p disgusting.

Agony Aunt posted:

And does his waifu pillow get the same turnover rate?

quote:

ACTUAL RESULT

Me and the NPC behind the counter were teleported onto an NPC Pirate Constellation Andromeda. This was instant and the ship seems to be stuck in the side of the building.

Kellanved posted:

I can't really make fun of people that spend that much on Star Citizen, or any other game like it. It's scummy practice to exploit their psychology like this.

e: And I put way more responsibility on companies that do this poo poo, than on the people falling for it. Because out of a few million customers, there are going to be a few people that are extremely susceptible to your message. And companies like CIG just squeeze these people out of everything they have, it's p disgusting.

Scruffpuff posted:

There is a way to look at it, though. If people who imagine themselves to be rich spend money on the dumbest poo poo imaginable, or nothing at all, to have a pissing contest among themselves, it's the best possible outcome. They could hoard the money and keep it out of circulation. They could spend it in a way that consolidates their power and makes them richer. But when they blow it on stupid poo poo, it goes back into circulation, jobs are created for people to make the incredibly stupid poo poo, they lose the money and gain nothing, and so on. It's best for stupid rich people to blow all that cash as soon as possible. In some small way, it drives the economy somewhat.

The problem is that in this case it's going to a con-artist who's not providing anything and is not part of any economy anyone can benefit from, except, for the time being, the paychecks going to college grads learning skills that will not translate too well.

Thoatse posted:

iron buns posted:

Dooguk posted:

There will never be a shortage of people trying to relieve you of your money.

iron buns posted:

Blue On Blue posted:

Went a bit further down Cliffords twitter feed, and he seems to just really love throwing money at everything

Why have 2 backup batteries for your VR gear, when you can buy... 12



I feel like if he could take a picture of his credit limit just to show off , he would

Slow_Moe posted:

This was the same guy that made a computer case entirely made from fans, right?

Maybe he just like wiring stuff together?

Thoatse posted:

I can't steal goon valor for this it's a thread classic that seemed somehow relevant

quote:

Where are all pickable items?

I was looking for turtles but even in hab on Area18 there are literaly no items to pick. Why?

"[img posted:

https://i.imgur.com/YBfy4FX.png[/img]"]because servers are on their loving knees already

Slow_Moe posted:

This was the same guy that made a computer case entirely made from fans, right?

Maybe he just like wiring stuff together?

Blue On Blue posted:

Deptfordx posted:

So what's actually going on here. I mean apart from the obvious madness. What's the foot thing supposed to do?

The Titanic posted:

Spoken like guys who don't spend at least an hour every morning in front of a mirror taking curling iron damage to their head sometimes and needing to put on the right amount of makeup every day.

Let's just make a fun game that is fun and you can skip all these tedious life needs.

Inacio posted:

fairly sure their thing is to be the quirky person who humble brags. one of the few other times i saw their tweets was them saying "i'm sorry that i make so, so, so much money and spend so much of it on dumb stuff because i make a heck of a lot of money and can afford it unlike poor people "

Pixelate posted:

Think it's foot tracking for VR.

Probably for stuff like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N5u0Ja1ta4

Or just full anime immersion in VRChat or whatever.

e: Yeah looks like that's a Vive Tracker. Only €119 per foot! (God knows how much all the batteries are)

Standard rigs just track hands and head. This will give them full body representation. Especially with games which have inverse kinematic limb magic in them I guess. (Just don't tell Chris).