Sandweed posted:

My mum is always screaming about how JK Rowling is being prosecuted and that Richard Dawkins is the smartest guy around.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I'd answer your call, Citizen.

Mailer posted:

Reasons to stop being negative and embrace Star Citizen:

Because you always dreamed of a life in space where people would mop your floors.
Unity with the best community in video games.
You know it's just Derek Smart orchestrating an attack because he doesn't have the success that SC does.
Any other game would have a publisher, and publisher demands are what caused games to release less than perfect.
No one thought Chris could do it, but you know he can.
Idiots don't realize that they're just going to be lining up to buy the game on release anyway.
Don't listen to the haters - they're just mad because they can't kill you like in Eve.
Real vision requires time and money to execute. The game will be done when it's done and you should be patient.
If they ever said SQ42 had priority it was just to make investors happy. CIG knows the real product is the PU.
So you can laugh next year when the BDSSE gets released and all the goons cry about it.

Torquemada posted:

Someone got offended when I burst out laughing when they dropped ’Professor Jordan Peterson said…’ into conversation recently.

dog snipe

Torquemada posted:

Someone got offended when I burst out laughing when they dropped ’Professor Jordan Peterson said…’ into conversation recently.

dog snipe

happyhippy posted:

Do you think Chris wanders into the devs at random and hands over a USB with 'I just coded this bit blitter' and they all do a happy dance,
OR do you think devs just open up the code base and see their hard work replaced with Chris code at random?

happyhippy posted:

Do you think Chris wanders into the devs at random and hands over a USB with 'I just coded this bit blitter' and they all do a happy dance,
OR do you think devs just open up the code base and see their hard work replaced with Chris code at random?

Mu77ley posted:

Someone needs to leave a copy of this on Crobbers desk (if he's ever in the office any more):

Zaphod42 posted:

"Game design is an iterative process. There's no-one who writes a design doc and then a few weeks later comes along and says 'great, what's next'"

Yeah... a few weeks maybe not. But literally everybody manages to deliver after a few years. You don't get to talk "hey nobody can make games in a few weeks!" when you've been at this for like 8 years now

colonelwest posted:

Lol nice, I keep seeing the Citizenry throw out 2027-2028 as a release date, like its what they always expected. I can’t imagine what a CryEngine game from 2012 will look like well into the PS6 era.

But 25% finished? That’s a pretty far stretch considering that they haven’t even finished star system 1/100 yet.

Mu77ley posted:

Someone needs to leave a copy of this on Crobbers desk (if he's ever in the office any more):

The Titanic posted:

I imagine by then we'll be up to Unreal Engine 6, and the whole screen will just be per-pixel composite where the number of polygons don't even matter anymore and if your art team is good enough your game can look like real life with almost difficult to perceive differences.

Jonny Shiloh posted:

LOL pretty much every comment under that video references the Star Wars aesthetic of the homestead concept art. Is Ryan Archer back at the company? And the inventory system - sheesh, the way Jared makes it sound like SC has developed something truly never seen before, a *gasp* drag and drop inventory box, oh to be alive in such times.

Shazback posted:

SC development feels like a reverse cookie clicker game at this point. Less and less is happening despite more and more resources being thrown at it.

happyhippy posted:

Do you think Chris wanders into the devs at random and hands over a USB with 'I just coded this bit blitter' and they all do a happy dance,
OR do you think devs just open up the code base and see their hard work replaced with Chris code at random?

The Titanic posted:

Judging from the one time he was seen actually using a computer, he is not developing anything at all in a programming world on a computer anywhere.

Flared Basic Bitch posted:

I’m sure he’s using the far, far more pernicious and effective “if I can distill this feature into a pithy one sentence description, then it’s easy to implement” approach to torturing his devs.

Flared Basic Bitch posted:

I’m sure he’s using the far, far more pernicious and effective “if I can distill this feature into a pithy one sentence description, then it’s easy to implement” approach to torturing his devs.

colonelwest posted:

Working remotely has got to be tough for Chris since he can’t randomly sit down next to devs and tell them to scrap and redo all of their work anymore. Or maybe now he just shows up at their homes unannounced.

Tippis posted:

Tippis posted:

USB? I think you're over-estimating Chris' computer-things-up-to-dated-ness.
It'll be on zip disks.

jarlywarly posted:

This is actually a really interesting point, I imagine Chris just sort of wandering around interfering with things as and when he chooses or sees something that doesn't look like it was copied from the last movie he saw.

Hard to do that via Teams.

Mailer posted:

Reasons to stop being negative and embrace Star Citizen:

You know it's just Derek Smart orchestrating an attack because he doesn't have the success that SC does.

Ok hear me out: Ships should be NFTs on Ethereum to allow for free markets for ships posted:

For some context: I was having a quick joke with my buddy about how much money I've spent in ships. I'm also an Engineer on Ethereum applications, and am into decentralized gaming. He said, "wow you're an idiot, you wasted your money". At that moment it was kind of strange since I never really thought about Ethereum and digtial NFTs, and Star Citizen. I just responded without thinking, "actually this stuff will eventually be tokenized, and I'll likely be able to sell them as digital assets within 4-5 years". It kind of rolled of the tongue so fast I didn't even realize what I said, and I never really thought about Star Citizen ships as investments until now, but I think it's something people should be aware of as SC takes more and more time to build, and as the decentralized gaming space continues to take of. It almost has to tokenize assets in game to compete if it's planning a release in the next 5 years.

The short and sweet: These Star Citizen ships will eventually be tokenized, and they're going to be worth a lot of money on the free market.

I'm not sure if you're into decentralized technologies, but Ethereum has a massive market for NFTs that I'm predicting will be the location of our ships. The narrative is changing in the space where we're planning for an entire economy based on hyperbarterization. The lines between money and goods is blurred in this world, where you can own 5% of a house and claim on it's returns like a money, or you have multiple USD dollars competing as technologies like goods.

Star Citizen is actually taking so long to build, it seems like it will have to tokenize since it will launch in a group of games that inevitably will be connected to the blockchain. Tokenized gaming is going to be pretty massive. All you need is access to the Ethereum network, and you can trade, speculate, etc. Not to mention, it's a massively easy way to remain relevant as gaming switches to free-market items and trading. What better way to drive ship sales than to say, "Look, you can likely sell these things on the free-market later for a higher price". There's a lot to say about the legal implications of this, but since they already take your credit card information on ships, there's nothing stopping them from giving you a transferable NFT that can be associated with an in-game character for ship ownership. You could even have digital organizations (DAOs in our land) that own the NFTs, and have control over the associations, meaning they could "lease" ships to org members or anyone else, while still retaining control of the hull itself.

I just don't think Robert can say no to this. Again, the game is taking so long to build, he's going to have to design new elements of the game to compete with up and coming technologies. An MMO alone just isn't going to cut it anymore if there's a game down the street where people are earning real income playing it. Star Citizen is kind of on track to possibly be a leader in the space if the decision is made to start running with that model, and could rocket adoption even more. I know we're all ship buying degens, but the top could blow off if we add "blockchain" to the "Spaceship MMO". EVE online was huge as people ran and worked in the economy inside the game, but once that economy merges with the real world, things are going to get really weird, really fast. Hope you're all ready for the ride.

P.S. Some other games that have tokenized assets on Ethereum, that are trading on the free market:

Axie Infinity

Aavegotchi

Gods Unchained

Cryptokitties

Mirificus posted:

Blockchain Nonsense

Mirificus posted: