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Colostomy Bag posted:Yeah, the one with twenty nested 'if' statements was a good one. That was a doozy.
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Isn't the German studio doing S42? Wouldn't it be funny if it actually comes out and is just an exercise in German Expressionism.
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Lammasu posted:Isn't the German studio doing S42? Wouldn't it be funny if it actually comes out and is just an exercise in German Expressionism. germany: mostly engine updates wilmslow UK: used to be mainly focused on SQ42, switched to SC, switched back to SQ42, opened a new location below derby UK: originally doing pickup mocap, now looking like its partially handling SQ42 LA USA: high level executive hangout where they can go to elite sex parties (no joke), used to be in a super loving expensive place in Santa Monica, mostly HR/management/execs and artists with a few "high level" programmers whoops, forgot about CIG austin, supposedly handling networking current 3rd party confirmed contractors firesprite, located in liverpool. looking like they might be CI's go-to for help with some sq42 gameplay and primarily console porting turbulent, located in montreal, looking like they are taking over much of Star Citizen development -- [not confirmed] most likely the ones who helped create most, if not all, the citcon demos we've seen TheAgent fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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Re commandos discussing how cig will celebrate sc's birthday on the 10thquote:The CEO of Nvidia made a great video from his kitchen presenting nothing more and nothing less than the next technological revolution in computer graphics, and it turned out very well. yes the most logical thing to do is to look at what cig's competitor and similarly-successful firm *checks notes* nvidia has been doing
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I thought the Firesprite working with CIG thing was just a baseless rumor based on someone there also being named Chris Roberts?
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I thought the Firesprite working with CIG thing was just a baseless rumor based on someone there also being named Chris Roberts?
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TheAgent posted:I don't even think they know who is in charge anymore or what studio is supposed to do what. but here's the breakdown Wilmslow is Foundry 42 (Sq42), the new UK studio is Derby (Mocap)
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Quavers posted:Wilmslow is Foundry 42 (Sq42), the new UK studio is Derby (Mocap) I mean this is from people who follow and laugh at this poo poo, imagine trying to just be like "hmm what is star citizen" and trying to figure out this tangled mess of history, lies, and failures TheAgent fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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TheAgent posted:LA USA: high level executive hangout where they can go to elite sex parties (no joke), used to be in a super loving expensive place in Santa Monica, mostly HR/management/execs and artists with a few "high level" programmers
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TheAgent posted:goin fine 
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TheAgent posted:got those mixed up. jesus christ this poo poo its loving nuts lol New people should just be quiet and buy an Idris imo
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DigitalPenny posted:I'd love to see how we need another 36 months goes down with fan base. Exactly how the last 8 years have gone down - they'll stick around and continue preaching and giving CIG all of their disposable income while also complaining The ones left at this point are the ones that will pump money into this dumpster fire until they die because that's more likely to happen than this game getting released
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Sunswipe posted:Let's all take a moment to contemplate the mental image of Chris, Ben and Jared at an orgy. I get stuck once I imagine Ben - there's no room left for the other two. Also LOL @ "elite" sex party. If Chris Roberts is there, it's not "elite." Although it may be "dangerous." 
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800peepee51doodoo posted:As someone who works in civil engineering and is not legally allowed to call myself an engineer until I meet a number of specific criteria, of which a relevant degree is only one part, its a touch annoying that any goober that can write a hello world script can call themselves an engineer. If it was just about video games it wouldn't matter but software is a part of just about everything these days and the fact that there is no regulation or oversight on the professional qualifications of the people writing the code to make cars drive by themselves is troubling. They've already killed a lot of people and the response was "whoops!" and that was the end of it. "Engineer" isn't just a title, its a set of legal requirements and it carries a lot of responsibilities, including potential jail time for gross negligence. None of that applies to software development though, because people in that industry like having the title but don't want any of the professional and legal responsibility that goes along with it. Anyways, a bit of pet peeve of mine considering the amount of work its taken me to get where I'm at now and I still can't put the word "engineer" on my resume. Software development is a young field and seems like it is still very much the wild wild west atm. It might be more useful to compare the history of civil engineering and consider when the institutions, certifications, and qualifications started to be built out. How software development is done and how it differs from the older, physical engineering fields is also an important consideration. If devA implements an invalid algorithm, is he grossly negligent, or whoever created the tests, or the project manager who approved the work? Is there an analogous event like this in civil engineering? Also, if you haven't seen it there is the Therac story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 which anyone with a CS degree should be familiar with and is a quick read for how it was handled. Your example of self-driving cars is a good one, but I think more an artifact of our economical and political system that it isn't pursued further. If a bridge collapses and kills people, who would initiate the investigation to find out what happened and if negligence is a cause? Who or why hasn't that been done regarding self-driving car deaths? I'm all for a better institutions in and around software development (note that much software development does not include complex liabilities like autonomous driving or radiation devices). But much like many things now, the institutions in the US seem far more interested in protecting those most powerful and fortunate than anyone or anything else. And major software companies generally fall into that category.
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Fidelitious posted:No one outside of academic software engineering gives a drat about what your schooling was. It's helpful for your first job but you can get hired with no relevant education at all if you've got publicly available projects of at least reasonable complexity on Github or wherever. They gave me a secret decoder ring and a mask and cape when I became an intelligence analyst. When I meet another analyst on the street, we outstretch our arms and put our rings together as we exchange Monty Python lines in a traditional greeting. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Sunswipe posted:Let's all take a moment to contemplate the mental image of Chris, Ben and Jared at an orgy. The only thing you can say for sure is they're all shaved like Olympic swimmers.
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This is so many levels of stupid, but I shall attempt to unpack it quote:The AI are "Flawless, it's great, as good as any other AAA game", according to someone As good as any other game? Isn't Star Citizen AAAA quality?? Please, please start talking about subsumption. quote:In Star Citizen the current PU without server meshing has reached the limit that AWS servers can hold - previously everything in the PU was all on one server blade and the server blades did not communicate with each other. Planning a multi-server project is something that should've been obvious from day one. They've been working on SSOCS and uint46 for literal years now. quote:Once the server issues are resolved the AI will be "flawless". Oh, right. The AI is bound by the limits of an AWS instance. OK. CIG is AI'ing so hard that the AI is bursting at the digital seams. quote:The 'Where is Pico' contest was designed to get players to take an object with unique ID all around the playable system, and to have it persist in ships when logged out and back in - which it has. Imagine, tens of Picos with unique IDs, but totally the same in every way. They're physicalized and cached! Amazing! Even if this wasn't pointless.. do they really not have a way to do automated testing? Of course they don't, this is CI~G! quote:This shows that they have an early version of iCache working since parts the PU are reloaded according to what was on a server when it spun down, and that information in the iCache is used to spin up another server. Star Citizen now has a database. quote:PU is broken into shards where each location is held on a server and you transition between servers out in space away from any landing zone locations, space stations, or moons it happens in real time  and then the servers can send your data to another server because they can both talk to the databasequote:Later comes full dynamic server meshing where shards (groups of servers) CIG will learn to use spot instances. That's why they need the iCache. quote:you just can't have servers in Sydney talking in real time to servers in Texas without some lag because it takes time for a signal to travel down the cables and go through each connecting node As we all know, the speed of light only applies inside of cables. In space, it's instant because there's nothing for it to wave in. Elon knows this and I wouldn't be surprised if he invests in CIG soon.
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Pixelate posted:
An image of Chris, Ben and Jared at an orgy.
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Its funny because SW : Squadrons was announced, now released. CDPR delayed CP2077, and it has gone gold recently. We still haven't gotten the the announcement to the teaser of the roadmap to the roadmap of Squadron 42 yet.
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Mirificus posted:In Star Citizen the current PU without server meshing has reached the limit that AWS servers can hold - previously everything in the PU was all on one server blade and the server blades did not communicate with each other. Ignoring that if the game wasn't designed like poo poo, it could handle more players. Its not like this is the theoretical maximums of AWS servers. Lmao.
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It's worth noting that "kappa" is a Twitch-specific emote that can roughly be equated to "LOL", or Jim Halpert turning to give a look at the camera.
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Zaphod42 posted:Ignoring that if the game wasn't designed like poo poo, it could handle more players. Its not like this is the theoretical maximums of AWS servers. Lmao. There are AWS servers with 8 GPUs, 96 CPUs, 768 GB of memory, and 96GB of GPU memory. They've maxed out on a server like that with 50 players, apparently.
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Grubby Hobo posted:There are AWS servers with 8 GPUs, 96 CPUs, 768 GB of memory, and 96GB of GPU memory. I live near an AWS regional HQ, and most of my neighbors work there. They tell that they’re slaving day and night in concert with the devs at CIG to get the player count above 50. But Star Citizen is so fidelitous that the amount of data on the servers is approaching the Bekenstein bound, and they could collapse into a black hole at any moment if the player count is increased by even 1. Tony Z is currently plumbing the depths of string theory to develop a new form of physics that can overcome this problem. colonelwest fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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Funding tracker lost about 1.2 million dollars. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/3/thread/a-million-and-a-half-of-the-collection-have-disapp
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Bootcha posted:Funding tracker lost about 1.2 million dollars. Chris got another boat
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So there are 2 other events of the funding spreadsheet tracker reporting either $0 or a loss. The beginning of the tracker has effectively a $0, but that was literally the first day of 3rd party tracking. 1) 2018-09-19, and 2018-09-20: $0 reported by the Funding Tracker Spreadsheet. What happened on or near that two-day event? quote:Forbes reported... quote:UK Companies House Reported... 2) 2019-11-06: -$22,595 reported by the Funding Tracker Spreadsheet. What happened on or near that event? quote:UK Companies House Reported... Bootcha fucked around with this message at 07:50 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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TheAgent posted:goin fine They should change all of those to say Señor instead.
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Beef Hardcheese posted:It's worth noting that "kappa" is a Twitch-specific emote that can roughly be equated to "LOL", or Jim Halpert turning to give a look at the camera. Thanks. It's also worth noting that "Jim Halpert" is the American version of "Tim Canterbury" as played by Martin Freeman in Ricky Gervais' "The Office". I had to look up who Jim Halpert was. You're welcome, non-American chums.
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I remember back in 2015 how we all joked about this game not coming out in 2015 or 2016. Then the goal post got moved and we laughed at the 2017 release date. Then 2018. Then 2019. And now, in the year of our lord 2020, when the gtx 6080ti was supposed to come out and be able to maybe play starcitizen at 20fps at 1080p according to shitizens.. the game is still not even 15% done. Lol.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I thought the Firesprite working with CIG thing was just a baseless rumor based on someone there also being named Chris Roberts? TheAgent posted:nope, that was the "omg chris roberts is doing space documentaries" thing, firesprite is a real thing that's been confirmed by bootcha You're both half right/wrong. It does involve yet another Chris Roberts that is not the same Chris Roberts. They have some funding ties where they appeared in some loan/charge documents together. The gist is that there are vague mentions that the US group of associated companies (vgdc lienholding llc) has leant money and has some charge over some assets with Icesprite/Firesprite Ltd which is a separate UK company/group of which a different Chris Roberts owns 19% of the parent company. I don't think anything has been confirmed beyond that of any actual working relationship between them yet. The speculation was that they are helping with a console port of some CIG mess but I believe it's 100% speculation beyond the loan/charge. Edit: Also if you consider the name of the US CIG affliliate involved. vgdc lienholding llc, it does tell a story. vgdc is a acronym that has been used as video game development company and the bfi used it to designate the single company that applies for tax credits. Icesprite applies for uk tax credits from the scheme. vgdc lienholding llc leant money to Icesprite and has a lien over some asset they have, possible the tax credit. It's possibly the US company is just loaning them money they know they are good for via tax credit. It's possible this is just part of their relationship that extends beyond it. shrach fucked around with this message at 12:53 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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oh dear what a clusterfuck, i wont even try to understand this when will we finally see this “project“ go up in flames, scorched earth style
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Bootcha posted:So there are 2 other events of the funding spreadsheet tracker reporting either $0 or a loss. The beginning of the tracker has effectively a $0, but that was literally the first day of 3rd party tracking. Would they really bother inputing their Hollywood accounting into the tracker? If so, then why? Or are we just seeing a glitch in whatever system that makes it look like not a single hour of the day goes by without someone buying a spaceship?
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BiggestOrangeTree posted:I remember a Freelancer preview in an issue of Gamestar where Roberts said you wouldn't control your ship directly but tell your ship's computer which maneuvers to do and better computers would be better and have better maneuvers. Kid me read that and thought "well this poo poo doesn't sound fun". Afaik that was just fluff to justify mouse aim in a space sim Similar to how war thunder calls its mouse aim an 'instructor'
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Delivery! https://i.imgur.com/l2IltNT.mp4
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Pixelate posted:
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