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peter gabriel posted:This is true, when I am not playing games it feels like I am playing starc tizren, and that's why people are always telling me to cheer up, thangs aren't that surely? …and also why you should spend all you money on [thing] and stop asking annoying questions.
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Time_pants posted:Something is up. I don't know what, but something is definitely up. I cannot believe that this is still having record-setting months and potentially its second-best year now, 10 years on, with that joke of a Citcon, progress slowing to a trickle, people getting their valuables permanently stolen, etc. There is something fishy about the money. I don't know what it is, but I can't imagine that even a community as stupid and deluded as Citizens still pumping that sort of money into the Star Citizen ecosystem year after year. Come the gently caress on. Nah, Star Citizen is the perfect zeitgeist of the early 21st century/information age. Its for real, just a bunch of crazy backers getting conned. Mind, you I don't think the typical spectrum/reddit SC fanboy gives a full picture of the nature of Star Citizen. You also have digital platforms (Youtube) where their business model is designed around facilitating fraud and false advertising (and this is the least of their evils). The Scam Anniversary is running from Nov 19th to Nov 26th: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/18377-Countdown-To-IAE#iae-schedule Place your bet on many dollars "worth" of JPEGs they will sell during the scam anniversary! If there is interest, I will throw down 2 good space games and 1 city-builder game I really like.
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marumaru posted:star citizen is very accessible to people who haven't played games in 10 years because they're already used to not playing games 
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Nov 3, 2021 19:39
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Tangentically related to Star Citizen, but Bloomberg has an article on the future of NFTs in games, that is, well... https://kotaku.com/mario-kart-nft-idea-is-the-worst-thing-i-have-ever-read-1847977673 quote:Imagine being able to earn money by playing Mario Kart, that indefatigable Nintendo spinoff series from the pre-internet Super Mario. You wouldn’t have to be all that good at it. You wouldn’t have to play it 24/7. Because, in this mind experiment, you get to be Mario for as long as you like. You get to be him because you own him. 
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Nov 3, 2021 19:40
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Tangentically related to Star Citizen, but Bloomberg has an article on the future of NFTs in games, that is, well... The idea that you can't duplicate an NFT is the stupidest loving thing. An NFT is like having a receipt that can't be duplicated, but the thing itself has no actual copy protection. And having something like a scarcity economy within an online game system has always been possible, you don't need the blockchain for it, just server-side authentification.
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quote:Suggesting monitors with external head tracking is 'like' or better than VR makes no sense. Unless you have tried VR you will not understand what it means to be fully immersed, stereoscopic 3D is not possible on 2D monitors, you can never have the experience of feeling that something is physically present in front of you. You can never have the feeling of looking directly into someone's eyes on a 2D screen, seeing/feeling your height compared to theirs. I have a 48 inch 4K screen with WCG/HDR it doesn't compare at all.
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Nov 3, 2021 19:49
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Nov 3, 2021 20:14
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Mechafunkzilla posted:The idea that you can't duplicate an NFT is the stupidest loving thing. An NFT is like having a receipt that can't be duplicated, but the thing itself has no actual copy protection. And having something like a scarcity economy within an online game system has always been possible, you don't need the blockchain for it, just server-side authentification. Yeah, whenever people try to integrate crypto and blockchain stuff into something like gaming, the first thing I always ask is, couldn't you do this without any of that? And the answer is always yes, and it's always much easier. The difference being that you can't speculate on the price of limited-scarcity IAP (generally). That's what it comes back to. The only real use case is always gambling/stock trading.
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Nov 3, 2021 20:20
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skeletors_condom posted:Nah, Star Citizen is the perfect zeitgeist of the early 21st century/information age. Its for real, just a bunch of crazy backers getting conned. Alright, deal me in. $1,069,420.
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Mirificus posted:Suggesting monitors with external head tracking is 'like' or better than VR makes no sense. Unless you have tried VR you will not understand what it means to be fully immersed, stereoscopic 3D is not possible on 2D monitors, you can never have the experience of feeling that something is physically present in front of you. You can never have the feeling of looking directly into someone's eyes on a 2D screen, seeing/feeling your height compared to theirs. I have a 48 inch 4K screen with WCG/HDR it doesn't compare at all. TL:TL:DR No it isn't, enjoy the mind crushing headaches of sub 30frames across your VR goggle of choice and that the game has absolutely zero optimizations or structural code to support VR.
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skeletors_condom posted:Nah, Star Citizen is the perfect zeitgeist of the early 21st century/information age. Its for real, just a bunch of crazy backers getting conned. Since they are pretty much head-to-head in earnings this year when compared with 2020 and things must go up, uP, UP! then they need to make at least 18 million this month (unless they shift more earnings into december). They make around 140k per day so they'll get ~2m before the anniversary sale and ~1m afterwards. So, during this sale they'll have to hit around 15 million in sales. (  )My guess is therefore  $14,918,072 Mirificus posted:Best.armor.ever! Forgot to mention that the armor looks like this  Nice to see that Bibendum is still doing fine in a thousand years. The expert's opinions are in! 
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Have we talked about server meshing being dead already? Just saw some tweets about it.
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https://twitter.com/notasnervous/status/1455785440045371392 https://twitter.com/notasnervous/status/1455790195220037635 https://twitter.com/notasnervous/status/1455786107854020609
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Nov 3, 2021 22:43
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But what's the source
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Jobbo_Fett posted:https://twitter.com/notasnervous/status/1455785440045371392 HAHAHAHA, get hosed.
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This is old news, isn't it? Didn't we learn it like last week or something? And all the citizens are ok with it because they're still "building towards" one universe or something. Edit: I think we learned about this as far back as Citcon. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Nov 3, 2021 22:46
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skeletors_condom posted:Nah, Star Citizen is the perfect zeitgeist of the early 21st century/information age. Its for real, just a bunch of crazy backers getting conned. My heart wants to go with a reasonable number, my brain wants to look back at whatever their yearly sales are this year versus last year and give a number that will make this year more successful, but my laziness says "just come up with a number that seems ridiculously high, then go higher than that, because nothing about this ever makes any kind of sense anyway." So I'm gonna say....a cool $8 million is what they're gonna claim to have raked in by the end of this. 
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Daztek posted:But what's the source Lack of hellos are to protect the innocent.
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Oh no, they removed Dynamic Door Alignment - Vehicles. Game over.
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The money will continue to flow as it looks more and more like Russian money laundering at this point. I think it was the grey market showing lots of Russian transactions?
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Daztek posted:But what's the source
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TheAgent posted:That hello leak from six months ago lmao Didn't this all get detailed at this year's Citcon, though?
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Gravity_Storm posted:The money will continue to flow as it looks more and more like Russian money laundering at this point. I think it was the grey market showing lots of Russian transactions?
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TheAgent posted:Correct, 7 out of 10 of the major sellers on SCtrades are Russian, according to that doc passed around last year. One had rolling inventory of over $200k lol That's kind of amazing given that average pay there is like x10 less than the US; not hard to come to the laundering conclusion.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Didn't this all get detailed at this year's Citcon, though? No, in citcon they just said that they would start (as usual) with a t0 implementation which meant static servers and then shift into the dynamic ones later.
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hey cig now you can cancel squadron 505, this is clearly a community "vote". just throw it out the window, the community will even thank you for it! let them know that you really wanted to finish it and "get it into their hands asap" but that now you deleted the folder with the entire gamefiles (and you emptied the recycle bin just afterwards)
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These people don't understand that SQ42 will bring a revolution in gaming, a whole new genre of mess hall games.
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quote:That said, resources are starting to roll off SQ42 as certain teams are no longer required. I think the Ship/Vehicle Team is a good/possible example. According to the Progress Tracker they finished the Vanduul Gold Standard ships a few months ago. And now we are seeing the benefit: large number of ships rolling out at the same time, with many more Unannounced ships being worked on. All those Ship people are pouring work into SC and no longer SQ42.
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I'd be very surprised if SQ42 is taking resources from anything at all, it seems much more likely the parts that make money (i.e. SHIPS SHIPS SHIPS) have gobbled up resources from everything else and will continue to do so. If SQ42 had progress they'd have shown it.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I'd be very surprised if SQ42 is taking resources from anything at all, it seems much more likely the parts that make money (i.e. SHIPS SHIPS SHIPS) have gobbled up resources from everything else and will continue to do so. If SQ42 had progress they'd have shown it. SQ42 takes the one resource that matters most: studio time so CRobber can play movie director.
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skeletors_condom posted:Nah, Star Citizen is the perfect zeitgeist of the early 21st century/information age. Its for real, just a bunch of crazy backers getting conned. Ah gently caress I never hit the good hits, so this time, all on Red baby, gonna go high: 25 million. Also I think I've said it last year, but this is more of a game than Star Citizen is.
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skeletors_condom posted:The Scam Anniversary is running from Nov 19th to Nov 26th: Last November was like 17mil. They’ve got to beat that, so I’ll go for: A tidy $18 million
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skeletors_condom posted:Nah, Star Citizen is the perfect zeitgeist of the early 21st century/information age. Its for real, just a bunch of crazy backers getting conned. 21 million american dollars $$$$
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haldolium posted:not just because of the tech though. You can't put 50 players in a tiny room and have a great experience with fps mechanics which haven't changed since they were invented. It's just a clusterfuck. I see you too have fond memories of Operation Metro.
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marumaru posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE4nhtODB_M I'm legit mad about the NFT part because the rest sounds loving great
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See inventions are supposed to solve problems but the thing about blockchain is that it only solves imaginary libertarian anarcho-capitalist problems. And I figured out anarcho-capitalism wouldn't work when I was 12 years old reading Spider-Man 2099
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Lammasu posted:See inventions are supposed to solve problems but the thing about blockchain is that it only solves imaginary libertarian anarcho-capitalist problems. And I figured out anarcho-capitalism wouldn't work when I was 12 years old reading Spider-Man 2099 It solves the problem of how to get more investment/research funding! Thing is that we're already constrained in the physical sense (which is why we have billionaires looking at space) and investments *have* to grow forever so, in a sense, investing in virtual things is actually less noxious than the alternatives, since you can actually create "value" out of nothing. But of course, since we're dumb as all gently caress, we have managed to combine real world waste with the production of mostly useless virtual world tokens, which is the worst of both worlds. But people spending shitloads of money on NFTs or whatever? Better than them spending that same money on deforesting the Amazon, buying a new sports car, or other more traditional venues.
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skeletors_condom posted:Nah, Star Citizen is the perfect zeitgeist of the early 21st century/information age. Its for real, just a bunch of crazy backers getting conned. $2,222,229 Dayum boy! Dayum boy!! DAYUM BOY!!!! THAT'S A THICC-rear end BOY!!
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