this is what $8000 worth of internet spaceships disintegrating looks like

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Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

sebmojo posted:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Homo-sapiens

I need to stop posting through migraines

# ? Aug 3, 2021 03:41

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# ? May 24, 2024 23:35

ilovebeersooomuch: May 23, 2014

Jfc someone in that papi stream unironically said "the friends we made along the way"

# ? Aug 3, 2021 03:44

Comfy Fleece Sweater: Apr 2, 2013; You see, but you do not observe.

I've never played EVE but lmao at all of this

ilovebeersooomuch posted:

Jfc someone in that papi stream unironically said "the friends we made along the way"

and someone else tells him to stop talking and let others speak because everyone is so angry lol

well played, goons

# ? Aug 3, 2021 03:47

EmbryoSteve: Dec 18, 2004; Taste~The~Rainbow

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ilovebeersooomuch posted:

gently caress them. I'm from GBS and I say KILL EM ALL

# ? Aug 3, 2021 03:47

Bogus Adventure: Jan 11, 2017; More like "Bulges Adventure"

ilovebeersooomuch posted:

Jfc someone in that papi stream unironically said "the friends we made along the way"

lmao

# ? Aug 3, 2021 04:11

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

I can't tell if the guy who says something to effect of "we pushed goons back to one constellation, something nobody has done before" is trolling or is just that unaware of the game's history.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 04:17

ilovebeersooomuch: May 23, 2014

Bad Purchase posted:

I can't tell if the guy who says something to effect of "we pushed goons back to one constellation, something nobody has done before" is trolling or is just that unaware of the game's history.

I'm going to say not a troll, based on this being a papi stream , lack of correction, and my completely unfounded reasoning.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 04:56

ilovebeersooomuch: May 23, 2014

Rutibex posted:

likely yes, they will want to get in on the ground floor of the great crusade spoils

Dalael posted:

Keep an eye on FYAD to find out

So are they supposed to come into gbs or fyad for j4g? Because they are sprouting in gbs right now.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 05:01

hbag: Feb 13, 2021

ilovebeersooomuch posted:

So are they supposed to come into gbs or fyad for j4g? Because they are sprouting in gbs right now.

i saw someone point one of them toward fyad which was pretty funny

i still have no loving clue whats going on and have never touched eve

# ? Aug 3, 2021 05:04

ilovebeersooomuch: May 23, 2014

hbag posted:

i still have no loving clue whats going on and have never touched eve

Same, my goon. This helped me a ton:

Fur20 posted:

ok this is my armchair general level understanding of it:

TEST and PAPI are allied together against goonswarm in a war of extermination. their leadership is small group of large clans, and they're backed up by a bunch of smaller players as well. they've been pushing out methodically, taking goon territory effectively but slowly.

in a screenshot, this looks dangerous. in reality, due to changes to the game's economy, holding physical territory in this space isn't lucrative; but it WAS once, when goons originally conquered it. so their losses in territory were great, but their losses in productivity were minimal.

meanwhile, slow and steady is good for advancing your position but bad for morale. the players who were there to fight and scuttle goons, weren't getting to play the game the way they wanted to. they would capture a deliberately-undefended station and sit on it for OVER A MONTH so they could claim it, and push out to the next tile and do the same waiting game all over again; but in reality they wanted epic space battles where both sides experience hundreds of billions of spacedollars in losses.

this brings us back to the economy changes: now that holding territory doesn't produce sufficient returns, the members of the anti-goon alliance are no longer willing to sacrifice their expensive capital ships. the alliance is beginning to wonder what the political landscape will be like once this war is finished. will the players who suffered the greatest losses, be destroyed and absorbed into the larger clans? when they lose ships, will they have the funds to replenish their fleet for their own wars later on? you see groups with rivalries from before the alliance that don't want to sacrifice more ships than their regional enemies. the alliance becomes a question of, when the goons are gone, who is going to carve up whom?

some members withdraw. many stay.

despite these substantial losses in territory, goons do as they always have and are minmaxing their ability to gather resources under the new meta because there is no alliance, there are no rivalries, there is only The Imperium. but at last, the TEST-PAPI alliance had reached the doorstep of the heart of goon territory: they prepared for a major coordinated assault on The Delve, a storied and historical goon fortress. they developed loadout blueprints for ships, formulated various tactical maneuvers, and planned to make EVE history.

days before the attack is set to take place, goonswarm spies indicate that TEST-PAPI leadership means to secretly evacuate themselves from the territory. it seems that they have decided the price of their flagships is too high, and quietly begin to withdraw. over the next few days, the order to fall back was released to select members of the alliance, and was only indicated to some lesser clans hours before the planned attack, if ever. more than half the attacking force had gotten the order to escape.

the battle started just as the alliance had decided, and just as goons had predicted; the enemy was obliterated as they approached. by the time goons had claimed their decisive victory, the smaller members of the alliance who had been uninformed of the retreat order realized that they had just now been used as meat shields to buy time for the leaders of the alliance to save their most expensive ships.

apparently, over the weekend, goons had contacted these members of the alliance and told them that their leadership was using them to evacuate. not a one of them listened.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 05:12

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Erulisse posted:

https://www.twitch.tv/ccp

CCP themselves are streaming The Heart of Delve, our main Keepstar called "1st Imperial Palace"

OK but what's
1) CCP
2) The Heart of Delve
3) Keepstar
4) 1st Imperial Palace

# ? Aug 3, 2021 06:06

The Lone Badger: Sep 24, 2007

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

OK but what's
1) CCP

The Chinese Communist Party

quote:

2) The Heart of Delve

A miserable pile if secrets.

quote:

3) Keepstar

An old webcomics hosting site.

quote:

4) 1st Imperial Palace

The setting for an EU Star Wars novel.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 06:13

ded: Oct 27, 2005; Kooler than Jesus

The Lone Badger posted:

The Chinese Communist Party

A miserable pile if secrets.

An old webcomics hosting site.

The setting for an EU Star Wars novel.

that pretty accurately sums things up

# ? Aug 3, 2021 06:17

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The Lone Badger posted:

The Chinese Communist Party

A miserable pile if secrets.

An old webcomics hosting site.

The setting for an EU Star Wars novel.

Thank you, now I understand

# ? Aug 3, 2021 06:23

Guildenstern Mother: Mar 31, 2010; Why walk when you can ride?

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

OK but what's
1) CCP
2) The Heart of Delve
3) Keepstar
4) 1st Imperial Palace

CCP I think are the people who make the game
Delve is the last bit of territory goons held
Keepstar is some kind of space station that you need to control to hold territory(?)
1st Imperial Palace is what they're calling the keepstar because they're the Imperium.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 06:46

Otacon: Aug 13, 2002

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

OK but what's
1) CCP
2) The Heart of Delve
3) Keepstar
4) 1st Imperial Palace

CCP are the developers of EVE Online
"Delve" is the home region of Goons, and our palace (see below) lies in the center. Kind of.
A Keepstar is the largest class of space station in the game, and can hold the most people and the biggest ships
the 1st Imperial Palace is the name of the Keepstar in the Heart of Delve

edit: beaten like our enemies

# ? Aug 3, 2021 06:48

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

Fur20 posted:

to all goons who have no idea what's going on like me, i think this audio capture of anti-goon alliance members sums it up quite well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSh-AZpWtzc&t=1686s

"we didn't ride or die or go to valhalla or anything we just fuckin gave up"

rip noble spy, noble devil

I like the part where they try to console themselves that they did more than anyone thought they could and destroyed most of goon sov so it's a technical win. Goons have been 'beaten' way worse than this in the past though.

There have been a few big losses, but the one I was there for was Kartoon's big sov drop. Between the time Delve was lost and when french bros stepped in and gifted Delekin things were much worse than they seem to be now. I remember driving around Syndicate in my poorly fit frigate to light beacons so a guy in a carrier could jump to ancient abandoned newbie frigate caches and ferry them to our new home system, because for a little while in Syndicate we simply didn't have the ability to manufacture or import newbie frigates. Lot of sad or bitter goons in those days.

Compared to some of goon's big losses, sitting pretty in an unassailable citadel in the core of Delve seems pretty great. Probably sucks for people who liked ratting, mining, or PI though.

Bad Purchase posted:

I can't tell if the guy who says something to effect of "we pushed goons back to one constellation, something nobody has done before" is trolling or is just that unaware of the game's history.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 07:03

Erulisse: Feb 12, 2019; A bad poster trying to get better.

The Lone Badger posted:

The Chinese Communist Party

A miserable pile if secrets.

An old webcomics hosting site.

The setting for an EU Star Wars novel.

This is just glorious

# ? Aug 3, 2021 10:39

Punkinhead: Apr 2, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPKiBbuP6ks

We fired our guns and them Papi kept a-comin'
There wasn't as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
Runnin' down back to Jita where them carebears oughta go

# ? Aug 3, 2021 11:01

Kharnifex: Sep 11, 2001; The Banter is better in AusGBS

Lol, papi's blunder is worse than remedial stealing from goons.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 13:03

Call Your Grandma: Jan 17, 2010

Poopi

# ? Aug 3, 2021 13:06

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Kharnifex posted:

Lol, papi's blunder is worse than remedial stealing from goons.

their first blunder was bringing tons of content to the doorstep of goons, in a game where you win by making you opponent bored

# ? Aug 3, 2021 13:09

Zzulu: May 15, 2009; (â°ËvËâ°)

It was a lame victory by goons and a lame defeat by whoever those guys were

TBH

# ? Aug 3, 2021 13:21

Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

Call Your Grandma posted:

Poopi

We could have won this war months earlier if we had had this powerful pun

# ? Aug 3, 2021 13:25

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Zzulu posted:

It was a lame victory by goons and a lame defeat by whoever those guys were

TBH

yeah the good victories are at the beginning of the thread. this was the final wet fart of poopi, not impressive at all

# ? Aug 3, 2021 13:27

stab: Feb 12, 2003; To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high

Unless the goons prepare a counteroffensive and start picking off all the smaller guys who scoffed at the goons ability to outnerd everyone

# ? Aug 3, 2021 16:18

longtimelurker: Mar 12, 2006; Powered by alcohol

Rutibex posted:

their first blunder was bringing tons of content to the doorstep of goons, in a game where you win by making you opponent bored

Nerd rage is a powerful energy source. This thread has been a good read.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 16:42

Spaghett: May 2, 2007; Spooked ya...

Can someone make a super try-hard comparison to Game of Thrones or some poo poo so I can hear NPR try to explain this? I feel like someone in that ecosystem has to be following this dumb poo poo. I just want someone on the radio to unironically say "goon."

# ? Aug 3, 2021 18:20

Supreme Allah: Oct 6, 2004; everybody relax, i'm here; Nap Ghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3NspH5xuEg

# ? Aug 3, 2021 18:25

Dalael: Oct 14, 2014; Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!

Spaghett posted:

Can someone make a super try-hard comparison to Game of Thrones or some poo poo so I can hear NPR try to explain this? I feel like someone in that ecosystem has to be following this dumb poo poo. I just want someone on the radio to unironically say "goon."

So remember that scene when Robert Baratheon explains to Cersei that if Kal Droggo bringfs his army to westeros, everyone would be forced to hide in castles while the horselords rampage the countryside? Well that's what happened. But turns out that when the horselords keep breaking their face on the Red Keeps defense, they eventually stop getting back on their horses because what's the point? Eventually, some minor leaders of the roving bands start looking at the bigger leader who got them all killed and they decide to gently caress off their own way.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 19:17

ilovebeersooomuch: May 23, 2014

Dalael posted:

So remember that scene when Robert Baratheon explains to Cersei that if Kal Droggo bringfs his army to westeros, everyone would be forced to hide in castles while the horselords rampage the countryside? Well that's what happened. But turns out that when the horselords keep breaking their face on the Red Keeps defense, they eventually stop getting back on their horses because what's the point? Eventually, some minor leaders of the roving bands start looking at the bigger leader who got them all killed and they decide to gently caress off their own way.

I'm sorry, while this is an excellent comparison, it does not include any examples of incest.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 19:27

Guildenstern Mother: Mar 31, 2010; Why walk when you can ride?

I'm proud of you guys for being able to pull together and make another group of people online so angry and demoralized that they took their titans and went home.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 19:33

Spaghett: May 2, 2007; Spooked ya...

Dalael posted:

So remember that scene when Robert Baratheon explains to Cersei that if Kal Droggo bringfs his army to westeros, everyone would be forced to hide in castles while the horselords rampage the countryside? Well that's what happened. But turns out that when the horselords keep breaking their face on the Red Keeps defense, they eventually stop getting back on their horses because what's the point? Eventually, some minor leaders of the roving bands start looking at the bigger leader who got them all killed and they decide to gently caress off their own way.

Thank you. This makes it possible that I'll live in the dumbest timeline where fake space politics is held on the same platform as regular politics.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 20:21

Beeswax: Dec 29, 2005; Grimey Drawer

meat police posted:

evening online

# ? Aug 3, 2021 22:27

Dalael: Oct 14, 2014; Hello. Yep, I still think Atlantis is Bolivia, yep, I'm still a giant idiot, yep, I'm still a huge racist. Some things never change!

Spaghett posted:

Thank you. This makes it possible that I'll live in the dumbest timeline where fake space politics is held on the same platform as regular politics.

The difference between real politics and eve politics is that spaceships are serious business :colbert:

# ? Aug 3, 2021 22:35

Kitfox88: Aug 21, 2007; Anybody lose their glasses?

wait can someone actually like contribute to the alliance and poo poo by just mining nowadays cause that's tempting ngl

# ? Aug 3, 2021 22:38

Rutibex: Sep 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

Kitfox88 posted:

wait can someone actually like contribute to the alliance and poo poo by just mining nowadays cause that's tempting ngl

Yeah the alliance owns all the refineries so I assume you are paying some kind of tax

# ? Aug 3, 2021 22:40

Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

Kitfox88 posted:

wait can someone actually like contribute to the alliance and poo poo by just mining nowadays cause that's tempting ngl

Pretty much any sort of krabbing helps the alliance in some way, even if nullsec krabbing isn't as profitable as it was a few years ago. Come on in.

# ? Aug 3, 2021 22:46

Otacon: Aug 13, 2002

Kitfox88 posted:

wait can someone actually like contribute to the alliance and poo poo by just mining nowadays cause that's tempting ngl

there are literal goon sponsored high-sec and low-sec mining fleets, and all are encouraged to join

# ? Aug 3, 2021 23:13

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# ? May 24, 2024 23:35

ilovebeersooomuch: May 23, 2014

Otacon posted:

there are literal goon sponsored high-sec and low-sec mining fleets, and all are encouraged to join

Does this require more effort than shitposting, because it is intriguing but I'm lazy

# ? Aug 3, 2021 23:26

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