Beet Wagon posted:

Benny and the Nipple-Jets

VealCutlet posted:

I'd like you all to know that I went to my folks place last night and they decided to order pizza/pasta takeout. One of the pizzas had pineapple on it and I enjoyed it.

When I was leaving I doxxed my dad and drop kicked my mother.

Beet Wagon posted:

Benny and the Nipple-Jets

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

"Lillards shame"

post your fave star citizen themed band names and win absolutely nothing.

Ghostlight posted:

Mine's "Space Bulldozer Ate My Girlfriend".

Propagandist posted:

My friend's cat, Leeloo Dallas Multipass, in a bunch of packing paper on the floor that she likes to play with.

She is the most photogenic cat I've ever met.

Also what's up thread

Propagandist posted:

My friend's cat, Leeloo Dallas Multipass, in a bunch of packing paper on the floor that she likes to play with.

She is the most photogenic cat I've ever met.

Also what's up thread

spacetoaster posted:

I actually just googled the dude (because I never heard of him). Is he actually a nazi? Like, he's said it? He seems like just a regular rear end in a top hat.

There's an awful lot of this:

going around these days.

Colostomy Bag posted:

Is anyone else feeling grief right now?

Zzr posted:

Yes I still feel grief for the once-in-a-life missed opportunity of p6666.

Ponzi posted:

Meanwhile, over at the Frontier forum...





So TenakaFurey is claiming that paying donating money in order to reach a stretch goal doesn't actually pay to implement that stretch goal?
So what's the money for then? A Porsche?

I realise that there will be SC backers that are er..., shall we say, 'mentally challenged', but surely no-one is THAT dumb. The SC community has got to consist (at this point) of predominently pro-bono shills, reputation management company employees, and grey-market traders (who are desperately trying to keep their gravy-train afloat).

Colostomy Bag posted:

Weekly schedule/what to expect is out.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/citizens/15678-This-Week-In-Star-Citizen

In short, another lore week and the community managers are going to PAX South. Can't wait to see the new show coming in the future that focuses on citizens.

Beet Wagon posted:

Benny and the Nipple-Jets

Sillybones posted:

Post-purchase rationalization: I bought this. I am smart. Therefore buying this was smart.

Sunk Cost Fallacy: I bought this. Oh no it is poo poo. Better put more money in to make it not poo poo otherwise I wasted my previous money. Oh no it is poo poo. Better put...

Colostomy Bag posted:

Weekly schedule/what to expect is out.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/citizens/15678-This-Week-In-Star-Citizen

In short, another lore week and the community managers are going to PAX South. Can't wait to see the new show coming in the future that focuses on citizens.

stupid loving lore poo poo posted:

The signal is live, so prepare to be boarded. Jester is blowin’ the hatch and blastin’ anything that moves with some burning hot B0otyCall to the skull.

I gotta admit, 2947 has been off to a rough start. Really taking my rucksack through the wringer. Bit embarrassing really, but if I can’t shake out my unmentionables on my own transmission what’s even the point? Okay, here it goes — it turns out your wily friend Jester got himself a bounty on his head.

It’d be one thing if it was for one of my decent jobs. You know, one of the scores I’m always jaggin’ on about here. But the drat thing is, I was fingered for an overdue landing fee that I skipped on two years ago. Turns out I accidentally used an old alias in Asura that I had meant to burn. Now, I’m not new at this, so luckily I had all my alerts primed. As soon as the flag popped up the sec-channel, I immediately dropped the face, but by then it was too late. The doggerel had the scent.

This intrepid Bounty Hunter stayed on my tail for about three weeks. Everywhere I turned, boom there was that bastard’s Avenger looming large. Couldn’t even celebrate Traveler’s Day proper. I jumped four systems and still wasn’t able to dislodge the little clinger. Hell if I know why the bastard was so determined. It was a pretty big landing fee but still, the reward for the pinch was barely worth the fuel burn. I figure it must have been an eager upstart trying to earn some rep.

Finally lost the trail two days ago thanks to a quick sell of the falsie to a couple kids who were in the market for an ID. Normally I would never sell a tainted reg, but these little pissants had cost me a job a month or two back when they botched a simple lift. Figured I could take care of two birds with the same bullet.

Speaking of those kids, can you believe they had the gall to take on the NovaRider mantle? Where do they get off? We’re talking a bunch of mints who barely had the wits to put on a flight suit between them and they think they’re worthy to be called NovaRiders? I guess that’s what you get when a generation learns about being a pirate from playing a sim. Discredit to the name.

Though to be fair the name was already discredited as soon as it showed up in Arena Commander. Can you believe those Original Systems codewads stole the proud outlaw tradition for personal profit and gain? Which, now that I’m saying it out loud, does sound like a thing an outlaw would do, but still, the principle, you know?

I think it’s been at least twenty years now since the last time there was an actual legit NovaRider gang striking fear into the hearts of the mild mannered. Those Riders were the real deal and more. They’d sweep in screaming thrash music on all frequencies, so when the poor marks went to comm for help all they would hear is D-Struct singing her head off. You know some Senator at the time actually tried to get playing her music banned for a bit? Nothing makes for a sold-out concert tour like some button-down telling everyone that your sound is ‘too dangerous.’

And then there were the scummers who were plundering under the NovaRider banner before them. Real low of the low. Now, those Riders were known for only hitting cruisers. They would always have one of their own traveling aboard incognito with the rest of the passengers, and then halfway through the flight, their friends would show up knocking outside and they’d be kind enough to open the door. Best part was they always left everyone aboard naked. Figured it bought them a few extra minutes since the advos would usually stop to gawp a bit at all the tasty.

You know, doing all this reminiscing, I’m realizing now that some of you smooth cheeked sorts might think NovaRiders actually came from AC first, which if you ask me is a tragedy of Vega proportions. Guess it’s up to me to educate the masses. Gather around, kiddos, for your outlaw history lesson of the week.

The truth is that the NovaRiders were the first gang to ever fly the black. See, long ago, a ship cost so many creds that — actually I guess it would have been CTRs … or were they still on dollars back then? Doesn’t matter. Point is, they were so expensive that only corps and bougebags could afford ’em and so all the hitters would operate out of stations and ports. Ship would land looking to unload, some friendly folks in masks would be waiting with guns to greet them and that would be that. Until the NovaRiders changed everything.
See, the Riders were the first outlaws to ever hit a spaceship mid-flight. Blew everyone’s minds right out the top of their hats when it happened. Can you image the look on that first pilot’s face? There they are flying around thinking they’re safe when out of nowhere a ship full of nasties drops in and takes ’em for all they’re worth.

I’ll tell you one thing, bet it was a hell of a lot easier to earn back then. Not like now when every slowboat out there’s packing trip-repeats and enough missiles to crack a planet. Of course I say that, but on the bright side, at least I have other outlaws to distract the officials when I’m in trouble. The NovaRiders didn’t wind up lasting very long. After pulling a handful of jobs and freaking the hell out of the people in charge, in swoops the military eager to make everyone feel good about themselves again. Hard cut, no more NovaRiders. At least for a few years.

Wasn’t long before another group used the name. Sort of became a tradition. Every few years a new group would take it upon themselves to carry on. There’s been at least —

[ Proximity Alert ]

… No way in hell … What is with this guy!? drat it.

[ Engines Starting ]

I swear if I find out those rotten NovaRider punks ratted me, next thing I sell ’em will be a bullet to the brain.

B0otyCall out!

D_Smart posted:

Midnight Voyager posted:

Pretty sure they're getting it from poo poo like this, and worse.

http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2016/08/14/vox-day-too-many-black-people-make-the-continuation-of-western-civilization-impossible/

He's not fond of people who are not white.

skaboomizzy posted:

MeLKoR posted:

Looking forward to the Vox Day versions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvAUXToSqM

Sic semper fascist shitheads

MC68000 posted:

This.

People on the discord asked me to chime in on this over the holidays...

Full disclosure I've worked with a lot of mocap mostly in Feature Film including building/simulating digital stunt doubles [and head/body replacements] for various movies at ILM. I currently work for a games company. It's odd that Chris is going for a feature film approach to mocap. It's not cheap.

Here is mocap costs in the LA area: Super Low Budget mocap up in the Valley or Burbank area runs around $700/hr for a bare bones setup with a supervisor and 2 tech artists in a garage space, and up to $2500 per hour for a larger sound stage facility with VICAM systems and the like. What I'm seeing from CIG is... uh a lot of work for a video game. Granted the last time I got quotes was about 2 years ago there's probably a few guys doing flat rate captures for a day but that's just basic skeleton mocap, nothing fancy.

I saw a few samples of CIG actually using Lidar facial capture which... is additional cost and resources needed to clean that up into usable data. So add to the above figures.

Mocap is just expensive animation reference. There's a few places where you can plug in raw data and have it run with rigs in real time [DreamWorks Animation has one of these facilities in Glendale] but even then that data has to be cleaned up for production use to remove any pops and blend motion.

Someone has to go through hours of work per take to clean stuff up into useable data. For a movie, you try to minimize the amount of mocap cleanup needed on a show.

Wasn't there a slide somewhere that showed that they had over 200 hours of captured data for various character actions? That is several man-years of work to clean up for a team of people.

What would have made more sense was just to record facial of actors and do all the body/rig stuff with a system like Xsens which allow you to have animators run around wearing capture suits with a backpack outside or wherever and just constantly do mocap as needed for character actions. No overhead, no crazy soundstage rental, etc. Just record, act out motions and sample/clip your data and start working with it. Parent in the facial capture at a later date assuming you got decent body/facial rig setups.


Lastly... who hires Andy "$$$$" Serkis as a mocap performer for a game? Nuts.


Basically this:

I'd love the see CIG/F42 succeed on some sustainable level, just to avoid a few hundred folks getting tossed out of work, I just can't see a sustainable path unless they keep the money coming in somehow.