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Bootcha posted:You're Wolf, Derek's Chains, KC's Dallas, I'm little brother Houston. And Legal is himself. This is the greatest ending to the SC saga that anyone has ever envisioned.
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Bootcha posted:The one thing that struck me funny was the accusation I was simply a mega-fanboy who spent money for attention that turned sour after CIG snubbed me. I wanted to tell you that I read your post and am happy for you and fuzz that you got out with - surprisingly little - problems.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 08:28 |
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Lol at the bee cave office. If you've never been to Austin bee cave is the rich part while still kinda staying inside Austin.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 08:37 |
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Kevin Costner's best movie is Mr Brooks.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:19 |
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jaegerx posted:Lol at the bee cave office. If you've never been to Austin bee cave is the rich part while still kinda staying inside Austin. My old doctor's office in Bee Cave had several grand worth of furniture and art in their waiting room. It was a very low-traffic family clinic. I went to the Goodwill out there and everything was marked up 25-50% from the other ones in town. It's... yeah, I wish I made enough money to live out there. It's nice.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:25 |
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Go gently caress yourself Nazi Accountant
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:37 |
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It's all right here. This is just ONE episode of AtV. Animator flat-out says they need to keep re-doing the rigging and it fucks their mo-cap data.quote:DL: Give us a better idea about what you do as an animator for Star Citizen. clearly disgruntled employee -------------------------------------------------------------- Internal use only -------------------------------------------------------------- Chairman Review: Animations Hey guys animations look poo poo we need more knobby swivel and juke-bobs. Redo the "bone-man." Cheers, Chairman Chris Roberts -------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Chairman Review: Animations Hey Chris, thanks for the review! Really appreciate you taking the time to do that. I'm not sure what "knobby swivel" or "juke-bobs" are, and I'm guessing by "bone-man" you mean the skeleton? Just know, any changes to the skeleton/rigging will take at least two months. Are you sure? The animations for the rigging we have are finally coming together, we're almost there! Thanks! Competent Animator -------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Chairman Review: Animations You're loving fired for EVER questioning me. You're to make a new rig skeleton or whatever. One that's not poo poo. Any other questions from you filthy loving trogs can be asked in detail during your exit interviews. You're all fired. Cheers, The loving CHAIRMAN Chris Roberts, Remember? CHAIRMAN -------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Chairman Review: Animations Hey Chris, Ben here. You fired our entire animation team yesterday while you were geeked on coke. I told them all you were joking. Were you serious about redoing the rigging... again? Your friend, Ben -------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Chairman Review: Animations What? Cheers, Chairman Chris Roberts -------------------------------------------------------------- Re: Chairman Review: Animations YOU DO WHATEVER THE gently caress MY HUSBAND SAYS GOT THAT YOU FAT oval office!!?!!?!?!?!?! -Sandi
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:38 |
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FROM CLOWN IMPERIUM'S WEBSITE Reptile Blackdeath Reptile_Blackdeath Posted: November 26 Well, I think I should let people in on a condition in the referral program that I missed. I though it would be a great time to try and get some more people in if they could get a $30 pack, and I might get a chance at these referral rewards (I had most people I knew invested before the referral program) One person got a $30 pack.. but they still came up as a 'prospect' on my account details. I though it just might be a time delay.. checked again later... nope... still in Prospects... I'm confused at this point, as I can see from there that they have enlisted... Reading more... and I see "whenever one of your recruits becomes an active player by purchasing a Game Package (with minimum value of $40 USD)...." Sooo... short story.. if you want to get a referral point.. DON'T ENCOURAGE YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN NOW. I guess wait and make them spend more... meh.. pity as I though this would be the time to do it.. Be aware.. I missed the fine print. Oh really ...........
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:40 |
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I'm the bone-man, waiting for CiG to "do" me.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:47 |
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G0RF posted:I keep returning to The Escapist's depiction- particularly CS3's- of a CIG workforce that struggles with feelings of guilt about the reckless spending habits of some of their backers. Yet empathy for these deluded souls stops at the middle management layer of CIG. Chris and Sandi don't lose a wink of sleep worrying about marriages falling apart over misspent family funds-- they think they're making people's dreams come true and consider it a fair exchange if they wear a cleavage baring outfit to dinner when dining with VIP victims of their scam. For later when Foundry 42 tries to avoid any blame.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:49 |
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EightAce posted:FROM CLOWN IMPERIUM'S WEBSITE What the gently caress are they all talking about in there? About "recruitment levels" ???? Chrissakes this game has literally gone full loving ponzi scheme. Unreal. quote:Yeah same here....at least a dozen were my efforts to bring them in. Half a dozen got one of the aurora packs out of the "double citizen package" or how it was called. quote:Simple... I've been buying mine a $30 Starter and an LTI Archimedes for CCU insurance. If they like what they see they reimburse me and I give them one of my old FREE MR->Mustang Alpha CCU's (remember those days? ), if not they gift me the assets, either way I've gotten the referral point and given someone a chance to try the game for themselves. quote:I feel your pain. Most of my guild and clan were on back then too. I wouldn't care that much about the $40 limitation if they could retrospectively add people we had already brought into the game. I'd be past my 10.. This is NO JOKE straight up MLM ponzi-scheme talk. I mean what the gently caress.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 09:53 |
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Toops posted:What the gently caress are they all talking about in there? About "recruitment levels" ???? So basically: They hook some patsy to get involved in the cult The Patsy then has to buy a JPEG not less than $40 Then the referee gets some sort of points reward which enables them to unlock more JPEGS? Is that about right
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:05 |
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G0RF posted:Fixing customer service-- so they stop having 4+ week trouble ticket queues? It's always difficult to be sure from the outside but I'm fairly sure the delay on customer service tickets was a choice and not due to a shortage of staff. For a long time they handled customer service with 1 and 1/2 people, they have 4 or 5 now and back then you'd get a response the same day, sometimes within the hour. The issues haven't really got more difficult, most of the time you are copying and pasting responses, if anything they've had time to speed things up due to knowledge of the issues and more information to point to on the marketing site. The delay on refunds make sense as if you want to drag any refund process out for a month or longer, people might change their minds or will be more likely to accept a lowball offer. You can delay everything to support the "swamped customer support" image as in the end happy people just want to give you money in various different ways and if they wait they'll probably buy something else anyway, gently caress the unhappy ones they're unhappy anyway. They have already said that if you have a problem buying something during a sale and log a ticket, they'll sort out whatever your issue is and provide whatever was on sale even after the sale has ended. So they can control cash flow to some extent through tickets too. Also this backlog started when Chelsea left and the feeling I got was, stupid as it all was, she thought answering people quickly was important. There's a new ccu system too which should have lifted a lot of the burden. So even with thousands of tickets you could clear the backlog in a week assuming you wanted to.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:07 |
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Please god let them release this game despite chris roberts and his rear end in a top hat wife. I would literally spend hundreds of hours doing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK6g5Il_SW4
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:17 |
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AP posted:The delay on refunds make sense as if you want to drag any refund process out for a month or longer, people might change their minds or will be more likely to accept a lowball offer. Backed out of a monthly service today via phonecall. "Lost" 15 mins because: The computer was slow, trying to convince me to think it over, and confirming details after giving the required ones already. The lady was nice, so whatever. CiG's method is clearly the same but less personal. They just want to drag it out as long as possible, and the chargeback threats are clearly setting a fire under their asses.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:19 |
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EightAce posted:So basically: That's correct. Maybe as a special "thank you from the 'verse" they also get a nice chinese t-shirt with hosed up text that's a 50-50 blend of polyester and asbestos.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:37 |
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Michaellaneous posted:I wanted to tell you that I read your post and am happy for you and fuzz that you got out with - surprisingly little - problems. I'm glad they got out, but keep in mind they had to deal with Karl's bullshit. That's more grief than anyone should have to put up with to get out of this mess.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:38 |
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Ghostlight posted:Karl is a German auditor Star Citizen fanatic who was posting in the thread in defense of Star Citizen. Quoting this so I can find it again for the next time someone asks who Karl is.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:38 |
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Making it only count for more than $40 when the game can be bought for less than that seems like a really lovely thing to do. I'm sure it's hard enough getting people interested in this disaster enough to buy it without some how getting them to spend more money than they have to to gain access.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 10:39 |
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Chalks posted:Making it only count for more than $40 when the game can be bought for less than that seems like a really lovely thing to do. I'm sure it's hard enough getting people interested in this disaster enough to buy it without some how getting them to spend more money than they have to to gain access. CIG has literally convinced the spergs that they can earn recruitment levels with perks, rewards, and bonuses if they go out and recruit new backers. But the spergs only get "credit" towards their "next level" if they upsell. I can hardly believe it. It's MLM. This poo poo is illegal in many states in the U.S. Depending on where you draw the lines, it might be a straight up CIG can't even hide their grotesque brand of greed and cynicism any more. What a train wreck this will be, oh my brothers, when this all comes crashing down. Chris Roberts and his wicked witch of a wife should loving hang. Toops fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Yeah gotta say that poo poo is riding the line and is probably illegal. What the gently caress are they doing. It's not a ponzi scheme but it may be a pyramid scheme which is why MLM is so loving shady because it is used to hide that typically. Like if it was an actual product and I thought they had a capable legal team I would assume they where just cutting the line very close to a pyramid scheme but it being technically legal still as a MLM scheme. However it is insane that a video game company would result to something this sleazy even if they are skirting the legality of it.
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Michaellaneous posted:I wanted to tell you that I read your post and am happy for you and fuzz that you got out with - surprisingly little - problems. Aww, thanks, but I was never involved. I only heard about it; first I just thought "Eh, video game, investment, whatever," and then I grew more concerned/interested when he told me about the potential lawsuit. Then I saw the train wreck that was CitCon and freaked out at him. Basically my argument went "Oh dear God Bootcha no WTF are you doing this is so obviously a con get your money back now now now." He wanted to give them the benefit of a doubt since he said they'd never been anything but nice to him, and I said "Well YEAH, they were taking your money! Plus you're a guy and therefore not a threat to Sandi's sexist reign as queen bee or whatever the gently caress that's about." He stewed a bit but then started asking around and . . . we all know the rest. As far as Karl goes . . . He can gently caress right the hell off. I better not catch him harassing Bootcha again. fuzzknot fucked around with this message at 11:03 on Nov 27, 2015 |
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Toops posted:CIG has literally convinced the spergs that they can earn recruitment levels with perks, rewards, and bonuses if they go out and recruit new backers. But the spergs only get "credit" towards their "next level" if they upsell. There is a reason the FTC says don't loving do MLM as a public service because its loving evil and most of the time a cover up for actual pyramid schemes. "Steer clear of multilevel marketing plans that pay commissions for recruiting new distributors. They're actually illegal pyramid schemes. Why is pyramiding dangerous? Because plans that pay commissions for recruiting new distributors inevitably collapse when no new distributors can be recruited. And when a plan collapses, most people—except perhaps those at the very top of the pyramid—end up empty-handed." If the FTC is loving saying don't do this poo poo warning sirens should be going off in your head. But you know cultist and stuff.
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Vire posted:Yeah gotta say that poo poo is riding the line and is probably illegal. What the gently caress are they doing. It's not a ponzi scheme but it may be a pyramid scheme which is why MLM is so loving shady because it is used to hide that typically. Like if it was an actual product and I thought they had a capable legal team I would assume they where just cutting the line very close to a pyramid scheme but it being technically legal still as a MLM scheme. However it is insane that a video game company would result to something this sleazy even if they are skirting the legality of it. Yeah man, I mean, ponzi scheme is puffing it up a bit but.. forcing your "baseline backer" to "upsell" in order to gain "credit" towards the "next level" is just... How is this happening in a video game? This is literally MLM!! And never mind that the "Chairman" said the game was fully funded 50M dollars ago. Now I'm wondering if Sandi put all this in place cause she paid 5 grand for a "marketing" seminar, and has autistic posterchild Croberts by the proverbial nutsack.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:07 |
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The final stage is getting their backers to sell Amway.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:17 |
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I worked in a Canadian office once that had Eye Strain software installed it was terrible. So I asked the SC forums if it can be implemented in the game. https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/299616/computer-vision-syndrome#latest Let's see where this one is going.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:23 |
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400k from the Phoenix yesterday, the impact is already wearing off. They didn't have the redesigned Phoenix to show on Around the Verse so it's obviously nowhere near ready as that would have been the time to show it. Everything from this week goes on sale again later today, should see a slight bump from weekend sales but the real money is in the first couple of hours of something they haven't sold before/recently so unsure how they'll do maybe 250-400k average over next 3 days. I think they'll keep the sale going on Monday, might make an extra $150k. I wonder who's idea the new daily superpack of ships was, didn't seem to work too well and possibly reinforced the idea that CIG is desperate for money. They could have shifted some real numbers of the Glaive & Idris if they'd sold them individually, also the decision not to include the phoenix cross chassis upgrades that they sold last year is also very questionable. The number limited phoenix sale isn't going to fool that many people and it's going to be a bit of a let down for those that did fall for it when/if not all 5000 sell. People like to think they got something in demand and that's hard to believe if they don't sell out. All in all I enjoyed the sale, best bit of the gameplay and nice to see them loving it up for a change, for a long time they were like a well oiled machine at maximising income from the sales. Lot harder now that LTI has lost it's shine and nobody believes "this is a one time sale of this sperghat".
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:33 |
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Back to the animations circus. This is awesome. Remember, every change to the skeleton requires massive updates to ALL their mocap data. quote:JH: Now why did we change the skeleton? Can't even come up with a single sensical reason quote:VL: Whatever you know. The dances man it’s just whatever gets people to have fun. That’s what we want we want to just add content to kind of allow people to express themselves in whatever way they want. Be it through interpretative dance or flipping you off whatever. This just sounds like Also, heavy LOL @ "my director." That translates to "Chris Roberts micromanages everything I do and it's like, whatever, you know? Groundhog Day. You know?"
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:35 |
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2.6 million from 100 million. Assume 300k for next 3 days, 200k on Monday. 1.5 million to make in December, there'll have to be a new LTI concept ship sale in December, probably announced on Monday December 14th. Chris Roberts is going to be shouting at someone "I want my loving 100 million this year dammit!".
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:49 |
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Ok, last quote from AtV and I'm going to bed. I swear, these AtV transcripts are a loving goldmine of horse poo poo. More talk about animation, a "senior" animation dev trying to show us how far they've come from their humble start to the SEVENTH version of the character rig. quote:DP: Let’s see if I can find a full body fix so you can see the whole thing here. So once we get it all sewn together, you’ll have a complete… Adam said that’s updated and so we just want to keep it squeaky clean so it looks like the guys actually sitting in the chair, he’s actually picking up the cups, he’s not hovering over everything and going through. Now retargeting is a little more difficult with ships. DON'T WORRY GUYS!! THAT'S GAME DEVELOPMENT!! And now, DANCE!!
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:55 |
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no_recall posted:Developing the BDSSE requires the best drat office furniture ever made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2rNlXUuT5M
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:55 |
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Orions Lord posted:I worked in a Canadian office once that had Eye Strain software installed it was terrible. A few posts in and they were already redefining what an addiction is. Clearly, you just redefine problems until they aren't problems anymore, that is how you justify dumping a few thousand into pictures of spaceships and not wanting to tell your partner, friends or family about it. It's totally not because you're ashamed in anyway, oh no.
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 11:55 |
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My hopes are to run instances of SC on the same PC with 2 monitors. My plan is way too intricate for me to feel like typing... but there are numerous benefits. Always has been and always will be. I did it in EQ CoH SWG WoW CO and STO and i will do it in SC too. Oh and diablo 2 i did it as well. Edit: Saw other posts about kids. Mine are already training to gun my turrets. Skylanders (giants, swap force and trap team) all have places to go and practice in a turret. My kids should be great in my turrets with an xbone elite controller. My kids are 5/3. If yours are older then maybe not skylanders. lol
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 12:04 |
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Thread's Goons Emotional Level: FRUSTRATED. hey guys, this game is coming out and it's going to be the best everything in the PTU 2.0 is really good very buggy, but super fun nonetheless
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 12:25 |
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janssendalt posted:hey guys, this game is coming out Prove it
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 12:26 |
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janssendelt seems to be the only SC fan legitimately taking the hosed up 2.0 and sales in stride so probably deserves some kind of consolation prize or something
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 12:34 |
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janssendalt posted:Thread's Goons Emotional Level: FRUSTRATED. How much you in for mate?
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 12:37 |
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Has anyone said Starch Citizen yet?
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# ? Nov 27, 2015 12:38 |
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T.G. Xarbala posted:janssendelt seems to be the only SC fan legitimately taking the hosed up 2.0 and sales in stride so probably deserves some kind of consolation prize or something
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