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hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

kikkelivelho posted:

I'm not defending Ben's actions. I'm just annoyed by the fact that people are trying to link this to Chris and his company when no such connection exists.

How much $$$ you in for?

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hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
You left out at least half friend, you left out the civil meat.

Star Citizen posted:

In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Tigey posted:

100% True! Ben has completely left behind the mysogynistic attitudes he expressed in his blog when he was in High School and doesn't let it influence his work.

Nowdays, when cases of sexual harrassment come up - he takes swift action. For example, one case, where a female Star Citizen player was sexually harrassing a male playing by complaining when he sent her unsolicited dick pics, Ben's team ensured swift action was taken by banning her. ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SEXUAL HARRASSMENT!

Ya, part of the backstory to this is that this rat-faced freak who gave 30 grand to space citizen sent a picture of his dick to a woman on their forums.

Ben gave the guy a pass, now we know why!

Real talk: If anyone knows activists or groups that look out for the interests of women or minorities in video games, either consumers or in the industry, you should give them a heads up on all this. I know there are people out there who wake up every day chomping at the bit to stuff some fucker like Ben's poo poo up.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

8 track betamax posted:

Uhh what was that stimpire thing

a citizen wrote it and CIG felt it prudent to leave it up on their forums for like a month or more

it star citizen fan fic

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
Somewhere like 30 thousand posts back in the games thread a guy did an awesome comic thing about the 4th stimpire but I have no idea how to find it.

edit: the Fourth Stimpire is also going to be a faction in the game Toops is making, Solar Plebian.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

8 track betamax posted:

What are the numbers for

Every quote in his archive has a unique number identifying it.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
Hey dans,

Thing is, Ben got older and then his private creepiness turned into public creepiness. For example in his job for the spaceship scam guy, he did things like "side with a rat-faced man who sent a picture of his penis to a woman on the forum" against the woman he sent it to. Also other instances of him being a scumbag to women. Plus there's how he's been so enthusiastic about scamming mentally ill people out of money.

What makes Ben's previous, private creepiness matter is that it sheds light on his recent, public creepiness. It helps put it into context, helps establish a pattern of behavior, see.

If he's still your friend you need to get a message to him: get help. He's dying of obesity on twitch.tv, and his boss, who at times comes across as barely human, delights in feeding him piles of sweets for the viewers.

These revelations about Ben could save his life if his friends really care, if they're really willing to confront him and tell him it's time for big changes.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Pvt.Scott posted:

Hey, Derek Smart, what are you up to these days? Are you working on a game or some other creative project or have you moved on to other stuff, like accounting and marriage or whatever? Not that any of those are exclusive, really. Just thought it would be neat to see some recent stuff. I haven't heard your name since Battlecruiser 2000(or something like that) but keeping tabs on tabletop rpg indie guys is more my thing, so I haven't really kept up on the video games front.

Regardless, continue doing the Lord's work.

He's into public interest work now. Getting at the truth. I think he said he's a family man now too. And he's still making games.

Also he is a legit internet warlord.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
Now I need a program to generate thumbnails for 500 Kerri-Lee pictures. #21,119

Did ben just collect the first 500 photos of her?

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Orcs and Ostriches posted:

A nice addition to this is that people have been banned for off-site reasons, such as expressing doubts in the game and if it will ever see the light of day. So Ben sent a pretty clear message that sexual harassment is fine, but speaking out against his lord and saviour Christ Roberts is an unforgivable sin.

Yep, this is why it matters.

Scumbag to women in his job, sleazy stalker creep in his past. Pattern of behavior. A bad attitude that he cant separate from his work, at a job where he has some form of authority over other people.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

AlmightyPants posted:

I understand this. Lots of kids go through this phase. I know I did.

The difference was I was a teenager. A lot of this poo poo was said when Ben was a loving adult. The dates back this up. He was at the age where he should've known better.

Now you can go with the "oh, well we were just friends making edgy comments to one another" argument. Again, I can understand that. My friends and I say atrocious things around and to each other. It's friends being jerks together, one of my favorite activities.

The difference here is that we do not loving archive tens of thousands of said things in a searchable format on a public website for years on end. And even, for whatever reason, if anything truly heinous was written down, one would assume that it would be kept privately. Again, not in a searchable, public format.

Ben is the face of a $112 million dollar company. When this whole thing broke and I actually became offended at his casual antisemitism, I tweeted him, asking for an apology or retraction. Because, you know, that's what normal people would do in this situation. Not just go, "ha ha ha I sure said some unfunny jokes a while ago". And then nothing.

I feel like an old man sometimes, but I've read some awful poo poo on the internet and very little offends me. The fact that your buddy Ben, instead of sending out an apology or retraction or something, spent the weekend tweeting about seeing movies offends me. It offends me that this very public figure, supposedly representing and managing the community of over a million people could be so callous and disrespectful.

And ultimately, his worst sin is not in saying bad poo poo in the past. It's his complete inability to apologize for it in the present.

Ben is the Director of Online Strategy I think.

Because he is so good at online strategy.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
So in the games thread, this got posted

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/RayRoocroftCIG/status/721681271315898369



How offensive is the word 'pikey'?


Sandi Gardiner's customer support training is really paying off.

Edit to add image, note to CIG lurker, whoever you are, a whole 30 minutes to get this removed? You need to F5 faster. Also I'm Irish, gently caress you.


Thirty minutes later they had removed the tweet.

Don't forget to say "hi" to the CIG folks in this thread too.

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Siva68 posted:

Man these inside jokes are hilaaaarious. Seems normal guys.

But I always assumed that if I wanted to kill people, I could at least get a classroom worth. #18,017

No, it means I like killing Americans... #4,984

I may not believe in many things, like God and the existance of babies, but there's one thing I stand by: kill 'em all. #13,278

Wait, out of 150 people dead none of them were Americans? That's the worst terrorist attack ever. You'd have to be the unluckiest terrorist in the universe to demolish an entire city block and not kill any Americans. #19,219

If this keeps up I'm going to have to either kill everybody or stop saying stupid things. And you know which one I'll choose. #18,954

Wow, I should go on a killing rampage. People who do that seem to be pretty popular. #16,323

:vince:

hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel

Conspiratiorist posted:

Serious question?

You got it right, the WC movie was his baby. Roberts has always wanted to be a director, and when the WC film flopped he just kept on producing for a few more years, likely waiting for his next chance, until Ascendant Pictures (his production house) went under due to insolvency after he balked out on a deal with Kevin Costner, at which point he got blacklisted by hollywood.

Since he can't make real movies anymore, he's trying to realize his dream through Squadron 42.

Also his wife married him when he was a 'hollywood producer' and she's a wanna-be actress.

Now she posts pictures with the movie stars he hired to do his video game, and gets billed as part of the cast.

Makes u think

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hakimashou
Jul 15, 2002
Upset Trowel
MeLKoR has a browser extension he uses to keep red-text notes on everyone on SA, he has a coded system of symbols like + ++ - -- #, %, ^ that all mean different things, and also records quotations so he can use them against people later in D&D arguments.

He was taking requests in the game thread to show people screenshots of the notes he kept on them.

If any of you guys want to know what his codes for you are or what quotable quotes he has, you can ask him in here he'll probably show ya.

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