notoriousman posted:

He already said he wouldn't take it to remain "impartial".

Besides, Derek Smart already has an account here...

Beet Wagon posted:

They built an insanely lovely system and now they're mad at their users for min/maxing it.

Chalks posted:

I'd love to hear the explanation of all the development time spent on spectrum, a complex and universally hated replacement for an entirely functional system that added nothing what so ever to the game itself.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

We've refactored Friday into Cryday thanks to CryEngine Lumberyard

Kelp Me! posted:

I think the BC3000 thing is really the most baffling to me about the whole deal. It'd be like if John Romero went after the Shadow Warrior 2 devs for making a swordfighting game that was too crude and juvenile.

Eldragon posted:

I believed it, because at this point CIG will put anything up for sale.

D_Smart posted:

This is what a seamless transition looks like in ED.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xAEVScpGQA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Zsvns4FrI&t=135s

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Buy it on Steam and refund it if it doesn't work. Not complicated at all.

StarBegotten posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/6o40ga/star_citizen_development_progress_infographic/

Wow I have been reading that Reddit thread and just reading the mental gymnastics is making me feel tired!

I love how GORF returns after months and months away and with one forum post creates the biggest, ripest shitstorm we have seen in a long time.

Welcome back man

Hav posted:

This.

So, in the Penny Arcade thing, Kuchera mentions that Roberts has private funding on top of the kickstarter. Did we ever figure out what this was?

zcrow posted:

Download Greenshot. It's the poo poo.

Meridian posted:

I am going to start a new X-Com 2 campaign tonight when I get off work. Service Guarantees Citizenship. Who wants a soldier?

Hav posted:

Who would have thought that a car in a space sim would not sell like proverbial hot 'cakes' of some description.

XK posted:

He also didn't replace the SA source link, he just added your page as another source. The SA forum link at the bottom is what was there already.

Jobbo_Fett posted:

*Smug Trump Avatar*

"I'LL BUILD A SOURCE AND MAKE THEM CREDIT ME"

D_Smart posted:

He's reading my Tweets. I literally have the page open in a tab, and the ONLY thing I see in one tab, is


And in another tab, which opened when I clicked on your post link, I see

Roller Coast Guard posted:

I slightly worry that I may be making a post here (I've not been following the saga closely for all that long) but this sentence seems to sum up this entire shitshow.

CIG keep producing more concept ships to raise more funds to keep the lights on for long enough to allow the programmers to overcome the technical problems. Problem is the new concept ships keep bringing new technical problems to the list faster than CIG can overcome them, at least some of the issues aren't actually possible to overcome given the decisions already made and current technology available, the more artists they hire to make JPGs the less they can spend on hiring competent programmers, and everyone is buried too deep under the promises they've already made to pull out or change course now.

ModernSociety posted:

Star Citizen: Suffering from Server Anxiety

Warhawk109 posted:

There would also be wet dust/dirt particles on the floor that would have to be picked up from doing an improper mopping job. Also if you forget to put up wet floor signs, crew members walking though will leave dirty foot prints and you'll have to start over.

quote:

they are working on a AI system like in A Shadow of Mordor (Nemesis System)

Beet Wagon posted:

Funnily enough, noted bad FPS Titanfall 2 has a functioning hologram gadget that replicates whatever movement the player was doing when he activated it, includes some things like basic obstacle avoidance, and is insanely fun to trick people with.

e: gently caress it, here's holograms in Titanfall 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68R1ijUTvyM

Beet Wagon posted:

I am, I love Titanfall 2 in basically every way. We were comparing it to Star Marine a while ago and the joke was that SM was way better cause it was more tacticool.


Thanks. The look in his eyes is going to keep me warm through the winter months.

MedicineHut posted:

I am in the middle of the Empire campaign, killing gobbos, chaos dudes and norsemen right and left, all the while trying to bribe make a confederation with the rest of the humans, alas no orks just yet.

AMA.

XK posted:

RISC was awesome back when assembly language opcodes were hardwired silicon. Long pipeline 5 ghz CPUs were awesome before they hit physical limits on silicon speed and complexity limits on the pipelines.

RISC is out of fashion for general purpose CPUs, and Intel chucked NetBurst architecture in the bin, for a reason.

Now everything is running hard toward parallel processing, which I believe we're just past the infancy and into toddler stage for CPUs. GPUs are really wonderful there (NVIDIA TITAN Xp, 3840 shader processors, imagine a 3840 core CPU) but have much simpler instruction sets, and vastly less issues with data interdependency, than a general purpose CPU. This is why modern graphics cards are so mind blowing, and wreck CPUs at very special purpose types of scientific calculations.

You can't even write assembly at the silicon level anymore. Modern CPUs take assembly language opcodes, like the highly complex x86_64 instruction set, and run it through an interpreter before the actual desired operation ever hits the silicon gates that calculate it. That's what the microcode on CPUs is. The more complex the op is, or the less likely it is to occur, the more likely it will be implemented purely in microcode.

The "bare metal" assembly language is broken down into even simpler OPs on the silicon via the microcode instructions. There's like ~3,500+ distinct x86_64 instructions. Try hardwiring that in silicon without both blowing up your die size and having a pathological flaw. Some of the registers can't even be touched except by the microcode. The registers cited in the object code often even aren't real, and only exist ethereally. There's kind of a RISC-like thing going on under the hood of the CPU itself, where a single asm instruction gets implemented via multiple lower level operations, and tricks behind the curtain. You can never see or touch any of that unless you have Intel/AMD microcode encryption and signing keys. The CPU itself is basically a loving a VM environment.

We essentially have a shadow RISC on modern CPUs, and threw away deep pipelines for multiprocessing. Plus, we also gained a lot of a multiprocessing on each individual core, which can run handfuls of operations and calculations side by side all alone, single threaded, with any spare resources going into hyperthreading via virtual cores.

We utilized all this amazing technological development in making super powerful CPUs, and bundling 8 or more on a postage stamp, sold for a few hundred bucks, as an excuse to make lovely inefficient code because now processing is cheap.

Now Chris Roberts is abusing all this to make 750k poly ships you can shove a vending machine into.

I just wrote all of this because I'm pouring one out on the floor for all my homies: those countless processing cycles lost to cheap inefficiency.

hot balls man no homo posted:

I was wondering who would be the first one to use a medical condition as an excuse to step away from the project. I would have guessed Sandi, citing exhaustion from working 3 jobs at the same time. Maybe take some time off and go to the Bahamas. Or a non-extradition country.

Mr.Tophat posted:

Do you even know who built this comedy gold mine with their own two hands??? That's right, me!

D_Smart posted:

It won't have anything to do with court.

In my experience as a business owner, payment processors aren't dumb fucks who will entertain the notion that a site that makes money from someone changing their avatar for money, doing it themselves in order to get a site visitor to keep changing it back, is sound business. loving LOL!

I could report it, right now, and they will investigate it. Then SA will have to prove to the payment processor they weren't the ones doing it.

Variable 5 posted:

At this point I hope it's lowtax just so you get schoooled on how the real world works by the guy at your bank that handles card reversals

lazorexplosion posted:

Jobbo_Fett posted:

I thought we were doing fake twitter-post posts?

Spermanent Record posted:

lazorexplosion posted:

the mods, Derek Smart and Lowtax are conspiring to bait goons into buying Derek endless new avatars just by changing it back each time we buy him a new one. He's been in on it since the beginning.

D_Smart posted:

OK, listen up, you bastards. New rule:

Any time I have to change my avatar, I am going to scroll the page, and change the avatar of one additional person on the same page.

Lazrin posted:

posting for a new avatar