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biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



MoMA, I have read on here numerous times that you are not Toast.

Fine, but are there any other lightly grilled bread offences you'd like us to take into consideration?

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biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Is Santaball already in the game?

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



peter gabriel posted:

SQ42 is going to be laugh out loud terrible :laugh:

6 hours of "The Morrow Tour" not enough for you, commando?

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



MARKETING GURU - "We've done some deep diving on this, Chris. We've found there's a lot of talk of a "stimpire" around the net and we think it may help you to re-capture the gaming zeitgeist if you included it in the lore of the 'verse. "
SANDI - "Oh wow, that'd be so meta"
CHRIBS - "JUST DO IT"

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



TheAgent posted:

over 75% of their backer dollars are coming from the EU, specifically germany

holy poo poo

Press <<EINSATZ>> Kommando :hitler:

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Tippis posted:

I'm going to archer my post from FDev forums to put “his” inventing the genre into perspective…


I was terminally bored, decided to take that quote very literally, and went out to see what kind of space sims were available before WC came out. :D

1980s(ish) first-person space games:

• Star Raiders (1979) — Atari 2600/5600/8-bit, Atari ST
• Cyber Strike (1980) – Apple II
• Cylon Attack (1982) – BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum
• Star Trek: Strategic Ops (1982) — Apple II, Arcade, Atari 2600/5200/8-bit, ColecoVision, C64, VIC-20
• Star Voyager (1982) — Atari 2600
• 3D Starstrike (1984) — Amstrad, ZX Spectrum
• Skyfox (1984) — Amiga, Amstrad, Apple II, Atari ST, C64, Mac, PC-88, ZX Spectrum
• Star Trader (1984) — C64, ZX Spectrum
• Star Luster (1985) — Arcade, NES
• Tau Ceti (1985) — Amstrad, Atari ST, C64, Dos, ZX Spectrum
• Total Eclipse (1985) — Dragon 32/64
• Space School Simulator (1986) — Amiga, Amstrad, Atari ST, DOS, ZX Spectrum
• Starglider (1986) — Amiga, Amstrad, Apple II, Atari ST, C64, DOS, Mac, ZX Spectrum
• Starstrike II (1986) — Amstrad, ZX Spectrum
• Star Raiders II (1986) — Amstrad, Atari 8-bit, C64, ZX Spectrum
• Rubicon Alliance (1987) — Amstrad, C64, ZX Spectrum
• Skyfox II (1987) — Amiga, Atari ST, C64, DOS
• Star Voyageer (1987) — NES
• Starglider II (1988) — Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Mac, PC-98, ZX Spectrum
• Space Rogue (1989) — Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, C64, DOS, Mac, PC-98
• Lightspeed (1990) — DOS

1980s(ish) non-FP space sims:

• Invasion Orion (1979) — Apple II, Atari, PET/CBM, Trash-80
• Project: Space Station (1985) — Apple II, C64, DOS
• Starflight (1986) — Amiga, Atari ST, C64, DOS, Genesis, Mac
• Starflight 2 (1989) — Amiga, DOS, Mac


…oh, and there was some weirdo obscure vector-graphics space game from 1984 too, but it probably isn’t worth mentioning.

Tau Ceti was awesome back in the day. How they managed to fit it on those 8-bit machines is still incredible.

Crobz was doing stuff around then. He was porting Match Day by Jon Ritman from the Spectrum to the BBC Micro and was making Donkey Kong copies when David Braben & Ian Bell had released Elite. Forefather my rear end.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Michaellaneous posted:

It was a trainer for gunners in WW2 planes.

Looks like it may even be WW1 era with what looks like a Lewis Gun and the silhouette looking like a biplane.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



"Squadron42 was always really intended as a teaser for the main part of the project which is Star Citizen and the Persistent Universe, right?"
(Applause from whales)
"Well, we've decided that we'll be rolling Squadron42 into the PU which means we'll be able to divert more resources onto Star Citizen."
(Lethality weeps with joy)
"Now that does mean that Squadron42 now won't be getting a separate release per se, but rest assured that all the work that has gone into it will be refactored into Star Citizen."
(MoMA starts frantic posting)
"And we know you guys have been testing our 2.6.3 point release really hard and have been helping us iron out a few bugs, yeah?"
(DickWulf nods sagely)
"So I can promise you that we'll have the 3.0 release out to subscribers in two weeks, whooo!"
(Derek Smart twitterstorm begins)

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



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.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



HycoCam posted:

Not sure what pillow case you are using. This is how I keep my wife from taking my favorite pillow:


https://smile.amazon.com/Bedding-Living-Pillow-Covers-Savage/dp/B015R4YN6A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487492641&sr=8-1&keywords=randy+pillow

That is truly a work of art. Once the Macho Man lands the big elbow it's 1-2-3 and Hail Satan.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS WING COMMANDER AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, MAVERICK. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME KILRATHI BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY WITNESSED THE GALAXY’S MOST LUDICROUS BULLDOZER INCIDENT. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY OFFICE AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN OFFICES CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JERKS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNING. THEN I EAT

Ben Lesnick - Developer

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



I'm not sure how the 'CR is a perfectionist' trope still has legs with 30GB of evidence to the contrary on backers PCs.

My catte looks incredibly unimpressed.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



There are no fries, "piled high" or otherwise.

A shameful doob

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Crobble

Verb (used with object), crobbled, crobbling

1) To release a product that is massively substandard to that which was promised.
“CIG crobbled out Star Marine to no-one’s surprise. It was as janky as expected.”

2) To turn a definitive period of time into an indefinite period of time.
“Well 3.0 was due out last December but RSI have been busily crobbling away at it and 3 months down the line we’re no closer to knowing when, if ever, it will be here.”

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



lazorexplosion posted:

What's the deal with space games?

Well, with Star Citizen the deal is bad.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Star Citizen : The gift that keeps on giving (unless you were expecting a game)

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



"...the only real downside to SC right now, is that there isn't much in the game yet"

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Any previous notions you had about fidelity in PC gaming need to be removed, a full burn, now that refactoring pipelines are kicking into overdrive. Soon you'll see the truth about the 'verse in release 3.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Still waiting for MoMA's Star Marine video

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Samizdata posted:

I would, but, you know, consoles only have complete crap games so I own a PC....

But PC gaming is under threat and needs to be saved

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Stimpire.txt

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke





e: please excuse my typos

biglads fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Apr 10, 2017

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



I think they will easily hit their schedule this time.

You see Chris has been up all night coding and

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Sillybones posted:

I've been deathly ill. May I have a synopsis of the past week events?

CIG released babby's first GANTT chart. Shitizens rejoiced.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Well I guess it's all over for PC gaming then

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke




Good advice as we are approaching the holiday season.

I'm sure the Roberts' will have to make do with something rubbish like Hawaii or sailing round the Adriatic. Lucky citizens can have a much more exciting time 'considering' the Banu Protectorate.

biglads fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Apr 25, 2017

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



So my understanding right now is

1) Derek Smart is a poopoo head who says nasty things.
2) David Braben is the devil incarnate.
Ergo
3) Star Citizen is loving awesome.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Sappo569 posted:

It makes perfect sense from cribblers skewed view of reality

Anytime someone asks where the game is or how he spent all that money

Sorry I'm busy directing the mocap gotta go, You want the game or not ? Without me directing all this mocap it will never happen

6 years later - sorry all that mocap is useless welp

I think they need to spend a few million more on mocap equipment. I know they were showing off stuff they bought a few months ago but by now that's probably old hat and doesn't provide the required fidelity for Roberts. Think of it as an investment [waves hands]. You can't expect Roberts to have to work with old tech.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Derek....are you ok commando?

You referring to 'a July 2015 blog' instead of 'the July 2015 blog' has me concerned.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Sappo569 posted:

I'm still unsure how anyone can feel good @ giving CIG more money, considering the Robert's family has luxury automobiles, high end watches, purses, clothing, lavish vacations, a personal chef, and god knows what else.

Why would they of all people need money is what the backers should be asking themselves, if Chris had all this to start with he could have easily gone to the bank and gotten a loan to fund the game development.

If on the other hand he started buying these things after the funding campaign started, then that really raises more important questions that should be answered

I'm not a business man by any stretch, but my understanding was you work hard, produce a product, market it and hopefully it sells well enough you can afford those luxuries mentioned above... just like the game it seems Chris has started off backwards and somehow expects people to keep giving more more more

They should both be taking minimal salaries to 'put all the backer funds into the game' as he keeps preaching about, not bleeding the company dry so they can both live like movie stars. It's sickening really

Heartbreaking

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Tippis posted:

But is it also the truth?

It has been the truth for the last 400 years, friend

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



The worst kind of truth

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Triple(post)ing every second

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke




It was sickening and heartbreaking, what Julie did

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Got any good whiskies lately, MoMA?

I got a lovely BenRiach a couple of weeks ago. 22 y/o, spent the last 8 years in a Moscatel cask. Bloody lovely it is.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



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.

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Colostomy Bag posted:

Has the Stimperor ever delayed the July 14th date of deskeletization?

If it needs refactoring, it can sometimes be unavoidable

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



https://youtu.be/78H7KurRcxk

What kind of Full Burn is that? Rubbish.

Nothing in there smacks of a 3rd grade Europe or Ronnie James Dio cover band

biglads fucked around with this message at 10:34 on May 29, 2017

biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



TheAgent posted:

lol fuckin more mocap

you can't make this poo poo up

They'll just layer that bit of mocap right in there and *BAM* it's 3.0

2 weeks

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biglads
Feb 21, 2007

I could've gone to Blatherwycke



Space Crabs posted:

You better be careful.

MoMA came in here to say the first reveal of the thargolds or whatever was a boring, pointless cinematic

it was forever burned in my brain as the most ironic thing ever posted

MoMa knows Frontier are scrub-tier. After all, just how much mo-cap is in their joke of a game? Answer me that!
Elite Dangerous lacks the fidelity of the glimpses CIG have been so kind to share with us.
I personally doubled my pledge to $10,000 when I saw the Morrow Tour, and furthermore

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