aleksendr posted:

Would you think possible that due to poor planing they are caught in a kind of "engineering ponzi scheme" where new sales of ships are actually paying for infrastructure and maintenance instead of progress on the game and that the only way out is to "sell more ships that wont exist for a long time" so they can hope to finish the game someday ?

Beet Wagon posted:

Also - and I'm afraid I'm stating the obvious here - even giving Gremlich the benefit of the doubt and taking him at his word that he's some kind of Turbo G-Man or whatever, how loving mentally ill do you have to be to threaten to leverage the power of the federal government against someone because they made fun of a video game on the internet?

The Titanic posted:

Pretty bad.

I hope that people who have actual power of government and can for real hurt people aren't defending CIG. They may eventually help prosecute it though, once they are educated about it (and stop asking "Are you serious?" after every ten sentences).

The Titanic posted:

This is pretty much what I thought. I'm not government but I'm in a professional environment and we don't act like what Reddit seems to think real people act like.

I doubt most of these people who talk like that even have jobs, and if they do it's something like a cashier or something. There's a very real disconnect between what these people feel like reality is (tv and movies), and how real life actually works.

Mirificus posted:

According the website linked in his Twitter:

Sabreseven posted:

I too, enjoy taking snaps of things with my Samsung phone (when it's not exploding) when I'm not conducting clandestine yet completely unhidden amatuer surveillance on chat forums about a crap game and threatening the posters with my government powers (that I don't have).

Fatkraken posted:

I think Chris never REALLY wanted to make an MMO, but their ship based funding model precludes anything else. There's no way anyone would spend $1000+ on a spaceship for a single player game, Free to Play shitheap games are only able to maintain their Whale-based finding model because the whales are part of a multiplayer experience and base their whole identity on showing off to or not letting down other people in the game.

alf_pogs posted:

i don't think chris ever wanted to make videogames at all, tbh, he just found it easier to run for "star wars of videogames" than to come up with a cool original idea for a film

peter gabriel posted:

Well, decades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK-ggbdklaE&t=258s

XK posted:

derek smart Derek Smart DEREK SMART

XK posted:

I was thinking more Bloody Mary or Candy Man.

BigglesSWE posted:

The cyberarcheologists of the future will have a hard nut to crack with these threads.

TheAgent posted:

I can't remember anyone talking specifically about that

I can tell you that there's a lot of bad blood between CIG and crytek

Ash1138 posted:

coming up with an in-universe name for your ui then referring to that name always is beyond stupid

TheAgent posted:

crobbers poached almost every high level and experienced employee out of there in late 2014/early 2015

TheAgent posted:

I guess you can argue if SC development is progressing or if it's a scam or if I'm full of poo poo or whatever

But there's absolutely no disputing Chris Roberts has made himself some serious money

code:

Ann Est 2008 $125000
Ann Est 2009 $90000
Ann Est 2010 $90000
Ann Est 2011 $100000
Ann Est 2012 $250000
Ann Est 2013 $350000
Ann Est 2014 $650000
Ann Est 2015 $800000

crobbs you're my hero

TheAgent posted:

a very very rich person told me once "don't trust anyone worth over 5m dollars"

in my experience she was 100% right

TheAgent posted:

fyi my car cost sub 50k and I consider that a luxury car

I dunno what the gently caress I'd be making to have a 500k car, prob at least 1.25m a year

Skellybones posted:

What makes a $500,000 car ten times better than a $50,000 one? Like where do the costs go, does the chassis use iridium alloys or something? Endangered species hides for seat covers?

Sappo569 posted:

but you forgot porsche gave crobblers that car for free because they too want to see star citizen succeed

Acquilae posted:

lol haven't seen a Z8 in almost a decade

Thoatse posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0us0dVNZck

hakimashou posted:

Zealot
highcharitysuite
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.

Thoatse posted:

Understandably, Annabelle 'Bro' Huxley doesn't want people to see her wiener.

Goobs posted:

thread always does a 360 back to dicks at least once a day.

Lord Kinbote posted:

That's because 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.

MeLKoR posted:

Does anyone have the screenshot of that gh0u1 "The level of disrespect that I receive from you and a select few of the goons is easily grounds for catching a beating" PM? I should have kept a copy and now I can't remember who it was addressed to.

Truga posted:

It's not too surprising. Just like croberts is the scummy middle man between nerd money and nerd dreams, their shills have a scummy middle man between them and the cash. It's only natural for star citizens.


He's in hospital again I hear. Probably tried eating them to capture the essence better

MeLKoR posted:

He refused ever having said it.

The Titanic posted:

If the glove fits...

We need to get a goon staff at INN for Wolf so we can write good things about the favorite game. I've got a mind to test the waters!

nawledgelambo posted:

How are animations still being worked on for sitting down?

nawledgelambo posted:

Nah don't worry about it, I'm still eating a temp-ban anyways.

Ash1138 posted:

someone tell grandpa that isn't a meme

Sappo569 posted:

This is what should be happening, citizens from each state should be filing complaints against cig for their sleezy and deceptive business practices

Hilarity would ensue for they got barred from conducting business in any state , let's see them weasel out of that with their horrible track record of deleting tickets etc

DogonCrook posted:

Most states require a dpta demand letter before proceeding. Every state will be a little different, but because they require demand letters it is very easy to find examples that fit your needs online.

Beet Wagon posted:

I was in my discord channel with him and listening to him leave the station the first time was hilarious. Except that now I need to get a Vive haha.

ripptide posted:

Dropping, or at the very least significantly and indefinitely, postponing key elements of the initial promises such as drop-in co-op play, private server support, modding support, VR support.

Mirificus posted:

Mirificus posted:

MeLKoR posted:

When I paid my I didn't notice the rule that said goons must always agree with the mods. Especially when the mods play favorites.