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Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Ice Fist posted:

Hey look, this whole thread is basically a tomb stone to the 200 bucks I threw at this in a massive stroke of incompetence and idiocy I had several years ago.

This has been a joy to read. Really lightening up my work day.

You should consider getting a refund, friend.

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Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Mario death mask posted:

The reason I Tanepost itt every so often is to move this particular thread along, because as every other post on this page indicates, the content posts are absolutely massive and with their accompanying embedded video and image links take a long time to load, and the further down you go on the page, the more judder you get as the stuff above pops into existence

Yeah yeah, I'm a pleb without 64gb of memory to play SC read the SC thread :hehe:

Okay, that's fair. Sorry you ate a sixer for it. But the thing is now we've got half a page of clutter here in this, the thread without clutter.

Maybe you guys just be a little more strategic, is all.

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





G0RF posted:

It’s my Reddit account for Goon diplomatic efforts. It feels futile and not especially goonish but I’m going to keep at it in hopes I occasionally change a mind here and there...

I tried that for years, my dude. Although admittedly I'm not as eloquent as you are.

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Virtual Captain posted:

Mommy, where do fake refunds come from?

It's actually even more complicated than that. Early on in the life of /r/starcitizen_refunds, a bunch of the weirdos at /r/dereksmart postulated that making a bunch of fake refund posts would sink the subreddit by destroying our credibility or whatever. IDK, their plan doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me even now. We banned bunches of them for making fakes and then talking about it in other subs (weirdly there was never a "haha I got you" moment in /refunds, where you'd think it would do the most "damage").

In addition to this, goons thought it was super funny they thought all the refunds were part of some grand conspiracy, and one of the dudes who was on Derek's discord (/u/Hater115) thought it would be funny to take "incriminating screenshots" of the discord and post them to /r/dereksmart. That's where the famous nawledgelambo "folder full of fake refunds" post comes from. Hater even showed them the screenshot of him asking goons to say the most incriminating things they could think of, but the brain trust at /r/dereksmart refused to accept that they'd been had and the joke continues to this day.

The $45k dude was just some crazy person who genuinely "got" us until he deleted all his accounts and disappeared. No idea who he was, but afaik he wasn't affiliated with either goons or derek smart murder fantasy guys. Pure coincidence, but the timing of it all really bolstered the whole "folder full of fakes" thing which was p hilarious.

Beet Wagon fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jun 26, 2018

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





ChickenBuckets posted:

The level of stupidity this brings out in people over a video game never ceases to amaze me, and thank you for this story Beet Wagon, but I am assuming that getting refunds from CIG are much more difficult these days then in years past?

They've essentially dried up, yes. CIG can't legally deny them in some countries, so what they do is tell you that you have to wait for a "refund specialist" who never really shows up. There have been only a handful of actual refunds since I think January, and most of those have some kind of special circumstance.

They've gone from "no refunds" to "gently caress, I guess we have to" to "actually if we just make you wait forever..." lol

e: it's also worth mentioning in regards to Virtual Captain's post that some reddit idiots still believe forums poster 'The Agent' is a collaborative work of fiction that we all take turns posting as lol

Beet Wagon fucked around with this message at 01:46 on Jun 27, 2018

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Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015






why the gently caress does the hud bounce around like this, seems super annoying
https://i.imgur.com/OtNdyFi.gifv
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This is the "toned down" version too. Originally, the whole viewpoint bobbed with every step, and it legit made people sick

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