Bargearse posted:

Just been going through some really old emails and it turns out I backed this dumpster fire early enough that I got a VIP golden ticket, and still no game

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Whats the over/under on how many people i ask before i get tossed out by security?

Scruffpuff posted:

They could hire the same security team that chased CIG from room to room at Gamescom.

Sandweed posted:

We need some good ramp, elevator and door gifs to spice up this thread.

Bargearse posted:

Either way they’ve outed themselves as liars.

Sandweed posted:

There will never be another Dead Space

Quavers posted:

yes, they really are "limited stock"

boviscopophobic posted:

Scruffpuff posted:

I wonder how hard the devs laugh when one of their backers reports an "exploit" in their pre-alpha model-viewer app hacked to mimic the rudimentary functions of a space game. I'm sure all these things are very high on their list to "fix," right after they begin thinking about designing a game.

Anticheese posted:

Reinventing basic industry stuff nobody else bothers to make any fuss about, plus burning through a ton of money to deliver underwhelming and poorly finished goods that are designed to look nice from the outside despite production being rotten?

CIG isn't Chevrolet in this analogy. They're Tesla.

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Just noticed this post - if it was real, the 890 would be less luxury party boat and more "death trap by stairs":

quote:

Sounds like somebody can't afford an 890j...

Bumble He posted:

but which company on earth would be crazy enough to dig their own grave deeper and deeper with each buzzword? we have two very opposite opinions: cultist who believe that the next buzz-feature will not only solve issues but even catapult cig to another level way ahead of the competition. and goons who think that they hosed up more than big rigs over the road racing.

Agony Aunt posted:

That depends on whether Chris is going to sell another 10% of the company.

Zaphod42 posted:

Tesla made cars that do work.

Chris is more like DeLorean.

Built everything out of the wrong materials, wasted tons of money, and nobody wants one except nerds holding onto dreams.

Tsar Mikey posted:

Dumb CEO that appeals to smooth brains:
✓ Star Citizen
✓ Tesla

Product that crashes and fails in spectacular ways:
✓ Star Citizen
✓ Tesla

"Never been done before" technology that has, in fact, been done before and since in a much better way:
✓ Star Citizen
✓ Tesla

Sells insurance that no one really knows how it will work:
✓ Star Citizen
✓ Tesla

Pharohman777 posted:

Tack bitcoin/cryptocurrencies onto this list and you have the stuff I enjoy reading often on the SA forums.

The ongoing trainwrecks and buffoonery of all 3 are entertaining, as well as the dumbfounded reactions people have to the stupidity they witness.

Scruffpuff posted:

I'd like to extend this into a Space Game Quantum Hypothesis, which states that Star Citizen's development is linearly extrapolated from the sum total of mistakes made by the developers of all space games. If this turns out to be true, and enough people try to make space games and make mistakes along the way, Star Citizen's development will surge forward, and if so things are actually much better than the roadmap is letting on. Since anything that can be good for Star Citizen in fact is good for Star Citizen, then the BDSSE is weeks, not months, away.

Dementropy posted:

trucutru posted:

The aircraft carrier requires tech they don't have (to keep the ships in place instead of clipping and exploding) so that one is 100% vaporware. So the next flyable ship that they have already sold has to be the Polaris.

Agony Aunt posted:

Yeah, i responded to that one.

In other news, just a mildly amusing selection of suggested videos from youtube... somehow the SC vid being between those other two seems rather apt.

Hav posted:

- https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/14184-Letter-From-The-Chairman
September 30th 2014
(bolding mine throughout)

trucutru posted:

what is a VIP?

Beexoffel posted:

Interview with a Frontier developer of the Elite:Dangerous game engine:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/meet-the-team-kay-ross.521191/

Kosumo posted:

If the only useful thing to come out of star Citizen is that some goon in this thread points me to some nice tequila to try, so be it.

I've just currently started drink tequila about a month ago instead of beer and am ready to sample recommendations.

p.s. tanequila

Hazamuth posted:

The Lesnick Maneuver

Nyast posted:

Well Chris has been drilling your anus for years now.

Zeond posted:

Yakuza 0 is incredibly good but the final two dance battle substories are nearly impossible and Miracle's second substory is even harder. I somehow managed to beat Isobe by 60 points but resorted to cheat engine after twenty attempts at beating Ogita. Thankfully beating Miracle is not necessary to complete the substory and Kiryu accepted that he'd never beat the king of pop.

Iceclaw posted:

This game taught me what was happening just off-camera in the clip of Thriller: an angry japanese man beating zombies with a motorcycle.

Lladre posted:

I missed something, what's all this about costumes? did they make cosplay costumes for their staff?

Bumble He posted:

i had that on the amiga and it was a diashow chugging along with 5 FPS
(T_T)

it was incredibly slow and sluggish.
the more i think about the amiga the more i think it was poo poo.

trucutru posted:

If you get an invitation from Ferrari to buy their new super car you know drat well that you better buy the car or you'll never be invited again. That is what the backers would like to think is happening.