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Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
So I just told my online DnD group about Star Citizen and they were quite taken aback by it. Our DM seemed particularly shocked by it and he's a state judge.

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Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
What ever happened to Star Fleet Dental? I first heard about Star Citizen when someone shared their YouTube video.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
Oh Man. I just joined the forums to talk about Star Citizen but the old forum I used to go to had a lot of people glade that Total Biscuit died. I don't know if my add mind can use discord for anything that isn't DnD related.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Joke Miriam posted:

I paid the :10bux: anyway like 2 minutes after I posted that.

It's asking for an invintation code. where do I get one of those?

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Dooguk posted:

Which one's K-PAX?

Reset the clock. It has been zero days since a K-PAX reference.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
What kind of fuel do ships in Star Citizen use? From the talk it sounds like it's some kind of liquid and the idea of liquid fuel powering FTL travel is insane.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Bofast posted:

For anyone who wants to read about yet another accused scammer. It's pretty wild:
Bloomberg: The ‘Fyre Festival of Pizza’ Wasn’t an Accused Scammer’s First Flop
Guy sounds Bi polar.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOywJPI9uTU
I just rewatched this What Happened of Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning and I see a lot of simularities. A new start up trying to develop a super ambitious project and how that almost never works out.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

The "Foundation Festival"?

OooOOooo... someone saw that Foundation trailer a couple of weeks ago...

poo poo they're making a Foundation movie? How did I miss that?

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

TheAgent posted:

omg aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahhaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkfdiH81eY0

It's the Andy the Talking Hedgehog of music videos.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Inacio posted:

idk bout u fam but i dont have a fidelitious hangar and i still think it's very silly to spend money on spaceships

i also dont want to pay $90 just to have a loving 172, thanks microsoft i hate it




star citizen did this

What do you get on Game Pass, which I once again want to point out you can get for free.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

The Rabbi T. White posted:

How do I get game pass for free then?

Microsoft reward points. I have my game pass ultimate payed up through March 2023

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
Could someone explain the Crobear thing to me?

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
To get back to the bartender thing, do drinks have any effect? At last nights dnd game the DM randomly generated a cocktail that made me temporarily immune to fire damage.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

L. Ron Hoover posted:

drinks stop you from dying of thirst. they also generate fidelity.

also CIG can actually make a drinking mechanic and they need to make something once in a while.

But alcohol dehydrates you...

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Can cats not taste sweet? I forget how it works on them.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Jobbo_Fett posted:

What the gently caress is a simp?

It's totally gay to like girls now.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Kesper North posted:

There's also the lovely white nationalist context often used by the same people... in which it refers to Jewish sympathizers.
drat, I watch female streamers and I have a Jewish sister. I'm a double simp.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Taintrunner posted:

Is it just me or are the faces getting worse as time progresses



One of the things that amazed me was how long it took them to get female character models in the game.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Bubbacub posted:

You can tell Chris' brain is frozen in the time period when colored lighting in 3D accelerated games was an exciting new feature

Well I do think women in top hats are kind of sexy.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Antigravitas posted:

That's honestly utterly crazy to me. When you look at other games they start at the technical stuff. Eve Online was a 2D game with placeholder sprites in the beginning because they just needed some rudimentary mockup of a client to make sure their server tech worked! These fundamental things need to be ironed out in the very beginning because they become impossible to change later. That's why serious projects spend so much time in pre-production making prototypes to figure out the problem space! This is utterly basic project management stuff, for fucks sake.

This poo poo really gets to me for some reason. It's so utterly backwards. It's almost impossible to go back and change fundamental aspects of a large software project in the same way it is hard to replace the foundation of a skyscraper after it is already 30 storeys high.

That's one thing that's fascinated me about SC is the weird priorities they put on things. Like they had all these ships but didn't have female character models till like last year.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

CeeJee posted:

It's an incredible feat of marketing to get so many to pay so much for so little. Maybe it's by design or by accident but the results are undeniable.

That's another thing about Star Citizen I don't get. Most game micro transactions are based on instant gratification, but with these ships even if the thing was on the up and up are YEARS off yet people keep poring money into it.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

happyhippy posted:

Chris saw 2001, shouted at the nearest dev to implement it.

Actually that movie did take an ungodly long time to make.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
So on the off chance that Squadron 42 is released and comes to consoles would anyone here pick it up? I mean I do like some of the actors in it and I have more Microsoft points than I know what to do with so it's not like it would cost me anything.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Wait, what does this mean? Is UEC their money? The just set the currency to zero like in that Rick and Morty episode?

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Thoatse posted:

In case anyone is wondering what bnbl is up to these days unmute this gif

https://i.imgur.com/QFoGCMF.gifv

First thing I'm gonna do when this plague is over is head down to the aquarium and see my self some otters.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

MarcusSA posted:

When I was in bali before this mess I met a pet otter and holy poo poo are they adorable and friendly.

I have this DnD idea for a tribe of river dwelling halflings that raise otters and are called otter folk. That reminds me, I need to get to the Traditional games forum and talk about my Lawful good tiefling barbarian.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
I dated a girl that had bunnies and one thing I learned from her is that bunnies hump each other to establish dominance. What the gently caress is the point of being the dominant bunny? It's like being the dominant sandwich.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
I will give Croberts this, Lord of War is one of my favorite movies.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

I completely forgot about Gillian anderson,haha remember the selfie that sandi took with her and gillian looked terrified?

Anyone have this? I would love to see it.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
So my friend has this group where he plays this battle royal/survival game called Scum. A bunch of guys he plays with are also into star citizen so he just got himself an Aurora. He hasn't played any of it yet..

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
Speaking of movies, has anyone here ever actually seen the Wing Commander movie? I spend a good chunk of time watching YouTube reviews of bad movies but I've never actually seen anyone cover it.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

TheAgent posted:

why wouldn't you give hot people money if they are showing you some skin

the gently caress is wrong with people

Liking women is totally gay now.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
Wait, Squadron 42 takes place a hundred years before Star Citizen? But since all the technology is the same and you can carry over your character isn't that stupid?

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Sunswipe posted:

Like everything in Star Citizen, it looks good if you don't know anything about the subject and don't think it about it. I've never touched a live gun, let alone a grenade launcher, but I've watched enough Forgotten Weapons videos and messed around with enough airsoft to know that thing is loving ridiculous. It's supposed to be nearly a thousand years in the future, and that's basically a Milkor MGL with a Deus Ex body kit. Using that in the year 2948 would be like the Marine Corps issuing slings and wooden shields today.

It does work as a good reminder that Star Citizen is fractally poo poo. It's poo poo as a whole, and you can zoom in on the tiniest fragment to find that is also poo poo. There is nothing good about it, no one knows what they're doing or why. There's no plan, just the coke-fuelled blusterings of a lunatic who managed to get his name attached to a couple of successful games two decades ago.

It's funny to watch though.
To be fair, a lot of games do that kind of stuff. The pump action shotguns in Halo and Doom fill me with indiscernible rage.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

peter gabriel posted:

My dudes, is gamepass as good as it looks on PC?
Like, for a couple of quid a month I can play all this poo poo? Anyone using it and can confirm it's as good as it looks?

I'm the high priest of Game Pass and I can not recommend it enough. And if you use Microsoft reward points you get it for free.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
I'm still kind of new here. What is FUD exactly?

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster
So how were Chris's Wing Commander games? I've never been into flight sim stuff but I have this vague memory of Mark Hamil talking about them on a talk show and bragging about working with a porn star.

Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

Thoatse posted:

...in other failed Kickstarter news, an update on Descent



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kAV_hmVpiU


:toot:

Sometimes I feel like getting a successful Kickstarter is like becoming a Dark Lord of Ravenloft.

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Lammasu
May 8, 2019

lawful Good Monster

punishedkissinger posted:

it's a bad model where being more successful than anticipated can actually put you in a very precarious situation

edit: like the fact that it incentivizes feature bloat through stretch goals is just insane

I remember when everyone thought Kickstarter was going to revolutionize the gaming industry with the first wave of games like Might No. 9.

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