Ragequit posted:

It's like the power up battles in DBZ that last across 5 episodes. Instead of gold super hair it's gold earrings and instead of yelling it's word salad. Derek is Gohan and Chris is Cell, but Chris is sucking up donations instead of townfolk. Derek tries to end it with a Kamehameha of 10,000 word blog posts, but will this be enough to defeat Chris? TUNE IN NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL Z.

I hope this is an analogy you can relate to.

The Marauder posted:

Why are there so many posts here about so little?

The Marauder posted:

Why are there so many RSI emails over the past 3 years when the game doesn't exist?

Ragequit posted:

It's like the power up battles in DBZ that last across 5 episodes. Instead of gold super hair it's gold earrings and instead of yelling it's word salad. Derek is Gohan and Chris is Cell, but Chris is sucking up donations instead of townfolk. Derek tries to end it with a Kamehameha of 10,000 word blog posts, but will this be enough to defeat Chris? TUNE IN NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL Z.

I hope this is an analogy you can relate to.

terrorist ambulance posted:

people paying thousands of dollars for vaporware and making posts like this

do you all have brain tumors or something

the radiation is coming from inside the thread

thatguy posted:

If CitCon is a disaster (it will be) I demand that The Smart Room be re-released as The Smart Room 3000AD.

terrorist ambulance posted:

someone please explain in plain no-meme no-irony english what is happening thanks

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

dreams are happening now

3 posted:

hi derek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WL5MX1Co8
MP3 Here

code:

the legend lives on from the forums on down
of the game dev who made wing commander
the man they all say never quite found a way
to respond to the lies and the slander

from his backers he scored eighty-six million bucks more
though the promises made were quite empty
that company and crew was a bone to be chewed
when the blogs of october came early

the game was the pride of all nerdlings worldwide
spending all of their cash for no reason
as the kickstarters go it was bigger than most
with rewards and good stretch goals well seasoned

concluding some sales with a coupla' space whales
while their deadlines were still disappearing
come three years later when their twitter feeds rang
could it be derek smart they'd been fearing?

the forums online made a tattle-tale whine
with the subreddit frantically wailing
and every man knew as the chairman did too
t'was the goons of october come stealin'

the sale came late and the videos had to wait
though the hit in morale was a small one
when the article came it was more of the same
in the face of a million refunds

when suppertime came all the mods came on deck sayin'
fellas, we'll just have to ban ya
at seven p.m. the last blog post came in, they said
fellas, it's been good to know ya

the chairman wrote in he had committed no sin
toward the broken, the poor, and the hateful
and later that night on his battered website
went the wrecks of star citizen's faithful

does anyone know where the love of god goes
when you browse those forums for hours?
the faithful still say we'll see gameplay next may
if you just spend a thousand more dollars

it might be online and it might be single player
it might even see a release soon
but all that we see is the hopes and the dreams
of the redditors, furries and spacegoons

freelancer's good, wing commander's alright
and the x series keeps on surviving
old freespace seems like a young nerd's dreams
elite and the rest keep on flying

and year after year it just keeps getting clearer
that a space game's just planning for failure
when star citizen goes just like everyone knows
will the goons of october remember?

in a dusty old thread on the forums they watched
the collapse of the faithful on reddit
and as denial began, they stood tall to a man
or at least five in the case of ben lesnick

the legend lives on from the forums on down
of the game dev who made wing commander
chris roberts they say always could find a way
to turn failure to more propaganda 

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

dreams are happening now

terrorist ambulance posted:

what about the refunds though. People are asking for and getting their money back?

SirPhoebos posted:

So when you guys say "Sell .jpegs of imaginary ships", is the picture tied to the promise of a ship for a game never coming out? Or is the picture literally the deliverable?

Because if it's the latter, then

Sappo569 posted:

Comment on the forbes article



I imagine him stroking the handle of his katana as he types that comment, DO YOU HAVE NO HONOR SIR!?

terrorist ambulance posted:

what about the refunds though. People are asking for and getting their money back?

Shala posted:

Bitter Beard posted:

I think we as a Goon community are really looking at this all wrong, we shouldn't be poking fun we should be looking to make 'fan renderings' of Star Citizen merchandise and selling it to these people, they obviously have income to piss away.

terrorist ambulance posted:

what about the refunds though. People are asking for and getting their money back?

Vermain posted:

You would, in theory, get the actual ship in the game once it was finished and released, but the game "Star Citizen" that the ship would appear in will never be finished or released.

Thor-Stryker posted:

Thor-Stryker posted:

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Malleovic posted:

good god this thread has become absolute poo poo

3 posted:

hi derek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WL5MX1Co8
MP3 Here

code:

the legend lives on from the forums on down
of the game dev who made wing commander
the man they all say never quite found a way
to respond to the lies and the slander

from his backers he scored eighty-six million bucks more
though the promises made were quite empty
that company and crew was a bone to be chewed
when the blogs of october came early

the game was the pride of all nerdlings worldwide
spending all of their cash for no reason
as the kickstarters go it was bigger than most
with rewards and good stretch goals well seasoned

concluding some sales with a coupla' space whales
while their deadlines were still disappearing
come three years later when their twitter feeds rang
could it be derek smart they'd been fearing?

the forums online made a tattle-tale whine
with the subreddit frantically wailing
and every man knew as the chairman did too
t'was the goons of october come stealin'

the sale came late and the videos had to wait
though the hit in morale was a small one
when the article came it was more of the same
in the face of a million refunds

when suppertime came all the mods came on deck sayin'
fellas, we'll just have to ban ya
at seven p.m. the last blog post came in, they said
fellas, it's been good to know ya

the chairman wrote in he had committed no sin
toward the broken, the poor, and the hateful
and later that night on his battered website
went the wrecks of star citizen's faithful

does anyone know where the love of god goes
when you browse those forums for hours?
the faithful still say we'll see gameplay next may
if you just spend a thousand more dollars

it might be online and it might be single player
it might even see a release soon
but all that we see is the hopes and the dreams
of the redditors, furries and spacegoons

freelancer's good, wing commander's alright
and the x series keeps on surviving
old freespace seems like a young nerd's dreams
elite and the rest keep on flying

and year after year it just keeps getting clearer
that a space game's just planning for failure
when star citizen goes just like everyone knows
will the goons of october remember?

in a dusty old thread on the forums they watched
the collapse of the faithful on reddit
and as denial began, they stood tall to a man
or at least five in the case of ben lesnick

the legend lives on from the forums on down
of the game dev who made wing commander
chris roberts they say always could find a way
to turn failure to more propaganda 

EminusSleepus posted:

the forbes author is awesome! lol

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Irrational Man posted:

If Sandi were a man there would be no mention of her to begin with, since no one would want to make him/her a target without some underlying prejudice to substantiate it (well assuming homophobia didn't take its place since she's now a man). As long as the evidence is thin, its credulity is linked to stereotyping women in management which is inherently sexist. Even if it turns out Sandi is a witch, right now you'd be believing the right thing for the wrong reasons.

These are just allegations and she deserves the benefit of the doubt

EminusSleepus posted:

the forbes author is awesome! lol

3 posted:

hi derek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WL5MX1Co8
MP3 Here

code:

the legend lives on from the forums on down
of the game dev who made wing commander
the man they all say never quite found a way
to respond to the lies and the slander

from his backers he scored eighty-six million bucks more
though the promises made were quite empty
that company and crew was a bone to be chewed
when the blogs of october came early

the game was the pride of all nerdlings worldwide
spending all of their cash for no reason
as the kickstarters go it was bigger than most
with rewards and good stretch goals well seasoned

concluding some sales with a coupla' space whales
while their deadlines were still disappearing
come three years later when their twitter feeds rang
could it be derek smart they'd been fearing?

the forums online made a tattle-tale whine
with the subreddit frantically wailing
and every man knew as the chairman did too
t'was the goons of october come stealin'

the sale came late and the videos had to wait
though the hit in morale was a small one
when the article came it was more of the same
in the face of a million refunds

when suppertime came all the mods came on deck sayin'
fellas, we'll just have to ban ya
at seven p.m. the last blog post came in, they said
fellas, it's been good to know ya

the chairman wrote in he had committed no sin
toward the broken, the poor, and the hateful
and later that night on his battered website
went the wrecks of star citizen's faithful

does anyone know where the love of god goes
when you browse those forums for hours?
the faithful still say we'll see gameplay next may
if you just spend a thousand more dollars

it might be online and it might be single player
it might even see a release soon
but all that we see is the hopes and the dreams
of the redditors, furries and spacegoons

freelancer's good, wing commander's alright
and the x series keeps on surviving
old freespace seems like a young nerd's dreams
elite and the rest keep on flying

and year after year it just keeps getting clearer
that a space game's just planning for failure
when star citizen goes just like everyone knows
will the goons of october remember?

in a dusty old thread on the forums they watched
the collapse of the faithful on reddit
and as denial began, they stood tall to a man
or at least five in the case of ben lesnick

the legend lives on from the forums on down
of the game dev who made wing commander
chris roberts they say always could find a way
to turn failure to more propaganda 

Amun Khonsu posted:

what an idiot. someone says something i dont like so I will throw away more money to prove him wrong. Im in the wrong business, I need to crowdfund an epic space game and cultivate lemmings like this.

Malleovic posted:

good god this thread has become absolute poo poo

3 posted:

hi derek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88WL5MX1Co8
MP3 Here

Malleovic posted:

good god this thread has become absolute poo poo