Star Citizen: Fear, Uncertainty, and Debt

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Hammerstein: May 6, 2005; YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING ABOUT RACING !

Justin Tyme posted:

The SC logo floating away in space is the perfect visual metaphor for this game- it just keeps moving backwards like some sort of Mario 64 endless staircase, never attainable.

Chasing the magic dragon, but you will never catch it....

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SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

shadow puppet of a posted:

I've always meant to ask, what is a 'blocker'?

It's mainly Chris Roberts and his arcane spells "redo this", "redo everything" and "Jared!"

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Cuntpunch: Oct 3, 2003; A monkey in a long line of kings

Waiting for the announcement that in order to deliver the most detailed possible images of concept ships, they've invented a new image compression format.

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Haledjian: May 29, 2008; YOU CAN'T MOVE WITH ME IN THIS DIGITAL SPACE

Agrajag posted:

oh jesus gently caress this is just some photograph they mashed together and did some lame alteration to make it look cell-shaded isn't it?

Photobashing is a pretty normal way to do concept art in games but this is pretty badly done and definitely shouldn't have been released to the public haha

This is the type of thing you cut from the Art Of book.

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Berious: Nov 13, 2005

gently caress I need to go to bed but there will be 2000 new posts to digest in the morning :negative:

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Matlock Birthmark: Sep 24, 2005; I wanted this to happen!!; Soiled Meat

So people paid money to attend this?

I mean, I know these guys are spending ~~hundreds~~thousands on jpgs, so anything goes I guess.

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KiddieGrinder: Nov 15, 2005; HELP ME

Berious posted:

gently caress I need to go to bed but there will be 2000 new posts to digest in the morning

YOU WILL READ THEM NOW! CITIZENSHIP HAS TO BE EARNED!

edit: lol at the brief "I am unparalleled immersion"

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ShredsYouSay: Sep 22, 2011; How's his widow holding up?

Look at that hangar lighting

Vindicatus banner?

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Young Freud: Nov 26, 2006

Furious Mittens posted:

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Also, this makes me want to go back through the other promotional poo poo for this .JPG game and see what else has been ripped from elsewhere.

I know that one of the flight suits that features prominently in some of the early trailers comes from a NASA test "biosuit" for next-generation EVA equipment.

It was particularly noticeable, because they wholesale lifted the design without realizing what it's for. Those lines that loop around the body are lines of tension. and wherever they connect, that's a place where you can attach hard components such as an exoskeleton, life support, carrying rigging, or body armor, without the fear of interfering with mobility.

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BeefThief: Aug 8, 2007

I think the Con may be caught in a "white hole". Time is meaningless to CIG

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Agrajag: Jan 21, 2006; gat dang thats hot

KiddieGrinder posted:

clips of what?

crobizzle snorting coke

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Demiurge4: Aug 10, 2011

Holy poo poo that "I am unparalled immersion" thing was like 90's 3D graphics :stare:

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Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

gently caress I thought I was would this before I got home in time.... colour me surprised when I found out the stream was delayed/frozen/set back in time/redelayed

And while typing that the timer went from 14:00 to 50:00 ... then 14:55 lol

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drkeiscool: Aug 1, 2014; Soiled Meat

KiddieGrinder posted:

clips of what?

clips of jpgs, of course

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Mercury_Storm: Jun 12, 2003; *chomp chomp chomp*

Matlock Birthmark posted:

So people paid money to attend this?

I mean, I know these guys are spending ~~hundreds~~thousands on jpgs, so anything goes I guess.

Oh yeah I forgot. People paid like 40 to 60 dollars for this, lol

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Nellistos: Mar 2, 2013

I AM UNPARALLELED IMMERSION

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Hexyflexy: Sep 2, 2011; asymptotically approaching one

BeefThief posted:

I think the Con may be caught in a "white hole". Time is meaningless to CIG

I think the Con may be caught in a "white hole". Time is meaningless to CIG

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KiddieGrinder: Nov 15, 2005; HELP ME

Mercury_Storm posted:

Oh yeah I forgot. People paid like 40 to 60 dollars for this, lol

But the free swag they got is totally worth it. Plus to be in the great One's presence. :allears:

This is gaming history people, deal with it.

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SirViver: Oct 22, 2008

Jesus even that timer is a complete shitshow

Hopefully a herald of things to come

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3: Aug 26, 2006; The Magic Number; College Slice

Nellistos posted:

I AM UNPARALLED IMMERSION

ftfy

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Contingency: Jun 2, 2007; MURDERER

RSI website is running a separate timer, which is currently set for the halfhour.

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Fil5000: Jun 23, 2003; HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

Hexyflexy posted:

I think the Con may be caught in a "white hole". Time is meaningless to CIG

So what is it?

# ? Oct 10, 2015 20:26

Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

SirViver posted:

Jesus even that timer is a complete shitshow

Hopefully a herald of things to come

Lol it just skipped a whole minute

Is someone manually drawing the numbers as they come up or something?

# ? Oct 10, 2015 20:26

Wiggly Wayne DDS: Sep 11, 2010

Rockybar posted:

Can someone inside the hangar please let us know what is going down

i want to believe they have local-wifi and didn't think to put the stream on a dedicated line

KiddieGrinder posted:

YOU WILL READ THEM NOW! CITIZENSHIP HAS TO BE EARNED!

edit: lol at the brief "I am unparalleled immersion"

unparalleled 24fps

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ShredsYouSay: Sep 22, 2011; How's his widow holding up?

Fil5000 posted:

So what is it?

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

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Necrofiliate: Apr 3, 2011; C:\>YOURPOST.EXE ERROR: 0x0BAD Abort, Retry, Fail?

timer went from 23 minutes to 50 minutes to 14 minutes to 7 minutes

it must be experiencing relevistic effects as it approachs the cash blackhole

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Demiurge4: Aug 10, 2011

Oh god why do they keep cutting to camera to change the timer?

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Berious: Nov 13, 2005

The timer is jumping around more than a CIG release date

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Cuntpunch: Oct 3, 2003; A monkey in a long line of kings

Every time the camera cuts the timer gets reset to 50:00 something until someone makes it go back to <10

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SirViver: Oct 22, 2008

Their timer is powered by bitcoin

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shadow puppet of a: Jan 10, 2007; NO TENGO SCORPIO

This timer is incredible.

I am really looking forward to Chris masturbatorily cosplaying as a live tv director shouting about Cut to Blue Camera 1! at the expense of being able to actually cogently demo the product he is meant to be showing rather than getting stiff at the thought of looking like the guy that calls out the camera shots for monday night football.

# ? Oct 10, 2015 20:28

SirPhoebos: Dec 10, 2007; WELL THAT JUST HAPPENED!

I can't see the chat, did they close it?

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KiddieGrinder: Nov 15, 2005; HELP ME

Demiurge4 posted:

Oh god why do they keep cutting to camera to change the timer?

Sandi is screaming obscenities and racial slurs at the poor guy operating the stream no doubt. It makes him nervous and he can't work it properly when he's nervous. :ohdear:

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Iridium: Apr 4, 2002; Wretched Harp

they're all sympathizing with their money's captors

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Blue On Blue: Nov 14, 2012

Berious posted:

The timer is jumping around more than a CIG release date

At least the chat is as negative about it as we are, it's nice to see them poo poo allover CIG for once

# ? Oct 10, 2015 20:28

LITERALLY MY FETISH: Nov 11, 2010; Raise Chris Coons' taxes so that we can have Medicare for All.

Sappo569 posted:

Lol it just skipped a whole minute

Is someone manually drawing the numbers as they come up or something?

whoever is running the timer is either having the best or the worst day of his life right now

No, Jim, if you want a new time on the timer you can come down and loving do it yourself

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