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Runa
Feb 13, 2011

They'll just crowdfund Dsmart's avatar changes. If just one random person on the internet chips in :10bux: to change his avatar but a different person foots the bill when he changes it back, we can keep the forums online Derek might get bored eventually and let an av stick we can keep the forums online

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Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy

Michaellaneous posted:

As a developer my company does not exactly pay me for "Shitposting on SA" simply because I don't write it on my monthly hourly report.

I dunno what you mean man, my last design just took me a little longer to lay groundwork on than usual. Weird.

Michaellaneous
Oct 30, 2013

D_Smart posted:

Nope. I had nothing to do with it. I first noticed they were using DMCA takedown requests on imgur when Goons kept bitching at me for not using image tags correctly. On checking my imgur account as well as some images I had posted from my iPad while not logged into imgur, were all gone.

Someone definitely wrote a bot and screwed it up royally because it also hit some Reddit images. Like I said, they're morons. And clowns. As in moronic clowns.


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Thank you for stating the obvious, game developer Derek Smart.

But seriously your new game sounds fun.

Derek Smart Derek Smart DEREK SMART

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

A pretty balanced and extensive RPS article on the whole Star Citizen mess: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/10/27/star-citizen-101-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-controversial/

DarkRefreshment
May 5, 2015

Nothing is funnier than a dog in a formal outfit. Look it up on the internets.
Derek, Go put a foot up your legal team's collective asses. You owe us a blog and my popcorn is getting cold and it needs the tears of WKs to be delicious.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

sincx posted:



Derek, LOD looks interesting, but the graphics probably could be more modern without overly impacting performance. Higher resolution textures? Better lighting?


edit:

Yeah, working on that actually. Check out the dev blog I wrote earlier today.

Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy
"Sunk Cost + Cognitive Dissonance = rear end-Clowns" - Internet Warlord math lessons

Kakarot
Jul 20, 2013

by zen death robot
Buglord

Chalks posted:

To be fair this image is cropped in such a way that it gives a rather misleading impression:



:laffo:

Lodin
Jul 31, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Chalks posted:

A pretty balanced and extensive RPS article on the whole Star Citizen mess: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/10/27/star-citizen-101-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-controversial/
It's obviously going to make plenty of Citizens poo poo themselves in furious anger and claim RPS are gamergaters. Then they'll buy more ships out of spite.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

That /scg/ thread is basically Reddit the Sequel. I didn't expect that.

Kakarot
Jul 20, 2013

by zen death robot
Buglord

:golfclap:

thatguy
Feb 5, 2003
Believe it or not white knights like Wulf and Dolvak are Derek's greatest allies. Always racing to try to prove him wrong when all they actually end up doing is giving his thoughts and ideas more publicity. I mean Goons have been saying the same things Derek is saying now for years (more or less) and it was only until people started to bandwagon hate on him that those ideas started gaining traction outside of SA. Since Derek started loving with people he's had several subreddits made about him as well as numerous threads on r/starcitizen, some of which were actually pinned for a short time. The cultists who think they're defending Star Citizen are only helping to kill it faster. It's pretty comical.

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene
/scg/ is like the gamefaqs forums' secret deadjournal

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Mukip posted:

I went through this trying to find an explanation for why LoD looks like a game from early last decade, but I ended up discovering your tie-in DC comic series instead. I wonder how that collaboration came about.







e:spelling

It's a license to do comics based on the IP. There are five comics in the series. We have done three thus far, and two due out next year.

Also, the Line Of Defense Tactics game which takes it's underlying story line from one of the comics, just passed final XBox One certification and goes on sale in early December. You bastards better buy it. I have to keep paying for avatars here goddamnit!!

Oscar Wilde Bunch
Jun 12, 2012

Grimey Drawer


:oldman:

or :BDSSE:

?

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

RPS posted:

The reality is somewhere in the middle
Read up to, but not including, this

Vire
Nov 4, 2005

Like a Bosh
:oldman: is easier to remember.

Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy

mormonpartyboat posted:

/scg/ is like the gamefaqs forums' secret deadjournal

I like to imagine it's full of those dumbos on Gamefaqs who have like Sun Tzu quotes in their "sigs" while getting clearly angry answering questions about Barbie's Horse Adventure.

D_Smart posted:

Also, the Line Of Defense Tactics game which takes it's underlying story line from one of the comics, just passed final XBox One certification and goes on sale in early December. You bastards better buy it. I have to keep paying for avatars here goddamnit!!

Oh. Well if it's coming out on XBone I might get in on it. I like combining my questionable decisions.

Shala fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Oct 27, 2015

Madcosby
Mar 4, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Chalks posted:

A pretty balanced and extensive RPS article on the whole Star Citizen mess: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/10/27/star-citizen-101-what-is-it-and-why-is-it-controversial/

This mother loving poo poo faced click bait writing mother fucker


oh sorry I forgot which forum I was logged into

pftc
Oct 1, 2015

Iron Tusk posted:



:oldman:

or :BDSSE:

?

:oldman:

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Iron Tusk posted:



:oldman:

or :BDSSE:

?

:oldman:

Mr Fahrenheit
Dec 10, 2010

Travelin' at the speed of light.

Mukip posted:

I went through this trying to find an explanation for why LoD looks like a game from early last decade, but I ended up discovering your tie-in DC comic series instead. I wonder how that collaboration came about.







e:spelling

Looks like their report bot got a new tag to look out for.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Dante80 posted:



Smyrna Stuffed tomatoes/peppers.







Ok, this one is a little difficult, but definitely worth the try. We tend to eat this a lot in the summer, together with baked potatoes.

In some parts of Greece, they tend to also add ground beef meat to the stuffing mix. I find the following recipe without meat a little better. Translating from Greek. Lets do this!

Ingredients (for 10-12 people or 7 goons.)



12 small dark green peppers
12 small tomatoes
2 ½ cups long grain rice Parboiled. Each couple (tomato-pepper) needs 2/10 cup rice. At 5 couples, you need 1 cup
2 medium onions, finely chopped
4-5 potatoes cut into pieces 3 cm
800 g. tomato juice (2 boxes)
170 g. tomato paste (2 packs of 70 gr.)
60 g. black raisin
50 g. pine cone
4 tbsp chopped parsley (half a bunch approx.)
4 tbsp chopped fresh mint (if not found, put a total of 4 tbsp dry mint)
1 tbsp dried mint
80 g. grated cheese
2 tsp sugar
200 ml. olive oil
50 ml. water
1 tbsp breadcrumbs
Salt, Pepper

5 stages and 19 steps (I said this takes a while, didn't I?)

A. Prepare and assemble the materials:

1. Put the tomatoes and peppers in a pan that you can see they fit in with some small spaces between each vegetable. This will help to fit the potatoes and decide how much extra stuffing, will eventually get into your pan.

2. Wash the tomatoes and peppers and cut the peppers stalk at its root. Throw it away, you won't need it.



3. Finely chop the onion in a food processor (if you are space rich) or a grater. Grate the cheese. Finely chop parsley and mint and finally cut the potatoes into cubes of irregular 3 cm sized pieces.



B. Prepare tomatoes and peppers:

4. You start with the peppers: Cut with a knife the lid (without getting all the way though), lift it and remove the interiors. Keep them in a bowl, this is the stuff that makes or breaks the stuffing.



5. Continue with the tomatoes: Cut the lid with a knife (again, not all the way through) and use a spoon or a curved tool (makeshift or not, are you space rich?) to empty most of the interior (jack-the-knife style). Keep the flesh and the seeds in a separate bowl.



6. Use a fork to perforate the bottom part of the vegetables (careful now). This is a very important step, because it will help keep the stuffed vegetables moist and also take in the juices from the sauce in the pan, later down the line. When finished, put them back in the pan, and place the potatoes you chopped between them, so that all veggies are upright, lids facing you with terror.



7. Now...take the insides you gutted (you murderer!), and grate them well. Put them in a bowl.



8. In this bowl, add the raisins, one canned tomato paste and the chopped mint and parsley.

C. Prepare the filling:

9. In a large deep frying pan with a little oil (always go olive) over low heat, add the onion with the sugar, stir well for a minute or so, and then add the pine nuts. Let them brown for a total of 3-4 minutes, stirring frequently.

10. Add the rice and saute for 1 minute, stirring like a madman.

11. Then add the entire contents of the bowl with the tomato sauce, pepper, herbs and raisins and stir. Try to not jump into the pan yourself, the flavors are pretty baller right now.



12. Once it starts to boil, pour about 2 tsp salt, ¼ tsp pepper and 1.tbs dried mint. Change hands (if you are doing this properly then you have to, your first hand is too tired from continuously stirring) and...yep, keep stirring.

13. In 4-5 minutes, something wonderful happens! Most of the juice is reduced and the rice absorbs it, thus becoming the stuff(ing) of legends. When you see that, pat yourself on the back, turn off the heat and after moving the pan away from the heat, dispatch the grated cheese inside. Stir (for a last time, I promise) and your filling is ready.



D. Fill the tomatoes and peppers:

14. Before you begin, preheat the oven to 180C.

15. Pull the lids up, and using a large spoon fill each tomato and pepper until full, without pressing the contents. Leave a little margin to the rim of the vegetable, so when the rice expands in cooking, it does not overflow. If you have any filling left after the procedure (you should if you used properly sized peppers/tomatoes), then don't worry. Put in between the veggies, it will make the sauce even better!.



16. Put the caps back down, take a little tomato paste (from the second can), a sprinkle breadcrumbs and a little cheese, and put it on top of them. This is more a "LOOK AT ME, I'M FABULOUS!!1" step instead of a proper one, but its still worth it when you eat the cap afterwards.



17. Now, throw around the veggies the canned tomato juice, the rest of the tomato paste and the 50 ml of water, as well as a little salt and pepper.

18. Finally pour slowly the olive oil, both between the veggies and on their lids. You are ready for the oven (and your kitchen needs a thorough cleaning, I know T_T).



E. Cooking: 19.

Put the pan in the preheated oven and bake for about 1 hour 40 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the oven and how "crisp" you want them the veggies (I say go for the full 2 hours, its worth it. After the first hour passes, baste the veggies with the sauce in the pan every 10 min or so.



Serving:

Ok. Now for the cruel part. Take them out of the oven, and defying the wonderful smell of mint and vegetables that breaks your nose and whispers "TAKE ME NOW, YOU HORNY BASTARD, I want me inside you!", leave at least 1 hour before serving. The juices have to get back to the veggies, you need some time to let them settle.

Best served at room temperature, accompanied with good bread and feta cheese.

For posterity sake, a before and after pic.



Hey reddit, archive this!

holy balls that looks good

Furious Mittens
Oct 14, 2005

Lipstick Apathy

D_Smart posted:

It's a license to do comics based on the IP. There are five comics in the series. We have done three thus far, and two due out next year.

Also, the Line Of Defense Tactics game which takes it's underlying story line from one of the comics, just passed final XBox One certification and goes on sale in early December. You bastards better buy it. I have to keep paying for avatars here goddamnit!!

XBone? No PS4 release?

I might actually pick it up to support Uncle Derek if it was PS4. My questionable purchasing decisions have to be limited, so no XBone for me.

Dapper Dan
Dec 16, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 3 years!

D_Smart posted:

^this

Seriously, it's just that backer pool is so massive that it is bound to have attracted some of the worst of the worst in gaming. You know, those loons we avoid on game servers and forums like the plague. When you combine that with Sunk Cost Fallacy and Cognitive Dissonance, you have the perfect recipe for rear end-clowns.

I have seriously never seen a worse community on the internet. It is not an exaggeration since I used to play LOL and I still play Dota 2 (get called a oval office in 10 languages!) and it is like barbie princess maker in comparison, with threat assessments and trying to ruin people's lives.

It is like the sunk cost fallacy on steroids, they just keep pumping money into it because they pumped so much money into it already. Also I do thank you for bringing this poo poo up, since it is endlessly entertaining and it saved brother some money since he was a backer awhile ago and I convinced him to get a refund (and now convinced a friend with hundreds in to pull out as well).

Madcosby
Mar 4, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
those greek recipes are garbage

im greek and the recipes posted all read as Better Homes and Garden versions of traditional recipes

I dont have any recipe I can cut and paste for what are called "Yemista" not "symrn'as favorite stuffed tomoatoes" or whatever but I guarantee every one of the greek recipes posted are not authentic. Who the gently caress puts raisins or mint in a stuffed tomato? Sugar? lol

sorry dante

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Furious Mittens posted:

XBone? No PS4 release?

I might actually pick it up to support Uncle Derek if it was PS4. My questionable purchasing decisions have to be limited, so no XBone for me.

It's available for mobile devices as well. You can play LOD on the shitter, what more can you ask for.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

T.G. Xarbala posted:

Let's see if that one gets taken down, a couple of gifs from a few pages back disappeared.
If that bot is still making the rounds on this thread what will happen if we link to a few of the remaining imgur links on the r/starcitizen top pages?

http://i.imgur.com/cztgRpl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xg7vjVj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YygLv9X.jpg http://i.imgur.com/k5ixD6K.jpg http://i.imgur.com/2Kery9i.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IR6vPsp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Bz9AEB3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/rHye3xM.jpg http://i.imgur.com/lyFw3Js.png http://i.imgur.com/vP2sOW6.png http://i.imgur.com/EWEh8uW.png http://i.imgur.com/G7xizk9.png http://i.imgur.com/DAgM0gz.png http://i.imgur.com/GotNomj.jpg http://i.imgur.com/bFJVCwn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/qeDIJAb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zIXNWnn.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XwTtNta.jpg http://i.imgur.com/mjyJ05X.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XkjF5V0.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Pd1DMud.jpg http://i.imgur.com/AbwP9BQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/UEGvJ6U.jpg http://i.imgur.com/QBoPfCy.jpg http://i.imgur.com/hlhOiCp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/VRd8pOp.jpg http://i.imgur.com/pojYtN4.jpg


Lets find out. :getin:

Shala
Oct 15, 2006

i shot the pilot

Lipstick Apathy

Madcosby posted:

im greek and the recipes posted all read as Better Homes and Garden versions of traditional recipes

Since you're Greek I'm 100% sure you have a restaurant that's not doing so well and you refuse to hear why.

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



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Tank Boy Ken
Aug 24, 2012
J4G for life
Fallen Rib

Young Freud posted:

It's available for mobile devices as well. You can play LOD on the shitter, what more can you ask for.

I just queued up the LOD:T Demo (free on steam) to my download queue.

EDIT
And contacted paypal for the 2 Aurora packages. Finally got off my lazy rear end and contacted CIG Support on the 8th of Octobre. Since it's not resolved now: Mail to PayPal.

Tank Boy Ken fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Oct 27, 2015

Pogue Ma Hoon
Oct 17, 2013

I like a nice pair of slacks.

SelenicMartian posted:

We only know that DickWulf has lost the gallery of his wolf plushie going to the con.

Then we all lose.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

thatguy posted:

Believe it or not white knights like Wulf and Dolvak are Derek's greatest allies. Always racing to try to prove him wrong when all they actually end up doing is giving his thoughts and ideas more publicity. I mean Goons have been saying the same things Derek is saying now for years (more or less) and it was only until people started to bandwagon hate on him that those ideas started gaining traction outside of SA. Since Derek started loving with people he's had several subreddits made about him as well as numerous threads on r/starcitizen, some of which were actually pinned for a short time. The cultists who think they're defending Star Citizen are only helping to kill it faster. It's pretty comical.

:argh:

Goddamnit!! You've literally unveiled the entire social media war of attrition plan!!

Basically, once the media wrote about that first blog, then RSI/CIG proved that PR is only as good as the person you hired and who (that would be David Swofford) you should be listening to, and overreacted by refunding me, the die was cast.

And they were hosed.

Then they all decided to pick on the craziest force of nature.

It went steadily downhill from there.

The End.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

Madcosby posted:

those greek recipes are garbage

im greek and the recipes posted all read as Better Homes and Garden versions of traditional recipes

I dont have any recipe I can cut and paste for what are called "Yemista" not "symrn'as favorite stuffed tomoatoes" or whatever but I guarantee every one of the greek recipes posted are not authentic. Who the gently caress puts raisins or mint in a stuffed tomato? Sugar? lol

sorry dante

Weren't you going to stop being an rear end in a top hat

Furious Mittens
Oct 14, 2005

Lipstick Apathy

http://i.imgur.com/17yGPFT.gif

Dante80
Mar 23, 2015

Madcosby posted:

those greek recipes are garbage

im greek and the recipes posted all read as Better Homes and Garden versions of traditional recipes

I dont have any recipe I can cut and paste for what are called "Yemista" not "symrn'as favorite stuffed tomoatoes" or whatever but I guarantee every one of the greek recipes posted are not authentic. Who the gently caress puts raisins or mint in a stuffed tomato? Sugar? lol

sorry dante

Its cool. But have in mind that you can get about 20 different recipes for Γεμιστά, that are all based on the same premise (με κιμά, με μελιτζάνες, με κολοκύθια, με μανιτάρια, με του διαόλου τα σκατά μέσα, όλα παίζουν αν ασχολείσαι, ειδικά επαγγελματικά). I just post what I have tried and like. The recipe above is from Καρούζο, and its pretty good imo..<3
Also, when you are sauteing onions, try to put some sugar in. You will be surprised. C:

Dante80 fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Oct 27, 2015

eonwe
Aug 11, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
imagine carring about the reddit "community"

lol

Michaellaneous
Oct 30, 2013

Shala posted:

I dunno what you mean man, my last design just took me a little longer to lay groundwork on than usual. Weird.

You'd be surprised. We are almost a state company, and do a lot of research projects for the EU. I am often the sole programmer for 2 or 3 projects, and usually don't have to do a lot of paperwork.
So when I know that one of our work packages says "We need this done next week Wednesday", and it's literally just a few hundred lines of code, I basically have an entire week off, write that poo poo on my weekend and...yeah.

So more than once the state literally paid me to shitpost on SA.

D_Smart
May 11, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
College Slice

Furious Mittens posted:

XBone? No PS4 release?

I might actually pick it up to support Uncle Derek if it was PS4. My questionable purchasing decisions have to be limited, so no XBone for me.

It's approved for PS4. But being that I have small teams, we can't tackle two console ports at once. So PS4 is next year.

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Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



D_Smart posted:

Also, the Line Of Defense Tactics game which takes it's underlying story line from one of the comics, just passed final XBox One certification and goes on sale in early December. You bastards better buy it. I have to keep paying for avatars here goddamnit!!
If you want this thread to pay attention to your game then you're going to need a kickstarter campaign and a release date in 2018 2020 2025.

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