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toanoradian posted:One more day until Dr. Smart's lawsuit, right? I think he said it's not a lawsuit against CIG a while ago, but everyone has ignored that. It better be something funny or, yeah, Star Citizen will finally disappoint.
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AP posted:Found an old link that still works, I bookmark and save the real crazy stuff, I took some screen grabs but these are only a sample of the full horror within. I miss 2013. There was so much hope back then.
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pftc posted:wow I has avatar now Well deserved. 
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Omi-Polari posted:Ah. That makes sense. Here is a pastebin of the "deaf guy" you're speaking of, he's a real charmer. Just like the wheelchair kid, turns out even dicks can be disabled. He's called Nkato.
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Read all the way to about here Did you get tired?
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Meanwhile in the presidential suite of a luxury hotel in Macau DS and Croberts split the profits and share a bottle of 50 year old Scotch. Their plan to con people into buying extra ships just to spite Derek Smart had worked flawlessly....
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AP posted:I think he said it's not a lawsuit against CIG a while ago, but everyone has ignored that. It better be something funny or, yeah, Star Citizen will finally disappoint. Oh? Do you know what it'll be? I know practically nothing about law or legal matters.
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XK posted:Did you get tired? I read the words "make sense" in a star citizen development context and my brain bluescreened  Actually, I found your posts very interesting
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the next massive missive hits tuesday. other than that we are in the dark.
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Guy I just invented a new fighter tactic where you fly behind the other guy and shoot him, it is called the Decrepus Maneuver.
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Decrepus posted:Guy I just invented a new fighter tactic where you fly behind the other guy and shoot him, it is called the Decrepus Maneuver. You just gotta leak goon strategy to the pubbies 
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I read the words "make sense" in a star citizen development context and my brain bluescreened Oh, well then, I agree with you completely.
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  I made this one. Where has all the money gone?
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LLJKSiLk posted:
because spoiler tags means your computer didnt load the nsfw image.
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My internet is out drat you time warner
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Eonwe posted:My internet is out drat you time warner and yet.
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Bolow posted:Oh come on you can't talk about that and forget to mention the guy they held a "court-martial" for was loving deaf, so he had to have a space lawyer relay everything to him 
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Phil Burn posted:What I don't get is WHY Roberts is considered such a visionary. For an "Ideas Man", his ideas seem pretty loving generic to me. There is literally no reason. He has not been successful in 15 years. Microsoft had to boot his stupid rear end off the last game project he was on in order to ship the loving thing and cut a ton of the crap he wanted. It turned out a great game in spite of Chris Roberts, not because of him. He was butthurt by this and clearly wanted to make movies anyway, so he left the industry. This is the first thing he's done in over a decade. The hero worship of CRoberts is completely unjustified. He hasn't been relevant in gaming for a long time and he's still operating under the 1980s assumption that a very small group of people can produce great things and everyone else can gently caress off. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug along with the laughable promise that this game will be everything to everyone and it will be the only game you need to play for the rest of your life. He's a washed-up, used car salesman bilking money from desperate nerds who are ruining their own lives over a fantasy. Its just like those guys ignorant about stocks buying up the poo poo some boiler room fraud sells them, thinking that they'll get rich off of it. Instead of exploiting people's greed, he's exploiting...I don't know what, their dreams? And he got booted out of Hollywood because he thought he could break contract with an Oscar-winning actor and think people would still work with him. I gather once he got the money he thought he could do both: make a 10 hour movie and make his dream game that Microsoft 'ruined'. Except he's doing it in the most incompetent fashion possible. I've got no respect for CRoberts, just like other cons. Whether it was intentional or unintentional, it doesn't matter anymore. No game that has ever had what Star Citizen has happened to it (missed every deadline, delays, no concrete release of anything, glitchy demos, bad whispering before the game even comes out) has ever ended well. Not one. Just because Chris Roberts made some great games thirty years ago doesn't justify this devotion and lack of accountability. And there is nothing in his past history that he can overcome this. In fact, there's more evidence that he can't rather than can. Dapper Dan fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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Jst0rm posted:and yet. https://youtu.be/SkWeMvrNiOM
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There is one simple thing for me. If it turns out CIG executives have been buying first class plane tickets using backer funds I would be very disappointed. I can understand flying business class or premium economy and then upgrading with their own money to first class. 
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Im_drunk posted:Here is a pastebin of the "deaf guy" you're speaking of, he's a real charmer. Just like the wheelchair kid, turns out even dicks can be disabled. He's called Nkato. This org is founded on principles of mutual respect you FUCKSTICK.
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BigMouthSingers posted:There is one simple thing for me. A business ticket on American Airlines/British Airways from LAX to LHR is $4,500 on average. That's just the upgrade price from economy, btw.
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Dapper Dan posted:There is literally no reason. He has not been successful in 15 years. Microsoft had to boot his stupid rear end off the last game project he was on in order to ship the loving thing and cut a ton of the crap he wanted. It turned out a great game in spite of Chris Roberts, not because of him. He was butthurt by this and clearly wanted to make movies anyway, so he left the industry. This is the first thing he's done in over a decade. The hero worship of CRoberts is completely unjustified. He hasn't been relevant in gaming for a long time and he's still operating under the 1980s assumption that a very small group of people can produce great things and everyone else can gently caress off. Nostalgia is one hell of a drug along with the laughable promise that this game will be everything to everyone and it will be the only game you need to play for the rest of your life. He's a washed-up, used car salesman bilking money from desperate nerds who are ruining their own lives over a fantasy. Its just like those guys ignorant about stocks buying up the poo poo some boiler room fraud sells them, thinking that they'll get rich off of it. Instead of exploiting people's greed, he's exploiting...I don't know what, their dreams? For Star Citizen fans, I see them often making the point that video game development is volatile, so we shouldn't freak out when there are layoffs, things go awry -- this is a normal part of the process and we should stick to CRoberts' vision. But I want to say that *this is why you should be very wary of promises made by video game developers.* This is an industry built on the bones of bankrupt companies and broken dreams. Star Citizen is mainly shaping up to being an enormous disaster because it involves crowdfunding instead of a big corporation losing its rear end. In terms of dollar amounts lost Gizmondo was several times bigger as a failure, but no one remembers it because it was a taco-shaped handheld device and it was big investors who got screwed.
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MeLKoR posted:"turn the other cheek" ultra christians? Nope. He's one of those ultra religious atheists though. Oops! Forgive me! Atheist, with a capital A. Very serious stuff.
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Dapper Dan posted:And he got booted out of Hollywood because he thought he could break contract with an Oscar-winning actor and think people would still work with him. I gather once he got the money he thought he could do both: make a 10 hour movie and make his dream game that Microsoft 'ruined'. I'd like to hear more about both of these individual things.
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Omi-Polari posted:The thing is, a lot of what CRoberts did was not terrible: trading on nostalgia, crowdfunding, savvy marketing and tapping into built-up demand for space games after the industry had starved the genre for a decade. The spacegame genre had been pretty sparse since Freespace 2. But then he goes and turns $93+ million into a cockup that's now on the verge of going super critical. There is an asteroid-belt sized pile of poo poo about to collide with a very big and expensive space fan. This was along my thoughts when I tweeted "A "business plan" that relies on pledge donations as its core income is not either self sustaining or a business plan."
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AP posted:Assuming this train manages to keep going for a good while longer, I still think saying "the graphics look a bit dated to me" will be both true and result in amazing levels of denial. Oh wait, sorry- never mind.
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Kicked out by space court In space I can't hear you scream I can't hear anything Winning at robots That is him in the wheelchair REM song ruined
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Phil Burn posted:What I don't get is WHY Roberts is considered such a visionary. For an "Ideas Man", his ideas seem pretty loving generic to me. This was actually pretty well explained in the previous(?) thread. It's kind of a different take on the whole definition of a pioneer. It's because his productive period was at a time when PC gaming started to come into its own after a decade of Commodore, Atari, hell even Apple dominance as the “step up” from simple consoles. As such, he took part in defining a genre. What he did was, to be honest, not very good, but it was very new and very cutting edge. He tried a bunch of stuff before it was really possible — half of it worked, half was jank, and all of it was done far better by other a few years later when they had learned from his mistakes and when the hardware and customer base had caught up. The “visionary” thing in all of this was in part the idea to combine popular design features that already existed into something more cohesive, and in part to put great presentation on it. It didn't really matter (at the time) that the writing has pure hackery and the gameplay was slightly shallower than a puddle on a parquet floor. It was space storytelling fast-food, ready for consumption. It was still new and eye-catching enough to set the tone for almost a decade. So it seems generic for two reasons: one is that it copied whole-heartedly from existing source material (be it Star Wars and everything that followed or the whole Top Gun/Iron Eagle genre), and the other is that so many other games immediately came along to fill in these newly-created game genres with proper design and storytelling.
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Omi-Polari posted:The thing is, a lot of what CRoberts did was not terrible: trading on nostalgia, crowdfunding, savvy marketing and tapping into built-up demand for space games after the industry had starved the genre for a decade. The spacegame genre had been pretty sparse since Freespace 2. But then he goes and turns $93+ million into a cockup that's now on the verge of going super critical. There is an asteroid-belt sized pile of poo poo about to collide with a very big and expensive space fan. This is why I believe Roberts was a true believer in his own poo poo. Even knowing there was pent up demand for space sims, there's no way anyone could've gone into this thinking they would get tens of millions of dollars, approaching one hundred million. I don't know if he's yet to realize the poo poo he's in, but I'm pretty sure he started out with good intentions, and worked his way up to this point through self-delusion. If he realizes what he's stuck in right now, big if, he might be feeling like he's in too deep and has to keep the thing running so he can manage pull something off. Actually, if he does fully understand the tough spot he is in, and recognizes the project is hosed, and he only got himself here through delusional good intentions, I'd feel really bad for him. At least, if I were in his position, I'd have a lot of sleepless nights if I hosed up enough to find myself there.
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Wuxi posted:Silly, they are german, you can't sue somebody in germany. Yes, I want to know, too.
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AP posted:To be fair to SUN, they've probably had a great time role-playing being a space navy for the last three years while us idiots were waiting for a pc game. speak for yourself! from day one of the kickstarter i suspected everything mush mouth said was poorly planned and unrealistic. he pretty much promised the sky and everyone ate it all up
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XK posted:Actually, if he does fully understand the tough spot he is in, and recognizes the project is hosed, and he only got himself here through delusional good intentions, I'd feel really bad for him. At least, if I were in his position, I'd have a lot of sleepless nights if I hosed up enough to find myself there.
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Omi-Polari posted:Ah. That makes sense. As a deaf person, this makes me laugh. They would need video relay for that dumb poo poo, so imagine involving real people to interpret into this process, as if they've entered a secret room of inexplicable happenings only to be incredulous as one assumes that this pertains to some kind of bizarre fetish roleplay. One can only imagine at least anyways. This kind of absurdity is why I prefer to keep in the dark about a lot of things in general, including my life. Although, I'm just wondering what's this about a kangaroo court over JPEG ships?
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