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Sarsapariller posted:Look you guys Chris Roberts has a lot of ships to poo poo out and his bowels can only move so fast. I look forward to eating his poo poo just like you, but we have to be patient.
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Jst0rm posted:someone getting a phd in psychology will study this thing in like 5 years. dibs.
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Nov 17, 2015 20:39
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Sarsapariller posted:Look you guys Chris Roberts has a lot of ships to poo poo out and his bowels can only move so fast. I look forward to eating his poo poo just like you, but we have to be patient. the problem is Chris is anal-retentive, he gets pleasure from holding in the poo poo like they were bars of gold. Things would improve alot if he realized if it was poo poo, just a heaping load of poo poo.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:dibs. Do it!
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ShredsYouSay posted:Whoever said tetley was a good tea is tripping. If you ever have to taste from German teabags you will come to LOVE Tetleys. I always bring back at least 2 of the 240 Packs when I am in the UK. They last about half a year between all the loose tea I drink when I have time to actually enjoy a good cuppa. And imho early grey is tolerable at best. I am not a fan of bergamotte or whatever you call it.
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How the flying gently caress is it even possible to spend 52.000 bucks on this? I'm not even talking about his obvious breakup with common sense, but shouldn't he run out of stuff to buy like 50.000 ago? I mean, I look at something like LoL, that has been out for what, 5-6 years and completely finances itself through the cash shop and if you'd buy literally everything ever, you'd probably not even spend 2000$ This poo poo isn't even F2P (or F2wait in this case), it has a retail price, but somehow you can still spend a few cars on this poo poo. This is the most deranged and obvious cash grab I've seen, even if this game ever sees the light of day. It won't 
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Jst0rm posted:someone getting a phd in psychology will study this thing in like 5 years. I'm studying the poo poo out of it now. It is fascinating. So many questions. Is the current community a product of the failed development cycle or was it always going to evolve this way? Is the weird lack of impulse control in the fan base a symptom of the high prices weeding out more level-headed buyers, or would it have cropped up in a cheaper environment? Why are so many of the fans so adamant about not holding CIG accountable for any dates, in what is almost an inversion of the typical fan-developer relationship? Did CIG go out of their way to target and collect the fringe elements or was there something about the project allowing people to project their own vision onto it that drew in the truly mentally unstable? Could a similar project crop up again given the right set of circumstances? Will community expectations change as gameplay actually releases and elements of the project solidify, and is CIG intentionally delaying that moment to keep the imagination-space (and wallets) as open as possible?
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Nov 17, 2015 20:54
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ShredsYouSay posted:Whoever said tetley was a good tea is tripping. ponce
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Yeah, 52k is really quite a sum of money to have spent on a game... it's impossible for me to understand what this guy's thought process is. The game has almost $100 million so he can't be thinking "without me this game won't get made" because overall his contribution is barely noticeable. He can't possibly think that he will get value for money out of this since it's impossible for the game to offer him anything worth that much money, even if he had god mode and infinite money as a result, it still wouldn't be worth that much. It has to be a sign of mental illness to spend that much on something that doesn't need the money and cannot offer you anything substantial in return. Some desperate attempt to buy something intangible that will magically fix everything that's wrong in your life. I'm genuinely concerned about what will happen to someone like this when the game fails to meet expectations or fails to even come out.
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Xaerael posted:Yes, manufactured, here, have a pic... How did we start talking about Skeksis again?  mmmmMMMMMMMmmmm
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Nov 17, 2015 21:00
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Fifty-two thousand?! That's 10 Saitek Cessna cockpits, and those things are already teetering on the edge of “oh, you're really taking this way too seriously”. 
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Sarsapariller posted:I'm studying the poo poo out of it now. It is fascinating. So many questions. Is the current community a product of the failed development cycle or was it always going to evolve this way? Is the weird lack of impulse control in the fan base a symptom of the high prices weeding out more level-headed buyers, or would it have cropped up in a cheaper environment? Why are so many of the fans so adamant about not holding CIG accountable for any dates, in what is almost an inversion of the typical fan-developer relationship? Did CIG go out of their way to target and collect the fringe elements or was there something about the project allowing people to project their own vision onto it that drew in the truly mentally unstable? Could a similar project crop up again given the right set of circumstances? Will community expectations change as gameplay actually releases and elements of the project solidify, and is CIG intentionally delaying that moment to keep the imagination-space (and wallets) as open as possible? looks like you have your abstract ready to go. Now we need a paper title...
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Nov 17, 2015 21:02
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I'm pretty sure you could buy everything on steam, including all of railworks and train simulator, for 52k.
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Tippis posted:Fifty-two thousand?! I'm pretty sure 52k is enough to get a small plane (ultra light).
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LITERALLY MY FETISH posted:I'm pretty sure you could buy everything on steam, including all of railworks and train simulator, for 52k. these guys have no prospects for families. They are boring and dot drink and eat well. All they do is spend 10k on a new computer every year and save money for jpegs. A guy working 52k a year could afford 52k in jpegs after 4 years.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:05
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How do you spend 52k on Star Citizen? It's simple. Your homey CR in position, in the kitchen with soda. I just whipped up a watch, tryin' to get me Omega Tryin' to stretch out the pants, Sumo wrestler, yessir Keep the Heckler close, you know them goons'll test ya But like, fifty-two kay when I'm, I'm through dealin' Now fifty-two ships come out, now you feel 'em Now, fifty-two cars roll out, remove ceiling In case fifty-two broads come out, now you chillin' With a boss bitch of course S.C. on the sleeve At the 40/40 club, RtV on the screen I paid a bunch for the jeans, extra wide, it is clean No chrome on the wheels, I'm a grown-up for real. - Fat Jay-Z, Dirt of Your Second Chin
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Tank Boy Ken posted:I'm pretty sure 52k is enough to get a small plane (ultra light). You can get an actual Cessna for that price if you shop around (and don't mind the wings falling off every now and then), but then you're talking about an actual aircraft, not a game. With the Saiteks, you're still stuck in game territory and it's already way too much to spend for anyone sane.
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Nov 17, 2015 21:08
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You can sell, or could sell, just about all your space citizen stuff for 1.5x -2x what you paid for it if you got it early couldn't you? So someone who has spent 30 grand, if he spent it on stuff that later became resellable at a profit, actually has 60 grand tied up in star citizen, minus capital gains taxes or whatever. 52k -> as much as 100k equity tied up in star citizen.
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Raskolnikov posted:Do it! CBA to use psychological terminology, but I think my brother who works in marketing, organizing and logistics work put it best, so allow me to translate his saying to Star Citizen as it explains exactly why people are willing to spend tens of thousands on this bullshit. The value of everything in this world varies as to who you are: -To an average person in the street (like my mother, when I tried to explain all this crap to her), spaceship .jpegs aren't worth diddly squat and it boggles her mind how anyone spends so much as a dime on all this. -To someone like me (who is into video games, but has learned to beware hype by now), spaceship .jpegs are worth something, but only so long as I am reasonably certain that there will be a fun game where I can fly them. -But to someone like a Star Citizen faithful, especially the kind that defends it on the internet on and on? The mere idea and dream of flying them is worth thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars. 10:1 that when this whole thing burns up in flames, most of these last types (who by that point will have indebted themselves to kingdom come most likely) will still genuinely believe, that even though they'll never get to play Star Citizen...at least they funded a genuine company free from the evil of publishers and gave it their best shot. 
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hakimashou posted:You can sell, or could sell, just about all your space citizen stuff for 1.5x -2x what you paid for it if you got it early couldn't you? That's well over my game budget. That's about half of the Tesla I want.
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Jst0rm posted:these guys have no prospects for families. They are boring and dot drink and eat well. All they do is spend 10k on a new computer every year and save money for jpegs. A guy working 52k a year could afford 52k in jpegs after 4 years. at the same time they could just not spend the money and retire earlier or at the very least sperg about stocks and actual investments and maybe become actual rich. like, there's nothing worse than dropping that kind of money on SC because there is always something better to spend it on or save it for. like, poo poo, going to the horse races and dropping 52k on a single horse race is probably a better use of that than spending it on SC.
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Wuxi posted:How the flying gently caress is it even possible to spend 52.000 bucks on this? I'm not even talking about his obvious breakup with common sense, but shouldn't he run out of stuff to buy like 50.000 ago? I mean, I look at something like LoL, that has been out for what, 5-6 years and completely finances itself through the cash shop and if you'd buy literally everything ever, you'd probably not even spend 2000$
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blueberrysmith posted:Wow, that's a horrifically sad person. Thor-Stryker posted:Maybe if you lived in some backwater nation it could. Eh.. Depends on what you strive for. 52k pays off the minivan I bought the wife when our second kid popped out (debt), allows me to throw 20k at a VA secured loan for a house if that's even possible and buys me a 10 year old jeep to go use as a toy and a daily driver for work, replacing my beat to poo poo corolla that is literally zero fun to drive while skipping a new monthly payment. Houses in eastern N. Carolina aren't very expensive unless you're trying to grab beachfront property. Back off a few miles from the coast and they drop in price considerably. You can pick up a 4 bedroom in the 2500sqft area for about 190k sitting on 3-5 acres if you aren't trying to be in the middle of whatever city is nearby.
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If you need more cats, well https://youtube.com/watch?v=V15rnpZ_hV4
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Sarsapariller posted:I'm studying the poo poo out of it now. It is fascinating. So many questions. Is the current community a product of the failed development cycle or was it always going to evolve this way? Is the weird lack of impulse control in the fan base a symptom of the high prices weeding out more level-headed buyers, or would it have cropped up in a cheaper environment? Why are so many of the fans so adamant about not holding CIG accountable for any dates, in what is almost an inversion of the typical fan-developer relationship? Did CIG go out of their way to target and collect the fringe elements or was there something about the project allowing people to project their own vision onto it that drew in the truly mentally unstable? Could a similar project crop up again given the right set of circumstances? Will community expectations change as gameplay actually releases and elements of the project solidify, and is CIG intentionally delaying that moment to keep the imagination-space (and wallets) as open as possible?
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Mirificus posted:I remember a Star Citizen Redditor that wanted to seek out people with depression and "help" them by introducing them to Star Citizen. Notacult
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Wuxi posted:How the flying gently caress is it even possible to spend 52.000 bucks on this? I'm not even talking about his obvious breakup with common sense, but shouldn't he run out of stuff to buy like 50.000 ago? I mean, I look at something like LoL, that has been out for what, 5-6 years and completely finances itself through the cash shop and if you'd buy literally everything ever, you'd probably not even spend 2000$ Easy you just keep buying multiples of stuff you already have.
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For that much you could buy a real-deal Mig-21
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ShredsYouSay posted:Whoever said tetley was a good tea is tripping. Just started taking flat tummy tea and the morning brew is pretty tasty. I will take the evening tea later today. It's super over priced but if I get a flat tummy it will be totally worth it.
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I just want to point out that for 16,500 euros, you can buy a ticket for a MIG-29 and go into the stratosphere. You wont need to pretend with a jpeg, you can actually go up there. http://www.flymigsokol.com/flights/space_program
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LowellDND posted:I just want to point out that for 16,500 euros, you can buy a ticket for a MIG-29 and go into the stratosphere. You wont need to pretend with a jpeg, you can actually go up there. Holy poo poo, now that seriously sounds amazing. Unlike Star Citizen.
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hakimashou posted:You can sell, or could sell, just about all your space citizen stuff for 1.5x -2x what you paid for it if you got it early couldn't you? That only applies to "limited edition" jpegs. Obviously there's no reason to buy a jpeg on the grey market for more than it would cost straight from CIG. And you can bet that CIG will put them on sale again as a last ditch effort to raise money.
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peter gabriel posted:I've got a house in France and in the village there is a shop called 'British Shop' and in there they have all the things like Salad Cream, Bovril, Spotted Dick, you name it, the last time I was there a bottle of Salad Cream was 12 Euros ha ha What village would that be? Also, did they have Marmite, Ovaltine or those addictive Roundtree sweet pastilles (OMG!! those things are made by the devil himself!)?
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CrazyLoon posted:Holy poo poo, now that seriously sounds amazing. Right? I seriously want to save up for a decade or two and get it for my hypothetical kids 
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McGiggins posted:
It's a fun time-waster; but those claims are entirely without merit. 
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Justin Tyme posted:For that much you could buy a real-deal Mig-21
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Calling it now. PU will not come out in November. Go ahead Sandi, prove me wrong. Whip your team into a frenzy, crush what little spirit they have left, so that you can be right. I'm sure whatever CIG releases will totally be ready for release. As I posted a few weeks back, my sources tell me that it probably will, if Chris has his way. This despite the fact that none of it is "production" ready. If they DO release "something", two things to remember related to the quality: social/planetside module buggies in a hangar The problem they're going to be faced with, is going to be the exodus of key people after the holidays die down. Just wait.
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