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MeLKoR posted:
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Dec 29, 2015 02:34
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In other news Lemmy of Motorhead has died :[ RIP Lemmy.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:43
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:I wonder if he would sell his farm for a Javelin. The bank owns the farm.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:45
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:In other news Lemmy of Motorhead has died :[ RIP Lemmy. You beat me to it.  Sad day. I called Bootcha almost in tears.In my stagehand days, one of my coworkers had previously toured with Motorhead, and he spoke highly of what a down-to-earth guy he was. I never got to see them play. 
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Dec 29, 2015 02:47
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Part of me feels bad, the other part is just like, how loving pathetic can you be. At least with gambling addicts, there is the delusion they might walk away with thousands upon thousands of dollars and pull them out of the hole. With this, what the hell is the pull? Are their lives so empty, so meaningless that they have to imagine a space-ship game in their brains and then justify it by spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on absolutely nothing and ruin their lives over it? People in cons are usually drawn in by their greed, but at least it is something to benefit them tangibly. There's no benefit here. I can do exactly what they are doing by going to RP chat rooms and forums and role-play for free. Hell, even this very site has an RP forum. gently caress, even in other digital fantasy worlds, you are buying something for your money, a private server, build tools, something. Here you aren't even getting that. You are getting the promise of something. In an industry where such promises are absolutely meaningless and there are far, far more examples of games that have failed to deliver and outright lied than have lived up to expectations. And this includes great developers and people who knew what they were doing. The psychology of giving away thousands upon thousands for dollars for literally nothing is mind boggling. And they wonder why they get called a cult. They are spending thousands of dollars in the complete absence of evidence simply on faith. This is a video game that doesn't loving exist and they are ruining your lives over a promise based on faith. This is what cults do. At this point, I don't even think this is Chris Roberts. He doesn't have a cult of personality. He isn't charismatic, he's a mush-mouth autistic rear end in a top hat who has to be cattle-prodded to finish anything, like many developers of his time. I fully believe it could have been some other idiot who made one space sim years ago. It isn't him that's doing it, they are doing it to themselves. It is like Chris Roberts hit the most pathetic and naive people on the planet and struck gold.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:51
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fuzzknot posted:You beat me to it. He gave no fucks about life and just did he what he wanted, still managed to not be a knob and was cool all the time.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:51
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Breetai posted:So a question was asked on the forums: Lol, so if you run out of ships/money you're expected to work on someone else's ship and not just murder the pilot and fly away? I'm sure that'll work out.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:52
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MeLKoR posted:
Looks like the chickens are gonna starve this month, daddy gotta feed  tonight.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:54
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:He gave no fucks about life and just did he what he wanted, still managed to not be a knob and was cool all the time. I always remember two quotes from interviews with him. Interviewer: I read an article that said you live in a little apartment in LA. Lemmy: Yeah, a two-room apartment. Interviewer: Why such a small place? I'm guessing you could afford something bigger. Lemmy: [ . . . ] I'm not looking for a big house — you can only be in one room at a time. The other one went something like Interviewer: Why do you still keep touring? Lemmy: Did you ever have a dream? Interviewer: Yeah. Lemmy: Well, mine came true. Why stop doing it? Definitely cool.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:56
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Dapper Dan posted:Part of me feels bad, the other part is just like, how loving pathetic can you be. At least with gambling addicts, there is the delusion they might walk away with thousands upon thousands of dollars and pull them out of the hole. With this, what the hell is the pull? Are their lives so empty, so meaningless that they have to imagine a space-ship game in their brains and then justify it by spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on absolutely nothing and ruin their lives over it? People in cons are usually drawn in by their greed, but at least it is something to benefit them tangibly. There's no benefit here. I can do exactly what they are doing by going to RP chat rooms and forums and role-play for free. Hell, even this very site has an RP forum. Someone on this forum should get in touch and just try and stop him, he wouldn't listen but maybe if we all shout at him not to throw his life and future and farm away he might wake up? Optimistic I know but holy poo poo I hope he's lying.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:58
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Chin posted:... but why the jank? Because this is all basically a mod for Crysis, and a lovely one, at that.
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Dec 29, 2015 02:59
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fuzzknot posted:I always remember two quotes from interviews with him. I started reading his autobiography a few years ago but never finished it, I really should get round to it, I remember he talked about being a teenager and just picking up a little Hawaiian ukulele and teaching himself how to play. I can only see him as a teenager with big fuckoff muttonchops, pants that don't quite fit and a teddyboy haircut but still looking 50 years old haha.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:01
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https://killscreen.com/articles/remembering-the-beautifully-boring-mmo-star-wars-galaxies/ Star wars galaxies sounds like a way better game than star citizen. IMO, it seems like people actually have jobs that matter.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:02
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Dapper Dan posted:Part of me feels bad, the other part is just like, how loving pathetic can you be. At least with gambling addicts, there is the delusion they might walk away with thousands upon thousands of dollars and pull them out of the hole. With this, what the hell is the pull? Are their lives so empty, so meaningless that they have to imagine a space-ship game in their brains and then justify it by spending thousands upon thousands of dollars on absolutely nothing and ruin their lives over it? People in cons are usually drawn in by their greed, but at least it is something to benefit them tangibly. There's no benefit here. I can do exactly what they are doing by going to RP chat rooms and forums and role-play for free. Hell, even this very site has an RP forum. There isn't even the draw of instant gratification because Star Citizen lol
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Dec 29, 2015 03:02
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On one hand you get to wade knee deep in poo poo everyday with fat, dumb, animals that stink like gently caress and on the other hand you get to run a farm, it's a tough call
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Dec 29, 2015 03:02
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Scruffpuff posted:Another poster here attempted to put some office furniture in his ship - I think he got a chair in the back before the game crashed. That is sort of an inventory, right? But that leads us to another technicality: hello friend you came out of nowhere and started effortposting what is your citizen story?
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Dec 29, 2015 03:11
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The only way that story could turn around and become funny again was if he was dropping everything to play FarmVille.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:12
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Dapper Dan posted:Part of me feels bad, the other part is just like, how loving pathetic can you be. At least with gambling addicts, there is the delusion they might walk away with thousands upon thousands of dollars and pull them out of the hole. With this, what the hell is the pull? Are their lives so empty, so meaningless lol
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Dec 29, 2015 03:13
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peter gabriel posted:On one hand you get to wade knee deep in poo poo everyday with fat, dumb, animals that stink like gently caress and on the other hand you get to run a farm, it's a tough call 
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Dec 29, 2015 03:15
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:hello friend I don't know his citizen story but I'll share mine because I started reading this thread just under a week ago: A couple years ago, Star Citizen is basically what got me interested in space games, and I was really hoping it would be good. I checked the website and spaceships cost real money and the game wasn't even anywhere near alpha at that point so I decided to back off and wait a while. Fast forward to mid-2015 where I wasn't perpetually broke, I went looking into spacegames "Oh, surely Star Citizen's really coming along by now, that game sure did look cool two years ago" and Star Citizen still wasn't even in beta yet. I bought Elite: Dangerous instead and ended up enjoying it enough that I bought the Horizons expansion and don't regret it. That's my star citizen story thank you for reading.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:16
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MeLKoR posted:The only way that story could turn around and become funny again was if he was dropping everything to play FarmVille. he would probably "buy the farm" peter gabriel posted:On one hand you get to wade knee deep in poo poo everyday with fat, dumb, animals that stink like gently caress and on the other hand you get to run a farm, it's a tough call 
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Dec 29, 2015 03:16
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peter gabriel posted:On one hand you get to wade knee deep in poo poo everyday with fat, dumb, animals that stink like gently caress and on the other hand you get to run a farm, it's a tough call 
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Dec 29, 2015 03:17
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:hello friend It all started months ago when I came across this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/ I read it and immediately recognized Chris from back in the day. I played the old Wing Commander games back whenever, on the 3D0 of all things. They were mostly poo poo, but there was some entertainment value. I promptly forgot about them. A casual glance at the development of the game, cross-referenced with Chris Roberts' industry history, shone all the light on this project that anyone would ever need. But - noplace to talk about it online due to cultists? I stumbled here by accident and found people with their heads on straight. I needed to find the best vantage point to watch this implode spectacularly, and I suspect these are the best seats in the house.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:20
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MeLKoR posted:
Jesus... that's depressing to read. Please, somebody report that post to Chris roberts and Sandi Gardiner immediately. Also, link the suicide hot line number info with it so they can take care of the issue.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:21
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grimcreaper posted:Jesus... that's depressing to read. Please, somebody report that post to Chris roberts and Sandi Gardiner immediately. Also, link the suicide hot line number info with it so they can take care of the issue. No don't link it to THOSE two fuckers, they'll loving eat him alive :o
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Dec 29, 2015 03:22
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Scruffpuff posted:It all started months ago when I came across this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/ That's exactly what a spy would say. A spy sent to steal our investment and buttcoins
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Dec 29, 2015 03:23
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Scruffpuff posted:It all started months ago when I came across this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/ welcome and thank you for your contribution to keeping our dumb forum online ironically the whole  gated community thing is the only thing keeping citizens from drowning criticism out en masse like in every single comment thread on every single news or blog article about SC
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Dec 29, 2015 03:28
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:No don't link it to THOSE two fuckers, they'll loving eat him alive :o If it's reported to the owners of the company and he commits suicide then maybe someone can say it was directly their fault if they don't intervene.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:29
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hrmph why does this look so familiar
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grimcreaper posted:If it's reported to the owners of the company and he commits suicide then maybe someone can say it was directly their fault if they don't intervene. Ben will eat his body, Sandi will swallow his soul, and Chris will stare at a locked up computer while drooling into his lap. No body, no crime.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:32
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Here's everything I could find on the actual "design" behind Star Citizen: More than that, look at what's actually in those “design” descriptions: 90% pointless lore, 9% UI mockups, and 1% obligatory sales pitch for a new ship to fulfil the role. It reads like a high-school essay with a 5k word limit (but no page requirement, so no cheating with double-spaced lines) rather than any instruction to actually stay on topic. At no point are any actual mechanics described — no “to achieve X, you do Y, which is balanced by factors Z” — and no description of these mechanics would fit into the larger picture of the game. Ok, fine, you can mine minerals… and then what? What are the acquisition rates, how are they balanced between different materials, and how much go into actually building stuff? What does the faucet-to-sink path look like?
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Dec 29, 2015 03:33
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Please tell me that wingcommanderthemovie.com will soon redirect to wangcommandertheshiza.xxx in our lifetime.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:34
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Scruffpuff posted:It all started months ago when I came across this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/ thank you for sharing, and welcome home to internet 1.0 it's p good once you get the hang of it
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grimcreaper posted:If it's reported to the owners of the company and he commits suicide then maybe someone can say it was directly their fault if they don't intervene. I understand where you're coming from and I mean this in the nicest way to you, but i'd just rather have him not commit suicide.(I know you weren't advocating that anyway) Unfortunately I wouldn't even know a link to help him so....... :[ fingers crossed he's lying
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Dec 29, 2015 03:35
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I appreciate everyone who spends money to keep these forums running or manages to get money spent on them by other people even gryphon not only signed up but also managed to get someone to buy him an av for extra value
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Dec 29, 2015 03:38
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It is kind of ridiculous that the gaming press dogpiled Peter Molyneux into crying and losing his sense of self-worth but none of them have so much as glanced at the most entertaining fuckup of the past 3 years: Msr Chris Roberts. At some point this is all going to collapse and they'll tear the whole thing apart like piranhas and then a year later they'll have retconned history with them having always been skeptical and critical of the whole thing. I guess its a fools game to hope Germing Jurnalists will be anything better than insipid but RPS and PCgamer used to love this kind of drama, I'd like to know why they seem so cautious about broaching the issue, whether they just copy/paste press releases without watching Chris play his own game or whether the rabid fans give them pause.
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Dec 29, 2015 03:39
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Jobbo Fett's video of Chris Roberts failing to play his own game has hit more than 30,000 views! It will probably end up getting at least as many as your typical episode of Around the Verse. The comments are pretty good too.
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peter gabriel posted:On one hand you get to wade knee deep in poo poo everyday with fat, dumb, animals that stink like gently caress and on the other hand you get to run a farm, it's a tough call pgabz dropping bombs everyday
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Scruffpuff posted:It all started months ago when I came across this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2015/03/fans-dropped-77m-guys-buggy-half-built-game/ As I said a while back welcome to the RMS Carpathia.
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