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Siva68 posted:This shark cam is relaxing, I love learning about fun real things from this thread. I also purchased Elite and BF4 cause of this thread. Star Citizen thread keeps delivering! It's real good. California Academy of Sciences has a nice shallow reef cam too: http://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/shark-lagoon-cam Wafflz posted:I am now watching the sharks, it's better than diablo2 speedrun Penguin cam is also good and cool! Penguins are awesome and if you're ever in Tampa Bay go to the aquarium and pay the man $60 to hang out with a penguin and hold him in your hands. It's the best.
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Eonwe posted:i want to be a lord of hell Eonwe irl 
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Siva68 posted:This shark cam is relaxing, I love learning about fun real things from this thread. I also purchased Elite and BF4 cause of this thread. Star Citizen thread keeps delivering! Otter cam was down  but it told me I otter watch another cam 
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Lowtax posted:I absolutely do not care how they handle things at Reddit, I just care about how things are done here, and I will not allow personal attacks, because I do not want this forum to sink to the level of reddits discourse and community. Thanks. I really hope we can get back to more important topics of discussion like how the new bird module will get us exotic birds in our space rape barns. 
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Wafflz posted:Otter cam was down Kelp forest cam is pretty relaxing too.
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Wafflz posted:Otter cam was down anotter cam you mean
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Gawain The Blind posted:Okay so I just spent the last two hours catching up with this thread and I think what makes me cringe the most is how serious the language is. People have aligned themselves with Derek Smart. Like there are all these factions moving around in the shadows, just waiting to destroy this video game about spaceships. A cabal made up of various leaders of industry like Lowtax and Derek Smart, sitting around a table in a dark room, nefariously rubbing their hands together Snidely Whiplash style and twirling each other's mustaches while they gaze down on a printed jpeg and plan their next evil scheme. Yes. That's how things are. It's glorious.
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TheLastRoboKy posted:Dolvak has this super hard-on for trying to show Beer is a horrible monster and liar, and every time he does Beer calls him out on it and he retracts it but then comes back later to repeat the dance. I don't know why, but I assume it's because he's really bad at everything. heh yeah, I remember back when he decided to dance with me. It was a disappointingly short dance.
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Beet Wagon posted:Kelp forest cam is pretty relaxing too. kelp forest cam is definitely good. star citizen delivers again.
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From a sociological aspect, this whole event is beyond interesting. These groups of people, who have essentially attached their entire identity to expensive drawings of spaceships in a video game which may never come out, have created an entirely new reality they inhabit, one where anything that conflicts with their worldview is immediately dismissed and chased away hostily. Any suggestions or insinuations that go against their groupthink is usually never addressed, and simply written off as propaganda by a boogeyman, either Derek Smart or Goons in general, because it's much easier to label somebody as a member of an evil enemy group whose sole intent is to just be evil for some reason. The concept of getting angry at somebody because of their opinion on a video game totally eludes me, but to some people, it seems to define their lives.
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Scruffpuff posted:I think it's all my fault - I speculated on how an actress who is so bad at her job even today, continued to get work when she was younger, and ostensibly even worse at it, being a newbie and all. My speculation apparently snowballed. This is a cautionary tale about why you don't think out loud on the internets. Well its not like she got much work when she was younger. While most activities people get better the more they do it. Acting is another beast. A bad actor can actually get worse as time marches on, bad habits gets solidified, being genuine dies off, and frustration and misunderstanding takes over. Looking at her work, its what you would expect a no talent high-school theater student would act. As others have pointed out her facial expressions don't get past her noise (and its not because of botox), the directing is not helping her (its fun to think it was Chris that directed her stuff). It is clear she does not understand her char, or the lines she says. She constantly emphasize the wrong words, puts pauses in the wrong spots, and her cardinal sin is that she plays the emotions. All her "acting" is her acting the emotion, she is supposed to be afraid so she acts afraid, her char is sad so she acts sad. Instead of understanding why her char is sad, and what it means for her to be sad, she does the external actions, something you would see a Mime perform. The really sad part, is that you can see the "training"  bad acting work shops, and other community acting class, influence her work. And its not like you can have fun with her acting because she has no personality and no charisma. Most bad actors/movies are fun to watch because they have some of these qualities, you can see them trying. Sandi is not trying to be better, she actually thinks she is good. I could go on about what she is doing wrong and how she could improve.... 
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Lowtax posted:From a sociological aspect, this whole event is beyond interesting. These groups of people, who have essentially attached their entire identity to expensive drawings of spaceships in a video game which may never come out, have created an entirely new reality they inhabit, one where anything that conflicts with their worldview is immediately dismissed and chased away hostily. Any suggestions or insinuations that go against their groupthink is usually never addressed, and simply written off as propaganda by a boogeyman, either Derek Smart or Goons in general, because it's much easier to label somebody as a member of an evil enemy group whose sole intent is to just be evil for some reason. hell, people on SA, a site basically dedicated to making fun of dumb things on the internet still get mad at people over video games and we are supposedly a bit more self aware but yeah, Star Citizens are like the 9/11 truthers / chemtrail conspiracy theorists of video games it owns
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1500 posted:She constantly emphasize the wrong words, puts pauses in the wrong spots But it works so well for Shatner and Walken... ed: just realized these are the two actors they should have included in this game that would have redefined it. What a wasted opportunity. Scruffpuff fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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1500 posted:bad acting work shops, and other community acting class, influence her work. And its not like you can have fun with her acting because she has no personality and no charisma. Most bad actors/movies are fun to watch because they have some of these qualities, you can see them trying. Sandi is not trying to be better, she actually thinks she is good. I could go on about what she is doing wrong and how she could improve.... Speaking as someone with no acting talent or experience whatsoever, I unironically want you to continue.
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Lowtax posted:From a sociological aspect, this whole event is beyond interesting. These groups of people, who have essentially attached their entire identity to expensive drawings of spaceships in a video game which may never come out, have created an entirely new reality they inhabit, one where anything that conflicts with their worldview is immediately dismissed and chased away hostily. Any suggestions or insinuations that go against their groupthink is usually never addressed, and simply written off as propaganda by a boogeyman, either Derek Smart or Goons in general, because it's much easier to label somebody as a member of an evil enemy group whose sole intent is to just be evil for some reason. I've seen it before on a smaller scale years ago when I was involved (and obsessed myself) in the community of an MMO before it came out. The craze of the community didn't survive the release (well, the beta, which was much more complete than SC), which made most people realize it wasn't at all the game they had built up in their minds. So, yeah, their best move is to never, ever finish SC if they want people to keep buying ships.
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Eonwe posted:hell, people on SA, a site basically dedicated to making fun of dumb things on the internet still get mad at people over video games and we are supposedly a bit more self aware
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spacetoaster posted:Truth. Says the J4G. Eonwe posted:Star Citizens are like the 9/11 truthers / chemtrail conspiracy theorists of video games It's really the only reason I'm interested now, although it's more the echo chambers that interest me. There's a curious phenomenon where groups of people claim to be informed, but are actually misinformed. When given a correction, their standpoint doesn't change, but they qualify the information given as skewed, or some other reason for it being wrong. Hav fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Countercultures do seem to be downgrading in coolness factor: Beatniks Hippies Goths Juggalos Furries Star Shitizens
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spacetoaster posted:And don't even get me started on those weirdos who don't even have avatars. I've just been hoping someone will buy me one. (edit: if I shitpost enough) I want to make a sort of video collage for posterity of some of the best JPEGs and possibly GIFs to come out of this epic series of threads (you guys did know this wasn't the first star citizen megathread right?) but I haven't been saving them religiously as they come up the way professional internetters usually do. I have been working on a custom soundtrack. I was wondering if we could get a couple pages of people posting their all-time favorite stuff they've seen. Amarcarts fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Lowtax posted:Oh definitely, I wasn't trying to claim similar things didn't happen here, I was just commenting on the idea that these weirdos at Reddit and SC have created communities based entirely on that attitude and way of thinking (or not thinking). It's just such an amazingly giant mass of concentrated delusion and hostility to anybody who dares go against any popular opinion they have. yeah for sure, I just meant to say that if people who have a bit of self-awareness about it still get caught up in it, then it almost makes sense that these other communities would end up with something as cult-like as it has become
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Differo Cathedra posted:Speaking as someone with no acting talent or experience whatsoever, I unironically want you to continue. Same here, I find it interesting to see what the "rules" of acting are, and what makes a bad actor or actress. My uncle's an actor and he has good stories about poo poo actors he's worked with.
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Scruffpuff posted:But it works so well for Shatner and Walken... lol ya, but both of them were consistent with it, they basically created their own dialect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I
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UCSD's Giesel is the only one I recognize. I toured it when considering prospective PhD programs.
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HiHo ChiRho posted:Thanks. I really hope we can get back to more important topics of discussion like how the new bird module will get us exotic birds in our space rape barns. Or if the Space Birds will be able to flock together to form a Gestalt Space Whale. 
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Lowtax posted:Oh definitely, I wasn't trying to claim similar things didn't happen here, I was just commenting on the idea that these weirdos at Reddit and SC have created communities based entirely on that attitude and way of thinking (or not thinking). It's just such an amazingly giant mass of concentrated delusion and hostility to anybody who dares go against any popular opinion they have. during the start of the campaign till late 2013 backers are hopeful that the kickstarter pitch to happen. the time pass by just those backers fall into these categories 1) enlightened that the scope creep made it less possible to be released 2) sunk cost fallacy backers who are now the cultist 3) meh backers usually those that bought the starter package and does not care 4) new blood, full of hope and naive
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Differo Cathedra posted:Speaking as someone with no acting talent or experience whatsoever, I unironically want you to continue. So do I. And there is truth to his words - you frequently see brand new people, who've never acted in their lives, get cast for something out of the blue, and they are better than the veterans. They didn't take classes, or learn special rules, or get inducted into the infamous "I'M AN ACTOR" way of thinking where they mentally separate themselves from everyone else based on their identity. Instead, they're just told "pretend to do this thing" and they just do that. poo poo, every day I see people acting very convincingly as if they are something they are not, based on whatever title is on their business card.
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Lowtax posted:It's just such an amazingly giant mass of concentrated delusion and hostility to anybody who dares go against any popular opinion they have. What's funny is they think that because Derek Smart posts here, everyone universally agrees and that any counterpoints raised against the SC group think is simply us defending him for their retaliation. This would also ignore the fact that Derek is mocked several times a day in this thread, let alone elsewhere on the site, and that any differing opinion isn't hidden for no one to see. quote:All on a forum that often hides behind a pay "wall", whose members enjoy listening to words from a specific individual of notoriety, and defends it's members against any form of retaliation when they are called out, proof of which is seen in this very thread. The cognitive dissonance these people suffer from must be very strong. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jan 8, 2016 |
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I've seen it before on a smaller scale years ago when I was involved (and obsessed myself) in the community of an MMO before it came out.
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Hey so it seems like Eonwe stopped posting about it, did they let Kimsemus out?
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MMOs are pretty scary sometimes There are people who have spent six figures on Archeage just doing RMT stuff to get the best equipment. The hand wringing over in-game land was so hateful and real you'd think they were fighting over the family farm.
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Happy Sisyphus posted:Hey so it seems like Eonwe stopped posting about it, did they let Kimsemus out? i posted about it yesterday!!!! they have not
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Lowtax posted:From a sociological aspect, this whole event is beyond interesting. These groups of people, who have essentially attached their entire identity to expensive drawings of spaceships in a video game which may never come out, have created an entirely new reality they inhabit, one where anything that conflicts with their worldview is immediately dismissed and chased away hostily. Any suggestions or insinuations that go against their groupthink is usually never addressed, and simply written off as propaganda by a boogeyman, either Derek Smart or Goons in general, because it's much easier to label somebody as a member of an evil enemy group whose sole intent is to just be evil for some reason. cultish behaviour 101, but this time they can't close the internet doors. It's an open spcae barn, and were going to rape the space sheep 
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Lowtax posted:I really believe it's about escapism. I, too, have seen how MMO addicts can act, and the one personality trait that seems to link them all together is a desire to escape their own lives and be some powerful and important character in a fictional fantasy world. That got me thinking - there were several films and animated features years ago, where people got whisked away on whimsical adventures in one fantasy land or another, and all of them had one theme in common, the main character thinking: "How do I get back home?" That was practically the entire motivation that moved the story forward. See: Wizard of Oz for a classic example. Now, we have generations of people who look at those same fantasy lands and think: "How do I get there?" What the gently caress happened?
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Unfunny Poster posted:What's funny is they think that because Derek Smart posts here, everyone universally agrees and that any counterpoints raised against the SC group think is simply us defending him for their retaliation. its pretty funny because I have no horse in the Star Citizen race other than hoping it remains hilarious if it doesn't come out - thats hilarious if it does come out - goons grief people and thats hilarious they ignore the fact that people like me were like...nah i dont care about wheelchair kid or the threat assessment guy, we are all Derek Smart and we all agree with him about everyone
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alphabettitouretti posted:Star Citizen: The game is almost entirely here! Except for the litany of things left to do  I was just thinking about it and how many star systems were they planning for SC? 25? 50? And it took them how long to get Crusader finished for the PTU? Even if they use prefabbed assets and don't hand model everything, it's still going to take forever for them to get all those star systems fleshed out.
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Keeping up with this thread and the SC circus in general has directly impacted the time I have to play Elite, so in a small way CRoberts has won. I'm so mad.
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Eonwe posted:i posted about it yesterday!!!! they have not Oh wow, sorry I see it now. What a shame
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BigglesSWE posted:With this, SA has officially delivered. I can now officially say that I will never be sorry I payed to register to an Internet forum. all hail the lorax er, lowtax
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