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Matlock Birthmark posted:95%, that's not good, wasn't our quota 97%? Oh, man, Lowtax's is going to pissed productivity in the shitpost mine is slipping. Oh crap...
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Gerbil_Pen posted:In that same interview he mentions how the game is never really finished so... This discussion is closed, Citizen.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Warhammer 40K is one of the most thematic and flavorful universes in science fiction. Not everyone likes it, but it's unflinchingly epic and awesome. Every single one of these ships has more thought put into it than anything CIG have shat out.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Yes. The smallest starship in Warhammer 40K is the size Imperial Star Destroyer and carries tens of thousands of crew. Each vessel is a shrine to the Machine God, most being millennia old and carrying technology that man has long since lost the ability to recreate or even maintain outside the use of byzantine rituals. They are as much cathedrals as they are conveyances. To the men trapped inside the ships represent their only protection again the uncaring void, the unspeakable horrors of the Warp, and the angry fire of their enemies. It's only natural then that such vessels would be decorated in demonstrations of adoration and worship. The crew are typically pressed into service, taken from worlds that may never seen a machine and forced to toil in horrible conditions to ensure the vessel runs smoothly. Imagine work gangs of hundreds of men maneuvering torpedoes hundreds of meters long into firing tubes, while tech priests sing praises and glory in the hope that the Machine Spirit of the torpedo that is likely older than all of the workers combined will rouse itself in fury to detonate its holy payload. I think I had about 3 playthroughs of Space Marine just because I liked how it looked and the underlying lore (not necessarily the story).
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Lime Tonics posted:Isn't the lore in this game that some ships are so big wars are fought on them, and traveling from one side of the ship to the other takes a lifetime? The Warp is another dimension that runs parallel to reality, and by traveling through the warp you can cross space far quicker. There's a downside. The Warp is essentially a sea of pure psychic energy, and it's inhabited by unfathomable beings of incomprehensible malice and cruelty. Simply looking into the warp unprotected would drive you mad, and if the fields that protect each ship as they travel are compromised (even for an instant) then daemons will cross the threshold and wreak havoc among the crew. There are numerous stories of ships being lost to the warp, and often those are eventually returned to reality in the form of space hulks. A space hulk is essentially an amalgamation of ships, the interstellar equivalent of the tides of an ocean bringing together a collection of garbage, and actual dimensions are hard to convey. However then can easily be tens of kilometers long and full of twisting corridors and arrangements that make safe travel impossible. You could easily spend a lifetime trying to cross one, although the typical reason for this is because something horrible will kill you along the way. One of the major themes of 40K is that progress is dead. A gun made ten thousand years ago will typically be far superior to anything that can be made today, so finding a space hulk is often a massive boon. Entire starships have been resurrected from a space hulk and often they carry archaeotech, lost treasures of the Dark Age of Technology, but they also typically carry numerous foes. The most elite members of the Imperium's most elite fighting force, Terminators of the Adeptus Astartes (Space Marines) are often tasks with purging a space hulk and recovering the treasures within. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMHW_cWoeos It's not an easy job.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:
Last tidbit of WH40k lore : Due to a past AI rebellion, nearly everything is done by hand. Having working electronics onboard is considered a bonus and you have to pay points for it. If you like PnP RPG look for "Rogue Trader" to play around with those cathedral ships. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/rogue-trader/
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Polish Avenger posted:I think I had about 3 playthroughs of Space Marine just because I liked how it looked and the underlying lore (not necessarily the story). I loved the multiplayer in Space Marine, shame it's mostly dead these days.
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AMD FX 8350 plus GeForce GTX 980 x2 in SLI https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/40nwbk/i_just_got_the_game_after_much_deliberation_and_i/
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Mirificus posted:
You know if they spent as much time playtesting, reporting bugs, and providing feedback as they did reading my every word and bitching about it the game would've been out last year.
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Mirificus posted:
lmao this owns so hard I want to explain in the thread why this is hilarious but I don't want them to stop making a big deal out of it
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:You know if they spent as much time playtesting, reporting bugs, and providing feedback as they did reading my every word and bitching about it the game would've been out last year.
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Mirificus posted:AMD FX 8350 plus GeForce GTX 980 x2 in SLI AMD FX chips are perfect for Star Citizens. Lots of sound and fury, nothing to back it up. (Also because they are only purchased by idiots)
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Mirificus posted:AMD FX 8350 plus GeForce GTX 980 x2 in SLI This has been said before, but goddamn if these people aren't all about measuring their e-dicks and feeling important. They could have done this in any game but Crobbers has somehow managed to attract them all to his special brand of the new death.
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Hey Reddit, the reason why so many detractors sound like Derek Smart to you is that he's (for once) on the side of the sane, rational, and logical crowd. You aren't. It's going to hurt when it sinks in.
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Gwaihir posted:AMD FX chips are perfect for Star Citizens. Lots of sound and fury, nothing to back it up.
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wyoak posted:people seem to focus on Sandi more than Chris which is weird to me since Chris is most important clown but I guess there's more funny stuff that's leaked about her? Because Chris impresses me as an easily led, bumbling idiot, where Sandi strikes me as a sociopathic, manipulative type who will enjoy the good times as they run this scam train into the ground?
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Mirificus posted:That sounds like something Derek Smart would say. "Sprinkling of Arrogance" sounds like a perfect name for a starship.
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Bundle of Keys posted:This has been said before, but goddamn if these people aren't all about measuring their e-dicks and feeling important. It's almost as if they equate their pretend land stuff to meaning their real lives aren't sad.
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This thread is a metal silo a thousand feet tall filling with kernels of text and I have titanium shoes.
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Hillary Clintons Thong posted:there is a small game shop that always has people playing WH40k that I like to browse around. Too bad it's inaccessible to people who aren't gods of micro precision painting. I tried painting some Battletech and Flames of War minatures and while I don't think they look awful, I'm sure they're laughable to the WH40k community based on everything I've seen. 40K the game and 40K the lore are two totally different things. I used to play the game a lot, and I still have all of my miniatures. The problem is that Games Workshop is a soulless marketing entity that treats their customers with a level of callous disregard and outright loathing that makes CIG seem like Santa Claus. Their game design is simultaneously archaic and maddeningly inconsistent, seemingly prioritized to sell miniatures over make a tight rules set, and it's only really fun if you have a great group of friends who can laugh and drink a beer while taking it easy. I recommend checking out Infinity. It's a ridiculously awesome game. Or at least it was a few years ago when I played it. Some of the sculpts are pretty weird but the rules are great.
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revmoo posted:Hey Reddit, the reason why so many detractors sound like Derek Smart to you is that he's (for once) on the side of the sane, rational, and logical crowd. You aren't. It's going to hurt when it sinks in. Sure, whatever you say Derek. 
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Polish Avenger posted:I think I had about 3 playthroughs of Space Marine just because I liked how it looked and the underlying lore (not necessarily the story).
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:"Sprinkling of Arrogance" sounds like a perfect name for a starship. Best starship name for maximum enemy bridge confusion is the S.S. "She's One Of Ours, Sir"
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Yes. The smallest starship in Warhammer 40K is the size Imperial Star Destroyer and carries tens of thousands of crew. Each vessel is a shrine to the Machine God, most being millennia old and carrying technology that man has long since lost the ability to recreate or even maintain outside the use of byzantine rituals. They are as much cathedrals as they are conveyances. In the P&P RPG game Rogue Trader, your cathedral-ship can literally bombard planets with churches. 
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LuiCypher posted:In the P&P RPG game Rogue Trader, your cathedral-ship can literally bombard planets with churches. After you have pillaged the place of all cultural artefacts and sold the natives to slavery, not before.
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Ash1138 posted:hey you know those giant robots from those anime things? well what if you made them even bigger...and put a castle fortress cathedral on top? Then you would have Warhammer 40K. What's your point?
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:40K the game and 40K the lore are two totally different things. I used to play the game a lot, and I still have all of my miniatures. The problem is that Games Workshop is a soulless marketing entity that treats their customers with a level of callous disregard and outright loathing that makes CIG seem like Santa Claus. Their game design is simultaneously archaic and maddeningly inconsistent, seemingly prioritized to sell miniatures over make a tight rules set, and it's only really fun if you have a great group of friends who can laugh and drink a beer while taking it easy. I recommend checking out Infinity. It's a ridiculously awesome game. Or at least it was a few years ago when I played it. Some of the sculpts are pretty weird but the rules are great. I still find it funny that they basically burned their other franchise to the ground and pissed on the ashes, because they thought that was a good way to make their fans excited to buy the new models they released when they remade the setting.
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Daztek posted:I hope you have a lot of time: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki Or the better one - http://www.lexicanum.com/
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Stay classy Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/DerekSmart/comments/40grez/yet_again_going_on_about_sandi/cyu247a
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:40K the game and 40K the lore are two totally different things. I used to play the game a lot, and I still have all of my miniatures. The problem is that Games Workshop is a soulless marketing entity that treats their customers with a level of callous disregard and outright loathing that makes CIG seem like Santa Claus. Their game design is simultaneously archaic and maddeningly inconsistent, seemingly prioritized to sell miniatures over make a tight rules set, and it's only really fun if you have a great group of friends who can laugh and drink a beer while taking it easy. I recommend checking out Infinity. It's a ridiculously awesome game. Or at least it was a few years ago when I played it. Some of the sculpts are pretty weird but the rules are great. Business man. Just business. I got a personal tour of their miniature production factory in Memphis. They are very well organizesd, very well run, and very open and polite. My wife and I also got to hang out with Raymond Swanland (codex eldar art guy) and paint with him. I also got to meet all their factory staff, and training staff, who are all very cool.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:The problem is that Games Workshop is a soulless marketing entity that treats their customers with a level of callous disregard and outright loathing that makes CIG seem like Santa Claus. Their game design is simultaneously archaic and maddeningly inconsistent, seemingly prioritized to sell miniatures over make a tight rules set Replace "miniatures" with "jpegs", and "rules set" with "making a game" and it fits quite well. I miss the good old days  (Hi Beer)
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Samizdata posted:Or the better one - http://www.lexicanum.com/ Oh dur, I was wondering why the background was suddenly white instead of grey 
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WH40k lore is cool and it's fun to read about, but it always struck me as having diminishing returns. There's only so many city-sized churches you can throw at a planet before I go zzzzzzzzz. And gently caress playing it on a tabletop. At the end of the day science fiction should be about the characters. But as video games or an art style, it's all good. And might as well talk about WH40k spaceships in the internet spaceships thread.
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Mirificus posted:Stay classy Reddit. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3swdCJrrg Uncle Derek was raised in the era when Clean water was only served to the fairer skin Making games you would have thought he need help But they wasn't satisfied unless he wrote the code himself You see it's broke dev racism That's that "Got more bugs in store" And this rich Dev racism That's that "Come in, please buy more. What you want, a Connie? Freelancer? Mustang? All you snowflakes want all the same things!" Used to only be bigwigs, now everybody paying, Spending errything on lovely X-Wing. New Whales. You see there's leaders and there's followers, But I'd rather be a dick than a swallower. You see there's leaders and there's followers, But I'd rather be a dick than a swallower. I throw these Connie keys I wear my heart on the sleeve I know that we the new whales I see the cash on the wings I see the cash on the wings I see the cash on the wings I know that we the new whales I see the cash on the wings They throwing hate at me, Want me to stay at ease, gently caress you and your corporations, Y'all goons can't control me. I know that we the new whales, I know that we the new whales. I'm 'bout to wild the gently caress out, I'm going Bobby Bootchae! I know that pussy ain't shaved You Smart pussies, ain't me. Y'all throwing contracts at me. You know that whales can't read. Throw 'em some Connie keys, gently caress it, c'est la vie! I know that we the new Whales. Y'all goons can't gently caress with me, Y'all goons can't gently caress with Ben Y'all goons can't gently caress with Ben I'll move my family out the country So you can't see where I've been. So go and grab the reporters So I can smash their recorders See they'll confuse us with some bullshit Like the New World Order Meanwhile the FTC Teamed up with the CAB, They tryna lock Chris up; They tryna take the game, B! See that's Derek's Smart's goons. Get your peace today! They prolly all in the forums, Braggin' 'bout what they paid. gently caress you and your goony house I'll gently caress your goony spouse Came on her goony blouse And in her goony mouth. Y'all 'bout to turn poo poo up, I'm 'bout to tear poo poo down, I'm 'bout to air poo poo out. Now what the gently caress the goons say now? Ravane fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 13, 2016 |
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What the gently caress , is that real !!!! disgusting people. Boy are they in for a surprise this year ,
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spacetoaster posted:Business man. Just business. That sounds awesome. richyp posted:Replace "miniatures" with "jpegs", and "rules set" with "making a game" and it fits quite well. Everything loses its luster in the end.
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EightAce posted:What the gently caress , is that real !!!! disgusting people. Boy are they in for a surprise this year ,
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