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Samizdata posted:I thought I had platinum until all these messages started showing up. I originally thought it was a big joke, but apparently not? 
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Gilganixon posted:about space armour again and I apologise for inflicting one of my drawings on this thread but this is how I think the stuff should look roughly fuzzknot posted:I dunno; people were talking about Stimpires and STEM or something and I didn't know what it meant, so I Googled "stim" and found the Wikipedia article on the autistic behavior called stimming which is apparently perfectly demonstrated in that gif of Chris Roberts, which incidentally was also the first gif of Chris Roberts I found. You could probably use the Wing Commander movie to extrapolate how Chris Roberts expects people to behave on camera.....
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Marching Powder posted:this thread is incredible. it's got a aerospace engineer with billion+ dollar thousand man development experience saying 'poo poo's hosed' and there is still handwaving with guys going 'oh that makes sense why you think that way this is experimental not hard science it's closer to directing a film that cr has experience in'. OMFG. That's another thing that I can flip the gently caress out about. I have a degree--a REAL degree--in film production. I concentrated on audio, not directing, but gently caress it. My point is that all the lovely film student work I was involved in was better than the loving Wing Commander movie which was somehow allowed to be made. I want to rage out more about this, but just gently caress it. There's no point.
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Gilganixon posted:about space armour again and I apologise for inflicting one of my drawings on this thread but this is how I think the stuff should look roughly Superior helmet designs...    With the Halo EVA helmet, I'd assume that whatever they're building the visor out of is probably not glass or plexiglass. Given it's the future, it could probably easily enough be transparent steel metamaterial. And you could probably make a secondary visor out of something that can reduce light like Transitions lenses so to keep the glare from lights or nearby stars out of your eyes. Gilganixon posted:The suit is soft because the last thing you want is bits of shrapnel whizzing around your space ship every time you clip through a door, and so that you can sit down at the controls of a plane without having to take it off. also unless people are throwing swords at you in space you probably want your armour to absorb or reflect impacts - so if you're fighting laser dudes make it out of a shiny material or otherwise stuff it with kevlar, i don't know or care. If you want hard plating you could velcro/tie/zip it on or use a personal shield since it's the future. It's good that you mention reflective material for lasers, but almost everything should at least be in anti-flash white, if not for reducing the effectiveness of lasers, but also for environmental reasons, since you want to reduce the amount of absorbed thermal radiation from stars and the like.
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. . . Uh, that said, I'm still the person who ripped a Band-Aid off this evening (I'm STILL bleeding after that incident last week where I wiped out in front of Bootcha's parents) and somehow managed to rip my skin off with the Band-Aid and am now bleeding in two places, so, you know. I may not be the best judge of incompetent here. edit: I take it back. My klutzy incidents filmed live would still be more entertaining than that POS. Admittedly, I've only seen glimpses (Bootcha tried to make me watch the whole thing, but I wouldn't), but that was enough. fuzzknot fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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mrking posted:Keep posting art, doodles, sketches and songs with lyrical changes are the best things to have come out of this thread IMO. also on personal level I would like to see more spacemen farting out drones. Egad. Like I said in my most recent rage-y post, I've had quite enough of what CR thinks people ought to look like on camera. You could film something more entertaining just by taping me falling on my rear end.
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SquirrelGrip posted:id point you to some kind of information but no one knows? Who knows. Here's the issue as I see it from a hosting vs. cloud standpoint. The decision to use cloud versus in house servers is a tricky question. There is that tipping point as we say when staff/infrastructure costs outweigh outsourcing to the cloud. So a 12 CPU 24G instance will be around $800 or month or so running 24/7 full tilt. How many folks can this server handle? I have no idea, that is a Crysis thing. The kicker is in my daily job I only have to manage a fraction of this number of users. Yet the costs add up fast, because if you extrapolate monthly costs you reach into the realm of "why don't I just buy the physical server poo poo?" stage. Now here is the reality, in the cloud, you live and die spinning up VM's to satisfy demand. Then have them de-allocate when not in use. The invoice you get at the end of the month is more detailed than John Holmes porn history. It is broken down to fractrions of a second of compute time along with storage. Guess what I'm getting at, is a couple things: 1) They are probably generating back end scripts to fire up VM instances to handle things and shut them down when idle. This is the infamous GIM thing. And is normal, from a cost containment issue. 2) VM's aint cheap in the cloud. 3) Last article I read that was 5 years old was that WoW recquired 75,000 cores to run their game. 4) So with the above items, one can imagine if this fucker comes to fruition without subscription costs....thinking how many instances of VMs and compute time that will start billing when we have a 10,000 servers spooled up....which should serve 320K of the Verse....better buy more jpegs.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Who knows. Makes me wonder what the Age Of Reckoning private server guys are paying.
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Young Freud posted:Superior helmet designs...  we already make our space helmets to come with coatings and poo poo that make them golden and not transparent like that. In a shocker, NASA isn't retarded about that kind of stuff.
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grimcreaper posted:Found out one of my coworkers is a shitizen tonight. Another guy and i were talking about pc games and Elite Dangerous came up just as our door greeter walked into the break room. As soon as he had an opening "Star Citizen is a lot better than Elite. David Braben is pretty good at making really poo poo games. SC has Chris Roberts behind it, you know who that is?" As someone that lives in the third world country, in a small city (Armenia, Colombia) these kind of stories are the ones i find the most interesting becouse i know i will never meet another goon IRL or someone that understands or hates what goons are. Also i cant loving keep up with the thread. Henry Winklers balls fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Klyith posted:Also I haven't been reading this thread for like the last two months, but I caught up in under 2 hours. here's how: I previously had no idea that I could look at my post history in this thread... Oh My fanfiction~!!! Ravane posted:[8 hours have passed since Ricky denied his familial ties to Smart, just before the last thread collapsed]
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Colostomy Bag posted:clouds i know elite uses amazon so im curious what that costs them p/month or annum... is that where you are?
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Alright, trying to find the actor's access page of her, I want to show my brother why something like Sandi acting with A-List actors, and comparing it to Joe Kucan directing and acting as Kane with actors in the Command and Conquer days is incomparable.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3lyfb1/david_jennison_former_lead_character_artist_in/ Goddamn. It's amazing to see how they have circled the wagons in 3 months, because at that point it's clear that /r/sc was at least open to the idea of the game development model being wasteful. The excommunication of Beer and Scott Manley, combined with the razor focus on attacking DS? It's the natural lifecycle of reddit (and similar ecosystems). Open minded people can't compete with zealots and one day you turn around and your surrounded by the craziest dudes left.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:taken from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3lyfb1/david_jennison_former_lead_character_artist_in/ quote:If you had an inside view, you'd see it. I've literally had friends in CIG find out what they were working on was worthless because a 10 for the Chairman episode showed Chris was now thinking something very different than what they had gotten the sign off to work toward. Then they went to ask about it and find out since 10FtC filmed they were already up to Rev C of the idea. That's why I believe at least the spirit of the letter in the OP. man everyone working there must either be true believers or have no other job opportunities because it sounds like a complete clusterfuck Wookie Bouquet posted:Goddamn. It's amazing to see how they have circled the wagons in 3 months, because at that point it's clear that /r/sc was at least open to the idea of the game development model being wasteful. quote:I think it's probably more appropriate to question Smart's airing of private communications than it is to cry fiction, at least at this time. haha SC reddit was a different place 3 months ago CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK fucked around with this message at 06:45 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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Samizdata posted:Makes me wonder what the Age Of Reckoning private server guys are paying. Some VM stuff is very cheap, I can roll with a 2012R2 DC for $11 a month. It really is slow at that level though. The ultimate question is why they are affixing shitter doors with 20GB patches and making a few text changes to XML files to adjust max speeds? It's not like we can fly most of this poo poo. Short answer is, it is an absolute cluster gently caress. Not sure what else can you say about it. Whales are finally bailing out of their sunk cost thinking. I hope that bug masher dude actually finds time to take a shower. I liked him and I think he gave a gently caress. edit typos Colostomy Bag fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jan 14, 2016 |
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:man everyone working there must either be true believers or have no other job opportunities because it sounds like a complete clusterfuck The former more likely, I don't know why you would think Ben was qualified for the job he has, let alone whoever the other dude is who now has Ben's old place.
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Wookie Bouquet posted:The former more likely, I don't know why you would think Ben was qualified for the job he has, let alone whoever the other dude is who now has Ben's old place. oh i meant the people actually doing work like the coders and artists.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:oh i meant the people actually doing work like the coders and artists. Well they are taking a pay cut compared to working at a major publisher / developer so... it at least a factor.
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Young Freud posted:Superior helmet designs...  Like if you wanna have dumb lights and poo poo projecting out of your helmet at least make it look loving cool
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Bolow posted:
Project Goatse imo. Thats the most likely to keep your face from being shot.
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Bolow posted:
The comedy is, aren't some of the Citizens professing the FPS poo poo in SC is going to kill COD?
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Unfunny Poster posted:The comedy is, aren't some of the Citizens professing the FPS poo poo in SC is going to kill COD? I think that was a thing, yes. The cult knows no bounds.
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SquirrelGrip posted:i know elite uses amazon so im curious what that costs them p/month or annum... is that where you are? Well I can look it up...I have no idea in regards to Amazon/ec2, but my recent post is that Amazon/Azure/Google are basically the same in regards to cloud costs. Guess what I'm what I'm saying, a few TB of storage are pennies. A few TB of bandwidth are pennies. Server instances are what they nail you with. So basically, once this clusterfuck of a universe is finally realized, it is going to take a shitload of processing with 1M NPC's manning your guns, filing insurance claims, pouring your drinks on your starliner, etc. It's sad...hell I want it to succeed. Instead I have some giant empty hanger with a pile of crap of sitting in it. Awaiting for my jpegs to arrive. Fired up the tutorial the other night. That was another broken dream.
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Gonkish posted:I think that was a thing, yes. Call of Duty sucks so much now that may be possible.
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fuctifino posted:You can read about it all at this link: You need a platinum account to read this message What is this business of needing a platinum account to read this message? I have a platinum account, and don't get anything coming up. Is this an inside joke, or am I missing something?
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Kavak posted:Call of Duty sucks so much now that may be possible. If there's one thing that inspires awe about this shitshow, it's CIG's ability to squander talent thanks to incredible mismanagement.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:What is this business of needing a platinum account to read this message? I have a platinum account, and don't get anything coming up. Is this an inside joke, or am I missing something? Might want to check your account again.. Sadly, Lowtax lowballed us and wiped platinum for most people (on accident, he claims) during the one of the downtimes a couple days ago.
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Mandibular Fiasco posted:What is this business of needing a platinum account to read this message? I have a platinum account, and don't get anything coming up. Is this an inside joke, or am I missing something? You need to be vetted for double platinum access because :spies:
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I was 1600 posts behind and it's amazing how basically nothing happened for all of that.
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Ah, that's much better. Thanks Kavak for the help with getting this sorted out!
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The Saddest Robot posted:You need to be vetted for double platinum access because :spies: I know that now! Glad to see I made the cut! Bring on the inside information...1200 pages of messages to catch up on!
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Ash1138 posted:Vigo, the Scourge of Carpathia? 
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Hey Derek, if you're having trouble keeping up with the thread then don't forget that the OP can close and reopen the thread whenever he wants to. You have the power.
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You guys totally got me with those "platinum account" messages. I upgraded. Oh well.
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Samizdata posted:I thought I had platinum until all these messages started showing up. I originally thought it was a big joke, but apparently not? It is a big joke and it stopped being funny months ago
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What's this about the Shart Citizens hating Scott Manley? All he has done as far afaik is release a unlisted, hidden and really timid vid about the SC debacle, and outside of that has a loving let's play or something going of it. What happened?
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