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A Neurotic Jew posted:
I laughed out loud when I read that. The author must be a goon... If he isn't, he should be.
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titaniumone posted:I'm like 30 pages behind because I'm still reading about Warhammer chat because it's goofy and the lore is ridiculous but still interesting. I'm curious why stagnation of progress is a theme and why 10,000 year old armor etc is better than anything made modernly. Where can I read more dumb poo poo about these made up things? WH40K lore is sometimes interesting, but none of it is terribly original. It's basically just a mish mash of poo poo That Was Cool In That Book Or Film. The Lexicanum is a dedicated WH40K wiki, there should be plenty to get your teeth into there.
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Jan 16, 2016 18:42
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Baba Ganoush posted:I sold my package for 80$ and then received a refund for 80$, did this happen to anyone else? You might want to check with the person you sold your ships and package to, as the new owners will probably find they are no longer there. Or not. Whatever floats your boat. 
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Jan 16, 2016 18:42
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fuctifino posted:You might want to check with the person you sold your ships and package to, as the new owners will probably find they are no longer there. It was someone from Reddit and I think he probably resold it.
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Jan 16, 2016 18:45
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I made a jared.jpeg hello jared 
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bumbles posted:I made a jared.jpeg can I get a variant with red scribbles? I'll pay more ofc.
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Jan 16, 2016 18:57
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titaniumone posted:I'm like 30 pages behind because I'm still reading about Warhammer chat because it's goofy and the lore is ridiculous but still interesting. I'm curious why stagnation of progress is a theme and why 10,000 year old armor etc is better than anything made modernly. Where can I read more dumb poo poo about these made up things? ^^ Click the link in this guy's avatar for a pro 40k read
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Jan 16, 2016 19:00
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Incombibulator posted:can I get a variant with red scribbles? 
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Jan 16, 2016 19:04
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Having only one fish at a time is truly immersive because as a star citizen backer I'm too retarded to take care of more than one fish at a time.
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Incombibulator posted:can I get a variant with red scribbles? I managed to balance the flight model  $400
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Jan 16, 2016 19:09
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Agrajag posted:is no one else finding it weird that a person living in Texas plays hockey? There are quite a few of us. Austin has around 1200 hockey players (combined adult and youth league), and that's not counting people like me who are just in Learn to Play. Samizdata posted:I've never played hockey, but I would consider it... It's fun. Just be prepared to be bruised and possibly battered, especially if you play against Bootcha.  Bootcha tried hooking me once, and I slashed him.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:12
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weekly reminder for Ben Lesnick: you can still be the hero. expose this farce, or at the very least stop participating. You know deep down that this is a rotten business.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:13
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titaniumone posted:I'm like 30 pages behind because I'm still reading about Warhammer chat because it's goofy and the lore is ridiculous but still interesting. I'm curious why stagnation of progress is a theme and why 10,000 year old armor etc is better than anything made modernly. Where can I read more dumb poo poo about these made up things? Because the armour is made from the same stuff they use in plasma reactors to contain the pressures of small artificial suns. It's magic bullshit metal. As to why progress stopped? The people in charge said "no more science" and made unregulated research heresy. The guys who do the regulated research have their own stupid rules that hinder their advancement. Some dork of a tech priest probably filed away the cure for chaos because he decided it was a bit heretical looking. It is both a stupid frustrating backdrop for a game but also an interesting look at a society that is beset by war on all sides yet doesn't really want it any other way. Of course it'll all be for nothing when everyone gets ate by tyrannids.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:weekly reminder for Ben Lesnick: you can still be the hero. expose this farce, or at the very least stop participating. You know deep down that this is a rotten business. But first do some cardio you fat gently caress cause we can't laugh at you if you die. (Though we probably will )
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Jan 16, 2016 19:15
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Mirificus posted:For those who missed it. Ok real talk for a moment. The engineers who worked on the moon lander and Armstrong's suit can say something like this. The people who supported the Lindbergh brothers and helped them built their plane can say something like this. Backers of computer game sure as hell don't get to say it. I am completely serious here. How mentally deranged do you have to be to consider that kickstarting, i.e. giving money to, a god-drat computer game makes you special in any way and means you are part of it? Whatever this game will be, even if it is the best computer game out there, it is still JUST A TOY. Yet these people in all honesty believe this has any kind of value for the future of mankind.
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A Neurotic Jew posted:weekly reminder for Ben Lesnick: you can still be the hero. expose this farce, or at the very least stop participating. You know deep down that this is a rotten business. Pff. Sandi is a far likelier candidate than true-believer Lesnick. At least she can spin some “poor starry-eyed girl with Hollywood dreams, hoodwinked and exploited by insane fake movie producer” story and get some prime-time talk TV time out of the deal.
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Tippis posted:Pff. Sandi is a far likelier candidate than true-believer Lesnick. At least she can spin some “poor starry-eyed girl with Hollywood dreams, hoodwinked and exploited by insane fake movie producer” story and get some prime-time talk TV time out of the deal. I doubt it. She's going to get thrown under the bus incredibly hard when this goes down.
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Jan 16, 2016 19:18
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Romes128 posted:I doubt it. She's going to get thrown under the bus incredibly hard when this goes down. That's why it's better to act first and be sure to drive that bus.
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Tippis posted:That's why it's better to act first and be sure to drive that bus. Sandi can't act tho.
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Translation - Page 2 (Cartoon translation) (In a TV quiz setting similar to « Who want to be a Millionaire") (Host question ) The question is : Star citizen will be the ..<fill in the blank>.. of this century. a.) Game b.) Car dealership c.) Boustrophedon d.) Heist (Contestant answer) Pfff… Not an easy one.. The second Chris Roberts quit EA to form Digital Anvil, where he plan on producing movies and games. Wing Commander is the title of the feature length film and happily the only one. Entertainment Weekly will give it a note of zero and scathing comments such as « The rudimentary special effect are laughable and the script is so bad its funny. Those are the best aspect of the movie». On the gaming side, the first one, Starlancer (A space combat sim, nicely done but without anything special about it) is in reality made by the English studio Warthog. The second game, directed by Chris Roberts, is riddled with developments problems. Delayed over and over, it will finally be released in 2003, two years late and with most spectacular promised new features cut from it. This Chris Roberts disappoint and cant hold his promises. During the ten years that will follow he will build a production company in Hollywood (ascendant Pictures, sold without noise in 2010) and manage to produce a few films (Lord of war and The Punisher being the best know ones) He comes back and is paid cash. In 2012 its a new Chris Roberts who come back on the video game scene, trough the front door and with the following spectacular messages to the players : « No, PC gaming is not dead, Neither are space sims, and with your help i will prove it ! » He announce wanting to create a successor to Wing Commander for the 21st century named Star citizen and produce a pitch video where you can see cut scenes of his objectives and a prototype made with the 3d cryengine form crytek. At the same time, Cloud Imperium Game (The company he created for the occasion) launch in October 2012 a crowdsourcing campaign on its own website (robertsspaceindustries.com) for the game. The response is similar to lightning. The site (A wordpress page with a crowdsourcing pulg-in) break down from traffic for many days, urging the company to launch a Kickstarter page. Even with server breakdown, robertsspaceindustries.com announce making a million in a single week. On Kickstarter, only 6 days are necessary to reach the 500,000$ objective. On the 19 of November, the crowdsourcing campaign has amassed 6.2 million dollars (with « only » 2,1 million from kickstarter ). This is the birth of a phenomenon and nobody, not even Chris Roberts, could have guessed such success and reaction from the public. Tl;Dr : Quick history lesson of what Crobizzle did between EA acquisition of Origins and the star Citizen initial pitch (Nothing above average). The launch of the Idea is a runaway success impossible to anticipate. edit : taking a few hours break - kids need to eat and some chores to do. If anyone want to pick up at page 3 go ahead.
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Romes128 posted:Sandi can't act tho. Oh. Right. Forgot about that…  Sorry, Sandi,
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Or, you know, you could send them to the good one, and reduce the amount of derp in the universe (since Star Citizens are going to have us at peak derp soon)... http://www.lexicanum.com/
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Does the French article have any new information or is it one long French derek smart blog post?
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So I've been listening alot to Beatles recently because they were added to Spotify (and because they're awesome). Listened Rubber Soul and a neat little song comes along: He's a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody Doesn't have a point of view Knows not where he's going to Isn't he a bit like you and me? Nowhere Man, please listen You don't know what you're missing Nowhere Man, the world is at your command He's as blind as he can be Just sees what he wants to see Nowhere Man can you see me at all? Nowhere Man, don't worry Take your time, don't hurry Leave it all till somebody else lends you a hand Doesn't have a point of view Knows not where he's going to Isn't he a bit like you and me? Nowhere Man, please listen You don't know what you're missing Nowhere Man, the world is at your command He's a real Nowhere Man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody Making all his nowhere plans for nobody Making all his nowhere plans for nobody I know we've been doing a lot of "change the lyrics of a song to fit with SC" but honestly, this is almost creepily accurate. Goddamn Beatles, so ahead of the curve, they sang about shitizens way back in the sixties.
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fuzzknot posted:There are quite a few of us. Austin has around 1200 hockey players (combined adult and youth league), and that's not counting people like me who are just in Learn to Play. I used to play renaissance football. It's sorta like rugby but without all those nasty, strict rules...
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Jan 16, 2016 19:34
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A Neurotic Jew posted:weekly reminder for Ben Lesnick: you can still be the hero. expose this farce, or at the very least stop participating. You know deep down that this is a rotten business. But, but but but free pizza and STAR WARS! And I get paid while it happens!
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Romes128 posted:Does the French article have any new information or is it one long French derek smart blog post? Nothing new, no, and far too composed to be a DSmart post. But it's all there, in one place, and in some actual, traditional, non-blog media.
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HiHo ChiRho posted:^^ Ty  Samizdata posted:Or, you know, you could send them to the good one, and reduce the amount of derp in the universe (since Star Citizens are going to have us at peak derp soon)... Lex takes itself too seriously. 40k is silly, and so is 1d4chan.
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aleksendr posted:I think we might have to wait a few days before its available but if any of you EuroGoons can get a copy and scan it i can translate the text.. I just read your page 1 translation and wanted to thank you for going to the effort to start translating this thing, aleksendr. I'd imagine you were pleased to see them making the same point you made quite while ago about Star Citizen potentially dying like "All Points Bulletin" did. Eager to see what else they had to say. G0RF fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Jan 16, 2016 |
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G0RF posted:I just read your page 1 translation and wanted to thank you for going to the effort to start translating this thing, aleksendr. +42 Threw up in my mouth a little bit writing that number.
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Colostomy Bag posted:+42 So just  like a normal person.
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aleksendr posted:Translation of Page 1 And much like fellow 90s luminary Peter Molyneux he doesn't know when to call it quits. Romes128 posted:Sandi can't act tho. 
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Hopper posted:Whatever this game will be, even if it is the best computer game out there, it is still JUST A TOY. You aren't seeing Star Citizen from their perspective, it isn't a toy to them, it's some kind of new life
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Happy Sisyphus posted:You aren't seeing Star Citizen from their perspective, it isn't a toy to them, it's some kind of new life A ... Second Life, if you will.
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Happy Sisyphus posted:You aren't seeing Star Citizen from their perspective, it isn't a toy to them, it's some kind of new life More importantly, it's their best bet to escape their greaseinfested room at their mom's place. If only for a (crashfilled) gamesession at a time.
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Happy Sisyphus posted:You aren't seeing Star Citizen from their perspective, it isn't a toy to them, it's some kind of new life almost like a second life  e: ahh gently caress it
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LowellDND posted:A ... Second Life, if you will. Second Life: Because you don't have a first life. I know, I know. Sorry; couldn't resist.
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Romes128 posted:I doubt it. She's going to get thrown under the bus incredibly hard when this goes down. She knows martial arts and will use her attackers momentum against them. The 15/15 vision also should not be underestimate in combat situations.
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fuzzknot posted:Second Life: Because you don't have a first life. What's the deal with SL these days by the way? Not dabbled for some years...
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Hopper posted:Ok real talk for a moment. Wasn't there some redditor a few months back that was unironically saying Star Citiezen was a bigger and more complex project than landing man on the moon?
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