TTerrible posted:

With all of the threats to the Roberts family and doxing that gets posted in this thread, it's weird that Reddit never screenshots any of it. Or links to it. At all. Ever.

Truga posted:

I'd just like to say that Naval Action is out on steam early access some time in the next 2 days. It has an open world, up to 25v25 ship battles, lots of ports to capture, ultra violence realism and boring PvE missions. Plus, it's fairly expensive at 40 bucks.

Basically, everything SC ever advertised, but set in the Caribbean.

Samizdata posted:

I am seeing Ben as more of a Pizza The Hutt out of Spaceballs, what with the grease and dubious hygiene and all.

Samizdata posted:

You know who else had a personality disorder?

Friendly Tumour posted:

im going to read THE gently caress out of these reddit posts

AP posted:

Me too, it's almost like being there.

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

man just leave matilda alone, no reason to give them a sense of purpose and validation by arguing with him, his whole world will collapse with CIG soon enough anyhow.

IDK it seems like a waste of energy to engage on their level when they are plenty adept at self destruction

Evil Fluffy posted:

Goddamn this thread moves fast.

Friendly Tumour posted:

Deploying healing salve

Google Butt posted:

lol if you don't value a good meltdown

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

man just leave matilda alone, no reason to give them a sense of purpose and validation by arguing with him, his whole world will collapse with CIG soon enough anyhow.

IDK it seems like a waste of energy to engage on their level when they are plenty adept at self destruction

BMan posted:

The Sandi-Bot is live:

http://robo-roberts.appspot.com/sandi

There wasn't a lot of data to work with, so the neural network came out more retarded than usual

serious norman posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

Yeah it ties into their "Lifetime Insurance is basically worthless but we're going to keep making you think it isn't by making it scarce" plot.

The big reason people were clamoring for unmelting to become a thing is because it's one of only two ways to get back a ship that you had previously purchased that came with LTI. The only other way to do it is wait for there to be a concept sale for a ship that's cheaper than what you had, buy it, and then upgrade it later to the ship that you want. It's not very complicated, but it requires there to be a concept sale for a ship in a very specific price range to be going on. And, because ships get more expensive every time they are sold (for example the LTI Freelancer in the initial campaign cost $110, but if you buy one or upgrade to one now, it will cost $125) people were paying extra just to have the same ship they had bought and melted a year ago.

People were requesting the ability to unmelt stuff because it would bypass all of that. With unmelting you could get your LTI Freelancer back without having to jump through hoops or pay extra money for it. And since LTI is made artificially scarce, that would have been a hell of a deal. So CIG relents and gives them unmelting, but because everything at CIG is about maximizing income, they make the pretty obvious decision of making it impossible to use your store credit.

serious norman posted:

serious norman posted:

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Too much detail, too much hard work - croberts 2016

Jason Sextro posted:

Sandi?

Paladinus posted:

PA-

-AARP

quote:

In more than 13,000 words he describes the origins of the Torquing Group, a business that was essentially the personal mission of self-taught engineer Ivan Reedman to build a marketable drone; how clever - though misleading - marketing turned the Zano into a Kickstarter sensation, galloping past its original funding target; and then the disaster which unfolded as Reedman and his colleagues discovered they just did not have the skills or the experience to mass produce the mini-drone.

...

He does raise serious questions about the video which excited so much interest in the project. Reedman denies that CGI, other drones or even selfie sticks were used to create a misleading picture of what the Zano could do but admits that the video shows features that were not operational at the time it was shot.

In fact, as I found when I came to shoot a demo of the project last August, the Zano never delivered what was promised in the video.

But it was not only potential backers who swallowed exaggerations in the marketing campaign. Kickstarter chose Zano as a "staff pick" and the tech news site Engadget shortlisted it for its best of CES 2015 award, even though the Torquing team could not demonstrate the drone flying at the show. As late as October, Popular Science chose it as one of its 100 most amazing innovations of 2015.