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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:It would be hilarious if they actually had gotten numerous requests for this. So admit it, was it you? Did you use that exact same text to request it?
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I'm always amazed at what people post in comment sections that links their facebook. I live in a small town that has it's own newspaper and the accompanying website. People comment the nastiest stuff on news articles with no anonymity. I can't imagine ever getting mad enough about people on the internet to do something bad, but I can see me calling the gas station attendant a jerk for online comments while paying for my gas.
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Consolidated Outland - Only one ship. Supposedly makes cheap, fast, weak ships that are entry level products. Supposed to look good and go fast. Aegis Dynamics - Aging ship manufacturer that makes military craft. Strangely full of new and innovative designs like the Redeemer.          Anvil Aerospace - Military contractor. Makes ships that are tough and reliable. Space Jeep.     Banu - Merchant race. Only one ship shown thus far.  Crusader Industries - gently caress if I know. Why a company called "Crusader" is making a space train is beyond me.  Drake Interplanetary - Bastard child of Cloud Imperium Games. Originally supposed to make pirate ships, but gently caress if I know what to expect anymore.    Vanduul - Generic space barbarians. With knives! Supposedly they can ram you.   Kruger Intergalactic - German gun manufacturer that apparently also makes snub ships. Supposedly these are two different craft.   MISC - Xi'An influenced civilian human manufacturer.         Origin - Space BMWs for Space Rich People to laugh at Space Poors.    Roberts Space Industries - Get it? It's ROBERTS. Like Chris! Because he's making them!    Xi'An - Another humanoid alien race. Supposedly honorable or something. They like vertical ships. 
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Jan 21, 2016 17:22
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Iglocska posted:Also those pictures look loving horrible imho, but I guess it changes as you get some attachment to them when you play the game. Yes, they're horrible, but that's part of the point: they're icons where the ship is shown from a pretty bad angle against an equally bad background. And yet, you were 100% accurate in what the ship wants to covey — even in such a bad shot, the outline and (visible) detail tells the full story of the faction in question.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:22
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Eonwe posted:Smedley is making another game and put it on Kickstarter Of all the threads on SA you would think this one would be good at encouraging people to stop throwing money at kickstarters.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:26
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Tippis posted:Yes, they're horrible, but that's part of the point: they're icons where the ship is shown from a pretty bad angle against an equally bad background. And yet, you were 100% accurate in what the ship wants to covey — even in such a bad shot, the outline and (visible) detail tells the full story of the faction in question. For that one, sure. For the others: no loving clue, they all belong to the generic space ship race?
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Jan 21, 2016 17:27
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peter gabriel posted:Without being harsh or overly critical Star Citizen is very bland looking and feeling, it' the kind of game that is like Hard Reset, it's OK but nothing there that screams its own identity. Like you see a screenshot of Hard Reset and it'll take you a while to figure out which game it is because it looks so generic, compared to say, I dunno, Borderlands where you know instantly what it is because the creative direction is good and it's really identifiable as being Borderlands. I love to cook, and SC feels exactly like when I taste something and it isn't good, and I try to save it with more salt, spices, and I keep tasting and adding, and it just get worse and then it's too late but I refuse to throw it away and sit alone eating my gross meal.
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Iglocska posted:For that one, sure. For the others: no loving clue, they all belong to the generic space ship race? Try harder.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:28
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Tippis posted:Eh. I'm not sure. In no specific order: Macaroon with sea-urchin filling We need more spatulas Dicks! We are supposed to be the gay ones Lets just throw poo poo at this and see what sticks Did I get it?
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ZenMaster posted:I love to cook, and SC feels exactly like when I taste something and it isn't good, and I try to save it with more salt, spices, and I keep tasting and adding, and it just get worse and then it's too late but I refuse to throw it away and sit alone eating my gross meal. This is a really good analogy. Unfortunately I don't think Roberts is capable of taking anything out.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:29
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Iglocska posted:So admit it, was it you? Did you use that exact same text to request it? Holy gently caress yes I'd love to take credit for the space news van Also beer those $17,500k of ships made my 2520m beg for its life
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Jan 21, 2016 17:30
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trucutru posted:In no specific order: Three out of four.  Macaroons are meant to be torture devices, as mentioned. The spatulas are mean to evoke some high-tech YF-whatever stealth design.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:32
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trucutru posted:In no specific order: Dicks is obviously picture number 5, that is the erectus, the flagship of the proud warrior race know as the phallics. Edit: They were not in order, I stand corrected! Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Holy gently caress yes I'd love to take credit for the space news van You monster.
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Jan 21, 2016 17:32
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alf_pogs posted:http://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/feature/the-star-citizen-honeymoon-is-over,413944  http://www.pcpowerplay.com.au/feature/the-star-citizen-honeymoon-is-over,413944#comment-2470090707
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Tippis posted:Three out of four. I mean, it is pretty obvious what they are going for in each feel. I don't really like the designs (the macaroon is way over the top and silly as gently caress) but my 13-year-old self would have loved their cheesy asses.
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Tippis posted:Try harder. Whoa keep it civil folks we don't want to give reddit evidence of our horribilitude 
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Jan 21, 2016 17:38
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Paladinus posted:You are incorrect sir, Star Citizen is playable at the moment. Even in alpha stage, even within this stage, it has some pretty good content. For example: There are multiple pvp game modes within Arena Commander (TDM, CTCore(CTF like game-mode), COOP vs AI, Racing, etc) besides that, you can enter the baby PU and fly seamlessly within a small portion of one star system, doing missions, etc. (while content will be added per patch, together with optimization and fixes). I never said the tech demo is not playable. The "No" at the start is the answer to the poster question asking if "CIG has been sued for financial fraud yet"
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Iglocska posted:You monster. Well someone's gotta do it and I'd rather not pin it on anyone else 
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trucutru posted:I mean, it is pretty obvious what they are going for in each feel. I don't really like the designs (the macaroon is way over the top and silly as gently caress) but my 13-year-old self would have loved their cheesy asses. Oh absolutely. It's more to show the point of the TF2 silhouettes as it applies to spaceships. Visual design has a number of purposes that can often be at odds with each other. Looking good is one thing; conveying meaning is something completely different; being sensible and functional is yet a third, often unrelated to the other two. The EVE designs tend to lean heavily on the second, where each faction is meant to be trivial to spot, be visually coherent, and all present the same message about the faction. Funnily enough, many of the ship icons do a piss-poor job of showing what the ships actually look like in space.  Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Whoa keep it civil folks we don't want to give reddit evidence of our horribilitude Sorry. What I meant to say was, “would you please take a second, closer look and maybe have things like colour choice and composition in mind, kind sir?”
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Duckaerobics posted:What I don't understand about that picture is why she is next to some random guy. He doesn't see like a dean or anything, so if it is a college diploma were they the only two people in the program? I think you're right with the photo shoot speculation. It looks like a stock shot advertising for a photographer. Yeah, that confused the gently caress out of me. There would be other context for a group shot ordinarily. Weirdly, I started to think that Derek might be stretching there, but he has a point, there are incongruities. Why the gently caress are we tap-dancing. You can verify academic qualifications. Iglocska posted:This would easily pass as a torture device in the stimpire. Yeah, well, Sansha's are pretty much the stimpire, but without the welfare program.
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One of the oddest directions of Star Citizen's sim aspect is that it ends at the vehicles. In a flight sim, even combat ones, you're presented with a tremendous checklist of hoops to jump through and maintain during the gameplay in order to get off of the ground/not resume contact with the ground earlier than expected. If you're into that it's a good time. Star Citizen's flight system is basically a dude in a chair with a huge spaceship helmet on flying around space with a unending fire extinguisher. The checklist is the tremendous bland parade of banal nonsense you have to go through to navigate your way through your boring tedious environment to put that spaceship helmet on. Star Citizen could probably make its lore more interesting if it went back in time to the Messer era. When the government was insane and xenophobic and power was being grabbed at by the various tyrannical offspring of the political elite. At least in that scenario you have to puzzle out living in highsec and paying taxes to bomb dissenters. You get just a smidgen of the kind of entertaining undercurrent that you can think about in EVE, a universe in which you're an insane machine god that cheerfully sacrifices tens of thousands of lives in an evening's skirmish. But I guess it's better to have a fictional universe where people are debating taxes and your company's fiction posts are literally the minutes from senate meetings. That usually goes well.
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Star Citizen ships look good individually. As a whole they only look good if you ignore that universes are supposed to have an aesthetic. Hard scifi and star wars sci fi should not be in the same universe and no "they're different manufacturers!" is not an adequate explanation.
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Iglocska posted:Of course it does, you want to slow down before landing on a space carrier, otherwise you end up crashing and then out comes the space-bulldozer. (Tap gently at his sarcasm dector gauge, the needle barely moving) No it does not. In space the ammount of control you have over your ship is not proportional to speed (and airflow), unlike a plane aerodynamic surfaces in athmosphere. aleksendr fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jan 21, 2016 |
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Those are both parody posts. I can tell because the first one has a voluntary MLP avatar and the second one is too incoherent to be even the most rabid SC supporter. Because the alternative it too painful for me to consider possible
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Iglocska posted:Of course it does, you want to slow down before landing on a space carrier, otherwise you end up crashing and then out comes the space-bulldozer. Got a lot of air resistance in space?
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Hav posted:Why the gently caress are we tap-dancing. You can verify academic qualifications. Requests tend to cost money and I just bought a few JPEGs.
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aleksendr posted:(Tap gently at his irony dector gauge, the needle barely moving) Sedisp posted:Got a lot of air resistance in space? It's canon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9WFw56Mv1w
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xanif posted:Those are both parody posts. I can tell because the first one has a voluntary MLP avatar and the second one is too incoherent to be even the most rabid SC supporter. 
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Dusty Lens posted:One of the oddest directions of Star Citizen's sim aspect is that it ends at the vehicles. In a flight sim, even combat ones, you're presented with a tremendous checklist of hoops to jump through and maintain during the gameplay in order to get off of the ground/not resume contact with the ground earlier than expected. If you're into that it's a good time. Star Citizen's flight system is basically a dude in a chair with a huge spaceship helmet on flying around space with a unending fire extinguisher. The checklist is the tremendous bland parade of banal nonsense you have to go through to navigate your way through your boring tedious environment to put that spaceship helmet on. I resemble that remark. I'll have you know that the DCS process of flying an A-10 is obviously not “a tremendous checklist of hoops to jump through” since it can be boiled down to a simple 43-page quick reference and check list booklet.
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Iglocska posted:X-wings and Y-wings to me are not that different. Sure, some of the SC designs are better than others, buy you look at this: hahaha thanks for showing me that space truck, that's a pretty blatant ripoff of the Serenity from Firefly edit: but also small enough that i'm not sure what you'd ever want to haul in it
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Wow. Everything about that scene is wrong. The directing is bad, the writing is bad, the acting is bad. Why in the world does anyone think that SQ42 is going to be good?
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Hav posted:Why the gently caress are we tap-dancing. You can verify academic qualifications. Somebody's probably already said this, but her academic credentials have very little relevance beyond the fact that she may have lied about them. Her overall stupidity as evidenced by pretty much everything she's done, including her wince-inducing 3rd grade writing level in her emails to Beer, prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that she's not fit for her position, even if she has 3 doctorates and a Nobel prize. Regarding my first point, is her lying about her degree specifically any more of a reflection of her quality than her willingness to fleece the mentally disabled out of millions of dollars? Racism? Harassment of employees? Using company resources for personal gain? I say she sunk her own battleship, degree or not.
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alphabettitouretti posted:Dunno how true it is, but it has been alleged that <<USE>> is so deeply ingrained in the engine they can't get rid of it. I'd expect adding map streaming so they can have seamless worlds was at least two orders of magnitude more complicated than that. quote:In any case, it still doesn't change pgab's point that you have to wade through a bunch of tedious poo poo before you can even sit in the cockpit of an overpriced dong ship or half-arsed space fighter.
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Tippis posted:I resemble that remark. I'll have you know that the DCS process of flying an A-10 is obviously not “a tremendous checklist of hoops to jump through” since it can be boiled down to a simple 43-page quick reference and check list booklet. I can start a C in under five minutes, and sometimes I'll even remember the switch the APU off. Landing not so good, yet. Mirificus posted:I'm sorry but I have bad news for you: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/citizens/Dowlphin He is the wisest and smartest diplomat. The classiest and most huge. He will make CiG great again.
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