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Danknificent: Nov 20, 2015; Jinkies! Looks like we've got a mystery on our hands.

wyoak posted:

I think Chris is going to deliver more of a Hans Zimmer/John Williams thing

Jokes aside, they do have a proper orchestral OST in addition to this poor man's Awesome Mix - I haven't listened to it, but it could theoretically be good. I believe they hired an actual composer, and things not done by CIG tend to come out reasonably well.

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Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

SerCypher posted:

Looks like it, the top casing (Where I assume the motor and belts are) looks the same, you can see it above their door in the picture. You can also see the same logo on the far left.

No biggie, I'm sure one of the CIG staff has a huge CNC machine to mill out the intricate design with free lumber.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:47

SomethingJones: Mar 6, 2016; <3

SerCypher posted:

Looks like it, the top casing (Where I assume the motor and belts are) looks the same, you can see it above their door in the picture. You can also see the same logo on the far left.

It's the same exact logo
Garage door motor my arsehole
Caught out lying to the backers again
CAUGHT

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:48

Chalks: Sep 30, 2009

wyoak posted:

i'm not defending it, i'm just saying overpriced furniture is the least of their problems and wouldn't even be an issue if they were a well-run company

The furniture is a symptom of them not being a well run company. Well run companies use the profits from their successful products to deck out their offices with fancy poo poo to show how successful they are. CIG are not a successful company and have released no products and are entirely funded by the goodwill of their fans. Spending that money on fancy poo poo to make them look successful is pure management incompetence.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:48

SerCypher: May 10, 2006; Gay baby jail...? What the hell?

I really don't like the sound of that...; Fun Shoe

SomethingJones posted:

It's all fake dude, it's a scam. Derek is being very careful to NOT call it a scam, the eightace collective reminds us from time to time that it didn't start out as a scam, but it's a scam. I'm happy enough now to call it as such.

They've nothing to show in any of these videos that they keep putting out, there is no development diary, and there's nothing actually playable they can talk about. So they literally have the attitude of 'go in front of the camera and make poo poo up'. They care more about what's happening in this thread than delivering anything to their backers.

Yeah.

The more I see the more mind boggling it is. It is SO OBVIOUS that this is all a scam. Not only that, at this point I truly think Chris and Sandi know it's a scam. I think all the higher ups at CIG do.

Yet still nothing happens.

People still view it as "The next big thing"

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:48

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

HexDog posted:

holy poo poo I love you

I'm 90% sure those are commercial Stanley Duraglide 2000 doors.

That help at all?

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:49

wyoak: Feb 14, 2005; a glass case of emotion; Fallen Rib

Scruffpuff posted:

the appearance of success (i.e. what an idiot would think success looks like, aka Chris and Sandi) is more important than actually doing the work backers paid them to do. It might not have sunk them, but it was another in a forest of red flags.

Yeah true, Chris is really good at emulating the superficial details of more successful (movies, games, companies) without any apparent understanding of why they're successful, the Wing Commander movie is a case study

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:50

Ash1138: Sep 29, 2001; Get up, chief. We're just gettin' started.

HexDog posted:

holy poo poo I love you

I'm 90% sure those are commercial Stanley Duraglide 2000 doors.

Nice catch! Anyone know when that photo was taken?

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:50

Berious: Nov 13, 2005

AP posted:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEbhMQTywYQ/

1 million backers

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# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:50

Danknificent: Nov 20, 2015; Jinkies! Looks like we've got a mystery on our hands.

"One backer to another, we found some crayons in a dumpster and we're all on diets, so we don't eat at lunch time - instead we draw on the walls. That's how all those murals got there,"

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:50

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

wyoak posted:

i'm not defending it, i'm just saying overpriced furniture is the least of their problems and wouldn't even be an issue if they were a well-run company

But they aren't a well-run company.

Edit to be clear, it's the small stuff that gets the point across sometimes, you could type loads of words about the cryengine and not be believed or you can show someone who's waiting for a game a set of pointlessly extravagant automatic doors.

AP fucked around with this message at 21:52 on Apr 20, 2016

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:50

Scruffpuff: Dec 23, 2015; Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

SerCypher posted:

Yeah.

The more I see the more mind boggling it is. It is SO OBVIOUS that this is all a scam. Not only that, at this point I truly think Chris and Sandi know it's a scam. I think all the higher ups at CIG do.

Yet still nothing happens.

People still view it as "The next big thing"

Chris knows he failed to make what he wanted with the money they pulled in, but he's convinced that SQ42 will save the day. I'd love to say that it will be a heavy blow to him when SQ42 fails, and fails hard, but Chris is too monumentally stupid for the failure to drill through his thick drooling skull. Most everyone else knows it's a scam now, though, and that includes Sandi, who has one hand on the divorce papers at all times. History repeats itself, after all.

Scruffpuff fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Apr 20, 2016

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:52

Fat Shat Sings: Jan 24, 2016

SomethingJones posted:

It's all fake dude, it's a scam. Derek is being very careful to NOT call it a scam, the eightace collective reminds us from time to time that it didn't start out as a scam, but it's a scam. I'm happy enough now to call it as such.

They've nothing to show in any of these videos that they keep putting out, there is no development diary, and there's nothing actually playable they can talk about. So they literally have the attitude of 'go in front of the camera and make poo poo up'. They care more about what's happening in this thread than delivering anything to their backers.

When you get down to the fact that they probably know they will never deliver the product they have promised, continue to sell ships based on a product they will never deliver, and funnel all of the money into Chris Roberts personal autistic dream movie then yes it's a scam.

I think at this point it's only a question of how many people are complicit in the scam itself. At least Chris and Sandi. Chris knows he has no plans to do anything but Squadron 42, that all the work is going to Squadron 42 and that they are specifically trying to pretend that the persistent universe is still a priority and has any plans of being finished in the next two years.

Lower level workers are probably just doing what they are told, so it's really down to how many out of 300 are Chris' accomplices.

The defense will be that the PU was released and that Squadron 42 was always a promised product. Nobody would expect the final result to be 90% of the time and funding spent on a terrible quality Squadron 42 and 10% of the time on a horrendously incomplete, barely working, "Technically as advertised" Star Citizen. So they will try and weasel out of any repercussions at the end by saying they released both games with the features they promised.

I'm pretty sure even if zero people other than Chris are happy with this clusterfuck when the lights come back on they will still try to make a legal case for why everyone but Chris is wrong.

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big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

If only CIG were as good at developing games as they are at owning themselves...

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:54

Berious: Nov 13, 2005

HexDog posted:

holy poo poo I love you

I'm 90% sure those are commercial Stanley Duraglide 2000 doors.

Given that how much have they blown on these do you think?

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:55

Trillhouse: Dec 31, 2000

HexDog posted:

holy poo poo I love you

I'm 90% sure those are commercial Stanley Duraglide 2000 doors.

SerCypher posted:

Looks like it, the top casing (Where I assume the motor and belts are) looks the same, you can see it above their door in the picture. You can also see the same logo on the far left.

The collective knowledge of this forum blows my mind sometimes.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:55

HexDog: Feb 4, 2009; Did you see Regis this morning?

AP posted:

That help at all?

lol where are you getting this from?

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:55

kertap: Mar 13, 2010

I've been following this thread for the last few days instead of reading twitter. And other threads. It's so great. Where did paaarp come from and what's a stimpire?

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:56

Lladre: Jun 28, 2011; Soiled Meat

Wafflz posted:

nah, 99 was quake 3 and those are definitely better than models from that time. 2003 had the first call of duty and splinter cell, they are pretty close in quality to that video of star citizen that was made more than a decade later.

I am going to have to disagree with you and say the Quake 3 models were better in every way except polygon count to that high fidelity garbage space Mormons.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:57

AP: Jul 12, 2004; One Ring to fool them all
One Ring to find them
One Ring to milk them all
and pockets fully line them; Grimey Drawer

Ash1138 posted:

Nice catch! Anyone know when that photo was taken?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDj1Us0M9P_/ 3 weeks ago

HexDog posted:

lol where are you getting this from?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BDoflfIBHz9/

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:59

Spudalicious: Dec 24, 2003; I <3 Alton Brown.

kertap posted:

I've been following this thread for the last few days instead of reading twitter. And other threads. It's so great. Where did paaarp come from and what's a stimpire?

paaarp came from some video "showing off" gary oldman's character model going through some facial movement exercises that was then immediately photoshopped/giffd into paarp which I believe is the sounds a backer makes when they march bravely to the defense of star citizen. Stimpire is some stupid rear end fanfic post on the official forums about a stupid space empire where everyone is always in constant pain or agony or whatever, and then they kill you for something. Also you get raped, I think. Or maybe that was something else.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:59

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

kertap posted:

I've been following this thread for the last few days instead of reading twitter. And other threads. It's so great. Where did paaarp come from and what's a stimpire?

Paarrp is the sound of an Airhorn. Its the noise Gary Oldmen makes.

The Stimpire is another matter entirely. Someone will surely link you to the sickening and hearth breaking truths of the 4th Stimpire soon enough (it was a shitshow fan fiction Torture Porn that a guy desperately wanted added to official lore)

# ? Apr 20, 2016 21:59

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

SerCypher posted:

Yeah.

The more I see the more mind boggling it is. It is SO OBVIOUS that this is all a scam. Not only that, at this point I truly think Chris and Sandi know it's a scam. I think all the higher ups at CIG do.

Yet still nothing happens.

People still view it as "The next big thing"

Substitute sentencing for thing, and maybe�

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:00

intardnation: Feb 18, 2016; I'm going to space!

SomethingJones posted:

It's the same exact logo
Garage door motor my arsehole
Caught out lying to the backers again
CAUGHT

real backers never question CIG - ever!

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:00

Teabag Dome Scandal: Mar 19, 2002

I dunno what you guys are going on about. isn't that what everyones garage door looks like??

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:00

Brazilianpeanutwar: Aug 27, 2015; Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

Optimus sledge you're awesome.

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Sushi in Yiddish: Feb 2, 2008

kertap posted:

I've been following this thread for the last few days instead of reading twitter. And other threads. It's so great. Where did paaarp come from and what's a stimpire?

~~Paaarp comes from the sound of an airhorn, which was liberally used during one of the Star Citizen conventions?~~

Stimpire is from an terrible fan fiction posted on the official SC boards by a disturbed fan.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:00

Fat Shat Sings: Jan 24, 2016

kertap posted:

I've been following this thread for the last few days instead of reading twitter. And other threads. It's so great. Where did paaarp come from and what's a stimpire?

Paarp is the sound of an airhorn. It originated at $42,000,000 when Chris went to publicly display all of the work on Star Citizen and had a buggy, non working tech demo that he couldn't get running and was frustrated and trying to apologize to the audience about why the game was constantly crashing or wouldn't start. After years and $42,000,000. People in the audience were heckling him about cryengine, so a goon made a video with airhorns about how much of a disaster the project was at the time.

Stimpire is from the official CIG forums. Some weirdo typed up a huge and long post about some kind of weird fetish fanfic where there was this body horror empire with pain that "Tripled every second" and dumb things. This was on the forums and approved of by CIG for a really long time so it kind of took off as a point to mock them about.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:01

Daztek: Jun 2, 2006

http://www.stanleyaccess.com/unique-applications

Top left logo again

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:01

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

Spudalicious posted:

paaarp came from some video "showing off" gary oldman's character model going through some facial movement exercises that was then immediately photoshopped/giffd into paarp which I believe is the sounds a backer makes when they march bravely to the defense of star citizen. Stimpire is some stupid rear end fanfic post on the official forums about a stupid space empire where everyone is always in constant pain or agony or whatever, and then they kill you for something. Also you get raped, I think. Or maybe that was something else.

You forgot the part about anyone touching the genitals, even on complete accident, had them removed. Men went under the knife and women had razor blades inserted into their ovaries and filled with some liquid.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:01

Ratmtattat: Mar 10, 2004; the hairdryer

Goobs posted:

is this a real face or what is it photoshopped? good god that's hideous.

Real face, but there's no way those chompers aren't veneers or something like that.

He's a nutjob in the Austin that's famous for wishing he was Stevie Ray Vaughn and his abomination of a girl search that he did:

http://sleeplessinaustin.atxmirrors.info/

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:01

Brazilianpeanutwar: Aug 27, 2015; Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

Can't tell who's a shitizen or shill or goon anymore.

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# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:01

TTerrible: Jul 15, 2005

SerCypher posted:

Looks like it, the top casing (Where I assume the motor and belts are) looks the same, you can see it above their door in the picture. You can also see the same logo on the far left.

hahah owned by this thread again you pieces of poo poo. Custom fabbed doors like that are so cheap. The backers will never know.

Beet, I know you probably wont but please let your CS buddy know.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:03

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

Ponzi posted:

Chris will instruct the devs to model every single skin pore, and the sweat beads that come out of each one, as determined by the internal temperature of the character, taking into account realistic variations over the whole surface, due to whatever activity is being performed on a second-by-second basis.

Then he'll decide it doesn't have enough fidelity, and order the simulation to be refactored to start with the blood-flow through every vessel in the body, as determined by the...etc, etc, etc.

It will still end up looking like poo poo, and need a supercomputer to run at more than 3 frames per hour.

Sweat bead and the red blood cells will be mocapped, of course.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:03

Fat Shat Sings: Jan 24, 2016

Also I would love if Derek could just post the CIG employee claiming that the doors were a garage opener and some free employee work in an image.

With the proof of how much the doors are/cost.

Then maybe a minor suggestion that CIG is doing ongoing damage control to try and control the narrative on their expenditures (because they are running out of money)

Except that would translate to like 34,000 words somehow.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:04

orcinus: Feb 25, 2016; Fun Shoe

SerCypher posted:

Looks like it, the top casing (Where I assume the motor and belts are) looks the same, you can see it above their door in the picture. You can also see the same logo on the far left.

Lol, what did he say again?
That CIG employees made them from wood?

With what? A CNC router they had lying around in the office?

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:04

EightAce: May 10, 2015; Watch it all come crashing down on his head and wonder why any of us gave him money in the first place.

Danknificent posted:

Jokes aside, they do have a proper orchestral OST in addition to this poor man's Awesome Mix - I haven't listened to it, but it could theoretically be good. I believe they hired an actual composer, and things not done by CIG tend to come out reasonably well.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:07

Daztek: Jun 2, 2006

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK9PB8z0pAE&t=1029s

[When did you get the new lobby door?] Just got it working yesterday. It�s been in there since they got there though. It�s made of wood, the same wood as a normal door. It�s just hooked up to a garage door opener. So not an expensive door.

# ? Apr 20, 2016 22:07

Toops: Nov 5, 2015; -find mood stabilizers
-also,

orcinus posted:

CIG development and debugging:

code:

function sum(array $sumands) {
  return $sumands[0] + $sumands[1] + $sumands[3];
}

sum([1,2,3,4]);

poo poo, guys, we found a bug.
Let's fix it.

code:

function sum(array $sumands) {
  return $sumands[0] + $sumands[1] + $sumands[3] + $sumands[4];
}

You're joking right? Like, this didnt't actually happen, right?

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Colostomy Bag: Jan 11, 2016; C-Bangin' it

Daztek posted:

http://www.stanleyaccess.com/unique-applications

Top left logo again

Broncos are probably worth a billion dollars I would imagine.

Generic sliders were good enough for them.

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