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tuo
Jun 17, 2016

It's incredible how often "you can buy" and prices is said...it's seriously like some shopping channel.

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stingtwo
Nov 16, 2012
This stream is loving awful, If someone did a blind run of doom and focused 20minutes talking about the exit sign at the end of the level, it would be more riviting than this.

Thronde
Aug 4, 2012

Fun Shoe
I can't chat on my phone :(

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.
Can somebody post the predictions spreadsheet and are we keeping a running tally of crashes to desktop?

Sandweed
Sep 7, 2006

All your friends are me.

Oh god he just went to sleep in his ship, his commando got so tired from all the exhausting game play.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

They can spawn in ship models to the hangar live in game without having to pre-set their hangar on a separate website.

Oh. :cripes:
So kind of like in Xenon 2.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

stingtwo posted:

This stream is loving awful, If someone did a blind run of doom and focused 20minutes talking about the exit sign at the end of the level, it would be more riviting than this.
Someone once did a Blind Run of Doom.

Like, literally blindfolded.

He used the sounds of the Plasma Rifle as a sonar.

stingtwo
Nov 16, 2012
I wonder how many of those other players are crashing to desktop

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo

cuck cuck im gay posted:

ok so I admit I did not start reading this thread until a goon posted about it in the "greatest SA sagas" thread. I started reading from August 1st on, which is when the "Tickle Mae/Sandi" videos came to light.

I am trying to piece this all together as it is hilarious and I would appreciate it if anyone can fill in the blanks for me so that I may lol

Welcome friend

quote:

1) Why is Derek Smart involved in this? I think it's hilarious that he is, but I was just wondering why.

Derek's described himself as the space games' unrequited godfather (iirc). He backed the game on Kickstarter, and then made noises about the game's development about a year ago. If you have further questions, read any one of his blogs

quote:

2) Doesn't Derek Smart hate SA?

Amazingly, Derek Smart turned out to have a sense of humor and some capacity for self distance

quote:

3) Why is there a Derek Smart subreddit? If it were just for Star Citizen fans, why wouldn't they just post in r/starcitizen?

Citizens are very, very angry with Derek, and can't express the full measure of their impotent rage on the star citizen subreddit. /r/dereksmart is on the shortlist of worst places on the internet so their level of creep is frowned upon in the official channel

quote:

4) Is the general consensus that Croberts is a scam artist (the used care salesman helps this claim )or is the general consensus that he simply bit off more than he could chew and this game will never, ever be released?

If there's a general consensus, it's that Chris is some combination of bumbling idiot, willfully ignorant hack or cynical scammer.

quote:

5) What kind of "harassment" made Sandi "leave Twitter"? Let me guess, the harassment was people asking her about her video on pornhub? lol

Well you see she's "a wife" and a "woman in gaming" so there's no room for criticism or inspection of her history and actions. She's actually pretty creepy though, so there's an argument for limiting the digging right there

quote:

6) Doesn't pretty much every horny rear end in a top hat give his wife some cushy high paying job at their company? If it had anything to do with giving her tons of money, couldn't Croberts just hand her cash instead like some sort of paid escort? I wouldn't think he'd have to give her a high-paying job in order to give her a lot of money for no reason. He could do that without the high-paying job!

She's divorced and remarried him once, and only hangs out with him because he pays for her roles with hollywood celebs

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7) Are most Star Citizen fans coming to the realization that this game will never come out and they spent 4 figgies for nothing? Or is it just a small percentage?

Very hard to say. They still pull in an amazing amount of cash (according to them), though refunds are starting to pick up. Citizens on the 'net are mostly busy theorycrafting about their ~amazing space dream~ while simultaneously telling themselves they're okay if they end up getting a piece of poo poo. It's puzzling

NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here
Watching this is like pulling teeth. Today is supposed to be their new person introductory day and they open with this! We haven't seen a single ship move once in 90 minutes of gameplay and neither the streamers or most of chat seem bothered by it.

The only reason I'm still watching at all is to see my joke avatar briefly flash up in the !raffle

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

"Because the game is in development sometimes the keybinds change."

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Tippis posted:

Oh. :cripes:
So kind of like in Xenon 2.
Whoever uploaded that hosed up the music, it's a crime against Bomb the Bass!

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

"Now, in the front this ship has... oh, it's not loaded..."

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

SelenicMartian posted:

"Because the game is in development sometimes the keybinds change."
I know the word cult is thrown around a lot, but this stream seriously starting to sound like a loving Scientology open day.

Lord Kinbote
Feb 27, 2016
SQ 42 has no official release date apparently.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

cuck cuck im gay posted:

ok so I admit I did not start reading this thread until a goon posted about it in the "greatest SA sagas" thread. I started reading from August 1st on, which is when the "Tickle Mae/Sandi" videos came to light.

I am trying to piece this all together as it is hilarious and I would appreciate it if anyone can fill in the blanks for me so that I may lol

1) Why is Derek Smart involved in this? I think it's hilarious that he is, but I was just wondering why.

2) Doesn't Derek Smart hate SA?

3) Why is there a Derek Smart subreddit? If it were just for Star Citizen fans, why wouldn't they just post in r/starcitizen?

4) Is the general consensus that Croberts is a scam artist (the used care salesman helps this claim )or is the general consensus that he simply bit off more than he could chew and this game will never, ever be released?

5) What kind of "harassment" made Sandi "leave Twitter"? Let me guess, the harassment was people asking her about her video on pornhub? lol

6) Doesn't pretty much every horny rear end in a top hat give his wife some cushy high paying job at their company? If it had anything to do with giving her tons of money, couldn't Croberts just hand her cash instead like some sort of paid escort? I wouldn't think he'd have to give her a high-paying job in order to give her a lot of money for no reason. He could do that without the high-paying job!

7) Are most Star Citizen fans coming to the realization that this game will never come out and they spent 4 figgies for nothing? Or is it just a small percentage?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

1) he called shenanigans on the whole thing about a year ago and they refunded him without him asking for it in an attempt to shut him up

2) that's largely water under the bridge by virtue of finding a common foe

3a) because he called shenanigans on the whole thing about a year ago and shillizens must protect the honor of SC

4) if I'm stupid and never studied anything and start charging people a fortune for an innovative cancer treatment that consists of drinking bleach am I a scam artist? Bleach kills cancer cells, right? If doctors start screaming at me and people dying from my treatment and I double down by claiming that the new and improved formula now also cures AIDS and doctors don't understand medicine development am I a scam artist? There's a very fine line and IMO he crossed it last spring with the "Star Marine will be out in two weeks" bullshit. He knew that was a lie, that makes him a scam artist in my book.

5) no one knows

6) this way they can milk two high paying jobs out of CIG, otherwise Croberts would have to give her money from his cut

7) this is difficult to evaluate because when they get that realization they stop being Star Citizens. I'd say most are probably wary but still hopeful.


e: completely misread question 3

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Aug 17, 2016

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon

Lord Kinbote posted:

SQ 42 has no official release date apparently.

Wait, they said that? As in actually confirmed it's delayed again?

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

tooterfish posted:

Whoever uploaded that hosed up the music, it's a crime against Bomb the Bass!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w-tiRnac2k

I mean, it's no Full Burn, but still… :swoon:

Tippis fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Aug 17, 2016

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Nice. I also love that the first credit is a crack shoutout.

Did anyone actually buy Amiga games? I'm sure someone must have, somewhere...

Lord Kinbote
Feb 27, 2016

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Wait, they said that? As in actually confirmed it's delayed again?

The streamer guy with the beard said it answering a question in chat.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

tooterfish posted:

Nice. I also love that the first credit is a crack shoutout.

Did anyone actually buy Amiga games? I'm sure someone must have, somewhere...

With the price of extra disk drives, I'm sure many felt it was cheaper to buy the software than try to copy it. :D

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon

Lord Kinbote posted:

The streamer guy with the beard said it answering a question in chat.

Getting caps of this is going to be amazing.

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"
Lol, I'm on my lunch break at work and normally save up reading the days shitposts until I get home but couldn't resist checking in on my phone, Sounds like its going well.

Any news on whether the stimporer himself or his mistress will be making an appearance?

Chocobo
Oct 15, 2012


Here comes a new challenger!
Oven Wrangler
1) http://www.dereksmart.org/2015/08/star-citizen-how-i-got-involved/

2) Derek Smart hates all humans, regardless of which forum they have sworn allegiance to.

3) A subset of humans wage holy war against Doctor Derek Smart, and /r/dereksmart is the impenetrable bastion from which they make their righteous stand.

4) The general consensus is that Chris Roberts is a compulsive liar, like Molyneux.

5) Nobody knows. Presumably it is just self imposed exile because of the Mae Demming stuff.

6) No point speculating.

7) I think a fair number of big backers have probably been refunded by now, if my own experience is any indicator. At this stage in the game, CIG is terrified of having potential new backers scared off by reports of fraud, lack of delivery, and godawful sercice.

Furism
Feb 21, 2006

Live long and headbang
Why don't they remove that loving motion blur when on foot. It's been bothering everyone since the very first release of the hangar, I can't believe this is still in.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Five-minute break. The main window is showing the countdown. In the smaller ones the black blond mohawk lawn guy is taking the stage and the other headset.

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


sorla78 posted:

Twitch Stream downgraded from 60fps to 30fps because reasons.

They gotta save money now. Monthly income is probably less than one third of monthly expenditures.

Plus the game only runs at 15fps so it's still plenty fast enough.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Furism posted:

Why don't they remove that loving motion blur when on foot. It's been bothering everyone since the very first release of the hangar, I can't believe this is still in.

Immersion. Because Chris does not understand perception and thinks that reproducing camera flaws is the best way of simulating how eyes work.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Ahahah, they hosed up the volume and no one can hear them now!

Kilmers Elbow
Jun 15, 2012

tooterfish posted:


Did anyone actually buy Amiga games? I'm sure someone must have, somewhere...

I did

:shobon:

Obviously we'd try and copy games between friends (like taping an LP) but I think it needed extra disk drives and maybe other gear too (?) - yeah, we spent loads on games.

Were never particularly conscious of 'the scene' other than in veiled references to it in magazines.

radd
Jun 16, 2001

Super Spacefortress

Tippis posted:

Immersion. Because Chris does not understand perception and thinks that reproducing camera flaws is the best way of simulating how eyes work.

No, it is because movies have motion blur and Chris loves movies.

Radio Paranoia
Jun 27, 2010

It is now safe to turn off your computer.
Somebody needs to press on that obnoxious pedal saying "DEREK SMART WAS RIGHT"!

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

radd posted:

No, it is because movies have motion blur and Chris loves movies.

Hence camera flaws.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

"We'll show you more of this booth tomorrow."
"This booth was sponsored by our good friends at Intel."

Salt n Reba McEntire
Nov 14, 2000

Kuparp.
Used to enjoy the scene, would always keep up with the grapevine mags and gossip about parties (that I never went to, as they were all in the dark, scary bits of Europe).

Nibble copying was where it was at! Didn't need anything else to be a filthy pirate for the most part. Well, until you got home and discovered that disk 3 of 5 had the click of death and would only read when the planets aligned.

Those were the days. Now I can hold and play every Amiga game in the palm of my hand what the hell.

E: Would talk about Star Citizen but as much as I could stand of the stream was like watching paint dry.

RubberJohnny
Apr 22, 2008
Jeez the audio levels on this stream are barely audible. I can get them to "quiet" if my Spotify is "blaring".

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."
I ain't even gonna watch a single second of that stream, unless something utterly balls-to-the-walls insane happens, like CR appearing only to literally jack off all over the audience.

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Kilmers Elbow posted:

I did

:shobon:

Obviously we'd try and copy games between friends (like taping an LP) but I think it needed extra disk drives and maybe other gear too (?) - yeah, we spent loads on games.

Were never particularly conscious of 'the scene' other than in veiled references to it in magazines.
Soundtrack of my youth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCDtnQiZlSc

Some people had the Smiths, some had the Stone Roses... I had X-Copy.

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

No goatse or derek smart in the raffle roll

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D1E
Nov 25, 2001


God I seriously hope Chris doesn't appear in person on Friday.

That would be like the Christmas TheAgent promised.

Remind you, these are the hardcore German Nazi skinhead fans who will probably not take that well.

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