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Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Wrecked Angle posted:

For old times sake, here is when I first learned of Star Citizen nearly a year ago...



Happy not-quite-thread-not-birthday.

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Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Sunswipe posted:

I hope there's going to be a fastening your safety belt minigame.

Pffft, this is Star Citizen.

Ships will have those god awful automatic seat belts like some cars from the 80's early 90's had.

Tarquinn
Jul 3, 2007

I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.
Hell Gem
:argh: B4tBG for cheating us out of page 6666.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Beet Wagon posted:

If we're posting greatest hits, the SPACEDOOR should probably go up.

Ask, and you shall receive.

aleksendr
May 14, 2014

cool new Polack jokes posted:

I'm a video game idiot. What's no-clip?

The original DOOM had a cheat code that allowed you to move around without colision detection (i.e trough the walls). That code was ''idnoclip''. In the context of SC its the feeling of ''weightlesness'' you get from the ship flight model.

You would expect, since you are simulating the effect of a thruster pushing off a mass in space, to start slow and have the velocity ramp up untill you begin thrusting in the opposite direction, making it slow down gradually untill you stop. The worse the Thrust/Mass ration would be, the longer the whole process would take.

SC ships dont do that. They accelerate and stop on a dime in any direction with nearly no inertia. Whatever marketing spiel they shill to the backer about ''Simulating each thrusters correctly'' is blatantly false.

Compare :
SC landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ye5Z4ZUyGw#t=02m29s

Elite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRXeNBslEf8#t=06m50s

SC ships behave like a Farcry3 jeep with Noclip.

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao
The faster you dough the rounder we get

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
https://twitter.com/CaptainZyloh/status/804813671255969794

NVB
Jan 23, 2010

Grimey Drawer
Carn't remember whom made this in the last thread, but drat :discourse:

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.


Look like someone running their private dentist practice out of their back room…

Wrecked Angle
May 12, 2012

"JURASSIC PARK!"

Thoatse posted:

The faster you dough the rounder we get



Who actually made this gif? It's the absolute closest thing to cig.gif that exists.

It's just so perfect, Chris just riding his spaceship dreams through a faked universe blissfully unaware of the deception that's going on beneath him*. And why should he care? As long as the money keeps coming in his ride continues, never getting any closer to his imagined destination. Down front the 2 'faces of the community' do what ever they can to keep shovelling money into the Star Citizen dream machine, while Sandi skillfully oversees the whole charade with her unique management style.

*I don't actually believe CR is unaware of the deception. gently caress Chris Roberts.

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon

TheAgent posted:

I've probably spent $30k on games, pc hardware and console hardware in the last 25 years

meanwhile I've spent triple that on booze, drugs and escorts in the last five years

No wonder your GF is mad at you.

Winter Stormer
Oct 17, 2012

aleksendr posted:

Who the gently caress design a reactor with control rods you have to lift between the fuel rods ? This is ''Unshielded Deathstar ventilation port'' level of stupidity.

That's actually standard for boiling-water reactors, since the steam separators and dryers have to be directly above the reactor core
:goonsay:

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

http://www.kizoa.com/Movie-Video-Slideshow-Maker/d81320613k9143691o1l1/cry

HycoCam
Jul 14, 2016

You should have backed Transverse!

TheAgent posted:

I've probably spent $30k on games, pc hardware and console hardware in the last 25 years

meanwhile I've spent triple that on booze, drugs and escorts in the last five years
I think I might know why the gf is getting upset...

drat... e:fb

I'll go with: 80% of my money is spent on booze and hookers--the rest is wasted.

HycoCam fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Dec 3, 2016

HycoCam
Jul 14, 2016

You should have backed Transverse!


TheAgent--stop posting on SA and enjoy the party or you're going to be outed...

aleksendr
May 14, 2014

Winter Stormer posted:

That's actually standard for boiling-water reactors, since the steam separators and dryers have to be directly above the reactor core
:goonsay:

That is indeed the case. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to learn.

From the wiki :
Disadvantages:
Control rods are inserted from below for current BWR designs. There are two available hydraulic power sources that can drive the control rods into the core for a BWR under emergency conditions. There is a dedicated high pressure hydraulic accumulator and also the pressure inside of the reactor pressure vessel available to each control rod. Either the dedicated accumulator (one per rod) or reactor pressure is capable of fully inserting each rod. Most other reactor types use top entry control rods that are held up in the withdrawn position by electromagnets, causing them to fall into the reactor by gravity if power is lost.

D1E
Nov 25, 2001


So this thread just discovered the secret to unlimited clean energy by using Derek's giant ego?

Rad Russian
Aug 15, 2007

Soviet Power Supreme!

Wrecked Angle posted:

Who actually made this gif? It's the absolute closest thing to cig.gif that exists.

It's goon made. GIF should be in the OP.

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

The recognised "No Sunk Cost Fallacy", where you have invested so little money in something that is not good that you cannot bear to not think you could not have spent less on it without it not being not good.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

D1E posted:

So this thread just discovered the secret to unlimited clean energy by using Derek's giant ego?

Close, it was unlimited fertilizer

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

D1E posted:

So this thread just discovered the secret to unlimited clean energy by using Derek's giant ego?
It's a bit of a misnomer that it's "free" energy. A common mistake perpetuated by the media keen to promote the "next big thing", but it's just not scientific.

Once you to take into account caloric costs of goons shitposting, you're better off just burning coal tbh.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Wrecked Angle posted:

Who actually made this gif? It's the absolute closest thing to cig.gif that exists.

It's just so perfect, Chris just riding his spaceship dreams through a faked universe blissfully unaware of the deception that's going on beneath him*. And why should he care? As long as the money keeps coming in his ride continues, never getting any closer to his imagined destination. Down front the 2 'faces of the community' do what ever they can to keep shovelling money into the Star Citizen dream machine, while Sandi skillfully oversees the whole charade with her unique management style.

*I don't actually believe CR is unaware of the deception. gently caress Chris Roberts.

I think it was a goon girlfriend. Or that may have been the whale fishing gif.

Though it implies Chris is actually playing the space ship game. He doesn't. He probably hasn't actually played it since he was forced to on live stream a long time ago. That stream needs to be part of the thread if it isn't already.

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Mr Fronts posted:

The recognised "No Sunk Cost Fallacy", where you have invested so little money in something that is not good that you cannot bear to not think you could not have spent less on it without it not being not good.

Look at it this way: some shitizens are putting money into Star Citizen every month. Goons are giving zero dollars EVERY DAY. Those zeroes add up.

Mr Fronts
Jan 31, 2016

Yo! The Mafia supports you. But don't tell no one. Spread the word.

Solarin posted:

Hanales in discord said this is the best reator design he's seen since he was a very small child



At least spell "reactor" with all its letters. Triggered!

aleksendr
May 14, 2014

Wrecked Angle posted:

Who actually made this gif? It's the absolute closest thing to cig.gif that exists.

It's just so perfect, Chris just riding his spaceship dreams through a faked universe blissfully unaware of the deception that's going on beneath him*. And why should he care? As long as the money keeps coming in his ride continues, never getting any closer to his imagined destination. Down front the 2 'faces of the community' do what ever they can to keep shovelling money into the Star Citizen dream machine, while Sandi skillfully oversees the whole charade with her unique management style.

*I don't actually believe CR is unaware of the deception. gently caress Chris Roberts.

I agree. If i had to resume SC in a single image that would be it.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Is sm finally on the evocali???

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon

Solarin posted:

Beer please post some of your greatest hits including the letter to Sandi which showed that you are a fundamentally bad person

Sure.

The most popular thread I ever wrote: Is CIG's "Credits for Cash" approach bad for the game economy?

The thread that created a stretch goal: Spaceship Modularity Megathread. Unfortunately my original post was deleted, which is a shame because it was probably one of the best things I ever wrote.

Me being a Bad Person to Sandi Gardiner, the Greatest Saleswoman In The World: http://imgur.com/a/BIlWu

Tokyo Sexwale
Jul 30, 2003

Mr Fronts posted:

The recognised "No Sunk Cost Fallacy", where you have invested so little money in something that is not good that you cannot bear to not think you could not have spent less on it without it not being not good.

It couldn't possibly be more obvious

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

Rad Russian posted:

It's goon made. GIF should be in the OP.


That would be quite fitting... the spessship in it was made by Eldragon but I don't remember who made the gif itself.

Cao Ni Ma
May 25, 2010



Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Sure.

The most popular thread I ever wrote: Is CIG's "Credits for Cash" approach bad for the game economy?

The thread that created a stretch goal: Spaceship Modularity Megathread. Unfortunately my original post was deleted, which is a shame because it was probably one of the best things I ever wrote.

Me being a Bad Person to Sandi Gardiner, the Greatest Saleswoman In The World: http://imgur.com/a/BIlWu

The modularity questions and answers are great because it shows just how far the deepend CIG was and in some cases how loving exploitive they are right now. Creating brand new hulls for minor changes in ships is incredibly stupid do to how time consuming it is. They can justify the changes in price because of it. Now they know how loving stupid that was so they are doing straight reskins, of course they still charge a premium because gently caress our player base is literally retarded.

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Mr Fronts posted:

At least spell "reactor" with all its letters. Triggered!

Turns out I was right all along and nobody believed me!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reator

:smug:

nawledgelambo
Nov 8, 2016

Immersion chariot


https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/5g6qsq/stop_praising_cig_and_start_pushing_them_to/

Tokamak
Dec 22, 2004

Thoatse posted:

So where are we now on Mount Funding?



we are on a fractal recurrence of the graph within the graph.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Hopefully this guy will find his way here before he gets eviscerated by the community for expecting CIG to actually make a game instead of cutscenes and promises.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Get that man footage of his hero playing his PC saving game using an Xbox 360 controller. Your hero disagrees with you! :allears:

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Sure.

The most popular thread I ever wrote: Is CIG's "Credits for Cash" approach bad for the game economy?

The thread that created a stretch goal: Spaceship Modularity Megathread. Unfortunately my original post was deleted, which is a shame because it was probably one of the best things I ever wrote.

Me being a Bad Person to Sandi Gardiner, the Greatest Saleswoman In The World: http://imgur.com/a/BIlWu



Hey it's been a while that probation must be almost over.

Also on the Sandi thing I was thinking of a post you made in some thread, maybe a couple back, about the potential human consequences of CIGs hilariously predatory marketing. That one brought forth some memorable reddit tantrums, maybe it felt a bit to real to some people

TheLastRoboKy
May 2, 2009

Finishing the game with everyone else's continues

Solarin posted:



Hey it's been a while that probation must be almost over.

Also on the Sandi thing I was thinking of a post you made in some thread, maybe a couple back, about the potential human consequences of CIGs hilariously predatory marketing. That one brought forth some memorable reddit tantrums, maybe it felt a bit to real to some people

They still carry a torch about that post to this day and don't realise that it's where a lot of the "cult" accusations come from.

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003


My favorite post ITT

Tarquinn posted:

:argh: B4tBG for cheating us out of page 6666.


This is a strong contender.

Raskolnikov fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Dec 3, 2016

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Mr.PayDay
Jan 2, 2004
life is short - play hard
Yay I just spent 2 hours to catch up 2 days and to to read the Derek vs Moma "is SM in Evocati" NDAxxing each other and all stuff in this new thread and I just





And I wanna repost this gem



Will SC be released before we reach page 6665 again?

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