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nawledgelambo posted:I'm the geometry clipping through the staircase I'm the constant z-fighting in everything they show. 
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Raskolnikov posted:I'm the constant z-fighting in everything they show. Hey, it is really difficult to deal with z-fighting after you hack together a 32-into-64 bit coordinate system.
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Dec 3, 2016 23:20
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trucutru posted:Hey, it is really difficult to deal with z-fighting after you hack together a 32-into-64 bit coordinate system. They literally reversed the arse of their own universe.
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Dec 3, 2016 23:22
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You can bet you rear end the ray-tracing algorithm they use to figure out which surfaces are closer to the camera is hosed-up beyond belief and cannot deal with their 64-bit implementation. Add to that artists who are given carte blanche to throw a billion triangles into everything and the poor algo must have developed self-awareness and killed itself.
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Dec 3, 2016 23:32
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trucutru posted:You can bet you rear end the ray-tracing algorithm they use to figure out which surfaces are closer to the camera is hosed-up beyond belief and cannot deal with their 64-bit implementation. Add to that artists who are given carte blanche to throw a billion triangles into everything and the poor algo must have developed self-awareness and killed itself. The poor algorithm felt grief.
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TheLightPurges posted:Yea that's what I don't get. Something doesn't add up. They barely crack 10k views for their anniversary stream, regular streamers are lucky to get low 3 digits of users, forums and reddit are fairly slow. I'm supposed to believe they took in 7 million last month? It is for the most part. That's what the nerfed blog was about. 
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trucutru posted:You can bet you rear end the ray-tracing algorithm they use to figure out which surfaces are closer to the camera is hosed-up beyond belief and cannot deal with their 64-bit implementation. Add to that artists who are given carte blanche to throw a billion triangles into everything and the poor algo must have developed self-awareness and killed itself. I remember one patch for EVE that was wonderful in that regard. They were updating the rendering to accept more complex models and shaders, but screwed something up pretty badly. Somehow, the reference coordinate system got inverted, so all ships that used cached model data flew backwards, and all (predominantly) structures that used cached surface and texture data would be rendered “inside-out” — all polygon faces were pointing in the wrong direction, so you'd see the backside of the station being rendered on the inside, and the front of the station not being rendered at all. It was a very confusing day in space until they emergency patched that one. 
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Dec 3, 2016 23:44
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Derek your site is down. Yeah, server migration. https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/805117822041030656 Solarin posted:PS this is probably what Derek's 'gonna get sued 100% end of story' blog was addressing. If they are manipulating this and lying about their actual funding then we got some good times ahead. It's worse than anyone thinks. Hopefully it will all come out soon enough. Just remember that I've been saying it's bullshit for over a year now.
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Mirificus posted:self-serving BS parading as a news site Oh jesus the fremdschämen  God I feel dirty just reading it.
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Dec 3, 2016 23:59
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Hi, hope you're all enjoying screaming at the videogame. This is just a reminder for you to call or visit your parents where possible because they love and care about you and want to hear about the things you're getting up to
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Dec 4, 2016 00:07
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Jake Acapella from 50 pounds ago.
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Mirificus posted:relay.sc Hahaha, so in the end they decided that stealing the INN name was a dumb idea? Also loving lol at them having a "community manager". Let me guess, they got to pick their own job titles?
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Dec 4, 2016 00:10
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So the new Caterpillar looks interesting: I wonder if it will carry smaller ships. 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:So the new Caterpillar looks interesting: Ahhh the Leafblower, such a majestic charot
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Certainly doesn't look like it's going to have any physics glitches.
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Erris sure is a modest and humble person.
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You just know they all wrote those themselves lol
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I.N.R.I posted:Hi, hope you're all enjoying screaming at the videogame. This is just a reminder for you to call or visit your parents where possible because they love and care about you and want to hear about the things you're getting up to can you keep your message to just once every couple of days? Parents are starting to get pissed off with how often they're getting called
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:If you mean the term, it's borrowed from the gambling world and is used for the small number of gambling addicts who contribute a disproportionate amount of your profits Beer4TheBeerGod posted:In free to play games the majority of funding comes from a minority of players who have spent a disproportionate amount of money. Those players are called whales, which also has its origins in the gambling business to indicate someone able (and willing) to lose huge sums of money. In DC those players typically spend well over a grand and achieve special status like a private forum and personal assistant. tooterfish posted:Chasing the Whale. So the big clue that Star Citizen is about to implode (as in "bankruptcy", not the usual day-to-day implosions) will be when multiple whales all start to jump ship at around the same time.
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Saladin Rising posted:Interesting, thanks. I knew about that type of mentality, and now I know there's a specific term to describe people like that. Not necessarily as they are remarkably dumb
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Been going over the attic again, looking for stuff that would be worth reposting on the first pages of this thread for ease of access in the future. Holy poo poo did we make a shitload of Ben gifs. He's really photogenic.   https://i.imgur.com/SgdCvyp.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/e0sMmBf.mp4  https://i.imgur.com/gQEgaz6.mp4  https://i.imgur.com/czSPJQt.mp4  https://i.imgur.com/MGKIVOT.mp4        I'm going to be dumping this in several parts over the next few days. I considered posting the GIFs instead of the MP4s for the extra immersion in the Star Citizen experience but in the end decided against it.
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starkebn posted:can you keep your message to just once every couple of days? Parents are starting to get pissed off with how often they're getting called But if you don't call your parents half a dozen times a day you're not fulfilling your true goon duty. Forget the fact that 68.94% of goons still live in their parents basements...
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Mirificus posted:[url=https://relay.sc/about-us] Relay MUST be as innovative and ground breaking as star citizen. Our mission statement is that we regurgitate existing content created by others.
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:So the new Caterpillar looks interesting: I'm most excited by the fact that we won't have another Caterpillar update on ATV (until they decide to rework it).
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Describing yourself as a creative genius gets you to at least an 8 or 9 on the insufferable oval office scale all by itself.
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Couple of favorites from the poo poo what I made:    Breetai posted:Relay MUST be as innovative and ground breaking as star citizen. Our mission statement is that we regurgitate existing content created by others. Sad thing is, a site that actually analyzed CIG's development and funding would be a worthwhile project.
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Hey guys please consider there are other threads you could image-dump into that will not inconvenience those of us without unlimited internet, as nice as it is to see the creativity of goons.
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Raskolnikov posted:I'm the constant z-fighting in everything they show. trucutru posted:Hey, it is really difficult to deal with z-fighting after you hack together a 32-into-64 bit coordinate system. I think they not only hacked it to 64-bit, they also shrunk all of the characters to something inappropriately small. So it's likely a combination of bad decisions that lead to this broken mess.
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Sunswipe posted:Couple of favorites from the poo poo what I made: Yeah, that was a masterstroke. Ever had opportunities to tell a loved one about bizarre poo poo that this dumpster fire produced? Yet realize around five minutes into the conversation it would take another 20 hours of background stories to get them up to speed? That is what I find the most sickening and heartbreaking truth.
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Hav posted:Yes, yes it was. But the first game broke a hell of a long dry spell for sci-fi RPGs, and the second one hit all the notes for a wide and magnificant space opera that didn't make a lick of sense, and I loved it. Dragon age 2 was absolutely fantastic. The only lovely thing about it was the constant re-use of the same loving caves and map areas. Beyond that the story was incredible.
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I.N.R.I posted:Hi, hope you're all enjoying screaming at the videogame. This is just a reminder for you to call or visit your parents where possible because they love and care about you and want to hear about the things you're getting up to If I shout downstairs loud enough they can hear me just fine 
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:So the new Caterpillar looks interesting: 
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ewe2 posted:Hey guys please consider there are other threads you could image-dump into that will not inconvenience those of us without unlimited internet, as nice as it is to see the creativity of goons. This is pretty great, thanks.
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The sickening and heart breaking truths of the stimpire need to be sent to them since they host the beat sc fiction.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Yeah, that was a masterstroke. Met up with a friend a few months ago and I started to briefly explain this bizarre thing I'd been following online. Constantly interrupting my own outline with "Oh, and this crazy thing happened as well, which led to..." Although I don't think anything really tops the reaction you get to "People are spending hundreds of dollars on imaginary spaceships for a game that isn't finished, from a company with no plan of how to make it, run by a man who got run out of the games industry for loving up this exact same idea before. Oh, and his VP of marketing is his ex-tickle-pornstar wife. No really, people are paying hundreds of dollars. There's one guy who's in for like 30 grand." If/when this thing finally collapses or explodes, I honestly hope someone does a book on it. A news story just wouldn't be able to cover even a fraction of the story.
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For a long time CIG never went under $20k a day, anything drifting that direction caused a sale. After 2.0 shipped last year, their low end daily between sales was 70k/day for a couple of months, new gameplay, ok you can see that generating interest. Since then sales have been so often the daily figure hasn't had time to settle down. They have just finished a massive sale, biggest ever, they sold everything so the whales will have been spending like crazy. As far as I know (because I've started to lose interest) there's no sale currently on.  So, no whales should be spending, as nothing special on sale and they should be tapped out for a couple of weeks anyway. The low end starter package is $45, so according to the chart, CIG are getting ~1000 new punters a day, 4+ years after the kickstarter with no new game play for 6 months and their major fan site videos get hundreds of views per show? Something badly stinks about the current funding figures, it's just not believable. The new Citizen forum on RSI has 3 threads with a post in them today, 2 threads active yesterday. AP fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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Sunswipe posted:Met up with a friend a few months ago and I started to briefly explain this bizarre thing I'd been following online. Constantly interrupting my own outline with "Oh, and this crazy thing happened as well, which led to..." Although I don't think anything really tops the reaction you get to "People are spending hundreds of dollars on imaginary spaceships for a game that isn't finished, from a company with no plan of how to make it, run by a man who got run out of the games industry for loving up this exact same idea before. Oh, and his VP of marketing is his ex-tickle-pornstar wife. No really, people are paying hundreds of dollars. There's one guy who's in for like 30 grand." Ding ding exactly. I'm not sure how one would begin to craft the book. Hell you'd have to start with the Wing Commander days, followed up with race horses and a used car dealership and then the kickstarter fest. That is a fiasco just getting to that point. But the real treasures are like you pointed out. You'd be explaining the story and then have to catch yourself with tales of the tickler, the hate speech Ben rantings and creepy pictures, all the different *gates, spitting on the cake, devious ship sales, etc. In the end, the "would you believe people have dumped thousands into this" is probably the most effective. So combine it all along with the Stimpire poo poo, and sprinkle our Warlord blogs into this the book would be more convoluted than the existing source code. Poetic justice in the grand scheme of things.
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starkebn posted:can you keep your message to just once every couple of days? Parents are starting to get pissed off with how often they're getting called I apologise for the inconvenience. But no
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