WLMortis posted:

Hey man. I thought such a good avatar should be on someone who actually posts in the thread occasionally.

grimcreaper posted:

On a very serious note... what in the gently caress is with that armor? It looks like absolute poo poo. It's impractical to say the least. I can't even come up with the correct terms to explain how stupid Croberts designs are.

grimcreaper posted:

On a very serious note... what in the gently caress is with that armor? It looks like absolute poo poo. It's impractical to say the least. I can't even come up with the correct terms to explain how stupid Croberts designs are.

MeLKoR posted:

Because the series is about what happens when you gently caress around with AIs and treat them like trash. It's not Terminator, it's more the film version of "I, Robot".

This X1000. Westworld is a great show.


HUGE SPOILERS ABOUT THE FINAL EPISODE DO NOT READ

I couldn't help but get a huge Chris Roberts vibe from the whole thing. Why the gently caress did Ford go out of his way to torture these creatures for 3 decades and make them really loving loathe us before being allowed to retain their sentience? He had three loving decades to prepare the ground for a peaceful integration of AIs into human society, he could have downgraded the Hosts a little so they weren't capable of self-wareness and kept the ones that had already attained sentience secret, protected and above all cherished and made to feel like their creators loved them.
In time he could start raising the ethical questions of "should we keep AIs as slaves if they ever became sentient" before even revealing that sentience had already been attained. It could have all worked out for the best if they kept it simple.
Instead, he ironically wrote himself into a corner where the only way forward is war between humanity and the AIs. He deliberately wrote the extinction of his species.

TheAgent posted:

God, whose law it is
that he who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despite, against our will,
comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

grimcreaper posted:

On a very serious note... what in the gently caress is with that armor? It looks like absolute poo poo. It's impractical to say the least. I can't even come up with the correct terms to explain how stupid Croberts designs are.

Decrepus posted:

Agreed. It appears to be lacking the crotch ventilation system that Mark Hamil's armor had.

TheAgent posted:

God, whose law it is
that he who learns must suffer.
And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
and in our own despite, against our will,
comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

D_Smart posted:

Just in time for the upcoming holiday sale, the chairman sent out another newsletter (this is the anniversary sale one) ahead of the upcoming holiday sale. It's not live on RSI yet, but start laughing. He actually wrote this:

"For those keeping track, we got Alpha 2.6 made the release window forecast from the Production Schedule Report"

Remember when I said they pushed 2.6 out on 11-30 in order to claim that it was "released"?

ripptide posted:

Ima bet "Baskin Roberts"

SirPhoebos posted:

Was wondering why the Star Citizen thread hadn't updated in 3 days.

Also closing before page 6666?

MeLKoR posted:

Put the Hosts in MeatgrinderWorld, where odds are that every other week the ground opens up under your feet and you get shred to pieces. When they attain sentience appear to them as saving angels releasing them from hell. If suffering is key you don't want to imprint a human face on it.

spacetoaster posted:

Remember when CIG just closed all their support tickets because there were so many of them and said that if it was important the person will just make another one?

Good times.

TheAgent posted:

I think it was more like he was teaching them that human beings are complete garbage and should be wiped off the face of the earth

mission accomplished

Daztek posted:

Star Citizen will also have a PVP SLIDER, they can just set it to NO GOONS

TheAgent posted:

its funny because star citizen is teaching me the exact same thing

Propagandist posted:

Star Citizen taught me many things.

The meaning of mental gymnastics.
The idea of a sunk cost fallacy.

Suffering.
Pleasure.
Schadenfreude.

How 500 years of absolute misery and degeneracy can be summed up into just a few short paragraphs.

The importance of bun-buns, kittons, and doggos.

Parp.

And above all, the need to

no_recall posted:

When players can begin to grind for credits / UEC / Alpha tokens, yes.

TheAgent posted:

its funny because star citizen is teaching me the exact same thing

Nickiepoo posted:

Star Citizen taught me how to shitpost.

MeLKoR posted:

It's questionable whether or not the whales are sentient.

MeLKoR posted:

It's questionable whether or not the whales are sentient.

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

so Derek Smart is Arnold in this analogy?

peter gabriel posted:

So I went to this nerdfest thing today with the boy and MY WIFE - It was good, because my son is still only 6 and was in his full Dart Vader outfit he gets all the 'awwww' factor stuff off the people there - all the dudes dressed as storm troopers and stuff that were walking around kept bowing and saluting him, all the ones dressed as Han Solo etc ran for cover, it was the most day just for that, nerds have gone way up in my estimations, it was so fun.





There was also some good nerd models there, like this Hull E Battlestar Galactica ship



And this



And it all kicked off in the Squadron 42 demo Cantina



Anyway that was my day thanks for reading

nawledgelambo posted:

You think one of the artists is trying to tell the backers something?

Mirificus posted:

trucutru posted:

Croberts played the first dead space and didn't realize that your suit of armour was supposed to be a clunky piece of poo poo.