Samizdata posted:

I tried, I really, really tried to watch that stream. I couldn't. The nausea was too much for me. I was even disgusted enough to call out Stacey Roy on Twitter for being a bad role model showing kids that you swap agency for success. I also asked why were there no police called and no forcible evictions. I may not be the best feminist, but even drunker than drunk, I know when attentions are unwanted FAR sooner than that asshat does.

Raskolnikov posted:

edited for more stonk.

The Titanic posted:

As long as people see "this is wrong". She was in charge of the situation and sacrificed herself to be a drunks plaything for views or whatever they were selling. Hopefully she won't invite that guy on again. He needs to go hide back in the crazy nest of Star Citizen and hopefully disappear with it.

Meridian posted:

There isn't really anything funny about WTFosaurus being lovely.

JugbandDude posted:

Games coming out on 2017, by PC Gamer


"Everybody knows SC will never be out, but <insert ambiguous, inaccurate fluff sent by CIG's marketing team here>"

I'm a long time reader of PC Gamer, didn't know this sarcastic side of them.

tooterfish posted:

I mean, if you slate a game for "best new release of 201X" for three loving years in a row how much credibility do you have?

edit: too much loving.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

BRB stealing goon valour and tweeting this.

CrazyLoon posted:

Well, as someone else put it pretty well - by this point SC is less so a game or even a tech demo, but a confidence scam. The shitizens that are still in for it don't pledge on the merits of the gameplay or, at this point, even I would argue at the potential gameplay in the future to fulfill their nerd fantasy. If that were objectively the case, then in the span of a couple of months CIG would get torn to shreds by individual lawsuits out the rear end and go bankrupt within half a year most likely.

Instead, they pledge purely on the word of the personalities that regularly shill for the game (CIG and streamers such as WTFO) and their promises. So long as they have confidence in that, hilarious as it is, it staves off the abyss for the whole project and CIG.

It is even moreso telling that by this point their defense brigade barely cares anymore if you point out to them for a millionth time, just how retarded CIG's practices are for an alpha or how we were supposed to be long past the alpha stage by now based on their promises, but do something like this or uncovering Sandi's tickle fetish work and suddenly you get hilarious poo poo like #IStandWithSandi drawing them out of the woodworks, because god forbid that their precious trust in these scam artists gets dented and they actually consider that the thousands of dollars they 'invested' in CIG might be lost forever and for nothing.

So yea...the thread senses this and leans into it moreso than the umpteenth discussion of mechanics or procedures, really.

The Titanic posted:

Literally crazy. I hope she got her views.

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

BRB stealing goon valour and tweeting this.

SelenicMartian posted:

spacetoaster posted:

Holy crap, that lady from the new years live stream wrote a blog post on WTFosaurus! It got even worse after they cut off the stream!

Because I don't want to get banned I'm going to put it behind this:

[ONLY PLATINUM MEMBERS CAN READ THIS]

Propagandist posted:

Threads gettin weird again

Lord_NeckBeard posted:

Could I get a tldr of this event?

Xaerael posted:

Kinda hoping he shows up on stream with a massive shiner.

Xaerael posted:

Disappointing. No shiner. People need to learn to punch gropers in the face again.

The Titanic posted:

A minute later, I am disappointed.

The Titanic posted:

So there's two factors at play that will call it the ELE in my book:

1: CIG releases anything.

2: Chris Roberts gets bored.

Either of these happening I feel will be the end of the card game. And it'll probably happen pretty fast too. Might be #2 happens behind the scenes and causes #1, and Chris Roberts announces he's leaving since his "expertise" is no longer needed for the project to "succeed".

Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

Creepy Star Citizen streamer and sometime PUA WTFOsaurus getting smashed off his tits and then assaulting a woman live on stream.

spacetoaster posted:

Amarcarts posted:

She shouldn't have to jump on an internet grenade to not be treated like that. I don't see any real way for things to change though unless women start standing up to these dudes as this poo poo happens.

CrazyLoon posted:

I used to think that there are two other things that could stop it:

1.) They just plain run out of money to the point where not even they can reasonably suspend the faithful backer's beliefs and it all crumbles down.

2.) They do something truly and utterly stupid and get themselves sued to the point where legal fees cost them more than actual development.

But despite all of Derek's hype, I'm actually starting to agree with you. Because 2.) will simply never happen, because individual lawsuits won't ever cost that much, if they aren't just defused by full refunds behind the scenes, and every other gaming corporation or entity by now considers CIG to be such a joke beneath their notice to even remotely consider it worth it. Unless, ofc, they do blatant Archering copyright violations, in which they'd be obligated by law to sue the pants off them, or they'd set a precedent for anyone to violate their copyrights (who knows, CIG's stupidity might yet cause this to happen but...like I said, I seriously doubt it by all this time passed).

and 1.) won't happen simply because, apparently, they are capable of squeezing their whales so dry and wrinkled while wheeling in a few more mental cases with the months rolling by, thanks to establishing an honest-to-god cult of their remaining fanbase. So they can keep the pretense going for as long as is needed, because in the immortal words... "There's one born every minute."