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Samizdata
May 14, 2007

drat Dirty Ape posted:

I have that on my Steam wishlist and I'm not sure why.

German?

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Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

MeLKoR posted:



Derek Smart's neural AI is already smarter than a whale.

Frogbear is learning faster than Starcitizen. Hi page 500.


I mean, it is learning.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
In our setting of Banshee, there were ten stimpires which were united under ten galaxies. They were all allied as the United Galactic Stimpires, until one day, when the Sixth Stimpire noticed that the Fourth Stimpire was adopting laws that were against the regulations of the UGS. High-ranking military servants noticed that at the end of their favourite sporting event, the losing side was being rounded up, with all 11 players wailing in despair. They then noticed that the center of the stadium was now revealing a large, cylindrical container with a sharp floor. The floor was in the shape of a grinding grater, except there were several discs each turning very slowly, one being further out than the other from its center point. They were then pushed in by very powerful cybernetic stadium security officers, and the container was sealed up. It was then, to the horror of the colonels, that there was blood being smeared against the glass of the machine. They both left for their transit van, only to be stopped by Fourth Stimpire Enforcers. They demanded that they get past, only to be told that the Fourth Stimpire is a sovereign, socialist empire which listens to its people. They were then being transported to a greyscale soundproof room, with very sharp machinery decorating the room from all over.

They were never heard from or even seen again. The only traces of them were blood trails located in the very room. The Fourth Stimpire had announced to the UGC that it was now allied with Vanduul forces, and any attack will result in immediate deplanetation, much to the dismay of the UGC. The Seventh Stimpire warned them that the other nine would revoke their UGC rights if they carried on, but they did far from what they were demanding. The Fourth Stimpire didn't massacre the First Landmass population, but left them in the worst pain known in the universe for eternity. The drug was capable of keeping the victim the same age as they were, halting growth and aging, whilst keeping them alive forever. All growth cells are killed and the drug repeats any respiratory cycles.

The other nine declared war on the Fourth Stimpire, which ultimately led to the demise of the First, Eighth, Ninth, Fifth and Tenth Stimpires. They were deplanetated, all of their planets were razed and reduced to nothing but an asteroid field, a reminder of the power of the Fourth Stimpire, and a historical monument, and a book, a tale of what was once a mighty, populated planet.

The Seventh Stimpire ordered their planets to be relocated out of the range of the Fourth Stimpire Satelitation Force through the use of planet movement technology. As the Seventh Stimpire was completely artificial, the planets were able to be relocated to a faraway place in the universe. The Second Stimpire however were unable to relocate, as they were natural to the full extent and had a ban on fighting on any kind. Weapons were not permitted in the territory, and anyone caught fighting would be exiled permanently from the planet. They were the Second Law, as the rest of the universe know them by.

The other stimpires were unable to relocate aswell, and ordered their planets to be mined until they were fresh clean, and turn artificial, so they could be moved away from threat. They did not want to meet the same fate as their brethren. As a result, the war that remains going on to this day, is now a fierce, stalemate battle. The United Earth Empire eventually joined to help them against the Fourth Stimpire in 2754, 100 years after the war began, but this would also lead to Vanduul interception, as the Vanduul were warmongering to the point of following the UEE's every move and intercepting it.

Endnote.

Wuxi
Apr 3, 2012

The Titanic posted:

Thread is scary again with the sudden possible info dump of people. It may not be classified as doxxing, but it'd certainly be uncouth.

Part of me hopes the high road is taken and people just don't go there. I fail to see how this would be good.

The other part hopes it happens because the Camp Derek has been quiet save the occasional shot fired at MoMA. I do see how it would be funny because Derek would once more kick the hornet nest, and people would come out of the woodwork again.

Of course this would enrage the throngs into more us vs them warfare that is just dumb.

CIG is crashing and burning. I'm not sure if trying to cause them more damage on a personal level would hurt them, and probably only help them garner public support again.

My opinion is to just let it go, and watch the embers waft into the air. No need to release personal information on random people, so leave them be in peace. :)

On one hand you're clearly right, but on the other hand its Derek, so its not like anything will actually happen. Just watch all that delicious bluster, MOMAs meltdown and the ensuing slapfight

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

If any of you have a PS4 VR headset, and like to be terrified of a game, Resident Evil 7 is for you.

I just made it through 20 minutes and am having serious reservations about putting the headset back on.

Acquilae
May 15, 2013

a post

on page 500

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

spacetoaster posted:

If any of you have a PS4 VR headset, and like to be terrified of a game, Resident Evil 7 is for you.

I just made it through 20 minutes and am having serious reservations about putting the headset back on.

It looks like it would be so much fun

But I don't want to buy a ps4 just to play it , any chance they'll add pc compatible VR anytime ?

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Sappo569 posted:

It looks like it would be so much fun

But I don't want to buy a ps4 just to play it , any chance they'll add pc compatible VR anytime ?

I think it's a timed exclusive (meaning it'll come out for vive/oculus later). But on the PSVR I am completely immersed and terrified.

The very first door in the game. The first freaking door I had to close my eyes to go through it into the darkness. I don't know if I'm going to be able to finish it.

Good Dumplings
Mar 30, 2011

Excuse my worthless shitposting because all I can ever hope to accomplish in life is to rot away the braincells of strangers on the internet with my irredeemable brainworms.

cool new Polack jokes posted:

Histories of the Great Stimpires, Book MXLVII Vol. IX

Who the gently caress originally wrote this anyway? Are they the same guy that's into foreverially delitizing stuff?

Goobs
Jan 30, 2016

Doxcat is watching you PU.
I like that Cymelion is so :smuggo: but still can't spell "whining" after 5 years.

IncredibleIgloo
Feb 17, 2011





Just 6166 pages to go!

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

Meta-Mollusk posted:

Now this is something I wouldn't mind people putting 150 million dollars of their hard earned money into. Playing Pirates! on the Amiga was so good. I even enjoyed the 2004 version quite a bit. :shobon:

Edit: here's a kitty



A modern Pirates! shouldn't cost more than like 5 or 10 million tops and tbh AC4 is already a modern version plus more. I loved the poo poo out of Pirates (and Sid)(and the 2004 remake)(and MicroProse in general) and I haven't played any other AC game for more than 12 minutes, and I still think AC4 is a very good spiritual successor. AC4 is worth it for the soundtrack alone.

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

I'm gonna play AC4 right now, now that I think of it.

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Quavers posted:

Despite reading every page, I think I missed this. What info dump, and why?

Derek is threatening this leak of names working at CIG with linked in profiles and forum names and who knows what else. This has been the "just do it doxx" thing for the past day or two. It's a bit silly to do, but it's his agenda that he feels he can further by work-shaming individuals.

CIG is burning because they can't actually make a game or show game related footage (because there is none). I feel like Derek releasing this would just cause an uproar to "protect the innocent CIG workers" amongst the audience. The focus would again move away from CIG being a complete failure to the personal image of people hurt by the revelations.

Rudager
Apr 29, 2008

I find this hilarious knowing he's an Australian, our government fined loving Valve a shitload of money because they didn't adhere to local refund/returns laws.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/12/the-australian-federal-court-has-fined-valve-3-million/

Rudager fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jan 26, 2017

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Goons ruined Star Citizen by asking for stretch goals they knew were impossible, and employed them with subconscious waves that research indicated that Chris Roberts was susceptible to.

This is definitely the reason, and totally not that Chris Roberts was, in reality, totally unaware of modern programming capabilities in gaming and had no idea how to manage a project so had no loving clue how scope creep can literally kill a previously well grounded concept. Also he is totally not frothing at the mouth for more money at any and all costs.

Surely not this.

Somehow goons. And then stuff. And then goons destroyed it all through means. Logical and undisputed. :v:

Samizdata
May 14, 2007
I like the new thread! I keep making milestone page posts!

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Wuxi posted:

On one hand you're clearly right, but on the other hand its Derek, so its not like anything will actually happen. Just watch all that delicious bluster, MOMAs meltdown and the ensuing slapfight

Ultimately you're right. My non existent balls would be so blue by now if I hinged upon Derek actually coming through with things that they'd have fallen off a while ago. :byodame:

1000 Sweaty Rikers
Oct 13, 2005

It's hilarious that this shitheap's been going this long and they still haven't added female player models.

Maybe Sandi would get jealous if they added them?

The Titanic
Sep 15, 2016

Unsinkable

Tace Vim posted:

It's hilarious that this shitheap's been going this long and they still haven't added female player models.

Maybe Sandi would get jealous if they added them?

I for one am looking forward to this day. And the day that Chris gets to realize that he can mocap EVERYTHING AGAIN because a woman moves differently. It's going to be like Christmas for Chris.

This may be why some members of the team keep stalling. Once the female is released, instead of having to redo everything once, they'll have to redo everything twice each time.

So excited! :downs:

ComfyPants
Mar 20, 2002

Zest posted:

Frogbear is the best part of the Goon E:D group, and I highly encourage everyone to play it.



Frogbear had a moment

ZenMaster
Jan 24, 2006

I Saved PC Gaming

500 parps ring out signifying nothing

ewe2
Jul 1, 2009

Rudager posted:

I find this hilarious knowing he's an Australian, our government fined loving Valve a shitload of money because they didn't adhere to local refund/returns laws.

Well the freeman on the land you-are-not-the-crown BS is alive and well in Australia so he's not alone. It's just bizarre that he's grown up being totally ignorant of the Trade Practices Act and the various adjuncts of the Consumer Act. Despite someone falling foul of them literally every year for decades.

MarcusSA
Sep 23, 2007

I heard that the game is done and coming out tomorrow.

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Goobs posted:

I like that Cymelion is so :smuggo: but still can't spell "whining" after 5 years.
Whinging is a completely different word.

ComfyPants
Mar 20, 2002

MarcusSA posted:

I heard that the game is done and coming out tomorrow.

You can change that by giving Chris $10,000 and asking him for a fully modeled immune system for each player and NPC so that you can catch space flu from the space janitor and maybe spend three days in your wankpod swilling space tussin instead of having space fights.

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."

Sappo569 posted:

If Sid Meier came out tomorrow with a Kickstarter to redo Pirates! But using 2017 technology I would be allover that in a heart beat , so I can totally understand how a name and past association might warrant some fanaticism

I hate to admit it, but yea in this specific instance I'd prolly fall for it all over again. :smith: You just think: "What if this is the last solid attempt in the genre for a long long while?" and before you know it you give up your :10bux:...times 20. It's why I still can't find it in myself to blame anyone that donated towards poo poo like Naval Action.

CrazyLoon fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jan 26, 2017

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

scrubs season six posted:

A modern Pirates! shouldn't cost more than like 5 or 10 million tops and tbh AC4 is already a modern version plus more. I loved the poo poo out of Pirates (and Sid)(and the 2004 remake)(and MicroProse in general) and I haven't played any other AC game for more than 12 minutes, and I still think AC4 is a very good spiritual successor. AC4 is worth it for the soundtrack alone.

I agree the soundtrack for AC4 is good, but the gameplay doesn't hit the same points for me as Pirates! did or does.

Naval Action would be a very good companion, if they would stop trying to make it a MMORPG and just stick with what it's really good at, awesome gorgeous ship battles

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

CrazyLoon posted:

I hate to admit it, but yea in this specific instance I'd prolly fall for it all over again. :smith: You just think: "What if this is the last solid attempt in the genre for a long long while?" and before you know it you give up your :10bux:...times 20.

So we can see where some citizens might have gotten lost in the dreams, but for them to still hold out hope this far into the scam, it just boggles

CrazyLoon
Aug 10, 2015

"..."

Sappo569 posted:

So we can see where some citizens might have gotten lost in the dreams, but for them to still hold out hope this far into the scam, it just boggles

I think therein comes the whole combo of: a) Willingness to admit your were wrong and b) Having something better to pull out your cash into.

a) Is hard enough for most human beings, because we're mostly ego-driven creatures, but b) is usually the real clincher. I have a feeling that with a lot of the whales that are still in for it, they just figure: "Eh...don't have anything better to put that money into anyway, I BELIEVE!" Even, yea, in cases where they have a kid and a wife ffs.

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo
I gonna make it?

Tijuana Bibliophile
Dec 30, 2008

Scratchmo
gently caress

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



Looks like you got parped.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard
https://twitter.com/DisturbedJim83/status/824411050661572608

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

It's me, the cultist thinking about Derek's "hateboner" and publicly tweeting about it, giving zero fucks.

:suicide:

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

This is the reason I made my lovely twitter semi respectable, so I don't use the dumb thing.


There would be way too much poop touching :q:

Lime Tonics
Nov 7, 2015

by FactsAreUseless

Drunk Theory posted:

Does your place of work regularly misplace "pallets" of orders? Like when you say stealing Windex, my immediate thought is that he grabbed bottles from a closet or something. Not trying to make off with a whole pallet.

Owner that runs the place buys in bulk, like sams club or something. dude was caught loading windex boxes, that hold like 24 a box. He tried to steal like 14 boxes of them.

People are strange. He could have stole a crate of say old dell optiplexes or worse, but windex?

Also, still no game.

Chalks
Sep 30, 2009

I am looking forward to the tweets about him buying a pint of milk and watching some TV

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Samizdata
May 14, 2007

Tace Vim posted:

It's hilarious that this shitheap's been going this long and they still haven't added female player models.

Maybe Sandi would get jealous if they added them?

Nope. The real problem is they would ALL have to look like Sandi. No better. So, we have bald white men and Sandi in the 'Verse. Only.

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