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trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Posting on page 7665!

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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.

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.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

Oriental Hugs posted:

I never played any of the Wing Command games. But did play some of the pc games of the era. How did they rank up to them? Better then the Star wars space games?

X-Wing was really good but had a few issues which brings us to...
Tie Fighter, which was an almost perfect game for the era. If you upgrade the graphics it would still be considered good & playable nowadays, it is that good.
The Wing Commanders were crap in comparison. Extremely simple and limited, but they were a *multimedia* experience so a lot of children loved them. Nobody would ever play them nowadays.

Paradigmata
Dec 23, 2015

Dissolved
Is Star Plebeian out yet?

his nibs
Feb 27, 2016

:kayak:Welcome to the:kayak:
Dream Factory
:kayak:
Grimey Drawer


:toot:

Amazing Zimmo
Jan 27, 2006

That's quite a load you got in them diapers

trucutru posted:

X-Wing was really good but had a few issues which brings us to...
Tie Fighter, which was an almost perfect game for the era. If you upgrade the graphics it would still be considered good & playable nowadays, it is that good.
The Wing Commanders were crap in comparison. Extremely simple and limited, but they were a *multimedia* experience so a lot of children loved them. Nobody would ever play them nowadays.

This is all true. I always thought of the wing commander series as interactive movies.

Kosumo
Apr 9, 2016

I would like to take this chance on this page to say gently caress you very much Chris Roberts,
gently caress you for your exploitive funding methods,
gently caress you for your founding of a cult like community,
gently caress you for your deceptive marketing
and lastly thank you for your total lack of ability to make a modern PC game, it is very funny to watch you try.

Your creative and management skills are on par with your wifes acting ability.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Better get in on the page, I suppose

Also, I'd like to share this simile:

The really sad thing about this whole supposed development is that, if taken at face value, not only has history and the industry run away from Chris to the point where everything he knew is decades out of date — but the same thing is just true for his most ardent backers, who are so invested in his changing the industry that they have missed the fact that it already happened many many years ago. :(

He's a guy dreaming of making the best Ericofon ever, in a world of iPhones and Galaxies, and the backers are cheering him on because they've grown tired of their DynaTACs.

tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

Oriental Hugs posted:

I never played any of the Wing Command games. But did play some of the pc games of the era. How did they rank up to them? Better then the Star wars space games?
LOLnope

Hobold
Jan 10, 2012


I love my Cutlass
I love big stompy mechs
I love my HOTAS
I love to salvage wrecks
I love Star Citizen, and all it's craziness
GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA, GOONDEYADA
College Slice
Bring Back Tie Fighter

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Oriental Hugs posted:

I never played any of the Wing Command games. But did play some of the pc games of the era. How did they rank up to them? Better then the Star wars space games?

Wing Commander is what happens if you copy the Lucasart WWII series (Battlehawks 1942, Their Finest Hour, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe), dial down the difficulty and complexity, and add in some Cinemaware-style adventure game presentation (without any actual gamplay), and then make so many pixels blue that it no longer runs properly on anything but top-of-the-line hardware (and software… running WC2 under DOS 3.3 was disastrously slow — you needed DOS 5 to make it run properly… and that shouldn't even make a difference). Then you slap together some trite and hackneyed “story” that only has two interesting twists, both of which get retconned back into unoriginality the moment Chris takes control again.

The Lucasart X-Wing / TIE-fighter series is what happens if you take the lessons from Battlehawks et al., strip out the unnecessary junk, but add in some relevant tactical complexity to compensate, have sensible and interesting mission design, and for added fun, you give it a highly polished and optimised 3D polygonal makeover. Then you add on, and absolutely nail, a highly thematic and elaborate IP on top of that, which while highly linear and predestined to end up on a given way (can't contradict movie lore, after all) still manages to be twist:y and turn:y within those constraints.

WC was an interesting late-era experiment in cinematic game design.
XW/TIE was some of the best games in the genre ever.

Tippis fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Apr 23, 2017

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006










Also



GROUND BREAKING AI

3 tiny bullet points

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Lack of Gravitas
Oct 11, 2012

Grimey Drawer

Amazing Zimmo posted:

This is all true. I always thought of the wing commander series as interactive movies.

FMV as part of the experience of playing a game was a failed experiment of the industry and I'm glad those lovely cutscenes are no longer around. Fortunately for us, Crobbers left to make his mark in Hollywood right at the end of that period and has no idea how far things have moved on in his absence.

Watch the trailer for Wing Commander IV (1996) and it's obvious he's doing this all over again now with $150 million of other peoples money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvPQHdVG1lc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Commander_IV:_The_Price_of_Freedom

Wikipedia posted:

Initially targeted for a December 1995 release (thus giving the game an aggressive 12-month development schedule), the game was ultimately released on February 12, 1996 for MS-DOS PCs. WCIV was produced on the then-unheard-of-for-a-video-game budget of $12 million USD.[1] The majority of this budget went into the production of the game's full motion video scenes, which were shot on actual sets instead of a greenscreen and using 35mm film instead of digital capture. The original MS-DOS edition shipped on six CD-ROMs.

loving :lol:

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/itsNickBateman/status/852463297580355585

AutismVaccine
Feb 26, 2017


SPECIAL NEEDS
SQUAD

Yeah, nicely done all :D. Only one thing is missing


drat, was already posted :(

AutismVaccine fucked around with this message at 10:43 on Apr 23, 2017

Enchanted Hat
Aug 18, 2013

Defeated in Diplomacy under suspicious circumstances
star citizen is... bad?

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
Derek Smartie till I die

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



Enchanted Hat posted:

star citizen is... bad?

:getout:

SirViver
Oct 22, 2008
Finally refactored to SC-Thread 1000.0

Next step: refactor post-per-page to 42 in an homage to SC. Estimated release: two weeks.

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao
sex page

Baxta
Feb 18, 2004

Needs More Pirate
"No when we said all this poo poo will be done in May, we meant it MAY be done. Checkmate goonies"

Beexoffel
Oct 4, 2015

Herald of the Stimpire
Star Kitten 1000 git.

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



This page sucks.




Like Star Citizen.

Koil
Jun 24, 2005

two weeks
this is the best thread

NVB
Jan 23, 2010

Grimey Drawer


NVB fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Apr 23, 2017

Michaellaneous
Oct 30, 2013

1k posts is clearly a lie. All in all we are at 10k probably.

TrustmeImLegit
Jan 14, 2017

by FactsAreUseless
So is Hello Kitty anything other than a cute doodle of a cat?

Did it originate as a TV show or something?

Foo Diddley
Oct 29, 2011

cat

TrustmeImLegit posted:

So is Hello Kitty anything other than a cute doodle of a cat?

Did it originate as a TV show or something?

I think it's just Hello Kitty

Also did I make it in time for page 1000

Xaerael
Aug 25, 2010

Marching Powder is objectively the worst poster known. He also needs to learn how a keyboard works.

TrustmeImLegit posted:

So is Hello Kitty anything other than a cute doodle of a cat?

Did it originate as a TV show or something?

It was a merch mascot originally, but it spawned cartoons etc.

TBH, CIG are behind the curve. Aggressive Retsuko is where it's at these days.

Wuxi
Apr 3, 2012

:justpost:ing on a cool page

Kellanved
Sep 7, 2009
1000

e: 1001 :shobon:

hanales
Nov 3, 2013

Kellanved posted:

1000

e: 1001 :shobon:

it's a more symmetrical page anyway.

alf_pogs
Feb 15, 2012


heres to 5,665 more

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



Poop posting on a palindrome page.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Hobold posted:

Bring Back Tie Fighter

Am looking for a solo project to do, want to do a small space game.
May give a Tie Figher clone a crack.

Beer4TheBeerGod
Aug 23, 2004
Exciting Lemon
Starsector just updated. Go play that.

Admiral Snackbar
Mar 13, 2006

OUR SNEEZE SHIELDS CANNOT REPEL A HUNGER OF THAT MAGNITUDE
I love that Tommy Wiseau managed to release a completed product and that he got to pretend to be a Hollywood director without resorting to a crowdfunding scam. Lol at Chris Roberts - Star Citizen is more incompetently made than The Room.

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

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CubicalSucrose
Jan 1, 2013

Phantom my Opera and call me South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
According to the schedule., when will I be able to buy back in to steal backers' space-chariots?

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