runsamok posted:

You betcha. I've got a pair of them (see avatar).

Lladre posted:

LoL if you believe they managed this. Just look at the games con demo.

MilesK posted:

Dementropy posted:

Duckaerobics posted:

biglads posted:

EDIT - Got the pic to work.
I have 3 wegies, they are great cats.

doingitwrong posted:

This is glorious. I watched it through. Here's a summary of the whole story:

- The system is this place with a star like ours but only two uninhabitable planets.
- For a long time, the UEE controlled the system but no one knew why. Lots of conspiracy theories come up.
- In the end it turns out that the UEE is trying to build a 3rd planet FROM SCRATCH.
- This is a kind of moonshot program to engender good will with other species and show humanity can do great things.
- Once the project is revealed, humanity gets behind it in a big way.
- But it drags on and on, costing billions of credits.
- The main proponent of the project dies.
- It is discovered that one of the main contractors on the project that was meant to be siphoning gas of a nearby planet simply never built the refineries and stole all the money.
- The press gets wind of this and now the public opinion is turning against the project.
- Budget fights in space congress to defund the whole thing as the project veers into collapse.

Write what you know, I guess.

Latin Pheonix posted:

Am I crazy or is there something off with Sandi's head in the first picture?

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/905618709821227008

I feel like I'm going crazy, but her head looks like it was photoshopped to be bigger than it should be, is it just me?

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/905899670081331200

G0RF posted:

ON THE SUBJECT OF CHRIS ROBERTS' WEALTH PRIOR TO STAR CITIZEN...

The much debated subject of whether Chris was independently wealthy prior to Star Citizen (fat with Wing Commander and film producer spoils) or whether he was down on his luck and on his way to desperation has already been answered and by a witness few would likely dismiss.

His "friend" (later revealed to be wife) described the time leading up to the Star Citizen crowdfunding campaign in some detail. Here is Sandi's summation, from the wonderful Sunny's Diner interview:


That isn't the kind of conversation that an independently wealthy man and his wife would have. It's been said before and repeatedly that Sandi has her own money, from family or whatever else, and Chris was the one growing increasingly desperate. Sandi's summation of that time period captures exactly that dynamic. It sounds like the pre-cursor to a "hit the road, Jack" conversation from a woman who don't want No Scrubs.

"I'm sure SOMEBODY is going to give you a job" is very like "The Backers (fans) will never know" - a perfect shorthand summary.

There is no logical reason Chris ever should've ended up in dire straits, not after the fat bank he made off the Wing Commander franchise, just as there is no reason Star Citizen should ever be at risk of running out of cash. But the illogical reason both appear to be true is Chris Roberts is a fool, and whenever he comes into money, he's parted from it in the proverbial tradition...

ManofManyAliases posted:

I am a perfectly normal and sane individual who purchased 8k worth of digital media, sold off half to friends, and retained approx 3k of original investment so that I can have fun in the future, in spite of everything I've read or said in this thread for more than a year.



BTW, did the ELE happen yet? I'm getting anxious.

peter gabriel posted:

https://twitter.com/commando_tom/status/905877270790844416

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/905914893701967872

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/cubicmotion/status/898996739205509120

https://twitter.com/cubicmotion/status/880546118416834560

Latin Pheonix posted:

Am I crazy or is there something off with Sandi's head in the first picture?

https://twitter.com/SandiGardiner/status/905618709821227008

I feel like I'm going crazy, but her head looks like it was photoshopped to be bigger than it should be, is it just me?

Codezombie posted:

(a synthesis system for internal combustion engines )

big nipples big life posted:

nice one

now lets see who bites

ManofManyAliases posted:

I'm not trolling anybody. I'm here to offer a differing opinion than one of group think over a person legitimately trying to make a game of his dreams. You guys libelously pile on, making up poo poo about Roberts being a used car salesman, getting a divorce, or leading people on in a fraudulent venture that anyone offering said dissent is driven down to talk about his/her recipes or digital ship ownership. This is the reason I've gone from talking less about CR's legal rights to do what he does, accounting for a crowd funded project, etc. to just toiling about as a goon on a forum about gay poo poo. So now I just go about my daily job, pop in ever so often and ask if the ELE happened (it appears as though it hasn't even though an ELE is a sudden and mass event and it was "called" a year ago).

EightAce posted:

Whatever happened to batgirl ?

Mirificus posted:

Combat Theory posted:

But dont go at the end and tell me "no one could have seen it coming"

Sabreseven posted:

Lol, there's some weird people in the world.

I can actually understand markets marking up emergency supplies though, that's just good business when an act of nature happens. Supply and demand and all that good stuff.

As an aside though, global warming and global cooling are just natural processes that the planet goes through, solar activity has more to do with it than anything humans could possibly do, I laugh at the 'save the planet' types who think they make a difference to a planetary cycle that's billions of years old. It happens, nothing we can do to stop it or change it.

Combat Theory posted:

Gentlemen, Ladies and Boatsexuals, i will attempt an Effortpost.

But first, put one some fitting music to set the atmosphere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LE0KpcP05I

For MoMa,

Hello MoMa. I have to say i enjoy how you rattle the Cage once in a while in here, although your older self i liked more.

You have mentioned something a few replies back that actually triggered my senses after all.


My Moment is here finally. YES i do have skin in this game. technically just because CIGs refund department is as bad with numbers as the rest of the company, but i DO have skin in this game so here we go.

MoMa. I hate to post this under a lame Forum Name. it would be a million times more epic, if you were actually who your signature suggest you are, to post this under my actual Username and credentials, but that time is still to come.

MoMa. with all the credibility that comes with an Account for a dead gay comedy forum that i didnt even pay for... This Game is doomed. The Project is doomed on every level. I say that as a person who knows more about the Limitations of the Desings, the Implementations, the Creativity, The Numbers, The Solution finding processes and the Management of Critical Key Gameplay Components and features than almsot everyone inside or outside CIG.

I am a Backer, even if i am not emotionally anymore. And i took my role in all this very, very serious. I learned about every critical aspect of this Game from what is on my hard drive, i learned listening to the Devs, listening to their thinking Process, watching their solutions and tracking their Implementations in every patch that was ever released for Star Citizen. I learned what makes the ships fly, i learned how the networking functions. I learned how Controllers are utilized, learned what plays into the hands of certain design aproaches. It got to the point where i could overcome the Designs, the calculations and the Solutions done within Months of Back and forth at CIG in a few Hours. Granted only to what i perceive is the core gameplay experience. Not Art, not Worlds or Levels.

I learned that the People who are paid with my money to design, code and build a space sim have not the knowledge, not the cohesion, not the talent and not the guidance or management to ever, ever produce a product that could remotely satisfy my desires for a good space sim. And when you wash away all the Fluff around the Core Experience of what is Star Citizen... and what it always was set out to be... that is the only logical conclusion. I hold no grudge against CIG. They banned my friends for bad mouthing bad decisions, they wronged their customers and changed every Agreement to their favor over time. But i dont care for that. I was never interrested in being friends with people at CIG. and i wasnt dissapointed nor suprised that they enforce those business practices. i didnt pay for friendship or special treatment. i paid for a product. And all i ever did was watching - closer than almost everyone else - and learning where that product goes in every aspect of Spaceflight, Spacecombat, Multiplayer and Performance. because those are the only important ingredients to work on in any kind of Alpha of Online Space Sim.

CIG failed to provide and conserve ANYTHING significant or outstanding in this regard. and every Inch they gained in the earlier years they undid by treating the literal heart of a spacesim as a lazy afterthought - "fix it in beta" -

I have digged deep in my time. I have seen and understood how the very core of this game works. What numbers go in it, what Functions keep it together. And the core is rotten. And nobody cares enough to fix it. worse. People. Key personnel in CIG to this day defends every bad decision, every wrong calculation, every mismanagement in this regard and its result as "Gameplay that our Backers love and we must preserve"

This shows not only the ultimate disconnect. This shows the Flaw in the core of the company. CIG, with its 400+ employees doesnt have a single person who understands the needs of a good space sim. or the needs of a good multiplayer title in that regard.

Its easy to blame it all on Roberts looking how this shapes up to be a repeation of his history and im not gonna blame Developers for lacking critical knowlegde and understanding for their position and area of ressponsibility, because its not their job to make sure they fulfill those requirements. But i have also not seen the Devs working towards imrpoving their knowledge in this regard.

Indeed whenever there was a moment of Clarity, a moment where a single guy in a place of responsiblity, came out after Weeks and Weeks or even Months of being hammered about whats wrong with the game, and asked about it in a public place, he was cared for, comforted and ignored the little bit of people who legitimately tried to present him with the core of the problem.

Go to Spectrum, look at the Dev comments. Look what happens to critical thinking.

There is no Knowledge. There is no understanding of the Problems. There is no desire to improve. The community will wank this thing into the ground together with CIG and roberts at the wheel. I hate that it is so. I lost years of my online Life to this. But thats the reality.

If it takes a Backer with Skin in this game to tell you so be it. i dont have 8000+ on my account. But im a Backer.

This Game is a death march. its sickened by literally every design fallacy possible at this point and it will continue to be.

I dont care personally if you wanna go down with the ship.

But dont go at the end and tell me "no one could have seen it coming"

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Sandi is to acting what Chris is to game development.