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The Titanic posted:Space games were a great thing because polygons were expensive for a computer to render, so much of the screen is black or something, and only a ship or two needed to be rendered to screen. Isn't that the crux of the matter? At one point space sims had a massive advantage over many other genres due to the hardware of the time and how space sims were rendered. But by the mid to late 90s hardware allowed all the assorted genres to catch up to space sims and display decent enemies and environments. There is never going to be that genre gap again which means any comeback has an uphill battle in getting noticed by the greater gaming public. 
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If you stop laughing for a little while Star Citizen is actually pretty depressing.
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Oct 19, 2017 04:36
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Don't stop laughing.
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Oct 19, 2017 04:41
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Lt_Tofu posted:Two people just walked out. Read the TOS, no refunds.
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Oct 19, 2017 04:43
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Lt_Tofu posted:Two people just walked out. They didn't want to be content locusts.
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Oct 19, 2017 04:47
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CitizenCon is next week?
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Oct 19, 2017 05:11
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Polish Avenger posted:Boy howdy did they give all that crap they were pitching in SWG a good shot. The fact that there was a mayor skill tree with player cities is, in itself, impressive to me still. there's a good series of design post mortems for SWG if you are interested in that kind of thing https://www.raphkoster.com/2015/04/15/star-wars-galaxies-tefs/
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Oct 19, 2017 05:23
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Lt_Tofu posted:Two people just walked out. Well, it's obviously not as good as Tickling Mae 1 or More tickling Mae.
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Oct 19, 2017 05:24
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tooterfish posted:Superfluous use of a technical term. Well yeah. He is Toast. But he is just a paralegal.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:02
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Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. But if you want to see Sandi's breakout performance, your going to have to wait for American Satan 2.0 because her role got refactored.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:05
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. LOL sour expression is totally warranted. Poor Sandi  edit: it would be excruciating to go to the movie I was unknowingly cut from. She must not have known until that showing. Ouch.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:10
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. 
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Oct 19, 2017 06:11
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. And please confirm, just for the sake of fidelity: her role was scrapped entirely and she received literally zero seconds of screen time?
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Oct 19, 2017 06:12
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Not even a T-pose in the background?
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Oct 19, 2017 06:15
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kilus aof posted:Isn't that the crux of the matter? At one point space sims had a massive advantage over many other genres due to the hardware of the time and how space sims were rendered. But by the mid to late 90s hardware allowed all the assorted genres to catch up to space sims and display decent enemies and environments. There is never going to be that genre gap again which means any comeback has an uphill battle in getting noticed by the greater gaming public. Another issue with space games (they are not sims outside maybe stuff like kerbal) is that, in the end, if you're going to have dogfights, planes are just superior. You intuitively know how the planes handle, that there is an up-and-down (and that being above is usually better), get a better feeling of speed, scale, and inertia, and so on.
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. drat after all those hours spent on the set, while being paid a full salary in a VP role Tough.. tough break kid!
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Oct 19, 2017 06:17
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. So Vic doesn't have a mom? Poor Vic. Please remember to call your mom (and dad) from time to time. (what happened to that dude?).
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Oct 19, 2017 06:17
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oh well. at least she can fall back to her part time career of fleecing spaceship lovers for their cash dollars
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Dusty Lens posted:If you stop laughing for a little while Star Citizen is actually pretty depressing. - There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worthwhile disputing. He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker. That odd sort of wayward mood I am am speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke. - Moons
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Oct 19, 2017 06:22
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. 
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Oct 19, 2017 06:24
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Solarin posted:there's a good series of design post mortems for SWG if you are interested in that kind of thing quote:Databases were clearly going to be a huge issue, thanks to the crafting system, which had turned out awesome but also considerably more detailed than specced. A large pile of unique stats needed to be tracked on everything. Space was at a premium; character records were enormous. This caused problems when players moved between physical servers or across server processes, because of the time required to copy the data and the race conditions that could emerge. What a fun problem CIG will have when they keep increasing complexity of ships and cargo and add nested instances.
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Breetai posted:And please confirm, just for the sake of fidelity: her role was scrapped entirely and she received literally zero seconds of screen time? Much like the temperature of space, her screen time was absolutely zero. Best part is they kept referencing Vic's mom as a bible thumping Christian. I guess they saw the tickle tape.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:36
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. I'm just so tickled by this.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:36
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Also I feel that no matter how bad the movie you can always find one good thing. For American Satan it was Samwell Tarly getting coked out with two prostitutes, who might have been demons, it wasn't clear.
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BloodyScab posted:Check out reddit. They're creaming themselves.  you weren't kidding. They're already imagining exciting new game mechanics 
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Sectopod posted:Posting from the future, post-ELE, when books are being written about this hot mess. Very nice!
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Lt_Tofu posted:Ahahahaha, that was so stupid and boring. "holy poo poo or should I say unholy poo poo"...an actual line from the movie. darthvadersayingnooo.jpg
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peter gabriel posted:True but dumb and dumber 2 came out in 2014 and that's when we got Lando and Ben on camera 
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Lt_Tofu posted:Much like the temperature of space, her screen time was absolutely zero. Best part is they kept referencing Vic's mom as a bible thumping Christian. I guess they saw the tickle tape. They kept in the actual hardcore porn star though, I assume. 
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Like, Imagine your acting not being good enough for the editor of American Satan
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Oct 19, 2017 06:59
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ComfyPants posted:They kept in the actual hardcore porn star though, I assume. Tori Black does know how to act tho. At least better than Denise Richards. Goddamn, Malcolm McDowell looks 90. He ain't that old.
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kilus aof posted:Isn't that the crux of the matter? At one point space sims had a massive advantage over many other genres due to the hardware of the time and how space sims were rendered. But by the mid to late 90s hardware allowed all the assorted genres to catch up to space sims and display decent enemies and environments. There is never going to be that genre gap again which means any comeback has an uphill battle in getting noticed by the greater gaming public. VR games can take advantage of the easier rendering in space environments because VR is so taxing on the system. Many of the best looking VR games take place in space, and a big reason Elite: Dangerous is successful is because it's loved by VR gamers. One of the reasons E:D looks so good in VR is because you can pump the supersampling up to values that would bog down your computer in any of the other simulation-style games with realistic graphics, but in E:D you can still run at 90fps in space. I guess it's another parallel to the original Elite, which also took advantage of easy rendering in space to have better graphics than other games at the time could handle.
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They cut everything from Star Citizen and Sandi got cut from American Satan. I'm glad of it. 
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It's almost impressive to not make the final cut of a movie almost no one is going to watch
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Bumbler posted:VR games can take advantage of the easier rendering in space environments because VR is so taxing on the system. Many of the best looking VR games take place in space, and a big reason Elite: Dangerous is successful is because it's loved by VR gamers. One of the reasons E:D looks so good in VR is because you can pump the supersampling up to values that would bog down your computer in any of the other simulation-style games with realistic graphics, but in E:D you can still run at 90fps in space. I guess it's another parallel to the original Elite, which also took advantage of easy rendering in space to have better graphics than other games at the time could handle. One thing absolutely love about VR is that, I don't really worry about quality, as long as the text is readable @ 1.75x on the supersampling. Everything else can be set to low for all I care and somehow my brain magically would fill in all these gaps. This doesn't happen when I play it on my screen tho.
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no_recall posted:One thing absolutely love about VR is that, I don't really worry about quality, as long as the text is readable @ 1.75x on the supersampling. Everything else can be set to low for all I care and somehow my brain magically would fill in all these gaps. This doesn't happen when I play it on my screen tho. Well, in VR you don't have real life around you for comparison, so maybe that helps?
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ComfyPants posted:They kept in the actual hardcore porn star though, I assume. Les Dennis?
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Toops posted:- There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worthwhile disputing. He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for small difficulties and worryings, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker. That odd sort of wayward mood I am am speaking of, comes over a man only in some time of extreme tribulation; it comes in the very midst of his earnestness, so that what just before might have seemed to him a thing most momentous, now seems but a part of the general joke. 
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Dear Backers and Citizens, sadly, we have to announce another delay to the PU release of the much anticipated 3.0 patch and all it's groundbreaking features. Sadly, Sandi fired the only dev who knows how to operate the new delta patcher package manager after he asked here how the movie premiere went. As soon as
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