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Dark Off
Aug 14, 2015




Sunswipe posted:

Just out of idle curiosity, anyone able to figure out how much The Box cost?

its 3d printed and pla is about 20€ 1kg
add touch screen tft + arduino and switches for 10€ ( if parts are ordered from china otherwise it would be 65€)
total would be 30€ or 85€
+ tons of hours wasted by citizens

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Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard
https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/924267028764090368
https://twitter.com/harrygamedev/status/924270952015388673
https://twitter.com/harrygamedev/status/924271297839947776
https://twitter.com/harrygamedev/status/924271369747140610
https://twitter.com/TheRealGremlich/status/925081937756160001
https://twitter.com/Aarkithrax/status/924271936615489537
https://twitter.com/Aarkithrax/status/924272452892372992
https://twitter.com/Aarkithrax/status/924272569791823873

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

I know I've said this before, but what annoys me isn't the insult (make fun of Derek all you want, we certainly do), it's the sheer lack of intelligence and effort they put into their insults, but act as if they're the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Sunswipe posted:

I know I've said this before, but what annoys me isn't the insult (make fun of Derek all you want, we certainly do), it's the sheer lack of intelligence and effort they put into their insults, but act as if they're the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

They are impressively bad at mocking things.

I think it's cause they are so angry all the time. Good mocking requires a chill 'tude.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Sunswipe
Feb 5, 2016

by Fluffdaddy

Dark Off posted:

its 3d printed and pla is about 20€ 1kg
add touch screen tft + arduino and switches for 10€ ( if parts are ordered from china otherwise it would be 65€)
total would be 30€ or 85€
+ tons of hours wasted by citizens
I'm actually impressed that it isn't from some custom prop-making company and cost $20,000.

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao


Buttcoins!

Canine Blues Arooo
Jan 7, 2008

when you think about it...i'm the first girl you ever spent the night with

Grimey Drawer

SCtrumpHaters posted:

You are the one deciding to trash a random SSD drive because its tangentially connected to CIG.

So yea....

It is a pretty dumb drive to buy as a consumer. Unless you working with data sets so large that putting them into RAM becomes financially unrealistic, or pulling through gigabytes of data dozens of seconds at a time on a regular basis, buying a niche drive targeted at people who simulate protein behavior or the weather, is probably a dumb idea.

Which is a really good reason to market your hardware to people who also backed Star Citizen. They tend to er' on the side of 'dumb' and have way too much money.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard


Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:

If frontier spends 2018 working on gameplay things might get interesting in Elite.

Frontier Expo 2017 Recap

Greetings Commanders,

On 7th October at Here East, in London, we hosted the very first Frontier Expo. More than 1,000 community members turned up to celebrate everything Frontier Developments, watch talks from guest speakers, meet the developers, mingle with other community members and watch the special content reveals on the main stage.

Lead Designer Sandro Sammarco, Art Director Chris Gregory, and Game Director Laurence Oldham joined Senior Community Manager Edward Lewis on stage to talk about the year ahead for Elite Dangerous. We’ll be uploading the Elite Dangerous section to the official Elite Dangerous channel in the following week, and you can watch the full show here, but for now, here’s a quick roundup of some of the things we talked about on stage. Make sure to visit our social media channels to see some screenshots of the event and the things we announced.

Everything we talked about on stage at FX2017 will be coming to all Elite Dangerous: Horizons players for free.

Beyond

In 2018 we’re launching a series of updates called Beyond. In Quarter 1 and Quarter 4 we’ll have two larger content drops, and in between that there will be smaller updates that will also add new content, ships, and quality of life improvements.

Beyond will focus on three things: narrative progression, enhancements and development of the core experience and adding new features and content to the game.

Quarter 1 update

Here are just a few things we talked about coming as part of the Quarter 1 update in the Beyond series.
Engineering - We’re going to make sure that every upgrade you craft with engineers will be an improvement on what you currently have

Crime and Punishment - We’re going to add teeth to system authority ships response to better support meaningful consequence for criminal activities

Trade - We’re going to improve trade data information to let you make more informed decisions when trying to buy low and sell high

Wings - We’re going to add challenging wing missions you will be able to take on with your friends.

Planetary tech improvements – We are revisiting the shaders and the graphs that generate our planets. We’ll be adding detail, contrast and colour for a richer more detailed, more realistic look. You’ll start to see that variety throughout the Elite Galaxy from our Q1 update.

Continuing Narrative - From update 1 in the Beyond series you’ll see all of the current story threads continue to develop. The story will continue to influence the content and gameplay of Elite Dangerous. As the community explore the locations progressing the global narrative this will also unlock items for individual Commanders.

GalNet Audio – A new way to enjoy the narrative threads of Elite Dangerous. GalNet audio will read the news to you as you explore the galaxy in your ship.


Content updates

more information coming but this will include things such as new ships, missions, scenarios and other new content.

New Ships

New ships will be released throughout the Beyond series of updates, and we showed off two of them at FX2017. We’re bringing back a much-loved classic from the original Elite with the Krait, and giving the Alliance some love with the combat-leaning Chieftain.


Quarter 4 update

Here are just a few things we talked about coming as part of the Quarter 4 update in the Beyond series.

Squadrons - Players like working together, w so we’re going to add a new organisation structure for player groups, called Squadrons. You’ll be able to create your own squadron with tools to manage its hierarchy and membership. Squadrons will feature enhanced communication options, making it easier to coordinate your efforts, whether you’re doing completing community goals, supporting your power or manipulating the background simulation. And as a little treat, squadrons will be able to purchase a fleet carrier, giving members a mobile base of operations where they can restock, refuel and respawn.

Mining - A big focus of these updates is core gameplay, so we want to take another look at mining. We want to make the processes of mining more involving and satisfying. It needs to be more than just lasering an asteroid. We want to expand the ways in which you detect and extract resources, give you a tool set, variety and choice in how you mine. Importantly, we want invoke the feeling of Wild West prospecting: jeopardy from crises and challenges out in the void, and the potential for striking it big finding the mother lode in special asteroids. Our goal is to make mining a fully-fledged career, something that you can progress and work on.

Planetary Tech Improvements – Leading up to the Q4 update we’ll be making Improvements to our lighting model, our scatter rock system, improving ambient effects, planetary phenomena, volumetric effects and vapour. These techniques will combine to create richer environments to explore in our Q4 update. These are important steps in our ongoing planetary development.

Exploration - we’re going to significantly improve and build on exploration. The exploring flow will be more involved, more efficient and more satisfying. These new mechanics will also improve the experience for anyone searching for something, be that a mission or a particular resource. To support exploration we’re adding the Codex, an archive that logs your exploration achievements and acts as a repository for game lore. There will also be new phenomena, anomalies and other exciting things to discover.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/383217-Frontier-Expo-2017-Recap

Rad Russian
Aug 15, 2007

Soviet Power Supreme!

SCtrumpHaters posted:

You are the one deciding to trash a random SSD drive because its tangentially connected to CIG.

This whole subforum is dedicated to trashing bad products, including in this very thread. And the yearly consensus in the tech community from people who review these things professionally is that the Optane SSD is absolute garbage for home PC gaming at that price. So I guess trashing yet another bad product should be totally fine here.

AlbieQuirky
Oct 9, 2012

Just me and my 🌊dragon🐉 hanging out

big nipples big life posted:

They are impressively bad at mocking things.

I think it's cause they are so angry all the time. Good mocking requires a chill 'tude.

You would think they could remember and repurpose at least some of the mockery that had been hurled their way since childhood!

Viscous Soda
Apr 24, 2004


What do you want to bet that keypad is a Iphone X hot glued to the crate?

peter gabriel
Nov 8, 2011

Hello Commandos

Golli
Jan 5, 2013



Is there a class in shill school on how to randomly Capitalize words And phrases to Express Maxximum incomprehensible outrage? To communicate "I'm literally shaking" through Text?

Because it takes way more concentration than I thought to type that way.

Practice makes perfect, I guess - or maybe this line of work isn't for me...!W

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/RobertsSpaceInd/status/925805676261240833

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

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao

Dusty Lens' avee would be perfect here

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Golli posted:

Is there a class in shill school on how to randomly Capitalize words And phrases to Express Maxximum incomprehensible outrage? To communicate "I'm literally shaking" through Text?

Because it takes way more concentration than I thought to type that way.

Practice makes perfect, I guess - or maybe this line of work isn't for me...!W

random bolding and underlining works too

Virtual Captain
Feb 20, 2017

Archive Priest of the Stimperial Order

Star Citizen Good, in all things forevermore. Amen.
:pray:
Someone ask the relay friendos how 3.0 is looking for 2017.


Bowtie Guy: 'I do not think 3.0 will be coming in 2016 [...] My revised estimates are 3.0 in March or April; Squadron 42 in September, we'll see [...] I don't trust CIG anymore.'

:laugh:

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Brazilianpeanutwar
Aug 27, 2015

Spent my walletfull, on a jpeg, desolate, will croberts make a whale of me yet?

SCtrumpHaters posted:

You are the one deciding to trash a random SSD drive because its tangentially connected to CIG.

So yea....

uhh no i'm not? I'm taking the piss out of you specifically.

VictorianQueerLit
Aug 25, 2017

big nipples big life posted:

citizens will buy anything that has the sc logo on it, it's really quite amazing.

I'm curious how desperate things were financially and how much Intel paid CIG.

I can't see any other reason why they would want to prevent whales from spending the $750 or whatever directly on Star Citizen in the form of Concept_0010203a.jpg or something.

How much did they make in the short term to compensate for losing out on the whale funds that are being paid to someone else who is using Star Citizen branding?

Omniblivion
Oct 17, 2012

VictorianQueerLit posted:

I'm curious how desperate things were financially and how much Intel paid CIG.

plot twist: Intel paid CIG in .jpegs of server blades

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Holy poo poo!
:golfclap:

SelenicMartian
Sep 14, 2013

Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Omniblivion posted:

plot twist: Intel paid CIG in .jpegs of server blades
Hence Chris's fascination with Blade Runner.

Golli
Jan 5, 2013



tooterfish posted:

They're not out of stock, he just needs to search under thumb drives instead of SSDs.

Intel did give 151 of them away at CitizenCon, so they are effectively swag, just like USB thumb drives.

ZenMaster
Jan 24, 2006

I Saved PC Gaming

Sabreseven posted:

Just reupload the entirety of the presentation and title it with the following :

"A presentation designed for those suffering difficulty in falling asleep quickly".

All of these are valid and excellent selections (referring to all, but just quoting one random idea)

Maw
Feb 18, 2013

Mere minutes after discovering the new technology, it was used to send me a crude ASCII dong.


Abuminable posted:

The mods don't like activity on their sub. Angry Pacifist shows up and makes the first post in a year, so the mods are already getting cross. A discussion ensues, so saltiness results. Banhammer: activate.

Ahahaha I didn’t even notice it wasn’t his own sub. Man that post is just tragic now

Spiderdrake
May 12, 2001



peter gabriel posted:

Star Citizen: What happens when an unopposable thumb meets an irresistible farce
This is very good.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Beet Wagon
Oct 19, 2015





Charlie Hall getting poo poo on by citizens for trying to only moderately shill for CIG is insanely funny, imo

ZenMaster
Jan 24, 2006

I Saved PC Gaming


thats the stuff

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

Mirificus posted:

r/elitedangerousrefunds


Dusty Lens
Jul 1, 2015

All Glory unto the Stimpire. Give up your arms and legs and embrace the beautiful agony of electricity that doubles in pain every second.


Good theme imo.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:


OK, that made me lmao. Well done.

Maw
Feb 18, 2013

Mere minutes after discovering the new technology, it was used to send me a crude ASCII dong.



:eyepop:

Solarin
Nov 15, 2007

big nipples big life posted:

They are impressively bad at mocking things.

I think it's cause they are so angry all the time. Good mocking requires a chill 'tude.

mocking is a joyful activity. Laughing at the video game is fun, for example:

Thoatse
Feb 29, 2016

Lol said the scorpion, lmao
https://i.imgur.com/7MxAp9e.gifv

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Snack Bitch
May 15, 2008

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
Is there a collection of all the Archered stuff in Star Citizen? Would be nice to point to one place whenever I need a laugh.

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