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Solarin posted:I miss B'tak
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Nov 11, 2017 21:55
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Nov 11, 2017 22:15
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everyone is fantasizing about how much rear end they will kick while they reenact Firefly and Star Wars and over here B'tak is full of fear that he will be screwed over again and again of course he's right and will be griefed mercilessly
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Nov 11, 2017 22:22
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B'tak is gonna fall asleep in his sim pit while guarding his virtual space home, then someone will rob his actual house.
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Nov 11, 2017 22:24
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Jesus that description of the forums and subsequent move to spectrum was perfect
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Nov 11, 2017 23:03
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Solarin posted:I miss B'tak What ever happened to him anyway? Edit: Oh, never mind still theory crafting shitposting. Should read a bit farther.
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Nov 11, 2017 23:20
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VictorianQueerLit posted:Another weird thing was that at one of the conventions they gave Sandi a fake award that was like a golden computer or something that was for "putting up with poo poo on the internet." The whole thing with Sandi was very strange, even at the beginning. She was the elusive “nerd female on the internet” stereotype that for some reason in the 2010’s was a big thing for the Star Citizen community. Her marriage was kept secret, and they used her to try to garner more support, which was inevitably successful. She also had the core backers playing “white knight” for her. Even after her marriage was known literally by brute force thanks to, if I recall, Derek digging into it and raising questions about why they were pretending to not be married. This lead to the inevitable announcement that “of course we’re married we never hid that ever” despite doing exactly that. Even in most AtVs Sandi never and likely still doesn’t, wear a wedding ring in order to facilitate to that “available female” persona. So, all along this timeline she has white knights sending her gifts, supporting her, and basically doing everything they can to get noticed by her that it’s a bit silly. From foods, to wines, to silly awards, to silly purchases, it’s all there throughout this facade. Also there is the inevitable one on one time that we know high level backers had, at the time (I’m not sure if they still do this), and it’s unknown what sort of things both Sandi and other community team members have said to backers to make them feel like part of the family, all in the name of having them continue to spend money.
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Solarin posted:everyone is fantasizing about how much rear end they will kick while they reenact Firefly and Star Wars and over here B'tak is full of fear that he will be screwed over again and again Can you imagine hanging out with this guy. He probably counts all of his perfectly organized socks and has to systematically check every window and door 3 times over before he leaves the house. Driving down the street at 5mph constantly checking his house in his rear view window until it's out of sight
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Nov 11, 2017 23:29
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Preen Dog posted:They might even stop working on mocap. If you think this, you don’t understand how Chris Roberts develops games. He’ll run out of programmers and artists before his cold Dead hands give up his grip on directing frivolous motion capture for no reason.
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Reminder they still have this job posting up https://cloudimperiumgames.com/jobs/593-Concierge-Specialist Fine dining experience ..... I can easily see them doing some sort of fools banquet or whatever that movie was called , where they invite the top 1% of backers like Clifford , wine and dine them and then of course make fun of them after Blue On Blue fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Nov 11, 2017 |
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Nov 11, 2017 23:34
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SomethingJones posted:Here's a thing that is so obvious I only just realised it. They’re going to do carriers and bigger fleet ships I bet. This will probably be he final push because these will be super high dollar ships targeted specifically at their active high dollar backers. I feel like all these little things are them still trying to hook people in, but eventually the hooks won’t drag in enough whale meat, so it’ll be fire sale time. Time to buy those big ships that have more crew requirements than they can support players on the server. The only reason they’re not doing that now is because they know they game can’t support it. But hey, you start a marketing campaign by maybe slipping out that “we’re testing 60 players in a game and it’s going great” right before you hit hard into these big fleet ships and you know you might take a few in. They can’t do that now because everybody knows the game can’t support it. But you start a rumor that it can in the next update or two. 
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Nov 11, 2017 23:39
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:She got the award before the convention. The con was where they did the whole "I stand with Sandi" thing. I believe the award was because of the CS emails, because apparently making incredibly unprofessional statements to a customer deserves a plaque. Also at around this time she quit Twitter because of online harassment. Nobody knew what she was talking about, and about two or three days later she retweeted some random new account harassing her after her announcement. It was most definitely not staged, I’m sure.  Also this coincides with about the time she basically quit CIG to go play full time actress, and still collect a CIG paycheck, but I’m sure there is no connection between this.
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Nov 11, 2017 23:44
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Aesop Poprock posted:Can you imagine hanging out with this guy. He probably counts all of his perfectly organized socks and has to systematically check every window and door 3 times over before he leaves the house. Driving down the street at 5mph constantly checking his house in his rear view window until it's out of sight I hope he works as a health/safety inspector because that's the guy you want doing that work
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Nov 11, 2017 23:48
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Remember that time you talked to customer service and then the replies got weird and it turns out that Sandi was reading them and decided to take you on 1v1 like a good ole deathmatch in Doom? Also never forget that at the conclusion when Beer wipes the floor with her, and it was very likely that they had evidence on their system of Sandi being hugely inappropriate and stupid, they wiped their entire email database about a week later. They claimed this to be standard year end clean up, but naturally they had never done it before and had never done it since, this moment. This is all leading up to Sandi going offline, and no longer communicating with anybody online anymore. From faux twitter harassment campaigns to scare her away and pull at the heartstrings of stupid backers, to never showing up for more than YouTube videos. Her SC presence since this point has basically been nullified to keeping up the appearance that she still does stuff. The reality, I believe, though is that she got upset she couldn’t win a sparring match with Beer, ended up looking stupid, decided she didn’t even like video games anyway, and had help to construct a way out so she could go so what she wanted to do, which was be an actress. I seriously think that Beer helped put the final nail in her tolerance for the dumb video game that made her a filthy and ungrateful millionaire.
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Nov 11, 2017 23:54
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Latin Pheonix posted:Holy mother of god. I thought it was just a minor email in passing to a third party, nothing nearly as direct as that I’m pretty sure she used to, but I’m also pretty sure she has all but cashed out of the game at this point except for public events and anytime a video production is being made. She is only collecting a pay check, not actually doing the work anymore.
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The Titanic posted:They’re going to do carriers and bigger fleet ships I bet. This will probably be he final push because these will be super high dollar ships targeted specifically at their active high dollar backers. I hesitate to speculate on what the next concept cash grabs will be because I never expected the most recent one. Who would have thought they would have added years of technical debt by selling a $900 ship that claims skyrim maps on planets. I could speculate on another capital ship or how I think they'll create a new alien ship or something but they will probably come up with a $1000 space riverboat casino with intricately designed custom space gambling games they are going to create from scratch.
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The Titanic posted:They’re going to do carriers and bigger fleet ships I bet. This will probably be he final push because these will be super high dollar ships targeted specifically at their active high dollar backers. The day some pocket carrier goes on sale is when we'll know that panic has set it at CIG.
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D_Smart posted:This poo poo is what they're using for the recent hype, which so conveniently is starting two weeks before another period funding drive. This is the thing that always kills me with what CIG does art wise. I never really know what I’m looking at because everything looks like a mess So tell me, what exactly am I supposed to be seeing in this picture that is worthy of being hype? I’m afraid I’m looking right past it and it feels like I’m looking at a Michael Bay transformer that is just so much stuff it’s hard to focus on something.
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Nov 12, 2017 00:02
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The Titanic posted:The only reason they’re not doing that now is because they know they game can’t support it. But hey, you start a marketing campaign by maybe slipping out that “we’re testing 60 players in a game and it’s going great” right before you hit hard into these big fleet ships and you know you might take a few in. They can’t do that now because everybody knows the game can’t support it. But you start a rumor that it can in the next update or two. Well I think you just nailed it. No doubt about it, they just have floated an expectation of 60 players a few weeks ahead of another new jpeg.
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Virtual Captain posted:uo'aXy'an Lesson Three? Wait this is actually a series? Don't they have ship reworks to waste time on? This is another perfect example to showcase the fact they don’t have the talent to actually show game progress, so they fake it with non-programming stuff to give off the guise of progress.
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The Titanic posted:This is the thing that always kills me with what CIG does art wise. I never really know what I’m looking at because everything looks like a mess One of the golden ages for the thread was when everyone was ripping into all the art work that was archered Like the guy kneeling on a scaffolding table cleaning his m16 for some reason and the scale and perspective was way off And I think there was a transmission from a 21st century car for some reason
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Nov 12, 2017 00:08
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Bribase, his arms wide, posting on the refund sub that Behaviour were responsible for the planetary work but severed their contract with CIG before the work was complete - leading to CIG having to do it in-house therefore holding up 3.0. This is something I've never heard of before, did the thread cover it? According to Bribase, his arms wide, his aliases many, Behaviour's contract term with CIG was coming up for renewal, and they decided not to renew because they had an opportunity to work on their own game. Any truth to this?
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SomethingJones posted:Well I think you just nailed it. No doubt about it, they just have floated an expectation of 60 players a few weeks ahead of another new jpeg. We’ll know for sure if the next big ship they try to sell is one of the big fleet ships. It could be something new, or it could be just an old one they feel they can squeeze more blood out of like the Idiris or whatever. Although I don’t know why, but I’m having these feelings that very soon we’re going to see a carrier starting to pop up now and then. This will coincide with continued rumors of these 60+ player tests going super great.
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Nov 12, 2017 00:12
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The Titanic posted:This will coincide with continued rumors of these 60+ player tests going super great. And the recently announced Elite Dangerous megaships, which are essentially carriers, can be owned by player orgs etc.
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Nov 12, 2017 00:14
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Nothing is stopping them from creating more new ship jpegs seeing as they still have half the fleet already sold to put in game It's technical debt all the way down and it won't stop until the La office doors are finally padlocked by the repo company
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It is only technical debt if you have any intention of ever making or maintaining the product.
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Beet Wagon posted:It's amazing how regularly backers invoke the "happy backers are fiscally responsible and should be allowed to spend $10,000 on spaceships/angry backers are only angry because they went into debt from spending $10,000 on spaceships" section of the Citizen's Defense Handbook (Galarox, start photoshopping, buddy) without realizing they look like loving morons. Have they launched the “it’s jealousy” campaign yet? Because nothing is better than justifying yourself and your idiot purchases more than blanket stroking it with “they’re jealous of my money and stuff”.
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SomethingJones posted:California Dreamin' All the dreams are gone And the sky is grey I went for a walk Through my hangar bay I probably shouldn't tell her Just how much I paid Crowdfunded Dreamin' On such a winter's day
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SomethingJones posted:And the recently announced Elite Dangerous megaships, which are essentially carriers, can be owned by player orgs etc. Uh oh!!! Elite definitely can’t get a leg up unless Star Citizen can do it better! (Better being they say it will be better, show a picture or video of it being better, but it never makes it into the game itself, but it’s totally better when it will be there)
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Gerbil/hamster jiggle physics need to be in more modern games. This really should be a selling point. 
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Your hedgehog is missing its quills.
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The Titanic posted:Gerbil/hamster jiggle physics need to be in more modern games. This really should be a selling point. Elite Dangerous will never have gerbil/hamster jiggle physics but in Star Citizen all they need to do is flip the jiggle switch Chris Roberts thought of everything 
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IncredibleIgloo posted:Your hedgehog is missing its quills. You're confusing him for Surface Detail 
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SomethingJones posted:Bribase, his arms wide, posting on the refund sub that Behaviour were responsible for the planetary work but severed their contract with CIG before the work was complete - leading to CIG having to do it in-house therefore holding up 3.0. CIG has mentioned one of their contractors left to make their own game as an excuse for 3.0 containing 1/4 of the planets they promised. Can't remember if it's behavior or who
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Why does a 160m dollar company with 400 employees need outside contractors at all It's not like they're making physical products that involve multiple production lines with different raw resources. It's just code and pretty pictures ffs
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