Sabreseven posted:

Star Citizen and CR a long (sorry) analogy :

The most luxurious ship in the world, the RMS Titanic is sinking having struck an iceberg on her starboard bow, her bow is now under water up to the bridge and the lower decks are flooding fast, dragging the ill fated vessel to her doom. Captain Smith, a man of reputation and an experienced sailor, runs aft towards the galley, dodging through the crowd of over paying passengers, pausing only for autographs and to "um, er, 3 point oh" away questions of their fate. He finally reaches the galley, catching his breath and giving a cursory glace at the inventory of stores he spies the item he needs to save the ship.

Captain Smith, marches purposefully at an angle to counter the now heavily listing ship, to a fine glass cupboard, the engravings are wonderful. He reaches in and collects a small ornate sherry glass, with his prize secured he now begins to head downwards, into the bowels of the ship where he can work his way forward towards the damage. The lights are flickering as the doomed vessels electric generators and batteries are damaged by the salty brine welling up from the lower decks, he presses on into the gloom, water shin deep to start with but within a few short minutes he finds himself wading knee, then waist, then neck deep in frothy brine.

Finally, he has gone as far as he can, he is directly below the bridge and deep within the ship. Clamping an arm around an overhead freshwater pipe he retrieves the sherry glass from his jacket pocket, dips it into the seawater and then with a grimace and steely determination, turns to make the trip back to the upper promenade. The swim is perilous and long, but finally the water level becomes gradually lower until he see's the picture postcard perfect starry sky above. The over paying passengers see him rise from the service hatch, and gasp.

The Captain has only one final task to complete to save his beloved ship, with one hand over the top of the sherry glass to prevent the liquid from escaping, he strides confidently as far astern as he can, fighting gravity as the angle of the deck becomes ever steeper. He reaches the handrail of the port side promenade, the now silent crowd of passengers watch intently as their savior finishes what he started. In one deft move, Smith lifts his hand from the sherry glass and simultaniously pours the contained saltwater over the side back to whence it came.

The passengers erupt in a cacophony of roaring cheers that shakes and rattles the very deck they are standing on, arms are flung high, smiles abound "He's done it, we're saved!!" they chant almost in unison, eyes bulging, faces reddening, capileries bursting with the screaching effort. Lifting the brave Captain onto their shoulders, they parade him over to the starboard side and place him down, he nods and smiles, then jumps on the jetski which is packed with moneybags he had parked beside the ship and fucks off leaving them all to die while he laughs all the way to the bank. The end.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/iq_derek/status/930553428845170689

trucutru posted:

Please don't compare The Titanic to the flaming poop bag that is SC, The Titanic is a nice poster.

Pantsbird posted:

Didn't see this video posted here.

Player disables a pirate ship and then tries to board it. The door to the cockpit won't open. That's ok; our hero is able to glitch through the door. The pirates seem resigned to their fate, remaining in their seats. One guy really likes his seat.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssSP4IS6ZcA&t=438s

Hav posted:

That's Captain Smith. He was from Stoke on Trent (Etruria), but they initially refused his statue, so it stands just opposite Lichfield cathedral. I have placed a traffic cone on his head, circa 1993. Stoke-on-Trent decided they wanted the statue back when the movie got big, but Lichfield told them to go shove it.

Edit: That's my titanic story.

AP posted:

https://twitter.com/RobertsSpaceInd/status/930570105624330240

The Titanic posted:

Wait a minute here...

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/iq_derek/status/930553428845170689

Mirificus posted:

Sabreseven posted:

Ok, so I'm having this issue where I'm not sure if I should assume Samfreez is a simpleton and laugh at him or just flat out feel really bad for him.

What do?

Mirificus posted:

peter gabriel posted:

If in range, hoof to the balls

alf_pogs posted:

man ever since twitter updated to 280 characters that minus 5 IQ Derek guy has been dedicated to really putting a lot into each tweet

Mirificus posted:

Toops posted:

Joystick chat makes me uncomfortable.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/iq_derek/status/930553428845170689

thatguy posted:

Keep up the good work.

Beet Wagon posted:

CR isn't a failure because he was smart enough to make Microsoft force him off the Freelancer team

How many of these people drive to work every day?

alf_pogs posted:

man ever since twitter updated to 280 characters that minus 5 IQ Derek guy has been dedicated to really putting a lot into each tweet

Mirificus posted:

A Neurotic Corncob posted:

https://i.imgur.com/ML4i6mC.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/qpQX9Xf.mp4

Warhawk109 posted:

SWBF2 is pretty fun. Only been doing Single Player so far. I loved flying the TIE Fighter into the rebel hanger and blowing people/ships up.