thatguy posted:

Can't even get a game of Divinity going.

Dementropy posted:

Dementropy posted:

VictorianQueerLit posted:

As a purveyor of sarcastic and ironic posting this is offensive to me and my people.

VictorianQueerLit posted:

As a purveyor of sarcastic and ironic posting this is offensive to me and my people.

Mirificus posted:

Rad Russian posted:

Goons aren't really a force they used to be anyway at the heigh of Eve. Would have never made much noise in SC even if it was actually a real thing. Just check out the MMO forum for the sadness. Last major PvP game released was Archeage, where after a fun and wild beta, the goon leadership promptly declared fishing pacts with all the pubbie guilds. Then started outright banning goons for killing or griefing pubbies, which was really the whole point of the game. "You killed this random internet person in a PvP game while he was fishing!!! You did not review the terms of these 100 fishing agreements to make sure that this particular person was actually covered! BAN". Then everyone quit.

monkeytek posted:

The frothing insanity of this post honestly scares the crap out of me. Please tell me this is a deep cover operative there to insight additional humor for us to consume, please.

Mirificus posted:

https://twitter.com/dsmart/status/932236867579326464

Rad Russian posted:

Goons aren't really a force they used to be anyway at the heigh of Eve. Would have never made much noise in SC even if it was actually a real thing. Just check out the MMO forum for the sadness. Last major PvP game released was Archeage, where after a fun and wild beta, the goon leadership promptly declared fishing pacts with all the pubbie guilds. Then started outright banning goons for killing or griefing pubbies, which was really the whole point of the game. "You killed this random internet person in a PvP game while he was fishing!!! You did not review the terms of these 100 fishing agreements to make sure that this particular person was actually covered! BAN". Then everyone quit.

Rad Russian posted:

Goons aren't really a force they used to be anyway at the heigh of Eve. Would have never made much noise in SC even if it was actually a real thing. Just check out the MMO forum for the sadness. Last major PvP game released was Archeage, where after a fun and wild beta, the goon leadership promptly declared fishing pacts with all the pubbie guilds. Then started outright banning goons for killing or griefing pubbies, which was really the whole point of the game. "You killed this random internet person in a PvP game while he was fishing!!! You did not review the terms of these 100 fishing agreements to make sure that this particular person was actually covered! BAN". Then everyone quit.

his nibs posted:

Backers only plz o7

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1mEFrZU824VvtAZpqlPKRfrnbgjrKIl1IS4Kx1kDLfso/viewform?edit_requested=true

VictorianQueerLit posted:

Hmm, seems like the obsession with Derek and Line of Defense has an almost superstitious effect on the faithful.

Quavers posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7eh7v3/30_spoilers_5th_evocati_qa_update/

Q: How’s testing this week?
A: 100 player server stress tests, can't do most missions, shopping complete and hassle free except the interface you use to shop doesn't work, we can use beds but there is still no reason to because there is no persistence. Did I mention 100 player server stress tests and make sure not to tell you how that went, and whether or not we got anywhere near 100 players and what performace/stability/framerate was? 100. Remember 100.

Q: Can the Aurora haul cargo?
A: No. Either every ship with ladder access or "grabby hands" or both need to be re-designed to support cargo because we didn't consider the primary cargo use case. Ramps/doors are still a loving mystery so you can't really load cargo in ships that aren't critically mis-designed.

Q: How’s the FPS lately?
A: Horrible.

Q: How are NPCs coming along?
A: A: Either completely disabled or playAnimation(); randomComment(); sleep(random); randomComment();

Q: Are the missions from 2.X gone now?
A: Some missions are missing. Many areas of interest where you get/do missions are missing. Mission givers are disabled. Ipso facto, most of the missions are disabled or missing.

Q: How are the bikes and rover handling now?
A: Absolute dog poo poo.

Q: How’s ship combat? Did they really buff the Gladius?
A: We are not allowed to combat.

Q: What’s improved significantly from the first 3.0 patch to the current one?
A: Floating through empty space.

Q: If you weren’t in Evocati Test Flight what would you be doing to pass the time during the Great Drought?
A: I’d be playing a video game.

Loxbourne posted:

You can model this thread along these lines too, to be honest. Our attitude to Sandi and Chris in particular.

Loxbourne posted:

Their behaviour is governed by a simple rule, but like single-celled lifeforms and early computer programs, the interaction of large numbers of iterations of a simple rule can produce the illusion of complexity.

Essentially, there are two categories in a serious cultist's mind. GOOD and BAD. Star Citizen is GOOD. Derek Smart is BAD. These two categories are ironclad and never the twain shall meet.

CIG haven't yet found a way to rewrite basic language comprehension, so most other concepts at least start with their natural meaning in normal language...until the Simple Rule takes over.

The word "scam" is a BAD thing. But saying "Star Citizen is a scam" makes the cultist lock up; Star Citizen can only be GOOD. Things of the Smart are BAD., therefore anything BAD must be associated with Derek Smart even if CIG are doing it. Otherwise the cultist's brain throws an exception and that hurts.

So Derek must be scamming, because scamming is in the BAD category and Derek is in the BAD category. So the cultist shouts as loudly and as often as possible that Derek is the real scammer because otherwise the cognitive dissonance hurts too much. The most flimsy and ridiculous evidence is marshalled to support this, and other cultists flock to agree because that way they can reassure one another that the rightful order is being upheld. This pattern extends to all possible BAD concepts, like refunds and awkward questions and filthy leavers. It's why the cultists are so obsessed with saying that refunds are actually people scamming CIG. They can understand refunds are BAD and scams are BAD and Derek is BAD, and all these concepts blend together because their critical thinking skills have atrophied so badly they genuinely can't tell the difference anymore. Someone who wants a refund instantly goes into the BAD category and must be a scammer and a goon and a shill and a Derek alt and a spy for Big Publishing and probably a terrorist and a communist too. That's why you get these ridiculous frothing accusations aimed at Derek that read like the citizen has just banged their keyboard and written down every possible bad thing they could come up with. They genuinely have just written down a list of evil-sounding concepts, and in their minds Derek is all of them at once.

This goes the other way as well; it fuels the dreams. Star Citizen is GOOD, and all the ideas of GOOD in the cultist's head get mixed up with it and become the huge dreaming memeplex we're so familiar with. 1000-player dogfights, handheld cargo, massive capital ship battles and total physical realism are GOOD so SC must have them because it too is GOOD and therefore all GOOD things at once.

I honestly think if Derek was struck by a bolt of inspiration and coded an amazing 1000-player capital ship battles patch for Line of Defence , the cultists would actually start claiming it was really in Star Citizen or Derek had somehow stolen CIG's codebase, just to avoid having to think Derek can do a thing that fell into the GOOD category.

Not every Star Citizen has fallen this far, but the really nasty ones have.

You can model this thread along these lines too, to be honest. Our attitude to Sandi and Chris in particular.

Toops posted:

Quavers posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/7eh7v3/30_spoilers_5th_evocati_qa_update/

Loxbourne posted:

Their behaviour is governed by a simple rule, but like single-celled lifeforms and early computer programs, the interaction of large numbers of iterations of a simple rule can produce the illusion of complexity.

Essentially, there are two categories in a serious cultist's mind. GOOD and BAD. Star Citizen is GOOD. Derek Smart is BAD. These two categories are ironclad and never the twain shall meet.

CIG haven't yet found a way to rewrite basic language comprehension, so most other concepts at least start with their natural meaning in normal language...until the Simple Rule takes over.

The word "scam" is a BAD thing. But saying "Star Citizen is a scam" makes the cultist lock up; Star Citizen can only be GOOD. Things of the Smart are BAD., therefore anything BAD must be associated with Derek Smart even if CIG are doing it. Otherwise the cultist's brain throws an exception and that hurts.

So Derek must be scamming, because scamming is in the BAD category and Derek is in the BAD category. So the cultist shouts as loudly and as often as possible that Derek is the real scammer because otherwise the cognitive dissonance hurts too much. The most flimsy and ridiculous evidence is marshalled to support this, and other cultists flock to agree because that way they can reassure one another that the rightful order is being upheld. This pattern extends to all possible BAD concepts, like refunds and awkward questions and filthy leavers. It's why the cultists are so obsessed with saying that refunds are actually people scamming CIG. They can understand refunds are BAD and scams are BAD and Derek is BAD, and all these concepts blend together because their critical thinking skills have atrophied so badly they genuinely can't tell the difference anymore. Someone who wants a refund instantly goes into the BAD category and must be a scammer and a goon and a shill and a Derek alt and a spy for Big Publishing and probably a terrorist and a communist too. That's why you get these ridiculous frothing accusations aimed at Derek that read like the citizen has just banged their keyboard and written down every possible bad thing they could come up with. They genuinely have just written down a list of evil-sounding concepts, and in their minds Derek is all of them at once.

This goes the other way as well; it fuels the dreams. Star Citizen is GOOD, and all the ideas of GOOD in the cultist's head get mixed up with it and become the huge dreaming memeplex we're so familiar with. 1000-player dogfights, handheld cargo, massive capital ship battles and total physical realism are GOOD so SC must have them because it too is GOOD and therefore all GOOD things at once.

I honestly think if Derek was struck by a bolt of inspiration and coded an amazing 1000-player capital ship battles patch for Line of Defence , the cultists would actually start claiming it was really in Star Citizen or Derek had somehow stolen CIG's codebase, just to avoid having to think Derek can do a thing that fell into the GOOD category.

Not every Star Citizen has fallen this far, but the really nasty ones have.

You can model this thread along these lines too, to be honest. Our attitude to Sandi and Chris in particular.

Deki posted:

I dunno why, but I get a heavy feeling of "this was written up by a CIG employee" vibe from this post.

Deki posted:

I dunno why, but I get a heavy feeling of "this was written up by a CIG employee" vibe from this post.

Toops posted:

Drunk Theory posted:

You know, I joked about Derek just yoinking this thread's content as a quasi joke, but it does happen.

I have no strong objection to this practice though, since it causes these idiots to start foaming at the mouth.

Toops posted:

Dementropy posted:

Beet Wagon posted:

The fact that /refunds makes people this mad is a good sign that Star Citizen has a bright future, imo.

Golli posted:

Note the absence of the word "fun"