The Titanic posted:

I think the best thing to come out of Star Citizen is the opportunity to watch a man succeed who literally is a compulsive liar.

You want to believe him. You honestly think you can believe him because he seems to believe what he’s saying.

article posted:

This was a real-life version of Mel Brooks’s The Producers, where the mistaken outcome trusted by everyone in Trump’s inner circle — that they would lose the election — wound up exposing them for who they really were.

article posted:

Without a strong chief of staff at the White House, there was no real up-and-down structure in the administration—merely a figure at the top and everyone else scrambling for his attention. It wasn’t task-based so much as response-oriented — whatever captured the boss’s attention focused everybody’s attention.

Hav posted:

No.

The suit has to be acknowledged and counsel submitted for the defense. Then they start horse trading. If you believe a murderbear in a wimple, there will be at least some procedural, but I get the impression that Crytek is going after the marbles, reputation and somehow it's started to feel _personal_.

hot balls man no homo posted:

Respond to the summons MoMA

Combat Theory posted:

Given his absoluteley crusty writing about SQ42 and THE PU instead of SQ42 AND SC, it reads to me like he's just going full damage control mouthpiece on behalf of cig. Sorry beet I'm not buying this guy for one second. He either is deep into the cult approach or he's shilling for cig from my point of view

reddit posted:

First of all i'm not an hardcore player of arena commander but i have been playing all differents iterations of it since the beginning.
I'm really into Star Citizen, the scale, the possibilities, the dream of Chris Roberts is mine too. I really don't care about performance issues etc because i know theses will be solved.
What really scare me about Star Citizen (and SQ42) is the flight model/combat feel. I know "everything is subject to changes", bla bla bla. But if any of you is a bit realist Arena Commander was supposed to be the test bed of theses mechanics.
To my vision we never had a great feel of flight and combat in SC. And it really start to bother me because i don't think item 2.0 will really answer to all the problems. Sure it will bring power management, in depth customisation of your ship etc. Buit it will always feel like pointing at a tiny pixel (mouse or koystick its the same) CIG devoted a lot of tehc and human ressources to bring us wonderfull ship, but we never really see them.
I played Elite for a month or two and did quit it because i couldnt really get into it. But if there is something that work its the flight mechanic in general. When you accelerate or slow down you really feel like your ship has a mass and its like you can feel it back in your joystcik, you have to learn your ship, play with its pro and cons. After one or two week on elite i could really understand that a skilled commander with hundreds of hours experience would kill me easily, not because his ship was more powerfull but ecause he was good.
I know some of you will tell me that we should give CIG some time. But really when you think abotu the number of changes they made to it, Nobody can argue that they still didnt get it right. I'm not asking for something perfect, i know its a very early alpha.

TheAgent posted:

can't wait to see this months concept sale lol

alf_pogs posted:

this is great advice. we got Wally, a twoi-and-a-half year old Orange Boy from a nearby RSPCA shelter. he is an absolute treasure and so lovely and now we can't imagine not having him around. every orange cat i've met has been like that too, just real friendly and sociable.

he was already fixed, and the place we got him from lets us come back and get him checked for free for a few months afterwards, just in case we're worried about him or he's got health issues. the RSPCA shelters also give you a short grace period, if the catte is really not settling in or having massive issues with other pets / people.

D_Smart posted:

Nope. It's not as hard as you think. I just addressed this very thing in my Twitter thread.

They have:

- sold SQ42 as a separate product
- used SQ42 as collateral for a loan
- used SQ42 as the reason for tax credits (which are also part of the loan)

Aside from all the marketing, media, separate website etc.

Like I said: dead to rights

Unless Ortwin can poo poo a GLA that says they can develop more than ONE title, they're hosed. Completely. It's game over.

And given the bad blood between Chris and CryTek, they're going to completely destroy him for he did to not only them, but also their company (poaching their key engineers etc).

Make no mistake, this lawsuit is more personal than it is business.

Raskolnikov posted:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

Othin posted:

Mods, plz ban this citizen for telling us about his catte and not posting a picture.

D_Smart posted:

It's a technicality.

It is 6 yrs old, but only 5 yrs old in dev. We can't even attribute 2011 to pre-production, as that would imply that the work carried over into what they started in 2012.

So basically, 2011 was the marketing preamble to raise money to build the game.

Except, as with similar crowd-funded games, they used proof-of-concept assets masquerading as dev in progress.

alf_pogs posted:

how dare you sir, wally has paid more tax than many. here are two of him snoozin up a storm

Virtual Captain posted:

quote:

Let me preface this by saying I obtained this information by speaking with developers with firsthand knowledge of these projects who worked with or under the teams involved at the time. There isn’t much external documentation to corroborate, since most of this stuff is financial and kept quiet by the publishers.

Fail: Privateer (and Wing Commander) under EA

The Privateer and Wing Commander series are held in high regard among many gamers, especially those who are wishing and hoping for Star Citizen to be a success. The later games like Wing Commander 3 and 4, as well as Privateer and its sequel were all well-received by both players and critics. They reviewed well and sold well. However, EA still parted ways with series producer Chris Roberts (more recently of Star Citizen fame) for a good reason - Wing Commander 3 + 4 and Privateer 2 didn’t actually make much money. The biggest problem was that the games consistently ran over budget and over schedule. Roberts pushed super hard into getting Hollywood actors into them, featuring talent like Clive Owen, Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Walken, and John Hurt, and was chronically unable to maintain a development schedule or project scope. As a result, Roberts left in 1996 to found Digital Anvil studios with Microsoft backing (and getting acquired in 1997), and then used Microsoft’s money to produce the Wing Commander theatrical movie released in 1999.

TheAgent posted:

I can't fuckin wait for the other warlords tweetstorm

kw0134 posted:

Only if the talks don't finish within two weeks.

kw0134 posted:

Then CIG files a response, which can be a blanket "defendant denies all counts of the complaint,"

ManofManyAliases posted:

Sorry, busy atm.

Redundant posted:

Busy responding to summons? Playing the mighty 3.0? Eating at risk animals? This is important. For the space court.

Sindai posted:

shocking

Redundant posted:

Busy responding to summons? Playing the mighty 3.0? Eating at risk animals? This is important. For the space court.

Beet Wagon posted:

This is kind of a result of his digging around the refunds page, I think. When I first started communicating with Charlie he was very protective of Star Citizen - "rabid" is perhaps too strong a word, but only just. Our first emails back and forth were somewhat... combative. His first foray into /refunds was the big $45k fake, remember. Since then he's had to acknowledge that there are indeed some big backers who are pulling out (or trying to) and that everything may not be sunshine and roses in the land of BDSSEs, and I actually think he's done a pretty decent job of reporting that. I know a lot of people want to poo poo on him, and he's clearly still interested and a supporter of the project, but I think what you're seeing is the actions of a man who has just learned something is a little more complicated than he originally thought.

Daztek posted:

Busy trying to sell his space ships on the grey market but nobody's buying

Hav posted:

Shelters are the best places, Oranges are the best dudes. Just get them fixed and they'll be fine.

Breeds can be finicky, so siamese can be really high maintenance because they get bored easily, but my best cats have come from farms and woodpiles. They're just 'cat'.

Hav posted:

He likes actors so much he wanted to be in one.

Scruffpuff posted:

He failed.

TheAgent posted:

I can't fuckin wait for the other warlords tweetstorm

Toops posted:

Lawsuits a big loving nothingburger. Calling it.

Daztek posted:

Busy trying to sell his space ships on the grey market but nobody's buying

TheAgent posted:

dear god let chris roberts pro se this whole fuckin thing

please papa roberts, you've given me everything else I've wanted

just do this one. last. thing