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ilmucche posted:People can spend their money however they drat well please. We can judge them for it though. This is an extremely difficult question because the game has been sold as everything. Chris Roberts used to do a "10 for the Chairman" video series where people asked him if (_________) would be in the game and he said "Yes" 100% of the time. Listing all of the things that the game is supposed to be would make this post 20,000 words. Take No Man's Sky, add in Spore and multiply by Fable. People are expecting to live in this game.
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if we're posting about Clifford in this thread, don't forget to post his ridiculous tornado pc case which he uses to stream to <10 viewers on Mixer https://twitter.com/CliffordakaMiku/status/982431376879378432
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May 29, 2018 22:09
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Would that even cool properly? It looks loving open on all sides that aren't a fan.
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May 29, 2018 22:15
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It’s just a box of fans.
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May 29, 2018 22:37
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has this game collapsed/RSU gone bankrupt yet?
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ilmucche posted:People can spend their money however they drat well please. We can judge them for it though. i assume everyone that put big money into Star Citizen is a failed EVE online player. they want to get in on the ground floor so they can dominate the game for the next 10 years or something. you can easily sink $10,000 into EVE if you wanted to, buying max level characters and huge capital ships and rare modules. but most of the people who do that are idiots and get their poo poo stolen/blown up quickly, because EVE isn't a game about having the best ship. its about having the most friends, which you can't just buy.
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May 29, 2018 22:54
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Teikanmi posted:has this game collapsed/RSU gone bankrupt yet? Give it more time. The slow death is unforeseen and unforgiving. It can happen at any moment.
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May 29, 2018 22:59
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Inkel posted:if we're posting about Clifford in this thread, don't forget to post his ridiculous tornado pc case which he uses to stream to <10 viewers on Mixer Thought I was looking at the bitcoin thread for a second. Was it possible at one point to buy spaceship jpegs with bitcoin?
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21st Cherry boy posted:Thought I was looking at the bitcoin thread for a second. Was it possible at one point to buy spaceship jpegs with bitcoin? Not from the company directly, but in the grey market on reddit some large sellers offered discounts in the past if people paid for autism chariots in cryptocurrency.
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May 29, 2018 23:44
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that's like 60 watts of case fans what the gently caress is he trying to accomplish there like all i can guess is that he imagined when it was turned on he'd be able to sit on it and ride it around like the mail order propeller beanie in that old Calvin and Hobbes series
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May 30, 2018 00:00
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I'm not an alcholic, I know people who drink 3 bottles of wine a day where I just drink one
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Actual arguments by backers every year they kept changing the dates on Squadron 42 promos(until they just erased the year all together): "Well you see, it doesn't explicitly say that the year is supposed to signify a release date. It could mean anything!"
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May 30, 2018 00:38
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Lol wouldnt that case be for radiators? Like a rig like that i bet you could even do passive radiators that dont need fans and have a dead silent setup.
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May 30, 2018 00:53
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That guy is very extremely sad
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May 30, 2018 01:08
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May 30, 2018 01:31
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food court bailiff posted:"i don't need to defend my spending" - a person who has spent multiple posts trying and failing to do exactly that
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May 30, 2018 02:03
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I'm sure I spent at least $3000 last year on weed, cigarettes, and other drugs combined. Probably closer to $5000 honestly, since I'm buying for two. But at least I fully admit my wife and I are addicts and that money was more or less wasted. And at least I didn't spend that money on the promise of getting really super high at some point in the indeterminate future lmao
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May 30, 2018 02:29
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precision posted:I'm sure I spent at least $3000 last year on weed, cigarettes, and other drugs combined. Probably closer to $5000 honestly, since I'm buying for two. if you quit smoking cigarettes you would have more money for weed
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May 30, 2018 02:33
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ilmucche posted:People can spend their money however they drat well please. We can judge them for it though. Watch Black Mirror Season 4 Episode 1, that's what Star Citizens want
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May 30, 2018 02:36
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Lol, this f2p whale tangent owns. It's funny because we can laugh at the suckers paying money for a free game, and then we can remember that there are suckers involved in Star Citizen who are paying for no game. Lol
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May 30, 2018 02:37
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Rutibex posted:if you quit smoking cigarettes you would have more money for weed I have mostly quit, and I've quit in the past (it's real easy for me to quit). My wife can't quit easily tho
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May 30, 2018 02:40
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The argument of "oh they are just paying for something they like" doesn't hold water when f2p games are just mindless Skinner boxes designed to get people addicted yet unsatisfied. I'm sure people who sit like zombies in front of slot machines also think they are paying for something they like, but they are being taken advantage of. Similarly, you may know lots of slot machine makers and think they are artists who deserve payment for their art, and it's fine anyway because only rich yacht owners blow their life savings at the slots, it never happens to poor suckers who the things are designed to prey on, but that's bullshit. F2p games are poo poo.
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CountryMatters posted:The argument of "oh they are just paying for something they like" doesn't hold water when f2p games are just mindless Skinner boxes In the cases of f2p games where you have to "pull" stuff from "banners" (loot boxes), they're not even paying for "fun", they're paying for a small possibility of "fun". Like at least with drugs or video games (that have actually been released), you're directly paying for fun. You expect fun. When I buy weed, I don't pack each bowl thinking "I hope I hit the 1% possibility of pulling an Epic Level Buzz". It's slightly more defensible if they're paying for energy to keep playing the game, but only in a very technical sense, because broadly speaking it's not really defensible for the companies to structure their games in a way that's been proven to be as seductive and dangerous as Vegas gambling.
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Well. I'm at a loss for words. Should put him somewhere at $82,000. Not including all of the gifts he sends to the offices. I guess he could have also turned $27,000 of his $54,000 into store credit to buy $27,000 worth of different spaceships which is equally as stupid. You could just refund $27,000 and still have $27,000 worth of internet spaceships my man. VictorianQueerLit fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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Clocks posted:She, and from the last page, but the numbers I gave weren't per month, they were over however long I played the game for (usually around 6mo or more). I agree if I was dropping like $3k per month on a game that would definitely throw me farther into the whale stratosphere but a few hundred or so isn't much worse than other disposable income stories I've heard. Who have you willed your Clash of Clans account to in the event of your passing?
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Like I guess spending on virtual pixels is pathetic but the guys spending $20k a year on their aquariums are cool. Or the guy who bought an $80k sound system from savings (and is now divorced lmao). Oh wait, it's almost as if anyone can go overboard on hobbies and it's the degree and control to which it matters.
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Inkel posted:if we're posting about Clifford in this thread, don't forget to post his ridiculous tornado pc case which he uses to stream to <10 viewers on Mixer I'm trying to figure out what this guy does for a living to afford all this garbage. I am honestly in disbelief that people like this actually exist, his entire Twitter is pure garbage. I mean he seems like he is happy with his life so good for him but holy poo poo his entire online presence is retweeting streamers and showing off things he wasted his money on.
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Rutibex posted:its about having the most friends, which you can't just buy. VictorianQueerLit posted:Not from the company directly
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Bath Tubs posted:I'm trying to figure out what this guy does for a living to afford all this garbage. I am honestly in disbelief that people like this actually exist, his entire Twitter is pure garbage. I mean he seems like he is happy with his life so good for him but holy poo poo his entire online presence is retweeting streamers and showing off things he wasted his money on. I think that's how most people use social media. But yes, this guy is a special kind of combination of rich/broken
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Inkel posted:if we're posting about Clifford in this thread, don't forget to post his ridiculous tornado pc case which he uses to stream to <10 viewers on Mixer If hes not gonna put a case on it couldn't he cool it better by just pointing a box fan at it? Those fans are basically doing nothing without a case on it.
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JB50 posted:If hes not gonna put a case on it couldn't he cool it better by just pointing a box fan at it? Are they all equally facing inward or outward? it seems like either scenario would just create a ball of stagnant hot air right where you would want the cooling and circulating to take place. why not just drop money on one of those oil cooled setups?
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He literally could have ordered a couple of those $100 sealed cooling loops from Corsair and had a more efficient build, but the thing to remember about Clifford is he’s one of those guys for whom brand loyalty is the most important thing. He built that computer to show off how faithful he is to that fan company, not because it was a good or smart thing to do.
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There are only 2 good fans in that computer.
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This is a good example, this pimp mobile and modules is worth about $1400 real life dollars. blown up in high security space. likely one jump after buying it. star citizens want to have this ship, but in a game where they can never lose it: https://zkillboard.com/kill/70357303/
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JB50 posted:If hes not gonna put a case on it couldn't he cool it better by just pointing a box fan at it? It is a case. It’s a case made out of fans.
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Beet Wagon posted:He literally could have ordered a couple of those $100 sealed cooling loops from Corsair and had a more efficient build, but the thing to remember about Clifford is he’s one of those guys for whom brand loyalty is the most important thing. EK also makes some pretty good kits at varying price points that are regular (non sealed) water cooling. They’re probably not particularly good deals but if you’re a noob and are worried about buying fittings that won’t work with your reservoir or something it can make things a bit simpler. He has a video after the one linked with the case sides on. It sounds like an industrial refrigeration unit.
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Beet Wagon posted:He literally could have ordered a couple of those $100 sealed cooling loops from Corsair and had a more efficient build, but the thing to remember about Clifford is he’s one of those guys for whom brand loyalty is the most important thing. It's not even brand loyalty with this guy He simply equates to 'this thing costs way more than option b therefore it is better and everyone online will fawn over me for buying it' All his creepy tweets at the companies after buying their stuff is added fluff , I guess he hopes hey will sponsor his mixer stream or something
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Blue On Blue posted:It's not even brand loyalty with this guy He also has that "buying friends" mentality that drove goons to do poo poo like Doobie's Doghouse or plow hundreds of thousands into Star Citizen. If you read the original threads there are a ton of goons "Bought a $300 ship  " "Oh yeah? Bought a $500 ship " "Well *I* bought the $3000 autism chariot for the organization " "Well *I* bought ten fighters to hand out to newbies " Clifford is just doing it into the void of the internet without encouragement which is worse than when a community feels peer pressure to one up everyone else's autism chariot fleets.
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Star Citizen is a lot like Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville gimmick. They are both just selling the idea of something that are making people happy even though both of those concepts only exist in their own minds.
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Jimmy buffet made a song though. Margaritaville is just his brand, not a fake product.
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