Maxwell Lord posted:

Thing is, there's always been a certain libertarian slant to the "space trader" genre- fundamentally it's looking at the wonders of an endless universe to which you have access, and thinking "man I could make a killing off of trading tungsten futures." Like, it's the easiest way to game-ify space exploration- have resources which you gather and use to trade for fuel, weapons, better ships, etc.- but there are times the genre really leans into "this is your job, get to working." This is enhanced by the hilariously bland Sharper Image aesthetic SC aims for- a bunch of fancy space yachts clearly targeting people with more money than taste.

Plus I get the feeling SC is specifically targeting the kind of independently wealthy types who spend lots of money on model trains, and the overlap between "affluent Boomers" and "Trump voters" is very large indeed.

trucutru posted:

I mean, last week we had the "subhuman invertebrates" guy who was given a temp ban in reddit, and a week or two before him we had that other one with the racist tirade, and before that... nope, I don't smell any alt-right in there. SJWWWWWWWWWWSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Zaphod42 posted:

There is nothing to be gained from a no true scotsman argument about "real libertarians" comeon

this is literally a fallacy

skeletors_condom posted:

But they are not weird, hosed racists; at least not the majority of them.

free hubcaps posted:

lol did I just read someone earnestly post that there’s no overlap between the alt right and gamers

what the hell is this game doing to poor goons minds

MarcusSA posted:

As another SC backer posts about wanting a rape mechanic in game.

skeletors_condom posted:

I am just saying that most star citizen fanboys (i.e. ones on spectrum + r/sc) are not into "the ethno-state" and other super weird poo poo. Most of them are into dumb video gaming BS. They are nostalgic for 90s/early 2000s gaming culture and they've taken this nostalgia to the nth degree. But they are not weird, hosed racists; at least not the majority of them.

free hubcaps posted:

idk if it’s been posted itt but the saddest/most infuriating star citizen thing I’ve seen was a cap of a forums post where the poster was clearly having a problem with impulse control/addiction to buying spaceship jpegs and I think said something about it seriously affecting his finances, it seemed kind of like a cry for help and the first loving reply was a mod or some other shill telling him to drown his sorrows by buying more spaceship jpegs.

SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

The alt right literally came into being as “gamer gate” before that nerds with lovely beliefs but too physically weak to actually be skinheads or whatever didn’t have a coherent identity.

MarcusSA posted:

Hahah that was a good rant. I wanted to post the text since it scrolled pretty fast but now I can't seem to play it.

skeletors_condom posted:

Yeah but cutt88 (I am assuming that's the dude from oneangrygamer) is not representative of the wider SC fanboy population. In general, oneangrygamer is trash; it's not something any normal person ("gamer" or a person who plays video games) would approach seriously. SC fanboys care about "fidelity," crobo's word salad and other BS, not the ethnostate.

Alt-righters don't talk about pipelines and "the BDSSE." They are not into to some nerdy video game BS.

MarcusSA posted:

I mean thats sad but we just had a post a few weeks ago about a SC backer getting his friend to take out a loan from his credit union to buy the 890....

free hubcaps posted:

idk if it’s been posted itt but the saddest/most infuriating star citizen thing I’ve seen was a cap of a forums post where the poster was clearly having a problem with impulse control/addiction to buying spaceship jpegs and I think said something about it seriously affecting his finances, it seemed kind of like a cry for help and the first loving reply was a mod or some other shill telling him to drown his sorrows by buying more spaceship jpegs.

Regrettable posted:

No, his friend wanted to do it and he told him not to and how stupid it was.

Sabreseven posted:

I remember that, the enabler was telling the guy with the addiction problem that he should buy a ship with a hot tub to destress in lol. :facepalm:

During my time as a backer (my 'dumb' time), I had argued with that particular enabler as they didn't understand why having toilets and food related items/needs in a mostly spaceship combat game was dumb as gently caress. Not long after that, I became an goon

TonyMcS posted:

IT APPEARS SQ42 IS POWERING ALONG.

I present the following word salad as the latest info on SQ42. Basically it's a list of things not working. However one phrase has been added to the SC lexicon.

Animation
Animation continued R&D into the motion matching tech mentioned last month, including looking at how seamlessly it can transition from locomotion into a usable enter animation. They also looked into interrupt and resume tech for story scenes, which will allow a player to leave a scene, have the characters pause naturally, and start again seamlessly when they rejoin. The SQ42 Feature Team also started implementing a firing range.

No_talent posted:

They are still working on how to pause a single player moviegame when you enter a moviecinematic sequence. Am I even reading that right? Are they looking into adding a PAUSE feature to the game? I don't think that was included in the kickstarter.

Solarin posted:

You guys are thinking about Humility, the backer who posted that he basically buys ships he can't afford because he feels dead inside and has to hide it from his family. Ideally this is where mirificus posts the screen caps because it was a memorable moment in this poo poo wreck video game

Sabreseven posted:

Mirificus, do your thing dude.

Sabreseven posted:

Holy poo poo, it was Humility, you are correct. I hope he managed to get out of the con and get things back on track in his life.

Sabreseven posted:

Holy poo poo, it was Humility, you are correct. I hope he managed to get out of the con and get things back on track in his life.

Mirificus, do your thing dude.

Klyith posted:

(Also for some reason the edgiest of edgelords are among the last to leave a dying video game community. I don't know why but I've seen it repeated a couple times.)

boviscopophobic posted:

free hubcaps posted:

idk if it’s been posted itt but the saddest/most infuriating star citizen thing I’ve seen was a cap of a forums post where the poster was clearly having a problem with impulse control/addiction to buying spaceship jpegs and I think said something about it seriously affecting his finances, it seemed kind of like a cry for help and the first loving reply was a mod or some other shill telling him to drown his sorrows by buying more spaceship jpegs.

Solarin posted:

You guys are thinking about Humility, the backer who posted that he basically buys ships he can't afford because he feels dead inside and has to hide it from his family. Ideally this is where mirificus posts the screen caps because it was a memorable moment in this poo poo wreck video game

boviscopophobic posted:

Spiderdrake posted:

Pretty sure this woman was later driven out by sexual harassment, though I might have the story wrong, but it's not like the citizens aren't rather harass friendly

Titanic might remember, where's the Titanic

Klyith posted:

But also any remaining "actual pros" will be in the UK office where they're mostly insulated from Crobbler, or in Frankfurt where they're even further away. Crobbler's personal domain in Santa monica is where you'd have to deal with the man himself. I get the impression that office is staffed entirely by "game designers", 3d spaceship modeling artists, and the guys who make videos every day talking about how amazing everything is going.

skeletors_condom posted:

I see where you are coming from, but IMO real "libertarians" don't deal with video games in general, or space sims specifically. They bribe governments to enable criminality, fund propaganda and so on.

Pick one of ~500 US billionaires; they are real libertarians. Fanboys of star citizen/crobo are at best wannabes.

Edit: taxxe:

Tippis posted:

The fidelity was so great that it failed to be much of a simulator at all, essentially just replicating the same kind of arcade gameplay that was the core of Wing Commander (unsurprisingly since SC was just WC-with-fighter-jets). Again, Falcon 3.0 was the actual F-16 simulator of its time and featured a level of simulation that required a maths co-processor to run its high-fidelity flight model mode.

And of course, there's the whole nonsense about how Chris was shaping the industry that he waffled about in the manual, when all his boasting really did was reveal how deeply ignorant he was of computer hardware, software, and games in general at the time. My rant can still be read in the old thread. Particularly fine gems include his misunderstanding how ratios work; his difficulty in predicting whether computers would become more powerful (1993 was the year of the Pentium); and as mentioned, his missing the ball by 2 years in his failed attempts to create a simulator. Oh, and of course his thinking that being inept and ignorant makes him pretty much the same as Francis Ford Coppola.

XK posted:

Ms. Management