|
Bofast posted:Turns out the Bene Gesserit were actually just breeding programmers skilled enough to finally make the grand vision of Chris Roberts come true. It took a bit longer than expected, but you can't rush these things. Worm Edit: unintended snipe, have a catte https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DeadlyPessimisticAndeancockoftherock-mobile.mp4 NumptyScrub fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Jun 9, 2021 |
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:09
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 11:21 |
|
|
https://i.imgur.com/e5PT6if.gifv
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:20
|
|
|
Imagined posted:Is there a handy phrase to describe the disinclination to believe something is a scam simply based on the ever-increasing audaciousness and obviousness of the scam? Like, "It can't be a scam, because if it were a scam it would be the biggest scam in the history of the videogames industry, and what are the odds of that?" "It can't be a scam, because if it were a scam they wouldn't be so bad at making it not look like a scam."? I keep thinking of "sunk cost" and "Occam's razor" but those aren't quite it. What do you call the tendency to believe a lie simply because it's such a big and obvious lie that you can't believe someone would actually have the balls to lie about it? Besides "The Republican Party" George Carlin had a great bit about how if somebody lies to you and you find out pretty quick, you're mad at the person who lied. However if someone lies to you and you fall for the lie for years, and then someone tells you its a lie, you get mad at the person who told you the truth instead. text editor posted:isn't that plain old cognitive dissonance? Spatial posted:I've heard it called The Big Lie. It can be a form of cognitive dissonance, actually, it just requires looking a few steps further. The dissonance is this: "I am a smart person" "a smart person would not fall for an obvious scam" "you are telling me that I fell for a scam" These things contradict. The proper conclusion is "I am not as smart as I thought" or "Even smart people can fall for scams", but the typical human psychology answer would be "You're making that up, I didn't fall for poo poo"
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:21
|
|
|
Daztek posted:New Star Marine trailer Squadron 2042?
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:34
|
|
|
Looks like they are starting over. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:43
|
|
|
Beexoffel posted:Looks like they are starting over. As if they started the first time.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:47
|
|
|
Wow, finally something in this farce is moving from Tier 0.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:56
|
|
C-Bangin' it 
|
Beexoffel posted:Looks like they are starting over.  time to restart the clock i guess
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:56
|
|
|
Dwesa posted:Reading about doomsday cults is quite informative when it comes to understanding SC whales. Just replace end of the world date with release date. Someone create a greasemonkey script to replace release date with rapture on spectrum.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 19:57
|
|
|
Beexoffel posted:Looks like they are starting over. ??? A bug with their website?
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 20:01
|
|
|
Heads will roll at Turbulent
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 20:04
|
|
|
Dark Off posted:
Campaign start: 09/06/2021 
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 20:04
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 20:09
|
|
|
Why wouldn't they keep doing what they're doing? People are paying them. The oil is still there. Slurp slurp slurp.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 20:41
|
|
|
I'm going to assume this is just a bug, but I'm really, really hoping they're going to go "we never raised any money in Ba Sing Se" and just reset the donations to 0, then claim they have no idea why people are talking about "the most successful Kickstarter ever," "the most crowdfunded game in history," etc.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 20:44
|
|
|
Zaphod42 posted:George Carlin had a great bit about how if somebody lies to you and you find out pretty quick, you're mad at the person who lied. Yup, everybody is affected by cognitive dissonance here and there. It's what you do to try to reduce the dissonance what truly categorizes you. So, the handy phrase to describe the disinclination to believe SC is a scam is "they're suckers".
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 20:59
|
|
|
They stored all dates as five-digit integers, just like how Chris always back in the day because it helped with performance, and now it's been ten years since he first whispered the code for the tracker. So obviously, all these data points in the future (year >1) don't count yet.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 21:00
|
|
|
Imagined posted:Is there a handy phrase to describe the disinclination to believe something is a scam simply based on the ever-increasing audaciousness and obviousness of the scam? Like, "It can't be a scam, because if it were a scam it would be the biggest scam in the history of the videogames industry, and what are the odds of that?" "It can't be a scam, because if it were a scam they wouldn't be so bad at making it not look like a scam."? I keep thinking of "sunk cost" and "Occam's razor" but those aren't quite it. What do you call the tendency to believe a lie simply because it's such a big and obvious lie that you can't believe someone would actually have the balls to lie about it? Besides "The Republican Party" For example Enron had nearly 30k employees when it folded.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 21:01
|
|
|
Deskeletonized posted:I'm going to assume this is just a bug, but I'm really, really hoping they're going to go "we never raised any money in Ba Sing Se" and just reset the donations to 0, then claim they have no idea why people are talking about "the most successful Kickstarter ever," "the most crowdfunded game in history," etc. Bug or no they should have a vote in the concierge forum to determine if the community wants them to just run with this mistakeTM and reset stretchgoals clock
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 21:10
|
|
|
Oh, it's back, 371 million dollarinos United States American.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 21:12
|
|
|
Kosumo posted:Image hiring him to water your indoor plants while you where away. “chris where is all my furniture!!“ “well i had to sell it to buy water for your plants, like real good water, not the one that falls from the sky for free.“ “you did what??“ “i promised you to take care of your plants, so i made sure i got water directly from the northpole. that aint cheap.“ “the plants are completely dead also!!“ “yeah but that is a different thing, you see the water came too late, but i do absolve myself of that, so there is no problem here.“
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 22:08
|
|
|
Kosumo posted:Image hiring him to water your indoor plants while you where away. He'd just hire some guy he sort of knows from a friend of a friend of his coke dealer to water your plants for him. But he'd give them the wrong key, so they wouldn't be able to get in and your plants would all die. Also, halfway through your vacation you'd get a text message from him saying that he found a good deal on amazing fertilizer and bought it for your plants, so if you could send him another couple hundred bucks to cover that expense, that'd be great. When you came home and found out how badly it all went, he'd duck your phone calls until you finally caught up with him in person. "The fertilizer?", he'd mumble. "It's, uh, the fertilizer is -- er -- it's been ordered and should be arriving in, um, a week. I can, uh, expedite the shipping for a few hundred more, if you want, and they'll throw in some free plants, um, uh better plants, too." This cycle would repeat as long as you let it. Trilobite fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jun 9, 2021 |
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 22:38
|
|
|
$371,685,184 gently caress gently caress
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 22:41
|
|
|
Mr.Tophat posted:$371,685,184 And I ask myself, just how much of that has found its way into the pockets of Mr Christopher Roberts, auteur, and his extended family/business chums? It's a lovely shady lowdown dirty business alright, this
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 23:01
|
|
|
Honestly I don't believe that number in itself. The whole funding tracker seems off, the numbers make no sense. They don't have that many active players or accounts. They don't have the social media numbers either, no word of mouth that's positive. The whole Internet is making fun of em, too.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 23:10
|
|
|
Trilobite posted:He'd just hire some guy he sort of knows from a friend of a friend of his coke dealer to water your plants for him. But he'd give them the wrong key, so they wouldn't be able to get in and your plants would all die. Also, halfway through your vacation you'd get a text message from him saying that he found a good deal on amazing fertilizer and bought it for your plants, so if you could send him another couple hundred bucks to cover that expense, that'd be great. "That guy told me he was going to do it, so I absolve myself of that."
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 23:20
|
|
|
L. Ron Hoover posted:Thanks bro. People in the thread were literally just talking about a random text file filling gigs of data logging every single thing that happened on the server. Maybe they fixed that particular issue, but I trust CIG software about as much as a free nude desktop assistant. I had 1 GB of log files in that folder personally. The people who are finding 20 GB of log files there are the people who are literally playing 10 hours a day, every day.
|
|
#
?
Jun 9, 2021 23:44
|
|
|
Jack-Off Lantern posted:Honestly I don't believe that number in itself. The whole funding tracker seems off, the numbers make no sense. They don't have that many active players or accounts. They don't have the social media numbers either, no word of mouth that's positive. I have this idea that the game is mostly being propped up by Germans.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 00:26
|
|
|
no_recall posted:(...) Sadly Elite can't do what Subnautica did, since Subnautica is fully handcrafted (even though it doesn't seem so) and the progress is pretty clearly laid out to guide you naturally. Elite can only be space-trader / exploration game with combat aside, because that's what its procgen nature is about. WTF are those avatars? Is SC played only by corporate slaves now (no insult intended at people working at corporation, but the theme is so obvious...)? Sanya Juutilainen fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jun 10, 2021 |
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 00:27
|
|
|
Sanya Juutilainen posted:WTF are those avatars? Is SC played only by corporate slaves now (no insult intended at people working at corporation, but the theme is so obvious...)? preeeeeetty sure those are photoshopped
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 01:18
|
|
|
Sarsapariller posted:Subnautica is amazing, one of the best games I've played in the last 5 years. But I don't know if it's a sleeper, it's pretty widely acclaimed at this point I spent most of last weekend building a thing in the sequel game...  Totally pointless, but strangely rewarding. Like playing with Lego, only with oxygen starvation mechanics. And exploding-suicide-fish swimming at you when you least expect it.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 01:22
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 01:35
|
|
|
Imagined posted:"That guy told me he was going to do it, so I absolve myself of that." When you complained about it later, a bunch of terrible people would angrily explain to you that they gave Chris money to water their plants while they were away, and while those plants are now dead, that's NORMAL, because Chris naturally needed to build a plant-watering company from the ground up before he could start watering any plants. They'd bore you to death with screeds about how it's still a great service and a great value and how some day Chris will make sure that they have the best, most hydrated indoor plants in the whole world.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 01:41
|
|
|
I know Sandi is probably trolling everyone, but do people actually have those name plaques in board meetings? Do actual board meetings with billionaires resemble a 70’s sitcom about corporate life? Honest question.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 01:51
|
|
|
JugbandDude posted:I know Sandi is probably trolling everyone, but do people actually have those name plaques in board meetings? Do actual board meetings with billionaires resemble a 70’s sitcom about corporate life? Yes. One of my tasks at a former job was facilitating and taking minutes for meetings like that and one of the things involved was making and setting out the little name plaques. It's actually kind of useful when the meetings are only a few times a year and the people involved don't interact with each other outside of those meetings, or when there are guests or experts invited from outside the organization that not everyone knows. Imagined fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Jun 10, 2021 |
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 02:14
|
|
|
I think by "board member" they mean her acting is so wooden that she is like a wooden board, ergo, she is a member of the board.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 02:16
|
|
|
JugbandDude posted:I know Sandi is probably trolling everyone, but do people actually have those name plaques in board meetings? Do actual board meetings with billionaires resemble a 70’s sitcom about corporate life? I can say i have attended several board meetings of company's bigger than CIG, there were never any plaques maybe we don't do It cool in Australia?
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 02:38
|
|
|
DigitalPenny posted:I can say i have attended several board meetings of company's bigger than CIG, there were never any plaques maybe we don't do It cool in Australia? I believe most boards are quite familiar with each other, considering they drive the direction of the company it would be wise to get to know each other But yeah especially since everything is done via zoom right now, why have a plaque for a virtual meeting?
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 02:43
|
|
|
Kosumo posted:I think by "board member" they mean her acting is so wooden that she is like a wooden board, ergo, she is a member of the board. It also might have raised a few questions if she went with Bored Member. Ahh who am I kidding no one would have asked a god damned thing in fact it would have been celebrated as an homage to Bored Gamer Hey thread are there any Sandi/Pinocchio mashups? She is notoriously wooden and I think she even once told a lie maybe?
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 02:48
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 11:21 |
|
|
Id love to hear what a is discussed at a CIG board meeting. The company fails to meet it's goals constantly and by huge margins. Probably just patting each other's backs as funding keeps coming in despite all of that.
|
|
#
?
Jun 10, 2021 02:51
|
|