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Rugganovich
Apr 29, 2017

TheAgent posted:

Chris roberts is one of the most unattractive men no matter what kind of animal you shop his face on

I don't know, I think he would look OK on a 3 Toed Sloth.

EDIT:
Bear Taxxe

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Rugganovich
Apr 29, 2017

Hav posted:

Do you think we could get poisontaco and tojal a room together? I feel it would be an interesting meeting of minds.

Just to be on the safe side, it probably should be padded and they both have had their Lorazepam.
Mental Illness is not a joke.

Shadowlyger
Nov 5, 2009

ElvUI super fan at your service!

Ask me any and all questions about UI customization via PM

Asmodai_00 posted:

loving how

Same way you do it in Stellaris.

Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?
Just saw these at the supermarket:



I am so loving hard right now.

Rugganovich
Apr 29, 2017

Chasing something....................
NOTE: Discord-hosted image links (like this one) expire approximately 24hrs after they were copied from Discord.

Rugganovich
Apr 29, 2017

Baxta posted:

Fun fact: CR was the first person to actually think of AI

FUDster, it's called subsumption. Which is better AI.

colonelwest
Jun 30, 2018

☢️ Send nukes every daaaaaay! ☢️
https://tinyurl.com/nukepost

Scruffpuff posted:

Just saw these at the supermarket:



I am so loving hard right now.

Now that is the sort of smut that Tojal and I come to this thread for.

Amazing Zimmo
Jan 27, 2006

That's quite a load you got in them diapers
https://twitter.com/mattylarusso/status/1137501861743923200

Indeed.

Oh and obligatory shout out to the fact that Bethesda is using their own money and not backers money.

skeletors_condom
Jul 21, 2017

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen



It's true, Starfield will probably suck. Lucky for CIG, since other games being bad is the number one thing that has made Star Citizen very, very good.

Amazing Zimmo
Jan 27, 2006

That's quite a load you got in them diapers

Sarsapariller posted:

It's true, Starfield will probably suck. Lucky for CIG, since other games being bad is the number one thing that has made Star Citizen very, very good.

I've got to say that I still have more faith in Bethesda delivering a good game despite their recent fails, than CI!G delivering a competent tech demo.

DigitalPenny
Sep 3, 2018

Amazing Zimmo posted:

I've got to say that I still have more faith in Bethesda delivering a good game despite their recent fails, than CI!G delivering a competent tech demo.

Bethesda cheat, they use project managers and they have a low fiedilty progress meters that consistently creeps up like every quarter.

CIG are cutting edge and spending all that wasted project management time on development, making the game much better also you can see there progress updated weekly unlike scummy Bethesda.

If it comes out before store criticism it proves they have been working on it in secret for 9 years with there thousands of Devs and like 10 established studios.

Amazing Zimmo
Jan 27, 2006

That's quite a load you got in them diapers

DigitalPenny posted:

Bethesda cheat, they use project managers and they have a low fiedilty progress meters that consistently creeps up like every quarter.

CIG are cutting edge and spending all that wasted project management time on development, making the game much better also you can see there progress updated weekly unlike scummy Bethesda.

If it comes out before store criticism it proves they have been working on it in secret for 9 years with there thousands of Devs and like 10 established studios.

I bow my head for I am owned.

We should probably rub.

Agony Aunt
Apr 17, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ah, the welcoming and friendly SC community, ensuring the birth of another goon.

Also that last comment about theft. Classic. So, the banks are operating illegally by allowing such things? And its theft to want your money back for a non-functional product?

My oh my.

Agony Aunt fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Jun 10, 2019

Agony Aunt
Apr 17, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Rugganovich posted:

It was the "Fyre Festival , I was scammed" get together.

I guess nobody got the reference.... i thought we were all geeks here.

Cerial convention, the Corinthian, Sandman.... anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



not is going to get a cut that deep

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

Ghostlight posted:

not is going to get a cut that deep

That’s definitely the Corinthian.

So...CDPR got Keanu and a release date.

It’s all going a bit poo poo shaped for the five hundred employee, quarter billion dollar, ‘we don’t need a publisher, ex-bmovie crowd.

The Rabbi T. White
Jul 17, 2008





Citizenism is Stored in the balls.

Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

The Rabbi T. White posted:

Citizenism is Stored in the balls.

How is blobers formed?



Edit: cdpr is endlessly amusing to me in the light of SC.

One in the Bum
Apr 25, 2014

Hair Elf

Somebody just watched Westworld for the first time and thought it was a documentary.

Agony Aunt
Apr 17, 2018

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Ghostlight posted:

not is going to get a cut that deep

Huh? Did he actually appear in the Lucifer TV series?

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



it's a (very) old edit of gary oldman in leon the professional

Pixelate
Jan 6, 2018

"You win by having fun"

It's nice to see this in a variety of ship colours now.

Pixelate
Jan 6, 2018

"You win by having fun"

Holy crap, they really have modelled an in-game game-rig for their virtual in-game game?

Never. Coming. Out.

Sarsapariller
Aug 14, 2015

Occasional vampire queen


Pixelate posted:

Holy crap, they really have modelled an in-game game-rig for their virtual in-game game?

Never. Coming. Out.

I mean, yeah, but it doesn't do anything. It will never do anything. It's just a big loving cylinder with "Lore" and by "Lore" I mean "Somebody wrote a post once about how it's actually a VR holodeck and the Citizens assumed this meant it was really going to function that way."

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

'play games when in QT'
It's cool that your Second Life in Space is so engaging that you need something else to play while playing your game.

DigitalPenny
Sep 3, 2018

Dwesa posted:

'play games when in QT'
It's cool that your Second Life in Space is so engaging that you need something else to play while playing your game.

Such confidence, we will have two games and inside those games will be more games!!! Inception will have nothing on us ! We will put those big developers only giving you one game to shame, we will deliver thy PC master race back to glory !!

If you see how much effort goes into shoes laces or lawsuits you know CIG have got this.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Amazing Zimmo posted:

https://twitter.com/mattylarusso/status/1137501861743923200

Indeed.

Oh and obligatory shout out to the fact that Bethesda is using their own money and not backers money.
And what about...
CI is Soviet Union of game development and it's not just about whataboutism of its fans.

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Scruffpuff posted:

You touch on something here that I've talked about before, and am sort of curious about - speed of acclimation. I would say that a kid in the 80s transplanted today might take a small amount of time to get used to some of the things you mention, but many of them wouldn't exactly be a leap. Oh you guys talk instantly face to face now with gadgets? You mean like the Jetsons? Got it. Oh, all the information is on computers now? Yeah I saw that on Star Trek. They had analogues that I believe would allow them to get up to speed relatively quickly.

(In my example above I was only really talking about first impressions, the "arrival in Hill Valley scene," not the deeper immersion in the culture.)

I wonder if a kid today, say late teens, could as easily acclimate in the other direction. All the things you mentioned, like libraries, filling out manual paperwork, or even things like a phone book - how long would it take them to figure out the relevant tech and limitations? Stuck on the side of the road? Get ready to walk, if you're lucky you'll get a ride, if the gods are on your side a cop will drive by.

Maybe it's always easier to acclimate forward than backward. We have a tendency to project where things might go, whereas the only people who can reminisce about the past are people who already lived it. We have real-life examples of people waking up from comas, and they get up to speed remarkably quickly. No real way to know what would happen if all the modern tech disappeared, my concern would be we'd suddenly have a bunch of people 35+ who would automatically switch into the day-to-day equivalent of "filling out manual receipts," and everyone younger would be dead weight for a while until they caught up.

Or maybe I'm wrong about that, and people have a built-in instinct that kicks in when modern conveniences are absent. Your car stops on the side of the road in a world with no cell phones, I doubt they'll just say "Well I guess I die in this car now."

I'm on the border now between "older" and "ok that's enough aging now" and the biggest misconception I see about my views on technology is that if something is new, and I don't embrace it, it's because it's new and I'm old. The reality is much closer to this: the tech is new, but the idea is old, and the people using it aren't old enough yet to know how it went the first time. There are some things I see now that are heralded as a revolution in such-and-such and my first thought is, "oh no, not this poo poo again." Yeah it's happening in a hand-held device with a touch screen, but it's not new, went badly before, and look, here are some news articles a year later showing that it's going bad in the exact way I figured it would.

That said, I'm not gonna pull a Stephen King and "tap out" in the decade I liked most. I'm riding this horse until I die. I'll be the 90 year old guy using the newest poo poo whether I like it or not, because life is a roller coaster, and you don't stand up while it's in motion.

A lot of technological progress that ends up being commercially successful tends to do that because it makes things more convenient for people. Not needing to rewind a DVD like a VHS tape, not needing to drive to a video store 30 minutes away to watch a movie on Netflix, not needing to carry as much cash around when buying groceries with your credit card, not needing to find a phone booth or set an exact meeting time/place when everyone has smartphones, etc.
As such, it is likely always going to be easier to acclimate to the future than it would be to acclimate to the past, since the past might require more planning, fiddly details to work out, more manual back-and-forth with people on location and so on.

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Scruffpuff posted:

Yeah, but once the pipelines aqueducts were in place, development speed increased exponentially. Unless a courier broke his wrist.

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

I'm not sure if this is peak Star Citizen, but it sure is close.

ggangensis
Aug 24, 2018

:10bux:

Bofast posted:

I'm not sure if this is peak Star Citizen, but it sure is close.

It sums up the whole thing quite good.

In other news, Gamestar asks if Kojima overdid it with Death Standing because of that trailer whilst shilling Star Citizen. You know, a strange trailer that you could watch for free on youtube from the guy who brought us MGS is certainly controversial... continue walking, nothing to see in SC land. Buy a starter pack while you are at it. I really wonder who is still reading that lovely magazine and their website....

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

Cool to see the Star Citizen subreddit still being a vile place where an insane minority of backers help to drive relatively normal people away from the "game" before it's even in a proper alpha state.

Beexoffel
Oct 4, 2015

Herald of the Stimpire

Experimental Skin posted:

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IcarusUpHigh
Dec 20, 2016

Who wins?

CIG: Tens of Millions spent on expensive Hollywood talent

CDPR: 1 x Keanu Reeves

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer
What with Bethesda seemingly rebooting Fallout 76 with NPCs, a more normal main quest and stuff like that, it might unironically go from being atrocious to simply being bad but noticably better than Star Citizen :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2XdwS4lcZM

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:


Somehow Sega stole this idea over 20 years ago and is still using it today.

ggangensis
Aug 24, 2018

:10bux:

IcarusUpHigh posted:

Who wins?

CIG: Tens of Millions spent on expensive Hollywood talent

CDPR: 1 x Keanu Reeves

Cyberpunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YApuEWtG30w
SQ42: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki0aKYyFUBc

Just compare them. The first one has hints of an interesting story, some emotional stuff and probably touches on more complex topics. And Neo on top. The SQ42 trailer, while technically well done, just says "90s black and white, good guys vs. bad guys"-SciFi without any sign of creativity. Casting these hollywood actors was a complete waste of money in my book, the acting range they are capable of is wasted in that CR pulp. Also, you can get really decent actors outside of hollywood which aren't that expensive. I think CDPR did it right, 1x Keanu Reeves for star power, for the rest really capable but less known actors. Keeps the budget in check w/o sacrificing quality.

Anyway, we have a lot of good single player games coming: Doom Eternal (probably not much of a story but kick rear end gameplay), Death Stranding (I assume that weird Kojima feel, some pseudo-philosophical stuff and nothing less) and Cyberpunk which I genuinly looking forward to. Witcher 3 in a shadowrun-y setting, whats not to like? Well, and then we (probably) have SQ42 in beta by 2020.... basically Wing Commander 3 with shinier graphics and more bugs.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Keanu is in it because CIG killed his dog.

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Hav
Dec 11, 2009

Fun Shoe

Bofast posted:

What with Bethesda seemingly rebooting Fallout 76 with NPCs, a more normal main quest and stuff like that, it might unironically go from being atrocious to simply being bad but noticably better than Star Citizen :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2XdwS4lcZM

No, Fallout 76 is irredeemable.

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