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Beef Hardcheese
Jan 21, 2003

HOW ABOUT I LASH YOUR SHIT


colonelwest posted:

Some "gamer girl" on Twitch is selling bottles of her bath water online.

It's the latest progression in the cute girls feigning interest in nerd poo poo to make money of off desperate neckbeards industrial complex. Personally, I don't begrudge them one bit. They saw a market full of idiotic and puerile weirdos and cashed in on it; like the Citizenry, their audience deserves to have every penny milked from them.

"Belle Delphine" made a post on Instagram, promising if it got a million likes she would start a PornHub channel. When it did, she posted about a dozen videos with titles like "Belle Delphine double penetration" she smokes two cigarettes at once, one in each nostril and "Belle Delphine takes Pewdiepie all the way inside her" she slowly tears up and eats a photo of Pewdiepie piece by piece. The horny idiots who assumed she was going to post porn of herself got mad, everyone else had a laugh.

Selling her "bath water" was a week or two after that, and apparently she's already "sold out" (run out of labels and jars). She knows exactly who her audience is, and how to simultaneously troll the poo poo out of them while getting them to give her lots of money. I'm curious to see what she'll come up with next, and how much more she'll be able to extract from thirsty shut-ins.

Edit: if someone could spot me a cat tax I can pay you back when I get home

Beef Hardcheese fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jul 5, 2019

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Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

SoftNum posted:

Isn't making money and satisfying customers the same thing (more or less)?

It depends on your business model. Blizzard made a fortune making high-quality games that people wanted to play. Activision/Blizzard makes even more money than that by reading massive amounts of demographic data and steering their company in the direction that maximizes profits. If this means they lose the core demographic, and in exchange lure in a bigger one with deeper pockets, that's the direction they'll go in. Both approaches make money. The first approach makes better products, the second approach makes more money. If your goal is ONLY making money, then "satisfying customers" is a PR checkbox, not a requirement.

MilesK
Nov 5, 2015

G0RF posted:

Boy, they’ve made incredible progress in the game loop over the last 3 years! Batgirl will be having even MORE fun in the PU soon...

I wonder how her Addicts Anonymous videos are going..

quote:

Rickbearcat
You say that Chris wants to have a touch on every aspect of the game. I have zero problems with that. None. What I do have an issue with is that it is where the EXECUTION comes into play, they have and continue to FAIL miserably. I'm watching someone play 3.6 right now, and it is a MESS. It is like no-one from internal QC/QA even tested the game before they released it. Pathetic. This game engine is not built to do the things that Chris wants to do. And the more he pushes it, the more and more it is bursting at the seams. If they keep this engine, the game is doomed to fail.


The Forbes article was accurate insomuch as it told the truth in a negative way. Some of it was deserved and most of it was not. Adding in their personal lives to the story was unwarranted in my opinion. As far as a cash-grab is concerned...if people can't be responsible for the money they spend based on what they see where the game is at now, then that is on them. Presumably, they are adults and it's their money. Personally, I won't spend another dime on this "game". If it ever does get to some sort of finish line, I will just earn everything in game. But I am certain that this game will never reach any finish line because of the engine and server problems. And it is too late to turn the ship around now. God only knows what kind of riveted together game this is going to turn out to be when Beta is announced years from now.
3 days ago

:ohdear:

quote:

blackdreamhunk2
Why do you need to tell people what your faith is? I don't see people starting their videos saying they are black. At the end of the day who cares what people think about star citizen. Some will back the game and believe in the project or not. What will the game would is a toxic community.
2 days ago (edited)

blackdreamhunk2
I think people really need to look up what an MMO is. No ever seen MMO gamers complains about having feature creep.
2 days ago (edited)

:hmmyes:

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



Has there been a single meaningful mechanic or content addition to SC, that isn’t a ship or a transaction, this year?

Fidelitious
Apr 17, 2018

MY BIRTH CRY WILL BE THE SOUND OF EVERY WALLET ON THIS PLANET OPENING IN UNISON.

Frog Act posted:

Has there been a single meaningful mechanic or content addition to SC, that isn’t a ship or a transaction, this year ever?

Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

Fidelitious posted:

Has there been a single meaningful mechanic or content addition to SC, that isn’t a ship or a transaction, this year ever?

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Wasn't Miles Eckhart a ship mechanic in the lore?

Daztek
Jun 2, 2006



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHWiZJM4etU

Tsar Mikey
Nov 30, 2005


When will then be now?



I thought Miles Eckhart was a jacket model?

Iceclaw
Nov 4, 2009

Fa la lanky down dilly, motherfuckers.
More like a jackass modele.

skeletors_condom
Jul 21, 2017

Beef Hardcheese posted:

"Belle Delphine" made a post on Instagram, promising if it got a million likes she would start a PornHub channel. When it did, she posted about a dozen videos with titles like "Belle Delphine double penetration" she smokes two cigarettes at once, one in each nostril and "Belle Delphine takes Pewdiepie all the way inside her" she slowly tears up and eats a photo of Pewdiepie piece by piece. The horny idiots who assumed she was going to post porn of herself got mad, everyone else had a laugh.

That's actually a pretty smart grift. I am genuinely impressed.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Scored some Lesnick bathwater for $5.99.

Tippis
Mar 21, 2008

It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Colostomy Bag posted:

Scored some Lesnick bathwater for $5.99.

I'm going to have to report you and your source to the IAEA.

Colostomy Bag
Jan 11, 2016

:lesnick: C-Bangin' it :lesnick:

Brings new meaning to the Lesnick Challenge.

Jobbo_Fett
Mar 7, 2014

Slava Ukrayini

Clapping Larry
Please do not besmirch the real authentic™ Lesnick Triple Threat Challenge

Beexoffel
Oct 4, 2015

Herald of the Stimpire

SabinBlitz posted:

You're loving retarded.

I wonder if I am susceptible to having these kind of words directed to me as well. If there is a chance of that, I may need to look for another place to read criticism of Star Citizen.

Scruffpuff
Dec 23, 2015

Fidelity. Wait, was I'm working on again?

Colostomy Bag posted:

Scored some Lesnick bathwater for $5.99.

Joke's on you. If he's in the tub, the water is not.

Dooguk
Oct 11, 2016

Pillbug

Colostomy Bag posted:

Scored some Lesnick bathwater for $5.99.

EUREKA!

JugbandDude
Jul 19, 2016

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun

Shine on you crazy diamond!

colonelwest posted:

I was talking about gaming PC builds with a guy I work with the other day. He started going on about how he was waiting for the ultimate crowdfunded MMO from a 90's video game legend to finally launch so he could build a PC worthy of it. I kept waiting for him to say Star Citizen, but it was Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, and he doesn't have any money invested in it. I was severely disappointed.

I still haven't met a Citizen in real life, and I've only met three people who have even heard of Star Citizen at all. My search continues...

A co-worker of mine has been one since early days. He put 150 bucks in, loves talking about it endlessly, even theory crafting stuff not mentioned anywhere. He doesn't participate in reddit or Spectrum really, the game exists completely in his head.

He is not very bright either, seems like a typical scam mark.

Bootcha
Nov 13, 2012

Truly, the pinnacle of goaltending
Grimey Drawer

The positions available in CIG's PR, Marketing, and CM departments.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Beef Hardcheese posted:

"Belle Delphine" made a post on Instagram, promising if it got a million likes she would start a PornHub channel. When it did, she posted about a dozen videos with titles like "Belle Delphine double penetration" she smokes two cigarettes at once, one in each nostril and "Belle Delphine takes Pewdiepie all the way inside her" she slowly tears up and eats a photo of Pewdiepie piece by piece. The horny idiots who assumed she was going to post porn of herself got mad, everyone else had a laugh.

Selling her "bath water" was a week or two after that, and apparently she's already "sold out" (run out of labels and jars). She knows exactly who her audience is, and how to simultaneously troll the poo poo out of them while getting them to give her lots of money. I'm curious to see what she'll come up with next, and how much more she'll be able to extract from thirsty shut-ins.

Edit: if someone could spot me a cat tax I can pay you back when I get home
She managed to monetize idiocy without making a single spaceship jpg. SC is truly outdated scam.

Dwesa fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Jul 5, 2019

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

Beexoffel posted:

I wonder if I am susceptible to having these kind of words directed to me as well. If there is a chance of that, I may need to look for another place to read criticism of Star Citizen.

Considering that's like 50 pages ago and it was a dumb situation I think you're fine

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGFH_BdtHCw



:lol:

Beexoffel
Oct 4, 2015

Herald of the Stimpire

Rotten Red Rod posted:

Considering that's like 50 pages ago and it was a dumb situation I think you're fine

Pfew.
Also, I'm slowly catching up. 50 pages is a lot less than the >100 I've been at most of the year. About time CIG does something funny again.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

TheAgent posted:

going to become the only star citizen ASMR streamer. I'll whisper "parp" at various tones during my 15 minute wait to clear my crime stat

SoftNum
Mar 31, 2011


So we are believing companies when they say they've been working on something for a given about of time? So SC started in 2011?

Also even with a 2012 date that's 2 fewer years than SC.

Mirificus
Oct 29, 2004

Kings need not raise their voices to be heard
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1147138266803691520
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1147138269655785472
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1147138271102873601
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1147138272327544832
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1147138273665589248
https://twitter.com/real_lethality/status/1147178840218841088

Dooguk
Oct 11, 2016

Pillbug

What is the opposite of Midas touch?

Jonny Shiloh
Mar 7, 2019
You 'orrible little man

Dooguk posted:

What is the opposite of Midas touch?

"Reverse Midas touch"

reverend crabhands
Feb 3, 2016


:yikes:

Starbase looks very cool though, hope it does well.

But personally I don't think I can justify the time investment for another game like that. :saddowns:

Missy Hyatt
Nov 20, 2004

1978 ~ 2023
So he only has at best ~15 people bothering to interact with his Twitter?

By what metric does that make him any kind of influencer?

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

Beef Hardcheese posted:

"Belle Delphine" made a post on Instagram, promising if it got a million likes she would start a PornHub channel. When it did, she posted about a dozen videos with titles like "Belle Delphine double penetration" she smokes two cigarettes at once, one in each nostril and "Belle Delphine takes Pewdiepie all the way inside her" she slowly tears up and eats a photo of Pewdiepie piece by piece. The horny idiots who assumed she was going to post porn of herself got mad, everyone else had a laugh.

Selling her "bath water" was a week or two after that, and apparently she's already "sold out" (run out of labels and jars). She knows exactly who her audience is, and how to simultaneously troll the poo poo out of them while getting them to give her lots of money. I'm curious to see what she'll come up with next, and how much more she'll be able to extract from thirsty shut-ins.

Edit: if someone could spot me a cat tax I can pay you back when I get home

It was excellent marketing; I'd never heard of her before that.

Cat tax:
https://imgur.com/a/X8sv5bo

I forgot how to make these image links work correctly, and gave up.

XK fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Jul 5, 2019

Neltharak
Jun 7, 2013

reverend crabhands posted:

:yikes:

Starbase looks very cool though, hope it does well.

But personally I don't think I can justify the time investment for another game like that. :saddowns:

Lethality likes it :ohdear:

Quavers
Feb 26, 2016

You clearly don't understand game development

reverend crabhands posted:

Starbase looks very cool though, hope it does well.

Neltharak posted:

Lethality likes it :ohdear:

:negative:

Rotten Red Rod
Mar 5, 2002

XK posted:

I forgot how to make these image links work correctly, and gave up.

You need to use a direct link to the image itself and not the imgur page, then use [img] tags.

Regrettable
Jan 4, 2010



Dooguk posted:

What is the opposite of Midas touch?

:shrek:

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

SoftNum posted:

Isn't making money and satisfying customers the same thing (more or less)?

I suspect in this particular context Rockstar figured out that they make more money by releasing a console version of some sorts, then waiting a couple of years to release a PC version that at least some of the same people will buy again.

XK
Jul 9, 2001

Star Citizen is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it's fidelity when you look out your window or when you watch youtube

Rotten Red Rod posted:

You need to use a direct link to the image itself and not the imgur page, then use [img] tags.



Oh, got it.

Bofast
Feb 21, 2011

Grimey Drawer

History Comes Inside! posted:

So he only has at best ~15 people bothering to interact with his Twitter?

By what metric does that make him any kind of influencer?

Lethality can support a game and virtually ensure that it will fail. That's influence enough for me.

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tooterfish
Jul 13, 2013

XK posted:

Oh, got it.
I really wish you hadn't tbh.

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