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Toops: Nov 5, 2015; -find mood stabilizers
-also,

Probably the last thing I will see before I die.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:24

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# ? Apr 28, 2024 23:34

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

And if thou gaze long into the paarp, the paarp will also gaze into thee.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:24

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Wikkheiser posted:

I'm hoping this is actually a dark commentary on Star Citizen and the attraction to it coming from a place of existential ennui in the modern gamer.

If only there was a way to build a functional pretentiousometer (pretentioumeter?), I bet you could just feed it the phrase �existential ennui� and it would be spinning so hard we'd effectively have invented infinite energy.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:24

Happy Sisyphus: Nov 13, 2013; You take the blue paarp - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red paarp - you stay in pre-alpha, and I show you how deep the sperg wallet goes.

alf_pogs posted:

isnt this the story of enders game?

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:25

No Mods No Masters: Oct 3, 2004

Lawsuits/getting blacklisted/working on CIG disaster code isn't what is driving eightace to drink himself into a stupor, it's these horrifying people

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:25

Tippis: Mar 21, 2008; It's yet another day in the wasteland.

Happy Sisyphus posted:

isnt this the story of enders game?

Only if the ships turn out to be real rather than ~dreams~, and also we're being attacked by ants.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:26

Toops: Nov 5, 2015; -find mood stabilizers
-also,

nope nope nope nope

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:27

Happy Sisyphus: Nov 13, 2013; You take the blue paarp - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red paarp - you stay in pre-alpha, and I show you how deep the sperg wallet goes.

'remember how dad used to corral us into the basement and make us pose for photos where he would pretend to be giving us commands as we played a space video game?'

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:28

Toops: Nov 5, 2015; -find mood stabilizers
-also,

Judge: Well, I want YOU to stop violating your RESTRAINING ORDER.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:29

Happy Sisyphus: Nov 13, 2013; You take the blue paarp - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red paarp - you stay in pre-alpha, and I show you how deep the sperg wallet goes.

Toops posted:

Judge: Well, I want YOU to stop violating your RESTRAINING ORDER.

lol @ the star citizen VIP ego wall

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:31

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

alf_pogs posted:

the one kid facing the camera is the one having the closest thing to a "good time"

This reminds me of my childhood.

Except the TV screen wasn't of fake computer game Star Citizen, but the real show Star Trek: The Next Generation.

And dad didn't have a ponytail. And he wasn't standing up, but reclining in his Laz-E-Boy.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:31

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Tokamak posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4dtm93/lets_have_an_unpopular_opinions_thread/

500 posts, 4 hours

600 comments

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:33

alf_pogs: Feb 15, 2012

take that mom! take that dad! send me to a psychiatrist will you? take that dr sally waxler

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:34

CellarDweller: Jan 19, 2014; Down In The Pit... There's It!

Wrecked Angle posted:

I don't understand what they're aiming because they're so drat non-specific and yet they're (or rather, the cultists) now banging the procedural generation drum pretty hard.

Sorry if this has been pointed out already but I am working again and can no longer keep up with the thread.

I think that the cultists know deep down that everything is late and they are clinging on to the idea that CiG is going to flip a switch and go from 3% complete to 100% overnight in order to reassure themselves that the dream is still alive. I believe that the procedural generation stuff helps feed that because it is the one thing where that sort of idea makes any sense at all. You finish the generator, turn it on and go from zero planets to all of them in an instant.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:34

alf_pogs: Feb 15, 2012

yet in my shirt there is only room for one

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:35

A Neurotic Jew: Feb 17, 2012; by exmarx

G0RF posted:

That Reddit thread for unpopular opinions, man. Wow. It's amazing how goonish much of it reads.

The thread is filled with the kind of stuff. It's revelatory-- it feels almost therapeutic in tone. Finally they can safely speak the obvious without being demonized, castigated, downvoted, called a Derek Smart puppet, decried a goon, or hit with the "it's pre-alpha!" stick until death.

If I were a CIG heavy, this would make for alarming reading. Not so much any specific comment-- but more the cumulative message underlying this cacophony...

the new mod we installed had a good idea:

...and people are eating it up.

Really wasn't expecting it to be this easy. Good work "Jumbify".

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:35

Wise Learned Man: Apr 22, 2008; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Lipstick Apathy

Happy Sisyphus posted:

lol @ the star citizen VIP ego wall

He even bought the loving lamp.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:36

alf_pogs: Feb 15, 2012

A Neurotic Jew posted:

the new mod we installed had a good idea:

...and people are eating it up.

Really wasn't expecting it to be this easy. Good work "Jumbify".

unpopular opinion thread: the reddit is better now that dolvak is gone

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:36

hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

alf_pogs posted:

unpopular opinion thread: the reddit is better now that dolvak is gone

aw, what happen to dolvak?

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:38

G0RF: Mar 19, 2015; Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

A Neurotic Jew posted:

Really wasn't expecting it to be this easy. Good work "Jumbify".

I'm doing my best. We just might turn this thing around yet, sir.

Goonspeed!

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:40

Toops: Nov 5, 2015; -find mood stabilizers
-also,

alf_pogs posted:

yet in my shirt there is only room for one

Guess which one has the SC buttplug fully inserted.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:42

Chickenfrogman: Sep 16, 2011; by exmarx

hakimashou posted:

aw, what happen to dolvak?

People said mean things to him when he called himself an authority on CIG so he had a complete and utter meltdown before resigning.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:44

A Neurotic Jew: Feb 17, 2012; by exmarx

hakimashou posted:

aw, what happen to dolvak?

reddit inexplicably and for no reason turned on him and he stepped down.

we had nothing to do with it I swears. scouts honor, etc.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:44

G0RF: Mar 19, 2015; Some galactic defender you are, Space Cadet.

hakimashou posted:

aw, what happen to dolvak?

He got trashed...

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:48

Milkfred E. Moore: Aug 27, 2006; 'It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.'

Toops posted:

things that seemed like cool and good things to post on the internet, pt 2.

im the cat attacking the cable

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:50

Synthbuttrange: May 6, 2007

why

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:53

Lime Tonics: Nov 7, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

Dolvak went away when the emails showed up and dolvak was like, wheres the proof, and the proof was given it was real, and the dude was like NANANANANANANANA I can't hear you.

After that dolvak became a walking joke about journalism.

here is a cat and a baby

http://i.imgur.com/eJJPmUh.gifv

# ? Apr 8, 2016 05:54

Goobs: Jan 30, 2016; Doxcat is watching you PU.

Toops posted:

things that seemed like cool and good things to post on the internet, pt 2.

b'tak?

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:00

grimcreaper: Jan 7, 2012

atxsperg posted:

is that a cpap machine?

Yes. Yes it is. He is known as "CPAP Man" or "I cant Breathe *huff huff* Man"

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:01

Fried Watermelon: Dec 29, 2008

I wonder how much yelling goes on in CIG

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:01

VealCutlet: Dec 21, 2015; I am a marketing god, shave that shit

Jesus H Christ, I hadn't seen some of these pics before

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:03

Samizdata: May 14, 2007

Cuntpunch posted:

Are you getting into a semantic argument over 'framerate' instead of 'tickrate'? Because game servers kind of do need that stuff, and the terminology is just a bit different than other 'servers' (db, web, IRC, whatever) - though it's the same technical issue under the hood, just magnified for games.

Because it sounds like while you're spot on about how it's stupid to let client-side poo poo dictate server performance - what that poster is trying to describe is pretty obvious when you look at Star Citizen combined with what I grasp on game server communication anyway, which is a constant set of 'just start spouting poo poo and then get corrected by the server'. The server is responsible for *so much poo poo* that it can't get updates back to clients in a resonable timeframe.

You're connected to a server. Server goes "ok you wake up in a lovely bedroom". You input to move forward. There's two options here: you wait for network latency to send your command, and only when you hear back from the server going 'ok sure, you have moved forward' does your client update. This (isn't really done?) because at even decent latencies you'd see a quarter second delay on everything you do.

So instead things get interpolated and corrected: You input to open your lovely bedroom door. Your *client* goes "ok sure we'll do that" but also sends that input to the server. The server probably goes "ok, you're opening the door, the state of the door is now open" and confirms that back to you. Your experience is seamless, but what happens when the server and you fall out of sync due to lovely physics dragging server load up?

You input to move forward, server takes a two seconds to figure out the exact mass of your toe as it stubs an empty Benny's container and the velocity imparted to that container and the new vector it will be travelling upon. It goes "ok sure here's the new state of the world!"....but in that time, on the client side you've already moved forward, opened the door, and.....well poo poo, your client now reverts to the server state...which rubberbands you backwards at best, or traps you in a door you just got told was closed...or whatever.

If you want to see how much nerds care about game server framerates, just go look at the mass of arguments in the CS:GO community over official matchmaking servers running at 60fps instead of the 128fps most private servers use.

That's the crobber way.

Why trust expert staff to make decisions when you can control them?

Why trust clients to do anything when the server can control them?

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:04

moveable shape: Oct 18, 2015

Mirificus posted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/4dbbvn/wtf_is_up_with_porn_these_days_is_this_what/d1q7swx?context=3

Well thanks for putting my disgust at his video game opinions in proper context :magical:

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:05

Exinos: Mar 1, 2009; OSHA approved squiq

I farted in the shower and it sounded like Paarrp which made me think of you all.

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:06

Kakarot: Jul 20, 2013; by zen death robot; Buglord

hakimashou posted:

aw, what happen to dolvak?

doxxed by Derek

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:08

Blunderstorm: Mar 1, 2016; my grandfather just posts and all i got was this lousy joke, so what

Toops posted:

I love his eyes, they're so murdery

He can lay sandi in the movie about the collapse of CIG

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:08

moveable shape: Oct 18, 2015

Tippis posted:

If only there was a way to build a functional pretentiousometer (pretentioumeter?), I bet you could just feed it the phrase �existential ennui� and it would be spinning so hard we'd effectively have invented infinite energy.

Existential :eonwe:

Is that better?

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:08

Plural Abysss: Feb 25, 2016

Can anyone find a pic that's NOT horribly creepy?

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:09

hakimashou: Jul 15, 2002; Upset Trowel

rip dolvak, ashes to ashes, sleaze to sleaze

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:11

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Mirificus: Oct 29, 2004; Kings need not raise their voices to be heard

moveable shape posted:

Well thanks for putting my disgust at his video game opinions in proper context

I was trying to help answer your question about whether it was real or parody. Looking at their first page of recent posts answered that question for me :ohdear:

# ? Apr 8, 2016 06:12

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