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 STAR CITIZEN - LATEST DEVELOPMENTS SANDI SHOWS HER TRUE COLORS quote:One enterprising Good, Beer4TheBeerGod (explains why he did it), engaged Sandi Gardiner in an epic email exchange which, if nothing else, pretty much solidifies the comments made to The Escapist magazine (article) about her attitude toward people working on this project. NO REFUNDS. gently caress OFF As I predicted months back, now that they have rushed to release 2.0 this past December, they are now using that lovely release as excuse for refusing refunds (1, 2). This is also the precursor to their refusal to release financials as per the ToS which they modified to extend the time for giving refunds and financial accountability. This despite the fact that, as of this writing, they have yet to deliver even 10% (others peg it at 6.5%) of what was promised in the funding goals and the feature list. SANDI GARDINER USING COMPANY RESOURCES FOR PERSONAL ACTING PROJECTS quote:Who remembers back when I was saying that Sandi was using backer funded resources to promote her acting career? It’s in two blogs that I wrote. And this was her response to one such query. CHRIS ROBERTS ADMITS DEREK SMART WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE CRYENGINE You can read that piece of fail over here. CHRIS ROBERTS FAILS AT PLAYING HIS OWN GAME DURING LIVE STREAM All that needs to be said is in this YouTube video. THE GIZMONDO MONEY LAUNDERING CONNECTION You can read about that over here. It's epic. THE TOS VERSIONS 15-02-01 v1.2 13-08-29 v1.1 13-08-13 v1.0 12-09-13 v0.0 quote:ToS v1.1 of 08/29/13 STAR CITIZEN - HOW WE GOT HERE quote:In July, after I got wind of the Star Citizen project in trouble, unable to deliver, backer money being wasted, I started to investigate it.  THE ESCAPIST INVOLVEMENT quote:After catching wind of my ramblings, The Escapist did their own investigation and published this article and this podcast. THE SPANKING OF ORTWIN, THE RSI/CIG IN-HOUSE COUNSEL AND CO-PARTNER quote:During all this, Ortwin, thinking I scare easily, has been doing a ton of stupid poo poo. So I got my attorneys involved. Here are the legal exchanges (sorted latest to oldest) THE LEGAL SHENANIGANS quote:I gave them until Nov 1st to comply with the three demands in the August legal letter (above). THE WHITE KNIGHT ABUSIVE & HARASSMENT BRIGADE quote:Since they declared war on me since July, and have decided to setup shop on /r/DerekSmart/ and are running a campaign from there. GOONS RUIN EVERYTHING Well, uhm, yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGRsEF953n0 // notacult. nuh-uh. at all. not even https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeVuMMf-jyQ // Money Tops  Hey Reddit! Archive this!! ....................../´¯/) ....................,/¯../ .................../..../ ............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸ ........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\ ........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...') .........\.................'...../ ..........''...\.......... _.·´ ............\..............( ..............\.............\... For nostalgia Star Citizen: Even the Pope won't invite me to dinner to discuss religion You can also watch the critically acclaimed Star Citizen TV pilot staring all the usual suspects. UPDATED 04/04/2016  ...and so it was on 07/06/15 that I wrote my first Star Citizen blog, Interstellar Citizens. Since that time, amid the dreams, the lies, and the deceit, coming from the company, a lot about this disastrous project has been written, spoken, and speculated. What most people don't know is just how bad things are or that they have unequivocally lost EVERY penny they put into this project. And through all that, I stand firm on the opinion I made back in July 2015 that "Star Citizen, as has been pitched, will never get made. Ever.". Now, in year five and over $111M, it exists as nothing more than a glorified tech demo. It's not a pre-alpha. It's not alpha. It's not a beta. It's not a game. It's none of those things. It's a glorified CryEngine mod. The protracted false advertising of a product in order to make money from hapless gamers, is tantamount to consumer fraud. Look it up. Events set in motion about two weeks ago, but which have been brewing since last year, have now sealed the fate of this project. It is unrecoverable. It is unavoidable. It is an E.L.E. And it is about time we as gamers, knew the truth. I have always stated that there is absolutely NO version of this, where they get away with this. Yet people think that these things just get resolved over night. It takes time to get to the bottom; then you have to sort through the chum. It's a process. And I have a response to that in this encrypted code that's been working it's way through these past few days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et7hT885kWU D_Smart fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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flyboi posted:derek will you accept jpegs as restitution in the lawsuit It depends. If they are set to 100% quality, I would consider it. Though TIFFs are preferable.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:34
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[IMG] [/IMG]Gentlemen, we're at war.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:37
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Concerned Citizen posted:in my humble opinion derek smart is a very sad individual, and his war with star citizen is just an extension of his desperate desire for any kind of attention he can get haha, nice try. A bunch of morons setup shop in /r/DerekSmart/ and /r/StarCitizen/ to attack, defame and take pot-shots are me for writing about their lovely vaporware game; and I'm the one seeking attention. uh-huh.
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Oct 26, 2015 01:45
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Node posted:Where can I find a summary of Star Citizen, Derek Smart, and how this whole debacle came to be? It's spread out across a series of blogs offered below in chrono order. The most recent one is a synopsis. This is a TL;DR version. quote:http://www.dereksmart.com/2015/10/star-citizen-the-endgame/
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Oct 26, 2015 01:50
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Our first legal demand letter sent to RSI/CIG back in Aug. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4497650/15-08-21-dsmart_demand_letter_to_rsi-final.pdf My attorney's legal spankings of Ortwin, RSI/CIG in-house counsel. It's glorious. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4497650/15-10-02_Response_To_RSI_Cease_Desist.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4497650/15-09-15_response_to_RSI_letter.pdf
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Oct 26, 2015 01:54
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Raskolnikov posted:Derek Smart has had zero contact with my friend or her husband about DickWulf so either he is talking to ANOTHER married woman who received pics or his communications with "my friend" has been a long standing troll of Dr. Derek Smart Phd. Sorry, but I'm NOT going to make their communications to me public in order to prove you wrong. Either you're making this up, or someone is lying to you. As I type this, I have an ENTIRE wall of text in TweetDeck DM of my communications. I don't take too kindly to being called a liar. And as I said before, we don't even need their willing testimony. That's what subpoenas are for. Not to mention the RSI forum records and testimonies from the RSI/CIG staff who were party to all of it. I am pursuing it because people like Wulf Knight, Trevor Noblitt et al are the primary reason why the Star Citizen community is so toxic. And there is nothing on Earth that is going to prevent what I've sent in motion from happening and/or playing out. So everyone needs to just sit back, relax and wait for what comes next.
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Oct 26, 2015 20:07
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Jst0rm posted:this poo poo is loving amazing. Is this the first posting of these or did I just miss it? You missed them. They are all in my blogs. But you should read the TL;DR version here: http://www.dereksmart.com/2015/10/star-citizen-the-endgame/
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Oct 26, 2015 20:18
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Ghostlight posted:Derek. Honest question. Both 
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Oct 26, 2015 20:18
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Lastgirl posted:ok so when is Derek Smart gonna start up litigation? Legal action has been in motion since August. These things take time. The issue with the likes of Xaeriq Xavier Knight aka Wulf Knight, Trevor Noblitt et al is new; though the Knight issue has been on-going since last month when I made the decision to pursue it. Key to getting criminal and civil action against these morons is that you have to collect and collate all their social media relevant postings as evidence. It's not an easy task. And judges only care about key specific points; not all the other fluff. And in demonstrating harassment, certain criteria have to be met so as not to run afoul of Free Speech and such.
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Oct 26, 2015 20:22
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Dapper Dan posted:Here's what you need to know about Chris Roberts. He made a very successful franchise of video games (Wing Commander) which ended in 1996, Roberts always wanted to make movies and prodcued and wrote the horrific 'Wing Commander' movie which was directed by Roberts himself. It was such trash its not even a fun bad movie (well, except maybe the scene where someone gets pushed off a spaceship by a space bulldozer and the Robert's 'Thumbs up!'. That's about it). It was also nepotism in that he founded a studio called Digital Anvil, which did the effects for it. They released one game (Starlancer) in 2000 which was pretty good. There is no way anyone is going to bail him out. Not this time. The industry has changed, the liability is too high - and all this noise isn't going to help. Publishers won't touch this and only an investor who wants to burn money, would touch this going forward. Sure, they could probably get loans based on revenue. But guess what, the moment they do that - and it shows up in the financials; now there's a problem of explaining why that was needed and where did the crowd-funded money go. Trust me, this is why they're not likely to show these financials outside of court action.
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Oct 26, 2015 20:46
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G0RF posted:I hope this gets included in the OP, Derek. I don't think there's a more lucid or even-handed summary of semi-recent developments with Star Citizen. It really goes to great pains to avoiding biasing viewers for-or-against the project and its management... Done!
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Oct 26, 2015 21:04
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SirPhoebos posted:I got a question for Smart: Did you consider not saying anything, waiting for Nov. 1 to come, and just quietly filing a lawsuit to get the financial statements? It's a case of the right hand working independently from the left hand. They'll never see it coming. Trust me, there's a plan in place. And the end result is glorious. It's going to be part of my legacy that will be written about for the next decades.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:17
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AP posted:I removed his name, he linked his twitter earlier. Idiots pretending to be attorneys while having no clue what Tortious Interference actually is.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:28
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AP posted:Yeah, he was a major part of helping them with the cryengine and was on The Last Great Starship (just like Firefly cancelled after one series) Yeah, if you are following my Twitter feed, then you probably saw the news when I broke it. Meanwhile over on the /r/StarCitizen echo chamber on Reddit Back at the hive, a thread about this was closed in under 10 posts. Apparently not even $93m+ can buy you a decent spellchecker. [IMG]  [/IMG]
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Oct 26, 2015 21:32
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Unfunny Poster posted:Looks like the image in Derek's OP was taken down by Imgur. No, I screwed the link. Fixed the OP now.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:37
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kordansk posted:I thought this was old news about them dismantling Austin. They were trying to move everyone to lovely Monica. No. The plan was to close Austin. According to my sources, apparently they have now leased a smaller location which is only going to have less than five or so people. Why? So as not to prove me wrong. Seriously. But I broke the news that it was closing. CR denied it in his defamatory missive. But they are closing that very large location and completely downsizing it.
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Oct 26, 2015 21:39
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Sarsapariller posted:Executive Producer Eric Peterson Last we checked, 147 people had come and gone. Right now, aside from Dan leaving, I am sitting on 7 high profile names which I can't make public until they do (e.g. LinkedIn). Most have already found work already and just waiting out the holiday season.
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Oct 26, 2015 22:07
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SneakyFrog posted:DEREK OP STILL SUCKS, do you need us poor plebeians to make it all whizbang sexy for you or can you get your social media person on it? It looks like either CIG staff or White Knights are flagging them for removal. In fact, they no longer even appear in my imgur account. So much for memes. If you guys have other host links where they won't do this poo poo, lmk.
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Oct 26, 2015 23:34
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G0RF posted:This could be better but I don't have time to make it so right now. But since Derek is in charge of the thread, seemed appropriate. If I post it from my account, they will have it removed. They've had three of these removed already.
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Oct 26, 2015 23:36
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:It doesn't read like the source was your friend or her husband. It reads like a staff member within CIG. Better yet, I don't even believe him. So he's probably trolling us. Here's what I will do. Let him get his friend to give him the first line of the last DM he sent me, as well as the date it was sent. Then I'll know for certain that he has this "friend". Anything else, and it's a lie.
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Oct 26, 2015 23:49
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Ragequit posted:I saw that quick edit of the last 9 words. Holy moly you are out of your mind. God bless you Star Citizen disaster. I was on mobile and it just posted before I was finished
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Oct 27, 2015 00:02
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G0RF posted:Imgur is taking down those images? For real? Yeah, they are. All three were removed from my account album.
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Oct 27, 2015 00:07
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OK. I have fixed the OP using images hosted on postimg.org
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Oct 27, 2015 00:17
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thatguy posted:I like how Derek still hasn't managed to grasp how [img] tags work. Man, you guys are killing me. Haven't you HEARD that they have been reporting the images and REMOVING them? I've had to host them elsewhere. The OP is fixed again. sheesh
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Oct 27, 2015 00:30
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Malleovic posted:This is confusing. If he's saying that his friend never contacted you, it would be expected that they wouldn't be able to supply this information because it wouldn't exist... Ah! But that's the thing. He needs to just respond to what I asked. And if he says his friend says he's never - ever - contacted nor communicated with me at all, well then, I have the nuclear option. I just don't want to use that option on the off-chance that he is in fact trolling us, thus forcing my hand.
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Oct 27, 2015 00:32
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peter gabriel posted:Be careful derek uhm, OK, what did I miss?
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Oct 27, 2015 00:37
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Raskolnikov posted:Derek I am not a liar, I am saying be careful with your sources. You have someone else with another story, that other story is not related to the content I posted in this thread. OK, I'm not sure how we ended up down this road. But let's get some clarity here. 1) I have first hand accounting of the RSI forum incident between Dick Wulf and the female in question 2) I have the entire forum thread 3) I have confirmation of the above via a text message which I have since posted 4) I was contacted by the husband of the lady in question, and we have had communications which lead me to believe that it is him 5) I do NOT know who the person in the mirror image is. I was informed that it was the pic sent to this lady in question So, what am I missing?
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Oct 27, 2015 00:40
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D_Smart posted:OK, I'm not sure how we ended up down this road. But let's get some clarity here. Raskolnikov posted:Number 5 is not true. Number 4 applies to my friend as well as your other group of people. I believe he contacted you saying to leave both of them out of everything. I will ask him later tonight on teamspeak exactly what he sent you. Ah! I see now how we're getting wires crossed. So nobody was lying then. At least not this time around Anyway, so who does the censored the dick pic in #5 come from then?
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Oct 27, 2015 02:52
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SneakyFrog posted:(SIIIIGH) since derek wont OP it. like a guy who does not care about proper I took care of it. Check out the OP now. It's all there.
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Oct 27, 2015 03:16
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Raskolnikov posted:That is what he sent to my friend off site. It didn't happen on the forums though like your group. On Teamspeak 3 if you want to pop on by. 63.210.145.186:9199 pass is lemon Ah! That explains the discrepancy then. Thanks. Sorry, can't jump on tonight. It's almost 10:30PM here and I have an early meeting. Will PM you.
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So this moron Christopher Dicunzolo aka /u/MadnessHel2o/ aka @Cptn_Jack_Ditka decided he was going to buy me a lovely avatar (which I just paid to change back) as per his comment in this Reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/DerekSmart/comments/3qd34c/psa_the_something_awful_forums_custom_titles/cwe4wz7 Don't these people ever learn? Chris, if you don't stop harassing me, I'm going to call your mom. Hey Reddit! Archive this!! ....................../´¯/) ....................,/¯../ .................../..../ ............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸ ........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\ ........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...') .........\.................'...../ ..........''...\.......... _.·´ ............\..............( ..............\.............\... D_Smart fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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Decrepus posted:Someone from reddit bought D_Smart an av and then someone else from reddit bought another one and overwrote it? Are they this stupid or is my sequence of events wrong. No, he bought me a lovely one given me paleface. I changed it back to the current "The Stupid It Burns" one.
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Oct 27, 2015 03:59
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SneakyFrog posted:but.. you left off your smart gangtag and dancemaster certification. poo poo. PM me the format. That twerp stripped it all out it looks like.
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Fooma posted:I have to say, it's scary how the anonymity of the internet is just a loose veil of smoke and mirrors, just like something else we all know. Yeah, they're not very bright. They keep coming after the ONE MAN who is best left alone. Yay, Dr. Mr. Smart found my name out too! I'm sure it wasn't really that difficult. He threatened to tell mom on me I wasn't aware paying for a service offered by a website in which he signed up for and agreed to the TOS constitutes harassment but hey I don't have lawyers on retainer.
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Oct 27, 2015 04:05
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Omi-Polari posted:If anyone comes in here posting like "Hey guys what's going on with Star Citizen can someone sum up?" or "What's Derek Smart doing here HUH that's crazy lol?" or anything like that, well there's a loving war going on that's what! And Reddit has found a way to weaponize sheer stupid. Our only defense ... a blistering shitpost counter-attack. Amen. And the more they keep doing stupid poo poo, the more they're going to see their names in bright lights. Accountability is a bitch; and I'm holding the whip.
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Oct 27, 2015 04:06
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Jegan Ace posted:Jesus, this game looks like a my old Celeron should be running it. Well you should get rid of that lovely POS Celeron then? 
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Omi-Polari posted:I saw today that LoD has nukes in it, which is kinda cool. I might play it for that alone. Yeah, the Nucstar mine is a thermo-nuclear device that requires remote detonation. It takes out every loving thing within a 1km radius of the detonation. And it has an EMP blast that fries electronics (vehicles, aircraft, devices etc) as well 
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