Tippis posted:

Tippis posted:

I keep harping on about it to anyone who even gets tangentially close to the subject, but I consider Conspiracy of Fools to be one of the best crime/drama/thriller books I've read. Except that it's a journalistic exposé of the whole company from start to finish.

For your perspective, I would probably suggest Anatomy of Greed to see exactly what kind of experience you missed out on: the story of a freshly cooked MBA that started at Enron in March 2001. It's pretty good but since it's a personal-perspective account, it lacks the epic grandeur of Conspiracy.


boot.ini strikes again.
Granted, I maintain that part of that was Windows' fault — the system should not allow its core files to sit fully exposed in a world-writable directory and have some incompetently made game remove them.

drat Dirty Ape posted:

This is actually quite common, and really isn't a problem for an effective engineer who knows how to delegate by letting people do their jobs, setting realistic goals, facilitating communication between everyone involved, and not constantly moving the goalposts and making people redo poo poo they've already done over and over again.

pepito sanchez posted:

ewe2 posted:

Absolutely, it's a homage after all. If you need anything different, let me know. Song is in 90bpm if that helps.

peter gabriel posted:

Hillary Clintons Thong posted:

I'm convinced that they commissioned that song, IE paid money for it. There is no other explanation that makes sense.

Beet Wagon posted:

drat, I didn't even realize I had snyped this page.

retroactive dogge post!

Kayak gets really annoyed when people ask him "Where's all the fur?" or "Is Shedding cancelled?" because everything you walk on, all your shirts, it's all in there - the hair is already in your house

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Free Mr.Tophat!

Wikkheiser posted:

”A speech made in January, 2017” posted:

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd planned to speak to you tonight to report on the state of the Squadron 42, but the events of earlier today have led me to change those plans. Today is a day for mourning and remembering. Sandi and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the Persistent Universe. We know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss.

Nineteen months ago, almost to the day, we lost three developers in a terrible accident at Illfonic. But we've never lost a developer on S42. We've never had a tragedy like this.

And perhaps we've forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. But they, the Persistent Universe Crew, were aware of the dangers, but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. We mourn these heroes.
We mourn their loss as a nation together.

For the families of the developers, we cannot bear, as you do, the full impact of this tragedy. But we feel the loss, and we're thinking about you so very much. Your loved ones were daring and brave, and they had that special grace, that special spirit that says, "Give me a challenge, and I'll meet it with joy." They had a hunger to explore the universe and discover its truths. They wished to serve, and they did. They served all of us.

We've grown used to wonders in this century. It's hard to dazzle us. But for five years Cloud Imperium Games has been doing just that. We've grown used to the idea of space, and, perhaps we forget that we've only just begun. We're still pioneers. They, the members of the Persistent Universe crew, were pioneers.

And I want to say something to the backers who were watching the live meltdown of the game’s development. I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave. The Persistent Universe crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.

I've always had great faith in and respect for our developers. And what happened today does nothing to diminish it. We don't hide our development. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up front and in public. That's the way open development is, and we wouldn't change it for a minute.

We'll continue our quest in space. There will be more jpegs and more fidelity and, yes, more moderators, more backers, more systems in space. Nothing ends here; our hopes and our journeys continue.

I want to add that I wish I could talk to every man and woman who works for CIG, or who worked on this game and tell them: "Your dedication and professionalism have moved and impressed us for decades. And we know of your anguish. We share it."

There's a coincidence today. On this day three hundred and ninety years ago, the great explorer Sir Francis Drake died aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said, "He lived by the sea, died on it, and was buried in it." Well, today, we can say of the PU crew: Their dedication was, like Drake's, complete.

The crew of the Persistent Universe honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."

Thank you.

Decrepus posted:

Can you guys who are talking about Engineering Debt or whatever explain how that isn't included in normal day-to-day operation of 300 employees? If it is some artists already on the payroll just making things out of cubes and stealing artwork how does that make it cost extra? I'm assuming they aren't working per diem.

Colostomy Bag posted:

Remember, there is a poo poo ton of overhead involved with companies this size. This ain't some 5 guys in a garage type operation. You have HR, you have mandatory trainings and other bullshit to deal with. Compliance is a bitch once you get over 50 employees.

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Engineering debt is a term I started using around the time that they got really hog wild with the big ticket ships that all use some completely different mechanic that hasn't even been though up right and would need hundreds if not thousands of ENGINEER hours to just get it programmed. Basically a completely new problem is created and now the engineers need to solve it, the problem was created to sell ships, the ships are already sold, so its a debt held to the engineers. The drink mini game, the passenger cruise-line, the liquid mining poo poo, etc are all examples of engineering debt.

thatguy posted:

Everyone post what you think her return tweet will look like. Whoever is closest wins the satisfaction of being right.

fuctifino posted:

ripptide posted:

There's actually a Gamescom site for exhibition costing. http://www.gamescom-cologne.com/gamescom/for-exhibitors/registration/calculate-stand-costs/index.php .Lowest cost was as a business at 100.5 (I'm assuming Euros), and 162.5 for entertainment area. So as an example, a 10Mx10M business and 10Mx10M entertainment area would be about 35,818.00 Euro, or about 40K US. Just for the space.

TheAgent posted:

if chris doesn't show in person i will buy 5 people here avatars

that's how much I doubt that info

tuo posted:

Chris: Is it lovely enough to get rid of the dancing cat?
DevLead: Uhm...I mean...we still need to make a game out of this...
Chris: (handwaving) DOES IT KEEP AWAY THE DANCING CAT?
DevLead: It should...but, you know, we could add some more content that is slated for later builds, to break it more...
Chris: (calming) will it keep the cat away?

Atreiden posted:

After reading this entire thread and the former, I still don't get how so many people in their late 20th/early 30th are falling for the hype or believing some of the more outlandish claims about how for instance AI will behave. Like last time I fell for game hype and pre-ordered, I was in my teens. And seriously some of the claims about what SC will do, are simply not feasible or downright impossible, yet you have people in their 30ths buying in for +10k because they somehow believe in the hype.

Decrepus posted:

RedTonic posted:

^^^

Ice cold, bud.


I been spooped up for quite a while now. The meatatar will return in November, though. I'm digging the proliferation of byobatars in the meantime.

...Kinda hoping FAU keeps going with the name change thread, I wanna see what horrible moniker I get.

Xaerael posted:

She was a Husky. She lived to 14, and although she did some really dumb dog things, she was the most intelligent pet I've ever owned.

ZenMaster posted:

wow epic fail , host is dead

trying this again:



GUYS GUYS GUYS!!! I HAVE EXCLUSIVE S42 CUT SCENE CONTENT!!! NEVER SEEN BEFORE!!!

Meridian posted:

What have I missed?

Meridian posted:

Well we already knew MoMA was Toast though.