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SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
how on earth is this the fastest moving thread on the forums when theres nothing going on

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SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Happy Sisyphus posted:

idk im making fun of this guys sim pit and enjoying that

I just want to see whats goin on in the 'verse and I've missed like 10k posts but I can't discern whats even happened.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Galarox posted:

I had to go see the doctor and couldn't walk properly for a month.

Wow Small World.


Same thing happened to me after a crazy gay sex party I had one year.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
I've never watched any of these twitch things before. Holy poo poo that was awkward and cringy. You could cut the tension with a knife and awkward pauses everywhere.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
Everyone remember that time Call of Duty got sued for 100 million and lost because one of their developers said Battlefield sucked?

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
i dont really remember anybody running 8ace off. He got wasted and posted too much info and when he sobered up he deleted a bunch of his stuff and is laying low. I remember one dude kind of annoyed he deleted his old posts.

Not really a big deal he'll be back and im sure hes welcome.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
For any leakers: Don't come in and say "WOW something BIG just happened. Can't give details. Just YOU wait" cough Derek cough

If you can't even post even the tiniest detail of wtf you are talking about, just don't post until you can. No one will complain.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

orcinus posted:

Wait what.
Where?

The last RTV had a bunch of awkward jibes at eachother and the company. It was really uncomfortable to watch

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
We are all living Chapter 6 right now

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
It will ultimately end in Chapter 11

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
I'm the CIG employee who utterly destroyed the bathroom with explosive diarrhea that one time. AMA

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

redwalrus posted:

they literally installed constellation doors into their office building.



I'm the 55 year old man dressed as a 20 year old.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
Thatd prob run around 1k assuming its from a normal supplier. Knowing CIG its some rare Amazonian wood soaked with the blood of the 3 pygmies it crushed while being cut down. Then painted black with Sherwin-Williams.

Edit: lol 2k

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
Hmm, we can get a metal card table that size at Walmart for $30 or get a designer organic table for 3k. No happy medium.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
I get getting an expensive table for the conference room where you want to impress big shots etc but its the fuckin breakroom.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

spacetoaster posted:

That is a bulldozer's recoil spring. Literally like 20$ brand new. Probably sold at scrap steel prices at the junkyard, so less than a dollar each.

Yea I've seen poo poo like that at the scrapyard. Dust off a few straight ones, bolt a flat panel on top, paint it, have a fancy designer brand name, and rake in 500 bucks.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
The banner ad on the last 3 pages has been for that RH furniture website. Skynet has come online.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
You know how when you think about it you are rarely more than 6 feet from your cell phone (and a dozen spiders), its like that with coke for him.

And Chris

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

D_Smart posted:

You realize that he wasn't talking about me, right?

If you think that then what did the super secret note say. And whats the big thing on "defcon 3" you've given literally zero details about. Like you did the exact thing you quoted like 20 minutes ago lol

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
In a vacuum itd be cool that they're letting fans playtest the game. But in context its loving hilarious. Gonna lose the whales hard if you show too much,

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Making it Rain posted:

I literally clicked the link like 10seconds after your post and it was already deleted... :troll:


I decrypted/bruteforced it the other night, it appears 8ace during he's Salty Dick moment removed what ever it was that was linked to.

i've re done it like x4 times now and i get the exact same result after each run. :fry:

Older gentleman in bowler hat sees your post over your shoulder on the bus*

Older man: Son do you like puzzles? I've got a job for you if you are interested
Goon: Does it have to do with Star Citizen? The game that doesn't exist and is totally loving up?
Older man: What? Why no. You'd be serving your country.
Goon: Doesn't seem like my cup of tea. Now excuse me, theres another code string in here I haven't solved yet and I just may finally find out how much those breakroom chairs cost.
Older man: Uhh ok son
Goon: Parp!

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
Maybe he meant they had 6 months worth of development endproduct done in those 4 years.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
My Little Pony plushies seem to get a lot of "action" from the older crowd so I'd go with action figures personally.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Gapey Joe Stalin posted:

I would argue, from my position of admitted ignorance, that they lack the requisite number of points of articulation to qualify as 'action figures' and as such should be regarded as somewhere between a doll and an ornament.

Over time and through plenty of love they often become stiff enough for just such points of said articulation.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
please don't actually watch anime. Just pretend you j/o to it online for laughs

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Agrajag posted:

always jerk it to hentai

Is this how you are spending the Lord's Day?

I'm at work saving lives but its Sunday so theres only a couple people dying right now.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

BattleMaster posted:

I love the movie and loved that commentary track so much except for the parts where they stop talking about the philosophy of the film in order to talk about the special effects. The special effects were (and still are) really nice but drat the film was a good bit of satire.

I get that its satire. But satire of what. The book? I've never seen the director commentary.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

BattleMaster posted:

Verhoeven tried reading the original Starship Troopers book by Heinlein, gave up a couple chapters in because it was a love letter to fascism (it was written when Heinlein was going through a very militarily-optimistic phase and he used the book as a vessel for his views which he had come under attack for) and went and did his own thing using just the broad strokes of the plot and setting and used it as a criticism of optimistic militarism/might makes right. Large chunks of the movie are inspired by propaganda newsreels (not just the famous "would you like to know more?" parts), the characters wear uniforms heavily inspired by WW2 Germany's, and a lot of the dialogue is about how violence and war is good and just. This is juxtaposed with things like how all the people who earned their citizenship through military service and came back alive were crippled in some way, and how executions are broadcast on TV and advertised like sporting events.

If you turn off your brain you might just end up cheering the characters on, when in fact you're supposed to see all of this stuff as being bad. I mean, the bugs couldn't possibly have even launched that asteroid at Earth from across the galaxy but they're used as the punching bag for the current two minutes of hate because the society that was depicted in the movie always needs something to direct its violence at. But after all the death and killing, the movie ends on a "hell yeah let's get some more" note with the characters who survived showing up as main characters in a propaganda reel of their own.


Heinlein wasn't a fascist though. Stranger in a Strange Land was a socialist paradise. No one accuses him of being a commie. He was a sci fi writer doing worldbuilding.

Excellent movie though and I did like the tongue in check stuff. First watched it when I was like 11 and scared for life in the first klendathu scene.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
IS CR the next Hitler??!?!?!?

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
Honestly they can shovel out whatever poo poo they want to and call it whatever and most likely be good legally. They're only hard legally liable for physical backer rewards.

As far as I can see nothing illegal has been done. Just unethical/incompetent poo poo.

edit: They'll just be banned from kickstarter like that fem frequency lady is. But I doubt they'd care after getting 100 mil on their own website.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
I've been F5ing CIG's website for the last two weeks straight. My hand hurts and I'm so tired.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Altran posted:

I like space sims, while Star Citizen has been on the news for plenty of reasons, I had never looked into it or pledged the kickstarter. My question is, despite all the controversies it generates, it seems a great game on youtube and when it releases, should I pre-order it or pledged the kickstarter to gain release date advantage still?

If in 2021 Star Citizen releases and is actually good. Like a .1% chance of this occurring. You should buy it for 60 bucks like a normal person. That's my plan anyway.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Sunswipe posted:

Just had a thought: is there anything in Star Citizen that's done right? Something, anything, that makes sense and works?

someone definitely made the website.

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCi-fytEQO8

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
if you blueball me on this derek i wont be swallowing next time

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Asema posted:

derek u need to have more secure passwords than "e.l.e." lmao holy moly

Please dont troll

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
Also Derek if you blueball us again theres no way in hell ill be swallowing your hot loads of e.l.e again in the future

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster
Its a fast thread I just want him to know what hell be missing

SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

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SurfaceDetail
Feb 17, 2016

by Cowcaster

Eonwe posted:

I haven't read the thread all weekend, someone tell me whats going on please and thank you

Chris Roberts and Ben are taking a step back from SC. Sandi is gonna run the day to day and CR is gonna do ideas stuff but as more of a part time thing. Also kind of an open secret but SC PU is now officially on hold. SQ42 only. Release Q3 2017

Its fun to hack blog pws

SurfaceDetail fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Apr 12, 2016

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