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MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

pftc posted:

Derek is put into an awkward position.

Chris Roberts called Derek a smelly shitface and sent Crippled Dick Wulf to attack for him.

The crippled kid wanted to have Derek SWATed. https://archive.is/h9BMi

What's Derek supposed to do? Let it happen?

Yeah, I spoke up against this last night and even took the time to write a long carepost to the kid telling him to shut the gently caress up and stop poking the bear but I've regretted it already. Wheelchair or not he's a shithead, gently caress him.

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MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Meta-Mollusk posted:

Yeah just post some more delicious recipes and cat photos until something actually interesting happens.

This is what happens when all the cat pictures keep getting taken down.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Fish Fry Andy posted:

Hmmm I'm glad he read through this entire thread, now knows that Derek Smart wants to sue him over jpegs and is still like "yeah this is entirely worth my time."

D_Smart call the dad.

Really, gently caress him, he's dumb as a sack of doorknobs. smh

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
I doubt this guy has someone checking what gets uploaded 24/7 so how many days before all traffic and disk space has been consumed by furry porn?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Wafflz posted:

They still refuse to believe it was a dumbass redditor attacking this thread. hilarious

It's inconvenient. It would be trivial to check the time we started bitching about it deleting even our cat pictures and the time they noticed it themselves but that doesn't fit the narrative they are going for.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
1400 posts per day :psyduck:

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
There's one thing that's baffling me, was this the first time someone pulled a report bot stunt on imgur? How can this thing be working all these years and be susceptible to something like this? Wouldn't hundreds of reports coming from a single source in minutes stick out like a sore thumb?
Let's say that these guys who already showed they have no sense with money pool their entire resources to make stargur work, what prevents them from effectively banning this thread from using imgur afterward? Or even all of SA? Or the reverse, goons retaliating at some point by blocking all of reddit from imgur?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Paladinus posted:

I am a proud goon soldier. I will fight with all my strength to make sure that a video game fails. This is my purpose in life. Hail Smart!

These people have already proven to be highly exploitable, the game failing will be a laugh extravaganza for weeks, but the game coming out? Oh my.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Don Dongington posted:

I went looking for a good pubbie quote to use for a dumb meme and stumbled upon this shitshow:

:gary: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3qng06/wow_i_just_found_out_about_this_game_and_i_am/

I.. just... :negative:

The comments. The absolutely blind optimism... the cognitive dissonance is just...

Some psyche PHD should do a thesis on these assholes.

:gary:

You'll see, once you go over $1000 before you know it you're an SC druggie and you'll be $5000+ in! See you in the Verse. :holy:

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
same

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

KiddieGrinder posted:

Wait are we still doing this? :ohdear:

Good god, I was starting to think I was the only one that this was starting to grate started grating after a couple of hours. Stop flogging a dead wheelchair ffs.


e: oh poo poo, I got your meaning wrong, never mind.

:gary: wheelchairs lololol :gary:

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Eonwe posted:

let me explain why, like bitcoin, this is fine and even actually a good thing


quote:

SemiGaseousSnake 3 pontos 27 minutes ago*
Well that's reassuring that they're able to do this given that sections of the game are indeed getting completed. As milestones are met teams usually get leaner and leaner. While CIG is by no means getting lean, this is a healthy and perfectly normal thing in the industry.
Edit: typing on phone words bad no talk good bad talk do
:psyboom:

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Sedisp posted:

"As things get further on things get leaner this is a good thing, of course CIG is a bloated mess this too is a good thing"

Worse than that, they went from:

- well just because some people are getting fired doesn't prove anything, sometimes people get fired when the project is getting completed

to

- people are getting fired which proves the project is getting completed

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
There's the money shot.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Nickiepoo posted:

I love when people block here too because it just gives their posts a big 'CLICK HERE, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!' button that they always do.

I used to think the same but then one day My Imaginary GF visited my village and my life changed forever.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Octopode posted:

It does, after all, take a solid two mouse clicks to change to a chronological view of things instead of a score-based one if that's what you want.

It's still poo poo because the nested comments completely gently caress up the "chronological" view. Even if there was no down voting reddit would still be complete poo poo for this reason, you just can't get the flow of a conversation with non sequential posts and people having to reply to each post separately. Nested comments were complete poo poo when Yahoo Groups did it and it's complete poo poo now but at least in loving Yahoo Groups you could change it to sequential view.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Nation posted:

lol when its the mods

That would be hilarious but they can't even be arsed to paywall the thread which is a complete mindfuck to me. This poo poo would be a goldmine.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

D_Smart posted:

Overheard over at the Reddit Kool-Aid dispensing machine

quote:

Yeah, that was their reply one day after his tweet, so damage control mode
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 8:12 AM
DS tweet about Austin layoffs was 24th

quote:

To give him his credit he was right about the Austin studio closing and Ben didn't tell us but let us find out this way. All the artists and PU staff gone, just like that.

Immediately followed by:

quote:

Ignore him, it's just another Alt account for DS.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

mormonpartyboat posted:

did I ever tell you about the time derek took me out to go get a drink with him? we go off looking for a bar and we can’t find one. finally, derek takes me into a vacant lot and says, "here we are!" well, we sat there for a year and a half, and sure enough, someone constructs a bar around us. the day they opened it, he ordered a coke, drank it, and then burnt the place to the ground. derek yelled over the roar of the flames, "always leave things the way you found them!"

:gary: Pleasantly surprised this didn't end with "that's him in the wheelchair".

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Kewpuh posted:

this is a really bad idea. the goal should be to entice people to register and participate instead of shutting them out of whatever might lure them here

I dunno man, the way these people are obsessed with SA and DS and with the money they have shown they are willing to part with :10bux: for this thread alone would be something they couldn't resist. Many of them couldn't not know what we are scheming daily. I'd give it a shot for a week (I doubt they could resist that much) and then bring it back to the public.

e:

AP posted:

Thinking about the uptight Star Citizens who lurk this thread just to stalk Derek would just archive the post for their friends so they didn't have to pay anyway.
Yeah, there's that. They'd avoid giving us any money if possible.


e2:

Furious Mittens posted:

Just about any games with Goons is a fun experience, even when Goons ruin everything.

That's how I got into SA, in 2004 I was in the "pissed off at goons" side of the trench. The game was existed and was fun but a goon alliance found a bug and instead of reporting it to the creators so they would fix it they decided to ruin everything. Months of work down the drain just when it was about to pay off... But the goons seemed to be having a lot of fun before loving everything and then mocked us mercilessly after doing it.

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Oct 30, 2015

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Dapper Dan posted:

Does Alpha 2.0 even have a release date now or is it 'soon' or 'eventually' or 'two weeks'? Is it coming out before or after SQ42 with :gary:? I still don't see how them losing a bunch of people as they are going into a second version of a loving alpha is a good thing. Typically you shed people at the end of a game when all you really need is bug testing and art stuff before you launch it. Not when you are in alpha and you need to get revved up to get poo poo done to go into beta. Its goddamn delusional. "Oh, everything is ok! They are just shedding dead weight!" Yeah, because when a company is shedding employees when it needs them at a crucial point is always a good sign.

You just answered your own question.

> you shed people at the end of the game
> they are shedding people

ergo

> they are in the polishing phase


A couple more weeks and it will be ready for release. You'd realize this if you weren't so blindly following of your Smart messiah.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Is there a space golf cart version of this?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
So, what's the hazing program for all these newcomers again? 20 posts in FYAD without getting banned? A report on the last couple of weeks of ADTRW?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Karl_Ramseier posted:

If you explain to me what I should rationalize... busy reading legal documents atm.

Do you guys think pretending to be married to someone and also posting pics of the person in question is punishable by law?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si5RyLmJupg

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Tank Boy Ken posted:

wow. Is that you Karl?

Karl is german I think.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Karl_Ramseier posted:

None, I am just fascinated how someone like DS (with such a legal track record) can probably think going to court is a good idea. The poor guys that are with him in this class action endeavour.

You guys should really get a PACER account.

poo poo son don't be coy, just CP it. But anyway, I don't think the courts decide the merit of your case based on if you had previous run-ins with the courts, especially if your "remarkable" legal track record doesn't include being a felon. Which I presume you aren't trying to imply?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

2DCAT posted:

i just found some really awesome stuff in bloomberg that i'm going to be really vague about. you guys should all pay the $2k per month sub and see this stuff i'm looking at. lulz if you don't because i'm laughing at all this stuff i dug up. everyone is going to be like :gary: PAAAAARRP when they see it.

OMG it's true, now I feel like a fool for having worshiped DS. Bernie Madoff, really? WTF?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
On Why Redditors Just Don't Get It - A primer to any redditor considering buying an SA account for spying

quote:

lefthandtrav 13 pontos 21 hours ago
Does he not realize that Maxwell Smart is a complete and utter buffoon who leaps before he looks and THAT'S why they plastered his face on there with a quote attached that only helps to reinforce that? smh

quote:

azurelinctus 5 pontos 19 hours ago
Yep, I think we all understood it in an instant, the humour and thought behind it appears to have been lost on DS. Derek is quite happy and proud about it judging by his comments in twitter. The man is so daft.

quote:

TheRoadbeer 4 pontos 18 hours ago
It's like the "Full warlord" one.
He is so mind-numbingly ignorant of pop culture references, he doesn't even know when he's being trolled.

quote:

Kant_Lavar 3 pontos 11 hours ago
Look, whatever plays on his name we might make, Smart actually is fairly intelligent. He has to be, to do the job he's done just from a technical standpoint.
The way the Goons are just pulling his strings like this, and he doesn't see what happening even when they practically shove it under his nose... I'm virtually speechless. I almost want to take pity and try and warm him or something.

Look you mongs since you evidently read this thread let me try to explain this to you... SA is like a wolf dog mutt pack and when you're running with the pack you will occasionally get a playful bite. It's to be expected, it's a bonding thing, in order to fit in you have to take any such nibbling it in the spirit it was made. You people overthink everything, sometimes a funny pic is a funny pic, you start foaming at the mouth in outrage and then get all surprised when the whole pack turns on you in the blink of an eye. It's how we can always tell you fuckers a mile away, you keep bringing attention to the stuff that pushes your buttons, to you everything is serious business and you can't help but getting all butthurt over the dumbest poo poo.

TL;DR: He can take a joke but I'd love if your precious Messiah or his wife dropped by one day, see if they could deal with teasing in an adult manner. From what I've seen so far I doubt it.

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Oct 31, 2015

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

AP posted:



I think it's you that doesn't get it, :colbert: the gang all posting on rsi in the same thread (Karl & Roadbeer), in r/dereksmart in the same threads and in their twitter club perfectly understand SA.

Somethingawful, it's all fun and games until someone asks you to dance.

quote:

And poking this guy to take legal action against redditors might backfire if he follows through.

:psyboom:

HOW?! How exactly is DS suing a redditor going to backfire on us? Is a US judge going to ask Interpol to arrange my deportation to Gitmo for the serious crime of "laughing when someone said their were going to sue someone else"? How can these people have made so much money to spend on this poo poo in the first place when they are dumber than a whole sack of doorknobs?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Enchanted Hat posted:

How can a loving auditor be gullible enough to also be a SC whale? I guess it explains why he grew up to be such a weird sperg, tho.

Yes, his father is an auditor and his brother-in-law is in the army and the ships he has were a gift and the SA account he has[*] was a gift and he doesn't know who in this thread bought him his original unironic SC avatar and



[*] assuming this and Karl are the same person.

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Oct 31, 2015

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

This is actually true, publicly identifying and accusing someone of sexual harassment is serious business, especially to someone married. I wonder why Wulf Dick isn't threatening to sue? Is he one of those "turn the other cheek" ultra christians?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Hopper posted:

Disclaimer: I am as competent at law as CIG is at making a functioning game, so my information is pre-alpha, don't rely on it.

Right, when reddit comes for me I know who I'm gonna blame.


Jethro_E7 posted:

If you have ever posted in a concern thread you can't join his org (one of his forum comments).
This was back before concerns were forced into a dev abandoned black hole to avoid giving newcomers the wrong impression about SC.

Hahaha if someone doesn't toe the line do they tell him :gb2C:?

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Oct 31, 2015

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Nyeehg posted:

What's worse, this example is one of the tamer ones. How many people have drove themselves into financial ruin backing this game. At the very least, we know one guy ended up getting divorced because he spent all the family savings on a game that shows no sign of finishing anytime soon.
When this goes tits up any whale that hosed his life over this game will get zero sympathy from the rest. "Shouldn't have invested more than you could afford" they'll say without an ounce of self awareness, it'll make a great balm for their ego. I predict that if anyone does off themselves over this it will be someone that gets jumped on by marginally less invested citizens in a "at least I'm not that dumb" relief of cognitive dissonance.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

I was gonna say that this man is an idiot because if SC comes out "in a few years" the boundaries will already have been pushed by 5 or 6 or 7 years and everything that SC once thought was innovative and more will have been done already and competently, but then I remembered SC should still have the market cornered in the Space Tetris and Space Hostess simulation.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Amun Khonsu posted:

Think DS made an issue out of her double dipping.

The Roberts family is making out bigtime on this. CR is taking fat salary as CEO and taking over project manager and othe roles previously hired out to others. Sandi is VP of Marketing, ATV host and SQ42 actress and has her fingers in HR and CS.

Then Erin doing his thing but I think most ppl think Erin is worth his weight and paygrase

Soon they'll be doing Citizenthons.


Jethro_E7 posted:

:cry:

Karl - I used to be a Grand Admiral.
What range of money are we talking about here? :ohdear:

MeLKoR fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Nov 1, 2015

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
Speaking of lawsuit, has Escapist been brought to space court yet?

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

TheLastRoboKy posted:

Yeah, everyone keeps talking about Smart's lawsuits but we're what, over a month past the deadline for Escapist making a full retraction and apology or CIG sues?

They even put their demands publicly up so everyone could see it, and then apparently backed down without making a sound.

Well, aside from :gary:

Maybe it was just a matter of giving Sandi a boost of emotional support during the con so she decided to take the higher road like the classy lady she is and not waste backer money fighting these vile personal attacks by Derek Smart. Since the claim CIG was running out of money was so preposterous that they didn't even bother to ask for a retraction because it's presence in itself discredited the really serious accusations against Sandi there was no other reason to sue.

MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless
IANAL so I don't understand the significance of "the letter wasn't signed". Is the argument that D_Smart stole stationary from a lawyer's office or is otherwise impersonating a lawyer? Wouldn't that blow up immediately as soon as the letter was posted online?

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MeLKoR
Dec 23, 2004

by FactsAreUseless

Mirificus posted:

AP posted:

So who do we think is going to keep the faith longest Janssendalt or Karl?

I know Karl has started strong with the whole multiple online personas thing, a rather heavily "investment" and a belief that this thread is a well organised disinformation campaign dance but I wouldn't rule janssendalt out just yet.
Don't forget about Octopode.

Octopode will be the first.

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