spacetoaster posted:

Star Citizen posted:

In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis. The Fourth Stimpire has origins from the Ten Empire War in which 10 of the United Stimpires revolted against each rules. All empires except for the fourth swore freedom upon their citizens. There is no free speech in the Fourth Stimpire, and all self-controlled transportation has been made illegal without undergoing painful medical verification methods, in which arteries are severed without pain resistant, operated entirely by machines. The way they work claim to be the most hygenic and healthy way possible, but these machines often rub against pain points, causing great deals of pain to patients. The heart is then extracted from the body and placed into a glass grinding machine. Various energy centers are also dissected and replaced with dangerous transplants. After the painful, 52 hour surgical procedure, patients will then have to use a fused guidance tool, which pumps painful resistors into the body every 2 hours. The pain they have caused is so bad, the victim would freeze in a tense position. They would then collapse afterwards.

Sexual stimulation in any way within the grounds of the Fourth Stimpire is strictly prohibited, and anyone detected even touching their sexual organs will be subjected to a penectomy or if the offender was a female, they would then have a razor inserted into their ovaries. They would pump a blue solution into the womb until the stitchings burst. Offenders would also be forced to show their operated areas in public, and they would always harass and punch them to a pulp, against their will.

Otherwise, offenders would be tazed with the worst type of electricity in the systematic district, causing so much pain, the victim would scream and flail in madness. The pain would also triple every second, but no death would be incurred. This is also used in combat against enemy units, which is why all UEE forces must wear the upgraded suit to block this effect.

However, enertainment is also questionable in UEE grounds. Sporting events end with the losing team being rounded into a grinder and shredded on live television, boxing matches end with the loser having their hands removed without anasthesia, flight races would end with the losers having their arms and legs removed, then being injected with insanity, for entertainment. People are also forced into these events, by undergoing a painful 127 hour procedure which involves tweaking the muscles so they will not listen to brain commands, and then having a painful drug injected which also causes madness if the player is not sporting. This is all for entertainment, and anyone not watching any of it during sporting times and cheering for the winning team, they will be imprisoned into galactic camps.

Snuff films are also broadcast, and actors are actually murdered just for entertainment. Stealth droids also guide these forced actors into behaving exactly as the director dreams, otherwise they will be punished by being placed into a macerator and having their execution written into the film. Any film that does not feature someone being murdered will be burned and the entire crew behind it will be executed in the most grotesque way possible - vivisection.

All executions are broadcast, and anyone who misses even a millisecond, even by blinking, will be executed. All citizens must boo to the person being executed, and the family is gathered to be injected with eternators, which cause pain forever, making them immoral but feeling the pain tenfold every millisecond. They cannot pass out, but they will feel like it forever.

Conquests by this Stimpire end in the planet being razed, and all the citizens being executed in the same way as their citizens are. The planet is then destroyed and all remnants of it are removed, and any memories of it will be erased instantly from civil minds. People who are also killed are also erased from memories, and all memories of them, including toys and pictures, are destroyed.

Prisoners undergo 40,000 years of relentless and endless labor, and anyone not complying is sentenced to the eternator injection. All prisoners injected with eternators are placed into capsules and launched into far space, then the room is closed tight to ensure maximum insanity. Some prisoners are also subjected to the removal of blood, the lungs, the liver, the genitals, the skeleton, the muscles, the eyes, and even the injection of pressure. Prisoners sentenced to pressure chambers are locked in until they are inflated to a high level. The decompression is then stopped to make sure they are inflated and uncomfortable.

Children born on the 14th of July are subjected to the removal of their skeleton and an implant of a silver liquid to replace it. The nervous sysem is also injected in various parts to ensure it is five times more sensitive than the average.

Restaurants also are ordered to serve civil meat, and anyone attending must give themself up to be cooked into a grotesque meal. They are cooked alive, undergoing extreme pain, and are then subjected to industrial grinders and blenders. The Stimpire orders at least 1 million citizens to be dispatched every day, as they are afraid the population may overthrow them. But only one planet is cared for, and the rest are banned from eating, drinking, talking, using technology, touching anyone, wearing unauthorized clothes, touching buildings, or walking a centimeter out of designated routes. Civil enforcers are on every planet, and they are engineered so that they are 40 times larger than the 300 quadrillion population. At least 7 billion die every 12 hours under this rule.

Thoughts are also surveyed, and anyone who does not think anything to loving the Stimpire with more than their capabilities will be sentenced to a prison. Prisoners who are punished for this violation will meet their greatest fear, only to have it amplified so they will turn insane as they imagine it exactly as they fear it. They then undergo a painful extraction of all fluids, to be replaced by a toxin which causes permanent irritation. The unknown substance keeps the subject aging normally, except they will never die. Prisoners punished in this way are unable to be reverted, despite many efforts, and they will never be able to be disposed.

The sickening truths have been revealed only today, and invigilation teams are still investigating the truths without setting foot in the galactic space of this sickening empire.

parthenocarpy posted:

dose anyone know how long it takes to get a refund

parthenocarpy posted:

just asking becasue i have rent and car payment and this is the last straw i cannot support it this game anymore.

a hole-y ghost posted:

The worst type of electricity.

quote:

Raping and pillaging go under the same singular broad title. Lets face it, if you're going to pillage, you'll also rape. And vice-versa. #18,710

kikkelivelho posted:

I'm not defending Ben's actions. I'm just annoyed by the fact that people are trying to link this to Chris and his company when no such connection exists.

kikkelivelho posted:

You should probably wait until at least monday before doing anything too rash. We'll probably hear RSI's side of the story then.

Quavers posted:

Sell your jpegs using https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_trades

a hole-y ghost posted:

Okay. I guess it actually makes sense to have Ben as a prominent member of the company now that I see those things.

alphabettitouretti posted:

Aside from him being Chris Roberts no. 1 fan who was made the public face of a 100m dollar company yeah there's no connection.

Pawn 17 posted:

Did anything ever happen with DEREK SMART's lawsuit(s)? I was hoping CIG would get sued into bankruptcy and we could all enjoy the resulting community fallout as those jpegs became worthless. Imagine how much more fun that would be than the game itself.

Pawn 17 posted:

Did anything ever happen with DEREK SMART's lawsuit(s)? I was hoping CIG would get sued into bankruptcy and we could all enjoy the resulting community fallout as those jpegs became worthless. Imagine how much more fun that would be than the game itself.

alphabettitouretti posted:

Aside from him being Chris Roberts no. 1 fan who was made the public face of a 100m dollar company yeah there's no connection.

And even if Lesnick wasn't involved CIG would still be a loving joke run by idiots making a janky rear end piece of poo poo game.

a hole-y ghost posted:

It would be funny if derek smart got all of CIG's money.

Tigey posted:

100% True! Ben has completely left behind the mysogynistic attitudes he expressed in his blog when he was in High School and doesn't let it influence his work.

Nowdays, when cases of sexual harrassment come up - he takes swift action. For example, one case, where a female Star Citizen player was sexually harrassing a male playing by complaining when he sent her unsolicited dick pics, Ben's team ensured swift action was taken by banning her. ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SEXUAL HARRASSMENT!

WebDog posted:

Hah he's updated his LiveJournal.
He uses the angry kid defence and hilariously tries to latch the blame onto Something Awful's brand of humor.

So under the rug it goes. Note he hasn't actually removed anything from the site.

WCnews history bit.
Now checking in again with my friend, turns out Ben really was a horrid person. He brings up this story.

The community once had a member called Eagle-1 (who was African American). Eagle apparently was the one who setup the IRC channels in 1996 and began the WC community well before WC news.
From what I can gather Eagle was a very well respected and kind community member. Being an older member (he was 58) many mentioned that he was a mentor to them dishing out advice to life's problems and encouraging awkward nerds to give it a go. He even rang up Ben to offer kind words before his eye surgery.

So what does Ben do? Gets annoyed that, unlike Eagle, he wasn't being seen as some sort of leader despite his knowledge of WC. Ben also hated that Eagle ran a competing IRC channel where you couldn't swear and things were kept in order and people felt safe. Basically Ben muscled him out and fostered that toxic community we now all love and quote.

But as my friend points out, Ben's distrust was allegedly racially motivated - he could not stand that at the end of the day the guy who everyone loves happens to be black.

Sadly Eagle died in 2007 from a heart attack. Despite the terse obituary on the website over on IRC Ben lapped up his demise, ripping into a beloved community member because of his own selfish reasons.

This isn't some angry kid, but some man who's wrapped himself up in a bubble of ignorance and tried to blame his life situation as a cause.

a hole-y ghost posted:

It would be funny if derek smart got all of CIG's money.

Ryoshi posted:

his first post was so dumb I legitimately thought he was joking, infact I am still not 100% convinced of his sincerity

spacetoaster posted:

xiansi posted:

Oh come on now, this badass puppetmaster has been trolling SA non-stop since they signed up 8 months ago:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3772600&userid=215910


Even went to the effort of posting this little gem:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3741676&pagenumber=45&perpage=40#post450417483

Credibility established there I guess.

Codependent Poster posted:

Have a WebDog post:

Skoll posted:

I like how he tries to play off being a horrible person as "I was just a kid". Nothing seems to have really changed.

Lime Tonics posted:

Here is reddit defending ben.



https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/4f2gc8/bens_lesnicks_blog_the_book_of_loaf/

Look how deleted it got. I wonder.

donkey salami posted:

What was,he angry about in his youth,?

Thats his defense but what exactly?

Fatfluenza?

Putty posted:

why isnt thsi guy destroyed yet, i looked at his twitter and he's fine and not destroyed

a hole-y ghost posted:

Hitler? I HATE that guy!!

donkey salami posted:

What was,he angry about in his youth,?

8 track betamax posted:

Uhh what was that stimpire thing

donkey salami posted:

What was,he angry about in his youth,?

Thats his defense but what exactly?

Fatfluenza?

8 track betamax posted:

Uhh what was that stimpire thing

a hole-y ghost posted:

Hitler? I HATE that guy!!