peter gabriel posted:

So erm guys erm would it erm be out of place to have erm some kind of mushroom planet? *waves hands* How about an erm green hill zone?

peter gabriel posted:

Lava planets - liquid planets - Rock planets - Desert planets - Ice planets.
What other type of levels are there in 90s platformers that Chris can use?

his nibs posted:

yeah, and two pages worth of tax

Tippis posted:

Grass planet, Air planet. Pirate ship and castle planet.
Tall-tall mountain planet, Candy and Casino planet.
Crystal cave planet.
Whatever that soda-can-fill mess that was Commander Keen… planet .

Dementropy posted:

thatguy posted:

I just don't understand why people use hyphens instead of commas.

Oliver Strunk posted:

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.

Thoatse posted:

I still have a working FilterQueen vacuum my parents bought from a dorr-to-door salesman in the 80's... that thing is extremely well built

Thoatse posted:

I still have a working FilterQueen vacuum my parents bought from a dorr-to-door salesman in the 80's... that thing is extremely well built

JugbandDude posted:

I tried to convince him to buy some jpegs, but he is not that stupid.

MinorInconvenience posted:

Is Ben's stupid loving response to the "referral controvesry" getting any traction? Because it is a pretty blatant piece of spin-doctoring that essentially admits that they don't have enough cash to finish 3.0 without more money.


He starts off his little poo poo piece by stating:


But then CIG's official answer to this feedback is not to stop and wait until the game is (more) done, but to:


Instead of, you know, actually loving finishing the game, first.


Then Ben goes for the big question on everybody's mind:


Oh boy, I can't loving wait.


What a strawman question-and-response!! Ben misinterprets "cash grab" to mean "Croberts wants a new boat" instead of "Croberts desperately needs more cash to finish the game he has bungled and grossly mismanaged."


But wait, I think Ben let slip a little truth in the next little bit...


Let's break this one down. They currently have 438 or so staff by their admission. The game's feature set is not supposed to be growing anymore (no more stretch goals). If those two facts are the case, why do they need more money to "hire staff" to "do more with the game?" Why don't you have everything you already need?

But then the best line in this quote comes: Every time we sell the game, development gets better. Really, Ben? Really? How does development get better with more money if you had enough money to finish the game with the features you have already promised? And there it is... the admission. Translated, this statement means: Every time we sell the game, development continues.

I submit this is more damning than Croberts "we can finish SQ42 with the cash we have and use the sales to fund Star Citizen" quote from back in January. Because, based upon statements made in connection with the 3.0 schedule, SQ42 is so tied to the same technology they can't get working for Star Citizen, they have hosed themselves and their backers.

The game is doomed unless they harpoon some new whales. Good luck, fuckers.

Dementropy posted:

Phraccy posted:

LOL
https://twitter.com/GhandiSardiner

Dementropy posted:

peter gabriel posted:

They really are obsessed with us ha ha

Hav posted:

It's the line between love and hate.

Obsession.

peter gabriel posted:

Lava planets - liquid planets - Rock planets - Desert planets - Ice planets.
What other type of levels are there in 90s platformers that Chris can use?

Meridian posted:

Radioactive green planet. Trash planet from Kurt Russel's 90s action movie Solider.

Hav posted:

The British equivalent was a Kirby; stainless steel motherfucker. They'd come out and demonstrate how dirty your poo poo is after you'd run the old electrolux over things by using filter paper in the lower trap.

Incredibly well-made to the extent where a family bought one and handed it around, obviating the need to buy any more. Later versions tended towards poo poo as the company concentrated more on sales than quality.

Similar arc for Dyson now.


Has he looked on the returns from gold?

D_Smart posted:

No.

Notice how neither Sandi (who is responsible for marketing) nor Chris (who is the creator) stepped in front of it. Instead, the pawned it off to the most toxic person on the project and who has since taken a back seat since last year. All of a sudden, he's the meat barrier because the best way to deal with a toxic community, is to have your contract staff toxic member, step in front of it. Makes sense.

MinorInconvenience posted:

I would suggest he is not a "fall guy" so much as a "useful idiot." He admits that he worships at the altar of Wing Commander, so it is easy to see how he is willing to take everything his Lord and Savior Croberts tells him as gospel, without question. I would guess than Ben has no loving clue just how bad financially CIG is and simply runs off of blind faith in Croberts. They got Ben to say that bullshit because he believes it.

Admiral Snackbar posted:

Everyone here is a Derek Smart alt, and Derek Smart was right. Therefore, by the transitive property, you are all Alt Right.

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The tax evasion scheme was not criminal. It was not even immoral to take that money to finance movies. btw. a lot of other companies did take the money as well. Before you throw criminal allegations around you should inform yourself.

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Its illegal to tell investors they are investing for one thing and then to do another thing with it. Not to mention immoral.

I know you are conditioned by CIG that "anything can change that's the gamble", but in the rest of the world that's highly illegal and people go to jail for it.

Meridian posted:

Radioactive green planet. Trash planet from Kurt Russel's 90s action movie Solider.

Dementropy posted: