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ewe2 posted:And thanks for your thoughts, everyone, it's much appreciated. I'm glad you're finding your way and the music still flows! e: taxxe  Pixelate fucked around with this message at 13:44 on Jul 25, 2019 |
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ewe2 posted:I guess that's how life works, you know? I thought I was only having regular migraines (which I still do but in a different form now), and was blissfully unaware I had vascular issues. But if you do have migraine-like pains behind your eye, don't think twice, go to an opthamologist and get it checked out immediately. OIS usually leads to a stroke or at the least a CRAO (central retinal artery occlusion), and I was very lucky that although it was too late for the eye, my right carotid artery is properly blocked and as long as we monitor the situation (and I take verstatins for the rest of my life), won't cause future clots/strokes. Best wishes with your recuperation, and I am glad you were diagnosed before it got even worse. Remember to give your body the time it needs. The time after serious illness can be tough, and usually the mind wants to get back to normal life before the body is fully capable. And as sufferer of frequent migraines, including the occasional one originating behind the eye, your story is pretty scary. Maybe I should ask the doctor next time.
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Jul 25, 2019 15:00
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"They will dismiss you." "They will label you a hater and cut you out." Heh.
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Jul 25, 2019 15:56
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LOL, busted then doubled down on it. I mean, he screwed up when he said he had worked for CIG for 9 years. The company has only really existed for 4!
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Jul 25, 2019 16:06
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Hmm. Seems to have quite the axe to grind over Brie Larson, too. Now where have I heard that before? edit: poo poo you can do a three panel. He bought an Sabre Raven for $150 a year back. Somewhere between these posts;  Someone had a crisis of faith. Hav fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Jul 25, 2019 |
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Jul 25, 2019 16:12
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My dog purchased 3.5k worth of games in Steam. Begun, the store front wars have.
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Turns out I had my credit card saved and my cat slept on my keyboard and I ended up purchasing 3600$ worth of games, how wacky of me! Its a shame I didn't notice the email about it, or my much-larger library, or my bank statement. Oh and Steam only return $40, despite it being fraud, and my bank won't help because *insert reason here*. But the true culprit here is Steam. They should have known I wouldn't want so many copies of Battlecruiser 3000AD!
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Jul 25, 2019 16:44
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Jul 25, 2019 16:46
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Turns out I had my credit card saved and my cat slept on my keyboard and I ended up purchasing 3600$ worth of games, how wacky of me! [A professional programmer] Computers man, so complicated
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I think we've all had that happen you know. You just boot up the ol' computron-box and suddenly your credit card has bought $4500 worth of anime porn games and 1/10th of the Train Simulator DLC available on Steam. It's happened to me so many times I'm almost out of cat girls and I'm only missing the Class 156 locomotive.
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Jul 25, 2019 17:17
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"A huge disconnect between what devs think is in the game and what actually is" Imagine the cognitive dissonance necessary to type that sentence. The people programming the game... continue to talk on camera about stuff that isn't in the game. Well, they definitely can't be lying to me! They must just not know what's in the game! 
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Jul 25, 2019 17:23
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Sarsapariller posted:"A huge disconnect between what devs think is in the game and what actually is" This is normal in game development, we are still in early days. They are still furnishing the offices and hiring the team.
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Sarsapariller posted:"A huge disconnect between what devs think is in the game and what actually is" Seems to check out, based on the legendary Chris Roberts Christmas performance where he sat in front of a "game" that he clearly was seeing for the very first time in his life. In fact he looked like someone thawed a caveman and sat him in front of a PC. All very typical of game development.
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Jul 25, 2019 17:48
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drat, $3544 lost to Steam. Just think about how much coke Croberts coulda bought with that... (I also love how he talks about being a CIG dev while also complaining about not getting refunds...)
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I know Theranos isn't exactly news, but I was reading an article today and I couldn't get two paragraphs in...quote:Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to found Theranos, inspired by a desire to help people like an uncle suffering from cancer. Combining the words "therapy" and "diagnosis" she started a company with the intention of revolutionizing phlebotomy, replacing extensive and expensive blood tests with a machine that could divine diseases from a drop of blood. And she didn't let little things stop her, like the fact that it was impossible. Jesus jumping Christ. How many more parallels can there be?
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I instantly knew she was a fraud when she showed up on stage looking like a Steve Jobs clone.
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Wait, 9 years? CIG hasn't even been around that long as a company, has it? Is this person making bad posts from the future?
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ewe2 posted:^^^ awww Hope you're ok.
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Bofast posted:Wait, 9 years? CIG hasn't even been around that long as a company, has it? Is this person making bad posts from the future? Can't believe Chris Roberts finally exposed his account on Reddit.
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Popete posted:I instantly knew she was a fraud when she showed up on stage looking like a Steve Jobs clone. Yeah, I don't know how that didn't ring more alarm bells. There's such a thing as a too perfectly curated appearance.
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Popete posted:I instantly knew she was a fraud when she showed up on stage looking like a Steve Jobs clone. Yeah, one warning sign is patterning. The other one is nobody told her she doesn't have the chin for a polo neck. Scruffpuff posted:I know Theranos isn't exactly news, but I was reading an article today and I couldn't get two paragraphs in... I just think that's it's symptomatic of the whole unicorn phenomenon and the cult of personality. Jobs was considered a visionary when he was around, when it was more that he was a pedantic rear end in a top hat with extremely high standards. His failures and pratfalls are rehabilitated by fans who point to more positive aspects. Same for Elon Musk, but he surrounds himself with smart people. These are the _successes_.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Can't believe Chris Roberts finally exposed his account on Reddit. 
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I remember like 5 years ago everyone was talking about how nothing was faked. The engines produce actual thrust and it interacts with everything totally realisticlly. I remember reading that and then watching a stream where a guys entire engine and clipped off of his ship and he was still trucking. It was such obvious bullshit but these people really do have blinders on.
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Hav posted:I just think that's it's symptomatic of the whole unicorn phenomenon and the cult of personality. Jobs was considered a visionary when he was around, when it was more that he was a pedantic rear end in a top hat with extremely high standards. His failures and pratfalls are rehabilitated by fans who point to more positive aspects. Same for Elon Musk, but he surrounds himself with smart people. These are the _successes_. Yup, spot on. But on top of this I think we're seeing the brand/personality cults becoming ever more unrealistic in their dreams: - The dreams of absurd wealth from being an early cryptocoin adopter (despite being years late for the free money) - The virtual world utopia of SC and SoTA - The gaming utopia of Ouya to the medical egalitarianism of Theranos It's shifted from tribalism to outright religion. There have always been those who made a fortune monetizing the lonely, the spiritually desperate and the naive - but the cults have donned the trappings of capitalism: Branding, profit, early adopter status, hype, the promise of explosive growth, meritocracy, paradigm shifts, return-on-investment, etc. I guess pyramid schemes and MLM were the first steps towards these much more opaque and durable scam entities. It's a vicious circle where the continued existence and financial success of the scam is touted as proof that it's not a scam. Fascinating really. Especially considering most of these were not created on purpose or intended as scams on a much smaller scale.
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PederP posted:Yup, spot on. I think some of this comes from the internet turning humanity into a sort of Borg-collective-lite, where one dumb guy can immediately signal to tons of other dumb guys just like him who were otherwise geographically separated from or socially unaware of the scam. Now even the most harebrained scheme has immediate global reach. With an ocean of suckers that big, you're gonna catch some poo poo no matter what you bait the hook with.
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IcarusUpHigh posted:Has Star Citizen piggy-backed off Rutger Hauer's death yet? I was 100% certain they wouldn't have lost any time on that. I itched to make one myself but I like the guy too much. Here's hoping they abstain just this once.
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Elizabeth Holmes was a college drop out (only 2 semesters!) that founded a business to create a completely unfeasible technology. Chris Roberts was cut from digital anvil and was out of the video game industry for a decade (even longer away from the programming end seeing as how he was mostly directing cutscenes and managing scope towards in the later years) and kickstarted a company to create an MMO game that was lightyears ahead of anything on the market. Both these clowns founded companies on pure hype, pulled in buttloads of cash, and then started work on developing products that were more or less impossible. It didn't matter that they didn't have the skills and knowledge to know what they were selling was impossible. They got the money and it was up to the people that they hired to make their dreams a reality. And those people got yelled at then fired when they couldn't deliver. And after years of fake blood test demos and sand worms, it will come tumbling down.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Stupid Crowdfunding Accomplishments Mausoleum > Star Citizen: We only know what CIG tells us
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Sounds like the weekly disappointment of Inside Star Citizen is back and as good as ever. This turd has been 3 week in the making.
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Scruffpuff posted:I know Theranos isn't exactly news, but I was reading an article today and I couldn't get two paragraphs in... I decided to look up an article about her and Theranos and fuckin lol. quote:she founded Real-Time Cures, later changing the company's name to Theranos. Thanks to a typo, early employees’ paychecks actually said "Real-Time Curses."
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OH BOY IT'S TIME FOR A NEW PRODUCTION VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5p90TJS9eM So let's see, it's been 3 weeks of solid work since the last recap video. That's Almost 1/3rd of a quarterly patch. What they have to show for it: * A recap of the truck they just released, that is broken and costs 140 us dollars * They have made a bunch of luxury silverware for the space yacht that they will never finish * Here is a clip of a spaceman doing punches. Naturally we're showing this in greybox because it's far too advanced to just be rolled into the game. We can see that punching is going to add a lot of utility for the player in our game about spaceships and ranged combat. We're very excited to introduce this feature that is definitely not a basic part of the cryengine platform that we are hyping up to make it seem like we did something this last month. That's it. 3 weeks of dev and they have: an art asset they already made that doesn't work, new art assets they are making that don't matter, and a punch mechanic that comes with the engine. They have nothing.
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Sarsapariller posted:OH BOY IT'S TIME FOR A NEW PRODUCTION VIDEO LOL, seriously. They are showing off a basic punch mechanic in development stage. By gods, they must be desperate to show something, anything at all. Give me a few hours with Blender and a prerigged model, and i could make that punch animation, and i'm a rank amateur at animations. I only learned to help my son with one of his projects. There again, i remember when CIG was trying to pass off inverse kinematics as never been done before technology that they had invented, instead of it coming as standard with CryEngine.
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Kramjacks posted:I decided to look up an article about her and Theranos and fuckin lol. I didn't even know that. Maybe it's a secret shell corporation! LOL And everyone should listen to The Dropout podcast. Just imagine that every time they say blood testing machine they're saying best drat space sim EVAR. And instead of Elizabeth and Sunni it's Chris and Sandi, secretly in a relationship behind the scenes.
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Agony Aunt posted:LOL, seriously. They are showing off a basic punch mechanic in development stage. By gods, they must be desperate to show something, anything at all. Something I've always wondered about Star Citizen: Can you melee attack? I'm not sure I've ever seen it in the years I've been watching the demos.
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Strangler 42 posted:Something I've always wondered about Star Citizen: Can you melee attack? I'm not sure I've ever seen it in the years I've been watching the demos. you can perform the five-point-palm exploding heart technique, except instead of a melee attack it's jumping and or squatting, and instead of a target, its to yourself
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