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Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Changing from whatever dumpster fire cryengine mod they had to lumberjack is a zero-effort change. After all, it's not like they had any code, only assets.

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Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President
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.


It is loving shameful that this hasn't been posted on page 400 already.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President
Has anyone said "Star Citizen: Tickle-down Economics" yet?

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President
He's right, it won't be a competition, because it will be an actual game to play.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

Proud member of the Pony-Brony Alliance for Obama as President

Hav posted:

I'm a backer. It goes with the territory.


But how will Pusher resolve her father issues with the old man?


After Roberts is entombed in the Golden throne, developers will be sought by the black fleet to be offered to the next agile scrum at an increasing rate as the jpeg expectations grow.



In the grimdark future of development, there are only slipping deadlines.

There is no release, only the laughter of tickling stars.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Sarsapariller posted:

Wait until you see backers trying to extract their refunds from the Queen, when this is over.

Sorry, but I'm pretty sure they'll have to try and extract them from the King when this is over, because there is no way they'll get this shitshow shoveled out the door before Charles takes the throne.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Who could have guessed that Squadron 42: Chapter 11 would happen before Chapter 1?

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Ponzi posted:

After reading about the loan thing, I was looking at the filing history for F42, and I came across something I don't understand:

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08703814/charges/AHMo7d0tVN50wGM-FC6tbyhYlss



The CH webpage says there's a negative pledge, but when I look at the pdf, section 7 has this:



which seems contradictory. So what am I missing here?

That after $150 million in pledges, they still have a negative cash flow?

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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tuo posted:

So Derek finally visiting CitizenCon, eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5XQg3F5z4

:lol: B'tak going to zero health just from a stern look

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Experimental Skin posted:

Star Citizen: No That Is Pretty Clearly A Dick

Thank you, I'm here all night.

Star Citizen: A dragon biting he own dick, a Bad Dragon

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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All I can think of after that embarrassing showing is this:

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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That pioneer looks an awful lot like a homeworld 2 ship. Great going, Shitizen Tane, you archered another IP and sold it for 20 times the price of the original fully functional game!

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Sabreseven posted:

POTUS : "The country owes Dickwolf a debt, we wouldn't have gotten this far without him popping his chappy out, taking a bathroom mirror selfie and posting the image to a married woman who had no interest in him at all, well done" *affix medal*

If you’ve pledged enough, they’ll let you do whatever you want. You can show them your micropenis.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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CrazyTolradi posted:

Whatever happened to Humility, the backer who was literally putting his farm on the line because he kept putting money into SC to feel special?

Farmers apparently have the highest suicide rate per capita in the US.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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It saddens me that we'll never see Crobberts testify in court. Fucker's going to become the Dork Lord of the Fifth the instant he gets on the stand.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Morningwoodpecker posted:

Best freelancer mod was open1.1 skip the campaign and all the terrible cutscenes.

TIE Universe, my friend.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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TheAgent posted:

I'm in LA and haven't seen what an actual unbleached normal persons rear end in a top hat looks like since high school

A SurfaceDetail parachute will be along momentarily.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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BluesShaman posted:

...the gently caress?

I don't think any person who has played 3.0 would describe it as "smooth."

:thejoke: perhaps. KCD is janky as gently caress.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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SpaceSDoorGunner posted:

The target demographic are gamergaters, so it’s really not that surprising.

The thing about Reddit is you can see a users entire community history. Virtually every fanatic backer posts in alt-right, MRA or gamergater subs.

Didn’t Chris Roberts go on a gamergater rant at some point?

I think his rant was that we/derek were in fact the gamergaters, because harassment.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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I was safely expecting croberts to have the worst con fuckup of 2018. Boy, is my face red.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Agony Aunt posted:

Someone want to summarize?

Skinley is a goon parody account that pretends to be a disabled veteran who loves star citizen but doesn’t quite get this whole newfangled internet thing. Derek thought he was a real shitizen and did this big rant about how he’s a fake veteran, stolen valor, citizens are so dumb like this racist idiot, etc. The goon himself was trying to explain to Derek in this thread, but Derek had blocked him, so he kept digging the hole deeper. This is where we got “Uncle Derek, nooooo” from.

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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G0RF posted:

The Red Bull advertorial and Rexzilla puffpiece are just the first $teps in a new brand recovery effort managed by whoever their latest Swofford is.

That advertorial was an outsourced “The Road to CitizenCon”, only instead of brute forcing a guilt trip on backers for being disappointed that Chris failed them, this time the message is the opposite. Chris says it outright, “in the balance of things I wouldn’t change it, I wouldn’t do it differently.” And surely he believes it. It all looks pretty divine to the chief devil of a development hell.

The thing that really gets me, looking back at the PR debacle before CitizenCon, is that Chris wanted to charge backers to watch it in part to pay for the RedBull propaganda he’d already greenlit. The one with aerial shots and slick motion graphic effects and little glimpses of materials backers aren’t seeing on ATV despite promises that “you will see art and video and learn about how we intend to implement gameplay mechanics well before the rest of the world.” Chris wanted to make his backers pay extra to fund Chris’s future effort to market to the mainstream. And this was after he’d been given $46 million dollars. That’s how little he values them, that’s how cheap he is and entitled he feels. That’s how clever he thinks he is.

But I’m excited about all of it. And I’m excited to see them spend more of that Calder money to really start crossing that chasm with marketing, as if the game design aspects of winning over the mainstream don’t even matter.



Unless he pulls his head out of his rear end on the design side, he’s going to just heighten the tensions between those who see the game as it really is (not a game yet not even close) and those who see it as it pretends to be. Which if nothing else will be good for :lol:s.

G0RF! No! Bad! They’re not doing this for money. They’re doing this for a shitload of money!

Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Beexoffel posted:

I like how he implies Star Citizen is a black hole.

Well, it is a crushing singularity of technical debt from which no game can escape.

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Preechr
May 19, 2009

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Grubby Hobo posted:

I got to see actual introspection from Bluegobln before the thread ended. It's not great introspection, but it's definitely introspection. OK, thread, you can go to your rest happy now. Well done.

Has he tried being more positive?

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