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Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Combat Theory posted:

You are right of course

Correct would be to say "if I was sitting where Scott Manley sat during that panel"

But then Mr Manley would have had to ask you to get out of his chair.

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Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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D_Smart posted:

No, he's a loving moron. Just two weeks ago he was threatening to ban OSC because he claims that he was giving legal advice in the sub, though he clearly wasn't. And that was after this meltdown

He is just using this "I'm closing the sub" as a deflection to the "Jester86 is SC_Ivan" fiasco.

I have known for sometime that not only has he not cashed out, but also that he has every incentive to want /r/ds to exist if only to function as a harassment sub as payback for my noise making which has basically killed the Grey market. Just like I said I would do, back in 2015.

So when jester was handing out bans and deleting posts from anyone who said he had a financial motive for running r/ds, not only were they absolutely right but he was deliberately and dishonestly abusing his mod powers to conceal it from the nerds he was stealing from and encouraging to attack the warlord.

Scams within scams.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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kilus aof posted:

So that's why Orcs and Golbins are Orruks and Grots now. Can't stop people selling Orc stuff but you can stop them selling Orruk stuff.

I think they actually tried to copyright "spacemarine" decades after it became really common in all sorts of sci-fi. Dumb twats, the best W40K video game ever made was a mod for fallout 3.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Jobbo_Fett posted:

SPACE MARINE!


3rd person games cater exclusively to people who like to play with dolls, really manly video game space marines peer out through the visor with a steely eyed gaze.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Jobbo_Fett posted:

:pray:

Dear Games Workshop,

It seems it is that time again; Christmas approaching fast. I don't normally ask for stuff, but I was wondering if you could get me a 1st person Warhammer 40,000: Ork Marine Warboss video game. If you were to release this I will make sure to leave out extra cookies and do all my chores and send in my homework on time and pet all of the animals in the zoo.

Thank you

Dear Jobbo_Fett,

Thank you for contacting us re your potential game idea, as we have read it and written it down we now own it and have dropped it into the dark vertical shaft that leads to the shovel-ware generation facility. If you ever mention it again we will own you.

Yours evily GW.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Virtual Captain posted:

:stonk:

This is how they treat their most dedicated and sometimes highest paying fans?

Can't control the test parameters in a dedicated client? Blame the testers! Comb logs to punish them!

It would make for an amusing thread in the refunds sub.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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peter gabriel posted:

Oh god this wanker won't stop tweeting things at me

https://twitter.com/iq_derek/status/930871016049512448

Make a video with his tweets in it. We all laugh, he'll have a meltdown.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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The only profit will be cigarette's in exchange for "favor's" in a Belgian gulag.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Toops posted:

Technology, you see, is useless. It's self-defeating. It is a twisted spiral down into the bowels of the ego. It is killing us. We must return to the ancient traditions that connect us to the earth, the wood, the water, to the air, and our families and friends. Shut down your machine. Unplug your monitors. Tumble your TV's down into the ravine. Hurl your Xbox 1XPlusXSuperPlusXtreme in the tide for to rock and to roll along silent floors of the ocean.

I can't connect with nature while the ravines all full of your trash.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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VictorianQueerLit posted:

It's just weird to respond to someone going on vacation with poo poo like "Oh your apartment in this location or your house in this location?"

That's like full on final form r/dereksmart level posting. Usually the guy can do some pretty funny takedowns on Derek but going straight for hinting that he knows where Derek lives is :chloe:

Maybe one of the many aliases is Jester86 and he's all pissy about his hate-sub/trade-sub alt account self own.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Beexoffel posted:



1.35m - first time I notice that SC uses metric.
Is it for their European customer base? Wasn't Cryengine from Germany, so they have to match up the pixels with the millimeter scale they use to represent meters?

Space is metric just ask NASA.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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A true warlords video games are sorted via the dewy decimal system.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Does anyone have a link for the James Brand podcast I only ever heard a short clip.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Tippis posted:

How will a bank react to the news that the pledge offered by their client was not actually fully the client's to pledge, I wonder…

How will UK authorities react to being asked for a tax break based on something legally dubious.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Meanwhile in a spaceship game that works and is real, an evil alien menace have decided today is the day to hand humanity their arses.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/394933-Stations-Being-Attacked

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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alphabettitouretti posted:

Even if it wasn't I'd question the wisdom of spending $12k on a coffee machine and hiring a barista using your crowd-funded money when the fantastically ambitious game you're supposed to be making is years behind schedule. That's not to say staff shouldn't have perks but there are more cost effective alternatives.

It's not just cost effectiveness, coffee coming out of machines is always slightly skanky as you can never quite clean them properly (or trust lazy co-workers to clean them badly). A filter paper stuck in a plastic jug makes the best coffee and the indestructible jugs cost 13 francs 25 years ago.

It's flashy, but crap. CIG all over really.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Dusty Lens posted:

Place I was hired to work at had one of those old Starbucks auto coffee machines with the huge rolling filters. People were complaining to me when I first came on that it was kind of finicky and predisposed to slow pours of not amazing coffee.

I open it up and I swear to god there must have been a years worth of moldering grounds crammed into every available secret hollow of the machine's internal structure. It smelled like someone had died of dysentery in a vat of fermented garlic.

Just that, if I ever decide to drink coffee flavored with blue furry mold I'll have the one that's been growing behind my monitor.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Phi230 posted:

I got Evochron legacy on sale years ago and dunno what to do in it

Sounds like open world do your own thing isnt up your alley, play some freepsace2 instead. There are nice mods out for it.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Phi230 posted:

No I love open worlds. And RPGs. Besides grog games those are the only games I enjoy. I just need a to be shown a step in the right direction

Pick a minor (or even player) faction in ED and support it by doing whatever missions you fancy that are on offer from a central station where you can stash your ships and bits, that works for me.

Or there's X3TC which got an update about 6 months ago, also grab the bonus plugin so you can automate trade ships and fit afterburners and other fun things.

https://www.egosoft.com/download/x3tc/bonus_en.php

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Sunswipe posted:

I need Star Citizen to collapse before this happens. I won't be able to resist if they put Airwolf in their game.

Diamondback scout.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Dusty Lens posted:

AFAIK it's pretty much a "put your fish into a temporary tank and then drain/sterilize/remove all of the big rocks/sand/everything your primary tank" type scenario.

You cannot defeat the bobbit worm without digging into your favorite quotes from Aliens.

If you read the bobbit worm thread someone linked further up, they wind up perfecting the art of removing them whole and alive with adapted rat traps.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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big nipples big life posted:

It takes 100 hours in ED to realize you've been space trucking for 100 hours and still don't have 1/10th of what you need to buy the ship you want.

The sound design is poo poo hot though.

Or two hours if you blow things up instead.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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SpaceCurtisLeMay posted:

I think that assessment is accurate. Elite got a new EP last summer and within 6 months and one of the first new features for Beyond announced was an actual clan/guild system and wing missions with the big addition later this year being fleet carriers. Something that the forum dads and I think Brookes was adamant about never having in Elite.

Nah, it's David Braben who doesn't like the way guilds behave he described them as acting like Mafioso in an interview before launch. Before getting super excited and theorycrafting about it you should remember that players will always have the choice of not logging into open, so ED guilds are unlikely to satisfy the galactic domination itch if it requires inflicting dominion over other players.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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alphabettitouretti posted:

Right this moment Ortwin is sat at his desk with a bottle of whisky and an empty Word doc, frantically poring over a 1985 book about German copyright law.

I hope the crobbler is micromanaging the response.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Bootcha posted:

I too spent an unhealthy amount on Lancer Reactor.

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

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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necroid posted:

lol are you serious, are you aware you're acting just like shitizens? do we have to preface our posts with disclaimers like they do?

anyway unlike dozens of people itt I have never given money to the thumbman

The people who used to believe in SC are only separated from those who still do by the eventual realization they got scammed, they burn with inner shame.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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big nipples big life posted:

Skadden's researchers could probably make a 30 minute montage of CIG people talking about "developing 2 AAA games"

I'd put money on them having already done it, then wait for the opportunity to use it. CIG/RSI trying to purge naughty information would just make it even worse at this point.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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History Comes Inside! posted:

Oh yeah one of our cats follows us when we walk the dog or go for runs and that's fine, but a cat on a leash is just weird as gently caress.

Not quite as weird as house cats that never get let out.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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trucutru posted:

I give a poo poo.

BTW, your posting has been improving lately but, to be fair, it had nowhere to go but up. (this is actually a compliment)

There was a minor upswing of pretend not obsessing after someone posted the stats of the chronically Dereked and he was near the top. It isn't convincing when viewed in that context.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Lladre posted:

Dude I was no where even on the list. Nice revisionist history going there.

It's all just a blur of :reddit: to me.

EDIT : lol

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Tippis posted:

I get the former — like Hav said, it's exactly what it says on the tin.

It's the latter that I don't quite grasp in terms of how and why it has come to mean that. How does it qualify as “prejudice” and in what sense is that prejudice “extreme”? Are they going for “don't think about it, just shoot the guy… no, really really don't think about it”?

It's a Hollywood thing it only needs to sound a bit cool, not make any sense.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Employee numbers count for nothing, they blew the cash on mocap and the boss is a idiot.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Flared Basic Bitch posted:

It’s a darkly humorous play on the concept of “termination with prejudice”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termination_of_employment#Rehire_following_termination

The thread’s in a dark place when I’m posting actual arguably meaningful information.

That makes sense and could well be the origin of the phrase for writers like Tom Clancy, but nobody doing life and death things wastes time and jeopardizes clarity with daft euphemisms.

Except sarcastically, exactly the way "fidelity" is used here.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Gort posted:

Yeah, I was wondering if you guys just didn't know or what

It doesn't effect the product, or my opinion of the product.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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The reddit crazies are out in force today, looks like they just got rid of oldschoolcmdr's latest thread.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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DapperDon posted:

No, Beet did that. Didn't pertain to the rules about Refunds and was just a effort/defense post for Derek Smart by Old School Commander and totally not Derek Smart.

Lol, so I was right but in a different way.

Beet reinstate the thread, if you want to convince people to get refunds show them the crazy in all it's glory.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Beet Wagon posted:

Letting people have slapfights about the good Warlord doesn't make Star Citizen look worse, it just makes /refunds look more like /dereksmart.

Also, it's a lot of work.

Much as I enjoy pointing and laughing, that's a good point.

Morningwoodpecker fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Feb 25, 2018

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Lladre posted:

Doxxing someone because they are related to some guy who used to work at a company that is making a game you hate, is perfectly normal and not at all insane..

I was a bit pissed off yesterday after beet shut down oldschoolcmdr's thread and robbed me of the opportunity to laugh at Dr Smart obsessed nutcases.

Not anymore.

Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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Duckaerobics posted:

Continuing book chat. I haven't really been able to get into any modern scifi, because everything seems like it is either porn, or written for teenagers. I usually just end-up reading some Dick or Vonnegut if I'm in a scifi mood. Does anyone have any recommendations for decent contemporary stuff?

Neal Asher's good if you like space opera, Prador Moon is pretty short, is chronologically very early, introduces some of the main protagonists and is out in paperback. So it's not much of a waste of money or time if it turns out you don't like his stuff.

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Morningwoodpecker
Jan 17, 2016

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It's because Tracy is a girls name.

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