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Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

peter gabriel posted:

Star Citizen 2 out now featuring Tia Carerra and the voice talent of Gary Cole available on PC CDROM

OMG, OMG, OMG....I just made an account so that I could say that I KNOW WHICH EXACT GENTLY CARESSING GAME YOU"RE TALKING ABOUT!

I can picture the box art even now...

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Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Cao Ni Ma posted:

Eberts dutch angle quote always reminds me of Chris Roberts because he just does something other more capable designers/directors have done but doesn't understand why they do it "the director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why""

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning.
They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding
stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be
destroyed upon the lathe of heaven.

- Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Lathe Of Heaven"

I have no particular dog in this fight, apart from playing lots of WC I and II and Privateer back in ye olde days. But this quote keeps looking more and more appropriate...

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018


Computer Says No.....

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Admiral Snackbar posted:

Uchrisses (A Poem)

(snip)

Made weak by time and repeated failure, but strong in will
To promise, to kickstart, to fund, and not to release.

:discourse:

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

ewe2 posted:

So really CIG are Applied Agile ScumScrumology.


:golfclap: Do some Alexander Pope now.

Not the OP, but I'll do my best:


WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Quarrels rise from Financial Things,
I sing — This Verse to Derek, Muse! is due;
This, ev'n Sandi may vouchsafe to view:
Slight is the Subject, but not so the Praise,
If Sandi inspire, and Chris approve my Lays.

Say what strange Motive, Goddess! cou'd compel
A well-bred Derek t'paarp a gentle Roberts-Belle?
Oh say what stranger Cause, yet unexplor'd,
Cou'd make a gentle Roberts refund a Smart-Lord?
And dwells such Rage in softest Bosoms then?
And lodge such daring Souls in Little Men?

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Sillybones posted:

...Irregular IK, if you will.

Ya know, a little bit more fiber in your diet will clear that right up.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

All right, ya motherfuckers, it's time to get some moderate-effort shitposting going on in this joint.

(With many profuse apologies to Harry Nilsson)

Roberts pitched an FPS, he bought it for a Cry
His brother had another one, he paid it for a lime
They put the Crytek in the MMO, they mixed 'em both up
They put the Crytek in the MMO, they mixed 'em both up
They put the Crytek in the MMO, they mixed 'em both up

They put the Crytek in the MMO, they called the Doctor, woke him up
And said, Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take
They say, Doctor, to relieve this bellyache?
They say, Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take
They say, Doctor, to relieve this bellyache?

(He said)
"Now let me get this straight
Ya put the Crytek in the MMO, you mixed 'em both up
Ya put the Crytek in the MMO, you mixed 'em both up
Ya put the Crytek in the MMO, you mixed 'em both up..."

"Ya put the Crytek in the MMO, you called your doctor, woke him up
And said, Doctor, ain't there nothing I can take
I said, Doctor, to relieve this bellyache?
I said, Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take
I said, Doctor, to relieve this bellyache?"

(long pause)

"Yer a fuckin' moron. Read my July blog."

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018


I think this needs some cultural context.

You young'ins out there may not remember, but once upon a time beer cans were made of STEEL! Good 'MURICAN steel, not this al-u-minium crap! And if you could crush one in your hand it meant you were hella strong!

drat, now I wanna go watch 'Jaws' again.

If I had any talent at all, I'd try to re-do the overhead shot where we see the shark swim under the boat, but replace the shark with Ben.

"Three TONS of 'im!"


E: I think they finally broke Beet with the MOTHERFUCKING EEEEEEGGGGSSSS.....

Frank_Leroux fucked around with this message at 11:11 on Mar 30, 2018

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

peter gabriel posted:

Mush mouth eat the eggs

Oh-be Kay-be...

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

AbstractNapper posted:

This is wrong on so many levels.
Probably nightmare fuel too.

Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
- Christopher Marlowe, "Doctor Faustus"

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018


(Pulls Beet into the ring's corner, begins massaging his shoulders and talking like Burgess Meredith)

ME: Okay, Beet, you got this. You're the man, yer the one, yer gonna eat lightning, and crap thunder!

BEET: I can't see nothin', ya gotta open my eye. Cut me, Mick.

ME: I don't wanna do it!

BEET: Go on, cut me.

ME: All aright, cut 'im.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

The Titanic posted:

I want to say this is generally how it's done. Sometimes there is like a special walk for a female avatar but everything else uses the same animation stuff.

This probably comes as a shock to Chris Roberts but women pretty much move exactly like a guy does. Kind of the problem with this whole "having bones" in your body thing with these "joint" things in pretty much the same places.

Now I know this may shock some people, but I bet a girl could swirl her finger around the lip of a cup before drinking it through her closed helmet just about identically to her equally retarded male counterpart. :shrug:

I know this is some serious new age think though so don't make me go back to the kitchen or something. :ohdear:

But...but...don't women always stand with their hip jutting out in a sultry but vaguely uncomfortable manner? They do in all of them vijeo-games I play.

(Seriously, fake video-game lady, stop slouching like that. Yer gonna get hip dysplasia by the time you're middle-age and we'll have to put you down like the family German Shepard.)

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Nyast posted:

You heretic, you don't get it. What's the point of putting women in game if you don't have fidelicious breasts juggling physics ?

Fidelicious jiggling breasts...

(Stares off into space for a while, then blinks and shakes himself)

I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018


It is NOT a mystery, you Goldstein-loving heretic. We have ALWAYS been at war with Eastasia. The war has just been consolidated into an easier-to-digest format, that is all.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

The Titanic posted:

Having a hard time seeing the difference here but I'm sure Chris has 250 people working on this fidelity as we speak!

https://youtu.be/7UOIe6o5Qpk

https://youtu.be/GBkJY86tZRE


Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Tarquinn posted:

WTF?! No heels or boob window? Who the gently caress designed that poo poo?

My imershunn!

I know, just take a gander at this pitifully designed uniform:



It's almost like it was supposed to 'cover your body' and poo poo.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

The Titanic posted:

I no joke think they need to get Charlie Chaplin videos and use him as the reference for proper human male movement and animation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhHw60mqcMM

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Tippis posted:

I was bored, ok?
Then I got angry.
Now I'm just stupid. I think the design must be contagious.
:negative:

(Pats Tippis on the shoulder)

Don't worry, my friend. You have just run into the horrible problem which lies at the heart of Star Citizen, like dread Cthulhu who lies sleeping in his city of R'lyeh.
That problem has a name: Combinatorial Explosion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion

By now, Star Citizen has so many mini-games and little promised fiddly bits attached to it that it cannot work on any computer.

Let me reiterate that.

It cannot work on ANY computer, unless one pulls some bullshit quantum-computing parallel-universe monstrosity out of their arse.
At this point, CIG may as well be trying to simulate the real universe.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Hav posted:

<Fedora tip>

Honestly, I can't say I'm a fan of the bullpup design. But to each their own, I guess...

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018


Thoatse is the hero we need, not the hero we deserve.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

trucutru posted:

That's the way they have been delivering "features" for years. They promise something grand, deliver the most bare-bones implementation of it and then pretty much forget about them, only adding some minor tweaks so that backers think the grand vision is still on its way.

Every single module with the exception on the PU and ships, ships, ships! has been like his.

Racing: It was supposed to get more tracks and stuff, nothing has been added since version 1.0.
Hangar: You were supposed to be able to visit other hangars, nothing has been added since version 1.0.
Star Marine: There are a billion unimplemented features, nothing has been added since version 1.0.
Arcorp social: A lot of shops, AI and the like were supposed to appear here, nothing has been added since version 1.0.
Arena Commander: More maps, lots of features missing, nothing has been added since version 1.0.
Tutorial: It was useless, nothing has been ad... no wait, this one was removed. :lol:

Somehow I have the suspicion that Mining will behave in the same way.

As I said upthread AND as the valiant Tippis has outlined, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY that they can implement Mining in the 'utter fideliteh' way that they have described. To try to do so will smash their patched-together-piece-of-poo poo game engine like a brick through a plate-glass window.

Mining is either gonna get removed, or they're gonna resort to the simplistic 'zap da space rock wit' da lazer' mechanic that they should have gone with in the first place.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

SomethingJones posted:

Does he come in peace

I would imagine he's quite loud when he comes.

(Thank you! I'm here all week!)

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

CrazyLoon posted:

Not teddy bear, that was KheetahtheCheetah (don't click the link unless you like having your ears and mind bleed):

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

lmao at the initial CRobblers dreams about mining actually being part of that vid too

Oh gently caress me sideways, WHHHHYYYYY did I click on that link?


Welp, I guess we've had a pretty good run as a species, but now we're done. Time for the Sweet Meteor of Death to come with its cleansing fire.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Bob Socko posted:

I tried to explain Star Citizen to my girlfriend. I tried to explain the cat posts to her. I tried to explain the forums to her. She didn’t get it.

And she’s right.

Did you explain the milkshake? That was pretty straightforward, I thought.

But yeah, the rest of it is pretty much all screeching well above the range of normal human hearing

Speaking of cats, I'd better pay the cat taxxe for Mirificus:

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Sunswipe posted:

In the last 500 years, the Fourth Stimpire has dominated four systems, which it has united into one starzone, Stimsis...

:five:

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

BluesShaman posted:

I just saw Isle of Dogs. It was a good movie.

I put it up there with Wes Anderson's best.

That's good to hear! I've really been impressed with how much more emotionally affecting Wes Anderson has gotten as a storyteller. 'Rushmore' was kinda good but too twee for my tastes. Everything since then has gotten steadily better.


Wait, poo poo, we were talking about Star Citizen, right? Chris is a no-talent hack and Ben is a death-fat. There, saved it.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Dooguk posted:

How many fans can you fit inside it? Asking for a lunatic.

You can fit lemon-lime sherbet number of fans into this fine case, my good lunatic...er, my good man.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

trucutru posted:

De...deskeletonization?


I'm on the metro catte tax:

[CAT]

I got ya covered:

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Amazing Zimmo posted:

Thanks to your new AV, I've got Robert Palmer's "Simply Irresistible" stuck in my head.

It's caused "Addicted to Love" to get stuck in mine.

I keep trying to come up with some appropriate CIG-related lyrics but can't get the final line's meter to sit right.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Beet Wagon posted:

This is playing in my head 24 hours a day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAEil3_D03k

The question is, "How much cocaine did they do before making this video?"

The answer is, "All of it. They did all the cocaine. There is none left."

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Big Hair Time?

Yes, Comrade, Is Big Hair Time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2fSRhgSWc

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

big nipples big life posted:

Thread is full to the brim with fake doctors.

But it does not have enough doctors who are also worms that are singing hipster-style songs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfOx-SDbk1A

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Jobbo_Fett posted:

Sadly I have failed to get the Employee of the Month star for 4 months in a row thanks to Steve on the milkshake station. Bastard's always got that thing up and running, its a miracle!

I am quite willing and able to pull a Tonya Harding on that sonofabitch Steve. I accept payment in either gold bulllion or the appropriate amount in Swiss francs...

...or chicken nuggets. I'll also take those. They are so tasty.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018


Maxim Number Eleven, "Everything Is Air-Droppable At Least Once"

http://schlockmercenary.wikia.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

The Titanic posted:

I like to imagine Derek with reams of folders his special internet agents have dug up for him about posters or people who dared to cross him.

Each day he does an Evil Dead style fight where his bad hand wants to press the doxx button but his good side usually manages to win. Every so often though he loses, and somebody gets doxxed out of thin air for no foreseeable reason other than that.


"No!!! No doxxing today!!! Stoooooop iiiiiiit!!!! Nooooooo!" *presses doxx button on random internet person*

But does he bonk himself in the noggin with a frying pan? Because I'd pay good money to see that.

Or I'd pay out in chicken nuggets, as previously stated.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Jobbo_Fett posted:

No, he sent the Undertaker to do his bidding.

Well now you're just all sorts of hosed.

"As God as my witness, he is BROKEN in HALF!"

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

Sunswipe posted:

Star Citizer: Let Me Tell You At Great Length How Much I Don't Care About Derek Smart

For actual Star Citizen news, let's check out what one of their developers is up to:
https://twitter.com/banditloaf/status/984204295024197632

https://twitter.com/banditloaf/status/984213312731734016

Why, that IS weird. Not as weird as buying a movie you already own many times over on an obsolete format with subtitles in a language you don't speak, but weird.

There are people who collect, I poo poo you not, antique barbed wire.

To me, those people are easier to understand than Ben. After all, barbed wire has played a huge role in history (ask anybody on the Western Front in WWI). Wing Commander is just a crap movie.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

vyst posted:

I wish someone would ask him why he's like this

For me, it would be more like "WHAT THE gently caress IS WRONG WITH YOU! THERE IS PORN! RIGHT THERE ON THE INTERNET! GO LOOK AT THE BOUNCY BOUNCY TITS! STOP LOOKING AT FREDDIE PRINZE, JR.!"

Ahem.

I might reword the question a little bit.

Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

big nipples big life posted:

I like how 180 million dollars Argon and there's nothing to show for it.

:rimshot:

e: whoops, better pay my tax

Frank_Leroux fucked around with this message at 14:16 on Apr 12, 2018

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Frank_Leroux
Mar 24, 2018

The Titanic posted:

They seriously decided to just make paragliding a thing now? Like out of all the dumb, hideously impossible tasks, they just had add on another one?

Paragliders?? Seriously guys?

Okay, let's get a thread contest going. What's the absolute stupidest completely out-of-nowhere horseshit they could add into the game?

My vote? Star Citizen ROCK BAND

That's right, folks, now you too can live out your fantasies of being a rock star IN SPAAAACE! Complete with a new 'tour bus' concept ship (only $545!) and a whole Guitar-Hero-esque mini-game. The better you get at the game, the more dates you get in different star systems and the more AI-driven groupies there are chasing after your :airquote: equipment :airquote:.

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