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Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

don't we have a full subforum for this or is it just derek_smart masturbating angrily in a corner over a picture of chris roberts


realtalk: chris roberts is kind of my hero, bilking nerds for millions and marrying a fetish porn star, dude knows what he wants and takes it

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Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Hustlin Floh posted:

Was it confirmed that the lady actually was the one in the tickle videos?

no, i mean we're talking about internet weirdo shutins here, they don't know anything about weird porn, it's good to doubt them on it

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

i'm actually kind of worried about derek smart right now, this thread is several pages long and we've mentioned him a bunch


derek, you OK out there? i don't pay the slightest bit of attention to star citizen but your particular brand of earnest insanity is one of my favorites, and i mean that as sincerely as a person can mean a comment on an internet comedy site

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Chomp8645 posted:

I know nothing about this stream/group but I hate them based off this alone.



that's a weird thing to hate the harassment victim for, wow...u might have anger issues my friend

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

please correct me if i'm wrong but that guy is really lolworthy not just because he looks like he has seven or eight people inside of him russian-nesting-style until you find one at the center that's a bit short but otherwise normal-sized but also because he's total garbage with a sexual interest in children and one specific news anchor lady whose pictures he hoarded for years in an enormous online archive


seriously am i thinking of someone else i only check SC threads when they wander into GBS every year or so

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Applewhite posted:

Whelp this thread has gone from me laughing at delusional people to making me want to puke.

goddamn, Applewhite, seems like you haven't been around for ages! wb :cheers:

also, the secret is it can be both really really funny and also horrifying to the point of nausea at the same time

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

spacetoaster posted:

So, I said in the OP that it's the end times for CIG.

The legal stuff has begun: https://www.scribd.com/document/367101474/Crytek-v-CIG

And will probably take a while to fully come to an end.

Let's lol a bit.

Jesus, that owns. They're going to bite it hard.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Bold Robot posted:

Ehhhh this is just a contract dispute with Crytek and has nothing to do with how much of a huge loving scam the game is, how Roberts is a piece of poo poo, etc. Crytek appears to be mad that CIG is using its tech in Squadron 42 (seems like a legit question whether it counts as a separate game or not), that CIG isn't displaying their logo enough (who cares), and that CIG switched horses to Lumberyard (potentially a reasonable beef).

"all that's in question in this lawsuit are these three huge and obvious breaches of contract, i don't see how that's a big deal at all"

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Bold Robot posted:

Without reading the GLA/contract it's hard to say whether these are huge and obvious. This is one side of the story and if the complaint didn't make it sound completely like a slam dunk for Crytek their lawyers wouldn't be doing a very good job.


my man i read multiple complaints, briefs and random court filings on scribd every day just because i really like how hard lawyers can clown on people, and let me tell you, this is absolutely a slam dunk for Crytek

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

divinity original sin 2 has not one but two different modes that do exactly what you nerds are talking about, differing mostly in how much prep work is required beforehand


the reason it hasn't taken the world by storm yet is because in general people have way shittier ideas for games than they actually think, same reason the nwn stuff always stayed so niche

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

tbh crytek is a really garbage company that has been going through tons of layoffs but that doesn't magically void their existing contracts


if they're looking for some cash they'll likely get it. sc is founded on taking money from stupid people, crytek could just claim turnabout

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Rutibex posted:

why would a rendering engine care what scale anything is at? its all just numbers, big or small. that sounds like sorcery

my dude we are not talking about accurate mathematical simulations here, we are talking about mathematical simulations running on actual computers which are kind of total pants at actually doing math sometimes


like, i know that that's what we actually use computers for, so it's counterintuitive, but if you just add .1 + .1 + .1 to itself a few times over you'll end up with weird poo poo like .3000000000000004 instead of .3 unless you go out of your way to avoid it because binary is absolutely godawful at representing decimal places. loving with the scale that something is generally assumed to be working under is going to make weird stuff like that show up way more often

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

veiled boner fuel posted:

This happened in like a 5 million entry database I had to work with. Hundreds of thousands of entries that should have been 0.002 ended up being either 0.0019999999997 or 0.00200000003 and then when they were imported into the new database software they were truncated rather than rounded so half of them went from 0.002 to 0.001 which hosed things up rather badly.

:stonklol:

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

scaling like shrinking down the planets is really common in games and pretty much the most reliable way to do something like that, it's the scope of what they're doing and how they're going about it that is really dumb

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

i'm gonna write a book about lovely kickstarter games and title it WHY PUBLISHERS EXIST

star citizen
mn9(/redash)
everything tim schafer has done in ten or so years

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

The big hydraulic space door is still great.

uh lol i think if you check their forums you'll find that beautiful professionally made door complete with an automatic door company logo was actually slapped together by some interns with plywood and bubblegum

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Lack of Gravitas posted:

the SC launcher in action:

I am physically ill.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

big tanks are cool who gives a poo poo

if that was in a game where tank combat made any sense at all i would be into it

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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ChickenHeart posted:

After reading through this thread in its entirety, I can now conclude that Star Citizen sounds like a larger-scope, 3D Space Station 13 that somehow ends up being less fun-sounding than the decades-old farting spaceman game with obtuse controls.

Can I be a space-clown?

man SS13 used to be so stupid fun but every time i've tried to install that lovely BYOND client on anything built in the last decade or so it hasn't worked right

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

i got elite:dangerous and a cheap joystick+throttle setup and it's the best chill-and-truck-around-space game, really digging it

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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No Hope posted:

All those animated gears in the helmet gotta be worth something

no lie that helmet would be a great fuckin av


it's a super incredible parody of itself but without any of the self-awareness that kind of thing usually entails

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Rad-daddio posted:

A brief reminder that this loving thing exists:


how the gently caress does that exist mad catz went super ultra bankrupt last year




also that rig would be kinda cool for some games if not for the star citizen branding and the fact that MCZ makes their poo poo out of the cheapest chinesium they can find

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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a new study bible! posted:

I love that internet creeps will absolutely out their weird fetishes under the guise of discussing dream features for this not-game.

the best part isn't just that they air these weird thoughts but that they think that they're completely normal, like everyone else is also secretly thinking about how to best avoid slavery charges when the space cops scan your rape pirate ship

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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The Skeleton King posted:

You got me there. I have never understood the appeal of mmos.

tbf i think most people would be a lot more enthusiastic about their real life jobs if they were designed as skinner boxes and you got some ridiculously cool enchanted glowing sword armor office supplies just for memorizing a hotbar and clicking a few things every day


quote:

I guess right now isn't a good time to tell you about my idea for a diaper freighter.

whoa whoa whoa buddy don't put words in my mouth, i'm listening

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

croberts looks like the kind of guy who would blink too much and too hard while mumbling to himself and shaking his head randomly while getting my order wrong at burger king

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

the lawsuit was shown to be pretty much entirely crytek flailing around in its own flopsweat, like they kept claiming the squadron 42 thing was some kind of shady bait and switch and then cig came back with the original contract pointing out where squadron 42 was called out explicitly by name

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...it-doesnt.shtml

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Bold Robot posted:

I called this when the complaint was first posted and everyone acted like I was some kind of croberts shill for suggesting that there might be two sides to the story and that crytek's allegations were not some kind of ~sick burn~ that would doom star citizen. :shrug:

yeah, i was one of those people, because before cig released the contract as part of their motion to dismiss there was literally no reason at all to think the lawsuit was specious, and meanwhile cig is literally a company built on lies. like, i'm not going to apologize for thinking what all the information at the time suggested was correct

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

actually I know exactly how lawsuits work and the interesting thing is that crytek actually did file trash, like literally claiming things about the contract that are demonstrably and obviously false, and that's the whole reason it's weird, you tremendous moron.

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Bold Robot posted:

Hmmm yes, it sure is weird that two companies fighting over a contract have different ideas about what it means.

did you read the complaint because holy poo poo you seem like a tard right now lol

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

most complaints over contract disputes do not lie about the material facts of the contract hth

e: you seem to be under the impression that this is the only lawsuit i have ever followed or that this is the only complaint I have ever looked at and neither of those are remotely close to the truth

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Over There posted:

But for real, when is the game coming out?

I'm posting from inside my jpg right now

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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The Skeleton King posted:

I love mock threads, they tend to bring out some real good poo poo like Goku pants and Loss edits. I hate people who touch the poop and ruin the fun.

:same: but I don't think that's nearly as feasible now as it was ten years ago and even ten years ago those threads ended up getting shut down because some idiot goon is never able to stop themselves from becoming the new content

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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have there been any more foetal playdough custom joysticks or weird crossbow cosplay bullshit in like the past four years?

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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"games are/n't art!" i scream repeatedly into the void in the thread where we talk about $28,000 .zip files

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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maybe one of you intellectual sorts could tackle the hot button issue of ethics in game journalism next since we're so keen on covering new ground here

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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Clocks posted:

Now please make an argument how injecting myself with $3k worth of heroin is actually better than vidja games because it's a physical good / an experience. :allears:

hi

when your spending only looks okay when compared to that of literal junkies, you are not helping your argument as much as you seem to think

hth

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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*spends $3k on cell phone games, smugly*

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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"i don't need to defend my spending" - a person who has spent multiple posts trying and failing to do exactly that

Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

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that's like 60 watts of case fans what the gently caress is he trying to accomplish there

like all i can guess is that he imagined when it was turned on he'd be able to sit on it and ride it around like the mail order propeller beanie in that old Calvin and Hobbes series

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Rockman Reserve
Oct 2, 2007

"Carbons? Purge? What are you talking about?!"

I've seen that fourth stimpire thing before and only now am I wondering what the gently caress a stimpire is

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