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*$250m with $60+ million in known investments, plus tens of millions in tax breaks* why does everyone hate on this small indie game star citizen????
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:When CIg does put out ships that look decent, they often gently caress it up by fudging the details and not thinking things through. Hmmm. I see the connection.
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May 28, 2020 18:11
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Top headline this hour: why is wagner james au such a dipshit?
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May 28, 2020 18:16
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no_recall posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO8mbKZHFSc Good thing I invested wisely and I've got 42 of them. 
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May 28, 2020 18:24
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 I want it to release.Yeah, succeed if it could be possible. But it isn't. It just is not. In which case, I'm happy if they "release" it or dump it on the faces of backers before the fall of CI~G for the laughs.
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May 28, 2020 18:25
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By the way, did we get the SQ42 progress video already?
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May 28, 2020 18:28
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Quavers posted:
It really is true- there are certain consumers that are absolutely warning signs that your product is going to fail. It's these guys, right here. "If it was possible I wouldn't support it!"
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May 28, 2020 18:30
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If the scope were smaller, I wouldn't be invested in the project.
I am a veteran and I disagree. Enlisted Jul 7, 2014 The scope is not too big. If the scope were smaller I would not support the game to the degree that I do.[/i]
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Beexoffel posted:I don't think I did, but I gladly will: Derek called it.   
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May 28, 2020 18:40
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AbstractNapper posted:By the way, did we get the SQ42 progress video already? Video progress is up 20%!
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May 28, 2020 18:47
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Time_pants posted:Okay... what?! I don't have the clip, but it was some Japanese show talking about obesity in America. One of the clips was of Disneyland (I think) where just by chance Ben Lesnick happened to be caught on camera. Unsurprisingly the hosts were amazed by Ben's size, even in America where obesity is common, Ben stands out.
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May 28, 2020 18:48
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Viscous Soda posted:I don't have the clip, but it was some Japanese show talking about obesity in America. One of the clips was of Disneyland (I think) where just by chance Ben Lesnick happened to be caught on camera. Unsurprisingly the hosts were amazed by Ben's size, even in America where obesity is common, Ben stands out. Holy poo poo this is new to me. Incredible.
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May 28, 2020 18:50
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May 28, 2020 19:01
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Mr. article writer, Crobblers is a portmanteau for Chris Roberts who cobbles things together. It feels nicer on the tongue than Crobbers.
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May 28, 2020 19:02
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Scruffpuff posted:Holy poo poo this is new to me. Incredible. How have you not seen this? Ben and Alyx were spotted grazing, they put comedy tuba music on it and poo poo, it was insane
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May 28, 2020 19:04
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The real question on everyone's mind, what is Chris Robert's onomatopoeia?
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May 28, 2020 19:05
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Scruffpuff posted:Holy poo poo this is new to me. Incredible. It is truly one of those glitch in the Matrix coincidences.
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May 28, 2020 19:06
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The Titanic posted:But unless that style appeals to you, you basically won't feel inclined to play in that game world as a whole. Don't forget Final Fantasy ship, or the EVE online ship!  vs  and  Star Citizen has a thing of stealing designs and given light re-texture. Is there a Harmony Gold of spaceships? I would enjoy seeing the fireworks of CIG stealing a design from a Harmony Gold type company.
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May 28, 2020 19:11
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XK posted:Mr. article writer, Crobblers is a portmanteau for Chris Roberts who cobbles things together. It feels nicer on the tongue than Crobbers. …also, Crobber, for obvious reasons.
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May 28, 2020 19:13
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I never really understood the space forklift thing. It's a space forklift. EVE wasn't exactly breaking new aesthetic ground here. One might say Crobbler has the advantage when it comes to space construction equipment.The Titanic posted:Hmmm. I see the connection. Some definite opportunities here for text replacer plugins.
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May 28, 2020 19:14
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if there is one thing you def need in zero g it's a massive forklift
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May 28, 2020 19:29
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peter gabriel posted:if there is one thing you def need in zero g it's a massive forklift I'm still waiting for CR to put in the crowning creative achievement of his life in the game; the space bulldozer. I'd friggen buy a space bulldozer!
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May 28, 2020 19:36
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TheBombPhilosopher posted:Don't forget Final Fantasy ship, or the EVE online ship! Isn't Harmony Gold the Harmony Gold of spaceships? Actually, I wonder if any CI(G) ships are close enough to an F-14 for HG to get involved in the comedy.
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May 28, 2020 19:37
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trucutru posted:If that is a "what the gently caress" then we could tell you stuff about this project that would blow your mind. Ticklers in black, feminist pedophiles, hair excess, amazed Japanese TV hosts, and so much stuff that has been lost to time. I don't remember the bit about amazed Japanese TV hosts. What was that about?
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May 28, 2020 19:43
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Viscous Soda posted:I don't have the clip, but it was some Japanese show talking about obesity in America. One of the clips was of Disneyland (I think) where just by chance Ben Lesnick happened to be caught on camera. Unsurprisingly the hosts were amazed by Ben's size, even in America where obesity is common, Ben stands out. Holy poo poo
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May 28, 2020 19:50
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Ben, fat??
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May 28, 2020 20:01
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Scruffpuff posted:It's really something when the saucer-centric design from the original 60s Star Trek managed to come up with something not "aerodynamic with wings" because they understood at least the very fundamentals of how a vacuum eliminates the need for wings, and even went as far as to point out that the ships themselves are space-bound and built in space shipyards. I think the original Enterprise design also had the nacelles (?) so far from the rest of the ship because the designer(s) figured they might be dangerous to have too close to the actual crew areas. TheBombPhilosopher posted:I'm sorry, I don't mean to hate on anyone's ship crush, but to me this is the most boring generic ArtStation resume portfolio filler that I've ever seen. To me it has no soul, no story, and the the design doesn't really look like it makes any kind of mechanical or engineering sense, even within the "laws" of the universe. But I understand design/art development even less than I understand game development. Maybe someone can help explain to me why I find this SC design unappealing while I find this... Need a B5 game so I can fly a destroyer, or something 
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May 28, 2020 20:09
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Viscous Soda posted:I don't have the clip, but it was some Japanese show talking about obesity in America. One of the clips was of Disneyland (I think) where just by chance Ben Lesnick happened to be caught on camera. Unsurprisingly the hosts were amazed by Ben's size, even in America where obesity is common, Ben stands out. In so many ways, I really hate that I am so morbidly fascinated by this trainwreck. For one thing, I cannot share it with anyone else. Anytime I try, either there is just so, so, so much that it sounds like I'm just making poo poo up, or the complexity and interconnectedness of the ineptitude and corruption is so loving staggering that it quickly turns into an interminable chain of "well, first I have to tell you this story so I can tell you this other story so I can tell you another story so I can tell you that story so I can actually get to the original point I was trying to make 15 minutes ago." There's just so much. One doomed project helmed by a moron suspended indefinitely in a hideous state of un-life by a cult of brainwashed maniacs in hopes that it might one day barf up a magic elixir to finally free them from the sweaty, flabby prison of their own lives. How do you even explain that to a person who isn't so broken and stupid as to waste 6 irreplaceable years on a dead, gay message board following what can only be charitably described as "the ongoing situation" that somehow spun out of something so mundane as a Kickstarter campaign for a spiritual successor to some idiot space shooter computer game series from the 90s? Where the gently caress do you even begin? How do you tell them that the fact that the social contract isn't real and--get this--you can just... get $350 million by asking for it in exchange for drawings of spaceships? And somehow that's one of the least galling things about the whole loving epic poem that has somehow been penned in the margins of what we thought was supposed to be an account of a civilized world? What do you even say??? Buy an Idris.
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May 28, 2020 20:13
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Viscous Soda posted:I don't have the clip, but it was some Japanese show talking about obesity in America. One of the clips was of Disneyland (I think) where just by chance Ben Lesnick happened to be caught on camera. Unsurprisingly the hosts were amazed by Ben's size, even in America where obesity is common, Ben stands out. 
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May 28, 2020 20:16
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Frog Act posted:i went and looked up the initial constellation trailer and lmao. are these little caveman aliens part of the lore? do people just regularly find new planets and land on them willy nilly in this universe? has nobody heard of drones or sensors? by whose authority are these ship people doing this? Notice how everything in Star Citizen is about feeling superior to somebody else. It's the expensive yacht you can wow people with, or the exploration ship to lord over the savage cave aliens. The dirty aliens in loincloths represent console gamers, who will be wowed by the overwhelming technological superiority of a PC game.
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May 28, 2020 20:24
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peter gabriel posted:How have you not seen this? I honestly thought I'd earned my PhD on this debacle - I think this is enough to take away my degree. Back to 101 for me.
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May 28, 2020 20:24
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star citizen just had its largest funding day ever. like ever, in the history of the project. no anniversary sale or citcon sale single day can begin to match it. its almost as large as the original SC kickstarter ( which was $2.5m~) 2020-05-27 Funding Total: $2,257,693 that single day of funding used to be around what the entire month of May would bring in may 2013: $740,421 may 2014: $1,288,270 may 2015: $2,815,387 may 2016: $1,431,159 may 2017: $2,749,143 may 2018: $2,889,835 may 2019: $2,713,178 may 2020 (to date): $10,497,291 just lol edit: at this point -- along with the other evidence presented earlier about the top gray market resellers -- I'm guessing that really, really shady Russian/Euro money laundering is going on here. there's really no other explanation that fits TheAgent fucked around with this message at 20:39 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 28, 2020 20:26
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Time_pants posted:In so many ways, I really hate that I am so morbidly fascinated by this trainwreck. For one thing, I cannot share it with anyone else. Anytime I try, either there is just so, so, so much that it sounds like I'm just making poo poo up, or the complexity and interconnectedness of the ineptitude and corruption is so loving staggering that it quickly turns into an interminable chain of "well, first I have to tell you this story so I can tell you this other story so I can tell you another story so I can tell you that story so I can actually get to the original point I was trying to make 15 minutes ago." This is poetry. Someone save this for the prologue to the book.
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May 28, 2020 20:31
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TheAgent posted:star citizen just had its largest funding day ever. like ever, in the history of the project. no anniversary sale or citcon sale single day can begin to match it. its almost as large as the original SC kickstarter ( which was $2.5m~) Maybe a big money move before everything gets shut down? LOL maybe the feds are closing in
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May 28, 2020 20:43
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So is anyone going to post a link to this Japanese guys being astounded by Ben's girth?
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May 28, 2020 20:47
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Sandweed posted:Someone show this to CR. It's refactoring time baby. 
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May 28, 2020 20:49
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Creating a fake space holiday to have a whole week of sales to launder a bunch of money is certainly not what I thought would happen in the Star Citizer story.
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May 28, 2020 20:50
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TheAgent posted:star citizen just had its largest funding day ever. like ever, in the history of the project. no anniversary sale or citcon sale single day can begin to match it. its almost as large as the original SC kickstarter ( which was $2.5m~) I can explain this. Sandi Gardiner was holding the whole project back - with less Sandi and Chris Roberts appearing, the project seems more appealing and professional. Sandi was not the greatest marketing master mind ever, responsible for bringing in hundreds of millions of nerd dollars - she in fact had been so toxic to the project so as to stop many would be backers from contributing. Less Sandi = more money. That's a fact. This is a poo poo post.
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May 28, 2020 20:51
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TheAgent posted:star citizen just had its largest funding day ever. like ever, in the history of the project. no anniversary sale or citcon sale single day can begin to match it. its almost as large as the original SC kickstarter ( which was $2.5m~) From the spreadsheet which pulls data from the RSI website every hour: 2020-05-21: $373,271 2020-05-22: $406,152 2020-05-23: $1,008,835 2020-05-24: $579,409 2020-05-25: $977,154 2020-05-26: $396,975 2020-05-27: $2,257,693 From the RSI website:  They show different information 
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May 28, 2020 21:03
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TheAgent posted:star citizen just had its largest funding day ever. like ever, in the history of the project. no anniversary sale or citcon sale single day can begin to match it. its almost as large as the original SC kickstarter ( which was $2.5m~) It's certainly not outside the realm of possibility that the word has spread among bad actors that this project appears to be not only immortal, but immune to the types of audits and investigations that would normally be expected when moving these amounts of cash around. The model-viewer is a great front for the appearance of game development, and they have the perfect CEO who is inept yet arrogant enough to think the screenshots mean it's all real, so he'll defend the operation thinking he's defending his own genius. If this is true then it's something that could go on forever, until the right person decides to pull the thread.
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TheAgent posted:star citizen just had its largest funding day ever. like ever, in the history of the project. no anniversary sale or citcon sale single day can begin to match it. its almost as large as the original SC kickstarter ( which was $2.5m~) So who is in charge of investigating stuff like that? If the "game" is being used to launder money, someone ought to be looking into that right?
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