Remora posted:

Guys.

It's possible to write an internally consistent novel written specifically from a character's point of view without any of that actually mapping to how you really think society should be.

It's like a lot of science fiction is about writing about an idea that you don't have to want to exist in real life, or something.

Go read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress and tell me how consistent its world and politics are with Starship Troopers.

It's like Heinlein was an author of novels, or something.

Scruffpuff posted:

Have you tried NMS in VR?

colonelwest posted:

They loved to pretend to be alt-right Übermensch, but they were the biggest pussies imaginable.

Rabelais D posted:

2) where's the fidelity? Look at the polygons on the rim of the cup. It's almost octagonal. I thought the whole point about this game and why it's taking so long was because they are holding themselves to some insane fidelity standard.

Lammasu posted:

I'm still kind of new here. What is FUD exactly?

commando in tophat posted:

Why did they mocap zombie as a beartender is the real question

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Inacio posted:

BrotherJayne posted:

Oh poo poo, there are people in this world that have never had an MRE, arnt there

And people who don't or can't read the directions


Anyone whose never been cold and muddy and said gently caress it and eaten the reformed pork patty right out the bag while sitting in a puddle in a ranger grave hasnt lived though

trucutru posted:

You can find them in army surplus stores and gun shows. They succkkkk (an exception are the EU ones that are just a bunch of off-the-shelf cans with stuff that people actually voluntarily pay for), not as much as SC of course, but it ain't a good experience unless you're like my cousin who once remarked that dried dog food "was ok".

And it wasn't even expensive dog food.

walruscat posted:

Why do people think the Calders have any ability to get this poo poo show under control and release an MVP?

They invested over $40 million in this trash fire and threw in another $15 million plus as extra kindling. How does that not make them the biggest idiot backers donating to Chris’s luxury lifestyle fund?

Sarsapariller posted:

You've just invented the X series!

Gort posted:

A goofy game world where literally every interaction was done by gun and gun alone could be pretty funny if you leaned into it.

Popete posted:

CIG having 720 employees is not something to boast about given the glacially slow progress and poor quality.

Zazz Razzamatazz posted:

Or at least some insurance adjuster gameplay, something interesting FFS.

IncredibleIgloo posted:

Are we gonna get another July Blog?!

Wrr posted:

I've been slowly chewing through the thread, randomly jumping forward in time. Reading the posts from the citizens' forum where they're so in love with the idea of communities and helping others and helping the team reach dreams etc etc etc, its just. . . god, imagine if these people had real communities in their lives to take part in. One's that weren't preying on them and grifting them. Like, imagine if the atomization of society was not so complete that they had alternatives other than consumption of a weird pipe-dream to dedicate their time and energy to.

TheAgent posted:

https://twitter.com/cracked/status/1466221778284470277

Mirificus posted:

quote:

...garbage that can't hold my attention for more than 50 hours. ...

cmdrk posted:

play Hide The Wine Glass

trucutru posted:

Doesn't matter. The whole point of blockchains (and this is what makes libertarians cum buckets) is that they are (in theory) trustless: there is no authority you have to trust. Once your lovely NFT is in the blockchain then neither Ubisoft nor Tezos nor the FBI pedophile division can do anything about it, you're the one in control until someone guesses your HH1488Rulz! password.

Because in the case of video-games with an integrated connection to their blockchain a NFT does indeed show that you own a custom hat (or whatever) that can be used in the game. So you can sell that video game hat to whomever you wish, even if the game goes down or whatever (and if the blockchain goes down you can clone it).

All the blockchain stuff is dumb as gently caress but it does provide a way to create artificial scarcity for stuff that in naturally unlimited. The future is not Star Trek, the future is one where unlimited free energy and food replicators exist but people go hungry because the digital tokens that are required to access them are few in number.

cmdrk posted:

theatre, opera, hide the wine glass, etc are all what middle-class forum dads believe actual rich people do, as evidenced by 20th century movies and television.

(pssst, you can go to the actual theatre in real life, it's not that expensive)

marumaru posted:

here it is. uncommented, unedited, real star citizen gameplay.

a little bit of context:
- i'm a very early victim backer, so i know my way around most things quite well. there's a lot of really common blunders that i'm already aware of and avoid.
- the ship i'm flying is one of the expensive, cool, new, multirole ones. starter ships are poo poo, unsurprisingly. some don't even let you carry crates into them. i don't know why i have this ship but i do, probably a bug leftover from the free fly event.
- i'm doing two of the missions i find most representative of average gameplay. one is a crate delivery mission, the other is a fps shooty mission. the two other activity "types" that i guess are big enough are shooting spaceships (you've already seen this a ton, i bet) and mining (it's incredibly tedious, requires special ships/vehicles for any real profit).
- my computer is pretty average, so i think it's a good example of what you can expect in terms of performance if you don't have a newer rig. 3700x/2070s/32gb 3200/nvme ssd. 1440p144 (lmao as if that matters for star citizen). recorded at 30fps, was averaging between 15-40 fps

video one: delivery mission. this is quite possibly the most ideal star citizen experience imaginable. it's the first time ive had this happen to me. empty server (which means *great* framerates/latency by star citizen standards) and very few bugs experienced. but not none. you'll see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wektXvS2OGs

video two: shooty mission. now here's something more realistic: bugs out of the rear end, mission can't be finished. i even try a known workaround (clipping into the spawn wardrobes) but no luck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmERolhV9qY

marumaru posted:

Technically yes, but you will unironically never get thirsty or hungry because you're almost guaranteed to randomly die due to some unknown bug.
Not sure if you saw that part, but I suddenly tripped and started spazzing out on the ground, unable to do anything. That is almost always a guaranteed hard lock, and you have to suicide. I was pretty surprised when my guy got up. First time that ever happened to me.

Dwesa posted:

They're celebrating 'Luminalia' again

Buy some 'holiday merchandise' - same as regular merchandise, but what makes it 'holiday' is the need to pre-order it so it can arrive after holidays? Or who knows!

Oh and crobbler shaker to make your own Hairy Roberts!

Rotten Red Rod posted:

You all are missing the bigger picture: this now means Molyneux has to deliver on a game to justify the NFTs.

Blue On Blue posted:

How is it mal-ware and what's the big deal, aside from them obviously making a back-door deal with Epic Games and not telling the backers about it

Golli posted:

I haven't heard of this actually happening, but unless the "owner" of the asset makes an attempt to enforce the ownership by paying a lawyer to c&d or actually sue the 'right-clickers' then the right clickers can claim abandonment. If they do sue, then the "owner" gets to try and make the case to prove what actual damages the right-clicker has caused. I'm sure the lawyers love the prospect, but its pretty dumb otherwise.