Scruffpuff posted:

The era of the "video game auteur" is over, Roberts is a fossil (and was never actually a member of that club anyway), so it's unlikely anything like this will repeat again in this particular way. It was a perfect storm of narcissism, ineptitude, and mental illness.

BluesShaman posted:

Star Citizer: NPCs will be able to collect cutlery and plates, serve themselves food, and then occupy seats to eat and drink.

This is some revolutionary video game poo poo.

Pixelate posted:

fidelityyy

Pixelate posted:

Archived here

Scruffpuff posted:

I can't get past the first two lines.

Zaphod42 posted:

This is just depressing.

This is the real problem. Roberts' isn't just conning rich idiot boomers like we like to imagine. There are poor idiots getting caught up in the scam, and losing their shirts.

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

quote:

Linux bash shell when hacking terminal

800peepee51doodoo posted:

It is super fascinating stuff, tbh, but way way way more complex than what I can reasonably dive into at the moment. I do want to turn some knobs and make bleep bloops though so I've been looking at a couple different, much cheaper, standalone synths / midi controllers as a way to get my feet wet instead.

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

Organ Harvesting Missions & harvesting tool

October 6th at 8:32 am

Organ Harvesting Missions

I've mentioned this in spectrum chat a few times. you could use the greycat tool in the same way we mine with it, the mechanics are the same, but we could have missions in which you kill a target "x" and use the handy dandy "Roawa Rotary Blade" attachment (I'm open to names) and whala out pops the organs. when they pop like a pinata

IAbsolveMyself posted:

The Volca Keys sounds great, but it goes out of tune when it gets hot

dejapes posted:

From the perspective of anyone who wants a space game where you fly around in space and do space things, none of this makes sense. But from the perspective of anyone drawn in by Star Citizen's intersecting power fantasies of capitalist consumerism and video game escapism, it's very compelling.

The siren song of consumerism, and the entire point of the service industry, is the illusion of self importance associated with spending money. The entire schtick of a sales rep is to make you, the customer, feel like the center of the world - your needs are being catered to and your preferences are being prioritized while an attractive, socially adept smiling face hangs on your every word. And a good sales rep will maintain this illusion until the deal is sealed, your money is taken, and you are shuffled out the door.

Similarly, the appeal of many a video game is the illusion of agency. What shapes the world, the endings, and the fate of all the interesting, out-sized people you meet are the choices made by one person - you. It doesn't matter that all your bad-rear end lines are pre-scripted and chosen from a convo wheel, or that the endings were pre-written and are ultimately the same no matter who is playing the game. The illusion, which lasts for however long the content lasts, is that the player is the decisive agent of change.

Star citizen is an intersection of these two power fantasies, as evidenced by its capitalist, proto-fascist lore, and with further evidence provided by the focus of its development. What are the most detailed, expansive, and hand-crafted areas on each planet? Malls and transit, places where you can feel like the important consumer shuttling from one purchase to the next. You can also see this in many of the dreams.txt megaposts of backers fantasizing about the influence and respect afforded to them, as concierge-level owners of expensive space mansions with cockpits and engines. Or as all-powerful agents of change, equipped with the very best brand-name arms and armaments, ready to inflict punishments on the irreverent.

Backers are so drunk on these illusions that they will propose the most tedious, time-consuming activities that will nonetheless make them feel important, make their money and their purchases feel important. Otherwise, what is the point of Star Citizen?

colonelwest posted:

We should launch a Kickstarter for Derek to buy SA.

Mirificus posted:

ChaseSP posted:

Not gonna lie that would be some great poo poo to have in an actual game. Imagine an entire ghost city but a planet built while the company behind it was doing an unprecedented fraud campaign with it to rack in untold amounts of money before it eventually falls through with the planet being left an unlivable metal shell.

But we can just call it Star Citizen.

MedicineHut posted:

Game is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ApO6StVJA

Scruffpuff posted:

[...]
In other words, I'd "cheat." A handful of very weird people would bitch, but at least they'd have a game.

The Titanic posted:

Star Citizen wants to do all of the things. A perfect procedural generation system and a perfect layer on top of that of 4K hand crafted POIs at a universe scale.

[...]

Is this all feasible? gently caress no.

Can you break it up hugely and segment stuff away and fake a lot of it so it kind of comes together? Probably, but you'd have to figure that mess out and where the lines between loading screens exist. But it's get you closer.

Sarsapariller posted:

MMO games at their core are about finding fun loops that players want to do over and over, and then giving them excuses to do them over and over. Elite has dogfighting and rover-ing and the signal exploration stuff and mining and trading and a few other ~10m loops that can be repeated basically forever, and it cuts corners in the ways that hurt the least in order to give the player the best experience. Drop out of supercruise in an asteroid field and it's going to load you into a new map and spawn guys around you. Does it matter to anyone who just wants to hunt bounties that these guys didn't exist a second before, or that the game had to load a new map? No, of course not. But Star Citizen's whole premise is that it does, and it is focused on forcing everything to be real to the point that the core gameplay loops are all a broken mess, and that is why Star Citizen is ultimately a flaming failure that can never be completed.

Fidelitious posted:

Lol no, that's not how this works.

Richard, it's not like there was some shared CIG account and your viewers tossed money into it for you.
This is your actual income from twitch subs and tips and you chose to blow $50,000 of that income on pictures of space ships instead of doing something useful with it.

When I buy a new fridge I don't say that my employer contributed to that purchase. It was literally just you you absolute doofus.

Dwesa posted:

I assume this tried to make the new tank look good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSbjyJhRp5E

Beet Wagon posted:

quote:

<2021-05-21T18:37:41.396Z> [GAS PRODUCER CONSUMER] CSCItemGasProducerConsumer::AssignToRoom ProducerConsumer: rsi_odyssey_undersuit_01_01_01_2279122630372, Entity: Beetwagon, Room: rsi_odyssey_undersuit_helmet_01_01_01_2279122630375, IsHidden: False
<2021-05-21T18:37:41.396Z> [GAS PRODUCER CONSUMER] CSCItemGasProducerConsumer:: DeferredInitialize EnableComponentUpdate. ProducerConsumer: rsi_odyssey_undersuit_01_01_01_2279122630372, Entity: Beetwagon
<2021-05-21T18:37:41.690Z> [GAS PRODUCER CONSUMER] CSCItemGasProducerConsumer::OnEntityEvent Room unhidden. ProducerConsumer: rsi_odyssey_undersuit_01_01_01_2279122630372, Entity: Beetwagon, Room: rsi_odyssey_undersuit_helmet_01_01_01_2279122630375
<2021-05-21T18:37:41.690Z> [GAS PRODUCER CONSUMER] CSCItemGasProducerConsumer:: DeferredInitialize EnableComponentUpdate. ProducerConsumer: rsi_odyssey_undersuit_01_01_01_2279122630372, Entity: Beetwagon
<2021-05-21T18:37:41.713Z> [CSessionManager::OnClientSpawned] Spawned!

oh my god lmao

Fidelitious posted:

I legitimately think someone that thinks like this is some kind of sub-human species.
Their dream is to be an absolute fuckhead 1%-er capitalist consumer, which is demented.

trucutru posted:

Since Chris (of Roberts Space Industries) exists in lore then the special version of the Bengal to honour his memory is going to be extra good.

Dwesa posted:

All these manly masculine broproducts only exude insecurity. That tactical baby gear also looks like human shield on top of it.

Sarsapariller posted:

It's not about practicality, it's about toxic masculinity

<...>

His insecurity is exactly what this sort of poo poo is targeting. Baby carriers that won't make you soft. Body washes without all that girly poo poo. To us it looks completely insane, and it is, but it's a kind of insanity that has been absolutely cultivated in a huge proportion of the men in our country. The January 6th riots were a direct result of it. I expect it'll get worse, before it gets better.

Dwesa posted:

shamelessly stolen from refunds sub

ED player tried SC for a while and it resulted in this video, lot of swearing with accent, but it's still valid criticism

Star Citizen: 10 Reasons I dislike this game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3ASyGHMps

Quavers posted:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=1&threadid=3800238&pagenumber=2331&perpage=40#post476945862

MedicineHut posted:

loving rofl. Does Stellaris also include a text description of the system for the last 500 years perhaps?

Fidelitious posted:

As far as I can tell the most recent usage of "pre-alpha" by CIG themselves is this youtube video from 3 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHR1aEdTA4M

Lammasu posted:

The fact they haven't been able to produce the single player component is surreal. I mean they BRAG about still doing motion capture for the game. How can any sane person not see this as hosed up.

BattleMaster posted:

I have this theory about that line that is probably more thought than anyone working on the movie put into it:

-the plasma bolts in the future war scenes are purple, which is the color of air in a plasma state
-40 watts isn't enough power to cause the kind of damage the plasma bolts are shown to cause, especially since the impact with the target lasts for only a short time (40 watts delivered over 0.25 seconds is only 10 joules of energy, for instance)

So for this line to make sense, the plasma weapons probably suck in air from the environment, ionize it with a 40 watt plasma source (like a very short wavelength UV laser) and then propel it at extremely high speeds out the barrel of the weapon. The total power consumption of the weapon while firing would be far greater than 40 watts, but a 40 watt plasma source would generate a lot of plasma for use as "ammunition."

The reason why the power of the plasma source would matter while characterizing a weapon is that a weapon that fires big blasts (like the vehicle mounted ones) or lots of smaller blasts at rapid fire (like the minigun used by the infiltrator) would need higher power plasma generators to maintain their rate of fire than an assault rifle-style one (like the ones used by the resistance members). But since we don't have any point of reference, we don't know if the terminator was asking for a smaller weapon or a larger weapon at the gun shop. Given his other weapon choices, I assume he would have wanted an assault rifle-style one.

edit: of course the real reason for the line was to show in a slightly-silly way the level of uncertainty Skynet had for this time period - it didn't know that these weapons weren't available back then, just like how it didn't know which Sarah Connor needed to die.

text editor posted:

these patch notes are just hilarious:

one major bug (major because delivery mission is the game's only real gameplay loop) in exchange for all those weird bugs

Mirificus posted:

quote:

The 64 bit floating point is actually 1,600,000,000,000,000 sq km which converts to 617,763,453,667,920 sq. mi.

Source: math. 2 to the 64th power.

Fidelitious posted:

I love this! It's kind of one of my favourite things when people are so oblivious that they just out themselves like this. This guy and his friends throw around racial slurs in their safe spaces so he just assumes that everyone does. I think it legitimately is a shock to these people when they find out that non-racists don't actually do the same things that they do. I'm also all about this guy saying that it's not offensive but still using "n-word" in his post.