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Topic: Chris Roberts Back in your wallet - STAR CITIZEN (Read 959550 times)
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Ironwood
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There's a reason Serek Dmart weighed into all this--Star Citizen is making almost the same promises he made for his Battlecruiser dingus, only that really was just him and some guys, with nowhere near the resources. We all thought it was funny then because of the hubris and self-deception involved, but at least he wasn't combining his folly with ruining people's lives. Will no one think of those poor poor soda machines? Apparently that never happened. Because he said so.  |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Mithas
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What is his angle here? Why does he care so much? I don't want him to stop though.  |
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Yegolev
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I assume he is bitter about how much money and attention Chris Roberts is getting.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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That's literally all it is. Chris is making all the promises Derek would have made, except Chris is getting paid on them while Derek yells at the sky in Arizona because he didn't invent meth or something.
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Hutch
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Roberts is getting away with it because of Wing Commander.
Fmart is associated with BattleCruiser.
This is why one is getting millions in crowdfunding, and one is on the outside, peering in, tapping on the windowpane.
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Plant yourself like a tree
Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
The sun will shine on us again, brother
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Yegolev
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Well, sure, but you try explaining the difference to Doctor Nutbag.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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He didn't go to 8 years of You'll Still Be an Unemployable Piece of Shit University to not be called Doctor Nutbag.
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Khaldun
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The hilarious part of it is that Dmart is getting THIS close to saying, "Nobody should give those guys money because it's stupid to have this kind of hubristic, crazy ambitions, stupid to allow feature creep, stupid to try and put together three or four fundamentally different kinds & scales of gaming experience, stupid to prey on the innocent desire of some gamers to have a game that does everything". But if he says it like that, he is more or less confessing to everything bad people ever said about Battlecruiser and its tortured development history. So he's trying to find a way to say that without having to really SAY it.
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schild
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Bullshit. He is not that self-aware.
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Furiously
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Aspergers vs schadenfreude?
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schild
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Aspergers vs schadenfreude?
I mean, that should probably be the name of his math-centric parody Eagles cover band. |
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Lantyssa
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Pennilenko
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It is rare that I get a laugh as good as I got from that. |
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Tannhauser
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OH wow, that's quality snark! So what's the story with the coke machine? |
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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Notes from the Comic-Con panel: http://imperialnews.network/2015/07/sdcc-star-citizen-panel-notes/(here are some taken from the link) – Multicrew demonstration at GamesCom along with Large World – show a mindboggling big map in which it would take you about 2 hours just to fly between these two moons in the map at normal speed. All one map and multiple multicrew ships and show a whole bunch of stuff at Gamescom.
Squadron 42 is the gateway or entry point into the universe. GamesCom and CitizenCon (October 10th) will have some announcements and discussion about Squadron 42.
– Squadron 42 is not tacked on, it is a full game in its own right. Squadron 42 performance capture shoot was 4 months. Script is 670 pages not included rewrites. Bigger than any Wing Commander game. Shot for 66 days, much longer than any movie that Chris shot. Squadron 42 is, by itself, equivalent to any big AAA $60 game.
- PU Alpha will probably start with one system with multiple landing locations (Stanton) and then expand to 5 systems (Nyx, Terra, Stanton, Helios, Magnus).
Wing Commander based on WWII. Star Citizen based on the decline and fall of Rome.
– Vanduul – they’re analogous to the Visigoths – pushing in from the western side of the UEE.
– Banu are on the southern side of the UEE, not antagonistic. Merchants and traders. Analogous to North Africa and Middle East in Roman times.
– Xi’An are on the eastern side of the UEE. They are analogous to the Persian Empire or the Chinese. Very old, been around for 10,000 years. Cold standoff between the Xi’An and UEE. Trade and do business together but don’t trust each other. Similar to China and the US present day.
– Terra: Up and coming rising socioeconomic power. If Earth is Rome then Terra is Constantinople.
– Earth is the old guard. Terra is viewed as new and progressive.
– Terra and Earth have some tensions. These tensions will play out over the course of the PU. |
" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Sky
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They're calling it PU? Wow, that stinks.  |
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Ginaz
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OH wow, that's quality snark! So what's the story with the coke machine? As the legend goes, he got super pissed for some reason or other and took out his frustrations by unmercifully beating up a defenseless Coke vending machine. True story...or not. Who cares? It's Serek Dmart. |
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Greatest song line ever.  |
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angry.bob
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– Terra: Up and coming rising socioeconomic power. If Earth is Rome then Terra is Constantinople.
– Earth is the old guard. Terra is viewed as new and progressive.
– Terra and Earth have some tensions. These tensions will play out over the course of the PU. Terra Earth Not being the same thing And having "tension" with each other. Istanbul having tensions with Constantinople Everything about anything involving story or background will be terrible, wanky shit. It will be shit quality writing and creativity past needing to cringe. Reading one paragraph of anything involving this shit will make you wish that they had paid some hack like RA Salvatore millions to right something else. Most science fiction is shit. Gaming science fiction is even worse. This though... this is going to be two girls / one cup levels of shit. |
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tmp
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POW! Right in the Kisser!
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Non antagonistic "equivalent of North Africa in Roman times"? That makes zero sense, or I guess someone haven't heard of the Punic Wars? |
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Abagadro
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Hold onto your butts people, part 2 drops tomorrow now that it has 'cleared legal'.
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Abagadro
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Nobody is going to march a doctor with a fake degree, into court, get him under deposition to testify for their side. This while burnishing his credibility as an expert. He's right about all the substance but is such a colossal, un-self aware jackass that it's tough to take seriously. EDIT: Ha, CIG just sending him a refund is a classic lawyer move to undercut standing to file anything. |
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« Last Edit: July 14, 2015, 12:49:26 AM by Abagadro »
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
-H.L. Mencken
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Sir T
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Good grief. If the Dark one would just quit shoving his perfectly formed ass into your face with his writing I'd pretty much agree with everything he wrote and then some.
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Hic sunt dracones.
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Khaldun
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He uses every form of the first person pronoun more often than any writer I've ever read.
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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This douchebag reminds me of those endless and rambling posts Richard Hoagland and his associates used to post on enterprisemission.com . Fun times.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Falconeer
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What is his angle here? Why does he care so much? I don't want him to stop though. Here's the answer to that from his (Serek Dmart) latest accusation letter. My stake in this, is very simple, and to the point. I wanted to see an accessible, and visually spectacular game, like this, made. Going into four years now, this has not happened. And a good portion of the 900K people who have put money toward that dream, don’t seem to have a voice.
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Draegan
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I liked this quote: Though there is nothing illegal about hiring people, even from the competition, you still have to consider the moral implications of hiring away the staff from partners who have been helping you make your dream a reality. If that isn’t the ultimate back stab, I don’t know what is. Business is about morals! |
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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" He's so impatient, it's like watching a teenager fuck a glorious older woman." - Ironwood on J.J. Abrams
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Falconeer
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Shit just got serious  Seriously, this reminds me of a Key and Peele skit. Shit is THAT serious. |
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« Last Edit: July 14, 2015, 07:28:06 AM by Falconeer »
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Malakili
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I love everything about this.
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tazelbain
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Do have any first hand accounts for people's life being ruined by spending too much money on vapor ships yet?
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"Me am play gods"
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Malakili
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Yup, there was on in this very thread. I don't feel like going and finding it now.
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