Cagi 9h ago • 100%
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3460514-small-soldiers
Based on the movie Small Soldiers?
Cagi 16h ago • 29%
I'm not, I'm calling them capitalist, investor run businesses, which they are. Inventing controversy is an ancient, reliable way to make money.
I'm calling star citizen haters a bunch of gullible cynics. There's an emotional element in people's need to hate star citizen. I think they've just been burned so much, any time something cool is promised, they automatically assume the worst. If Star Citizen delivers, it would be very, very cool and the hate is proportional. I'm having a great time in Star Citizen with a whole bunch of people right now. Anything else is just noise, be it promises from the devs or internet articles or salty people who can't just ignore this game if they don't like it like an adult.
Cagi 16h ago • 18%
You sound like MAGAs discussing immigration under a Fox News post. Circle jerk of hate based on misinformation, but trying to talk reason to people who love to hate the thing they hate and don't want to stop is not going to work. Keep on believing gaming journalists from disreputable tabloids who invent controversy for clicks. The engagement on Star Citizen hate posts is massive compared to others. Hating Star Citizen is directly more profitable for these sites. There is no oversight on truthfulness in gaming news.
CitizenCon was this weekend. There has been an uptick in hit pieces posted this week. That isn't a coincidence. You are being being primed to react negatively to the content that will be posted from it.
No, it's not an FPS. It's 99% a space sim like Wing Commander with a few FPS parts. It is a full AAA game, maximum fidelity, 30-40 hour campaign. You don't even know what you're talking about. You could actually watch the video you have so many opinions about, but oh that's right, it's a conspiracy if it's good.
I have hundreds of hours in Star Citizen and have enjoyed them all. That's not very much compared to many, many others. They are growing in players and revenue for 10 years. That doesn't happen to bad games. They release massive updates every quarter. They just bought a new campus in Manchester so they can hire more devs, on top of the existing thousand. It's a genuinely fun game, right now, enjoyed by many. You don't have to be one of them, but your tinfoil hat nonsense is just vitriolic skepticism from reading these tabloids, not critical thinking.
We're out there, flying around, having a great time wanting y'all to join our space shenanigans. Just try it the next free-fly with an open mind. Even if you tried it before, try it now, it is improving every quarter, it's a different beast now than a few years ago.
Cagi 17h ago • 40%
Squadron 42 is feature complete and is in optimization and polish phase. 30-40 hour campaign. It looks amazing. This was released this weekend, played live not prerecorded.
Cagi 19h ago • 100%
My anus is bleeding!
Cagi 19h ago • 100%
Make your mother sigh!
Cagi 19h ago • 100%
In HD you can very clearly see where the hairpiece ends and Shatner's hair begins every time you see the back of his head.
Cagi 2d ago • 100%
Yeah, it's not late stage capitalism, it's peak capitalism.
Cagi 2d ago • 100%
The trans acceptance is nice to hear, but religious leaders melding their position with political leadership is less nice. Clergy should not be allowed to run for public office, no matter what their platform.
Cagi 2d ago • 100%
Coming from deeply conservative evangelical culture, I can tell you that to them, she isn't a pastor, she's a woman pastor which a completely different and significantly less respected thing. To us she's just a pastor, which also earns her buckets of disrespect. She's basically unelectable by everyone.
Cagi 2d ago • 100%
They say "LILILILILILI!" Then cut your throat with a thrown chakram that bounced off the throat of the guy beside you.
Cagi 2d ago • 100%
His followers will believe whatever Trump says, and whatever Trump says is what they've always believed, even if they didn't.
Cagi 3d ago • 5%
I actually do appreciate the clarification then, thank you. But I'll still suggest to the readers of this convo, articles like these aren't written for the edification of its readers, it's written to bait engagement. The speculations of gaming journalists on Star Citizen is as reliable as Fox News' speculation on the Mexico/USA border.
And as someonewho has been following following the numbers, it's growing in revenue and daily active players every year. They just opened a massive new office in Manchester so they can hire more people. The people they do hire get paid well and stick around for years. If they were worried about cash flow, they have a lot of fat they would be trimming right now, but their expenses and revenue keep growing in step with eachother. They have no investors to pay, no vaults to fill. They make money and spend it growing the business. Those expenses represent 12 years of good wages and benefits for workers.
Star citizens success is a threat to capitalist, investor focused gaming. Gaming news is run by game industry capitalists and has zero oversight or accountability for bring truthful.
Cagi 3d ago • 100%
Please make your best diamond dust/Screech puns below this comment.
Cagi 3d ago • 86%
Not to mention the risk of shutting down the production for weeks while your star heals. Crew get paid hourly. When production stops, so does the pay. Doing your own stunts is a really selfish, egotistical move.
Cagi 3d ago • 12%
So they made over 150 million in profit so far, make more and more money with more and more players every year and that's a sign they are failing? "STEADILY GROWING PROFITABLE BUSINESS IS DOOMED TO FAIL!"
The speculation of gaming journalists is the worst way to get reliable and responsible gaming news.
Cagi 3d ago • 65%
It is the exact opposite of vapourware, even. They have over a thousand employees in multiple studios across the globe pushing out regular, massive updates.
Cagi 3d ago • 33%
That is $700 million is revenue for Star Citizen, not development costs. More and more players are joining by trying it and sticking around, and CIG is making more money every year because it's genuinely a fun game now. If it wasn't, they wouldn't have $700 million in revenue from a growing base of paying customers after ten years. But that doesn't get clicks from ignorant salty cynics. "IT BAD SCAM" is a more profitable headline than "fun game enjoyed by many".
When videogame "journalists" are drumming up controversy, you always have to take it with a grain of salt. Lord knows we have enough of it.
I spent a grand total of $45 dollars on this game and I have had hundreds of hours of fun. Imagine buying a game for less than the cost of a new AAA game, playing it, enjoying it for dozens of hours or more for ten years, then someone who has never played it starts telling you how you have to spend thousands of dollars and actually didn't have fun and it's not a game, it's a scam because you heard this one guy spent his life savings on imaginary space ships and regretted it. That's how Star Citizen players feel; it's very confusing.
Cagi 3d ago • 100%
In cowboy times they went to Fairhaven, Ireland instead.
She's always this small, fair skinned dark featured woman, but more importantly is her strength and gentleness, and how they empower eachother. The subtleties are differently from series to series, but they're all good portrayals of a complex, interesting character.
Explore a 1:1 scale Milky Way in a meticulously designed Starship alone or with friends. Try the tech demo on Steam, run through the cold and dark startup tutorial then find cool things in space. It's already a lot of fun in its barebones state. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332100/Starship_Simulator/
Explore a 1:1 scale milky way galaxy alone or with friends on a meticulously built Starship. I suggest trying the tech demo on steam, running through the cold and dark startup tutorial, then finding your first black hole. It's a lot of fun even in its bare bones state. Very friendly discord with active devs, too.