Gyokuyoutama

So have we all come to agreement that Star Citizen is a money making scam at this point? I mean, I don't think it started out that way, but that doesn't change where we are now. EDIT: To expand, here's how I see things going internally: -Begins with a legitimate attempt to make the most ambitious space sim ever. The initial vision is going to be hard to implement, but possible with a good team. -Partially due to Chris Roberts not having management experience, partially due to the crowdfunding being far more successful than they dreamed it would be, the scope of the game increases beyond its initial already ambitious scope. This causes the focus to drift from spending a lot of time considering how to make a core game engine which can handle all the various levels of play proposed, to starting development on each new idea. -This causes development to be hugely delayed, especially since the scope became so large that certain portions of the game are outsourced to other teams who develop things in ways which might not be compatible with the other parts (since there is no overall plan for them to adhere to). -Eventually it becomes clear that the initial funding is no longer going to be enough to finish the game, if it can be finished at all. To get more funding more and more perks are offered, including ship macro purchases. -These purchases turn out to be extremely lucrative, but do not work out at all as a solution to the funding problem, since they inevitably force the team to work on yet another new aspect of the game, when the even the basics haven't been worked out. -At some point Cloud Imperium says fuck it, it's far more lucrative to keeping the funding coming to us than it will be to release the game. Feature creep becomes a feature, not a bug, because it gives a good way to excite funders while simultaneously justifying the game being delayed to such a horrendous degree. The priority for development is to be flashy as possible, with only minimal attention made to having anything work (to maintain the illusion that the game might some day be released). It's possible that Chris Roberts isn't actually in on it and he goes along with it because he legitimately wants the game to be the most amazing thing ever, but most of the people at the company have to know what the actual modus operandi is now.

The more I delve into it, the more I realize that the Touhou community has twice the impenetrable memes as the rest of the internet combined.

I still want "famous philosophers as high school girls."

Even here it's kind of weird to look at the thermometer and say "oh, it's only 5 degrees below zero, that's pretty warm all things considered."

I think that this is what people who don't watch anime think that all anime is like: Well either that or dragonball super.

Current windchill is so low that it doesn't really matter if you measure it in Celsius or Fahrenheit.

Of all the weird bullshit that Umineko has thrown at me, the only one so far that has left me dumbfounded is all of the characters suddenly doing power level calculations based on narrative tropes.

I like how Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin are in the "we don't have a color for temps this low" zone.

it's time to repurpose your rig as a tea kettle.

This is exactly what I think other spuffers are like:

I'll still put paradox in front of Stardock. At least paradox puts interesting ideas into their expansions (even though most of the time those ideas should have been in entirely new games). Most of Stardock's stuff is either entirely inconsequential, or stuff that was obviously removed from the original game to make new DLC. All this without even having a stable base game.

Someone glued the hands in place and they are too proud to admit it.

They finally stopped teasing us with bullshit like 2.5 minutes and finally gave us what we really want: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/24/doomsday-clock-how-close-we-midnight/2666319002/ Up the irons, boys!

Carbonated water is for people whose bodies normally subsist on sources of hydration other than water, like Italians or Russians.

*Deponia Complete not actually complete (doesn't include Deponia 4). Still a really great thing to pick up.

I kind of want to say fuck amazon and buy everything locally, but nearly everything I like is too niche. The one exception is board games and comics, but the local geek shop doesn't have the comics I like and gouges the hell out of board game prices.

How did my life get to a point where this comic is all understandable:

The only e-mail of mine that is in danger is the one that I already knew got hacked. It was sort of a tipoff when all my contacts started getting spam from it. But nothing important was attached to that account.

In 2050 it will be proven that ghosts are real and a method will be developed to reliably capture their images on film. The first application of this discovery will be forcing the ghosts of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Harold Ramis to star in yet another ghostbusters sequel.

This is why I waited until it was cheap on GoG to pick it up. Before every "major update" (i.e. "the game is no longer the game that you bought") I do a backup of the old version just in case the new version is crap.

First game of Stellaris played as a glorious feudal space empire, and took over half the galaxy. For my second game I decided to play as a federation type materialist/pacifist. Of the enemy empires, all but 2 are either militaristic or spiritualist. Most of them fanatically. At this point I'm just bribing people into trading with me.

Why couldn't they just call it Battle Angel Alita?