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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • I really enjoy Star Citizen as it is right now. They push out huge updates every quarter so it’s getting better and better. I paid $45 and have hundreds of hours of fun. The energy people spend hating this game, inventing conpiracies, and circle jerking misinformation is super irritating. The hive mind’s assumptions are wrong, the lived experiences of a growing number of players is fact. This game would have gone bust long ago if it wasn’t fun, a scam, or not making steady progress. Instead it’s revenue and player counts go up every year. The people who try it stick around more often than not.







  • Well that’s just not true. You don’t just rename it to .exe and it will work on PC. The already made multiplayer will look for non-existent hardware, using obsolete and insecure methods to secure to a service that no longer exists on a completely different operating system. They would not only need to completely rewrite the client side net code from scratch, they’d have to write their server side code from scratch too, on top of paying a massive monthly fee to AWS or whatever to host it. Adding multiplayer won’t convince enough additional people to buy it to offset these costs; almost everyone is buying this game for the single player. Adding multiplayer means less profit and more delays.




  • So if you miss a payment your mouse shuts off?

    How is your standing policed, with an always online requirement? So if I move and need to wait to get my internet up, I can’t use my mouse?

    Are they legally liable for lifetime support or are you signing away that right in the EULA and they can end support for your “lifetime” mouse on a whim?

    I’d rather rent my furniture than subscribe to a mouse, but both practices are exploiting this world’s rampant financial illiteracy.



  • Their accents are different. Bob has a Midwest touch to his speech, as is standard for Illinois kids like him, Steve speaks classic Western New England, typical of his Massachusetts upbringing, which is almost exactly the same as American Standard.

    But these two came up in the New York comedy world around the same time. They weren’t close but had many mutual colleagues. It might be more about a similar performance style than a regional accent you’re noticing.