Star Citizen - Chris Roberts, lots of spaceship porn, lots of promises

I already said that up-thread. I’m suing you!

… but I’m willing to settle if you will buy a few ship JPG’s from me …

What if I agree to license your post, and then sell jpegs of it done up in nice pretty fonts that we promise to publish later—can we call it even?

For that kind of money we could have set up an orphan drug manufacturing facility to drastically lower the cost of some diabetes and antibiotic drugs.

Only if you lend me an SS Panzer division for the weekend. Thanks!

Sorry if it’s already posted but here’s a HN post with discussion, some of it overly optimistic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18733892

I am missing the “overly optimistic” parts in that discussion. I do see all the references to Derek Smart though. Man, those guys.

Regardless, back in May when sources told me they were in dire financial straights, and I Tweeted this*, nobody knew that in that very month, they were closing this $46M emergency funding deal. The financial brochure they released pretty much says it all. It doesn’t matter that they sold 10% of the company. What matters is that in 6 yrs and $211M, Chris has failed to ship a SINGLE product. Giving him $46M, which he is shamelessly promoting as “marketing”, isn’t going to change that. Especially seeing as they burn that much each year anyway - and SQ42 is, as he now claims, 18+ months away.

*“So, how does a company that claims to have raised $185M in FREE money - over a period of 6 years - end up teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and with less than $9M in tangible cash assets?

Hookers and blow?

My impression from a couple posters was they actually expected it to ship. No pun intended.

Ah yeah, I see what you mean now.

Last one for the year, and probably for some time. Star Citizen - A New Dawn

“I’m pretty much of the opinion that anybody still in the SC shell game at this point gets what they deserve.” P.T. Barnum, probably

Keeping the thread alive until the 2019 fiasco hits, this one is hilarious

In case you missed his previous epic rants, oh boy

Entertaining for sure.
Derek, if you could work up the same amount of vitriol in your own videos on the subject, it would liven them up considerably. You always come across as so calm and measured in your video rants (I can’t believe I just wrote that). You need to shout more; pound your desk!

LOL!! Funny thing is people who know me in real life, know that I’m generally a calm person. My online alter-ego though? Not so much. So when I do videos, it’s me being me. Though I have been known to go completely off the rails during heated arguments in a stream.

Or kick something… like, I dunno, a soda machine? :)

I feel grief :)

Well, in my case, it feels me with nostalgia. ;)

LOL!! Same here. Ah yeah, good times :)

One last grope for old time’s sake? :D

Hey, I had BC 3000 AD imported and all (in its less-than-ideal state at release and all that), followed the great flame wars, everything. It’s part of my history, for good or for ill. Anything about that time will remind me of my younger, more innocent, eager self.

So it feels nostalgic, yes, but no groping please. ;)