It's hard to take him seriously. His incoherent, perhaps schizophrenic rambling and threats towards his detractors over the years have certainly soured me. I mean, even here and now, in one sentence he tries to say his games were "popular", but "never caught on." What does that even mean?
>> The first game in the series was released back in 1996. Let that sink in.
Let it sink in that these games were unplayable. Not just unplayable in the sense that they were "boring" or "really buggy". I mean unplayable in the sense that, even if everything were working as intended, the intended operation was designed to be unplayable.
For example, the game actually requires us to go into a (poorly hidden) menu, find the crew member, and tell them to go eat, so they don't starve to death. Does the admiral of any fleet, or even the captain of any ship, contact every ensign under their charge personally and tell them to go hit the chow line? The games are not simulations of space combat, they aren't simulations of managing space fleets, they're simulations of Derek Smart's ultimate fantasy: being a complete control freak.
I can't finish reading this. This is supposed to be a criticism of Star Citizen, judging from the title, but all it's managed to do for the first 5000 words is go on about how great and visionary is Lord Derek Smart.
Some things never change.
So even if Derek's way of saying things is rude, he might be right this time. I hope Chris Roberts will show us that Derek Smart was wrong, because I wan't to play the complete Star Citizen and enjoy all the announced features, but I have more and more doubts because of what happend since the game development started.
Oh btw here is a link to his personal blog where he explains why he wrote this article http://dereksmart3000ad.tumblr.com/post/123125564079/interst...
If achievements had been a thing back then, and had Usenet had them, that would definitely have been one.
[1] http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/11/12/rooshs-reaxxion-dou...
If not, why?
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/in-defense-of-tortu...
"Reaxxion is a gaming site for men that was created as a reaction to extremists infiltrating and corrupting video game journalism. It aims to be a community of men who want to discuss gaming without being fed propaganda or labeled sexist because of their interest in specific kinds of gaming entertainment."
I would assume that women are allowed to read the articles, but it doesn't sound like women are encouraged to comment on them. Personally, I have zero time for that kind of crap.
Hm...
On reflection, I also think there's a relevant difference between judging a news outlet by the worst opinion piece they've ever published and judging a news outlet by the average opinion piece they publish. The latter action is also useful for gauging the quality of the site's policy.
"While walking to my place, I realized how drunk she was. In America, having sex with her would have been rape, since she legally couldn’t give her consent. It didn’t help matters that I was relatively sober, but I can’t say I cared or even hesitated. I won’t rationalize my actions, but having sex is what I do." [1]
"How far lost is Western society if fat, ugly Indian cunt @nitashatiku has a platform to denounce a productive, intelligent white man?" [2]
"A race to degeneracy hurts Jews less than gentiles because they still retain guiding ingroup values. Gentiles are left in the cultural winds that Jews help create." [3]
"Hundreds of years ago, I would have been a soldier, fighting battles to defend my country against invaders, or invading another tribe to steal their women and land." [4]
"A woman cutting off healthy hair is one step away from literal cutting of her skin with a sharp object, because both behaviors denote a likely mental illness where the woman presents herself to society as more damaged than her genetic condition would indicate, suggesting that she has suffered environmental damage that has reduced her overall fitness. ... She must be monitored by state authorities so she doesn’t continue to hurt herself." [5]
"If you’re about to bust your nut and a girl does tells you “No” or “Wait,” she’s an inconsiderate slut who is now causing you direct harm. A man’s nut is sacred, and for her to impede that should be criminal. I’m serious." [6]
"If she tells you to stop the millisecond after she gets her nut, without you getting yours, I want you to tell her that the point of having sex with women is so a man doesn’t have to use his hand, and that she has performed below the hand." [6]
"That’s why we do all this shit to bang women—to get our nut. If she can’t do that for us, then she’s useless as a living being." [6]
"make rape legal if done on private property. I propose that we make the violent taking of a woman not punishable by law when done off public grounds." [7]
[1] http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/11/12/rooshs-reaxxion-dou... [2] https://twitter.com/rooshv/status/377363307788656640 [3] http://www.donotlink.com/framed?699413 [4] http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/04/28/roosh-v-seduced-and... [5] http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/04/15/pickup-guru-roosh-v... [6] http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/03/21/a-mans-nut-is-sacre... [7] http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/02/17/pickup-guru-roosh-v...
Disclosure: I have thrown a few thousand dollars into the Star-Citizen-shaped hole.
He said that the current project is impossible and the only way to complete anything is to fix the scope.
However his prediction is that once they try and fix the scope the backlash will be terrible.
That was kinda the thrust of his article—he's got a history of trying to do what Star Citizen is claiming it'll be, and it's taken him years and never really been that successful. So he sees what's coming out of their dev team, and recognizing the challenges he's had.
That's kind of what I was hoping from Chris Roberts when I backed. I knew he had issues managing scope before and I was hoping this was going to be a more experienced Chris Roberts focused on shipping working software and not selling more things he is going to have to develop.
The timeline isn't so much what bothers me it's the threat of running out of funding. CIG is not transparent about burn rate so it's hard to tell how much runway they have although they claim they have it covered, but the numbers don't make sense to me.
In the meantime, I see $400 dollar ship models and have to wonder: who buys this stuff?
This piece reminds me of Trump's blustery presidential candidate announcement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtB_jvznaNM
We can only hope!
It seems odd to be in agreement with Derek Smart, but I think he's right. Chris Roberts didn't stop at simply promising the moon; he's teasing the Oort Cloud at this point.
But if his point is that this is a niche of massive egos and impossible ambitions leading to failed games, there might be something to that.
