There's inevitably a point where the off message people - who can clearly see the emperor has no clothes - easily outnumber the faithful and shout them down.
Perhaps they're there already.
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There's inevitably a point where the off message people - who can clearly see the emperor has no clothes - easily outnumber the faithful and shout them down.
Perhaps they're there already.
Yeah, I'd make a guess that unless these next two updates are both good and timely that they're going to find the pressure being ramped up.
Edit: Roberts made a comment a while ago to the tune of 'being worried they'll lose the support of the backers'. That was subtle, but perhaps telling. Didn't strike me as a man who was confident in the development of his game.
Edit 2: Reddit interest has dropped to historically low levels
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Do the robots also chant cheery songs? You know, something like…
Millwall, Millwall, you're all really dreadful
and your girlfriends
are all unfulfilled and alienated.
Because if so, where can I buy one?
In these backing/shipsale/financial kinds of discussions people keep referencing the "money counter" on the website.
Has the validity/accuracy of this thing ever been verified? Does grey-market activity line up with sale peaks?
Kinda curious because it seems to be the basis of a lot of arguments for both "camps"... :|
Edit: @Barking_Mad I wouldn't read too much into the reddit activity tbh, numbers seem to average out at around 140k pageviews a day for the last few months and there's no real decline, just a peak around citizencon painting the rest in a bit of a worse light. I wonder how many of these pageviews are in fact from the infamous "downvote-bots" that tend to take the blame for mass-downvoting critically-toned posts
Has the validity/accuracy of this thing ever been verified? Does grey-market activity line up with sale peaks?
Kinda curious because it seems to be the basis of a lot of arguments for both "camps"... :|
Edit: @Barking_Mad I wouldn't read too much into the reddit activity tbh, numbers seem to average out at around 140k pageviews a day for the last few months and there's no real decline, just a peak around citizencon painting the rest in a bit of a worse light. I wonder how many of these pageviews are in fact from the infamous "downvote-bots" that tend to take the blame for mass-downvoting critically-toned posts
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In these backing/shipsale/financial kinds of discussions people keep referencing the "money counter" on the website.
Has the validity/accuracy of this thing ever been verified? Does grey-market activity line up with sale peaks?
Kinda curious because it seems to be the basis of a lot of arguments for both "camps"... :|
Edit: @Barking_Mad I wouldn't read too much into the reddit activity tbh, numbers seem to average out at around 140k pageviews a day for the last few months and there's no real decline, just a peak around citizencon painting the rest in a bit of a worse light. I wonder how many of these pageviews are in fact from the infamous "downvote-bots" that tend to take the blame for mass-downvoting critically-toned posts
Tone on SC subreddit has changed though. Comparing what hype it had during Gamescom ohh boy.
Hm. For once you've seeded doubt in my mind. It's been long enough since I read that doc that I'm not totally sure it wasn't that. I'm going to check on Monday, if so, I've still no idea where the mind virus started.
In thanks, a hint in return: You may have picked up a habit of using the word "kernel" in inappropriate cases, in a similar mind-virusy way.
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Here I was thinking SQ42 would have a cool meta section where you fly a tube of toothpaste through a motion-capture studio for some video game.
Hey Chris Roberts, you can have that idea. For free.
Probably something procedural.
People love buzzwords, especially less technical managers who are a bit fuzzy on what the difference is anyway. Goes the other way though too and terms sometimes split as a sub-set becomes as important as the whole once was and that can get anyone who's not kept up to date. Either becomes a habit that's hard to break
Yeah, I know. It's like the plague now
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Are you thinking of asking for a refund? Well be prepared to sit through the CitizenCon presentation. I kid you not. But this backer's response is priceless.
Also, I wrote a new article today, but I'm scared to link (check my Twitter feed) to it because it contains a meme that has a swear word in it. Is something like that against the rules if it's only a link to an article?
Some hilarity. http://i.imgur.com/yh09HfS.gifv
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Everything I know about computers I learned from Tron 2.0Kernel is an easy one - it's from Tron.
Great game that one, I still play through it once in a while.
Yeah, I know. It's like the plague now
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Are you thinking of asking for a refund? Well be prepared to sit through the CitizenCon presentation. I kid you not. But this backer's response is priceless.
Also, I wrote a new article today, but I'm scared to link (check my Twitter feed) to it because it contains a meme that has a swear word in it. Is something like that against the rules if it's only a link to an article?
Some hilarity. http://i.imgur.com/yh09HfS.gifv
I take a couple of days off the interweb and miss all the best stuff
I hope the latest new money only cash grab is just a case of "We're running a bit low on funds"
And not:
"That's it - lets fill the suitcases with cash - C'mon Sandi, we're off to Rio - they'll never find us there..."
Last time I compiled the kernel it was a 6 piece bargain bucket... chips were rank :/
Wasn't that a trace command for debugging some versions of Basic? I remember it on the Dragon 32 which was essentially a TRS-80 clone dont-ya-know?
I always thought MCP was a reference to CPM, but it wasn't
Urgh.
Last time I had a Kernel Fried Chipset bargain bucket - it refactored itself into a cheerful little blocker. Completely refused all attempts at flushing the cache. It even laughed at the Dalek Weaponry.
I wonder if CIG have mocapped that particular bathroom emergency
Yes. It stood for “trace on” (and trace off, naturally). Depending on the flavour of Basic, it would output anything from a simple print-out of the current line number being executed, to the actual command (once they did away with line numbers).
It was pure lucky coincidence that the Tron character (which, if I remember correctly, was more a case of 'tron, as in electron) was also a type of debug/trace program.
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Urgh.
Last time I had a Kernel Fried Chipset bargain bucket - it refactored itself into a cheerful little blocker. Completely refused all attempts at flushing the cache. It even laughed at the Dalek Weaponry.
I wonder if CIG have mocapped that particular bathroom emergency
Which for some inexplicable reason puts me in mind of Float on by The Floaters!
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Good job I didn't comment - I thought you were going with a desperately awful pun that even I wouldn't attempt!
:O
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