It's a standard redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich via a vehicle that entices fervent belief structures and concepts. Kinda like church organisations.
Game Discussions Star Citizen Discussion Thread v12
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A pertinent comment from the SC thread on SA
This really is an issue with SC. Its not just CIG saying everything will be possible (which is downright misleading), but backers also convince themselves everything will be possible (which is downright stupid, they clearly don't understand game development), and CIG never tell the dreamcrafters "No, you won't be able to do that" (because that might slow down the money train, better let them keep believing everything will be possible).
This really is an issue with SC. Its not just CIG saying everything will be possible (which is downright misleading), but backers also convince themselves everything will be possible (which is downright stupid, they clearly don't understand game development), and CIG never tell the dreamcrafters "No, you won't be able to do that" (because that might slow down the money train, better let them keep believing everything will be possible).
Is it odd that this gave me a slight sensation of vertigo?
Yeah. I mean vertigo is kinda for low altitudes. You don't usually get vertigo looking out of a plane window. It just is too far for the brain.Is it odd that this gave me a slight sensation of vertigo?
Not odd. It's cool whenever it happens.Is it odd that this gave me a slight sensation of vertigo?
I remember getting that in Rally Trophy a long time ago (driving over a cliff on fan made stage), and more recently in E: D (Horizons), while driving SRV mountainside.
tbh, it's not any devs job to track what ill dream some hc fan crafts. You'd be busy with that trash all day instead of making the game.
Is it odd that this gave me a slight sensation of vertigo?
Nah, makes total sense. The new clouds do add a decent sense of interim scale looking down there, with the cast shadows etc.
Most insane vertigo I've felt for a scenario like this is in NMS VR though. Actual depth perception in game will do that
(A 2D vid can't communicate it of course, but here's the kind of thing that really sets it off
)Is vertigo the dizzy feeling standing over some unexpected distance downwards? or the phobic feeling you get when confronted with heights.Nah, makes total sense. The new clouds do add a decent sense of interim scale looking down there, with the cast shadows etc.
Most insane vertigo I've felt for a scenario like this is in NMS VR though. Actual depth perception in game will do that
(A 2D vid can't communicate it of course, but here's the kind of thing that really sets it off
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUjnmQyizrY
Aren't they the same thing?
It's used for both in casual English really. (The general 'too near the edge' sensation, and the more extreme generic fear etc)
VR is particularly good at triggering whichever flavour you're susceptible too
. (You know where your foot is, and your eyes are telling you convincingly that there's a helluva drop just beyond it...)We have Schwindel (dizzy, can also get that from getting totally boozed up e.g.) and Höhenangst (you don't always get dizzy when the fear creeps up your throat and chokes you. if you get dizzy on top that is very bad and can lead to actually falling). Naturally Höhenangst prevents you from falling by going full paranoia. You can train that away or lessen it.
Its a mild sense of panic, that i'm not safe.
In SC, you have plenty of tools to kill someone or a ship landed on ground. And you have also tools from ground to kill you while you try to do it from air (Ballista, anti air weapons like the Animus, turrets from landed ships, the Tonk, Cyclone-AA or MT, Ursa and the future G12a) .
Jump Town 2 is the first event to give a real usage to Combined arm for an ingame objective. And for what I've seen, ground defenses can be pretty effective against air attacks.
I mean, if you know what you are doing in SC, you dont carry the boxes by hand either. You use a tractor beam. Much faster.
During the xenothreat event, managing boxes with the tractor beam was fun.
tincan in vacuum at exit velocity. what can go wrong? Our "vertigo" is always tied to heights. but crashing head on to the atmosphere can be pretty unpleasant too.
That look on Sandi's face midway through this loop always cracks me up. You can hear her thought: are the handbags really worth being with this?
Happy New Year's all (only just back online)
Just imagine if backers counted as investors.
I have said it before, but will say it again, that is none too shabby and considerably better than I get on my Sky FTTC.In other news... I was chatting with my Norsenet ISP on Discord last night and he turned my net speed limiter off for a bit so I could download and play some 'Ready or not' with him...seems he went off to bed and forgot to turn the limiter back on...I'd better go download something else before he wakes up and turns it back on
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CIG Management always seem to spout such untruths!
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