As a spectator sport, this is the grift that keeps on giving. :brace-watching:

  • TornadoThompson [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Oh, of course. I have experience of smashing things until they work but nowhere near this scale. Hats off to everyone involved that the thing actually runs albeit visually flying apart at the seams.

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      With 13 years of development they could have written a new engine specifically for the job tailor made to the tasks they needed, solved networking in a way that lets 500 people being in an instance simultaneously and made more than they currently have.

      The tech has been laughably mismanaged.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        Chris Roberts is a (literal, that's what he was doing after Wing Commander and before Star Citizen) used car salesman with delusions of grandeur that doesn't just have a similar sort of narcissism as :my-hero: , but actively inserted himself into the lore of his own grift as :my-hero: but even more bazinga and humanity saving.

        https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)