Star Citizen will have its own chapter in the annals of awful history, right before GTA Online and After Rust and 7dayz. I shall title my book 'Forever alphas a How to make money hand over fist by promising endlessly and delivering little to nothing'
The game is like 90% setup and staging with bugs stopping you, and 10% fun and engaging gameplay. That 10% has so much promise, I just wish they would cut the bullshit and make a fucking game already.
The space fascism with corporate characteristics backdrop and Chris Roberts putting himself in the lore as the setting's Elon Musk was pretty awful though.
That's actually a damning thing about it: the company that makes the eternal (pre, because it's not feature complete) alpha wants it to seem deep and complex as a setting but it's a lot of aging 90s mall aesthetics and Silicon Valley techbro motifs.
I hate Star Citizen as a project, and I would never defend Roberts / Cloud Imperium.
What I do love is the complexity of certain game features, and exploring the system with my friends. I backed the project 10 years ago because it came with a copy of Squadron 42, with their Persistent Universe stuff being just a bonus. Admittedly I didn't do much research into the project, and it wasn't very expensive for a gamble to me at the time. I'm unhappy with the results 10 years later, but I get a small amount of joy out of playing it every so often.
I hope you don't mean The River(tm) or the privatized prison gameplay (with janky scripted and fixed-in-place escape route that never changes) for people that dare to pvp.
It'll only leave a few tens of thousands of people with dodgy brain implants that the manufacturer no longer offers support for and has discontinued updates on.
I wonder how long it'll be until someone bombs that kind of place. "They're literally putting brainwashing chips in people's brains" seems like serious propaganda fuel.
Inevitabilism is self-fulfilling prophecy bullshit.
The "metaverse" seemed inevitable to media hype and inevitabilists like yourself until it went over like a wet fart. Maybe something like either thing will take over one day, but smugly telling people something is inevitable is less than useless.
EDIT: I originally deleted this comment because I thought maybe I was wrong and that you were just talking about the inevitability of credulous trend-chasing consumers trying to get superpowers with this junk, but it seems you do fully buy into it.
brain chips are inevitable. They will eventually be safe and useful enough that people will use them.
Nah that's basic biology
Judging an entire concept in perpetuity based on a single, early implementation is beyond short-sighted.
What do you think about the Soviet Union and CYBERSYN? LOL
You sound like early Internet skeptics.
You've inherited a Marvel™ soy version of Calvinism, we are historical materialists, not luddites. We just understand why you're repeating what you've heard elsewhere. I.e
The Internet (now, brain chips, etc) will be a liberatory force and cause a great awakening
Lol no it just reified existing relations to production. The superstructure maintains and shapes the base, not the other way around.
In the end you're just waiting for a tech breakthrough to solve climate change without drastic changes to production and labor relations the same way evangelicals are waiting for the second coming of Jesus. The world doesn't work like that. There is no horizon.
Nothing changes unless you're operating collectively in the material world and using scientific methods to correctly understand preceding actions and to correctly determine immediate and future actions.
The irrelevant take on brain chips is based on a bare minimum of historical analysis and a respect for relevant fields like biology, economics and history. They are a dead end for the relevant future, i.e the next 100 years max before climate change reverts and deteriorates global modes of production to the point that brain chips continue to be totally irrelevant and probably at that point, impossible to produce.
Liberals believe in infinite growth the same way evangelists believe in God, zero connection to the real world.
I know you want your chip treats and you want them now, but they're not coming any faster by being Reddity here.
I'm a full leftist
This hivemind
SUCH A FULL LEFTIST
Detach your mouth from the footwear of your corporate billionaire overlords and stop proselytizing about the inevitability of techno rapture and maybe you'll fool some people, bootlicker.
"Zero connection to the real world", Christ, the irony.
Don't expect people to cheer them on, especially if they're owned and operated by companies ran by and/or . Also, the heat death of the universe is inevitable too; what's your point about that?
They will eventually be safe and useful enough
I don't buy into your empty faith in exploitative techbro bullshit inevitably leading toward nicer and kinder things; some technological things can and do get worse over time, especially software, and I don't see how brain chips from the same techbros would be any less exploitative when capitalism requires growth mandates and that means more exploitative systems and more hostile practices over time.
Judging an entire concept in perpetuity based on a single, early implementation is beyond short-sighted.
Assuming it is both inevitable and will totally be nice to you and give you neat powers is escapist wishful thinking without material analysis.
You sound like early Internet skeptics.
You sound like a credulous NFT investor, complete with the "this is INEVITABLE" chanting and the "everyone will bow to this eventually and praise it" wishful thinking.
Be as passive-aggressive as you want, "buddy," but you're making unsubstantiated claims, trying to chant them into existence for your own personal need for brain chip treats, all while ignoring the downsides of the current economic system and consequent technological trends, especially enshittification.
and understanding technological trends
You don't.
You keep saying "inevitable" like society has a "science bar" that builds up over time like a Civ game, where it's only positive upward changes.
Oh sure. I'm just saying it's only a matter of time.
I saw your other posts. You really really want your headchip treats and are trying to make them appear faster like some kind of The Secret manifestation mantra.
It's easier to direct energy than stop it.
Under capitalism, the "directed" energy is the whims of the ruling class, and your chip treats are likely to only be made more oppressive, mandatory to get and maintain jobs, be more surveillance laden in the way Amazon "fulfillment centers" already are, and with worsening subscription mandates and punitive measures for people that can't pay up.
Your wishful thinking would be quaint if it wasn't ruinously naive and based on faith in the ruling class because you really, really want the cyberpunkerinos to come true, faster.
Reddit's /r/Futurology cult beckons. You can chant "IT'S INEVITABLE" there all you like and pray for your billionaire masters to maybe pretty please make the brain chip treats uplifting instead of exploitative there.
direct energy? I'll let it melt adopters brains the same way it melted a bunch of monkeys' brains and continue not thinking about it. and if anyone tries to push me to get one I'll tell them to pound sand. no way in hell am I giving a corporation direct access to my brain for literally any reason. we live under capitalism - the only version of any product that will ever get produced is the one that makes the capitalists money. move fast and break things isn't exactly reassuring when it comes to the only brain you're ever going to have.
That tech cultist probably sees people getting damaged or killed by brain chip treats as some reasonable cost for some magic tech outcome later, "INEVITABLE" and all that, the way that tech cultists see Tesla crashes as always improving the technology somehow.
"regulations" will keep them in line, apparently, and "the only people who get hurt are the fanboys" - which doesn't include them for some reason. it's kind of cryptofash in their willingness to kill people at the altar of tech billionaires.
That's some Uno Reverse shit and I love it.
Also, I didn't think about how the site still describes Tweets with the same name. Another clever thing that the CEO thought through.
Side question- How many people do you think would still get a brain chip from him?
At least as many that are still putting money into Star Citizen.
Star Citizen will have its own chapter in the annals of awful history, right before GTA Online and After Rust and 7dayz. I shall title my book 'Forever alphas a How to make money hand over fist by promising endlessly and delivering little to nothing'
Hey now, I enjoy Star Citizen when it's not completely bugging out or disconnecting me.
Should you pour money into the project though? Probably not.
Totally, go for that.
Don't give Chris Roberts any more money than you already have, that's my take.
The game is like 90% setup and staging with bugs stopping you, and 10% fun and engaging gameplay. That 10% has so much promise, I just wish they would cut the bullshit and make a fucking game already.
The space fascism with corporate characteristics backdrop and Chris Roberts putting himself in the lore as the setting's Elon Musk was pretty awful though.
https://starcitizen.tools/Chris_Roberts_(lore)
Oh for sure. I'm not a fan of Roberts, and in-game I play as a character that does everything possible to fight the corporate interests.
Yet you automatically wear a mobiGlas(tm)(r) like everyone else even while ostensibly being an outlaw, wearing a corporate tracking device. Curious!
Yeah... it's not that deep
That's actually a damning thing about it: the company that makes the eternal (pre, because it's not feature complete) alpha wants it to seem deep and complex as a setting but it's a lot of aging 90s mall aesthetics and Silicon Valley techbro motifs.
No, my roleplay is not that deep.
I hate Star Citizen as a project, and I would never defend Roberts / Cloud Imperium.
What I do love is the complexity of certain game features, and exploring the system with my friends. I backed the project 10 years ago because it came with a copy of Squadron 42, with their Persistent Universe stuff being just a bonus. Admittedly I didn't do much research into the project, and it wasn't very expensive for a gamble to me at the time. I'm unhappy with the results 10 years later, but I get a small amount of joy out of playing it every so often.
You do you, then.
I hope you don't mean The River(tm) or the privatized prison gameplay (with janky scripted and fixed-in-place escape route that never changes) for people that dare to pvp.
Sounds like it's Skyrim Modding: The Game.
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Damn those wokes and their impossible to pronounce neopronouns. send Xeet
If you had an account with google glass, you automatically are on the brainchip waitlist.
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It'll only leave a few tens of thousands of people with dodgy brain implants that the manufacturer no longer offers support for and has discontinued updates on.
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I wonder how long it'll be until someone bombs that kind of place. "They're literally putting brainwashing chips in people's brains" seems like serious propaganda fuel.
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Inevitabilism is self-fulfilling prophecy bullshit.
The "metaverse" seemed inevitable to media hype and inevitabilists like yourself until it went over like a wet fart. Maybe something like either thing will take over one day, but smugly telling people something is inevitable is less than useless.
EDIT: I originally deleted this comment because I thought maybe I was wrong and that you were just talking about the inevitability of credulous trend-chasing consumers trying to get superpowers with this junk, but it seems you do fully buy into it.
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Nah that's basic biology
What do you think about the Soviet Union and CYBERSYN? LOL
You've inherited a Marvel™ soy version of Calvinism, we are historical materialists, not luddites. We just understand why you're repeating what you've heard elsewhere. I.e
Lol no it just reified existing relations to production. The superstructure maintains and shapes the base, not the other way around.
In the end you're just waiting for a tech breakthrough to solve climate change without drastic changes to production and labor relations the same way evangelicals are waiting for the second coming of Jesus. The world doesn't work like that. There is no horizon.
Nothing changes unless you're operating collectively in the material world and using scientific methods to correctly understand preceding actions and to correctly determine immediate and future actions.
The irrelevant take on brain chips is based on a bare minimum of historical analysis and a respect for relevant fields like biology, economics and history. They are a dead end for the relevant future, i.e the next 100 years max before climate change reverts and deteriorates global modes of production to the point that brain chips continue to be totally irrelevant and probably at that point, impossible to produce.
Liberals believe in infinite growth the same way evangelists believe in God, zero connection to the real world.
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Stop that false polite smarmy shit.
I know you want your chip treats and you want them now, but they're not coming any faster by being Reddity here.
SUCH A FULL LEFTIST
Detach your mouth from the footwear of your corporate billionaire overlords and stop proselytizing about the inevitability of techno rapture and maybe you'll fool some people, bootlicker.
Your irony, bazinga brain.
I feel like I just got to witness Red Foreman actually put his foot up somebody's actual ass.
I get it, you want brain chip treats.
Don't expect people to cheer them on, especially if they're owned and operated by companies ran by
and/or 
. Also, the heat death of the universe is inevitable too; what's your point about that?
I don't buy into your empty faith in exploitative techbro bullshit inevitably leading toward nicer and kinder things; some technological things can and do get worse over time, especially software, and I don't see how brain chips from the same techbros would be any less exploitative when capitalism requires growth mandates and that means more exploitative systems and more hostile practices over time.
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/
Assuming it is both inevitable and will totally be nice to you and give you neat powers is escapist wishful thinking without material analysis.
You sound like a credulous NFT investor, complete with the "this is INEVITABLE" chanting and the "everyone will bow to this eventually and praise it" wishful thinking.
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Be as passive-aggressive as you want, "buddy," but you're making unsubstantiated claims, trying to chant them into existence for your own personal need for brain chip treats, all while ignoring the downsides of the current economic system and consequent technological trends, especially enshittification.
You don't.
You keep saying "inevitable" like society has a "science bar" that builds up over time like a Civ game, where it's only positive upward changes.
Now you're trying concern trolling. It's weak Reddit shit. Stop that.
You first, "IT'S INEVITABLE, THE CHIP TREATS WILL BE GOOD AND YOU CAN'T STOP THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM" true believer.
And yours is not one of them.
More concern trolling and passive-aggressive smarm won't get you your chip treats any faster.
Or at all
Blueberries! It always go wrong at the blueberries!
I’d rather not have brain chips be legitimized.
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There was no way to prevent Google Glass from being everywhere 10 years ago, until there was.
Things that are supposedly inevitable are not necessarily things people have to look forward to if they are shit.
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I saw your other posts. You really really want your headchip treats and are trying to make them appear faster like some kind of The Secret manifestation mantra.
Under capitalism, the "directed" energy is the whims of the ruling class, and your chip treats are likely to only be made more oppressive, mandatory to get and maintain jobs, be more surveillance laden in the way Amazon "fulfillment centers" already are, and with worsening subscription mandates and punitive measures for people that can't pay up.
Your wishful thinking would be quaint if it wasn't ruinously naive and based on faith in the ruling class because you really, really want the cyberpunkerinos to come true, faster.
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Reddit's /r/Futurology cult beckons. You can chant "IT'S INEVITABLE" there all you like and pray for your billionaire masters to maybe pretty please make the brain chip treats uplifting instead of exploitative there.
direct energy? I'll let it melt adopters brains the same way it melted a bunch of monkeys' brains and continue not thinking about it. and if anyone tries to push me to get one I'll tell them to pound sand. no way in hell am I giving a corporation direct access to my brain for literally any reason. we live under capitalism - the only version of any product that will ever get produced is the one that makes the capitalists money. move fast and break things isn't exactly reassuring when it comes to the only brain you're ever going to have.
That tech cultist probably sees people getting damaged or killed by brain chip treats as some reasonable cost for some magic tech outcome later, "INEVITABLE" and all that, the way that tech cultists see Tesla crashes as always improving the technology somehow.
that was literally their reply to me before mod cleaned it up
But they said they were a leftist.
They have no fucking leftist goals or ideology to show, but billionaires will do leftist things INEVITABLY, right?
"regulations" will keep them in line, apparently, and "the only people who get hurt are the fanboys" - which doesn't include them for some reason. it's kind of cryptofash in their willingness to kill people at the altar of tech billionaires.
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