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Fine, I give up. I'm linking to the "new" Star Citizen/SquadronMemeNumber's CitizenCON trailer, for a very specific reason. (www.youtube.com)

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That reason is I've watched roughly and near-exactly this trailer five fucking years ago. You can still find it on Youtube if you bother to look. Fuck it, I'll do it myself. LOOK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMSGlZSL0DE

And that isn't the only time, or even the first. I'm genuinely amazed that this grift is so perfect that the same vaporware can get polished up again and again, spinning its wheels in place, and people on the official forum and in Youtube comments say they're in tears about this.

I won't say I respect the hustle because I don't lick boots, but I am truly impressed with how powerful this grift is that it's self-perpetuating with that little to show for it over half a billion dollars and over a decade later.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

”look at all these industry legends and imagine what they could do if you funded them and they had free rein to do what they want!”.

"Auteur theory" has been a lie to me ever since I paid attention to what often happens if an "auteur" gets an inflated sense of self-importance and no longer has anyone else to bounce their work off of. Compare the conflict-riddled production of the Alien and Aliens films to the "behold the unfettered genius of the auteur" Prometheus followups, for example.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just know that not only is his company probably full of sycophants, Roberts thinks he's actually a legendary game developer and filmmaker because EA happened to give him a ton of money to spend at a time when FMVs were a big deal in gaming.

Wing Commander may have had Mark Hamill, but the X-Wing series always had the better gameplay smuglord

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIE Fighter is one of my old problematic favorites considering you fly as space fascists and it makes the space fascists seem cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if that game was where all the ”DAE Empire cool tho?” shit started. It was really the first time the Empire was portrayed in a not cartoonish way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You may be right, and that said, I'd be fine if the Empire was portrayed in a Wolfenstein "real shit actually horrifying" way more often.