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Sep 12, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Since this appeared I have been hesitant to post it simply because there is ZERO evidence to suggest that Chris wrote this. Why? Because time and time again we've busted CIG attributing posts to him.

robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/commu…
The debate is still raging as to whether or not this in fact him. Thus far I ZERO reason to believe that it's him and not someone else.

For one thing, amid ALL the outcry about the game, schedule, money - his *disappearance* etc, he chose to show up now.
...less than a few days after my recent post and the ongoing outcries which have reached fever pitch amid removals of ALL posts asking where the AF he is.
Yet, he chose to reply to a topic about a hacked-in (like so many others) feature which - you guessed it - doesn't actually work as he had claimed it would back when he was busy selling ice to Eskimos in a bid to scam as many backers as possible.
And in that missive, not only is this writer(who is totally Chris) spouting the same nonsensical bs which they tend to do in their weekly updates, but also he/she/it/he/she/they just glossed over the actual premise of the thread without actually addressing it.
It's all a bunch of nonsense designed to put to rest the on-going queries about where he is even as the project continues to spiral into even more decline.
I guess being under active investigation for running a multi-million Dollar scam is enough to go into hiding while leaving the peons (who keep leaving in droves) to face the music and ire of those who have forked over $400M+ for games they will never - ever - get.
I am saying it again : what comes next is the sort of thing that I have warned about since 2015.

Wait and see.

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Once again, I have the receipts.
As with the Star Citizen (that's still not a finished game btw - 11 yrs + $600M later) blog series that hit all the headlines and which sparked a media frenzy, including from Forbes and others, my series on @apecoin DAO will take the same periodic format.

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And so it begins.

Days ago, the Special Council decided to - against procedures and in a blatant conflict of interest, decided to create an interdependent set of AIPS involving the creation of ApeChain via Polygon.

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The Special Council is never allowed to do this. Ever. Instead, not only did they author a bidzdev AIP to fund the Polygon AIP, but they're literally pretending that they aren't connected - despite irrefutable evidence.
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Always amuses me that, almost 30 yrs since my first game, Battlecruiser 3000AD (aka BC3K), was released by Take Two, that it's still the go-to comparison for any team making an all-encompassing massive scope space game. Graphics aside, they ALL hit the same wall that I did.
When you build a massive space game, your #2 problem (with #1 being the tech to power it) is going to be how to populate it; and not just because you can, but because of what the game requires. And content repetition is the primary problem.
Every single massive scope space game that has attempted anything of the sort, has run into the same problem with content creation. No Man's Sky, Elite Dangerous, X series etc. all ran into the same thing because procgen can only go so far.
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robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/commu…
As Star Citizen turns eight years old, the single-player campaign still sounds a long way off

eurogamer.net/articles/2020-…
But wait! Are you old enough to remember this 2014 interview?

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So there's a new Star Citizen controversy brewing and which various parties are diving into. I haven't done much digging, so I will just provide some of my own thoughts.

First of all, I want to make this clear - again...
Star Citizen devolved into an absolute scam years ago. The basis for the scam is that the creators and primaries were busy focused on unjust enrichment by taking money out of the project, rather than putting money into it. This has gone on for years now.
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For context, you'd have to do some catching up on my tweets since this fiasco started. To be clear, as a veteran game dev for 30+ yrs, as I see it, this battle was a long-time in the making, and needed to be waged.
Though some of my peers & colleagues in the biz are hesitant to publicly opine given the parties involved, my view is that with all the confusion as to the merits of the matter and what it means to gamers and game devs, this discussion is worth having cuz feelz aren't relevant.
To get started, this is what I said on 08/13 when news of the lawsuit went public, and which goes back to what I just stated in the first tweet of this thread.

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