Sarsapilla is back with one of his 3.0 write-ups
I wake up in the wank pod, but something is... different. The screen is black- but not the black of a disconnect. The only things I can see in the room are internally-lit objects like the door controls. Everything else is a foggy, nearly-pitch-black void. My flashlight kind of makes a blob in the middle of the screen but refuses to illuminate anything- like the surfaces refuse to be lit. I begin to recall The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing and wonder if perhaps, at last, I've stumbled on the true face of Star Citizen. Then I scare the shit out of myself when I exit the wankpod and come face to face with murky, shambling NPC's just standing there staring aimlessly. Well that's just good and horrifying.
This is indeed horrifying and reminds me of some nightmares I had as a kid.
I once read in an article about neurology that there are 3 interesting effects many people experience in their dreams. The scientific reasons for these are still unknown:
1.
Trying to illuminate a dark area. Light switches don't work when turning on the light in a dark room. Sometimes flashlights, candles or existing lighting might work, but will only produce a dim and useless glow which doesn't help to illuminate anything.
2.
Written text is illegible. Text on signs, billboards etc. is unrecognizable or appears mirrored, upside down or otherwise obfuscated. Text may change each time one looks at it. It may also be difficult to write anything: a pen writes something else than what was intended, constant typos on computer keyboards etc.
3.
Looking at oneself in the mirror. Ones own likeness appears blurred, strange or horrifying, and may look different when looking away and back into the mirror.
So I think that if CIG fails to make a smooth running MMO with Star Citizen, at least they have all the tech in place to create an epic, high-fidelity AAA space horror game. In this scenario, the old adage would even be appropriate: "it's not 1000+ bugs, it's 1000+ features"
