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The rain isn’t mine nor anytime else you liked in with “you people” (what a white AF thing to say), that shit is entirely part & parcel to the whole scene you’re such a fan of: a sad little parade dragging out behind a blatant cash scam that your attention keeps giving credence to.
I appreciate your interest in common ground, genuinely, and in a similar vein will ask that you take a closer look at your faith in the Star Citizen project as a whole. To be fair, I have dropped a few hundred hours into Elite Dangerous, and more than that in hardware to increase immersion (HOTAS, VR, etc.), so I feel you. They fucked me (and so many others) by stringing us all along with promises of shiny things and half-measures IRL.
Star Citizen is even worse in that respect, and I urge you to challenge your comfy perspective with a devil’s advocate angle, if only for this thought experiment. How long has it taken to achieve the promised goals? (How have those changed to fit setbacks?) How much money has the corp seen from believers/fans, and what is the ratio of bulls-eyed goal to promise made? Lastly, what would it take for you to recognize you’re being played? The game of Star Citizen is, in actuality: how to grift an entire cultivated fanbase for as long as possible.