I normally don't go looking at a poster's history unless I remember their posts from before and want to verify something.
Tulipunaruusu has only 58 posts so far and 80 percent or more of it is about defending Star Citizen. I'm beginning to think that they might be a shill but whether they are paid or just a super fan, that's the question.
You could say my hobby is following and discussing Star Citizen. Mostly in Finnish though on a generalist tech forum since I haven't really found a good outlet in English. Other games I follow and discuss then on Resetera are posted upon so quickly that it really doesn't get the back and forth type of discussion going on which I am looking for. Instead its more like reading out of a wall.
RPG Codex is bit edgy and onesided but propably the highest quality Star Citizen discussion available in English. While Somethingawful has some good insight that gets lost in tribalism where everyone should be totally against the subject.
If defending Star Citizen is forming an interpretation in which Chris Roberts in example is treated as a human with good and bad qualities to his personality and effect on Star Citizen, then I guess I am defending this horrible monster launched upon a world that does not need attempts to make games like Squadron 42.
If work force is what makes a game then I'll be on the team with the former Cryengine architects and Nathan Dearsley of Alien: Isolation fame. If I have to choose a tribe on the internet I would go with these masters of their craft given their already enormous effect in how ships, environments and technical basis of Star Citizen have taken leaps ahead since 2014-2016.
Personally I enjoy reading and discussing multifaceted analysis of character and games where persons or projects are not purely good or evil.
...While waiting for Squadron 42 especially and Citizencon which usually is quite exciting as were the Gamescom streams before. Personal interaction as seen in the 24/7 live stream was also nice. So were Jump Point magazines when they still had dev comments taken out of internal communication platforms. I thought those were really fascinating insights same as the Squadron 42 behind the scenes videos from the performance capture shoot in London. So I guess I am a fan for continuing to enjoy the ride. Even the court battle between Crytek and Cloud Imperium Games has brought entertainment.
I have more recently criticized the way the ever more aggressive ship salesmanship has led CIG video output and communications to take less informal, teleprompter reading stance instead of continuing with their greatest strength in relying on the charisma of the likes of Wingman, Chris Roberts and Disco Lando.
The latest staggered development twist I wish represents the leadership of Erin Roberts in charge of counter-balancing the folly of Chris Roberts micromanagement.But for me Erin Roberts too can fail, as we are all only human.