Barely. It's thread rage-jacking and is bad.

Star Citizen is “Wing Commander but we couldn’t/wouldn’t get the naming rights from EA, so Star Citizen wink-wink.” It’s the modern day continuation of Wing Commander.

Edit: Maybe minus the space tigers...

The rage yes maybe, but Star Citizen is definitely not off topic. Article mentions WC1-3, it's a franchise article. SC is Origin's canceled Privateer Online [:)] without the license.

For the Wing Commander community, they're inseparable despite the licensing.

[:)] http://www.wcnews.com/privateeronline.shtml

This is the 'everything is related to everything' theory of on-topicness. It comes up about seven times every time something is off-topic. Its main problem is that it's complete nonsense.

Thats fair. I have loved wing commander, privateer and freelancer. I hence followed SC development closely, and hence have been cognizant and baffled by these issues. I was too curious what the HN community would have to say in response. I'm frankly hoping to be slammed on my technical comments and have someone prove that its all gonna be ok!

You can always write a thing about SC and post it or post a thing about SC and comment on that. But hijacking posts with an unrelated thing you'd like to discuss or complain about just poops all over the ongoing on-topic conversations, please don't do it.