JcDent

My painting/assembling buddy also has weird ideas

i'm sure some of you heard about sweet little business baby Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus, dancing on the grave of Waypoint on bluesky alternative Twitter

i assumed he was just mad because they accurately reported the things he said and did, but against my better judgment, i wrote up a response. cuz i don't think enough people know this about Pluckeyboy:

"Creator" of Oculus VR Palmer Luckey still donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to republican candidates in the united states, including Ron Desantis, Ted Cruz, and, uh, Doctor Oz, apparently

obviously, there isn't anything by default illegal about donating to candidates who threaten college campuses to turn over teenagers with suspected gender dysphoria, weird man-children who are too angry screaming about wokeness to remember what grocery store they're in, and Ted Cruz

but hey, ANDURIL industries, eh? that's right he started another company after he sold oculus to facebook at some point, didn't he? i wonder what they're up to-

ANDURIL is a private for-profit defense company that makes war machines and virtual reality simulators for said war machines, founded by Palmer Luckey among other war profiteers. although, luckey would take issue with me calling this war profiteering according to an article he wrote for maritime-executive earlier this month

Palmer "If I was in Ukraine I woulda handled it" Luckey

incidentally, since then he stepped up to the plate and send autonomous drones to bomb people, but it's okay, since, according to Palmin' Luck...

oh cool, one person now has the power to bomb people using up to twenty four autonomous drones! specifically, these ones:

i've told you before why we shouldn't be trusting so-called "AI" with basic research tasks, let alone bombing populations, but clearly i'm just not as smart as The Incredible Mr. Luckey, am i?

how did he build up net worth so high, anyways? i mean, there was the $2,437,439 he made on kickstarter for the early version of the rift, but that's all well and good, investors paying for a product, right? before the $2 bill sale to facebook, where did the money to grow his empire of nightmares come from?

JOHN CARMACK??

as in, doom, quake, commander fucking keen? damn, what a pull. good thing they bumped into one another, then. oculus already had a couple financers, but carmack brought along legitimacy. and, more money

john's since resigned from meta by the way, which i can't blame him for- though i will dunk on him for going all in on AGI in 2023 lmao

this aint a post about libertarian judo practitioner john carmack, though, it's about Wonderboy Luckey

on that note- there's nowhere else to include this here, but while researching i really enjoyed seeing a post on the ycombinator forums, which they apparently HAVE??, with one guy defending Luckey to absolutely nobody:

what did Luckey do that this Brave Poster is talking about here? i actually hadn't heard about this- thankfully, Palmer was happy to reply to my Tweet and fill me in:

buddy, if you're so mad about this: you should probably be talking to all the different papers who continue to report that you were making pro-trump memes using the pseudoname 'nimblerichman' on reddit

why are you taking this to the quote retweets? wait- big War Crimes fan 'nailer' on ycombinator linked a tweet explaining:

oh, i "can't get in trouble" for it, can i? alright then:

Palmer Luckey makes child-killing drones. see you round, warmonger 💋

THE WEST MUST HAVE CRITICAL TOOLS TO PRESERVE OUR WAYS OF LIFE, SUCH AS anduril, also called the flame of the west

Tolkien: i love the military-industrial complex, especially the military and industrial parts

I have read, at most, two articles about how Civ-like historical determinism is silly, and this has made me have annoying opinions about 4X games.

Why don't you make a game where the people and their identity/traits/name changes dynamically over the years rather than having an eternal Germany when Germany wasn't really a thing before 19th century?

Ofc, not owning Ubisoft games is as easy as not playing them - and that's very easy