https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7kbq/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game

“The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear. The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you,”

  • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Palmer Luckey is a super chud that started a defense company that makes surveillance equipment to catch people crossing the border illegally and sells ai powered drone systems to the US government. And uhh i just saw it basically says that in the article too. I doubt the device is any more than a picture of a prop and it was just a publicity stunt to increase headset sales.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      The article said he's been working himself up to using it himself, likely because everything else life has to offer has lost it's shine. Gotta support him booting up Battletoads/Double Dragon or the Ninja Turtles game for the NES.

      • Darthsenio_Mall [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Lmao awesome. What a world that would be. Critical support for Palmer exploding his brain on Battle Toads level 3.

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          One of my most favorite cherished childhood memories was going to this pizza place with these 2 brothers and they spent the entire car ride talking about Battle Toads. Then we got there, headed for the arcade, and in like seven minutes they were out of quarters. Fuckin' Battle Toads just deflated those two boys. Poor guys. Still laugh about it.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I played it with my sister on the NES and got to the speeder bike stage I think before hitting a wall. I tried playing it on a rom a few years back and couldn't get past the first stage.

        • Multihedra [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It was seriously only last year that I realized Battletoads was probably created as something to benefit off the popularity of Ninja Turtles; it’s right there in the name and I was completely oblivious.

          I don’t think we had that one growing up, but we definitely rented it a few times

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      The headset's advanced NerveGear setup is just a gun that is wired into the headgear itself so that if you die in the game, the gun shoots you in the head