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kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Guys I have a great comic book idea:

Talented, optimistic engineer develops bright new tech, before being exploited by megacorp. In the heat of his betrayal, heel-turns to a mad scientist, instead developing autonomous killer drones and a VR video game system that kills its losers by blowing their heads up with explosives.

5 Sep 2023 at 10:16 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
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kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If this sounds too cliche for you, I have great news:

This is the actual bio for Palmer Luckey, the Oculus Rift founder who was acquired and fired by zuckerberg, and now leads defence contractor Arundil, the NixOS conference sponsor everyone is mad about.

5 Sep 2023 at 10:17 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
kline 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

NixCon sponsorship: chaos.social/@nixos_org/111007

Bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_L

Selected quotes:
"In June 2017, Luckey founded the autonomy-focused defense co. Anduril Industries, along with former Palantir Technologies executives"

"In November 2022, it was announced that as a commemoration of the anime Sword Art Online, Luckey created a VR headset that kills its human user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, by means of several explosive charges affixed above the screen"

NixCon sponsorship: chaos.social/@nixos_org/111007

Bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_L

Selected quotes:
"In June 2017, Luckey founded the autonomy-focused defense co. Anduril Industries, along with former Palantir Technologies executives"

"In November 2022, it was announced that as a commemoration of the anime Sword Art Online, Luckey created a VR headset that kills its human user in real life when the user dies digitally in the video game, by means of several explosive...

5 Sep 2023 at 10:21 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@kline Worst way to get a backstory of SAO (game) creator…
5 Sep 2023 at 10:29 | Open on queer.hacktivis.me
Space Hobo Actual
Manos Pitsidianakis (epilys)

@kline

> He built a PC gaming "rig" worth tens of thousands of U.S. dollars[6] with an elaborate six-monitor

Kek

5 Sep 2023 at 10:56 | Open on chaos.social
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@kline Well otherwise it sounds like a story you'd get with putting something like .hack and Serial Experiments Lain together, in fact I'm pretty sure I've seen a show similar to it.
5 Sep 2023 at 10:22 | Open on queer.hacktivis.me
Parade du Grotesque 💀
Seiðr

@kline Sorry mate, but I saw that twist coming from afar. That's not comic book material these days: it's social realism.

5 Sep 2023 at 10:38 | Open on mstdn.social
Fitheach

@kline
I'd like to make an offer for the movie rights.

5 Sep 2023 at 10:45 | Open on mstdn.io
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