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Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:05 am
by Cyborg Girl
I'm guessing nobody here was interested anyway. But the company's founder is supporting Trump, by literally funding Internet trolls. Yes really.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... chine.html

In other news, Hitler will be excellent for business owners! :scream:

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:29 pm
by squ1d
He sold the business in 2014.

Too late.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 7:31 pm
by squ1d
P.s. the new VR is an earth shatteringly awesome experience i would recommend to anyone

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 8:06 pm
by Cyborg Girl
@squ1d

Ah right, wholly owned by Facebook now. Nice. :( I wish US corporations would stop backing a guy whose entire political agenda is racism.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:45 am
by Swift
Gullible Jones wrote:@squ1d

Ah right, wholly owned by Facebook now. Nice. :( I wish US corporations would stop backing a guy whose entire political agenda is racism.

I'm sorry GJ, but that isn't true. He has a multi-pronged agenda, including promoting sexism, helping his buddy Vlad the Impaler, giving tax breaks to the rich.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:50 am
by SciFiFisher
Swift wrote:
Gullible Jones wrote:@squ1d

Ah right, wholly owned by Facebook now. Nice. :( I wish US corporations would stop backing a guy whose entire political agenda is racism.

I'm sorry GJ, but that isn't true. He has a multi-pronged agenda, including promoting sexism, helping his buddy Vlad the Impaler, giving tax breaks to the rich.


Don't forget the wonderful awesome stance on immigration.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:00 am
by Cyborg Girl
Right then, his platform also includes sexism, classism, nativism, and vampirism. Hurray. :(

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:53 am
by code monkey
what about zombies? why do people always forget the zombies?

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:06 am
by squ1d
Exactly CM, what are they like?!

The best part of this thread was using 'pronged' in the same sentence as 'Vlad the Impaler'.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:42 pm
by SciFi Chick
squ1d wrote:Exactly CM, what are they like?!

The best part of this thread was using 'pronged' in the same sentence as 'Vlad the Impaler'.


IKR? :rofl: :rockon:

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 12:43 pm
by SciFi Chick
code monkey wrote:what about zombies? why do people always forget the zombies?


I'm pretty sure those are the ones voting for Trump...

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:51 pm
by Swift
When I mentioned Vlad the Impaler, I was thinking more of this guy:
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than this guy
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though both would work.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:04 pm
by Cyborg Girl
Heh, for some reason I was thinking Vlad -> Dracula -> Vampire -> Peter Thiel.

I blame lack of caffeine.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 2:05 pm
by geonuc
Same guy, aren't they?

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:18 pm
by Swift
Gullible Jones wrote:Heh, for some reason I was thinking Vlad -> Dracula -> Vampire -> Peter Thiel.

I blame lack of caffeine.

I blame everything on a lack of caffeine.

The historic Vlad the Impaler is thought by many to be the model for the fictional Dracula.

I had to google who Peter Thiel is. As best as I can tell he's just a rich jerk, one of many, and isn't in the same league as either of the Vladimirs.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 4:36 pm
by Cyborg Girl

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Fri Sep 30, 2016 6:48 pm
by Swift
Gullible Jones wrote:@Swift

For reference, see: http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter ... blood.html

OK, he's a little weird (though I'm actually a little familiar with the animal studies they talk about). I assume however he is going to pay people for their young blood, not abduct them in the middle of the night and drain all the blood from their bodies.

Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people. Thiel isn't in the same conversation (and yes, I get the chain of thought and the Dracula reference now).

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 4:35 am
by vendic
Swift wrote:Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people...



So did many American Presidents.
Obama, Bush, the other Bush etc.
Killing people when you are high in office is part of the package. It's how many and why you do it that makes the difference.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Sun Oct 02, 2016 3:48 pm
by SciFiFisher
vendic wrote:
Swift wrote:Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people...



So did many American Presidents.
Obama, Bush, the other Bush etc.
Killing people when you are high in office is part of the package. It's how many and why you do it that makes the difference.


You say that like it's a bad thing. :P

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:09 am
by Swift
vendic wrote:
Swift wrote:Vlad the Impaler and Vladimir Putin killed people (or had people killed by their orders). Lots of people...



So did many American Presidents.
Obama, Bush, the other Bush etc.
Killing people when you are high in office is part of the package. It's how many and why you do it that makes the difference.

I see a difference between Putin and Obama. And no, I'm not going to explain it, or justify that opinion.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:08 am
by vendic
Swift wrote:I see a difference between Putin and Obama. And no, I'm not going to explain it, or justify that opinion.


Most sane people do. There are those that are absolutists and to them, everyone that does something like that is the same.

Re: Don't buy Oculus Rift goggles

PostPosted: Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:13 am
by SciFi Chick
vendic wrote:
Swift wrote:I see a difference between Putin and Obama. And no, I'm not going to explain it, or justify that opinion.


Most sane people do. There are those that are absolutists and to them, everyone that does something like that is the same.


So true. And very annoying. There is a school of thought that thinks that any killing is evil, that there's never any justification for it. But, you and I don't subscribe to that school. Though we've been lucky - and I do consider it lucky - that we've never been forced to kill anyone, I wholeheartedly agree that there are times where people need killing. I think what most of us struggle with is determining which ones...