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yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoThanks that makes a lot of sense.
But also, Im very much out of the loop on a lot of this, and will do some surface-level research later because that whole last sentence is a fucking trip
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yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoThanks that makes a lot of sense.
But also, Im very much out of the loop on a lot of this, and will do some surface-level research later because that whole last sentence is a fucking trip
bear@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
Oh yeah, I should probably expand on the context for that.
Palmer Luckey is an outright fascist (see: thread picture above defending illegal executive military autonomy without the explicitly necessary congressional approval) who currently owns a company called Anduril that specializes in weapons and surveillance. He is also notably a Game Boy enthusiast, and ran a Game Boy modding site way back called ModRetro. He took his blood money and started a new company with the same name that produces a Game Boy clone called the ModRetro Chromatic, which is admittedly quite good quality, and publishes indie games as physical cartridges. I’m including this information just to be fair; unlike Elon Musk, this guy isn’t a poser posturing because he thinks it will endear him to the nerd crowd or whatever. He has a legitimate history in the community long before he got big, he knows his stuff, and there’s no way ModRetro is profitable, so it’s likely a genuine passion project for him and a love letter to the console.
However, any good will or endearment is completely wasted because he just recently produced an Anduril-branded Chromatic made from the same material as his attack drones. And ModRetro’s main fanbase is almost exclusively comprised of fascist or fascist-adjacent soylent losers who simultaneously claim that this shouldn’t be political but also think it’s Dang Heckin’ Epic that he made a Game Boy out of the same military murder metal as his weapons. They sometimes leaked into Game Boy enthusiast spaces and get real steamin’ angry that everybody else hates them, so for the most part they stay in their echo chamber now.
I personally really hate this guy because he keeps dipping his fascist dick into things I’m really passionate about and causing significant community fracturing over it. First VR, then NixOS, then Game Boys and the indie homebrew scene for it.
Some sources for my claims about the typical fanboys of ModRetro:
reddit.com/…/better_look_at_the_anduril_chromatic…
www.reddit.com/r/…/can_people_stop_pretending/
reddit.com/…/buying_a_chromatic_isnt_an_ethical_d…
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 days ago
Ai, thanks for more eloquently explaining what I meant.
It’s depressing although the fascists still in this network.