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Love this! I don’t play video games but Palmer Luckey says he loves “killer robots.”

Kate Ross@kateross.bsky.social

The Merchant of Death, billionaire Palmer Luckey, rebranded the DOD the Department of War. Peter Thiel/Palantir gave his company, Andruil, a billion dollars in January. This is Palmer “I love killer robots” Luckey. Origin story on rename below, as well as him hanging out with the worst people.

Just want to say I enjoyed your site for a while, but when I saw all the ModRetro coverage, I decided I wouldn't visit or read anymore. I'm very happy to give the site another chance after reading this.

I can honestly say this was the best move. As much as their products are cool and novel in their own right, having ties to a highly controversial person doesn't make me want to buy it, no matter what games come out. Deprive them of oxygen. Hopefully, the devs find another publisher like Megacat.

Selling my Chromatic for the same reason. I was able to distinguish the product, an entire company of people, and giving indie devs a new platform to support from Palmer alone but this is grotesque.

I hated the facebook buyout, but knowing what we know now about the bitch puts the retrospect in another light. Fuck meta all the way but the rift s was a great budget headset at the right time and I'm glad I didn't buy it from an arms dealer now 😮‍💨

I never thought as a kid that one day I'd have to think about if my hobby purchases would go towards developing actual weapons. And I actually watched "Toys" with Robin Williams (bad film with a scary premise that is looking more and more likely). I just want to enjoy games. Great story, thanks.

Nice! Probably a good time to mention that there are amazing alternative FPGA gameboy color’s from Analogue Pocket and Funny Playing GBC kit (my Fav) as well as talented Etsy IPS screen OG hardware modders.

Wow. I just did. I didn't realise a Time Extension article (no offence!) would be the one that shows exactly how the Twitter and BlueSky audiences differ. The replies are just polar opposites! If I were running the site, I wouldn't want that vitriol added to it via the comments section either.

Nice. The sooner that shitty company gets its shitty products out of the equation the better. Lotta GB devs drank the coolaid and took the bag of cash though which is a damn shame. Hopefully get better folks takin' their place eventually too though.

No good ever comes from opening up comments on this sort of article. They will just be locked when they quickly turn into a cesspit anyway. It’s not always your own audience you have to worry about.

I got a recruiting email from these guys and basically told them to go fuck themselves. Palmer Luckey is one of those tech bros that would build the torment nexus because "*Pog face* just like the sci fi book!!! I love the future!1!1!"

Been thinking about this. A abhor war and so would never buy from any company or brand related to that endeavour. I think, it raises the question: where to draw the line? Are war games OK? If so why? I have a "no guns" policy in my games. That's how I square it off.