• Oculus founder Palmer Luckey secretly funds a pro-Trump organization dedicated to "shitposting"
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[url]http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/22/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-billionaire-secretly-funding-trump-s-meme-machine.html?via=twitter_page[/url] [quote]A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey financially backed a pro-Trump political organization called Nimble America, a self-described “social welfare 501(c)4 non-profit” in support of the Republican nominee. Luckey sold his virtual reality company Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and Forbes estimates his current net worth to be $700 million. The 24-year-old told The Daily Beast that he had used the pseudonym “NimbleRichMan” on Reddit with a password given him to by the organization’s founders. Nimble America says it’s dedicated to proving that “shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real,” according to the company’s introductory statement, and has taken credit for a billboard its founders say was posted outside of Pittsburgh with a cartoonishly large image of Clinton’s face alongside the words “Too Big to Jail.”[/quote] [quote]Potential donors from Donald Trump’s biggest online community—Reddit’s r/The_Donald, where one of the rules is “no dissenters”—turned on the organization this weekend, refusing to believe “NimbleRichMan” was the anonymous “near-billionaire” he claimed to be and causing a rift on one of the alt-right’s most powerful organizational tools. Luckey insists he’s just the group’s the money man—a wealthy booster who thought the meddlesome idea was funny. But he is also listed as the vice-president of the group on its website. “It’s something that no campaign is going to run,” Luckey said of the proposed billboards for the project. “I’ve got plenty of money,” Luckey added. “Money is not my issue. I thought it sounded like a real jolly good time.”[/quote]
[quote]Nimble America says it’s dedicated to proving that “shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real,” according to the company’s introductory statement[/quote] Kek worshipers are the real iluminati.
Well now I don't feel bad about facebook owning them.
The oculus subreddit is fucking embarrassing regarding this. They're treating it like he's funding a holocaust. They give more of a shit about this than how many factory workers probably killed themselves in production.
[QUOTE=Megadave;51091954]Well now I don't feel bad about facebook owning them.[/QUOTE] Palmer got all that money from Facebook buying the Rift. If they hadn't done that, he wouldn't have the money to fund this.
This election keeps getting weirder
I don't know, is he politically involved or just a lover of chaos?
[QUOTE=TurtleeyFP;51092004]I don't know, is he politically involved or just a lover of chaos?[/QUOTE] palmer luckey is a big troll
to be extremely honest don't even care. that just his political ideals. Doesn't concern oculus but of fucking course people are going to use it to smear the rift somehow yeah its shitty of him but fuck it
[QUOTE=Thlis;51091986]The oculus subreddit is fucking embarrassing regarding this. They're treating it like he's funding a holocaust. They give more of a shit about this than how many factory workers probably killed themselves in production.[/QUOTE] it's absolutely childish. quote from a dev in response [QUOTE]Posted this on the dupe thread, but as of now I'm cancelling my game's Touch release unless Luckey steps down or withdraws his funding for this shit. [/QUOTE] they don't realize that people can disagree with each other politically and still do business. Also, it's straight up stupid that this is the event that is causing users to stop wanting to buy the rift. They were fine with facebook plastering their logo all over it and making it a walled garden but this is the straw that breaks the camel's back?
[QUOTE=Perrine;51092013]palmer luckey is a big troll[/QUOTE] ironically promoting a fascist candidate is still promoting a fascist candidate
[QUOTE=TurtleeyFP;51092004]I don't know, is he politically involved or just a lover of chaos?[/QUOTE] Read the article. Answer is the latter. Shitposting is funny and that's why he threw money at it.
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;51092040]Read the article. Answer is the latter. Shitposting is funny and that's why he threw money at it.[/QUOTE] he's definitely a trump supporter though.
This is his revenge on the public for laughing at him because of this cover: [t]http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/2/29735/2771668-1225854143-bI2PI.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Thlis;51091986]The oculus subreddit is fucking embarrassing regarding this. They're treating it like he's funding a holocaust. They give more of a shit about this than how many factory workers probably killed themselves in production.[/QUOTE] Most of the posts seem like level-headed disappointment at finding out someone they respected was paying people to make racist memes in support of a pretty awful candidate
What the fuck is even going on anymore???
[QUOTE=Svinnik;51092027]it's absolutely childish. quote from a dev in response they don't realize that people can disagree with each other politically and still do business. Also, it's straight up stupid that this is the event that is causing users to stop wanting to buy the rift. They were fine with facebook plastering their logo all over it and making it a walled garden but this is the straw that breaks the camel's back?[/QUOTE] Sure they realize people can disagree with each other politically and still do business. They just don't want to.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;51092093]Most of the posts seem like level-headed disappointment at finding out someone they respected was paying people to make racist memes in support of a pretty awful candidate[/QUOTE] [quote]Never in a million fucking years buying a Rift now. Fuck this guy. [/quote] [quote] [quote]I have a rift and have been following its development for years. Although I've never posted on Reddit I visit this sub almost daily. I created an account today just to say that if this is true, I'm done with Oculus. [/quote] I don't think I've posted here in a couple years, but I came to say the same thing. [/quote] [quote]Posted this on the dupe thread, but as of now I'm cancelling my game's Touch release unless Luckey steps down or withdraws his funding for this shit. [/quote] These are people that couldn't give less of a shit about the conditions that their devices are produced in, but when it's something like this it's "wtf I hate [Company] now". Fortunately it seems the newer posts are realizing how ridiculous the older ones were.
I'm also done with oculus, but more because I can't afford it.
What a moron, oculus is basically already dead so I am sure this will help. Maybe he should spend a little more time on that instead.
[QUOTE=ZachPL;51092148]oculus is basically already dead.[/QUOTE] elaborate
[QUOTE=J!NX;51092205]elaborate[/QUOTE] Sales are next to 0 currently for VR right now since most enthusiasts that want it probably already have it and I am sure most is going towards Vive currently as it is the better product. Apparently he was fired(?) already so he might not have much say anymore.
the great meme wars are upon us
[QUOTE=Thlis;51092113]These are people that couldn't give less of a shit about the conditions that their devices are produced in, but when it's something like this it's "wtf I hate [Company] now". Fortunately it seems the newer posts are realizing how ridiculous the older ones were.[/QUOTE] I mean, nothing has come out about factory conditions for oculus specifically, it's like wondering where the 980 ti comes from, unless there's a news article about it there's no problem detected. Valve and vive probably have the same setup that they have for their [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCgnWqoP4MM]steam controller[/url] too so I'm content with that.
[QUOTE=ZachPL;51092246][B]Sales are next to 0 currently for VR[/B] right now since most enthusiasts that want it probably already have it[/QUOTE] proof? [editline]22nd September 2016[/editline] that's quite the hyperbole you have going on there though I do expect the sales to have died since launch quite a bit. But the momentum is still strong. This is such a lie.
This is going to cause a Rift between the install base.
This election just gets more entertaining by the day. God damn, I cannot wait for the shitstorm that is going to be the first debates.
[QUOTE=Judas;51092253]the great meme wars are upon us[/QUOTE] all "dank meme" jokes aside im already sick of internet culture bleeding into the mainstream, and of course the stuff thats getting airplay just had to be the shitty meta-ironically-ironic shit from /pol/ it was bad enough 8 years ago hearing middle schoolers repeating "epic fail" endlessly after visiting /b/ for the first time, hearing about it on the news is just fuckin embarrassing
[QUOTE=Swiket;51092061]he's definitely a trump supporter though.[/QUOTE] Where does it say that? Pro Trump group or no I doubt anyone takes a professional meme magic and kek worship group seriously [editline]22nd September 2016[/editline] Though I went to their website and didn't see any meme magic stuff. So yeah I'm maybe it is just a pro Trump group without the silly memes. [editline]22nd September 2016[/editline] Yeah it's just a few Reddit posts like that. Well so much for that.
'NimbleRichMan' has coincidentally deleted his reddit account since the story broke. Nice way to confirm it Palmer.
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