<story><title>If you die in the game, you die in real life</title><url>https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trgn</author><text>These are the words from the artist himself:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design.  It is also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR device that can actually kill the user.  It won’t be the last.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not satire. He&amp;#x27;s creating shock art.&lt;p&gt;The fact that he took a suicide helmet beyond a literary invention and into the real world is unsettling. It&amp;#x27;s an inability to distinguish what is wholesome from what is depraved. At the root is the artist&amp;#x27;s failure of imagination; an inability to imagine how completely revolting such a thing of fiction would be if it were real. The man spend likely hundreds of hours of thinking on it, ruminating on it, like suckling on a candy, and then, rather than being turned away, giving it shape, willing it into the world with the same zeal. That is why people find this skeevy.&lt;p&gt;It is fascinating, and I&amp;#x27;m not sure if in isolation it may mean all that much. But people will respond very different to the morbid obsessions of an eccentric crackpot like say HR Giger than that of a tech suit with a history of monetizing VR and AI-weaponry.&lt;p&gt;You become what you behold. This man is becoming machine, willingly.</text></comment>
<story><title>If you die in the game, you die in real life</title><url>https://palmerluckey.com/if-you-die-in-the-game-you-die-in-real-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>imgabe</author><text>You can always tell great satire by how many people take it seriously.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HWR_14</author><text>I have no idea what great satire risked anyone taking it seriously. Was anyone convinced that Irish babies were really being eaten?</text></comment>