By Nelson Schneider - 11/13/22 at 01:46 PM CT
The insufferable, elitist Souls Trolls of the Cult of From have a new opportunity to ‘git gudder’ thanks to VR Magnate, Palmer Luckey, who founded the Oculus company in 2012 before selling out to Facebook/Meta in 2014. Luckey is no Elon Musk – that is, an ignorant rich boy who buys extant ideas and milks money out of them – but started building the technology underpinning Oculus VR from scratch in his parents’ garage in 2010. It seems that, even as a wealthy sellout and Donald Trump fanboy, Luckey can’t stop tinkering, and in November 2022 revealed his latest creation: A VR headset packed with explosives that kills the user if they die in-game.
I have long pined for such a device. Not for myself, of course. I, personally, like gaming because it’s all low-risk, no-stakes entertainment, not to mention a fantastic medium for storytelling. However, the constant droning of Souls Troll mantras across the gaming sectors of the Internet has made me wish they could truly live out their masochistic, suicidal fantasies through real-world pain and/or death tied to their in-game performance… and now they can!
Just imagine it: Pages upon pages of digital obituaries stating, “Died while streaming ‘Elden Ring.’ Closed-casket service is open to Twitch subscribers, Patreon patrons, and Ko-fi tippers.”
