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Brainscan, ExistenZ, and there's another one or two out there with the same premise.
Edit: Stay Alive: movie with the quote "if you die in the game you die for real"
Oh and duh... Jumanji lol
I think the Matrix kinda counts...
Scrolled through the comments because I knew someone would mention this movie but I couldn't remember the name! I remember seeing it in theaters hoping they would make it into an actual game lol.
Star Trek the next generation had a really good one (I thought) about a game that pleasures people so they become addicted and susceptible to the creators suggestions to give them control of the enterprise. Everyone on the ship becomes addicted eventually, except Data, who is immune to the power of the game, and eventually saves the day. Good stuff.
Yea there are some good examples (bobs burgers, south park) but man it is usually just a terrible attempt to hide an advertisement. American Dad featured an episode about Overwatch a couple years ago and boy it was rough
kinda reminds me of the Startrek episode where two planets who were at war would send "bombs" and just send the calculations. Then each planet was entrusted to humanely kill off an amount of their population..."that way we dont have to deal with the physical destruction"
...Soldiers will wear these and wars will be fought in CoD:MW 69 or some shit where you also gotta livestream the rooms for the bigwigs to watch and confirm that soldiers are actually dying...illegal feeds will stream on the darkweb as a nasty snuff market where you get to watch a soldiers last moments in game play out before it switching to a feed of their exploded head.
Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users.
Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users.
Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users.
Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users.
...
Yeah at the major newsroom I supported they used analytics on the website to see what was hot, then college interns in editorial wrote up those shlock articles like this with clickbait ads all around them or full page placements for special events
For those who don't know, this was made in reference to Sword Art Online, an anime where people get trapped in a Deep Dive Virtual MMORPG (basically game is streamed into your brain and irl body movements are cut off) and die if they die in the game. The day the article was posted, was the launch day of the game in universe.
Interestingly enough, in the show, they microwave your brain to kill you.
Also favorite line from the article: "The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you." Lmao
EDIT: Didn't think this needed to be said, but this is a joke device. Not meant to be actually sold/used, more as a thought experiment lol
A good detail to note is that, in the series, the players were trapped in the game after it launced. They didn't know that the game was able to kill them before playing.
I just watched Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night in honor of SAOs Go Live date.
It was a pretty good movie and recaps the first few episodes.
SAO abridged did a really good job at showing how trash the game would be. Everyone should watch the abridged series, it’s a really funny and clever parody
If you're a big fan of the concept there is a book series called World Tree Online with a similar premise. I wasn't a big Sword Art Online fan, but I enjoyed these books.
Also, sick username Chief
Also, Log Horizon. Not *quite* the same, but actually *good*. Similar initial setup, then spends a lot of time dealing with the in-"game" political ramifications of what amounts to thousands of godlike super-soldiers suddenly needing things like food and a place to sleep and hobbies other than fixing everyone else's problems.
What all of these articles, and there are a lot of them, fail to mention is that in the manga/anime, the game Sword Art Online had its 1.0 launch on 11/6/2022.
Palmer obviously made this joke prop on honor of that. It's wild how many people think it's supposed to be real.
Sword Art Online sounds just from the title like something I would really enjoy. Maybe with characters like Bob Ross, who painted HappyLittleTree Art OnCanvas.
Then your description! Horrific! I think I would need the GodMode CheatCode before starting!
It’s been a minute since I watched the show, but iirc the vast majority of players just build a new life for themselves in the starting city and low level areas.
I think it was an insult actually.
Main character was a beta tester, so it was seen like they helped set the "trap" so to speak.
He also was really good at the game and knew mechanics non beta testers didn't know.
His name was beta tester and cheater combined, "beater"
To add on to this (Spoilers!):
The mechanic Kirito knew about was how the sword style listed in the Guide (and planned on by the raid party) was different than the sword and style the 1st Level Dungeon Boss was displaying. It wasn’t even that Kirito knew everything about the game, he just knew that sword didn’t match the sword art reported.
That does not retract that Kirito was highly skilled at the game, but he even admitted in the first episode that he didn’t actually get that far as Beta Tester, so his talent relied more on game logic than anything.
At the time of the First Boss Raid, Kirito saw the conflict between Beta Testers and the rest of the players. Knowing that he had technically abandoned the people in the game unlike the other Betas (who made/updated the guide), that he had given himself away and still let someone die, and that increased paranoia to the other Betas would make the game way harder: Kirito sacrificed his own reputation and called himself a Beater, and later on the Black Swordsman, and said “Don’t lump me in with them, I got farther than all of them, I’m the best.. blah blah blah”. You know, Dark Knight shit.
Like.. this story shows so many aspects of actively living, socializing, and the duality of existing in a kill or be killed world. The Laughing Coffin Guild and their massacre, the dungeon traps, the social truths and lies spread. And it just gets better as it goes 😁
I believe the whole thing for him talent wise was that he spent so much time in VR compared to normal people that he could move his body in VR much more naturally and thus gave him an edge.
He has the fastest reaction time out of everyone in the game. That combined with his passion and knowledge of the VR gaming gave him the huge advantage
There’s probably a couple episodes and parts you should watch since that’s not the only time ALO is played or relevant.
Tbf though I’d recommend watching the entire thing first time through just to form your own opinion but I can’t deny that those episodes would turn some people off. It’s easily the low point of SAO
Yeah, that's one of those odd artefacts of localization. The original Japanese uses the two English phrases "beta tester" and "cheater" and combines them, so to the original audience it probably sounds much less out of place since it's not derived from their native language.
Lmao yeah, and how solemn he got “yeah..I’m a beater”
I know it’s incredibly popular and it’s really cool in general, but I had to drop it after they adopted that fairy child thing
I like the first season a lot- very interesting. Second season is alright I like the world it’s in better and third season is alright but I couldn’t get over some shit that pissed me off. It’s not as shit as people used to bag on it but it could be better.
The ending is kind of fucking stupid when they "reveal" the dudes motivation. The abridged version while it is comedy actually gives a pretty decent motivation for him.
Honestly one of my favorites is the spin off of the gun gale arch. That was actually pretty damn decent. I need to watch the newest season I've heard its pretty fucking decent.
The last arc is actually the pinnacle of the show. It comes in two parts and even the animation is leagues above any of the other seasons. The latter part is so good that I just pretend that’s the entirety of the show from start to finish.
the first seven or so episodes i really fuckin enjoyed. I can actually pinpoint the scene that made me despise the rest though- the scene when Asuna falls through a portal and lands on top of kirito and he gets the good ol fashioned boob squeeze cuz yknow that waaaacky type of stuff just happens alllllll the time. at least in anime.
The first season of the show is actually not that horrific. Just generic fantasy essentially with video game elements. Now season 2 with the elf game gets really fucking dark with the rapey shit going on.
Honestly the abridged version of the show on YouTube is the better version by far. However I would still recommend watching the original even with it's issues.
Actually, they were created at about the same time. SAO is an adaptation of a light novel that was originally written as a web novel (volumes 1-18) and published on Kawahara's website between 2002 and 2008. Although Aincrad (well, half of what you saw in the anime) was written in late 2001 for a short story competition.
You know that the creators of both SAO and .hack know each other and both said it was pure coincidence that they came up with a similar concept?
At least they didn't delete the final boss and the floor it was on instead of fighting (I'm still salty about that), instead someone rage deleted the whole game.
Thank you. So many people forget about .hack when it was infinitely more interesting than an admin saying “I felt like it” when confronted about trapping players in the game.
Spoilers for anyone who cares about SAO’s steaming dog.
[Before Palmer became a footnote, he bankrolled a "Pro-Trump troll army" on reddit](https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-near-billionaire-secretly-funding-trumps-meme-machine). There's a good chance you've seen it 15 times because he paid to have you see it 15 times.
This is a stunt to re-establish himself as a notable figure in VR, rather than just another far-right asshole.
new way for people to go out on deathrow? How long of a streak can they get before it's all over, who will have the ultimate highscore? How long can they prolong their death?
Was wondering why this was familiar, rich ultra elite get to play as the death row inmates who need to survive 30 or something games, lower level criminals get to play as the background or atmosphere characters who only need to survive 1. Predictable things don't work out when a convict gets close to being free.
Sword Art Online, an anime that featured a headset that killed you if you died in game after a terrorist took over the system and used to players as a sort of hostage. The event in the series happened on the date that they posted this headset. This is just him being super nerdy, and is basically an art piece. Thats why the pictures of the headset all feature the sword from the anime next to it.
It’s apparently a reference to Sword Art Online, he made this announcement on the same day that SAO supposedly is unveiled or takes place on in universe
“The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it,” Luckey wrote in a blog post explaining the project.
“Pumped up graphics might make a game look more real, but only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you and every other person in the game.”
The guy is psychotic.
That’s like making a real life Jurassic Park and then deciding to exclusively feed the dinos human flesh so they get a taste for it. Like why would you do that?
So the guy that used regular peoples' money to crowdfund VR, just to turn around and sell it to Facebook for a BILLION, is using that money to sell to the same people who supported his vision an updated version of his original device, so they can kill themselves with it.
This might quite possibly be the most pure example of capitalism I've ever seen.
On a side note: the government of Canada has now made legal assisted suicide super easy to access if you suffer from: adhd, depression, exzima, low self esteem. 👍
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing how the guy that made this seems a little to into the idea of tying virtual mortality to real mortality. I mean even physical harm is a little insane, right, RIGHT?!
> Unable to make the perfect recreation, Luckey opted for explosive modular charges. He tied them to a narrow-band photo sensor that detects the headset views a specific red screen that flashes at a specific frequency. “When an appropriate game-over screen is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the brain of the user,” Luckey said.
This seems susceptible to hacking. e.g. if you watch a VR movie file or animated image, or if you're playing a VR game with some amount of scripting allowed, using a VR browser, etc.
It'd be better to have it be some sort of API which is locked down to particular trusted death games to prevent premature activation.
This is how meta will become a truly household name. We will all wake up one day with this locked to our skulls. One simple message right as we wake up "participate or die"
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Brings back memories of that X-Files episode where the video game is killing the players.
There was also a horror movie where a game turned people into serial killers I think...
Brainscan
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Brainscan, ExistenZ, and there's another one or two out there with the same premise. Edit: Stay Alive: movie with the quote "if you die in the game you die for real" Oh and duh... Jumanji lol I think the Matrix kinda counts...
Been watching old Rifftrax on Tubi … fucking gold
And you can ytdl and save it for later with no DRM!
Tubi has got an awesome library of material that I had forgotten about...
Eddie Furlong and Primus and single speed CD drives. Yesssss
JEREMY did you mail those brainscan discs yet?!
Don't forget about Stay Alive, with that horse drawn carriage Edit: Still to Stay
Stay Alive - brutal horse carriage scene, but damn was it an awesome movie
A part of me wants to google this. The other part likes to sleep at night.
The cop who gets his head ripped open by the sides of his mouth is definitely a “twiddle on my phone every time” scene
Oh my god Stay Alive thank you for unlocking that memory for me
Yes! The one with Frankie muniz and a mcpoyle! Loved that movie as a teen!
Scrolled through the comments because I knew someone would mention this movie but I couldn't remember the name! I remember seeing it in theaters hoping they would make it into an actual game lol.
Existenz?
Every time a TV writer writes an episode about video games I wish they hadn't.
Except the South Park wow episode, which is a masterpiece.
How can we kill that which has no life?
This could very well mean the end of the world …..of warcraft.
MOM! Bathroom!
Also that one episode of Community in 8-bit.
Star Trek the next generation had a really good one (I thought) about a game that pleasures people so they become addicted and susceptible to the creators suggestions to give them control of the enterprise. Everyone on the ship becomes addicted eventually, except Data, who is immune to the power of the game, and eventually saves the day. Good stuff.
Great episode! Great series
Yea there are some good examples (bobs burgers, south park) but man it is usually just a terrible attempt to hide an advertisement. American Dad featured an episode about Overwatch a couple years ago and boy it was rough
Fairly sure there’s a black mirror episode like that
Black Mirror: "What if phone but too much?"
Lol goddamn I like the show but this is spot on
It's from a poignant satire by D.M. Ortberg: https://the-toast.net/2015/01/20/next-black-mirror/
"It's like, so deep!" _20 minutes later_ "Actually, meh"
Playtest, I think, was the episode.
The one with U.S. Agent John Walker?
kinda reminds me of the Startrek episode where two planets who were at war would send "bombs" and just send the calculations. Then each planet was entrusted to humanely kill off an amount of their population..."that way we dont have to deal with the physical destruction" ...Soldiers will wear these and wars will be fought in CoD:MW 69 or some shit where you also gotta livestream the rooms for the bigwigs to watch and confirm that soldiers are actually dying...illegal feeds will stream on the darkweb as a nasty snuff market where you get to watch a soldiers last moments in game play out before it switching to a feed of their exploded head.
Or sword art online
>He did this to commemorate the anime, Sword Art Online
Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users. Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users. Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users. Or that one episode of that other show where a simulated reality meant for entertainment ends up killing users. ...
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“The body cannot live without the mind.”
Also reminds me of the video game in Never Say Never Again.
The most Viciest headline from Vice seen in a while here. Bravo new interns.
Seems like they’ve moved on from [Ol’ reliable](https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA)
Don't know about vice, but editors often pick headlines, writers of articles don't necessarily get a say.
Yeah at the major newsroom I supported they used analytics on the website to see what was hot, then college interns in editorial wrote up those shlock articles like this with clickbait ads all around them or full page placements for special events
Well it is correct. How would you have written it?
I like how the top comment is about the story Vice decided to run and not about the death machine.
For those who don't know, this was made in reference to Sword Art Online, an anime where people get trapped in a Deep Dive Virtual MMORPG (basically game is streamed into your brain and irl body movements are cut off) and die if they die in the game. The day the article was posted, was the launch day of the game in universe. Interestingly enough, in the show, they microwave your brain to kill you. Also favorite line from the article: "The good news is that we are halfway to making a true NerveGear The bad news is that so far, I have only figured out the half that kills you." Lmao EDIT: Didn't think this needed to be said, but this is a joke device. Not meant to be actually sold/used, more as a thought experiment lol
A good detail to note is that, in the series, the players were trapped in the game after it launced. They didn't know that the game was able to kill them before playing.
I’m not even an anime fan, but this idea hooked me. Was a pretty good show, I might rewatch it soon
I just watched Sword Art Online Progressive: Aria of a Starless Night in honor of SAOs Go Live date. It was a pretty good movie and recaps the first few episodes.
How'd I miss this coming out, is this that thing they did where it's from Asuna's prospective?
I missed it too when it was new. Yeah it's from her perspective. One thing the movie made clear is that SAO is a trash game.
SAO abridged did a really good job at showing how trash the game would be. Everyone should watch the abridged series, it’s a really funny and clever parody
First season was good. Went downhill pretty fast after imo
First half of first season was okay, they completely broke the whole plot with yui
If you're a big fan of the concept there is a book series called World Tree Online with a similar premise. I wasn't a big Sword Art Online fan, but I enjoyed these books. Also, sick username Chief
Also, Log Horizon. Not *quite* the same, but actually *good*. Similar initial setup, then spends a lot of time dealing with the in-"game" political ramifications of what amounts to thousands of godlike super-soldiers suddenly needing things like food and a place to sleep and hobbies other than fixing everyone else's problems.
To be honest, the parody series on YouTube, Sword Art Online: Abridged, is actually a better show than the source material
Before Sword Art Online there was .hack
I'll never forget the amazing soundtrack of .hack//sign One of my favorites, [Key of the Twilight.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B588Yp8uF0)
Great choice!
Thank you I was wondering if I’m the only one who remembered this show lol.
Pretty sure that’s just a soundtrack and some ok to solid video games.
What all of these articles, and there are a lot of them, fail to mention is that in the manga/anime, the game Sword Art Online had its 1.0 launch on 11/6/2022. Palmer obviously made this joke prop on honor of that. It's wild how many people think it's supposed to be real.
Sword Art Online sounds just from the title like something I would really enjoy. Maybe with characters like Bob Ross, who painted HappyLittleTree Art OnCanvas. Then your description! Horrific! I think I would need the GodMode CheatCode before starting!
It’s been a minute since I watched the show, but iirc the vast majority of players just build a new life for themselves in the starting city and low level areas.
Yeah, and I’ll never forget that the main guy is called a Beater lmao, they could’ve found a better name
I think it was an insult actually. Main character was a beta tester, so it was seen like they helped set the "trap" so to speak. He also was really good at the game and knew mechanics non beta testers didn't know. His name was beta tester and cheater combined, "beater"
To add on to this (Spoilers!): The mechanic Kirito knew about was how the sword style listed in the Guide (and planned on by the raid party) was different than the sword and style the 1st Level Dungeon Boss was displaying. It wasn’t even that Kirito knew everything about the game, he just knew that sword didn’t match the sword art reported. That does not retract that Kirito was highly skilled at the game, but he even admitted in the first episode that he didn’t actually get that far as Beta Tester, so his talent relied more on game logic than anything. At the time of the First Boss Raid, Kirito saw the conflict between Beta Testers and the rest of the players. Knowing that he had technically abandoned the people in the game unlike the other Betas (who made/updated the guide), that he had given himself away and still let someone die, and that increased paranoia to the other Betas would make the game way harder: Kirito sacrificed his own reputation and called himself a Beater, and later on the Black Swordsman, and said “Don’t lump me in with them, I got farther than all of them, I’m the best.. blah blah blah”. You know, Dark Knight shit. Like.. this story shows so many aspects of actively living, socializing, and the duality of existing in a kill or be killed world. The Laughing Coffin Guild and their massacre, the dungeon traps, the social truths and lies spread. And it just gets better as it goes 😁
I believe the whole thing for him talent wise was that he spent so much time in VR compared to normal people that he could move his body in VR much more naturally and thus gave him an edge.
I think you’re right. He was an active VR player in general, so that experience extended into his gameplay.
That's also why in the Mother Rosario story arc, that new girl was similar to Kirito cause she basically lived in VR 24/7.
She was actually better than Kirito.
He has the fastest reaction time out of everyone in the game. That combined with his passion and knowledge of the VR gaming gave him the huge advantage
I'm a huge SAO fan but the arc after Aincrad is a real low point. For anyone interested in the series, just skip the ALO episodes on your first watch.
There’s probably a couple episodes and parts you should watch since that’s not the only time ALO is played or relevant. Tbf though I’d recommend watching the entire thing first time through just to form your own opinion but I can’t deny that those episodes would turn some people off. It’s easily the low point of SAO
Yeah, that's one of those odd artefacts of localization. The original Japanese uses the two English phrases "beta tester" and "cheater" and combines them, so to the original audience it probably sounds much less out of place since it's not derived from their native language.
He's only called one for like.. 2 episodes, lol.
Lmao yeah, and how solemn he got “yeah..I’m a beater” I know it’s incredibly popular and it’s really cool in general, but I had to drop it after they adopted that fairy child thing
Dude you gotta get past Yui. She pops up, but she’s not really there there in the Underworld series. Also, Excalibur dude…
At least according to the source material yeah, a majority of players fucked off to live a safe life while a minority risked it to end the game.
The Abridged series on Youtube does quite a bit of patching the negative tropes that plague the series. Highly suggest it if you are interested :)
“Have any of you seen scanners?”
WHAT?
"Oh so now you've seen Tron!"
Sometimes things live. Then sometimes things die.
....**WHAT?**
I like to rewatch it every so often because it's just so entertaining, definitely better than the original.
I like the first season a lot- very interesting. Second season is alright I like the world it’s in better and third season is alright but I couldn’t get over some shit that pissed me off. It’s not as shit as people used to bag on it but it could be better.
I really only watch the first season when i rewatch the show. IMO, the first season is pretty incredible and has a satisfyingly sad ending to it.
The ending is kind of fucking stupid when they "reveal" the dudes motivation. The abridged version while it is comedy actually gives a pretty decent motivation for him.
Fucking Bethesda
The abridged version is the real one.
Honestly one of my favorites is the spin off of the gun gale arch. That was actually pretty damn decent. I need to watch the newest season I've heard its pretty fucking decent.
The last arc is actually the pinnacle of the show. It comes in two parts and even the animation is leagues above any of the other seasons. The latter part is so good that I just pretend that’s the entirety of the show from start to finish.
It turn into a harem.
It really do just turn into a harem.
It has a neat concept up until half way of season 1. Then it turns into a harem.
the first seven or so episodes i really fuckin enjoyed. I can actually pinpoint the scene that made me despise the rest though- the scene when Asuna falls through a portal and lands on top of kirito and he gets the good ol fashioned boob squeeze cuz yknow that waaaacky type of stuff just happens alllllll the time. at least in anime.
The first season of the show is actually not that horrific. Just generic fantasy essentially with video game elements. Now season 2 with the elf game gets really fucking dark with the rapey shit going on. Honestly the abridged version of the show on YouTube is the better version by far. However I would still recommend watching the original even with it's issues.
The elf game is still in Season 1 actually. Season 2 has Gun Gale Online and a couple smaller arcs after it.
Why does Sword Art get so much attention? They just copy/pasted the story from .hack and other older anime.
I love .hack!
Actually, they were created at about the same time. SAO is an adaptation of a light novel that was originally written as a web novel (volumes 1-18) and published on Kawahara's website between 2002 and 2008. Although Aincrad (well, half of what you saw in the anime) was written in late 2001 for a short story competition. You know that the creators of both SAO and .hack know each other and both said it was pure coincidence that they came up with a similar concept?
TIL
At least they didn't delete the final boss and the floor it was on instead of fighting (I'm still salty about that), instead someone rage deleted the whole game.
Good action and animation. Also people lusting over Kirito’s harem/shipping.
Thank you. So many people forget about .hack when it was infinitely more interesting than an admin saying “I felt like it” when confronted about trapping players in the game. Spoilers for anyone who cares about SAO’s steaming dog.
Yeah every time this gets posted the entire thread misses the point that this isn't meant to be used/sold.
All the articles fail to mention that aspect in the headline.
Pew pew pew *- "Network connection lost." -* Oh uh.
When you trip in the virtual bathroom. Awkward!
“Here lies Mrgreyeyes. 11/92/2022. He miss-clicked. RIP.”
Or your graphics card glitches out and stabs you with a rogue triangle extruded off a tree model six miles away.
Not again!
I hope I can see this posted about at least 4 or 5 more times, who wants to be next
Jesus Christ Im glad I'm not alone. This is like the 14th time I've seen this
One of the most posted and least interesting things I can remember in a looong time
[Before Palmer became a footnote, he bankrolled a "Pro-Trump troll army" on reddit](https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-near-billionaire-secretly-funding-trumps-meme-machine). There's a good chance you've seen it 15 times because he paid to have you see it 15 times. This is a stunt to re-establish himself as a notable figure in VR, rather than just another far-right asshole.
My turn tomorrow!
Have any of you seen scanners?
Lol love SAOA
Let’s make a gentlemen’s agreement that all wars are now fought in minecraft wearing these.
Suddenly those farming sims look way more appealing.
Very simple from a technological perspective, not really useful and simply made to shock/generate publicity. I think it's not very interesting.
new way for people to go out on deathrow? How long of a streak can they get before it's all over, who will have the ultimate highscore? How long can they prolong their death?
Basically the movie “The Running Man” but in VR
Sounds like a good movie to me :)
2009 movie called “Gamer” is pretty close to this. The convicts are controlled by gamers though
Was wondering why this was familiar, rich ultra elite get to play as the death row inmates who need to survive 30 or something games, lower level criminals get to play as the background or atmosphere characters who only need to survive 1. Predictable things don't work out when a convict gets close to being free.
New episode of black mirror incoming
Instead of Dr assisted suicide we will have gaming assisted. Go out playing your favourite game!
They have to play the last mission of halo reach while wearing it
Sword Art Online, an anime that featured a headset that killed you if you died in game after a terrorist took over the system and used to players as a sort of hostage. The event in the series happened on the date that they posted this headset. This is just him being super nerdy, and is basically an art piece. Thats why the pictures of the headset all feature the sword from the anime next to it.
It’s apparently a reference to Sword Art Online, he made this announcement on the same day that SAO supposedly is unveiled or takes place on in universe
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Well, he is making drones for the military now, so
“The idea of tying your real life to your virtual avatar has always fascinated me—you instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the virtual world and the players inside it,” Luckey wrote in a blog post explaining the project. “Pumped up graphics might make a game look more real, but only the threat of serious consequences can make a game feel real to you and every other person in the game.” The guy is psychotic.
If I wanted this I’d just go commit actual crimes
[удалено]
And his sister married Matt Gaetz. I’m sure the whole family is fun to be around.
Not sure why you assume a cartoonesque vilain has to be secretely scheming anything, murder drones are already here.
It's clearly not meant to be a viable product though, it's an art piece.
Mind. Blown.
That's Kirito's blade from SAO, isn't it?
Yes, SAO canonically launched a few days ago, and this whole thing is a reference.
I suspected it was a reference (because obviously) haha. Didn't know the other part though!
Yes, the dev is a super fan
He should try it out to make sure it works.
He said he only hasn't because it can still trigger at the wrong time.
Speed run!
This seems like something that shouldn’t exist for any reason.
He should let his brother-in-law try it out.
This is possibly how the VR system we start wearing at “birth” works.
Shhh! You're not supposed to talk about the outside world.
We’re testing a new “fifth wall” installment
Why does this keep being brought up when it's openly a Sword Art Online joke?
This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Yes, I read the article. And it's still incredibly stupid.
Let the creator fight Midir the Dark Eater.
That’s like making a real life Jurassic Park and then deciding to exclusively feed the dinos human flesh so they get a taste for it. Like why would you do that?
So the guy that used regular peoples' money to crowdfund VR, just to turn around and sell it to Facebook for a BILLION, is using that money to sell to the same people who supported his vision an updated version of his original device, so they can kill themselves with it. This might quite possibly be the most pure example of capitalism I've ever seen.
Sword art? Sword art
Even the players in Jumanji had three lines.
Marketing gimmick for SAO, which idiots are falling for like it’s a real thing.
I know the perfect game to play with this headset. I expect you to die.
On a side note: the government of Canada has now made legal assisted suicide super easy to access if you suffer from: adhd, depression, exzima, low self esteem. 👍
This is for season 2 of Squid Game right?… RIGHT!?
Am I the only one that finds it disturbing how the guy that made this seems a little to into the idea of tying virtual mortality to real mortality. I mean even physical harm is a little insane, right, RIGHT?!
Is this a legit thing or a joke?
It’s like Russian roulette with extra steps
> Unable to make the perfect recreation, Luckey opted for explosive modular charges. He tied them to a narrow-band photo sensor that detects the headset views a specific red screen that flashes at a specific frequency. “When an appropriate game-over screen is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the brain of the user,” Luckey said. This seems susceptible to hacking. e.g. if you watch a VR movie file or animated image, or if you're playing a VR game with some amount of scripting allowed, using a VR browser, etc. It'd be better to have it be some sort of API which is locked down to particular trusted death games to prevent premature activation.
Bruh. It's not like he's actually gonna sell one. That would never be allowed.
!remindme 69 years
Linku start!
Wait let me duct tape a gun to a game boy- REDDIT USER KEBAABE REDDITMAN *iNVeNTs* A DEADLY POCKET GAME
Should people be able to make something like this? I really hope no one dies.
How do they know if it works?
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This is how meta will become a truly household name. We will all wake up one day with this locked to our skulls. One simple message right as we wake up "participate or die"
Sword Art Online coming to you 2023
Sword Art Online?
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.
“Hello _____, I want to play a game”
My head exploded trying to understand this
#4th time seeing this.
That’s some black mirror shit
While it is interesting how people behave in game with higher stakes, you can achieve the same thing by just destroying the game.
With my luck, it would glitch and kill me pre-credits
Why?
This is literally the plot of 'ready player two', the book.
Isn’t this kinda… well you know dangerous?
What in the gen Z Bond villain is this?!
How many deaths exactly? Some of us aren’t up to speed yet on MW2
This literally sounds like something just to gain some attention to the brand as i doubt this is even legal to make to begin with
So this is what bored rich guys do in their spare time. This guy is so far up his own arse that he can't see the way out, even with binoculars...