Brandon Sheffield: Just to make sure everyone knows, this console is funder by palmer lucky. So do not buy it.

Just to make sure everyone knows, this console is funder by palmer lucky. So do not buy it.

"A Ton Of Money" Has Been Spent On ModRetro's Chromatic Screen To Ensure Accuracy (Image: @ModRetroHub)

"A Ton Of Money" Has Been Spent On ModRetro's Chromatic Screen To Ensure Accuracywww.timeextension.com "We used custom color filters to mimic the GBC LCD"

*funded. And since I have to make typo corrections, in case folks don't know Luckey is hosting a fundraising event for Trump this week and has gotten into weapons development. An all around shitstain

I’m pretty disappointed that Toki Tori is getting an exclusive deluxe version to that thing. One of my favorite GBC games and it’s caught up in that mess.

what is wrong with this guy

As an art piece, I prefer the euthanasia coaster en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthana...

Euthanasia Coaster - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

absolutely better

damn, he should try it

I want to go back to when I naively found this sort of discovery in tech n' games shocking.

I remember meeting him at a TGS, the last time I went. Probably 2018 or something. Couldn't stand being around the guy. He made me feel unclean.

I read the book about him and briefly admired his creativity until it all went sour. Imagine the good he could’ve done if he’d chosen a different path. Not a visionary, not a savior, just an engineer with talents wanting to improve society, not drag it down or hurt people.

I was working on my own video with similar questions when you posted yours, so I hope you don't mind a share/nudge: youtu.be/mFTMSeDECUQ

The dark questions behind ModRetro's "irrational" game systemyoutu.be Oculus VR headset creator Palmer Luckey has chosen to loudly advertise and celebrate a new retro gaming venture this week--the same week that he's hosting a Donald Trump fundraiser, and years after his earliest public dalliances with right-wing controversy. I take the time to explore why that combination of creator, product, and history is dicey--and why other journalists might opt to avoid the topic altogether. This video cites the Southern Poverty Law Center's breakdown of the alt-right's connection to the "okay" hand signal, more on that here: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/18/ok-sign-white-power-symbol-or-just-right-wing-troll As ever, https://samred.com is a great place to keep up with my past, present, and future efforts, or comment below on what you'd like to see me cover or chase in the future. Thanks for watching.

Who is tha— oh… oh…… Oh ._.

Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey spends fortune backing pro-Trump 'shitposts'www.theguardian.com Facebook’s virtual reality headset creator is secret backer of a group dedicated to Donald Trump support through ‘meme magic’

Yep - and he's doing a trump fundraiser this month as well

looking at this thing, while I loathe Analogue’s dishonest marketing about “not being emulagion”, why would anybody spend this much on what is ultimately a worse version of the Analohue Pocket? @.@

From what I’ve seen of it, it has ONE big strength: it uses regular AA batteries versus an integrated rechargeable (which I’ve come to loathe). Beyond that, I’d go Pocket any day of the week.

It’s also very weird to spend all this money on an insane custom screen and then give it a shell that make it look like something you buy in a blister package in Target

On top of that, I really don’t understand why they made it 1:1 with the old screen - it’s tiny??? Nintendo made it that small back then because they were cheap! There’s no reason to be so fetishistically set on recreating that size when every other modern option is bigger and better for it.

Yeah, I remember being disappointed in the GBC at the time for the screen size, it felt like a step back and I still feel like the proportions of the GBC look off…

Yeah, the GB Pocket always looked way nicer to me. The recent trend of modding GB Pockets to be a GBC with a bigger screen looks especially nice! (Though their battery life is awful lol)

GB Pocket was definitely a larger, sharper screen for playing BW games than GBC

That is nice. Can really see the difference, even the GBC’s buttons seem wrong to me. And I hate the comic sans-ass “color” script.

I'll be real, the shell looks nice! That's one of my two real complaints with the Analogue Pocket, the shell is bad and the hole cuts are rough. This looks better in that regard and that regard only.

And if you do, make sure it’s with a credit card that fights hard for you when you dispute a charge. They don’t sound terribly confident in their ability to deliver a good product or even get it safely to consumers. Bad look!

Lmfao at them selling 30-45 dollar Gameboy games too. Go to hell Palmer Luckey. It's worse than the Analogue Pocket too except maybe the case might be better. No SD card slot on one of these things???

It really bothers me how this is being reported on in some outlets, with the Vox story saying "I don't allow politics to get in a way of a cool thing" which is a WILD take

Analogue Pocket already exists, is a hardware emulator, and can also play GBA games. With a converter (or a jailbreak and some ROMS) it can play a host of other handheld systems like Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket, and Turbo Express. What does dipshit think he is bringing to the table here?

And most critically, the Pocket's resolution (1660x1440) is explicitly designed to provide a high resolution replacement for the exact GB/GBC aspect ratio. I'm not sure what these guys think is going to be accomplished by using actual pixel size that's worth the separate effort.

[Minor correction because it’s bothering me: It’s actually 1600x1440, but the key point remains the same.]

I suspect it's plain old-fashioned techbro arrogance, where they have a whim and without bothering to ask "is there another way to do this?" Or "why might this be a bad idea?" they just run with it to a product that will fizzle and die after the early adopter rush.

The coverage of this by games outlets has been so poor. IIRC The Verge did an article on it where they just breezed past Palmer’s history too

Wow this is the first I've seen of it and you already destroyed any sense of fomo I may have had.

absolutely do not let these vultures prey on your nostalgia with this pandering-ass product

On funnyplaying.com you can get an FPGA gbc kit that plugs together easily, has a really bright and vibrant IPS screen, full cartridge compatibility, and costs like $83 including shell and buttons in your choice of colors. Even if Palmer Luckey weren't Palmer Luckey, $200 is a fuckin rip-off

I was never going to, that's just more reason not to.

"Loadsamoney"

All that time and money for something so aesthetically *boring*, too.

a ton of money has been spent to… make it look like a GBC screen? 🤮

so they made a GBC screen with hideous industrial design for the outer shell and it’s funded by PL? lol lmao the return and shipping policy has red flags too anyone interested could just buy a second-hand GBC instead (and do some mods!) or any of the other similarly ugly retro handheld machines

Nice to see that the troll built out of discarded Jimmy Buffet parts still wants to invest his blood money in gaming.

putting on my protective goggles to watch your ass get flamed for this

Palmer Lucky is one of the impactfully worst humans alive

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