I am making this a thing, who is with me?

Post by **mahler** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:52 pm

Dycus wrote:Oh yeah! I 'shopped his eyes open just for fun, but then I decided that was too boring. It turned in to this:
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Palmer found it pretty funny.

Post by **Dycus** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 8:48 pm

Namielus wrote:After Dycus had been mocking Palmer Luckey on mtbs3D, it all went downhill.
Within a few hours, Palmer decided to leave oculus and pursue a career promoting the upcoming HMZ-T3
for Sony.
Thanks for nothing Dycus, this is all your fault.
Ps: Note the poor guys terrible scars to nose and forehead after extensive use of the HMZ.
Good thing it has built in pain relief.

What? No, last I heard he was working for Nintendo as their Power Glove PR exec. They're bringing it back, didn't you hear?

Post by **MrGreen** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:54 pm

I'm out of words. I'm out of f***ing words.

Post by **cybereality** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 10:34 pm

Post by **Namielus** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:11 pm

DYCUS!! I CALL YOUR BLUFF AND RAISE YOU ONE UNMASKING

Post by **MrGreen** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:41 pm

What have you done...

i hope you're proud of yourself Nogard...

Post by **Dycus** » Fri Sep 14, 2012 11:59 pm

That was absolutely fantastic.

I need to come up with something better!

Post by **AngelJ** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:24 am

I love this thread. It's so bad!

Post by **Mind** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:56 am

Dycus wrote:

I'm sorry, what? You don't start a meme, that just happen.

Many years ago, i wanted to start a meme, but then i took an arrow to the knee.

Post by **Dycus** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:20 pm

I'm sorry.

I am so, so sorry.

Post by **cybereality** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:17 pm

OMG!!!!!! HAHahahhAHAH!!!!!111

Post by **Bartdesign** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:31 pm

ROFL

Post by **Namielus** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:32 pm

Lol, Dycus, you got me. I have no idea how to respond to that. You flipped that into some other shiit.

WTF level: 1000

hahaha

Post by **mahler** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:38 pm

Post by **Dycus** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 5:35 pm

Best thread on MTBS, right here.

Post by **MrGreen** » Sat Sep 15, 2012 11:30 pm

Oh. My. God.

Post by **BOLL** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:25 pm

This thread, my brain, explosion. Awesome stuff...

Post by **benz145** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 4:28 pm

BOLL wrote:This thread, my brain, explosion. Awesome stuff...

I'm so glad they're are other people on the internet who know how hilarious this is.

Post by **benz145** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:27 am

Why hasn't anyone 'shopped Palmers Face onto Gabe and vice-versa yet?

Post by **android78** » Thu Sep 20, 2012 5:07 pm

I have no idea why I'm reading this thread! Some people have far too much time on their hands.

Post by **Nogard** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:17 pm

benz145 wrote:Why hasn't anyone 'shopped Palmers Face onto Gabe and vice-versa yet?

As per your request please find enclosed; Palmer and Gabe face sawp.

Post by **Zhin** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:34 pm

Nogard wrote:
benz145 wrote:Why hasn't anyone 'shopped Palmers Face onto Gabe and vice-versa yet?
As per your request please find enclosed; Palmer and Gabe face sawp.

Hey man, I got the number to specialist if you ever feel the need to talk to someone about....well, you know

Post by **bobv5** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:41 pm

I hope what they say about VR being useful for therapy for psychologically damaged people is true.

I lack the imagination and sadism to do it myself, but maybe Palmers next adventure should be in a virtual world? Maybe the face in the sun is Duke Nukem, and the grass is the anti video game people, and Mr Freeman decides this world should not be saved...

ummm, VR fixes brains, right??

Post by **cybereality** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:48 pm

Valve Announces Half-Life 3 with Oculus Rift Support!

Post by **wuliheron** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:44 pm

LOL, everybody's a comedian with photoshop.

The inventor of the term "meme" loves nothing more than wordplay and has been accused of spreading pseudo-scientific B.S. by respectable scientists.

Palmer seems like a great guy from everything I've read, knows exactly what he is doing, has support from serious heavyweights in the industry, has a great product, and the last thing he needs is amateur PR spread by misguided fans that might spoil a good thing.

Post by **Dycus** » Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:44 pm

Just FYI, I work for Oculus and am good friends with Palmer. He really doesn't care about these.

I would hardly call these shoops bad PR, considering anybody could make them and they likely won't leave MTBS anyway. Not like it'd affect the company, either.

Post by **junglej1m** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:34 am

Couldn't let this slip.

wuliheron - Dawkins accused of pseudo-science? I would like to hear who these respectable scientists are.

Post by **2EyeGuy** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:33 am

Granted, Dawkins' talking about "memes" only confuses the concept of evolution by natural selection, since memes and genes reproduce and change completely differently. And other scientists have pointed that out. But that's very different from accusing him of pseudo-science. Dawkins is still universally recognised as an expert on evolution (although there are a great many experts in the field, since it is such an integral part of biology), and an expert on teaching of evolution and the promotion of science.

Dawkins traditionally hasn't liked to acknowledge group selection, (ie. genes for looking after your relatives being more likely to be passed on, because your relatives have similar genes to you, etc.) even though it makes obvious sense, but he's slowly coming around.

The only real pseudoscience you could accuse Dawkins of, is the pseudoscience that all evolutionary biologists are forced to participate in, because the real science says things that are politically unpalatable and unacceptable. For example, if you think honestly about evolution, it's clear that some form of Eugenics is going to be necessary even if you only want the human race to stay the same without improving or deteriorating, because without evolution the natural trend is towards "replicative fading", and we currently have a system of dysgenics where people with the best genes have the least children (watch Idiocracy). It would be politically unacceptable for Dawkins to come out and say that though (although other braver scientists have, and promptly been fired).

Then there's the scientific Elephant in the room that's even more unpalatable and unacceptable... race. It's very clear that there are different subspecies of Homo Sapiens, known as races, that evolved quite separately in completely different climates and environments for tens of thousands of years to suit the local conditions. Worse, some races of homo-sapiens (eg. white people and Aborigines) interbred with non-human species (eg. Neanderthaals), while other races interbred with different non-human species (eg. Denisovans), that have been separate for at least hundreds of thousands of years. All of which has extremely inconvenient and unpleasant connotations, so "respectable" scientists like Dawkins wouldn't touch it with a 20 foot barge pole. (Some scientists like Walter and Crick, or Schockley do go there though).

Overall though, Dawkins is a true scientist at heart, and I doubt you'd find many scientists that would disagree. Don't judge scientists by how politically "respectable" they are though, or you'll get good politics and bad science.

Post by **EdZ** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:46 am

2EyeGuy wrote:Granted, Dawkins' talking about "memes" only confuses the concept of evolution by natural selection, since memes and genes reproduce and change completely differently.

The Selfish Gene contains a fairly explicit description of Genes and Memes, and in what ways they are similar and in what ways they differ.

2EyeGuy wrote:Dawkins traditionally hasn't liked to acknowledge group selection, (ie. genes for looking after your relatives being more likely to be passed on, because your relatives have similar genes to you, etc.) even though it makes obvious sense, but he's slowly coming around.

I suppose you may not have actually read The Selfish Gene, because that is EXACTLY what he takes several chapters to explain (genetic imperatives for altruism, and how it relates differently to diploid and haplo-diploid species). Mainly, that Group Selection makes predictions about allele occurrences in populations that are not actually found in nature (or in artificial populations), and that altruistic (i.e. detrimental to the individual, beneficial to the group) traits are still selected for on a genetic level. It doesn't make 'obvious sense', because it doesn't really work.

Post by **cybereality** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:31 pm

Guys, this is a thread about funny joke pictures. Way to get serious...

Post by **marbas** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:01 pm

cybereality wrote:Valve Announces Half-Life 3 with Oculus Rift Support!

OMG amazing graphics and all new character animation system... looking good!

Post by **2EyeGuy** » Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:38 pm

cybereality wrote:Guys, this is a thread about funny joke pictures. Way to get serious...

OK... fine:

Happy now?

BTW, I think Dawkins would probably enjoy an Ocular Rift.

Post by **cybereality** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 9:43 am

OK, fair enough.

Post by **benz145** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:35 pm

Nogard wrote:
benz145 wrote:Why hasn't anyone 'shopped Palmers Face onto Gabe and vice-versa yet?
As per your request please find enclosed; Palmer and Gabe face sawp.

Oh god... it's more horrible than I imagined. What have you done.

Post by **benz145** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:37 pm

wuliheron wrote:LOL, everybody's a comedian with photoshop.

The inventor of the term "meme" loves nothing more than wordplay and has been accused of spreading pseudo-scientific B.S. by respectable scientists.

Palmer seems like a great guy from everything I've read, knows exactly what he is doing, has support from serious heavyweights in the industry, has a great product, and the last thing he needs is amateur PR spread by misguided fans that might spoil a good thing.

You mean Dawkins?

Post by **benz145** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:40 pm

2EyeGuy wrote:
cybereality wrote:Guys, this is a thread about funny joke pictures. Way to get serious...
OK... fine:

Happy now?

BTW, I think Dawkins would probably enjoy an Ocular Rift.

Way to bring it back on track!

Ocular Rift? Fine name for the consumer version!

Post by **2EyeGuy** » Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:36 pm

benz145 wrote: Ocular Rift? Fine name for the consumer version!

Sorry, I meant Oculus Rift.

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