As a Hillary supporter (not trying to get political, just being up front since this thread is inherently political), I have mixed feelings. On a personal level, this essentially cements that I would rather get a Vive (or PSVR) than an Oculus. Admittedly, Vive already had a better experience, but the difference to ME was negligible. I was sort of on the fence previously from a "if/when I buy VR I will get X" standpoint. Now, this gives me a very concrete reason to use my wallet as speech and...take my business elsewhere.
On another level, he is well within his rights to throw his money from the FB purchase of Oculus on a dumpster fire of shit posting memes. I... honestly, I think that this is more a revelation that he's an idiot in terms of how he funds his political ideals, rather than some wild corruption revelation as some media outlets are purporting. Like... I would be far more worried if Luckey was pumping millions into ad buys in swing states. Instead, he's funding the creation and posting of dumb (and often off color) memes to 4chan, 8chan, reddit, etc. To me, that just gives me more reason to shake my head at how poorly the entire Trump campaign is being run.
From a "how does this impact Giant Bomb" standpoint, it gets tricky. Does GB just make the whole "we aren't going to have Trump Supporters on our live shows" deal? Because that is fundamentally stupid, when it comes to informing GB users. If Oculus is doing something new or interesting, and Oculus is the person giving out the info, it doesn't immediately make sense for them to just be like WELP WE AINT COVERING OCULUS NOW BC PALMER IS A RARE PEPE. I think that it would be prudent to limit Luckey interaction to interviews, and it may be a bit weiiiiird to see him at a GB E3 live show section, but not because I personally have an issue with it- Giant Bomb is a decently liberal place. I can't imagine Brad Shoemaker being able to hold his tongue in the same room with Luckey with this knowledge. In fact, I can't imagine anyone on Giant Bomb being able to interact with him the same way from a "public content consumption" standpoint.
TLDR- I don't want to see FUN content from GB that involves Luckey, but if Luckey is going to continue being the person divvying out the information on Oculus VR news, I don't have an issue with GB interviewing Luckey on a professional level. Now, if Luckey no longer is at Oculus? I don't see any reason for him to ever show up on Giant Bomb content again, mainly because this information sorta poisoned the well.
PS- I'd like to clarify that just b/c I'm a Hillary supporter, doesn't mean I'm trying to push for her in this thread. I don't want to have that debate/conversation. I'm 6000% fine with people not liking Trump and ALSO not being a fan of Hillary. So I guess take my comments under that light.
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