I did read the whole piece. I think that, by lamenting the state of saturation in the market, he suggests quite clearly that the rabble should stop making games so that the "Indie AAAs" can continue to exist. But it seems to me that the ones which need to exist will be the ones that survive. I think there's a lot of…

Well, gaming is mass market, whereas poetry is not. So I think there's far more potential for game designers to "make a living" creating games than for poets to do the same writing poetry (most poets have to do something else as a day job in order to sustain themselves). I guess what I dislike is this notion that…

If you go into it thinking you're entitled to a lot of money, then yeah, it will be bad for you. If it's all about the money, though, why not just find a job—or start a business—that will make you more money? That's the odd thing about Vogel's argument. If we're not accounting for the creative drive at all, here, then…

Oh, definitely. I believe that people should really pour everything they've got into the games they make (or the music, or the writing, or the visual art, or whatever else). I guess what bothers me about Vogel's argument is that he seems to equate a market failure (i.e. business becoming worse for the companies he…

Translation: The current rate of indie game production is bad for business, so therefore it's a bad thing overall. Sorry, but ordinary people are going to get to engage in this process. That's just how things go. You can now record a studio quality album in your bedroom with a few thousand dollars in equipment. Why do…

They explain right in the lawsuit that they tried to solve it amicably. ZeniMax alleges that they had an understanding with Luckey that their contributions would be compensated. As Oculus VR and the Rift picked up steam, Luckey started avoiding the issue of compensation altogether. I imagine that, in this situation,…

Umm, the lawsuit is right there, embedded in the article for you to read. That's not a press release, it's an actual legal document.

Actually, the meat of ZeniMax's allegations is that Carmack's VR research, which ZeniMax financed to the tune of millions of dollars, was used to improve the Rift. They also argue that it took ZeniMax's involvement to even make the Rift into a workable headset in the first place, before Oculus VR was incorporated.…

Did you read the document? It's embedded in the article. ZeniMax alleges that there was an understanding with Palmer Luckey that an arrangement would be made to compensate ZeniMax for the assistance they provided in developing a working Rift, from before Oculus VR was even incorporated. As Oculus VR and the Rift…

Fortunately, this case doesn't rest on any of us being able to prove what Carmack did or didn't do. That will be dealt with in court.

The problem with the student approaching the professor about these issues is that there are often—and for very good reasons—university policies against professors discussing specific personal trauma issues with students. Many universities require professors to immediately refer students to university health services,…

But let's face it, nobody would ever make the same argument about a black player sporting a Manziel-esque attitude. I mean, would they? If you're white, it reads as palatable enthusiasm ("Hey, let's snap this guy up!"). But if you're black, it's a potential "distraction," a crack waiting to form in the delicate team…

So discovery is the issue. I think we need to ask ourselves, why can a company like Amazon make finding what you want so easy, when they presumably have a much larger problem than Steam when it comes to the amount of junk (cheapo, amateur e-book cash-in attempts and the like) available for purchase? They need to…

What copyright is being infringed?

What in the hell does anything you just wrote have to do with this VR unit?

how am I supposed to trust anything on there anymore?

There's a video right there that you can watch. No conclusions need be jumped to.

Yes, I have seen old VR headsets. This thing is basically an Oculus Rift, though of course, without the benefits of today's technology, which allows the headset to be a lot smaller and less clunky, cheaper, not to mention more powerful, with sharper resolution, and so on.

Okay, well. I'm not sure what I can say to you anymore. You're grasping for anything to justify a position for which you have no actual evidence. I think you're pretty much demonstrating the idiocy of your perspective all on your own.

And they can also be debunked by a preponderance of evidence. Watch the video. This is clearly not something put together by a quick-turnaround rip-off company.