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Is he really that "embattled"? Do people really have the energy to keep the outrage going this long?
by nsxwolf 10y ago
Is he really that "embattled"? Do people really have the energy to keep the outrage going this long?
- XorNot 10y agoHe almost certainly shed a lot of his supporters with his actions.
- nsxwolf 10y agoIt's weird to me that he would attract supporters or detractors. He's not Steve Jobs. I got the Vive instead of the Rift because I like Vive's room scale tracking better than what Rift offers. I could care less about any of the names or personalities behind it.
- wccrawford 10y agoEnthusiasts are _intense_, and the VR community is still all enthusiasts. At least partially because of the price, but probably also because of the severe lack of high-budget games. So yeah, the Reddit echo-chamber keeps the hate going long after it would normally die in that kind of community.
- QuinnyPig 10y agoAdd on the "gamer" subculture as well, and you've got a recipe for holding grudges for decades...
- aanm1988 10y agoEven before all the politics stuff he was not the best guy to have as the face of the company. His interactions with the community were sometimes pretty bad. I wonder if he just wasn't happy with his role in the company.
- makomk 10y agoGizmodo had a regular feature called Palmer Watch stalking him, which ran for 117 days despite the fact that never never made any kind of public statement or appeared anywhere for that time.
- nebabyte 10y ago> Do people really have the energy to keep the outrage going this long? If you don't know the answer to that by now...