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Modern virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey claims he created a VR headset that would instantly destroy the user’s brain with explosive charge modules if the player’s character dies in the game. “If you die in the game,” Luckey wrote in his Monday blog post. “You die in real life.” Luckey, the founder of Oculus VR and designer of the virtual reality head-mounted display Oculus Rift, said tying the life of a gamer to their virtual avatar has always fascinated him. “You instantly raise the stakes to the maximum level and force people to fundamentally rethink how they interact with the...

Muslim family from UK detained in Syria claim they joined the Islamic State by accident, beg to return They should never be allowed back in. They joined an entity that is avowedly at war with Britain and has repeatedly called upon Muslims in Britain to murder British civilians. But the British authorities are so clueless and compromised today that they will probably fall for this. “‘HOLIDAY’ TO HELL Brit family detained in Syria claim they joined ISIS by accident while on holiday and beg to come home,” by Jon Rogers, The Sun, February 16, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of...

Steve Bannon responded to President Donald Trump's blistering assault by calling the president "a great man" and saying, "I support him day in and day out." Bannon, former White House chief strategist, made the comments on SiriusXM's "Breitbart News Tonight" show hours after the Trump administration unleashed a multi-tiered blitzkrieg of rebukes and condemnation against him for his explosive remarks in Michael Wolff's new book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." But Bannon remained nonplussed and steadfast in his support of the president. "The President of the United States is a great man," Bannon said on Breitbart News...

Investigators said a police chief in Georgia reported accidentally shooting his wife early on New Year’s Day. A Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman, Sherry Lang, said the Peachtree City police chief, William McCollom, called 911 at around 4.15am on Thursday and reported that he had accidentally shot his wife. Margaret McCollom was flown to a hospital. Police say she is in critical condition

FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (WTVD) -- The parents of a Wake County high school student are outraged that police pepper-sprayed him inside their home after a neighbor mistook him for an intruder. It happened Monday afternoon on England Avenue in Fuquay-Varina. Ricky and Stacy Tyler have fostered 18-year-old DeShawn Currie for about a year. The Tylers, their three young children and DeShawn moved to Fuquay-Varina in July. They said while they're still getting to know their neighbors, it's hurtful someone would assume DeShawn was a burglar just for going about his normal routine of walking home after school. "He's my baby boy...

A palate cleanser via the Laura Ingraham show starring NBCC President Harry Alford. Turns out Obama’s anti-business. Who knew? I’m tempted to call this red meat but that doesn’t begin to capture it. This meat is so red, it’s still attached to the cow. Good lord. I think I need to lie down just to digest it all. The clip’s long, but hang around at least to the point where they get to talking about Clarence Thomas. Alford is disdainful, but Ingraham is ready for him. Update: It had slipped my mind but commenters refreshed my memory. Yes, this is...

It beat Chris Sharek, the director of Venice's utilities department, whose job is to ensure that the city obeys environmental regulations, though he apparently failed to do so himself. A judge slapped Sharek with 25 hours of community service and probation last month for off-roading through a protected wilderness preserve with his wife and father-in-law. When their vehicles got stuck in the mud at Myakka River State Park, Sharek phoned for help. Friends arrived and dismantled a fence so they could drive in to free them. Their cars, in turn, got stuck. Another round of calls went out. Another round...

A man who tripped, fell down a staircase and smashed into three rare Chinese vases in a museum two weeks ago said on Monday "it was just a regrettable accident." "I snagged my shoelace, missed the step and 'crash bang wallop,' there was a million pieces of high quality Qing ceramics lying around beneath me," Nick Flynn told BBC radio. "There is no way my pocket will stretch to reimburse them for the damage that I have done". A regular visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Flynn, 42, expressed surprise the three vases had not been secured in some...

Rocky Sequel to Knock Out Social Security By Political Satirist Chris Davis Oct 19, 2005 Los Angeles—For yet a sixth time, there is to be another Rocky sequel.  The film, titled Rocky Balboa, was announced Monday by Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios and original distributor MGM, which will team up to produce what a press release notes as a return to the style and grit of the 1976 franchise-launching original. The story will pick up with the fictional prize fighter retired and a widower in a retirement home—meaning no Adrian—who, now broke and after a attempting to overdose on Viagra, agrees...