Palmer Luckey, Mod Retro, and Laundering Subsidized Blood Money with Nostalgia and Anime
ModRetro sells consoles made out of recycled drone parts.
This may give you a few negative reactions. If you're closer to the "What's the big deal about this?" side of things, I want to walk you through this.
Mod Retro is run by Palmer Luckey. You might know him first as the guy who sold oculus to Facebook/Meta. This is a red flag to me, but might not be to you, and I think we can reasonably just disagree with that, but I want you to stay with me here.
Palmer Luckey got rich selling out to what is essentially a surveillance propaganda factory, and while that alone just kind of sucks, and you might think "I'm broke. I'd take that deal", in 2017 he went on to open a defense contract business called Anduril (https://www.anduril.com/):
Anduril has contracts with the U.S. Military (https://tinyurl.com/4wh294vk) (and the Department of Homeland Security (https://tinyurl.com/5s2unffy). He makes weapons and surveillance equipment for ICE, DHS, U.S. Military, and U.S. Air force.
These contracts subsidize his production with American tax dollars and create weapons that have killed people in the states and abroad, and once the weapons and equipment are recovered and decommissioned Anduril sells the broken parts as loot boxes like a death trophy:
(https://tinyurl.com/49kbc7yj)
as well as recycles them into console parts (https://tinyurl.com/ykfmm8xn) all while laundering their image with anime girls and old video game characters from the 90s.
Argonaut Games recently acquired Croc and Buck Bumble and have partnered with ModRetro to publish new copies of their N64 cartridges.
See also Throwback with Extreme G, Phoboslab with Xibalba64, and bitmap bureau with Xeno Crisis.
Palmer Luckey got rich selling to Facebook/Meta, invested that into the military to get richer profiting off of killing people here and abroad, recovers his equipment and turns around and sell it again to launder his image and his parts via old video game mascots and anime girls to then profit off of murder again. This is not hyperbole. This is simply what he does.
If you are a collector or consumer, don't buy from this company. They are exploiting your nostalgia to launder their image and profit off of killing people. If you are a company, do not partner with them and divest from them if you have.
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