You earned my upvote with the PKD 3SOPA reference. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Luckey: an evil alt-right-wing extremist pulling the wool over people’s eyes with his robotic right hand, artificial eyes, and steel teeth, who returned from an expedition to the Prox system in possession of a new alien hallucinogen Chew-Z to compete with Can-D, to perpetrate an uncanny creepy plot about adults on drugs playing together with physical miniaturized doll houses in order to escape their dystopian existence by retreating into to a mega-corporation controlled virtual reality. [link] Silicon Valley Keenan Feldspar's VR (S4E8) [this video] Silicon Valley (HBO) - HooliVR Goggles (Phone Exploding) S04E09 [link]
> But then I told it that I wanted to leave, got to an inn, where I flirted with the bar waitress, and soon we were watching the sunset in some meadow. Immediate Silicon Valley vibes: [this video]
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