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      I’m pretty sure he thinks that if no one is paying attention to him he ceases to exist.

      If he wasn’t such a social hazard his pitiful, immature, and downright pathetic personality would make for great satire content.

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    From the mind behind the design of the Cybertruck and naming his website X. God that’s going to be some grade A cringe.

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    Can we just stop trying squeeze AI into every god damn thing yet?

    It has its uses, but its a tool, not a replacement for actual hardwork and talent - and if you try to make it be, you’ll just get hot garbage out.

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      The people pushing AI don’t care if AI works or not. They will keep making money while the consumers and workers suffer.

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      I want them to do this, produce some absolute slop that nobody plays or wants, lose a colossal sum of money, and forever be an example of what not to do.

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          He stands to gain more through his political influence than he has lost with Twitter, and the latter arguably helped him get the former. By itself, his acquisition of Twitter is and will remain a loss; in the grand scheme of things, though, it was a sort of investment that is likely to pay off handsomely. If he’s learnt anything, it’s that the United States have devolved into a plutocracy that capital can steer off the common interest of their citizens and the common good.

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        Thing is, he has a big enough bankroll to just keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks. 100Mil for a triple-A game is effectively pocket change when you’re worth a couple hundred billion. He’ll keep trying until he gets bored or stumbles onto the next Fortnite out of sheer luck.

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      not a replacement for actual hardwork and talent

      But… it is*?

      *: From the perspective of upper management and higher.

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    On the bright side there’s about a 100% guarantee that any game he shits out is gonna be terrible. You can rig, bribe, and exploit your way through literally anything except creating good art. The industry’s seen plenty of attempts already

    And if it’s good then ill just pirate it :3

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      Also it will be some kind of grift. I guess something something nft crypto, or whatever.

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      Just because it’s bad don’t mean that it won’t make money hand over fist. Look at everything Disney produces.

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        Making money from a slightly smaller pile of money is easy.

        Making ever more money from increasingly smaller piles of money is hard, and that’s what they all career headlong towards for no discernable reason whatsoever.

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    Musk’s grift is to portray himself as a some kind of “rebel” against the establishment and elites, as a “good guy”, even though he belongs to the elites as a billionaire.

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    I can’t wait for the people that are still on the gamer gate wagon to get ahold of one of these games, find out it’s ass, and then claim the only people that don’t like it are the woke mob that kills art.

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      I’m sure he’ll just sue people for not buying it like he’s trying to do with his other products.

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    This is a great way for him to waste money and time developing games no one wants. A cyber truck version of Diablo 4, what would that even look like.

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    The richest man in the world complains companies with 1% of his persona wealth are too big.

    What the actual F.

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      Yes’just jealous he hasn’t got a game studio. He wants so badly to be cool.

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        He’s angry he doesn’t own culture. He’s trying to buy the ability to control culture. And to a certain extent I imagine that he’s angry that American pop culture has long flowed from groups he’s bigoted towards.

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    Creating a game studio, because you are a huge corporation with unlimited money doesn’t guarantee success. Just look at Amazon game studios for example.

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      I bet he’s banking on marketing the games as “anti-woke” and getting the MAGA crowd to buy them to own the libs.

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        Its like every week a new episode of black mirror script is coming to life.

        I know games as propaganda exist in some shape and form already, but imagine what could a selfish man-child with all the money in the world do to the game industry to bring his “vision” to life.

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          Punching nazis is a game, more or less, but that’s about as political as a game should get imo.

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            Art is inherently political.

            For example, do you think Gordon Freeman would be a Trump voter?

            Or the entire Bioshock franchise? That entire story is a big political message.

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          Out of touch, money-focused execs ruin everything. Especially when you have to keep the investors and shareholders happy.

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            Exactly. You have buyouts that replace creatives with business people and the good developers leave to start another company.

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        I think you meant Phil Harrison. Spencer is the current head of Microsoft gaming division and Harrison is the turd who somehow keeps failing upwards.