Musk says he's going to launch an "AI game studio" at his xAI startup.

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[–] 118 points 2 years ago

I'm sure he'll do it right after launching Hyperloop

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  • [–] 116 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    Elon's companies have been successful despite his input, not because of it. If you're interested, do some reading on how middle-management protected their teams from his nonsense in both Tesla and SpaceX, basically just feeding him bullshit that sounded good and ignoring him whenever possible. Those people are why the companies have thrived.

    Shit, just look at Twitter before and after. The valuation difference is staggering.

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  • [+] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Did he actually invent the Cybertruck? He drew the world’s shittiest picture that was all straight lines and then made a bunch of toddler-level claims about its abilities while demanding results from the teams of real people that actually had to make his nonsense even somewhat functional.

    People who deserve the title of inventor actually do the fucking work. He just said “and it’ll be invincible and climb over mountains and can pull GOD and be SO COOL”

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I read this whole article by some truck review guy? And he was confused because he said the cyber truck came within a hair of filling a niche in the truck world that was pretty much free to take, but just narrowly ended up being in a much better established range of trucks that it had no hope in competing in. So yeah.. he did all the demanding and none of the thinking, and everyone else was just there for the paycheck.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    It's risk assessment.

    If you have a startup and someone offers you 9 figures so they're the CEO and you still run the day to day...

    You'd be an idiot to risk it, because any number of billion dollar companies can fuck you over thru innumerable ways.

    So every once and a while someone with shit tier risk assessment lucks out and suddenly becomes unimaginable rich. And those are the people making offers on the next generation of startups.

    The system is set up so the worst people possible run shit. Because no sane person would keep "letting it ride" to the point they make billions, and a crazy person who does becomes too big to fail. And once they get to that point, they've convinced themselves no one else is smart enough to play Russian roulette 100 times in a row.

    At that point they've conned themselves into really believing they're geniuses who know more than anyone.

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  • [+] 84 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)
    [–] 61 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    So the next greatest game will just be "around the corner" and "nearly complete" every year for decades then?

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    How about we hang that fuckwad in a public forum instead?

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Then let's get ready for a ww2 game where you save Nazis instead of killing them. And then you shoot the American troops and call them "woke libs" /s

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    He is the most unlikeable twat on the planet.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    From one of the most respected individuals to an absolute joke of a man in a few years.

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    [–] 31 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesn't he know Epic Games studio already exists? The market for grand-standing self-righteous game-makers is pretty tapped at this point.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago*

    They might actually get along. The CEOs of both happen to be hypocritical asswipes who think providing a worse product and complaining about competition will give them the monopoly they're pretending to not want.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just when I thought he couldn’t get any edgier with a black MAGA hat, I noticed the font he used….

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I can't even begin to imagine how fucking lame and cringe a game made by Elon Musk would be. Much less how buggy and unplayable.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You play as doge and collect dogecoins to spend on memes. The game is called X and it runs a crypto miner on your gpu when you play it (you get coins in game, Elon gets coins in real life).

    You can pay for X premium for $10/month which unlocks cosmetics and lets you access the members-only chatroom

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    I'll be pissed if elon starts pumping out good games. I don't count on it but looking at the market it's not impossible.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago*

    I mean he already said the word AI which means he is going to likely favor output volume over the love indie devs and old companies poured into their games. So chances are very slim. Knowing him, I guess the game will be about some genius who tries to save the world and go to Mars and be the sole male responsible for repopulation. So yeah, it might turn into a Larry game which takes itself too seriously.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He's made it abundantly clear how much he despises the entire concept of labor, of having to pay money to people to do the things that actually make a company work. He will not be able to build a company that actually makes games with that kind of disdain for the single most important resource required to make them. And his strategy of acquiring an existing company and gutting it afterwards won't be nearly as effective in the games industry, where you have to be continuously producing NEW content.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    Releasing even bad games is already a feat. Considering how Musk doesn't know how to run a web development company I would be surprised if his "game studio" releases anything. The only way that company releases anything is if Musk won't be involved, and we know the "expert at everything" will be involved.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    He should make a meta verse. I still won't buy it, but having 2 of them completely fall flat because a billionaire thought they knew what entertainment was would almost be as funny as that time Sony re-released Morbius in theaters.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    I mean, sure, go ahead.

    It’s one of the most benign things he does and it’s not like it’s gonna affect existing good game.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    Good thing I've always wondered "what if someone did an Activision, but worse?"

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Looking forward to Diakatana2, now with more neon frogs!

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Talented people fail to make a career in gaming. Idc how many mines his daddy owned, he's not going to make a good game. Although we should encourage him to do it. Making games would obviously waste the time he uses to harass people.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    AI slop coming to ruin your favorite IPs in the very near future.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Musk should buy Bethesda. Gut it like he gutted Twitter. Start development on something random -- the Elder Scrolls VI: Kingdom of Doge.

    When it comes out, it will be a horrible, poorly made mess. Just like a regular Bethesda game but extra enshittified. He can charge extra for it to make it seem super premium.

    People will eat it up.

    Worked for Tesla.

    Edit: /s obvs

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    Ah yes, gaming. That one industry you can't really fake past a certain point or everyone will boycott, call it boring or go on strike?

    Perfect. Good decisions. Waste as much money as possible. I hope Ubisoft is in on it. Take as many shit-for-brains publishers and devs as you can gather. They forget half of the industry is wearing knee-high socks and cat ears. Propaganda games will go over like trying to sell kale to a shark.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Forget what these folks say; it's all an excuse to start companies that can be awarded no-bid contracts from the government they "want to dismantle"

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Cannot wait for him to start putting out soon to be classic titles like "Ethnic Cleansing", "Concentration Camp Simulator", and "Deportation Station" to counter the woke libtards.

    /S

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    What a gigantic turd.

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