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[Muskrat_Farms]

Wait a second, he isn’t the one making Star Citizen?

 

[chakadave]

we need this because Valve doesn’t make games anymore.

 

[chessy_08]

He says this whole funding the guy who says when need to ban violent video games

 

[ResilientBanana]

Sure, but I personally hope he focuses on more practical tech. There's no shortage of games being developed. There always is a shortage of revolutionary industry-changing companies, though.

Why not both?

 

[Kacho]

 

[Revolutionary]

I'll never understand people simping after billionaires...

Doesn't irrationally hate a billionaire -> you're a simp
Irrationally hate a billionaire -> apparently based?

I don't love or hate Musk, so it's always so weird to see so much frothing at the mouth when it comes to this guy. It's like people are programmed to feel a certain way about him lol

 

[EverydayBeast]

The emergence of video games is really in the last 100 years, you can hardly recognize a game from 50 years ago.

 

[Deerock71]

Buy Ubisoft, Elon.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

The emergence of video games is really in the last 100 years, you can hardly recognize a game from 50 years ago.

How many farts have you sniffed today?

 

[AJUMP23]

I am all for competition. I wonder what he would like to make an RTS or something with an open world.

 

[AJUMP23]

Elon gave away a million dollars at this rally.

 

[Kotaro]

Yeah, such great achievements! Except...

He was an early investor in SpaceX, sure. It was a good bet, and SpaceX does really good work. I would wager his engineering chops have contributed fuck all, but that's a solid company.

When it comes to Tesla though. He was a later investor. And, sued the company to get the title of founder.

Tesla CEO Settles for “Founder” Title

Electric-car startup’s main backer and its former CEO have ended a squabble over words.

www.nbcbayarea.com

The former CEO (initial, actual founder) just decided the lawsuit was not worth his time. But Musk most definitely did not found Tesla.

Elon founded SpaceX. He’s employee no.1

Also, he invested in Tesla only 6 months after its founded, he’s not ‘later’ investor as you like to discredit him to be

 

[cash_longfellow]

Introducing the Muskstation 1.

 

[RoboFu]

He says this whole funding the guy who says when need to ban violent video games

Maybe he wants to make a non violent video game ?

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

He'd just blow any dev budget on more ketamine and hair plugs.

 

[sharp weiner]

I am intrigued.

 

[Radical_3d]

Ok. I’ve changed my mind. Give me Marty back!

 

[digital_ghost]

He should name it Elon Tusk Studios.

 

[AJUMP23]

You don’t want to start a game with I want it to be this social woke way or I want it to be this right wing social commentary way. You want an idea and gameplay that coalesce into art or fun. If you are making a game to lecture people I think you are going to fail.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

Doesn't irrationally hate a billionaire -> you're a simp
Irrationally hate a billionaire -> apparently based?

I don't love or hate Musk, so it's always so weird to see so much frothing at the mouth when it comes to this guy. It's like people are programmed to feel a certain way about him lol

You feeling the need to run interference on someone questioning the pseudoreligious following he gets says a lot.

I'm going to call you a liar on the whole "I don't love or hate Musk" thing.

 

[Barakov]

He also said: DEI and woke mind virus kill the art of video games

 

[TheChadOfGaming]

based and chadpilled

 

[pasterpl]

While he has got very good business sense especially generating money, he is also great sales man as well (selling ideas, promises and vision of projects that are years away - lots of his project don’t come within initially promised by him timelines, and like with Teslas they underdeliver in terms of quality, unfulfilled promises etc.).

He is also done some disgusting things like switching off Starlink for Ukrainian army some time ago (yes, give Ukrainians access’s for free at the beginning of the war but later on he demanded to be pay for it so now Pentagon is paying for it) and now both Ukrainians and `Russians are using it (apparently Russia cannot be denied access to it).

Elon Musk's Starlink is turning the tide of the Ukraine War in favour of Russia

Russian troops have significantly improved operational coordination and efficiency due to the proliferation of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite ...

www.intellinews.com

Russia illegally using Starlink satellites to advance in Ukraine

Ukrainian soldiers say Russian forces are using the Starlink terminals to ‘overpower’ them on the frontline

www.independent.co.uk

I don’t think he is a good person or manager/boss either - I actually think he is a piece of scum while making business (will comment his activity/comments outside business, as then he would look even worse). He treats his workers as shit.

Tesla, Inc. has been criticized for its cars, workplace culture, business practices, and occupational safety. Many of the criticisms are also directed toward Elon Musk, the company's CEO and Product Architect. Critics have also accused Tesla of deceptive marketing, unfulfilled promises, and fraud. The company is currently facing criminal and civil investigations into its self-driving claims. Critics have highlighted Tesla's downplaying of issues, and Tesla's alleged retaliation against several whistleblowers.

Criticism of Tesla, Inc. - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I personally believe that Tesla are shit cars, with some interesting tech, but still, overall a shit car.

SpaceX accused of unlawfully firing staff critical of Elon Musk

A US labour agency says the employees sent an open letter to SpaceX executives, detailing workplace concerns.

www.bbc.co.uk

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has big worker safety problems as employees complain they have “consistently flirted with death”

Employees at the tunnel construction startup say they worked in a dangerous environment.

fortune.com

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-musk-safety/

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/extesla-employee-reveals-shocking-details-on-worker-conditions-you-get-fired-on-the-spot-because-elon-was-11692584214325.html

An investigation found that Tesla’s Fremont, California, plant had three times as many Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety violations as 10 other US car factories combined. Injuries were higher than the national average, and training was shorter. And Tesla was found to have repeatedly misclassified and underreported injuries at its facilities in California and Nevada.

Tesla’s “ultra hardcore” work culture — as told by Tesla employees

Tesla workers talk about injuries, fires, exhaustion, and racism.

www.theverge.com

Musk said: “I disagree with the idea of unions … I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants sort of thing.”

Musk is allergic to the idea of letting workers and their union have a voice in how to run – and improve – things.

Musk also sought to slime unions by saying: “Unions naturally try to create negativity in a company.”

Not only that, Musk – making Twitter’s workers play a twisted game of Survivor to vie for the remaining jobs – seemed to gloat when employees worked 20 hours a day and slept in the office as they tried to impress him that they should be spared his axe. Indeed, Musk reportedly told employees to sleep in the office.

Back in 2018, Musk, issuing a threat from on high, tweeted out a warning to workers at Tesla’s plant in Fremont, California, that they would lose stock options if they unionized. A federal appeals court ruled that Musk’s tweet was an unlawful threat to his peasants – whoops, I mean his workers.

Then there was the disgraceful episode in which Musk mocked a Twitter employee who had muscular dystrophy. Musk said that respected employee “did no actual work, claimed as an excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing”. Even Fortune Magazine, that longtime champion of capitalism and capitalists, ran a scathing headline about this episode: “Elon Musk’s disability shaming may not be illegal but it was cruel – and it shows how badly bosses can treat employees.” (Musk eventually apologized to the worker, who was Icelandic and was voted that country’s “person of the year” in 2022.)

Couple more examples of how underpays and shit on his workers in the below source article.

Elon Musk says letting workers unionize creates ‘lords and peasants’. What? | Steven Greenhouse

Musk is the world’s best accidental salesman for unions, even as his Tesla workers make 30% less than UAW automakers

www.theguardian.com

At its annual news conference, the German union IG Metall said a growing number of Tesla workers reported longer working hours with little free time.

IG Metall, with an office near the automaker’s plant in Brandenburg, is in regular contact with Tesla workers. ‘Tesla is not doing enough to improve working conditions and is leaving too little time for leisure, family and recovery’, said Irene Schulz of IG Metall Berlin-Brandenburg-Sachsen. According to the Union, workers are also increasingly fearful about discussing their working conditions openly because of non-disclosure agreements they were told to sign along with their work contracts. Two sources with knowledge of the matter said that Tesla China has also asked some staff to sign non-disclosure agreements.

I know that German labour laws are quite strict, but there is clear patter of Musk simply exploiting his workers, often by an illegal means (sometimes with actual threats).

https://www.etui.org/news/tesla-workers-afraid-denouncing-worsening-working-conditions

So if someone thinks that it would be good for him to start in video games business - good luck to you and to poor people that would decide to work for him.

 

[yogaflame]

Elon Musk is not perfect but he is a good in innovation and technology. If its games free from twisted woke agenda and dei, Im all in.

 

[MasterDerico]

"Console X" coming!

 

[Jakk]

 

[Pfroebbel]

Elon should buy Ubisoft.
That would be a 180 for the Kings of Divershitty

 

[Team Andromeda]

I still have his SEGA CD game . Be great to see run and own a new studio

 

[Itchy Tickles]

Elon is still trying to buy friends I see. Fuck off from gaming.... well everything tbh. Game / gaming is great when you stop supporting greedy money-over-quality cunts. Him and his type belong in mobile gaming at best, even though the guy is built like a ps1 polygon.

 

[Sorcerer]

Too bad Elon would probably have to start a kickstarter to fund his game. Never going to get off the ground.

In all seriousness, I doubt we would see anything innovative out of his studio. His directive to his dev teams would be to point to the hottest games on the market and say, make a super-deluxe/on steroids version of that game, throwing unlimited funds and resources at them. That in itself could appeal to many people.
Elon could make current triple-a look like indies.

 

[tomato shrub]

ah yes, megacorps and billionaires thinking they can enter the game industry by throwing money at a bunch of hired devs.

 

[Kokoloko85]

This is a LOT of hours in a seasonal diablo 4 character and the season just started. If Musk focused 5% of his autism beam on a gaming company they could do something incredible IMO because he would hire the right people and fund the hell out of it.

Id rather he focused that beam on improving travel, safety and health lol.

 

[EMR]

Instead of starting from scratch, Elon should go for big existing company like EA or Ubi and wash the DEI bullshit out of it. Such a blow would open the way for industry.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

He has the resources and dedication to create something special if he really wants to. Hire a crew of talented programmers/artists/designers who want to make the best games possible without any forced nonsense, could be the start of the next great studio

 

[PianistaMacabro]

Hahaha you guys want the biggest asshole and lier in the world into our industry, a industry that already is in ashes? I want what you guys smoke

 

[Little Chicken]

Howcome?

Apart from being an anti-worker/union piece of shit, he, the richest man in the world, decides to spend his time inserting himself into world politics with zero qualification other than "am rich". He is emotionally under-developed despite being driven entirely by ego, as per his bizarre rants about conspiracy theories on X/Twitter and embarrassing attacks on people he doesn't agree with. His skin is so thin in fact that he bought the entire platform! (which has since been devalued considerably).

Just a giant man-baby born with a silver spoon up his chute, he embodies the very worst greed and entitlement. So does that prick from Amazon. They could literally uplift the entire planet with their money but instead sit in ivory towers counting their magic beans. To be fair, Elon at least was a big driving force for renewable energy and EVs.

 

[Revolutionary]

You feeling the need to run interference on someone questioning the pseudoreligious following he gets says a lot.

Calling out your bullshit = 'running interference' lmao ok dude. The fact that you even think of it that way speaks volumes about your state of mind.

I'm going to call you a liar on the whole "I don't love or hate Musk" thing.

You're free to peruse my entire post history for any praise for him. I'll save you the time: there is none to be found. But you'll find no hate either, because I'm not a hater.
So you can kiss my ass with that nonsense, thanks.

 

[Boss Mog]

A lot of clowns in this thread but at least I know who they are now.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Mars Colonization Sim

 

[SportsFan581]

I'm all for variety, I feel like the products that he would put out would certainly be "different". His entire thought process seems consumed by his political ideology at this point, no doubt the content would be designed to evangelize a very specific message. Jon Voight is already on tap for narration.

Dude almost single-handedly made the electric car industry a reality, then went on to build a rocket that could take people to space without depending on Russia. And did it years faster than Boeing (who was considered the obvious front runner while Spacex was a long shot).

I don’t care if the guy is an asshole and says weird things sometimes.

Absolutely, you have to compartmentalize. Even though I'm directly opposed to his politics, as a space nerd, I respect what he has done / is trying to do with SpaceX.

 

[Quartermuncher]

Given how hes fucked up Twitter, he should try to buy Microsoft so we can look upon "the Good Old Days of Phil".

 

[M. Crassus]

Apart from being an anti-worker/union piece of shit, he, the richest man in the world, decides to spend his time inserting himself into world politics with zero qualification other than "am rich". He is emotionally under-developed despite being driven entirely by ego, as per his bizarre rants about conspiracy theories on X/Twitter and embarrassing attacks on people he doesn't agree with. His skin is so thin in fact that he bought the entire platform! (which has since been devalued considerably).

Just a giant man-baby born with a silver spoon up his chute, he embodies the very worst greed and entitlement. So does that prick from Amazon. They could literally uplift the entire planet with their money but instead sit in ivory towers counting their magic beans. To be fair, Elon at least was a big driving force for renewable energy and EVs.

He founded SpaceX which revitalized the American space industry & human space exploration at large. And he's heavily involved with the engineering too (the recent chopstick catch was his idea, as well as stainless steel, & many other innovations). Starlink brought internet to many remote communities & strengthened the Ukrainian war effort significantly.

He also founded Neuralink, vastly improving disabled people's lives.

What have you done to "uplift the entire planet"?

 

[strike670]

Sorry not interested in my tax dollars going to subsidize any potential game studios of his, the same way they go to his other companies/projects.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

What happened with his run in politics? lol

 

[Wildebeest]

I hope you enjoy games where the characters are always talking about how great Elon Musk is.

 

[Drew1440]

Honestly this is what the gaming industry needs, he pretty much saved Twitter and restored free speech to the platform.

 

[Moses85]

 

[mdkirby]

I get what you mean but having listened to his personal beliefs in interviews including recently with TC I feel he's more centrist in a lot of ways.

Personally I like the guy, he's helped startup some serious technological innovations and helps bring the costs down on hugely overspent projects ala NASA. The recent Booster catch success was awesome to see. His bringing up the Dragon Quest creators complaints from that TGS show was great in helping the story reach more eyes. And his excitement when appearing with the Don was fun to see. I'm an independent Voter who is happy to see some focus returning to local issues, anti-war, coalitions with newfound friends ala RFK Jr. and Tulsi who are passionate about health and all the chemicals and toxins in our food. Plus his recent comments on the Epstein list and why so many billionaires are worried about a Trump win is awesome.

One of the great things about Elon is he's aware of what's going on in the culture war despite his obligations. Not everybody can handle such info overload. Most hide away and remain ignorant and stick to their own microsphere of life but he sees both Macro and Micro. There's a good reason he's so successful and I'd love to see him try his hand at gaming. Some legit competition to what the west has become could be a healthy return to "normalcy".

Some of his politics are bad, some are good. He is 100% an asshole lol, but that’s fine, most great industrialists are/were, assholes have a tendency to “get shit done”

The way he’s able to get his people/teams to push things forward is commendable. I also wouldn’t be opposed to him buying Ubisoft, it’s kinda a perfect fit for a musk like reworking, I recon he could achieve great things for the industry.

As for his claims of centrism, probably holds some weight. I’m a left leaning centrist, but my left wing friends would prob think I’m right wing, and I have right wing friends who think I’m far left . Current polarisation and “bubbles” people live in right now leave little space for any nuance, or centrist view. It’s a damn shame.

 

[N1tr0sOx1d3]

Like creepy robot servants?

Robots have feelings.

 

[Musashipan]

Would be better than woke sony, for sure