Musk says he’s going to launch an “AI game studio” at his xAI startup.

    • @JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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      32 hours ago

      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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      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.

    • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      74 hours ago

      I loved it when Amazon, Google, and Netflix got into the gaming industry and tried to throw billions of dollars and their startup software expertise to “revolutionize” game studios.

    • @GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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      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.

  • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    5510 hours ago

    …wait, actually this has the potential to be amazing! I remember the early days of online gaming, and gamers for the most part were some of the most welcoming and friendly people I’ve ever been around.

    Something changed, and ‘gamer’ became a toxic word, and all but niche gaming communities kinda went to shit.

    If Elon makes some cringe-ass MMO or something, it will act as a sponge to soak up all the toxic assholes from other gaming communities.

    Do it.

  • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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    2410 hours ago

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

    • @x00z@lemmy.world
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      76 hours ago

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

      • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        33 hours ago

        He was always a “lie, lie and lie until you make it” kind of guy, it’s just that in the last couple of years he’s been doing it widely enough and long enough that the real results of enough of his lies came though and enough people started suspecting his words and looking at them more carefully and spotting the lying early.

        As the saying goes, “you can deceive some people all of the time or all people some of the time, but you can’t deceive all people all of the time” - and at some point, when he became more widely known, he seems to have gone from the first mode to the second and by now he’s run out of time.

      • @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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        35 hours ago

        yea I guess at those times he wasn’t very present in social media and everything we heard about him likely came from his PR team.

    • @Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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      26 hours ago

      Somehow, simultaneously “The world’s little brother” and “the most divorced man, ever”

  • @Zorque@lemmy.world
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    2811 hours ago

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

    • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      10 hours 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.

  • @Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    9214 hours ago

    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.

    • @Strider@lemmy.world
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      I had a boss like that once. Yes, it can be done.

      But the bottom line is they still think they’re great and everything will go on.

      That is very harmful to society.

    • mesamune
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      4714 hours ago

      twitter is probably the best thing to happen for spacex, testla and other companies lol. He just spends all his time shitposting.

      • @Grimy@lemmy.world
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        1112 hours ago

        Not to mention all the preference he will show his own companies because of the appointment buying Twitter got him.

    • @Bieren@lemmy.world
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      1513 hours ago

      I tell people this all the time. There are people who have the job of distracting musk like a 3 year old. They don’t believe it and continue to worship him. They act like he personally invented everything and refuse to accept the truth. The only thing he actually invented was the cybertruck.

      • @Soup@lemmy.world
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        1512 hours ago

        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”

        • @Snowclone@lemmy.world
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          711 hours ago

          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.

          • @Soup@lemmy.world
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            79 hours ago

            The niche was what the Rivian and fuck, even the F150 Lightning are doing. The Cybertruck looks like ass and I could almost say the appearance is “kinda neat for trying something different” if it wasn’t such a dogshit product in every single way.

            • @Ledivin@lemmy.world
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              222 minutes ago

              I can’t help but laugh every time I see one, and in the occasional instance that the owners actually pay attention to the world around them and notice, they always glare at me 😂 they know exactly how fucking stupid they look, they just try to pretend nobody agrees

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      1013 hours 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.

    • Pennomi
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      312 hours ago

      Shotwell is an amazing person for operating SpaceX to such success, despite all of Elon’s efforts to the contrary, like trying to cancel Falcon Heavy.

  • @Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    1310 hours 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.

  • @SelfProgrammed@lemmy.world
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    1412 hours 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.

  • @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    911 hours ago

    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.

    • @frunch@lemmy.world
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      1210 hours ago

      Let’s not forget: he’s not making shit. He’s gonna pay some poor fucks a pittance (if he decides to pay them at all) to make a lousy fps or whatever