Sometimes I consider making an account on Twitter just to relentlessly harass him, but then I remember I have a life and things to do, and I'm a generally happy person.
I have still not gotten anyone to coherently explain to me what's wrong with it on a more serious and impactful level than "I, personally, found it boring"
They spun that into "the trailer is a lie used to milk money from gamers in their scam Kickstarter to make a secret woke game. I thought it was gonna be a horror game."
But yeah I can get not liking "explore an early 90s house sim" except that never is the real reason the GG people were mad.
I feel like a lot of hate that game got (as well as other narrative focused games like Dear Esther) came from people who dislike the idea that a game could contain very little traditional gameplay and focus on narrative. It doesn't really matter what the game is about, it's existence made people mad
It feeds into a general reactionary hate of any non-traditional art. The fact that art like that is also made by people who aren't straight or white adds to the hate as well.
It isn't that disliking a game like Dear Esther makes someone a reactionary, but there's a difference between thinking
Because these people don't deal with honest criticism. I can break down why I don't think the game works as an interactive mystery, but none of that happens to include "the subjects are gay." That's all those people were mad about.
One of the worst thing chudcourse has done is also removed the phrase "The game was just not for me" from someone's vocabulary.
It's pushed the idea that you MUST have an opinion on every game that is released ESPECIALLY the ones they don't agree with because "Woke/DEI/[Racist reason here]"
Legit pathetic. If I was the richest person on the planet I’d buy an island and just live the rest of my days on the beach. All these billionaires are petty losers.
It'd be pretty unsurprising, but also I think there's a pretty good chance Musk is just frantically running around trying to find some way to save his ego and bumping into things.
Go you! MMORPGs were one of the great joys in my life. Then I wrote an essay-length post defending Leigh Alexander. The abuse was so bad that I have multiplayer PTSD now. I miss a gaming community that probably no longer exists. 😪
Honestly would love to get an interview with you about that at some point! I wrote a series of podcasts explaining how GamerGate basically led to everything about where we're at, and as much as I'm not itching to jump back on that topic, it feels incomplete without your piece here.
ah, memories. remember when they pretended it was never about zoe quinn, after the ex-boyfeiend admitted he got his dates wrong and their whole quid-pro-quo argument went in the crapper?
He managed to bullshit people into believing he was a genius and rich people gave him even more money to invest in his "genius". Afterwards he got lucky and bullshitted even more.
Elon is a POS, but hey, if he can get people to admit that really is such a thing as a fake gamer just trying get nerds to give them money, maybe he's only 99.99% useless.
Oh no, he's specifically pissed he got caught for it and that most of his former gamer fanbase saw through his bullshit when he double and tripled down on the lie that he was a good gamer
It's so wild man. There are probably like... a thousand professional video game journalists? It's like a regional fast food chain's worth of people taking up this mindspace.
Can you imagine the psychological stress he must be under to maintain his image?
What, with sagging Tesla sales, Starship missing ALL its milestones, missing engine output goals, Boring company has no progress, etc. His whole id is wrapped up in this image he's cultivated, and it's disintegrating.
Not particularly. That's our tax dollars burning. I don't set my money on fire out of spite.
I would like to see more accountability. If Starship can't meet targets, there should be penalties, loss of funding, or caps on Falcon launch costs. There are many problems, including lack of competition.
He has to manipulate the replies to his posts with his army of bot accounts to bury real people who criticize him. He already appears pathetic to anyone with half a brain cell.
Oh, they'll take off and land, but for Starship to do ANY of what he claims it will do, the engines need to reach new levels of performance they have not been able to eke out of them. The rest is just "don't look over there" showmanship.
Good thing he isn’t obsessed with eradicating any other relatively small population that takes up way too much space in his head because one time they treated him like the fatuous, ignorant creep he actually is for a second.
If he lies about playing a video game, it leads me to believe he lies about other things. He so easily claimed to be the expert top 10 in the world of a very difficult game, while simultaneously streaming himself failing to understand basic mechanics & failing navigate menus he should have used lots
I mean, gamers/game journos literally did their job by finding out he was using a pay to win account on Path of Exile, but sure Musky, you have at it throwing the toys out of the pram...
But that wasn't games journalists at all, there isn't a single games journalist with the hours necessary in the series to be able to assess whether Elon was cheating or not. It took a reactionary streamer to see his hero cheating for them to pick up on his cheating habit. It's embarassing
People would have gladly liked him for playing videogames in the first place. Even if he sucked at it, thousands would have given him advice or played together with him. The fact that he wants to be the top 3 without putting effort into it shows that he has zero respect for those below him.
The guys on If Books Could Kill pointed out it would be MORE endearing if he just admitted he sucks at them and streamed playing to get better, but he’s psychologically incapable of thinking he could not be the best in the world at something. Bizarre need to be the greatest in every field ever.
When Lex Luthor became president in the comics, he actually did a good job for a while before he went off his gourd on drugs and started flying around trying to kill Superman. Musk skipped the doing a good job part.
What a sad attempt at regaining the chuds to his side after failing to hide how bad he is at Path of Exile 2. This would be a lame tweet a decade ago nevermind now 🙄
I mean seriously, he could have just admit to it and still earned brownie points
Instead, he lied about it, tripled down on that lie, and essentially had it implode in his face
That is how fragile men work. They never admit fault, they double and triple down, and it keeps getting them money and power because other shit men keep propping the scum up.
At least this time he lost a lot of the fan base he spent years building up
and now he's doing this to try and hope they scamper back when most have found a new figurehead to latch onto
Have you read a GameRant, Gamer Bible, et al article?
Pure AI dross
At least one such article pointed to Morrowind Rebirth by goodness it's a far different beast to vanilla, no more early exploiting the Mudcrab Merchant or farming Dark Brotherhood assassins
GG also isn't where this bullshit started. GG was just the name that festering slime pit was eventually able to give itself because certain venues/platforms decided to not be proactive enough about cleaning their houses pre-2014.
Probably the only time I ever agree with musk.
All the gaming media does is punch Xbox for clicks & sony payola.....then type teary farewell tweets when the whole opinion team gets fired.
The uncovering of how he took credit for other gamers efforts and skills just for undeserved adoration shows some real issues with his personality. Given that he is has a ridiculous amount of power and influence this is a crucial thing to know. Video Game journalism is sometimes quite important
Remind (f)elon on X that when the stuff hits the fan, dementia don will throw him under the bus. A soft white boi like him won't do well in prison. I've been banned for X 3x, and I refuse to go back.
This dude is such a fragile little man. I also suck at video games that I love. Now shit the fuck up and get back to your day job of ruining Tesla you pathetic attention whore.
Remember when Putin scored eight goals in an exhibition ice-hockey game with former NHL players? Or when he just 'happened' to find ancient Greek ceramic pots when scuba diving in the Black Sea? Same same.
But I fear that gives him even more points with the crowd that screams woke/DEI at anything that isn't a white cis male protagonist
Tends to be the same crowd who is suspicious about game journalism and prefers to rely on influencers that keep the echo chamber against women and diversity echoing
Some of them do, I also think that, but I fear there will be those who either don't know about the controversy or aren't bothered (maybe for not being the kind of game they play, for example) or even forget about it, while the billionaire with a thousand tweets per day says something they agree
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But yeah I can get not liking "explore an early 90s house sim" except that never is the real reason the GG people were mad.
I will also admit it was something I got over in 10 seconds because I’m not 5 and don’t dedicate my life to being mad about a video game
Fucking losers fr
It isn't that disliking a game like Dear Esther makes someone a reactionary, but there's a difference between thinking
I should play Kentucky Route Zero again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYWHpgIoIw
It's pushed the idea that you MUST have an opinion on every game that is released ESPECIALLY the ones they don't agree with because "Woke/DEI/[Racist reason here]"
If you did enjoy the game it's virtue signalling propaganda that is AstroTurf bad reviews.
Shit's just so fucking stupid.
This dude quit Pokemon X&Y because he couldn't figure out where to go. This was shortly after you get Snorlax.
What if it's a closed circle, endlessly feeding back on itself?
Always something bubbling up from the surface. Want an excuse to tap into it. Even if it has nothing to do with their specific grievance.
Fascism needs a target.
This is a microcosm of EVERY part of Musk’s life.
His only ability is inherited money from slavery.
His slave money built his PR, bought the ideas of better men, paid for his gender affirming surgery.
He managed to bullshit people into believing he was a genius and rich people gave him even more money to invest in his "genius". Afterwards he got lucky and bullshitted even more.
It could be glorious.
What, with sagging Tesla sales, Starship missing ALL its milestones, missing engine output goals, Boring company has no progress, etc. His whole id is wrapped up in this image he's cultivated, and it's disintegrating.
I would like to see more accountability. If Starship can't meet targets, there should be penalties, loss of funding, or caps on Falcon launch costs. There are many problems, including lack of competition.
https://bsky.app/profile/alyssamerc.bsky.social/post/3lhquewavws2w
Just jumped straight into 9th grader lying "I'm top 20 in ranked" type shit
Guessing it'll go just like his other business ventures, exploited workers and exploding hardware
Dude was a fake gamer the whole time imo
So it's not even guaranteed to work
Delusional, Hitler-esque, and ketamine-fueled
Oh...that's not the reason he's saying it's garbage...isn't it...?
(Thanks, I've been guilty of missing it in past, never again)
He's created his own personal Hell...
He hasn't built a single thing and doesn't know shit about math, he's always been a bullshitter. He just has money. That's it.
Closer to Justin Hammer but dumber than that even.
If he'd had his way, he'd be broke now.
I think we can all see why the other Paypal founders kicked him out now
Instead, he lied about it, tripled down on that lie, and essentially had it implode in his face
and now he's doing this to try and hope they scamper back when most have found a new figurehead to latch onto
Pure AI dross
At least one such article pointed to Morrowind Rebirth by goodness it's a far different beast to vanilla, no more early exploiting the Mudcrab Merchant or farming Dark Brotherhood assassins
Th tea in there will be ... radioactive
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All the gaming media does is punch Xbox for clicks & sony payola.....then type teary farewell tweets when the whole opinion team gets fired.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N-WW0UDrVQ
literally this guy, he's been warning us for years!
Man by his someone to play it for him?
https://youtu.be/sDTtOuHEluc?feature=shared
Tends to be the same crowd who is suspicious about game journalism and prefers to rely on influencers that keep the echo chamber against women and diversity echoing