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cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1484642

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

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Richest fucker in the world starts indie game studio was not on my bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago

Don't worry, he just made a type in "crypto grift studio".

[–] [email protected] 124 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

God I’m so sick of hearing about this douchebag.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

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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[–] [email protected] 108 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago

Producing hot garbage is kind of Elon's thing.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Elon kind of already did that with X and unfortunately it hasn't taught him anything.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 weeks ago

My god he’s insufferable

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And will end up being banned from steam as a result.

I'm looking forward to it tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm sure the studio will launch by next year, like every Musk product.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago

Full Self Publishing is only two years away, just like it has been for eight years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

“Two weeks…”

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Google has failed at games over, and over, and over.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

EA actually got rich making decent games before their (very early!) foray into enshittification. Can you imagine they went 10 years without yearly EA Sports crap?

Similarly, Ubisoft (then Ubi Soft) used to put out pretty good ones.

Looks like money spoils people.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait, lemme guess, its called "X Studios" and its totally gonna change the world forever!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I’m not going to look, but I’m willing to bet, there’s already a “games” studio called X Studios… and they make porno games.

He probably already has every title. And so do the neckbeards that worship him.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck off Elon.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

What the actual F.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago

I don't give a shit what Trump's little bitch thinks thinks about video games.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This will go as well as Grummz’ (aka Bus Guy) new game studio. Also Amazon tried and failed, Facebook tried and failed, Google tried and failed. Non of these Silicon Valley cunts know how to start and run a creative endeavor like a game studio.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Talking about "non-woke" AI. How's Grok doing? Still hating him like all his other children?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago

Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations

Uh oh. Am I going to have to agree with the worst person in the world?

so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'

Oh whew. He's got the worst possible solution to the problem. The world is still correctly aligned.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago

The new Crypto AI game named DogeX allows you to become a Russian troll!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He really is Schrödinger's oligarch, both the richest man alive but somehow also a revolutionary fighting against the "system". Or in other words, he thinks he's Neo while literally building the Matrix (Neuralink+AI).

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

All games will include some doge based nft stuff wont they?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sure he'll attract a ton of talent. As if the game industry wasn't bad enough with its employees, an Elon-ran game company would be something for the ages.

Let the first AAA woke game bomb.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When he finds out XboX is taken....he is going to be SO MAD

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Bet: He will not release a single fucking game

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Will it go as well as X AI?

Grok is the laughing stock of the LLM world, and he also completely lied about his promise to make them open source. The latest Qwen release from Alibaba (open, locally runnable weights, tiny, Apache, freaking smart) has rendered his obscene hoard of H100s basically obsolete, with a miniscule fraction of the money.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

God please no. The game industry is messed up as it is.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Aww he thinks people like him?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Call his bluff. Get him away from politics and let him spend the next eight years building the next Balan Wonderworld with cameos from Joe Rogan and Donald Trump.

Better yet, let him collab with Peter Molyneux, and Musk will be bankrupt before the game is released.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Oh how i wish he would just shut the ever loving fuck up already. Him and all his little muskrats. Oh what a quiet and peaceful world that would be.

We are doomed. Doomed i say

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