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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] 13 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 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

[–] heroheman 2 points 18 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

What the actual F.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] ilinamorato 16 points 2 hours 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] 5 points 2 hours ago

Ten years from now, President Musk, the last president of the free united states, signs a document ceding all territory to the new russian empire

[–] 58008 7 points 2 hours ago

Stop typing up that misogynist manifesto and scouting crowded public spaces. Instead, become the hero you wish you were and do us all a fucking favour. I will personally ensure you have the fattest commissary in history for the duration of your life sentence.

[–] SkunkWorkz 22 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] BradleyUffner 31 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] zaft 63 points 6 hours ago

My god he’s insufferable

[–] greedytacothief 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Umm, okay. It takes a long ass time to make a game. This will be a new untested studio. Even if they start making good games it's going to be years from now.

[–] actually 2 points 25 minutes ago

I think how he works is that he will buy out a studio with an almost finished game, and reskin it to help him with gaining more power in the USA .

It will be out in a few months, and he will claim credit.

[–] ours 19 points 5 hours 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.

[–] a_postmodern_hat 16 points 5 hours ago

He and trump are like two wicked and ridiculous Roald Dahl villains. Insufferable, and how. I wish they’d both just fuck off.

[–] jaybone 80 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] Macaroni_ninja 39 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (3 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] 22 points 6 hours 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] 2 points 2 hours ago

I bet it will work, too. 😬

[–] Macaroni_ninja 5 points 4 hours ago (1 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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[–] mojofrododojo 8 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 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.

[–] Macaroni_ninja 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Out of touch, money-focused execs ruin everything. Especially when you have to keep the investors and shareholders happy.

[–] TheKracken 1 points 2 hours ago

Exactly. You have buyouts that replace creatives with business people and the good developers leave to start another company.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 hours ago

Fuck off Elon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Aww he thinks people like him?

[–] [email protected] 111 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Carighan 44 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 86 points 11 hours 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] 23 points 8 hours ago

Producing hot garbage is kind of Elon's thing.

[–] hank_the_tank66 63 points 11 hours 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] 20 points 10 hours 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] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Thing is, he has a big enough bankroll to just keep throwing shit at the wall until something sticks. 100Mil for a triple-A game is effectively pocket change when you're worth a couple hundred billion. He'll keep trying until he gets bored or stumbles onto the next Fortnite out of sheer luck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] djsp 5 points 6 hours ago

He stands to gain more through his political influence than he has lost with Twitter, and the latter arguably helped him get the former. By itself, his acquisition of Twitter is and will remain a loss; in the grand scheme of things, though, it was a sort of investment that is likely to pay off handsomely. If he's learnt anything, it's that the United States have devolved into a plutocracy that capital can steer off the common interest of their citizens and the common good.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

A certain type of goateed chungus will take as an article of faith that this is a revolution in gaming, preorder multiple copies of these games and send death threats to anyone who suggests that they’re not great.

[–] evidences 74 points 12 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm sure he'll just sue people for not buying it like he's trying to do with his other products.

[–] PostnataleAbtreibung 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Elonia is building her own game studio? Well, that was not on my 2024 bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Him going going utterly insane because he is Tiny* Stark but omniscient should be on the card from now on.

(* typo by swipe keyboard - I love it so much I decided to keep it 😊)

[–] [email protected] 36 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And they're going to release a console. Named the X Machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Actually, it would be cool if it was the "X Machina"

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] radix 37 points 11 hours ago

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

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[–] CitizenKong 19 points 10 hours ago

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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