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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] 8 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't this moron still playing Diablo 4? Can't say that gives me much confidence in his greatness. I'd also bet both nuts that his games feature microtransactions as their core mechanic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago

Is he playing it or paying someone to play it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

You made several hypnotised men cum please be careful

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

If devs thought the crunch was bad before….

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours 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] 25 points 18 hours 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] 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 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] 1 points 24 minutes ago

We might get a new entry for the "Worst of all Time" award

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Just because it's bad don't mean that it won't make money hand over fist. Look at everything Disney produces.

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

Making money from a slightly smaller pile of money is easy.

Making ever more money from increasingly smaller piles of money is hard, and that's what they all career headlong towards for no discernable reason whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

I'm looking forward to it tbh.

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

thats fine, let him make his own storefront too. Or is that what X: The Everything App is supposed to be used for?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

He’s angry he doesn’t own culture. He’s trying to buy the ability to control culture. And to a certain extent I imagine that he’s angry that American pop culture has long flowed from groups he’s bigoted towards.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

are you kidding? god, please YES. I can't wait for the inevitably shitty games this studio would shart out. it's gonna be like those anti woke cartoons.

vacuous, cynical rehashing of extremely outdated ideas with zero artistic vision and almost certainly full of stupid references to memes and ancient pop culture? PLEASE LET US HAVE IT NOW

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

it's going to be that cryptoisland ad: the game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The main characters "tag line" it says after a gib is "The cake WAS a lie!" and acts like Duke Nukem, but looks like Elong.

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

Borderlands 2 but every character is claptrap completely unironically and it contains none of the elements that make it one of fhe great games of all time

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

I'm trying really hard not to derail the thread by shitting on Borderlands right now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

No, this is great. It wastes Musk's money hopefully paying people to make something that wouldn't be otherwise. It doesn't matter if what comes out is garbage. Just don't buy it. More of his money needs to be spent helping, and the government won't do it so the best we can hope for is him just doing it by being a fucking moron.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Shitting in a garden is good for the plants... Maybe this is like that?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours 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] 28 points 1 day 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] 73 points 1 day ago

My god he’s insufferable

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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

I used to love dreaming about near future space travel.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day 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] 8 points 20 hours ago

Musk and Trump are jamboys for the Fascists.

They are there solely to draw attention.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Netflix too.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 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] 30 points 1 day ago (4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

Fine, make games for Nazis, nobody cares. When it fails completely you can whine about the big mean world being mean to you then buy the next president and make them fund your losses from being trash-tier. Also, every maga will buy them like obedient sheep, so you will get a few million guaranteed sales.

Can't wait to see how many titles he can come up with that have X in them before he has to branch out (if the company lasts that long).

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (9 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] 72 points 1 day 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] 27 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day 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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