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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] 2 points 2 hours ago

I'd love to see him try (and fail)

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

To be fair to him, his AI can probably make a better game than he ever could himself

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours 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] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

He will drift the fanboys out of AAAA money too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

His games will fail so hard it isn't funny. The only people who speak positively of his games are his fans who will buy them and play them for only 10 seconds (and never again) before gushing about how cool they are.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You made several hypnotised men cum please be careful

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

Hey, don't shit on his hobby!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 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] 7 points 14 hours ago (2 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] 4 points 9 hours ago

The game will cost you 90$ to start, but you need to continually be paying money to play it. He will claim it is an authentic 90s online game because in some places back then, you paid for the internet per minute of use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Is he playing it or paying someone to play it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

If devs thought the crunch was bad before….

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 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] 26 points 1 day 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] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Also you will have to shove a camera down your pants so it can verify what gender your character will be assigned.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 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 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Now that he is first lady, you won't get away from him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

I used to love dreaming about near future space travel.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

What the actual F.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago

My god he’s insufferable

[–] [email protected] 156 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] 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] 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 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.

[–] ryedaft 2 points 21 hours ago

Netflix too.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 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 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The game will play as primitively as a forgotten shitty early 90s game but somehow need 8gb of hard drive space, 32GB of DDR5 RAM (64GB recommended) and a GeForce 4090 for the minimum settings. It will also look EXACTLY like an early 90s game, with a resolution of 320x240 and not a pixel more! Think God of Thunder but only without the charm, or the fact that it was made by one person, or the fact that the guy put real effort into it. Have a team of thousands who are paid next to nothing to simply train an AI model and call it a day.

Edit: It will also cost 110$ at launch, cost 0.05$ per minute of play (0.10$ in peak hours), and all purchases in the game require actual real life money to be used to buy doge coin which will actually be the only thing you can use.

[–] funkless_eck 2 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 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 15 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 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 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.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (10 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.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 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.

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