elon musk's obsession with the tic tac toe of video games
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Good thoughts here
doing so would require facing a reality that is too painful to face.
This ties in directly with his belief that we’re all in a simulation but despite that, somehow is the only “real” person. It’s also why he hides behind plausible deniability for dumb shit like cheating at games. He thinks reality doesn’t matter, which is why he dangles it in everyones faces that he’s totally cheating in games and using alts on twitter, but “nyeah nyeah you can’t prove it.” It also lines up with the person he visited with at Auschwitz who stated it’s worse than Musk being a Nazi, he literally just does not care. He was unmoved. He just genuinely thinks he’s the only thing that matters.
The comparisons to Trump are apt. All Musk knows is that as long as he can lie to people he can make money, and he can use that money to obfuscate what he is doing to the courts and make them tied up for years in court to just prove the basics. He thinks none of it matters and is all a joke. He doesn’t understand that other people don’t have the means (nor the desire) to live life the way he does, because he doesn’t understand us as real at all.
His inability to believe anything is real probably is manifesting as some kind of public humiliation fetish where he gets off on people knowing he’s doing it but not being able to prove it. The Nazi salute and jokes are another aspect of this, treating reality as a total false, and treating truth and objectivity as things to be torn down because in his mind: it’s not real so nothing matters.
It’s all fucking solipsism with extra steps and he hasn’t even done the philosophical legwork… He’s just playing Polytopia and claiming it’s more rigorous than it actually is because he’s too much of a dumbfuck to know any better.
He is a deeply, deeply unwell man.
side note, beating a game’s developer is nothing to brag about, by the way. most game developers are terrible at their own games.
Also, didn’t turn out real hot for Stevie Killcreek Case… I feel bad for that woman and how she was treated by Romero and men in the gaming/game development space in general. Not a single one of her relationships with other folks in the industry worked out, and it all started because she was a Quake champ and beat Romero at a deathmatch.
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It’s all fucking solipsism with extra steps
or not, like when he told Grimes to her face that he thought she must be an ideal simulation for him
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