Ancestors

Written by sc_griffith@awful.systems on 2025-01-27 at 20:32

elon musk's obsession with the tic tac toe of video games

https://awful.systems/post/3388357

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Toot

Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-01-28 at 16:42

I have some minor things to say. First a correction (people keep saying this and it is a weird mistake) Grimes was his girlfriend, never his wife.

Then the whole thing where people say you gotta play this to understand his genius or whatever, that is all just cargo cult behavior, it is the black turtlenecks. (I recall a story of a university with a beloved, genius but somewhat odd professor to which the students looked up, they wanted to be like him. So eventually the students started to touch the walls when walking through the halls, as the professor also did that while walking, the cargo cult).

Zilis clearly understood the assignment of playing Polytopia with your emotionally stunted boss/owner (as in the business sense, clearly the workers should be their own owners), as do prob a lot of other employees he beats. Let the Wookie win.

“I am just wired for war”

Reminds me of the sort of image of the military general aristocrats of WW1 who made the war last longer and did one more assault just before the peace was signed because of their warrior honor whatever. Unrelated, here is a blog post of acoup (a real historian), listing various articles that the USA needs soldiers, not warriors (and explains the distinction), halfway somewhere.

“when you’re playing a video game, there is no empathy, right?”

That is a darkly revealing quote (like the whole thing is). More points for Zilis and the others who let Musk win.

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Descendants

Written by sc_griffith@awful.systems on 2025-01-28 at 17:07

First a correction (people keep saying this and it is a weird mistake)

whoops! edited

on my part I think it’s because I keep seeing Elon described as having “divorced energy”

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Written by Guillotines for a Better World on 2025-01-28 at 17:09

@sc_griffith he is a Pathologically Divorced man

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Written by YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems on 2025-01-30 at 07:00

You can’t be this divorced if you’ve ever actually been married, since that tends to create and/or require connecting with another human being and feeling something not unlike love, at least for long enough to get the papers files.

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Written by Soyweiser@awful.systems on 2025-01-28 at 18:14

on my part I think it’s because I keep seeing Elon described as having “divorced energy”

It is also a very common mistake people make (or a ‘joke’, in some way I don’t get but there are a lot of weird jokes/rumors about musk which people take for granted (which is worse as blueanon people are now on the job and are just making shit up (yes, im talking about and still angry about the Seth A. post))) so it happens. Wonder if it would have been better or worse for her and the kids if they had gotten married.

finger draggers

Could be the same story which got telephoned into my story. I also only heard it from a different person ages ago.

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