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[jubei]

When will things stop getting worse

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

As much as I hate woke stuff and DEI bullshit, I hate Musk even more.

 

[apple_of_enlightenment]

Ok, cool, but if he is going to employ people to create games using AI (not actual artists, game developers, musicians) then I will bet against him

That's not the impression I get from this. I think by games AI he means building AI into NPCs and enemies.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Its going to be absolute dogshit.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Yes, that's a valid point.

People called EV a pipe dream. Musk got that shit going.

Tesla became so dominant in their category that Germany kicked them out of EV promotion to protect their domestic brands.

So he built a Tesla manufacturing plant in Germany. But ironically, environmentalists (!) sabotaged everything because of the location where he built it.

What was happening?

Environmentalists and Musk should have the same goal, right? EVs are good for the climate, that's what they told us.

But there simply wasn't enough political overlap (Musk supports conservatives). And people just did what their bubble told them to do.

It's laughably stupid if you ask me.

He almost lost his ass keeping Tesla afloat and turned it into the world’s most valuable car company.

SpaceX built a rocket that can get astronauts to orbit without depending on Russia. And did it better +years faster than Boeing who were the overwhelming favorite for that contract.

Starlink brought internet to remote areas and fhe Ukrainian military relies on it for their battlefield communications.

The list goes on. Who gives a shit if he’s kind of an asshole or he has the “wrong” politics? The guy is a massive net benefit to humanity.

Just imagine if he can bring the right minds and the right tech together and solve the problem of games taking many years and hundreds of millions to make.

 

[thefool]

Make games great again.

 

[Akuji]

Games are already great, not sure what he means by 'again'

Its a slogan like make america great again.

 

[thefool]

He almost lost his ass keeping Tesla afloat and turned it into the world’s most valuable car company.

SpaceX built a rocket that can get astronauts to orbit without depending on Russia. And did it better +years faster than Boeing who were the overwhelming favorite for that contract.

Starlink brought internet to remote areas and fhe Ukrainian military relies on it for their battlefield communications.

The list goes on. Who gives a shit if he’s kind of an asshole or he has the “wrong” politics? The guy is a massive net benefit to humanity.

Just imagine if he can bring the right minds and the right tech together and solve the problem of games taking many years and hundreds of millions to make.

Elon deniers are the most batshit insane people on this planet right now.
You need to negate reality to downplay his achievements. Flat-earthers are reasonable in comparison, you can always say you never went to space to confirm.

 

[midnightAI]

That's not the impression I get from this. I think by games AI he means building AI into NPCs and enemies.

Well we dont know what he means other than 'starting an AI game studio' as a branch of xAI

That to me means a game studio that is going to leverage all AI whether thats NPC/enemy AI, art, models, maps, music, even code (to some degree) and more. Heck, for all we know he could want to stream the game with AI running all the backend (kinda like that weird Minecraft AI thing)

His tweet can also come off as condescending (if you take it literally and to an extereme) as it could be taken as he's kinda putting two fingers up to all current dev studios (and developers) and saying all current games are shit and I know better than all devs out there and know how to make games great... again

 

[LimanimaPT]

When will people understand that AI must and will have a major role in game development? It's not sustainable that a game takes 6+ years and hundreds of milions of dollars to produce.

 

[Breakfast_At_Noon]

Ai aside, my biggest issue with this is that Elon is an avid fan of Diablo 4, so his taste in what makes a game good is rather questionable.
Hopefully he plays POE soon and it snaps him out of it.