There are a lot of extremely pathetic things about basically everything Musk does, but for my money the most uniquely pathetic thing is his insistence on trying to make Polytopia a thing.
Like, Polytopia is a reasonably competent, hyper-simplified 4X game for mobile devices. It's not reinventing the wheel, it's not particularly deep, it's the kind of game you pick up and play for a bit, enjoy, and put down to never think about again. It's a game that nobody would recognize if they hadn't played it and that nobody who played it would think requires a ton of skill.
And yet Musk has been trying to make it a thing for literal years; he says it's a better game than Chess, he talks about missing major events to play it more in his book, and now he's getting Grimes to brag about his skill at the game for him on Twitter. It's the one game I actually do believe he plays a lot and plays well, in a big-fish-in-a-small-pond sense, because the only reason to keep talking about it for years is if it genuinely strokes his ego to stomp a particular mobile game, and he keeps doing it because nobody actually gives enough of a shit about what games he recommends to try it out and realize it's not that deep
I ate an engineer
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The divest-or-ban law aimed at TikTok is also taking down other ByteDance-linked apps, including the popular card game Marvel Snap. The app suddenly cut off access Saturday night, seemingly without warning, surprising gamers who weren’t aware of its connection to ByteDance.
The card game battler set in the Marvel universe is developed by Second Dinner, which is based in California. But the game is published by Nuverse, a company owned by ByteDance. As a result, it’s subject to the same shutdown order.
actually how is this going to affect games like genshin impact? does mihoyo have some legal status that lets it avoid the ban? wouldn't a ton of netease / tencent products get caught by this?
The divest-or-ban law aimed at TikTok is also taking down other ByteDance-linked apps, including the popular card game Marvel Snap. The app suddenly cut off access Saturday night, seemingly without warning, surprising gamers who weren’t aware of its connection to ByteDance.
The card game battler set in the Marvel universe is developed by Second Dinner, which is based in California. But the game is published by Nuverse, a company owned by ByteDance. As a result, it’s subject to the same shutdown order.
actually how is this going to affect games like genshin impact? does mihoyo have some legal status that lets it avoid the ban? wouldn't a ton of netease / tencent products get caught by this?
Yeah the legal status is "Not involved with ByteDance"
Kevin CristI make the devil hit his kneesand say the 'our father'Registered Userregular
It's funny, i just came home from work and it's the first thing I see. Rivals is done by Netease, but I'm sure they'll try to expand the ban to other Chinese companies.
There are a lot of extremely pathetic things about basically everything Musk does, but for my money the most uniquely pathetic thing is his insistence on trying to make Polytopia a thing.
Like, Polytopia is a reasonably competent, hyper-simplified 4X game for mobile devices. It's not reinventing the wheel, it's not particularly deep, it's the kind of game you pick up and play for a bit, enjoy, and put down to never think about again. It's a game that nobody would recognize if they hadn't played it and that nobody who played it would think requires a ton of skill.
And yet Musk has been trying to make it a thing for literal years; he says it's a better game than Chess, he talks about missing major events to play it more in his book, and now he's getting Grimes to brag about his skill at the game for him on Twitter. It's the one game I actually do believe he plays a lot and plays well, in a big-fish-in-a-small-pond sense, because the only reason to keep talking about it for years is if it genuinely strokes his ego to stomp a particular mobile game, and he keeps doing it because nobody actually gives enough of a shit about what games he recommends to try it out and realize it's not that deep
I am constantly baffled by Musk's profound inability to perceive his own (lack of) skill at literally everything. He has, like, a generalized case of Dunning-Kruger.
I bet it would do him a world of good to buckle down and learn an actual skill from the ground up. Doesn't even matter what skill. Knit a scarf, build a birdhouse, put a flat pack desk together, I don't care - just, something where he has to actually do the thing instead of paying/bullying people into doing it for him.
i don't, i'm pretty sure that trump is just gonna victory lap save people from the oppressions of the biden government and let it back in
depends who talks to him last. it'd also be plainly illegal to not enforce the ban. trump doesn't give a fuck about that but it'd be a very weird legal limbo.
So, to be clear, Marvel Snap and ByteDance's other games weren't taken down by the ban itself, but were taken down by ByteDance, right? Obviously in response to the looming TikTok ban, but this was voluntary?
The law rules operating any app owned by Bytedance equally illegal. There's nothing forcing them to comply with Marvels but nothing forcing them to comply with Tiktok, either, besides the giant fines either way
the text of the law says that bytedance has to take them down, yes. they did what they were told to do in the law as they didn't sell tiktok to mark zuckerberg or whatever horseshit the lobbyists who caused this bill to exist actually wanted to happen.
they were no longer allowed to
(A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.
thus, shutdown.
i'm very tired of our country being run by people who don't know how to open a pdf file.
Can anyone honestly tell me they give a flying fuck about Musk's dipshit videogame opinions? Like, seriously: I could see caring about the shit he says that affects his products or companies or can influence government policy, but I have to hear about that dipshit quite enough already that I don't need to know about his slapfight with some other chud, or him preening about his leet skillz.
Can anyone honestly tell me they give a flying fuck about Musk's dipshit videogame opinions? Like, seriously: I could see caring about the shit he says that affects his products or companies or can influence government policy, but I have to hear about that dipshit quite enough already that I don't need to know about his slapfight with some other chud, or him preening about his leet skillz.
Stop obsessing over rich assholes, America!
i care only because musk cares and wants me to think he's a cool gamer and he's trash and that's funny.
it's not even that I care, it's not like I seek it out or anything. but once my eyeballs are forced to come in contact with it, it's hard not to have a reaction/opinion on his neverending shittitude
i honestly figure a lot of it is just what i mentioned earlier. a lot of the ways he makes the world worse are hard to quantify in your head. you know that they're bad but you aren't able to like, talk about it. but we have the vocabulary to go "oh my god" about that and so, just by virtue of being capable of talking about it more, the layperson inevitably does wind up talking about it more
Can anyone honestly tell me they give a flying fuck about Musk's dipshit videogame opinions? Like, seriously: I could see caring about the shit he says that affects his products or companies or can influence government policy, but I have to hear about that dipshit quite enough already that I don't need to know about his slapfight with some other chud, or him preening about his leet skillz.
Stop obsessing over rich assholes, America!
I will say that his PoE stuff seems to have reached Japan and they're making jokes about him being pathetic as well. This being something a wide range of people across the world are able to understand and the proof being so obvious has really done a number on his image in ways other things haven't, it seems.
The law rules operating any app owned by Bytedance equally illegal. There's nothing forcing them to comply with Marvels but nothing forcing them to comply with Tiktok, either, besides the giant fines either way
the text of the law says that bytedance has to take them down, yes. they did what they were told to do in the law as they didn't sell tiktok to mark zuckerberg or whatever horseshit the lobbyists who caused this bill to exist actually wanted to happen.
they were no longer allowed to
(A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.
thus, shutdown.
i'm very tired of our country being run by people who don't know how to open a pdf file.
Thank you for clarifying. So much of the conversation has revolved around TikTok that I wasn't aware that the ban covered all of ByteDance's operations in the US.
I care about these kinds of stories because they show Musk for who he is, a small, incurious in boob. He's a try hard edge lord. He's the kind of coworker you would avoid.
When he does this stuff it pierces the veil that so many people have worked so hard to create and protect
He is not some genius, he's a dude who lies about his ladder rankings.
I just read about what this plunder storm thing in world of Warcraft is and now I want to try it
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PoE2 is neat, and the current price of thirty bones gets you that much in store currency anyway which you would 100% eventually probably spend on stash tabs
the text of the law says that bytedance has to take them down, yes. they did what they were told to do in the law as they didn't sell tiktok to mark zuckerberg or whatever horseshit the lobbyists who caused this bill to exist actually wanted to happen.
they were no longer allowed to
(A) Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.
thus, shutdown.
i'm very tired of our country being run by people who don't know how to open a pdf file.
Laws tend to be very vague to protect against lawsuits. Also Microsoft and Oracle offered billions for Tiktok in 2020, but they required the source code which ByteDance didn't want to give over.
it's not even that I care, it's not like I seek it out or anything. but once my eyeballs are forced to come in contact with it, it's hard not to have a reaction/opinion on his neverending shittitude
I literally was worldbuilding a story and wrote, "they wanted to ignore the hullshit letters but had acknowledge they had seen the bullshit letters to acknowledge their bullshit."
not saying i was inspired by musky, but one must know bullshit to acknowledge bullshit
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Whether I like it or not I have to give a shit about Elon Musk, if it's not the fact that he's about to have a position in the government again, it's that he's fucking up twitter, or making a corporate town in Texas while polluting the rest of it with spaceship debris, or buying up a 30 year old music studio/rehearsal space/store for a tesla showroom dude has an impact on my life.
the only problem with the poe2 currency is I can see myself burning out before official release and then end up not spending it because the game is played out
I remember when I was too young to know about the Shittiest People In History and my biggest concern was getting up early to watch Pokemon before school
I remember when I was too young to know about the Shittiest People In History and my biggest concern was getting up early to watch Pokemon before school
And getting home from school early enough to catch Dragonball Z
It's kind of bullshit how long Microsoft has owned Activsion but the Hexen II expansion, Heretic II and Wolfenstein (2009) are still vanished from storefronts.
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Like, Polytopia is a reasonably competent, hyper-simplified 4X game for mobile devices. It's not reinventing the wheel, it's not particularly deep, it's the kind of game you pick up and play for a bit, enjoy, and put down to never think about again. It's a game that nobody would recognize if they hadn't played it and that nobody who played it would think requires a ton of skill.
And yet Musk has been trying to make it a thing for literal years; he says it's a better game than Chess, he talks about missing major events to play it more in his book, and now he's getting Grimes to brag about his skill at the game for him on Twitter. It's the one game I actually do believe he plays a lot and plays well, in a big-fish-in-a-small-pond sense, because the only reason to keep talking about it for years is if it genuinely strokes his ego to stomp a particular mobile game, and he keeps doing it because nobody actually gives enough of a shit about what games he recommends to try it out and realize it's not that deep
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actually how is this going to affect games like genshin impact? does mihoyo have some legal status that lets it avoid the ban? wouldn't a ton of netease / tencent products get caught by this?
Yeah the legal status is "Not involved with ByteDance"
They're two different companies brolo
it's not really about the data harvesting
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I am constantly baffled by Musk's profound inability to perceive his own (lack of) skill at literally everything. He has, like, a generalized case of Dunning-Kruger.
I bet it would do him a world of good to buckle down and learn an actual skill from the ground up. Doesn't even matter what skill. Knit a scarf, build a birdhouse, put a flat pack desk together, I don't care - just, something where he has to actually do the thing instead of paying/bullying people into doing it for him.
depends who talks to him last. it'd also be plainly illegal to not enforce the ban. trump doesn't give a fuck about that but it'd be a very weird legal limbo.
they were no longer allowed to
thus, shutdown.
i'm very tired of our country being run by people who don't know how to open a pdf file.
if there’s one thing they’re good at, it’s ignoring pdf files.
Stop obsessing over rich assholes, America!
i care only because musk cares and wants me to think he's a cool gamer and he's trash and that's funny.
I will say that his PoE stuff seems to have reached Japan and they're making jokes about him being pathetic as well. This being something a wide range of people across the world are able to understand and the proof being so obvious has really done a number on his image in ways other things haven't, it seems.
Thank you for clarifying. So much of the conversation has revolved around TikTok that I wasn't aware that the ban covered all of ByteDance's operations in the US.
When he does this stuff it pierces the veil that so many people have worked so hard to create and protect
He is not some genius, he's a dude who lies about his ladder rankings.
It also seems like PoE2 has newbie onboarding as much higher of a priority which is really what intimidated me away from ever trying PoE the first
Laws tend to be very vague to protect against lawsuits. Also Microsoft and Oracle offered billions for Tiktok in 2020, but they required the source code which ByteDance didn't want to give over.
I literally was worldbuilding a story and wrote, "they wanted to ignore the hullshit letters but had acknowledge they had seen the bullshit letters to acknowledge their bullshit."
not saying i was inspired by musky, but one must know bullshit to acknowledge bullshit
So yeah, I'll laugh at him any chance I get.
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