Elon Musk - news and discussion

[Lord Camomile]

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Appreciate it's just a 3-min clip that he's not the focus of (in this context), and I'm only passingly aware of him myself, but just as a heads up: I think Asmongold (the streamer in the clip) is generally considered not a good guy, and certainly by urban standards.

Asmongold's main Twitch account was briefly suspended in August 2017 for a comment he made about survivors displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

He criticized Samantha Rivera Trevino, commonly known as Rivers, who won the fan vote for the 2024 Esports Awards Streamer of the Year,[30] saying "I’m salty because it was obviously a diversity pick because she’s a woman, and everybody knows it. It should’ve been Speed or Kai, or CaseOh, or like three other people... You put her up there because she’s a female. It’s embarrassing, it’s patronising. She’s not even a top female streamer either."[31][32]

In a Twitch stream on October 14, 2024, he called Palestinians "terrible people" from "an inferior culture" that "kills people for their identity" and "is directly antithetical to everything Western values stand for."[33][34] He also said that they "have genocide built into Sharia law right now, so no, I'm not going to cry a fucking river when people who have genocide that's baked into their laws are getting genocided."[35] His ZackRawrr account on Twitch was banned for 14 days due to violating the platform's hateful conduct policy.[35][36] He posted an apology, stating that he deserved the backlash and the ban.[37]

As I say, prob unlikely any more would have been posted, but figured it worth mentioning on the off-chance it became one of those things where someone watched the clip, got curious, and more of his stuff was posted.

 

[BigMoaner]

Right will remove him so gets no more views.

 

[Elpenor]

Apparently the internet has caught him in another quite substantial lie. He is not the number one ranked gamer for certain games that he claims he is, rather it appears he’s been buying high performing accounts, paying certain players to pretend they are him. It’s often been touted in interviews with him as another sign of his alien like genius which he has always affirmed and lapped up. Total bullshit according to some deep dives in Reddit. For example there’s footage of him playing a game where he is supposedly in the top ten in the world and it’s clear he’s a total novice. All over YouTube at the moment

Why would being good at computer games be seen as a good thing?

 

[Orang Utan]

Why would being good at computer games be seen as a good thing?

same as being good at sports or drawing or singing or making people laugh isn’t it

 

[Elpenor]

same as being good at sports or drawing or singing or making people laugh isn’t it

Yeah but those things tend to entertain or give joy to others, do computer games have the same affect? I don’t know

 

[tim]

Yeah but those things tend to entertain or give joy to others, do computer games have the same affect? I don’t know

Esports have huge following. I have the misfortune of working with someone who drones on about how successful his son is at them, and how much money he had made.

 

[Elpenor]

Esports have huge following. I have the misfortune of working with someone who drones on about how successful his son is at them, and how much money he had made.

Fair enough.

Assuming esports is watching people play computer games, I find that bizarre. But hey I like rugby and jigsaws, so the esports types probably find that odd too

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah but those things tend to entertain or give joy to others, do computer games have the same affect? I don’t know

Yes of course. Why else would people do it?

 

[Rob Ray]

A subset of gamers would think more of someone who can play at a high level yeah. There's also a lot of overlap with very reactionary arseholes who make it their whole personality to gatekeep gaming and constantly whine about woke and DEI. It's them who Mush wants to impress.

 

[a_chap]

Everyone is laughing at him.
What exactly has Musk invented?

Nothing.

 

[BristolEcho]

Fair enough.

Assuming esports is watching people play computer games, I find that bizarre. But hey I like rugby and jigsaws, so the esports types probably find that odd too

I don't watch eSports but I do watch a youtuber play various games that I enjoy. He's quite amusing as he builds narratives and tends to play strategy games. Him making mistakes and sometimes not being very good is part of it too.

 

[two sheds]

 

[PTK]

Fair enough.

Assuming esports is watching people play computer games, I find that bizarre. But hey I like rugby and jigsaws, so the esports types probably find that odd too

Would you enjoy watching someond complete a jigsaw puzzle?

 

[moochedit]

Would you enjoy watching someond complete a jigsaw puzzle?

Well there is a jigsaw championship so i guess someone does:

World, USA And British Jigsaw Puzzle Championship 2025

World Jigsaw Puzzle Championships 2025. USA Jigsaw Nationals 2025 and the British Jigsaw Puzzle Championships 2025. Find out all the details & results here.

everythingjigsaw.com

 

[Orang Utan]

Would you enjoy watching someond complete a jigsaw puzzle?

Steady on!

(though today I found out that some people watch/listen to podcasts that follow and commentate on tv series without having watched any of the show!)

 

[iona]

Steady on!

(though today I found out that some people watch/listen to podcasts that follow and commentate on tv series without having watched any of the show!)

I do that with threads on here sometimes but it's mostly just a procrastination thing

 

[Orang Utan]

I do that with threads on here sometimes but it's mostly just a procrastination thing

some folk never intend to watch the shows in the first place!

 

[iona]

some folk never intend to watch the shows in the first place!

Neither do I

 

[Elpenor]

Would you enjoy watching someond complete a jigsaw puzzle?

No.

So I assume people wouldn’t enjoy watching others play computer games. I certainly don’t when I’ve gone to visit my nieces and they’re playing them! My friends Mum was telling me she feels the same when she sees her grandchildren

 

[Orang Utan]

No.

So I assume people wouldn’t enjoy watching others play computer games. I certainly don’t when I’ve gone to visit my nieces and they’re playing them! My friends Mum was telling me she feels the same when she sees her grandchildren

thought you just meant playing computer games. I don’t get that either. It seems like preferring vicarious pleasure over real pleasure.
I’m not a sports fan at all but I have sporty friends and family who thought I’d get into Tour De France when I got into cycling.

 

[Humberto]

Can understand competitive gaming with fair amounts of money on the line would have a sizeable niche audience. Players that are freakishly good duking it out on the big online multiplayer type games.

That this is who Musk is courting is the weird thing.

 

[Ax^]

we'll have people who argue about politics all day and then not vote

people are strange beasties

 

[Yossarian]

No surprise that Musk, despite owning an electric car company, is blaming the Los Angeles fires on DEI policies and Democratic politicians instead of climate change - am I imagining things, or was there once a time when Musk spoke as if he thought climate change was a greater threat to civilization than white women not having as many babies as he'd like them to?

 

[Indeliblelink]

Musk's gonna love this, Caplin was only on TV the other day criticizing him, now he's been arrested on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child.

'What a creep': Elon Musk reacts to former Labour MP Ivor Caplin's arrest in child sting operation - Times of India

Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin, aged 66, was arrested in Brighton by police following a sting operation by citizen paedophile hunters. He is suspected o

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Former Hove MP arrested

The former Labour MP for Hove, Ivor Caplin, was arrested today (Saturday 11 January) after a sting by paedophile hunters.

www.brightonandhovenews.org

 

[BigMoaner]

 

[keybored]

Brazil has banned Twitter a ban which is ineffective and largely ignored not least of which since Starlink is a major Internet provider there. He does however have massive business interests in China and if he pisses off the regime there then unlike Western regimes they will not hesitate to start confiscating his assets.

Brazil absolutely "cut him down to size".

 

[Tankus]

I can't see him reaching pensionable age.

 

[PR1Berske]

Daily Mail reports that Elon is in cahoots when Dominic Cummings about starting a political upheaval here.

 

[MrsArcanum]

Musk's gonna love this, Caplin was only on TV the other day criticizing him, now he's been arrested on suspicion of engaging in online sexual communications with a child.

'What a creep': Elon Musk reacts to former Labour MP Ivor Caplin's arrest in child sting operation - Times of India

Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin, aged 66, was arrested in Brighton by police following a sting operation by citizen paedophile hunters. He is suspected o

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Former Hove MP arrested

The former Labour MP for Hove, Ivor Caplin, was arrested today (Saturday 11 January) after a sting by paedophile hunters.

www.brightonandhovenews.org

To be fair, he was kicked out of the party as soon as these allegations came to light.

 

[Rebecca Riot]

Daily Mail reports that Elon is in cahoots when Dominic Cummings about starting a political upheaval here.

Cummings always said he wanted to be a disruptor and shake up the world order and if he hadn't fallen out with Carrie Johnson he'd still be shit stirring within the Tory party. I guess he's found another way to do it now.