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The hunchback of Madame

Aren't we all!? 😅

I think... Apart from anyone's personal reasons, this community is either extremely silly or extremely serious, so miscommunication is somewhat inevitable.

Well, I know some people who would have no problem with that designation.

Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him.

Plutarch, ~ 100 A.D.

An employee of the Tesla restaurant that pretends to be staffed by "robots".

Es ist schon interessant, wie solche Gestalten wie Özdemir die Geschichte der eigenen Partei bewußt zu verschleiern versuchen: Brokdorf, Startbahn West, Wackersdorf sind die Orte, wo sich die Grünen als politische Kraft etabliert haben, nicht in den Chefetagen von DAX-Unternehmen.

Oh, it surely is a crappy AI prompt. The point I am making here is that Musk's aesthetics are stuck in a past. A past when the various elements of the picture were still considered "cool" to a certain degree, but it's all trite now.

For example, the anime girl in the picture is meant to depict a feature of the Grok LLM, a sexy anime girl chatbot which will slowly wear less and less clothing. Even under the most charitable interpretation, it is cheapest kind of titillation and is no way or form anything new and innovative. Yet Musk puts her in the front anyway. Pretty much every detail in that picture harks back to the past: Cyberpunk atmosphere? We got that for ages! Edgy SuperGrok with a gold chain and a cigar? The look of an R'nB star from (at least) a decade ago!

It's all been done for a long time and it only shows how much Musk is stuck in a past when he considered himself cool and on the cutting edge of pop culture. Yet it all comes down to Musk displaying how much he is out of touch with current pop culture which has progressed further in the meantime.

It all makes sense if you assume that everything Musk does is intended to impress a 4chan nazi circa 2012.

Because I could not believe it myself, I went and checked and it seems to be authentic. Link to a digital version of the book (the picture appears on page 30): https://kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/100357933/1?ln=ja

"Concord"'s character designs were definitely the least of the game's problems, but - of course - it was what the far-right latched onto. After all, they rarely ever engage with anything beyond the mere surface level.

Oh without doubt: Ubisoft is a terrible company and I am glad that - at least - some of the perpetrators have ended up in court.

My comment was meant to provide examples of how the far-right employs "Go woke, go broke" and how they twist the stories of failed games to fit their deliberately misleading narratives. Unfortunately there are people who fall for those...