He's so lame
You can smell the desperation to be seen as relatable and quirky
It's like if that Tom Hanks movie where the 14 year old turns into an adult CEO actually happened, but to an annoying reddit nerd
It's weird - I watched Big a couple weeks ago and it's been mentioned twice at Hexbear since then. I don't think I'm suffering from the frequency illusion. But it's true that probability is - cough - random.
Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon
My favourite phenomena are named after Marxist-Leninist urban guerrillas
Is it just a rumor that Tom Hanks is going to be in the English language remake of 2008 German film The Baader Meinhof Complex?
Ninja edit: Wait a minute. Did I see a comment about that here?
Caffeine free diet coke is absolute large adult divorced dad kitsch
it doesn't matter how many times i see this image, it always makes me brain feel like it's collapsing in on itself like a dying neutron star.
I love that divorced fathers have built a cargo cult for masculinity. If they lay out enough totems of what they think a real man is, John Frum is going to want to have a beer with them. Since those totems don't convince their ex-wife otherwise, the market for new ones will only grow and become more abstract. Especially with all the most prominent ones being Nazis, it's going to get so fucking stupid so fucking fast.
Tired: "Here I am with my rosary. I am about to ask God for guidance and I hope I can make the changes needed to become a better man and father so that my wife - I mean ex-wife - will take me back..."
divorced fathers... totems
Wired: "They bitches! Here I am with my Diet Coke and my gunz. I don't need anybody! I'm living my best life!"
Say that you love me, fool me, fool me, go on and fool me
your comment got that song stuck in my head, and i have to return the favor
This has the energy of a High School student cosplaying as Hunter S. Thompson.
It has the energy of Milhouse's dad telling Homer he sleeps in a racing car
“If there’s a tie on the doorknob, it means I’m successfully managing one of my business ventures”
“But you don’t have a doorknob”
“We’ll, I don’t have a tie either.”
I was thinking it had strong Jon McAfee vibes. I wonder how long until Elon does a self-produced music video in a bath robe surrounded by his latest rotation of call girls.
The difference is Jon McAfee never felt like a try hard. He legit just didn't give a fuck, elon just really really wants us to think he doesn't.
Maybe not. But he always looked like a loser. Some has-been that the system paid off and kicked out. Everything he did afterwards screamed :cope:
It's not even just the bazinga brains though. Just normal ass people like my mom are convinced he's some genius business man.
I think people who aren't terminally online only know him through his marketing team, which has attached his name to those ideas (helped along by American "rich people are super good" ideology).
Because our capitalist upbringing tells us money=talent
Marketing. Propaganda. He's gotten favorable news for over a decade and most bazingas have no idea how businesses work.
The guy's got ~10 kids. [Edit: It seems to me that a parent who keeps a gun on his bedside table is asking for trouble.]
One gun looks clearly like a prop gun to me. How about the antique gun? Is it real?
I wonder how many arguments there are that an antique gun is not dangerous cuz it's very hard to load and what kid knows how to use google to learn how to load it anyways?
Edit
Also if it's real and Elon is known to fire it sometimes - Elon apologists might say he's got the ammo in a gun safe. But Elon being Elon - I wonder how secure that is.
The revolver is a prop - it has no trigger and the detailing is rough as shit - like you get from vacuum plastic. Not a hero prop by any means, but he probably bought it from etsy and thinks it's genuine. It looks familiar but I can't place which film/show it's from.
I thought that, but The Samaritan is more out of proportion and like an oversized old-style Colt revolver. It's probably from some Marvel slop.
Darn. I thought I got movie trivia right for once.
I'm a member of a b-movie forum and I don't even try in the trivia threads. The answer will be something like "That gun is in the hand of Taro Yamaguchi in Yakuza Pride (1972) and second guy..."
I'll check Imdb and the movie has 293 votes. And Yamaguchi's page says he appeared in very minor roles in five other obscure Yakuza movies before dying in late 70s of cancer.
Can't really tell much about the antique one from this picture, but the revolver is just a replica of the one from Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It might be this one, which also has those orange streaks on the cylinder, and also isn't even a proper replica, it's just a 3D-printed one, maybe derived from this model. I'm not too familiar with 3D-printed stuff, but 400 bucks doesn't seem like that much. If I had a hundred billion dollars, I'd just commission a gunsmith to build me an actual functional sci-fi gun.
All in all, a classic Elon move to play a game about corporations doing nefarious shit and go "wow, cool revolver!" (did we have a "wow, cool robot" emoji here, or am I misremembering?). Although admittedly Human Revolution does have Sarif as a "CEO but cool actually" character, so I guess that's who Elon self-inserted as, especially considering Sarif is also a tech-bro obsessed with "improving" humanity with technology.
And yeah, considering the revolver, I kind of doubt he shelled out for a real antique pistol
black powder repros are pretty common and cheap, I wouldn't put it past him to have one with no powder, ball or cleaning equipment
If I had a hundred billion dollars, I’d just commission a gunsmith to build me an actual functional sci-fi gun.
Yet another example of how almost anybody could use Elon's money better than he can. I bet Elon liked the game and got the first decent replica he found without even considering that he had the means to go way above and beyond with it.
the first decent replica he found
Pretty much, those models are literally the first stuff that popped up from a simple google search, I didn't even need to do any real searching.
Old-timey aristocrats would have at least had engraved swords and all kinds of other cool shit, you can put that stuff in a museum after you're done guillotining them. We're not even going to be able to get anything like that painting of the Soviet soldier entering the Winter Palace, since modern billionaires apparently don't even have anything cool worth looking at.
If it's built to the same spec as the movie prop guns the M40A1 is a Thompson gun in a body kit. Pretty cool that they got the ammo counter working though.
I absolutely love how we have a resident gun expert on this website that we can just ping to ask "yo what the fuck is this gun" and get a solid effort post 10 minutes later
No way that any of his kids live with him, and are most adults by now?
I dunno. Some of them are teens by now but he keeps impregnating women.
Also - he has 10 kids we know about. I bet there are more. A bunch more?
Ninja edit
Elon Musk's kids: Meet his 10 children and their mothers
The layout of the info is crap - just give me a chart. I think the oldest are 18 year-old twins. And many of them are still babies.
Edit: It seems to me that a parent who keeps a gun on his bedside table is asking for trouble
anyone is really. I keep a pistol safe by my bedside. Protected from curious houseguests / children and I can keep one in the chamber ready to go. It takes like a second to open, no big deal.
The antique gun is probably less dangerous than a modern one for that reason, but it's still a gun. Would hope that it's nonfunctional.
i mean the chance the kids are living in the same house as him and they're not handled by nannies 24/7 is absolutely 0
Imagine how fucked up the brain is of a plain-old billionaire with just a billion in the bank. Now multiply that by 191.
It's cool that he's one of the richest people on earth and I assume still a mattress on the floor guy. Guaranteed his living room is just a tv and a lawn chair, but somehow he spent $150k decorating it.
living room is just a tv and a lawn chair
And the wall tiles are made out of leather?
I didn't even know that was a thing until I googled for inspiration.
How many McLarens do you have to wreck before you're living above the poverty line?
LOL
Tally ho chaps Elon cries before he puts george washington's personal flintlock into his mouth
Michael Brooks once said that if he encountered someone at a party who was a fan of one of three people: Kanye, Elon Musk, and (I forget the third), he immediately gets away from them. I'm reminded of that when looking at the 200,000 fans who liked this pic and thought it was based. I could never imagine being one of them
