Blade Runner was not a guy, it was a job that the guy in the movie had, this is like saying it's the car Taxi Driver would have driven
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:49 (six months ago) link
Which I guess it is, now that I think about it
you mean a taxi
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:49 (six months ago) link
Bladerunner vs. Taxidriver
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:52 (six months ago) link
thinking the main character of blade runner is named bladerunner really jumps out at you but the added detail that he thinks bladerunner drives drive an armored personnel carrier makes me think he maybe hasnt seen the movie, but does know it concerns the future and that its very cool
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 02:55 (six months ago) link
does he think that blade runner serves in the future army as a driver, cause thats not that cool, or that he just drives or "would drive" an army truck because hes such a bad ass, but idk driving an army truck thats specifically designed to carry a bunch of guys as your daily just seems kind of odd, also the cyber truck is not designed to carry a bunch of guys
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 03:01 (six months ago) link
Elon would not pass the Voight-Kampff
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 04:04 (six months ago) link
a Tesla at no additional charge
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 04:17 (six months ago) link
why the fuck does every bit of hype this clown runs for his trucks involve firing weapons at them?
https://i.redd.it/8yuht4ob4k9b1.jpg
― baths in the belfry (cat), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 06:01 (six months ago) link
blade runner in his cybertruck, ppl
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MxPCc8wGN6o/VHmgkxiS5GI/AAAAAAAAMUU/zGd88nft-hI/s1600/total-recall-3.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 09:27 (six months ago) link
getting excited that you've managed to make a fictional dystopia a little more real
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 09:31 (six months ago) link
If it resembles anything in shape, it's the carrier from Aliens?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:34 (six months ago) link
Yeah, it's totally what Aliens would drive, not Bladerunner, this asshole has never seen a movie. Now, it does look a little like what Bladerunner flies, but this Musk monstrosity does not fly, which is why it's an instant fail. But Elon, if you're listening, a flying car would be dope, you should shift all your time and money to that.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:41 (six months ago) link
iirc the part of the movie where they say the name of the movie out loud is this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2fVUCgnW_o
the lack of punctuation could also mean that elon is simply referencing the book from which the movie gets its name but not plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bladerunner
― 龜, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:46 (six months ago) link
That's wild, I didn't know that. So weird that the title came from a different book, even though the movie has absolutely nothing to do with that book, or title.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 12:52 (six months ago) link
Andrew otm
https://images.bigbadtoystore.com/images/p/full/2016/12/dbc6b011-2562-4f46-a5be-320d2fd055e4.jpg
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:23 (six months ago) link
I'm a little surprised Musk didn't put a turret on his.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:24 (six months ago) link
should at least have an option for a bracket
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:27 (six months ago) link
Elon's interest in science fiction movies and video games, etc. is a lot more lore-focused than plot-focused. And by that, I mean he probably owns a lot of the ridiculously expensive scale models of vehicles and guns from science fiction works.
I guarantee you he owns one of those "recreation of Deckard's pistol" props that people sell for over a grand. He posted some "this is the stuff on my nightstand" picture and iirc it included some prop anime gun. And he took a non-functioning 200 year old flintlock pistol to try to talk his way into appearing in a video game.
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:28 (six months ago) link
he undoubtedly talks about his "bladerunner gun" a lot. you know, wielded by bladerunner in the movie
imagine jihadists trying to use one of these thing where are you even gonna charge it gimmie a break
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:29 (six months ago) link
we should be doing the obvious thing: talking him into waiting to deploy the cybertruck until it can be powered off of compact hydrogen fuel cells or cold fusion so it can work indefinitely in the desert or on the terrain of mars
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:30 (six months ago) link
the cybertruck on the terrain of mars, ppl
― mark s, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:43 (six months ago) link
Elon owns the 1/6th scale torment nexus model from the famous movie adaptation of the torment nexus and wants to build a real one. No, he has not actually watched the whole movie
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:20 (six months ago) link
Now I really wish I had a blue check account to ask him if he's tried shooting the cybertruck with Bladerunner's gun
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:21 (six months ago) link
https://www.hollywood-collectibles.com/images/product/D/a0077842_17175602_2.jpg
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 16:22 (six months ago) link
a true philanthropist
A year later, Musk is now claiming that he was actually compelled to buy Twitter — now X — out of an overriding sense of civic duty, because he needed to save civilization itself from a potentially overwhelming "mind virus" propagated by the company's San Francisco headquarters.
Rogan asked Musk, "What was it ultimately that led you to make the decision to do it?" As in, buy Twitter.
There was no mention of last year's impending legal battle. Instead, he said, "This is going to sound somewhat melodramatic, but I was worried that (Twitter) was having a corrosive effect on civilization. That it was just having a bad impact. Part of it is where it's located, which is downtown San Francisco. While I think San Francisco is a beautiful city — and we should really fight hard to kind of right the ship of San Francisco — if you walk around downtown San Francisco right near the X fka Twitter headquarters, it's a zombie apocalypse."
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:05 (six months ago) link
He starts off talkong about homeless people in san francisco but it quickly becomes clear that he's talking about lgbt+ people. He used San Fran because his mind is stuck in the 1970s apparently.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:16 (six months ago) link
Take a wild guess which company was the largest employer in that area (mid-market) that just so happened to lay off 83% (+?) of their workforce in the past 13 months... What an absolute dolt.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:21 (six months ago) link
San Francisco being the favorite target of right-wing troglodytes who are obsessed with human feces.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:23 (six months ago) link
and to correct, Elon... Twitter is located *near* downtown SF (2-3 neighborhoods southwest), in an area where under previous management could build cheaply and receive massive tax breaks from city government, in such an area which guess what, was skid row before twitter and will be skid row when twitter has gone to the social media graveyard.
Twitter couldn't afford downtown SF which is why they ended up on 10th/Market, former home of a cockroach-laden buffet and budget motel.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:30 (six months ago) link
(sorry if that comes off as "old money" but there is a bit of history lacking from Elon's shit-take)
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:32 (six months ago) link
So bought it to destroy it? He bought it to save it? what the fuck is his point
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 November 2023 23:34 (six months ago) link
and to correct, Elon... Twitter is located *near* downtown SF (2-3 neighborhoods southwest), in an area where under previous management could build cheaply and receive massive tax breaks from city government, in such an area which guess what, was skid row before twitter and will be skid row when twitter has gone to the social media graveyard.Twitter couldn't afford downtown SF which is why they ended up on 10th/Market, former home of a cockroach-laden buffet and budget motel.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 2 November 2023 00:44 (six months ago) link
he tried very hard not to buy it! whatever he claims his point was hardly seems to matter.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 2 November 2023 02:27 (six months ago) link
How much walking around in downtown SF does Elon actually do?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:09 (six months ago) link
he takes his jet to the corner store
― mookieproof, Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:12 (six months ago) link
such an area which guess what, was skid row before twitter and will be skid row when twitter has gone to the social media graveyard
this is absolutely true. even when everyone worked downtown pre pandemic, that stretch of market was miserable. lots of downtown SF is miserable now, but musk owning twitter hasn't done anything to improve it, indeed, his laying off tons of people has probably made things worse as now there are fewer customers to frequent the businesses around the office.
anyway why do I care what this dumb fuck thinks, everything he says is wrong and is always wrong.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:15 (six months ago) link
everything he says is wrong and is always wrong.
this has been proved by science -- the science of seeing the obvious
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 November 2023 03:19 (six months ago) link
https://cdn.motor1.com/images/mgl/7ZvzOo/s3/img_4439.webp
https://insideevs.com/news/694929/tesla-cybertruck-matte-black-impressions/
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:31 (five months ago) link
thinking Deckard's name is Bladerunner actually feels like one of the more Trumpian things Elon has said
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:32 (five months ago) link
like how Kanye used to call Chris Martin "Coldplay"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:33 (five months ago) link
Which one’s Pink?
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 18:34 (five months ago) link
not well, stayed back at the hotel with his cybertruck
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 19:08 (five months ago) link
Young Rust
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 7 November 2023 19:15 (five months ago) link
In one particularly alarming anecdote, the writer recounts how during one "spiral," Musk freaked his employees out so bad by locking himself in his office that they "were considering calling a wellness check by the San Francisco police because they thought he was going to self-harm himself."
https://futurism.com/the-byte/twitter-staff-wellness-check-elon
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 21:56 (five months ago) link
That freakout seems to have begun, Mezrich explained, with other incidents — including him getting booed at a Dave Chappelle show last December and someone confronting a car carrying his son around that same time. Both demonstrated how much people have grown to despise the serial entrepreneur who once inspired "Iron Man," and contrary to his devil-may-care attitude, Mezrich argues that Musk is very sensitive to what people think about him.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 21:59 (five months ago) link
He could have swan dived off that giant X he put up illegally.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 22:19 (five months ago) link
thats what i would do if i were booed at the big comedy show
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 22:36 (five months ago) link
"hi 911"
"yes, Elon Mask is in his office, we think he might harm himself"
"we're sending help ASAP-"
"help is already here, I was just wondering if you could send them home"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 22:55 (five months ago) link