Oh, well, 'Bethesda apprectiating what the Skyblivion people are doing' would look something like hiring the mod team to complete their work in house, as an actual official product.
... So that they could be, you know, paid for their passionate work.
Passion doesn't pay bills.
Does... did everyone just now not remember how that was a thing that used to happen? Mod teams actually getting hired, paid?
Particularly with Valve, back in the late 90s through 00's?
Bethseda certainly wouldn't love to see that, they'd sue them into... ahem, well, Oblivion, if they tried.
Yep, its a massive corpo style flex, 'kill them with mandated kindness' type of move, grin for the cameras as we demean you.
The Skyblivion devs are almost certainly in mental shambles right now, but they have to put on the happy face.
Anyone who doesn't understand this has either never worked in software, or for a large corp, or both.
Follow your leader Elon, there's no way out.
I entirely do not regret mercilessly insulting and mocking him, directly, on Twitter, after he bought it.
... Never had a Twitter account before then, got it banned within 8 hours, very likely by Elon, personally.
Fuck 'im.
93 days since the day 1 promised resolution...
... it took the loading bar a while, and the output is:
Task failed successfully.
god fucking damnit, my country is full of fucking morons.
... Hrm...
Can we maybe call this...
The Cryptobro Tesla Put?
The last gasp of the diamond-handsiest HODLers?
If... she has lost this, and then starts saying 'the NYT lied about me'...
... can't they then sue her for defamation, libel?
I... assume you are joking, but having grown up with a mother who had legitimate OCD, and would clean and clean and clean and clean in very particular ways, far beyond what was necesarry, and would freak out when any minor spec was anywhere...
I do not find this funny.
Got nothing to clean.
Because ... I follow these rules... and keep everything clean.
I mean, technically, kind of, yes, in the sense of ... bringing a hand grenade to an arm wrestling match... does ensure your opponent ... won't win...
What's the old LBJ line?
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Uh pretty much yep, just insert any sufficiently maligned minority group in the place of black americans, and this still holds up as a fundamental principle of American politics, 60ish years later.
... Even assuming the self driving tech was actually capable of doing this, which is won't be...
How would this even make any sense?
Ok, if you live within about 200 to 300 miles of a Tesla factory, ... you have this option?
Fremont, California; Sparks, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Buffalo, New York; Lathrop, California.
Outside of 250 miles ish of one of those places? No self driving delivery for you.
... And I am pretty surr not all models are made at all those locations.
Despite long ago claiming his EVs and charger network would be capable of automatically recharging or battery swapping themselves... to make a long distance journey... that ... doesn't exist, he abandoned all of that.
Even funnier: Imagine a tesla self driving from the as of yet to be completed gigafactory in Monterrey Mexico... through the border checkpoint.
The auto charger network doesn't exist, the car would murder people, cause an accident or fucking explode in the border queue... and even if none of that happened... how in the fuck is a self driving car gonna get through a militarized border crossing?
If he just gives himself a waiver via DOGE for his cars... congrats Elon, you are now a drug trafficker / arms smuggler, whether you know it or not.
... fucking lunacy.
Yes, that literally is what they did.
If Skyblivion had released first, even for free, far more people would be going... wait, why would I pay for yet another Bethesda remaster... when a free one already exists?
This is the company that routinely releases broken buggy games, because they can't figure out how to actually fix their engine, their games routinely have to be fixed and patched by modders... who keep trying to figure out how to monetize mods or any kind of additional content the way record labels monetize artists.
At this point, it is difficult for me to think of a game company that is more absuive and exploitative of its most truly dedicated fans... aside from Roblox.