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Elon Musk thinks Deus Ex is "one of the best games ever". It's not exactly a hot take. But his taste in games also displays an impressive lack of self-awareness. Musk sees himself as an outsider and heroic figure taking on the status quo, despite being the world's richest man, the owner of X, and a sometimes-ally of Donald Trump.

When Musk rails against 'the establishment', it's only when it threatens his vast fortune, his ability to indulge in hate speech, or when he's promoting conspiracies. Indeed, he posted multiple tweets during the Covid-19 lockdowns where he drew connections between essential measures to protect the vulnerable and the plot of Deux Ex, where a man-made pandemic is deployed by the world's richest man to advance a political power play.

Unsurprisingly, Austin Grossman, who wrote Deus Ex alongside Sheldon Pacotti and Chris Todd, is not a fan of Musk's take on the classic cyberpunk immersive sim.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He actually is in Cyberpunk, if you fuck with the ini files and model directories / file paths / name references a bit and do some reverse engineering... at least as of v2.0.

They may have cleaned it up by now, I've not fucked with it much in a while.

Elons's face would only ever populate onto NCPD officers, and he has a balding, thinning hair style, similar to how he did prior to joining Tesla, before he presumably started get hair plugs or transplants of some kind.

I never did find any voice lines from Elon though, ElonCop would just have generic male cop voice as with the rest of the NCPD.

I think what happened is he did get a proper facescan done... around or right before when Nvidia barged in and told CD Projekt: You need our money, we will give it to you if you act as game dev guinea pigs for our newfangled AI rendering and lighting tech which utterly obliterates the design principles of 20+ years of 3D game engine design.

At that point, they had to rearchitect... everything, and the library of models/faces that they were going with up till that point ended up having to be more or less tossed, they made a new one, and only a few references to the older 'library' remain as basically legacy bits of the game.

Thats my uh, 'game theory'.

[–] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I figured this out roughly around the same time he was buying Twitter, not too long after CP77 fixed up their wanted/cop response system to... actually work, and exist.... and I just kept shooting Elon, and hordes of other ElonCops, like Smith in the fucking Matrix.

Bastard turned me into a goddamned cyber psycho.