Finding out that Elon Musk was forced out as CEO of PayPal in favor of noted vampire Peter Thiel bc Elon Musk was adamant they keep it named "X dot com" instead of Paypal unlocks so much. His space company, his literal child, and now Twitter: it's the world's most inane Rosebud. He actually bought back the URL, like a cherished childhood sled (owning the right to name a website the letter "X")

Some people told him it made more sense to have their banking company have a indicative name instead of generically being called "X" with vague allusions to being The Site For Everything, and he'll prove those fools WRONG by getting the same things yelled at him over a different website's name twenty years later

For twenty two years he's been stewing about people telling him PayPal was a better name for a payment site than X. He was so invested in X dot com at the time they waited to hold the vote until he was on vacation. He has been furious over people saying "it's better for our site to have a name that tells you what it is instead of a letter" since before 9/11. This is his entire life

Pictured above: the only moment Elon Musk has ever been happy, before it turned to all-consuming rage and envy over a single letter

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Is... is THAT why he called his space company SpaceX???

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fr tho, I'm convinced at this point that he got divorced just so he could have another X.

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so many social justicey arguments really do seem like they were invented in a lab to be a saw trap for people with obsessive compulsive tendencies

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only just now realizing what a weird mix of metaphors this was. you all know the labs where they brew up the saw traps

Subway pre recorded message: Reminder that backpacks and other large containers are subject to random search. The MTA and New York Police can and will kill you

Subway conductor giving message: *ding* bobo mimimi, mooomoo bogie binted, bogos binted

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peace walker is a game about how your mom dated people before she was your mom, and sometimes you meet those people and realize that your mom is a real person and not ur idea of a mom. and a good reaction to that is to not become addicted to starting your own personal collection of child soldiers

There was a lot of homosexual shit too

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that’s in every metal gear game, to point that out would be like saying “also there is a metal gear and also a guy named snake”

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

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this is what ancient greek philosophy is like

seeing everyone just mindlessly sign up for threads despite all the clear warning signs feels like I’m living in Sailor Moon or a magical girl anime episode where the Monster of the Day just set up shop over night and their product is literally draining your lifeforce for the Dark Kingdom but people keep going there

A fighting game of Shakespeare characters.

Smash Bros Announcer voice: “JULIET!”

Wii remote speaker: O̵ ̸h̶a̴p̷p̴y̶ ̷d̸a̷g̴g̷e̵r̵!̷ ̴T̶h̷i̴s̵ ̵i̶s̵ ̴t̴h̶y̸ ̴s̶h̷e̵a̸t̴h̷!̸

If you choose Richard the Third, the Wii remote speaker goes through the entire “Now is the winter of our discontent” monologue. Only Richard the Third does this. You can’t skip it.