The details are worse than you might have assumed. CW: sex pestery
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Elon Musk hosted Saturday Night Live back in 2021, and while he thought he had a killer pitch for his monologue, it went over like a flaccid… well, it didn’t rise to the occasion.
Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter/X, was on a panel at the All In Summit earlier this month and recounted his experience hosting SNL. And according to Musk, he had a really fantastic idea:
So, one of the things that I think everyone’s been sort of wondering this whole time is, is Saturday Night Live actually live.
To give Musk the benefit of the doubt — because no one wonders this — this sounds like a very classic monologue pitch for hosts who are, perhaps, a little gun-shy about doing comedy, and not him thinking people think that. Is it a good monologue pitch? That’s up for debate, but Musk thought it was great, so he went with it:
But there’s a way to test this. There’s a way to test this, which is, we don’t tell them what’s going on. I walk on and so, this is the script. I throw it on the ground. We’re going to find out tonight, right now, if Saturday Night Live is actually live. And the way that we’re going to do this is I’m going to take my cock out. And if you see my cock, you know it’s true. And if you don’t, it’s been a lie.
Now, most people know that taking one’s cock out without being asked is never — never, EVER — a great idea. But Musk and the guys on the stage thought it was hilarious. “This is the greatest pitch EVER!” a panelist exclaimed.
But as Musk continued his story, it was apparently not the greatest pitch ever, because the reaction he got from the SNL cast and crew on Zoom was not what he was expecting:
So, we come in like, like just like, guns blazing with like, ideas. And we don’t realize, like, actually, you know, that’s not how it works. And that it’s only, like, actors and they just get told what to do and like, oh. Well, you mean we can’t just, like, do funny things that we thought of?
This explains a lot about how Elon Musk operates.
Anyway, there was nothing but silence from the cast and crew. Musk and his cohorts thought the mic was muted. But then Musk revealed that he wasn’t even done pitching:
So, there’s more to it, okay? That’s just the beginning. So, then I’m, so now I’m like, so I say, like, I’m going to reach down into my pants, and I’ll stick my hand my pants and I’m going and I’m going to pull out my cock. And I told this to the audience, and the audience is going to be like, “Guh-whaaa?” And then I pull out a baby rooster. You know? And it’s like, okay, this is kind of PG, you know, it’s not that bad. This is my tiny cock.
Needless to say, this brilliant work of comedy did not make it to air.
My chuddiest relative is a lot like
with less money and (somehow) not divorced. The most awkward dinner party I ever attended (that he hosted) included a part where he was bragging about how “sex positive” he was and was telling 40-60+ year old guests about his Skyrim naked/sex mod collection (that also removed the “furry freaks” and the “token ethnics” 
). Faces looked almost exactly like this around him:
His idea of an amazing tabletop joke was declaring that if the game was “realistic,” that the NPC villains holding the princess ransom (played by his own daughter) would do SV to her. He got upset that no one laughed and that there was only awkward silence. Terminal stage gambobrain.
This relative checks so many terrible boxes for things you hate in gaming and fiction that I wonder if he was created in a lab just to torment you.
I wish folks like that would get isekai’d into their treat worlds only to discover that ‘realism’ would utterly fuck them up.
In a way, it almost was like he was. I had to spend my formative years around him and that fucking sucked. My immediate chud parents didn’t help with that either.
He’d throw violent tantrums (I don’t exaggerate; pounding the table, throwing things, even punching a wall at one point) and maybe even stamp out of the room if his character got damaged in a session. He didn’t do that during the SV-joke-about-daughter-present session, fortunately. He was relatively well behaved (probably to try to get a permanent invite back into the group, which obviously didn’t happen because we “can’t take a joke”) compared to his behavior when he was banished from my old tabletop group years before that. It wouldn’t take much for an isekai world to do him in.
This has nothing to do with this except the whole “the worst of realistic and gritty” fiction enjoyers, but it reminded me of the Star Citizen forum post from near the beginning of the grift where
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someone argued that it’d realistic if space pirates SA’d their victims, and that’s why getting SA’d should be a mechanic in the game
I’m sure they weren’t suggesting that for any other reason
edit: I guess we have a new filter now, good.
Some other “realistic” Star Citizen enjoyer, the one with a big fancy cryptofascist space Roman title for paying a lot of money, wanted the fidelity/realism bullshit pitches in his favorite grift to mean (CW: extreme gore/violence/torture)
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that “bounty hunting” could become more convenient and efficient if targets’ limbs were amputated and the target could be carried around in small containers while kept alive with medical space magic for a live bonus. The “realism” enjoyer then added that castration could be a mechanic to reduce the combat capabilities of targets because biotruths about T-count.
I vaguely remember that, but the one that was actually funny (because those other two are more horrifying) was the guy who suggested you could drain your cargo hold of air if you were carrying slaves to avoid detection.
“Move along Star Citizen, we suspected you may have been smuggling slaves, but I see you only have an ordinary load of fresh corpses.”
The worst possible FTL crossover there.
These people are always telling on themselves. We make games unrealistic so they’re fun. We make movies unrealistic so they’re entertaining. You absolutely do not want to play a game where you’re just curled up in a ball in a wet trench trying not to die during a 72 hour artillery barrage. It would be “muh realistic gritty,” but completely boring. People can’t even handle getting spawn camped.
Sexual violence isn’t fun. It’s not something people should get entertainment out of. And it’s always directed towards women when it’s in games (despite SV happening to men in war). Wanting it in your video game puts up a giant red flag about what you find enjoyable.