WotC WotC needs an Elon Musk

[Faolyn]

Background, world-building, lore; verisimilitude, in other words. A lot of people place a premium on that, because it makes their fantasy worlds more tangible to them. Not everything is measured purely in terms of practicality-of-play.

So again, why is rape better at this than non-rape acts of evil? People have done a lot of horrible things to each other in the real world that aren't sexual.

 

[Micah Sweet]

How does a thing in a game you don't play impact your sense of verisimilitude?

I care about the lore and the stories. Being a game is only part of the draw to me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

So again, why is rape better at this than non-rape acts of evil? People have done a lot of horrible things to each other in the real world that aren't sexual.

Sadly, they have also done things that are, and removing that even as a concept that exists in the background makes the world seem less real.

That said, I know a lot of people would rather remove unpleasant things that happen to have a real basis from the game (SA understandably being at or near the top of that list). I fully support not bringing up any of that nasty stuff if, after bringing it up in a session 0, one or more players at your table object to it. I do the same myself in regards to SA (although other unpleasantness might be on the table).

 

[ECMO3]

I mean, if you want to watch D&D crash and burn in record time, sure.
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I know a lot of people don't like Musk, and I am not a fan but as a point of fact:

1. He started Paypal and turned into a Billion dollar company in 3 years before selling it.

2. He started Space-X, the first successful private space company and successfully undercut major US firms like Lockheed and Boeing on government contracts for space vehicles.

3. He started Tesla and turned it into the most valuable American car company, worth 10 times what General Motors is worth and second only to Toyota wordlwide (and not 2nd by much). This company controls two thirds of the electric vehicle market in the US, outselling every other manufacturer combined.

You can say what you want about Elon Musk, but history would strongly suggest that WOTC would not "crash and burn" if he took over.

 

[jdrakeh]

1. He started Paypal and turned into a Billion dollar company in 3 years before selling it.

This is not true. PayPal was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Confinity. The first version of what would later become the PayPal electronic payments system was launched in 1999. Musk did not come on the scene until March 2000 as part of Confinity's merger with xcom, a company that Musk was only one of many partners in. Musk was replaced as CEO of xcom in October of that same year. Musk wasn't even in the driver's seat when PayPal went public in 2002.

3. He started Tesla and turned it into the most valuable American car company, worth 10 times what General Motors is worth and second only to Toyota wordlwide (and not 2nd by much). This company controls two thirds of the electric vehicle market in the US, outselling every other manufacturer combined.

This is also not true. Tesla was founded in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk became the largest shareholder of Tesla in 2004. He literally bought his way into a position of control.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Came here to say what jdrakeh said.

Plus let's not forget the quality dip Teslas have seen, his dumb reinvention of the subway but with cars, that time he tried to build a child submarine that wouldn't work and decided it was best to attack the head rescue worker on the case, all the SEC violations, all the crypto scams that should be SEC violations, killing just dozens of chimps only to just lie about the project it was for anyway, all the suffering he's put his employees through, and that haircut.

 

[Alzrius]

So again, why is rape better at this than non-rape acts of evil? People have done a lot of horrible things to each other in the real world that aren't sexual.

It's not a question of "better," it's a question of "how many." I'm not looking for one single act which connotes "vile" to demonstrate that bad guys are bad, anymore than I'm looking for one single character class to represent what PCs can be, or one single monster that will be the one and only non-human(oid) opponent that they'll face. There's a broad tapestry of materials on which to draw, all with different implications, connotations, presentations, etc. Having a diverse variety of materials is the ideal, and removing one particular aspect of something – in this case that which indicates that various bad guys are vile – makes things that much more limited.

 

[RealAlHazred]

2. He started Space-X, the first successful private space company and successfully undercut major US firms like Lockheed and Boeing on government contracts for space vehicles.

@jdrakeh has already responded to points 1 and 3, but I just wanted to say I see a lot of Musk fans who seem to think he has done some rocket science and such. No, he's purely a businessman, albeit one with a healthy interest in space travel. I've seen the video from the control room when the first rocket successfully took off and touched down again; and I am fully in agreement with the emotions Musk showed -- I also felt like a kid seeing Santa's sleigh in the sky. That said, the real genius in SpaceX is Tom Mueller, one of the best rocket engineers in the world today. It kind of bothers me when people forget about him; he's the guy who has done all the engineering work of figuring out how to use the cheap off-the-shelf parts Musk wanted to use to get a spacecraft reliably into orbit and back.

EDIT: And I didn't realize, Mr. Mueller has retired from SpaceX and started his own rocket firm. Now, that is an interesting development...

 

[Gradine]

Every fireball spell and effect could be replaced by a self-driving Tesla crashing and exploding

 

[Zardnaar]

Every fireball spell and effect could be replaced by a self-driving Tesla crashing and exploding

You're wrong badwrongfun!!!!

Delayed blast fireball though........