D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

Following the richest man in the world's attack on Wizards of the Coast for two paragraphs in the 500-page celebration of D&D, The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977, Elon Musk--who bought Twitter not that long ago--wants to know how much D&D's owner Hasbro would cost.

After the public sharing on Twitter of Jason Tondro's (who wrote the book’s foreword) private Facebook posts, Musk replied "How much is Hasbro?"

Hasbro's estimated capitalization is currently $8.71 billion, with $3.95 billion of debt.

It was on 21st December 2017 when Musk similarly enquired "How much is it?" before proceeding to make a bid for Twitter. He later tried to back out of the deal, but was forced to buy the platform for $44 billion in June 2022. Current estimates by investment firm Fidelity put the platform at a value 80% less than when he bought it, with a worth of only about $9.4 billion.

 

[Parmandur]

I dunno, he’s made himself the boyfriend of the most powerful country’s new dictator…

Yet he isn't on speaking terms with his children.

I'd call that impotence, myself.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I dunno, he’s made himself the boyfriend of the most powerful country’s new dictator…

I honestly do not see that one lasting and the fallout could be spectacular.

 

[Corinnguard]

I dunno, he’s made himself the boyfriend of the most powerful country’s new dictator…

Wannabe dictator. It's one thing to want the position, it's quite another thing to actually be one.

 

[Steampunkette]

Respectfully, I think you're stuck on an idea of Elon Musk from like, ten years ago, before the brainrot got him.

He himself has run Twitter as a person who has an ideological axe to grind and 0 experience being more than an online nuisance. He's cut things, sure, but in irrational and incompetent ways that have caused direct damage to Twitter's success, and haven't managed to make it profitable. You suggest he thinks the bottom line is everything, but the way he has run Twitter shows it isn't to him. Not anymore.

Thinking he's going to hire someone competent and non-ideological to run WotC if he bought is a laugh, frankly. The Musk of a decade ago might well have done that. The Musk of now? We'd be lucky if it wasn't Joe Rogan or someone lol.

Oh, no. I think my point got miscommunicated:

I don't think he'll -hire- anyone. But he certainly won't hire Lanasa. If he -did- hire someone, it'd be someone to cut and slash the budget to increase his apparent bottom line. BIG if, there. And it'd be in-line with his current plans as relates to politics.

He'll run Hasbro directly, himself. Incompetently, as outlined. Anyone who isn't fired or doesn't resign in protest will just continue to work in the position they're in, with a skeleton crew of only the most barely essential people (and some of them will probably get cut, too, Elon is not a bright man).

Whoever is currently in charge of D&D will continue to be in charge of D&D unless they do something that personally offends Musk's sensibilities.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

You gotta remember what Hasbro does is not out of active malice but driven by whatever is currently grabbing the attention of investors on Wall Street and by the consequence of previous Hasbro moves (i.e. the corporate debt).

Yeah, I know. I work with a number of large publicly traded companies in my day job and their ability to do long term damage to themselves in the interest of short term gain is mind-boggling. Whereas what Elon does is out of active malice.

I think the best defense is humor. Name & shame, laugh at the silly troll. Soon something else will attract his attention.

 

[EthanSental]

Apparently Amazon slashed the price on the book that set Elon off by 50% after he made his buying Hasbro comment. Don't know it's to try boost sales using the attention it's got or they just think it's value drop hard and want to get rid of it I can't say.

I would find it fascinatingly funny if Amazon on their product page added a bullet that said something to rage bait Musk about…read the foreword and see what has made the a man cry wolf over nothing….get the 2 or so richest men fighting over D&D and space exploration Let’s seem him say he could buy Amazon!

 

[Nylanfs]

Hmm, maybe he'd put Ken in charge of marketing? /jk

 

[mamba]

I don't like this Black Friday thing, I hear people got killed because of getting crushed during black Friday.

I doubt that happened at Amazon

At some point people have to be responsible for their own actions, it's not the fault of the sale

 

[mamba]

I dunno, he’s made himself the boyfriend of the most powerful country’s new dictator…

he is already overstaying his welcome, we will see how that turns out. Also, Trump has enough crap ideas by himself to not need Elon for that

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yeah, I know. I work with a number of large publicly traded companies in my day job and their ability to do long term damage to themselves in the interest of short term gain is mind-boggling. Whereas what Elon does is out of active malice.

I think the best defense is humor. Name & shame, laugh at the silly troll. Soon something else will attract his attention.

When you have Musk money, there is no reason to care

Yeah, I know. I work with a number of large publicly traded companies in my day job and their ability to do long term damage to themselves in the interest of short term gain is mind-boggling. Whereas what Elon does is out of active malice.

I think the best defense is humor. Name & shame, laugh at the silly troll. Soon something else will attract his attention.

Working great so far /s

Absolutely tons of mockery of He-Shall-Not-Be-Named has sure stopped him from gaining ultimate powe...oh wait it just made him more popular.

If the thing you keep doing keeps failing, try something different, easier said then done, but here we are.