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]

Thanks to the class action lawsuit Hasbro might soon be worth alot less and cheaper for Elon to buy.

So I'm not going to give any time to the commentary by a clickbaiting conspiracy-monger, but looking into this matter seperately...doesn't seem that likely to go very far. The matter in question seems to be a lretty high bar to prove deliberate deception in court as opposed to mistaken information and uncertain models in a volatile market. Imgoijg with "Doubt" to this being a major issue that blows up.

 

[bedir than]

Thanks to the class action lawsuit Hasbro might soon be worth alot less and cheaper for Elon to buy.

An article about the attempt at a class action lawsuit from actual journalists rather than exploding head fire-wrapped youtubers

Hasbro sued in investor suit for allegedly lying about overpurchased inventory after pandemic demand

Hasbro allegedly bought too much inventory in response to pandemic demand

www.polygon.com

 

[Parmandur]

I can sit back and laugh at this. Because nothing happened. Dude who trolls on a daily basis happened to troll in this sub-culture and now what, everyone needs to get super outraged and take this oh so seriously? Come on, it's OK for people to laugh about this.

It's too real to he funny. If someone makes a threat, it isn't funny of they actually could do it, juat because they are joking around and meming.

 

[Mistwell]

It's very possible nothing comes of this. But people thought the same about Twitter. I'm just pointing out there might be a point where this isn't as funny as it is right now...

Well it's funny right now to me. But if you want to ride that anxiety train, more power to you.

 

[Mistwell]

It's too real to he funny. If someone makes a threat, it isn't funny of they actually could do it, juat because they are joking around and meming.

It isn't too real to be funny because it's not real. He didn't threaten anyone. Y'all need to take it down a notch on the anxiety meter. We've literally had not one but two different "I wish he were dead" comments in these threads. Deep breath my friend. Elon Musk is not buying Hasbro.

 

[Parmandur]

It isn't too real to be funny because it's not real. He didn't threaten anyone. Y'all need to take it down a notch on the anxiety meter. We've literally had not one but two different "I wish he were dead" comments in these threads. Deep breath my friend. Elon Musk is not buying Hasbro.

I hope not: at the end of October, I was really looking forward to never having to think about Elon Musk again, now all...this.

 

[Mistwell]

I hope not: at the end of October, I was really looking forward to never having to think about Elon Musk again, now all...this.

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Think about every corporate purchase choice Musk's made so far. It's all about his dream to get to Mars: Boring company, to drill tunnels on Mars; Hyperloop, for transport on Mars; SpaceX, to get to Mars and launch satellites for communications with Starlink; Tesla, for electric engines to power things without oil and coal and gas; Solar City, to generate electricity and Powerwall to reinvent batteries to be higher capacity to run all night even when solar cannot collect; Neuralink, to pilot a variety of things from a distance from anywhere; AI, to cover a variety of jobs humans can't do in that environment; and Twitter, to gather political communications power to promote all these things.

Now how does Hasbro, an ailing $8B toy and games company, fit into this? The answer is it simply doesn't. He's just yanking your chain. He does this.

 

[mamba]

Now how does Hasbro, an ailing $8B toy and games company, fit into this?

Entertainment for the crew on the way to Mars

 

[Mistwell]

Entertainment for the crew on the way to Mars

He doesn't need to own the company for that though right?

 

[mamba]

He doesn't need to own the company for that though right?

Sure, but he doesn't need to create tunnels on Mars for quite a while / ever either