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.

 

[Future_Monkey]

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.

Also, the Hyperloop was something he created to kill a subway project, because he hates mass transit.

Since "tunnels with cars in them" is hardly the best method for getting around mars.

 

[Parmandur]

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.

I agree: but still, very obnoxious to contemplate.

 

[Parmandur]

Here, this might help.

Someone pointed out how unlikely it is for Elon to buy Hasbro.

Boom, thank you: I knew the difficulties Musk would face in terms of liquidity, but knowing those hostile takeover proof features of Hasbro's stricture (certainly no accident) and the personal animosity of some board numbers towards Musk really puts the cap in this dumbass idea.

 

[Nord Ronnoc]

Boom, thank you: I knew the difficulties Musk would face in terms of liquidity, but knowing those hostile takeover proof features of Hasbro's stricture (certainly no accident) and the personal animosity of some board numbers towards Musk really puts the cap in this dumbass idea.

Glad to be of service. Still worth keeping an eye every now and then, just in case.

Fingers crossed!

 

[Mistwell]

You are taking this way too seriously, also before we need tunnels on Mars, we will need a decent sized colony, and I do not see that happening any time soon, so at a minimum this is putting the cart before the horse

I'm taking it too seriously when everyone is freaking out (a couple wishing death on someone) because a troll said "How much is Hasbro?"

 

[Bedrockgames]

I'm taking it too seriously when everyone is freaking out (a couple wishing death on someone) because a troll said "How much is Hasbro?"

Did someone wish death ?

 

[Mistwell]

Did someone wish death ?

Yes. Not a death threat, just a "On the list of people I wouldn't be unhappy if they dropped dead" sort of thing. There's been some really big emotions among these four topics about Elon Musk. All triggered by what truly was a silly Tweet.

Zard has it right. Crack a beer. This is not a serious issue. Worth talking about on a slow news night, sure. But not a serious topic.

 

[Maxperson]

That is, of course, assuming Musk would not survive to remove D&D from the CC and then go after 3pp that tried to use those rules. Musk has infinite money to wage lawfare that I don't know if Paizo or KP could afford to fight.

I thought the whole point of CC was that you couldn't remove things once put there.

 

[Maxperson]

This is a nonsense statement. There are plenty of people that have inherited wealth and haven't become anything near the richest person in the world. Most generational wealth disappears after a few generations.

Actually it wasn't a nonsense statement. What the two of you said isn't in opposition.

You are correct that many people inherit wealth and don't become the world's richest man. And you are correct that most generational wealth disappears after a few generations. That said, @Remathilis is correct that Musk took HIS generational wealth and leveraged it into tech investments and then on to become the world's richest man.

 

[Maxperson]

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

Hasbro lying about something financial to investors kinda puts their claim that closed accounts weren't a financial strain into a grey area. Can't trust their word.