I don’t even like Stephen King, like at all, but this is fucking pathetic, even for my-hero

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    If you had told me a few years ago that the bird site would be run by melon-musk acting as a piss baby with AI generated imagery from his own platform to mock people he doesn’t like, I’d tell you to lay off the pipe and step away from the lathe-of-heaven But reality seems to always find a way to be more cringe. pain

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    With billions of dollars and all of the resources that implies, the most creative comeback he can do is plug in an LLM prompt and post it on social media.

    It’s the lack of creativity that gets me. If had a fraction of his money and his level of pettiness, I could have elaborate revenge plots. Or I’d hire one of any number of underpaid writers and have him at my side so I could actually zing my enemies.

    🤣 <- not tears of laughter

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      With billions of dollars and all of the resources that implies, the most creative comeback he can do is plug in an LLM prompt and post it on social media.

      It’s not even a good one. You’d think the IQ42069 epic genius could at least prompt the treat printer better, and it isn’t even a funny, clever, or even thoughtful insult: it’s “gays bad also u have money lolololol” which says a lot more about my-hero than anyone else.

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      If I was a petty, billionaire asshole with 12 divorces under my belt, you can bet I’d have multiple Ocean’s Eleven-style teams on my payroll.

      So if Stephen King pisses me off, he’s going to wake up one morning and all the photos in his house, phone, and computer will be upside down. Anything he types on will have the keys randomized to different letters. All of his pens will have 97% of their ink removed so he runs out while in the middle of writing anything after thinking he found a pen that works.

      You could legitimately have someone gangstalked or be subjected to multiple flash dances per day. An unlimited number of pranks to the point the person is paranoid about opening a cupboard.

      Best Elon can come up with is an eggplant.

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        I was going to say some boring shit about how spending money on that would be too much of an economic stimulus for a billionaire but now I’m imagining a wonderful world where a bunch of hexbears facilitate Elon musks lame grudges with the most insane pranks imaginable while the rest spend the rest of his money on actually worthwhile things while he’s distracted.

        Someone called Elon a loser on twitter? Time to find 600 people who look almost identical and replace everyone in their life with the doppelgängers for a day. Now let’s throw a few billion at African infrastructure.

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    I don’t even get why Stephen King stays on twitter. These two losers are always throwing lame insults at each other on there, but the difference is that Elon is making money off it. He’s rich and popular enough that he doesn’t need twitter to promote his books, it’s just about attention for him.

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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      Elon just wants to LARP as a permanent college student

      The sad thing is that he’s had enough money for a long time if he actually wanted to take college classes as a grad student even with US tuition prices and look smart for doing it.

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      He’s addicted to those “member when college and being edgy and nihilistic got you praised” memberberries, just like in the South Park treats.

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    posad This doofus is why Earth 616 had the potential to become a type 1 civilization, but because he couldn’t get over his bridget-pride daughter, couldn’t get over paying his workers or material gatherers a fair wage, and dedicated the remainder of his life to a fascistic K-hole.

    Don’t go to Earth. 'Tis a silly place.

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      He wanted Stephen King’s approval some time back, and kept craving it. Even this bazinga insult is another attempt at getting his notice.

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      “It’s pronounced Tes-la not Tess-la”

      Still remember some turbolib saying that shit to me 10 years ago, later watching livestreams of SpaceX rockets taking off.

      I am so fucking glad Elon crashed and burned the way he did.

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    This is the fundamental difference between you and I. I fuckin love King. Dark Tower is literally my favorite series of all time and I have more of his books on my shelf than all my theory combined.

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      I don’t hate his books (except the sus stuff in, say, IT) as much as I don’t like him much as a person. I have no quarrel with Dark Tower; that still stirs my imagination.