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While Elon's then-partner Grimes was recording her part in the game as cyborg popstar Lizzy Wizzy, the erratic tech billionaire turned up with an antique firearm to "insist" on being included in the game. "The studio guys were like sweating," Grimes is quoted as saying. Musk adds "I told them that I was armed but not dangerous".

Apparently, the developers relented at the time, though it's unclear if Musk did actually get the cameo in the end.

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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 126 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Elon is literally everything Cyberpunk warns is about. He's the biggest corpocunt the world has ever seen. Arasaka is exactly what Elon wants X Corp to be. He's actually trying to make chips that get implanted into your brain. He wants his own Relic. He wants to be the immortal Saburo Arasaka.

The lack of self awareness is astounding.

[–] ConsciousCode@beehaw.org 16 points 2 years ago

Can't be a billionaire if you pass a certain threshold of self-awareness, it's the rules.

[–] Skyline969@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

If Keanu was in the studio that day, someone should have said “Silverhand, arm the nuke.”

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 80 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really his most candid moment, when you think about it. "I demand you all love me" at gunpoint.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 2 years ago

Fits his management style of "The beatings will continue until morale improves."

[–] TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What a ridiculous society we live in that someone can be so rich that they get to threaten people with a gun and don't get arrested. What an unhinged asshole he is.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You don't even need to be rich, being a cop is more that enough.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

At least those bastards certainly aren't rich, better than nothing I guess!

[–] gingerrich@beehaw.org 47 points 2 years ago

What an absolute cunt of a human being.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

it's unclear if Musk did actually get the cameo in the end.

Uh, what? How is that unclear? Is he in the game? No?? Then he didn't "get the cameo", even if they went so far as to map his face, etc...

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are plenty of drugged out street filth with guns in the game. You SURE he didn't have a cameo?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Not even slightly sure. But out of all the people playing, modifying, and data-mining it, they still haven't found an obviously Musk face somewhere...?

[–] Hdcase@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Some people believe he showed up briefly in one scene in the background but it was never substantiated.

[–] Fhek@lemm.ee 37 points 2 years ago

“PAY ATTENTION TO ME! LOOK AT ME!”

[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago

There are so many successful people that make me not want to participate in this country.

...Because I know that if they were able to make it then this country is bullshit.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 years ago

They should have put him in a game with the gun while commanding an apartheid army.

[–] reverendsteveii@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They told him to get fucked, so one of his chode toadies on xitter started a rumor that they added him to the game and then removed him in a patch.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

This is easily verified by installing an original hard copy into a xbox one with no internet. It installs a "beta" version. You know you did it correctly when the opening scene has no over dialogue just music. Every vendor stand can be interacted with and certain models can be looked at in 3d in the menus. It's wild to play now that we're on 2.0.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they ended up adding him him in any way, he should be just removed. That piece of shit parasite shouldnt get any recognition anywhere. Not even negative.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What if they turned him into a drooling hobo or cyber psycho who fried his brain with a homemade implant? I could be down with that. If not, I’m counting on a mod to remove his ass.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Homeless folk are victims of a system(generally), he doesn't deserve to be portrayed that way

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He would be the victim of his implant.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I'm down with that bit for sure - would prefer the cyber psycho or just finding him as a corpse with a letter or something and some environmental storytelling. Nothing too high effort, mind. But it'd be nice to at least virtually know he fucked himself

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Any mention will also preserve his name which he doesnt deserve.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Make it a subtle easter egg where a Corpo CEO packed with neural cyberwares crashed and burned in his self-driving Caliburn lol

[–] Seathru@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

With the assets already there, the mod opportunities are endless.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I don't own this game and I don't intend on buying any time soon.

But when I eventually get it, if I ~~think~~ find that figure in the game, I'm going after it and throw it off a very tall building. Twice.

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I played through the main story twice and I dont ever remember encountering a character based on Elon or a character voiced by him. His then-girlfriend Grimes has a character with a medium length side-questline, but that character isn't based on her either. Part of the quest means "dealing with" her new boyfriend, but I didn't really think that guy was based on Elon either.

There are a lot of corpo people in the game that you deal with, but most of them are just parodies of all billionaires, not really one in particular.

Would be shitty if he's in Phantom Liberty though.

[–] reverendsteveii@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

https://www.eurogamer.net/no-cyberpunk-2077-didnt-remove-the-elon-musk-npc-because-he-wasnt-even-in-the-game-to-begin-with

You did not encounter elon, a character based on him, or a character voiced by him in cyberpunk 2077

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] muse@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He's violently murdered in game and you get to stuff his body in a trash chute. And you get paid for it. 10/10

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would reload that save over and over and over.

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw a streamer do that once with a character they absolutely despised. Save, kill, reload, kill, reload, kill, reload a couple times until they finally had it out of their system.

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Me with Preston in Fallout 4. Another settlement needs our help? No, Preston, I think your body no longer needs your head.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

If doucheboy gets one, I’m requesting a mod to purge his ass.

[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

What a tool.

[–] tricoro@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And nobody took a video, or even a photo?

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago

Taking a photo of a man threatening you at gunpoint seems like a good way to get shot