Elon Musk showed up at a video game studio with a gun to demand a role
Another day, another wild excerpt from Walter Isaacson’s biography about Elon Musk. First, we learned that he and Grimes have a third child named Techno Mechanicus. Then, we heard a gross story about how he took a picture of Grimes mid-C-section with their eldest son, X AE A-XII. Now, we have an absolutely outrageous tale about how Phony Stark decided to just show up with an antique gun while Grimes was recording dialogue for the video game Cyberpunk 2077 to demand a cameo appearance.
Also recounted in Walter Isaacson’s biography is the story of when Musk allegedly crashed a studio session while Grimes was recording dialogue for the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Grimes voices the character of Lizzy Wizzy in the game, and also contributed the song Delicate Weapon to its soundtrack.
In Isaacson’s book, he claims that Musk turned up at the studio while Grimes was recording, “wielding a 200-year-old gun” and demanding a cameo appearance in the game’s storyline. “The studio guys were, like, sweating,” Grimes says in the book. Musk is said to have told the developers that he was “armed but not dangerous”, before they gave in to his demands and allowed him a role in the game.
The developers of Cyberpunk 2077 ultimately lent Musk’s likeness to a creepy NPC that appears in a bathroom. It’s also been suggested that Musk was the inspiration for a character in a side quest focused on Grimes’ character’s in-game boyfriend; in one possible variation of the storyline, Musk’s character is murdered and his body dumped down a trash chute. That’s what you get for crashing a studio session.
The ancient firearm described in the book may well be the antique flintlock pistol that Musk claims he keeps on his bedside table, according to a viral Twitter post he shared late last year.
This isn’t the first time Musk has done something regrettable in a recording studio. In 2019, the tech billionaire recorded an Auto-Tune-laced mumble rap track entitled RIP Harambe, before releasing the similarly awful EDM cut Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe in 2020. Stick to electric cars, dude.
Like, what the actual f–? He showed up with an old gun to demand a cameo in a video game all because his girlfriend at the time had a voice role for it? And he tried to play it off with some lame “armed but not dangerous” crap? As Greta would say, that is some small-d energy. (Side note for anyone who has seen season 2 of Girls 5Eva: Does that “B.P.E.” song also start playing in your head every time you hear about B.D.E. or S.D.E?)
Even if he didn’t have any intention of actually shooting anyone, Elno is a moron who was waving an antique gun around and that is how accidents happen. Having someone barge into your workplace with a gun is intimidating enough without the terror of it accidentally going off. Of course they gave him a role. He is like a misbehaving child who is validated by his bad behavior because he either pesters people until he breaks them and they give in or he just does whatever he wants anyway. It is kinda funny though that made him a creepy NPC and possibly a character who ends up dumped down a trash chute. Tell me you’re trash without telling me you’re trash.
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