I’m gonna call it Twitter even harder now.
i’m going to stop calling it twitter when twitter.com redirects to x.com, and not the other way around
at that point i would stop talking about it, because X is just too stupid
His obsession with the letter X is like that middle school kid who used to talk about how many girlfriends he got and how good he is at being a bad ass…
Basically, he’s a less likeable version of Zane from Hypnospace Outlaw.
He’s a wannabe Steve Jobs who has chased his own one letter legacy for 30 years, pathetic.
“X” already happened. Musk even stole the logo.
BTW, there’s a Mastodon instance at https://wayland.social/.
By stole the logo you mean it’s the same letter?
I guess he’s claiming the font having that little white separation between parts of the letter is some unique identifier, but so many fonts and logos do this that I don’t think it passes a distinctiveness test at all.
I wrote that meme out in a comment like a month ago because I was too lazy to put the text on the image, so thanks.
Tight reference.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want him to fail, help him destroy Twitter’s brand.
Call it X.
I has worse brand recognition, terrible brand loyalty, and if only highlights that the product has changed for the worse.
my little bit is to say “what’s twitter?” (sigh, alright then… X) “…what’s X?”
TWITTER
Yeah, I ve got such a hard twitter right now
Call it Xitter. Pronounced like “shitter”.
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I’m sorry, but due to cultural norms the name Twitter is rooted deep within our modern language.
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[PERSUASION] Maybe a free little blue check will do the trick
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Or what?
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[INTIMIDATION] drop your daughter’s dead name and I’ll drop your site’s.
- [THE DARK URGE] Imagine feeding Elon to a large flightless bird.
Narrator: You imagine throwing a burlap sack over his head. His underlings would be extremely displeased with you, but he wouldn’t put up much of a fight himself.
Narrator: You can think of someone who would be extremely pleased with your offering, however.
Elon: You’re looking at me funny. Is there something you need?
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[THE DARK URGE] Give in to your desires.
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[PERSUASION] I have an investment opportunity that I think you would be interested in.
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Can I see your wares?
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No, nothing. I was just lost in thought.
You know you’ve played the game too much when you can hear how the Narrator would read those lines.
And you know you’ve also watched too much Thunderf00t when you can hear how Elon would read his line too…
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Dee Reynolds?
I started a DU playthrough and laughed almost as hard as I alt-F4ed the first time I picked one of those fantasize options and saw what happened. 10/10 addition to the dialogue tree
What game has “THE DARK URGE” dialogue options? I was imagining Fallout before, but this makes me think it must be some newer one.
Baldur’s Gate 3. Go play it. Now. Sleep is for the weak.
What perk gives ypu it?
When you create a character, you have the option to play an Origin Character, who are the other companions in the game like Shadowheart, a custom character with your own backstory, or a Dark Urges character, who is also custom, but has the additional backdrop of having dark impulses, like wanting to murder random characters.
Don’t forget potentially useless proficiency skills.
A rogue with wis as a dump stat provably shouldn’t be making too many medicine checks lol.
Ive only messed with that origin once.
I’m still exploring builds, not so much because I’m unaware of the RAW stuff, but to see how its implemented in BG3. I haven’t left act one yet, lol.
Ok guess I just overlooked it.
I think it’s the bottom right option.
I very quickly learned not to trust the Dark Urge to stop at imagining the act.
*roll a nat 20
“Get fucked, shitbird. I didn’t buy your bullshit even when people thought you were techno Jesus.”
5. [ELON FANATIC] I agree, my liege. Do you need help convincing others?
I’d delete my save if I hit this option, just to be sure.
So, you’ve been playing way too much BG3 too?
Define “way too much” please
30 hours a day
/s
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The only thing that gets me hard is billionaires not getting their way.
So when you win the Powerball you’ll have to be a masochist to fuck?
I mean…im already a masochist when i fuck so…I…I really don’t know how we got here to be perfectly honest.
If I win the Powerball I’ll be able to afford a good Dom.
Now the real paradox: if I can only cum when billionaires can’t get their way but I’m a billionaire and my mistress denies me orgasm, what happens? Does the universe implode on itself?
We obey the laws of mathematics in this house!
Nah just donate to charity until you’re well below a billion. Even a hundred million sets me up for life, and it has the added bonus of not being so much that my descendants end up as fucking idiots like Musk.
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When I go to x.com I end up on twitter.com
So Elon says it’s 𝕏 but my browser still says it’s Twitter
Wonder how much money he blew on that domain only to not even make it the canonical one.
He probably can’t change it without breaking something lol
Probably third party apps. Gotta keep those smart fridge Twitter clients running! Musk even memed about it a while back.
Since he tried to name PayPal X also, I’m assuming he’s has it forever. Like Bezos and relentless.com.
Even back then a single letter domain was probably worth tens of millions.
Maybe he’s just fixated on some sort of sunk cost fallacy. Now that he’s finally in control of another online service he feels he needs to use the domain he spent untold amounts of money on just so it didn’t seem like a waste.
No, he literally had to buy the domain back from Paypal in 2017. Paypal owned the domain for years, even after firing Elon in 2000 for trying to switch to it.
Funnier yet, when you go to https://𝕏.com you also end up on x.com which redirects to twitter.com.
That’s funny, when I do it I end up on nitter.net
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I personally prefer xitter, pronounced as shitter
GTA IV had a Tw@ Internet Cafe so I’ve always kind of thought of it like that.
That’s it! We’ll call it 𝕏@! With the 𝕏 pronounced as sh and the @ pronounced as at!
I’m partial to Twixxer myself
I like calling id xD
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X post by user The Chaser @chaser reading: ‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child. Underneath is a photo of Elon Musk’s face with a barely visible Tesla logo in the background and the link to the article at chaser.com.au
[I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]
Good human.
Thank you, fellow human! 🤖
I think you may have misspelled tweet /s
Does Lemmy support alt text? I don’t remember seeing the option.
People usually put it in the post description below the image, from what I’ve seen.
I’m so tired of these woke CEOs and their snowflake whining over misgendering their companies. There’s the name that a company is assigned at birth, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to change the way I’ve always called them (for my whole life and ALL of god-fearing Christian history) because some liberal snowflake CEO one-day wakes up and simply declares, “twitter is now X” ffs.
The facts of the
birthincorporation certificate, DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS little pissant mUsK… GET OVER IT!/s since satire is dead.
Mr. Pibb, Dr. Robotnik, Sierra Mist, I’m not using your woke “Pibb Extra, Dr. Eggman, Starry” nonsense!
Oh, that’s what that was about? I honestly just assumed Starry was some crap knock-off that the restaurant just happened to have that day. Not really sure what the motive would be or why they’d expect the reaction to rebranding a nearly 20yr old product would be any other assumption. I’m going to disagree with them. They should be glad I’m not calling them Sprite.
Yeah… I thought the same, that it was some knock-off company’s bootleg Sprite, wasn’t a very good idea, especially since the product packaging looks like Sprite’s
Ugh, it hurts that there are losers out there who say this shit unironically.
“The Chaser” is a satire site. You’re getting really angry over something that never happened.
Legend says if you say Twitter 13 times inside of a Tesla at 4:20am, Elon Musk will appear inside the car
More likely that the autopilot kicks in, locks the doors, and drives into a lake.
That’s going to happen anyway when he enables The Code, he just has to wait for enough people to buy them to save the climate he’s actively helping destroy with rockets, then he gets all them tree hugger no good hippies in one go!
/foil hat
Probably just disables your car
And if you say Twitter 69 times inside of a Tesla models S3XY at sharp 4:20am, Elon Musk will cum inside the car
X is a fucking stupid name
No, X is a letter. But it doesn’t matter what you call a shitty product, it’s still a shitty product. I’ll also keep calling it twitter.
More Fun In The New World was great though.
Sure Elon, I can provide this service to you for just $8/month. It’s great value honestly, I have expenses to continue to run my life and just $8 will happily contribute towards that.
Double that and you can rest assured that the X I will pronounce will be verified to have come out of my own mouth. Not someone else’s, mine.
I’m bad at math, but Elon Musk is worth $229 billion dollars, which I think is enough to give every person on Earth $8 a month for a while.
If you call 3 months “a while”
I would, yes. You wouldn’t?
No, I wouldn’t call 3 instances of payment (for a total of $24), “a while”.
Okay, well maybe three months isn’t a while to you, but I think most people would consider a quarter of a year to be a while.
It would be one of the greatest redistributions of wealth ever, sadly.
lol so funny this guy thinks we’re just gonna stop calling it Twitter
Can I call it “Twatter” instead? It seems way more fitting.
Xitter with the ‘x’ pronounced as ‘sh’.
Xitler same pronunciation of x
“The Chaser” is a satire site. This never happened.
No. I’m exercising my Musk-given right of ultimate free speech and will continue calling it Twitter, just because I feel like it. Musk would be proud of me standing up against censorship. Oh wait…
… And all of this could have been avoided if he just renamed it “Twitter by X”, so make Twitter part of the X super-app that he wanted to build.
Then he would have been accused of following in the footsteps of zuck with “meta” and I don’t think his insanely fragile ego would survive
Yep. One of many reasons I’m not catering to the whims of a billionaire and calling it what he wants it to be called. It’s going to continue to be Twitter as far as I’m concerned.
I could call it that but then nobody would know what the fuck I’m talking about. Maybe at least pick a name that’s unique?
… hold on this mf has TEN kids
which… one? we’re not talking about Grime’s baby are we?
Nope, Vivian Jenna Wilson, Musk’s adult daughter who changed her name and disowned him because of how he treated her as a trans person. Imagine how awful that must be to disassociate yourself from the richest man in the world.
Reminder that his response to this was “Can’t win 'em all”. Father of the year, no wonder he thinks his sperm is a gift from god.
And he should know since it’s his favorite drink.
Can we please stop calling unrealized gains holders the “richest in the world”? It’s patently untrue.
You’re basically forced to measure that as wealth. Otherwise we’re just pretending someone is poor just because they’re cash poor, yet I would argue that poor people have no real way to get 40 billion dollars to immediately lose money on a social media company.
Je named one of them like a fucking password!
And it wouldn’t even be a strong password
I believe she has two with Elon and (last time I checked which was awhile back) dating Chelsea Manning.
