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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Question: is he an AI robot and we haven’t realized yet?
Why wasn’t he arrested?
^ this
Also why weren’t he and Grimes removed from the project? I would have called a lawyer immediately to cancel her contract.
Probably not a good practice to fire a women just because her husband, BF, dude who thinks he knows her shows up at her workplace brandishing a gun.
She isn’t responsible for HIS actions.
The people who gave into his demands instead of calling the police were wrong. He should have absolutely have had to face some consequences (even if they played along and let him record something while waiting for LEOs to arrive.)
If he was waving the gun around. Then why wasn’t he shot? Surely studios have security. Armed security. And anyone bringing a gun in should be wrestled to the ground and sent to jail. And if brandishing that gun shot at.
Agree. From what Ive personally seen video game companies do not have armed security or any security beyond having keycards. But big studios might be different.
Major game studios have their own in-house recording and mo-cap facilities – it’s not like a Hollywood studio. You’re literally going to the offices, which happen to have a few large spaces for this part of the game dev. I’ve worked at several, and have never seen security people outside of the typical front desk scenario.
I know it’s a typo but I think we should all refer to him as Elno from now on, it just seems to fit somehow🤔
@Cessily Someone in the comments made that typo a few weeks ago with the “typo and it stays” joke and it tickled me so much that I adopted it lol.
It’s not a typo. It’s a common way of referring to him yet also avoiding search engine results. Elno, Mush, Muskrat, etc. The man is hyper litigious and this is a way to avoid getting onto his radar.
Was it on this site that I saw him referred to as Apartheid Clyde? I think so. I make a motion that going forward he is only referred to as such. Small dick energy indeed.
@Lynn, it was! I’ll throw in an Apartheid Clyde for ya next time!
Hmm. This one’s tricky for me, because Elon probably would do that, but Grimes is not exactly a reliable narrator of anything and especially not of things that make her life seem SO WEIRD AND COOL. Isaacson does not seem like a reliable biographer of this subject, either. Did any of the game developers confirm this actually happened?
(More credible and almost as alarming is the idea that a father of young children keeps a loaded gun on top of – not even inside of – his nightstand.)
This poor world needs more Drew Carey types and zero billionaires.
Wackadoo.
I’d have done exactly what the psycho wanted when he showed up with a gun. That kind of fkn freak can be dangerous.
I have such a visceral reaction to this blockhead’s face. Elon Blockhead Musk. Vomit.
I LOATHE his moronic thoughts on population. They’re all so stupid and easily falsifiable; always baffling how people who’ve never had more access to information decline to actually access it.
I was hopeful this had just happened and he’d been arrested.
My thoughts exactly. Was hoping for a mugshot…Eloser busted! ah, that would have made my week. Well I’m an optimist so…#someday
“Phony Stark” lmao
He’ll be Space Karen to me forever… until one of those SDE extensions blows up with people on board… then maybe he’ll be Inmate 10101. Surely the grift is up when that happens? What would have happened to the Titanic voyeaur had he survived his Stupid cruise. They could have been cell mates.
Read the latest story on Neuralink in WIRED and I had no idea what they were doing to animals (pigs, monkeys, etc) at Neuralink. The stories about the monkeys holding each other’s hands and pulling at their implants broke my heart. I’m avoiding anything to do with Elon Musk for life. He is not getting a cent of my money.