Elon name change ;'°(

[Alex l'Ariete]

So sad.

The right thing to do should have been transforming the Elon stuff in the most overpriced ♥♥♥♥♥♥ garbage equipment among everything else.

But I guess this was easier. Still good, I laughed when I noticed it.

The problem now is: am I morally legitimated to buy it? Probably I will keep avoiding it but I still wonder.

[Koder]

Transforming?

[Alex l'Ariete]

Originally posted by Koder:

Transforming?

hehe

[Risenzealot]

What do y'all mean the Elon name change? What happened?

[hev]

Originally posted by Risenzealot:

What do y'all mean the Elon name change? What happened?

Eon Interstellar unveiled an ambitious plan for a generation ship to colonize HD 20794d. To celebrate, the company rebranded to highlight a shift from a single person's legacy to humanity’s long-term pursuit of the stars.

From the latest release patch notes

[Archifenix]

Personally I think it is fine. Using Elon early on seemed to me like a friendly joke, but now that the game is becoming more popular and the joke's namesake becoming more of a douche, changing it seems appropriate.

Plus Eon Interstellar sounds pretty damn cool.

[Mavrah]

Originally posted by Archifenix:

Personally I think it is fine. Using Elon early on seemed to me like a friendly joke, but now that the game is becoming more popular and the joke's namesake becoming more of a douche, changing it seems appropriate.

Sorry you hate technological advancement, human spaceflight and eliminating inefficiency?

[Ed86]

Originally posted by Mavrah:

Sorry you hate technological advancement, human spaceflight and eliminating inefficiency?

people were walking on the moon while elon was still building sand castles in his africa sandbox
technological advances has nothing to do with elon, its nasa engineers that develop tech and build ships
what eliminating inefficiency? you paid from you taxes to fund elons "private" companies with goverment contracts, and after billions paid elon now will eliminate your ineficien social program

[Nutcase]

...technological advancement...

Are we talking about iterations on older, often publicly-funded tech the man is squatting on, the immature tech forced through far too early, with poor, sometimes gruesome consequences, or the lovely intersection of the two?

...human spaceflight...

Again, which one? Even with McDonnell-Douglas Boeing being an eternal problem, humans would be in space, Elon or no Elon. Even if we'd have to throw more cash at ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Roscosmos to do it for a while. And speaking of!

...eliminating inefficiency?

Despite watching reasonably intently, I've yet to see any inefficiency actually eliminated. I am, however, seeing the overture to the kind of looting that made me happy to see Dmitry Rogozin losing his balls.

[Thizcrusher]

was going to buy this game, glad i see the developer puts his politics into his project before i spent money

[Wahchewie]

Originally posted by Thizcrusher:

was going to buy this game, glad i see the developer puts his politics into his project before i spent money

Oh no, a Maga didn't spend ten dollars and acts like he has some kind of leverage?

Anyway.

[RandomNoun]

I doubt they would have appreciated the satire surrounding Elons inclusion in the in game lore anyway

[Nutcase]

Originally posted by RandomNoun:

I doubt they would have appreciated the satire surrounding Elons inclusion in the in game lore anyway

You're assuming they would spot the satire.

[|IPG| TheDez]

There was lore in this game? I thought I was just mining space-rocks in Saturn's rings with feasible near-future tech.

[gobydon]

Hile Tessler !!! "It's All Computer" AHAHAHAH... AH.ha..ha... ugh.. It would be funny if it weren't such a disaster.

[Miss Brain Problems]

Originally posted by Thizcrusher:

was going to buy this game, glad i see the developer puts his politics into his project before i spent money

I'm very confused as to how renaming a company from "Elon" to "Eon" counts as "putting politics into a project".

Originally posted by Mavrah:

Originally posted by Archifenix:

Personally I think it is fine. Using Elon early on seemed to me like a friendly joke, but now that the game is becoming more popular and the joke's namesake becoming more of a douche, changing it seems appropriate.

Sorry you hate technological advancement, human spaceflight and eliminating inefficiency?

Yeah, so, funny thing about that? We had all of that before Musk, we'll have all of that after Musk, and we've had plenty of it during but besides Musk, and in each instance we've had it *without* relying on a fragile little snowflake who goes crying to his mommy and his president whenever people say mean things about him, and *without* a toxic boss who pays his employees in his family's hereditary apartheid emerald mine money so that he can take the credit on all of their work.

If only we had just kept funding NASA, then we wouldn't have to be dealing with all of these fanboys gushing over a

For reference, as someone very big into technological advancement, human spaceflight, and eliminating inefficiency, I was very enamored with the guy when I was younger, when he really did seem to just be all about space exploration, renewable energy, electric cars, and all that jazz.

And then I realized how many big promises he kept making but never keeping. Where are those water filters he promised the people of Flint, Michigan all those years ago, anyways? More pertinently to what you're concerned about, when exactly was it that Musk said he'd be getting people back on the Moon and then also finally on Mars?

It's okay to admit that you fell for his grift. I know that I did. But I also admitted to myself that I had fallen for his grift, and stopped buying into the grift, and I'm much better off for it.