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didn't one of the online missions from GTAV involve doing work for a satirical version of Elon Musk (Avon Hertz) who, besides being an obvious ultrarich tech douchebag, turns out to be an omnicidal shithead that the player has to kill to stop him from incinerating the planet with nukes for "progress"?
gtaV is probably the least biting in its satire of American culture, but shitting all over tech moguls (and even killing them hilariously) is a consistent refrain in the game. like they have the player kill the Mark Zuckerberg stand-in back when the game launched. not just because his in-universe social media platform is deeply invasive of privacy (LifeInvader), but also because shorting his stock just before taking him out with a cellphone bomb at a live stockholder hype event nets a shitload dough.
Musk is like a guy who opens a popular book that is about Elon Musk being a loser that is comically murdered and says, "this is lame, actually, and no one likes it."
There's a reason his every cameo appearance in cartoons and things back when he was popular (like the Simpsons and Rick and Morty) needed to be as toothless and blindly praising him as possible, with 0 mockery, no matter how much it clashed with the show's general tone. Dude has probably the world's most fragile ego.
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