{"id":1230521,"date":"2026-02-25T12:44:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5NhoxqV24jxgfibaZKwsXK"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:44:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:44:59","slug":"elon-musks-latest-gaming-take-is-ruthlessly-mocked-by-bioshock-fans-probably-thinks-andrew-ryan-was-the-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elon-musks-latest-gaming-take-is-ruthlessly-mocked-by-bioshock-fans-probably-thinks-andrew-ryan-was-the-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s latest gaming take is ruthlessly mocked by Bioshock fans: ‘Probably thinks Andrew Ryan was the hero’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DOGE mastermind Elon Musk took the recent No Kings protests<\/a> in the US as the latest opportunity to reinforce his gamer cred with his followers on X, and once again his need for approval has blown up in his face.<\/p>\n

“Anyone else think of this yesterday?” Musk posted on June 15 (or early June 16, depending on your time zone), the day after the No Kings protests against Trump’s presidency drew more than five million people across the US, according to supporters.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Elon Musk (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was a pretty clear allusion to those anti-Trump demonstrations, especially in light of the ugly breakup between Trump and Musk<\/a> earlier this month that saw Musk claim credit for Trump’s election victory and seek to imply that Trump kept company with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to which Trump responded by threatening to take away the massive US government subsidies that keep Musk’s companies afloat.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Anna Hughes (Bluesky))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It all simmered down after a few days (Musk later apologized for his remarks), but some things you just can’t take back, and at first blush Musk’s “no gods or kings” post looked like he was rubbing Trump’s nose in it a bit, in a way that Trump probably wouldn’t get.<\/p>\n

But then about a half-hour later, he put up another post with nearly the same quote\u2014using “men” in place of “man”\u2014above a video of a successful SpaceX rocket landing.<\/p>\n

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No gods or kings, only men pic.twitter.com\/StNow0bb6RJune 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The implication of this one is very different, seemingly casting Musk in the role of Andrew Ryan, the founder of the underwater city of Rapture in which BioShock takes place. The reaction to the post on X was a predictable slurry of cheers, insistence that there is a god (this seems to be the dominant response, at least among those surfaced by the algorithm), and a handful who want everyone to know they recognize the quote as a BioShock reference.<\/p>\n

Over on the BioShock subreddit<\/a>, though\u2014a place where people tend to have at least a passing familiarity with BioShock, including the fact that Andrew Ryan was a villainous megalomaniac who meets his destiny at the wrong end of a golf club because he’d rather score a point than go to therapy\u2014the reaction is quite a bit different.<\/p>\n

A small smattering:<\/p>\n