Do you believe the tales of rich kids’ solo inventions like Howard Hughes’ steam powered bicycle or Elon Musk’s video game both at age 12?

>>511000521 (OP)
Does it matter?

cool clock, achmed!

Hughes was legitimately an interesting guy who put his own life on the line testing his aircraft. Elon is a pathetic faggot who autistically posts on xitter all day

>>511000521 (OP)
My dude every kid with an 8 bit machine in the 80s was writing games in BASIC, and that's a commercial small engine applied to a commercial bike.
The notable thing here is the attention, and that's a factor of who they are.
What's changed is the journalists and other assorted internet retards and wogs presenting this sort of thing as "inventions".

>>511000833
When Elon is caught lying about video game achievements and credits himself for inventing the tesla, makes me wonder about Hughes who also came from a rich father but claimed to be a self made man

>>511000521 (OP)
id punch and take money

Hughes was an intelligence asset. His companies were controlled by the government and in his personal life he was controlled via the mob.

Now, consider how Elon went from a little game developer to buying the biggest breaking news site in the world to running a government department in charge of re-arranging the books on various state department projects.

>>511000521 (OP)
Fuck no, lol.

>t. knower of richfags

>>511000521 (OP)

Maybe, the wealthy are usually genetically gifted. Though Musk never seemed particularly intelligent to me.

>>511000521 (OP)
What was the game? Because games were programmed with simple computer language back in the day and were pretty simple and low budget

>>511000521 (OP)
It takes more than brilliance to get to where Elon is. His is unusual enough to break past the incrementalism that plagues everything. You can safely move progress forward or you can take a chance by changing the paradigm, which usually doesn't work. If it were just brilliance then some of the greatest minds wouldn't just be teaching.

>>511001932
It's a cultural thing. In the US kids had Nintendo, in the rest of the anglosphere kids had Spectrums, C64s, etc., computer magazines had BASIC code for games printed in the back, and you were taught BASIC in school. Any reasonably bright kid could cobble an "original" single screen game together in a couple of afternoons.

>>511003484
Everything you said about the anglosphere was the same in the US. You just described the childhood of Bill Gates and all the OG big tech people

of course i believe it! they're just smarter than us stupid goys. bill gates totally just invented dos in his garage. we just don't work as hard as them, silly goy

>>511004025
No I just described my childhood. My point is Musk was not exceptional here, except that somebody decided to promote him. I had a quick look at that Blastar(™) thing he did and I've played better games coded by a guy who's now a plasterer.

>>511004157
Bill Gates bought DOS from Seattle Computer Products. I thought everyone knew that he didn't invent it.

>>511004613
CP/M was better anyway.