Only days after Elon Musk threw shade at Warren Buffet on Twitter by jokingly stating that he would start his own candy company, he’s back at it with the eyebrow-raising tweets. On Monday, the tech mogul tweeted two words that sent the internet on a wild chase for some answers: Rococo basilisk.
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This seemed to be a joke compounding the lavish 18th-century baroque style “Rococo” with the Roko’s Basilisk artificial intelligence theory, which hypothesizes a future where a god-like A.I. punishes everyone who didn’t help create it. This might have rung a bell for fans of the Canadian pop-star Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes. That’s because she had made the identical joke in a 2015 music video for her song “Flesh Without Blood.” And according to a Page Six report, this was all a convoluted hint that Musk and Boucher are dating and will be attending Monday’s Met Gala together. Confused yet? Us too.
“Elon was researching the idea of joking about Rococo Basilisk, and when he saw Grimes had already joked about it, he reached out to her,” an anonymous source told the publication. “Grimes said this was the first time in three years that anyone understood the joke. They were both poking fun at A.I.”
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This wouldn’t be the first bizarre interaction between Boucher and Musk online. Earlier in May the tech CEO tweeted a link to a video of a comet, which Boucher responded to with “that’s a lot of cocaine.” This flirtatious banter caused a furor of speculation that the two were having some sort of internet love affair, which culminated with Musk’s tweet. Adobe photoshop elements & premiere elements 2020.
Musk has been quoted saying that A.I. is more dangerous to humanity than nuclear weapons. While Boucher created a character in her music video named “Rococo Basilisk,” which she told Fuse was “doomed to be eternally tortured by an artificial intelligence, but she’s also kind of like Marie Antoinette.”
So if the rumors prove to be true, it was a mutual fear of robot overlords that brought these star-crossed lovers together.
Although he was previously killed off in The Walking Dead comic series, Rick Grimes will soon return in a brand new comic, and this time, he’ll be fighting aliens in addition to zombies. And no, before you ask, this isn’t an April Fools’ Day joke.
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Readers of The Walking Dead will be aware that issue seventy-five of the seminal comic series featured an alternate non-canonical ending in which Rick Grimes wakes from a coma only to find himself in the midst of a full-scale alien invasion. We have now learned that a new anthology comic called Skybound X will feature a weekly segment titled Rick Grimes 2000, which will serve as a continuation of the non-canonical alien invasion ending of issue seventy-five. In other words, there is going to be a weekly comic about Rick Grimes fighting aliens, which sounds like it could be the coolest thing ever.
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Rick Grimes 2000 will be spread across all five issues of Skybound X. It will be written by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, with Ryan Ottley providing the artwork. And yes, Ottley’s cover for the first issue of Skybound X, which you can view below, really does show Rick Grimes wielding a lightsaber. Although it probably won’t be referred to by that particular name in the actual story due to copyright concerns. But it’s still clearly supposed to be a freaking lightsaber. Rick Grimes will definitely be using a form of laser sword throughout the series. The former sheriff has previously used everything from hatchets to crowbars in his war against the living dead. So it will be great to see him wielding a more elegant weapon when he goes up against his new alien foes.
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In addition to Rick Grimes 2000, the Skybound X anthology will also feature a number of separate stories. They will be canonical to the mainstream Walking Dead comics. One of which will feature Clementine, the fan-favorite character from Telltale’s acclaimed Walking Dead video game. On the other hand, other stories printed in Skybound X will not be connected to The Walking Dead. But will instead focus on various other characters from Skybound’s vast library, including Science Dog and Murder Falcon.
The first issue of Skybound X will be released by publisher Image Comics on July 7, 2021. So fans of The Walking Dead might want to mark that date in their calendars. Because a story featuring Rick Grimes fighting aliens with a lightsaber sounds too damn good to miss.
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