[CyberDildonics]

I don't think the executive going down in their own creation and using a video game controller before imploding is a tale as old time.

[seanicus]

How about a nepo baby trying to achieve low orbit using wax wings?

[antisthenes]

Likely happened all the time during the feudal ages, when incompetent military commanders ordered their feudal subjects to engage in combat with disadvantage.

This event is just thinly veiled with a little bit more civility and tech progress.

[marcosdumay]

It is too. But it's a very different tale from the one where the executive just orders other people to take the bullet.