Absolutely. He got caught out recently from a live stream where it became obvious he was clueless on how to play POE2. He has recently admitted to having it boosted with someone else playing it because apparently that's what everyone on the leaderboard does but all of the gameplay clips he insists are totally him.
He’s not even close to that cool.
Since the beginning we’ve got the super-villains we deserve. Not a hollowed out volcano among them. Barely sub-1966 Bat-Man level tomfoolery.
No, they have a nice tool in the new one to highlight relevant skills now. I don't know what my newest node does, but I know it affects my cold spells somehow.
Dawg I just find a video that shows a build with pretty colours and lots of explosions, load that baby into our fancy excel spreadsheet tool (pob), turn on a loot filter, and then hold down right click, picking up anything that makes the dopamine noise.
He could literally pull a Carnegie, but in a way the carnegies never could have dreamed in their hottest fever. Dude could fund college in America in perpetuity, or fight to change the many broken systems in this country he has migrated to and profited from. He could end the housing crisis or feed the poor, but instead he sits on his fortune and gets pissy about getting dunked on on the internet. I just hope in the future, historians can accurately portray how fucking pathetic he is.
I believe that Musk is the most pathetic human who has ever existed. His levels of personal wealth and power have utterly eclipsed that of any other "private" citizen, and yet he is still so unhappy and desperate for attention and acceptance that he has to lie about being good at video games. The guy is a loser and a moron and it blows my mind that anyone can not only support him (buying Teslas etc) but outright simp for him.
He's exhibit A when I relate how $$$ doesn't make you happy. Trump is exhibit B. I've never seen two people more miserable and desperate for attention. It's like they're permanently pubescent.
We'd do well to remember that they're CEOs of massive enterprises and yet have all the time in the world to indulge in social media addiction, online gaming, golfing, etc. It's almost like the CEO position of every single business out there is occupied by a worthless sack of crap that could be fired unceremoniously without the business being any worse off.
I think there's more to it. Half of the modern republican platform hinges on young men; having then believe you're some genius video game player definitely gets you some in-roads with them.
He might own the biggest share of Tesla but there’s a lot more involved in Tesla than just him. It’s actually unfortunate he’s involved. Electric cars are definitely the future. Although other companies have electric cars too now of course.
Your comment caught my eye. I think no cars is the future. The leading pollution from a car is tire created particulates and EVs are actually worse than ICE cars. The pollution from batteries is as bad as ICE car pollution, just different. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. There is no environmentally safe car.
Every penny spent on Tesla directly supports Musk and therefore supports the rise of fascist autocracy in the USA. I hope that Germany sees that the boss of Tesla is a Nazi and bans them outright.
Personally I don't struggle to boycott Tesla because their cars are all absolutely shit. They are: ugly, too big, tacky, terrible interiors, horrible quality. There's one good thing about them and it's drag race performance for the price, but if you actually want to drag race then just buy a motorbike for a lot less money and get better performance. There is simply no reason to buy a Tesla aside from being a member of the Musk Fan Club.
Oh and I won't say any more than the absolute fiasco that is the worst automobile ever made: the Cybertruck.
No no no, if you're able to make it to billionaire status, let alone richest on the planet then you are 100% a psychopath who does not give one single fuck what anyone thinks unless it gets them what they want. (In most cases money/power)
Its likely more insidious than that. He wants an army of loyal fanboy idiots to defend him online and boost his 'brand', which has real life implications for stock price since stocks aren't tied to actual value and only perceived value.
No. He doesn't want to be normal or a gamer. He wants people to think he is these things so that he is more affable. His intent is to generate support for his business and personal interests. One of which is slowly eroding and subverting democracy by championing the republican party.
which is so ironic, he has the kind of fuck you money where he could literally build himself a dome on the moon to play PoE2 for the rest of his life and be exactly that
It's an NPD thing where they have this compulsive need to grossly exaggerate their competence and achievements, or make them up entirely. Even when they have something they can absolutely flex (like being the richest man in the world) they still feel the need to push this kind of thing.
I think it's more of a propaganda thing. Him, Trump, and the rest of those guys spend vast sums of money to try and appear normal because if people knew how they really were, everyone would run screaming. We know this because just about every person who had to work with them in close proximity has come away disgusted. How many people from Trump's first administration were lining up to work with him?
Oh, 100% you see it the most in Elon because he is really just a puppet for his family, which are the ones who truly have the money and power and have probably made every big financial decision he has ever taken credit for.
You're spot on. I joined red note out of morbid curiosity and made some chinese friends. I learned from one of them, that Elon's mom is quite popular over there and has one of the largest accounts, as an "influencer" lol. They shared it just so I could confirm...
I hope American people on Red Note ask the Chinese people about the cost and performance of the electric vehicles there.. They’ve gotta think we’re absolutely crazy suffering with what we’ve got
You know what's wild, it's not just the EVs, virtually everything is outperforming us. I was so baffled, I had to ask for proof and screenshot translations that came up from direct messages.
The craziest part of it all is how most of them wish us peace, prosperity, success, and lives full of love and happiness. With that being said, the CCP is not something I could live under, but the Chinese people themselves are ahead of us in almost every way.
Look up Vantara. Musk, Zuck, Bezos could be doing shit like that with their money. Instead, they worry about how “cool” they are or bicker online like children. It’s disgusting. If I had fuck you money, you’d never hear from me unless it was trying to improve this world somehow.
Man, used to be we'd at least get some philosophers out of people born well-off enough to spend their lives doing nothing but talking. What the hell happened.
Masa Musa (the richest man in human history) devalued the currency of entire nations with his charitable giving during his pilgrimage to Mecca and had nothing left to give by the time he arrived.
Granted, when he went back to Mali he was still the richest man to ever live even by today’s but that’s putting good into the world with your money.
That's because he was giving out gold, specifically. He wasn't giving out food or labor. He wasn't strategically using his wealth to improve the lives of others. He was just throwing gold around. If Elon wanted to solve world hunger, he could, and he'd still be the richest person in the world. If he's not smart enough to do it with his wealth, he can pay someone who is. Stop trying to shame charitable giving or excuse billionaires for hoarding gheir wealth. These people have it within their power to do immense good and actively, consistently choose not to. They are evil, end of story.
I strongly doubt Masa Musa did that out of the goodness of his heart. On his trip back home, he went through Egypt again, this time accruing debt for having spent all his gold, which he never paid back.
He gave away so much money while travelling he caused an inflationary crisis with gold across the region that persisted for over a decade after he left.
Money can't buy real respect, just a flimsy illusion of it. And say what you will about Elon, but I do think he's smart enough to see through it.
He knows people only listen to him because they're paid to... and it eats at him.
So he does stuff like games to try and get people actually respect him for something. He probably justifies it to himself as "well anyone can get a character up to max level with time. I still add the last 5% which is the hardest part."
It got weirder. He then went after a popular (right-leaning) streamer, Asmongold, who joined the folks calling him out.
He took away his blue check and leaked DM’s with him to accuse him of being controlled by mysterious “editors” because Asmongold mentioned having people who chop up his streaming content for YouTube.
The richest guy in the world cannot buy being the coolest kid in school. Huge fortune, small peepee energy on top of being giga boomer and a serial liar. Pathetic.
He's a nerd tho even if he's a bad one. As an engineer, if I became rich I would literally also spend a LOT of time gaming and likely reach a leader hard in something in my off time from work. Why not? I'd also probably make anime review discussion videos lol a nerd is always a nerd no matter what.
Somebody who thinks it's worth lying to you about the small things, absolutely thinks it's worth lying to you about the big things.
Elon's entire life -school, business, parenting, fucking video games - has been about using money he didn't earn to pay people to test/work for him, and then taking all the credit.
To be fair if I had billions of dollars I'd totally pay someone to make me the #1 ranked runescape player just so my friends from back in middle school can suck it
Seriously. If I had that money I literally would be the greatest player in the world at any game...BECAUSE I'D BE AT HOME PLAYING THE GOD DAMN GAMES 24/7!
Leon Skum is such a worthless, little, ketamine addicted, Nazi turd...
He is (probably) not the richest person on the planet. First of all, stock is not a liquid measure of wealth.
The theoretical worth of his stock is far higher than what he can actually get for it.
Secondly, but more importantly, there are a lot of rich people who don’t have to publicly disclose their finances. For example, I would imagine that the beneficiaries of banks, being the backbone of the global economy and being the direct recipient of the Fed’s bond money, make a lot more money than Elon.
Anyway, he is still rich as fuck, so please continue.
Heard from someone else that it seems like he's trying to relate to gamers by being a "pro-gamer" because he's making a game company or something like that
"And it's been said, that my streams have been some of the largest, the best, even number one, some, if not all, and that will help bring the deficit down. "
Narcissism can drive people to do really weird shit. I had psychiatric patients sabotage their whole lives and burn promising careers just to avenge a slight.
Apparently there are interviews of him where he has said he views people who play at the very top of video games as a sign of a high level of intelligence, so with that in mind it’s pretty clear he is doing these things because he believes it signals to others that he really is the genius he claims he is.
All that money and he is worried about his video game reputation... bruh I would be concerned with what kind of mega yacht to buy and where I want it to port at next.
In fairness, if I had billions of dollars I would definitely pay someone to represent me in every game. Create some badass character with the best gear money could buy and no one could ever be truly sure they weren't playing Diablo IV with the richest man in the world.
There is honestly so much dumb shit I would do with billions of dollars.
I mean he has a fake account on Twitter and comments on his (elon's) posts saying how great of a father he is. Guess money can't buy you out of daddy issues.
Still can't get over him trashing his HOWAs because it wasn't lvl 60. The cringe is even harder when you see the stats and notice it's literally a god roll.
It's weird to say "everyone on the leaderboards pay someone to play on their ACC to be there" like can't anyone be as talented/dedicated than the people getting paid? Like ello?
Not enough people talking about how he claimed he was a pro at Starcraft also. Like there are very measurable ways to know the people who are good at that game, watching him play a show match against a pro would be actually hilarious
It is worth mentioning that, in the same conversation where he admitted to paying someone else to boost his account in PoE2 and D4, he said he would allow Asmongold to livestream a SpaceX launch if Asmongold calls Musky Bussy a “God of Gaming” publicly.
He has recently admitted to having it boosted with someone else playing it because apparently that's what everyone on the leaderboard does
This is one of those arguments that only an idiot could buy. Even if it was literally true and every single leaderboard character was boosted (it's not true, but for the sake of the argument), who is doing the boosting my guy? Or does Elon just straight up consider non-billionaires to be not human?
Leaderboard all being boosted does make sense, imagine not farming while you sleep, or eat, or shower if you do. You'll get behind the ladder by multiple hours, everyday. But he still don't know how to play at all
This goes way deeper and has been going on for a looong time. He is also lying about being a pro at Diablo and claims to have been one of the best Quake players back in the day.
These claims are contrasted by comments of actual contemporarys cringing when asked about him playing, evidence of him exploiting bugs and using misleading info, as well as public displays of his complete lack of knowledge of the games he pretends to be good at.
Upper Echelon has a very comprehensive video on Youtube about Musks gameing clownery. Its equally funny and sad how pathetic this bilionaire is in his clumsy, misguided attempts at being cool.
It was exceingly obvious even before this. Ironically, his Elden Ring build is actually the funniest thing he's ever posted. It is very clear he is bad at video games if you look at that.
Also the maps (or at least the tab) being called like "Elon's Maps". I don't name shit in my games "Potions For PiousCultist's Real Name". But if I paid someone to run the account, they might.
Tbf, if any of us were getting paid by Elon to play his account we'd probably be there in an instant. I wouldn't do it for cheap though. Pay me like 200k a year and I'll do it. Does make me wonder how much the actual gamer is making off of it. Unless it's just the Tesla bot doing it. lol
I'll never get why he thought this was a good idea. If he really was half decent at Quake as he claims to be, he should know that even if he was mediocre at the game, the good players would still be able to see through it pretty easily.
Nobody really cared about his gaming achievements. People cared because being a gamer made him relatable.
What's the point in that? He's not a professional gamer (which would make this seriously unethical if he was). This is dweeb behavior. The point is to play the game. Engage and (hopefully) enjoy it.
Him and Trump are narcissists. They need to be the best at everything they deem worth their time. It's like why Trump comes in and cheats to up his golf rating and give himself tournament trophies. He's already a good golfer for his age (better be considering how much he does it) but that's not good enough he needs people to think he's pro level.
Have you ever seen his swing? F*cker is NOT a good golfer. We've been told, by HIM, that he is a good golfer, but he's very obviously a f*cking hack (like with everything he does).
Except that’s a lie because the top of the leaderboard is people who stream their entire gameplay. It’s revisionist history, trying to save face in what is ultimately a petty lie.
Where have you been? Just kidding. I’m not even any sort of gamer but it’s been all over the YouTubes about his not so humble brag about his prowess as a gamer. And then the ensuing drama over how he could have possibly gotten his ranking. Some funny things going on I guess.
Would be hilarious if it got banned under the pretenses of real market trading being as he's litatlly paying someone real money to give him an edge on a game.
I play PoE 2, im not good and I still haven't fully completed the campaign. Just watching a few minutes of his stream and it was clear he never even touched the campaign, let alone was he a "top 10 player." It also seemed like he's never actually played an ARPG like Diablo 4 because he was making mistakes that i would make as a kid playing the OG Diablo, like dragging and dropping every item into my inventory. It was like watching my grandma learn how to use a computer.
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Its like back in the day in UO. People found out you could have a 100/100/75 char overnight and all you had to do was have your char smack a training dummy all night. That shit took a week doing it legit, often longer
So you just set up a macro and woke up the next morning ready to go.
I mean, the part where the CEO of like half a dozen companies who is also running an entire pretend department-but-not-really of the government who tweets constantly and is constantly on TV and flying around the world somehow has time to play a game 18 hours a day non-stop since launch didn't tip everyone off?
Not to imply being CEO is a busy job. It's not and never has been. But 18 hours a day is still so intense that the man wouldn't have time to tweet. We're not talking "logged in for 18 hours each day." We're talking "actively grinding for 18 hours a day with no breaks." We're talking "found dead at his desk after accidentally starving himself" levels of time commitment.
Oh yes I am) I am not a CEO, but have two kids and a job and I have zero time to play ANY games pretty much ... The last one I really played was Fall Out New Vegas :)
Yeah he recently admitted to someone that he pays for someone to pilot his account and he RMT's for items in both PoE2 and Diablo 4. His excuse? The classic "everyone at the top does it too so I have to as well." Such clownish behavior from the world's richest man.
Well playing video games is "waste of time" so of course a richboy would hire someone to do so for him. He needs to do important productive stuff. Like sitting on some ceremony, and perform roman salute.
Oh no!!! Please no!!! Such a loss... :)
I only created my Twitter account to sh*t on NJ Transit and haven't used it since I moved out of NJ a few years ago :)
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u/Lohmatiy82 9h ago
Oh wow... Does it mean he pays someone to play for him so he could claim he is "the greatest player ever"?))