I DONT CARE
but i care enough to tell you to not post this crap
and that everyone who cares about what video game the fascist prince is playing also needs to touch grass
I take posts like these as an opportunity to block people who spam Lemmy with stupid nonsense. I’m heartened to know I won’t ever see a post by this person ever again.
That may be but they can still vote and if that’s what gets them activated then go for it. This “right way” shit has got to stop.
At this point I think it’s just fun. So much of the conversation around Elon is deadly serious, doom and gloom, and this is just… lighthearted mocking about something that doesn’t matter. It’s a refreshing change.
And it does seem to matter to him, so undermining that image he works hard to curate is an added bonus. And hell, if Path of Exile is what makes someone realize what a pathetic lying moron he can be, then that’s fantastic as well, even if it’s an odd thing to have that epiphany for.
You defeat these people by exploiting their deep seated insecurities.
Sometimes that backfires like when Seth Meyers got trump to run for president, but that’s the exception.
a minor setback?
You say that, but it seriously looks like cheating in and being bad at video games is hurting his reputation even among the chuds.
Maybe; but either way it means he gets to have more air-time and head-space.
Being disliked for someone trivial, such as being bad at a computer game, doesn’t really translate across to more important things. So that reputational damage is shallow and unimportant, but maintaining his position as being newsworthy is powerful and useful to Musk. So I agree with the other guy: better to not fuel these discussions about trivial junk. If you want to keep talking about Musk, then stick to stuff that matters.
Ignoring problems doesn’t make them go away.
If it helps, one of the reasons the KKK lost power decades back was because Superman comics ridiculed them enough that people were embarrassed enough to be a part of them. Essentially, this is how you combat a culture war. Sad as it is…
I’m not suggesting that we ignore the problems. I’m suggesting that we don’t let trivial things, such as playing a computer game poorly, distract us from the problems. This post is not an example of behaviour that needs to be confronted.
A large percent of the population tunes out when you talk about real problems. They don’t understand them or don’t want to think about them. They’ll still have some fun making fun of a billionaire who so pathetically craves nerd cred that he’ll cheat at a video game. Now every time Musk does something, one of the top 3 comments, even in non-left spaces, will be people making fun of him for cheating in POE2. It exposes him as a sham and undermines the air of competence he tries to convey.
Is it stupid and shallow? Yes, but so are most people.
Yeah, when he’s going out of his way to wreck the lives of the poor, he deserves it. More.
Fuck him.
He deserves the attention? Why? That’s exactly what he wants!
It’s good, because it shows everyone who he really is. He’s not enjoying this attention.
Sure, if he could pick and choose what attention he gets, he’d pick positive attention every time. But if he had to pick between negative attention and being ignored by the media, I think he’d pick negative attention.
At least that’s my read. And selfishly, I’m really tired of seeing Musk and Trump all over my news feed.
So am I, friend.
He also got so many baby racist messages on stream. It he kept private messages on «because it was funny»
DogshitdogeshitTBF, if he’s playing the tutorial he’s not pretending to know what he’s doing.
He was pretending to know what he’s doing a few months back.
“what hes doing” is a downplay, he had some of the best items in the game’s existance and was global top10. He is manipulating for power and status.
This is what he does, he is not an inventor or somehow smart.
He pretends and buys. While being able to stop world hunger and us-homelessness without even losing billionaire status
Just as an aside, that $20bn figure wouldn’t even come close to ending homelessness in the US. That’s just how much it would cost to house the homeless population, which is a bandaid on the issue.
The US government as a whole needs a major rewrite to actually address the issue. It’s not a situation with a simple solution.
I agree. Housing is a human right, and any person being homeless is a failure of the political systems they exist within. Homelessness is a crime against humanity. No human being should be denied their own shelter. The US government would allow more people to become homeless if all presently homeless people were housed. It would undeniably be a good thing of Elon Musk did house all the homeless, but without systemic change, we will find ourselves back at Square 1 in 5 or 10 years.
It is necessary to view and treat shelter as a human right that all people are guaranteed and provided by the system. Much the same as food, potable water, healthcare, and heat.
theres also not only one hyper-rich person out there
He secretly paid people to grind his POE2 character to become a top-leveled character and then claimed credit for it. Yes, he is pretending to know what he’s doing.
He went on podcasts bragging about how he’s the best player in the world.
I assume “tutorial boss” is the one you’re required to kill on any new character, before you can access the first city, the one that any first time player might have trouble with, but once you’ve done it once it’s never going to take you down again.
Edit,
The death in the video they posted was the first “boss” after the first city, also pretty pathetic to lose to, but not a required (tutorial) fight. Seeing his mechanics there it wouldn’t surprise me if the hillock (or whatever his poe2 counterpart is called) killed him.
Second edit
Musk died to one of the game’s tutorial bosses due to a bad connection, which subsequently concluded the stream, ending another sad, weird data point in the Elon Musk fake gamer saga.
The entire thing was a publicity stream for how reliable star link was, seems like if he’s dieing to early game bosses because of connection issues star link might not be suitable for gaming on…
Last edit, he died 3 times to the tutorial boss, at that point it’s connection issues and lack of skill.
Read everything you wrote again but realize you’re talking about the wealthiest dude in the world who was hawking his own shit and this was the result.
He literally has more resources at his disposal than any other human and this is what he produces, I guess as marketing?
What the fuck is going on?
Ketamine.
Cybertruck bulletproof window all over again. He really needs to stop demonstrating stuff live.
Elon Musk is a fake gamer girl
Hahaha, this is too accurate
Is the PoE 2 tutorial boss any harder than the PoE 1 tutorial boss? Because if not, then thats actually crazy.
the boss is “harder”, you have to actively dodge his abilities but he’s not “dying two times in a row” hard
It should still be really easy to first time the tutorial boss if you have like, any experience in games where you need to dodge telegraphed attacks
Sure, someone new to video games in general would struggle. Someone who played at least a tiny bit of Elden ring? Should feel completely natural
It’s harder. Many top payers have died to him. if you don’t pay attention
What? Maybe on the first day but not since.
Ppl die to him all the time. You can see that in the daily clip compilation YouTubes
If you read the article, he died because his Starlink connection disconnected - which also cut the stream.
Which doesn’t excuse his lack of skill throughout the stream before that.
Ringing endorsement of Starlink. Can’t wait till the FFA relies on it.
That he lost to the tutorial boss as well as being trolled to high heaven as well as Starlink crapping out is the icing on top of the icing on the cake. Bully these people. The ones that call others “snowflakes” are projecting harder than an IMAX. Bully them into the fuckin grave
This is almost as embarrassing as the botched penis enhancement surgery he had.
Dude just can’t win.
Dickless, his kids won’t talk to him, and he sucks st video games?
Dudes gonna off hisself I bet.
Not sure if you’re joking or not about the penis surgery
I honestly have no idea if it’s true. I first heard the rumor around the same time he said x would stop fact checking but whether or not that’s a coincidence is not something i can not say
I am not joking.
His dick is mangled. I have it on good authority. A lot of people are saying it. A lot of smart people.
He has less of a penis than a trans man.
This is why he hates trans men so much.
The only way he can disprove it is to show his dick.
Otherwise he might be using “the wrong bathroom”
There are rumors going around from people in his life that he underwent a failed penis enhancement surgery. A lot of people are joking that his dick is mangled or missing but in reality he probably just cannot maintain a natural or medicinal erection due to damage to the blood vessels. He has the money and resources to get a penile implant installed which is basically a fluid sac that fills up with the touch of a sub-dermal button to give someone an erection. He’s got a balloon animal cyborg dick basically. More than likely this makes him completely incapable of impregnating a woman (no muscles to ejaculate sperm with) which is why all of his children are IVF
He also does it to ensure all his kids are XY because he’s a raging sexist, which explains why he’s such a shitheel to Vivian.
It’s a recent rumor on why he does ivf.
The real reason is 100x worse. Elon does IVF because he is a sexist pos that only wants sons and no daughters.
Also why he has such hateful issues with Vivian. Fucker can’t stand the fact that a) he has a daughter and b) reality and people remain uncontrollable even if you’re obscenely rich
Dude just can’t win.
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t have been such a bad thing, were it not for the fact that he’s desperate to both be seen as an infallible genius, and well liked.
If it was the image people had of him 10 - 20 years ago, him admitting that he likes video games but wasn’t that great at them might have actually helped his image.
If Elon had said he loved PoE2 but he sucks at it because he rarely has time to play then that would have at least aligned with his claims that he works 60 to 80 hours a week. Elon pretending to work 80 hour weeks and also grind 16 hours a day on PoE2 was just insane. He is such an idiot
So that’s why his testosterone is so low and he needed all those hair plugs and face tucks and chin sculpting.
And oil drums full of HGH that ballooned his torso like mister Creosote from Monty Python.
Gender affirmation for Elon not for thee lol
Talk about bait and switch headline
#MUSK DIES
^(to a video game boss)
What do expect out of a bonze level torbjorn main? 😆
In the last minutes of the stream, Musk made a hardcore difficulty character he named Kekius Maximus, a 4chan-esque meme name he’s used as his display name on X. But Kekius Maximus was not long for the world. Musk died to one of the game’s tutorial bosses due to a bad connection, which subsequently concluded the stream, ending another sad, weird data point in the Elon Musk fake gamer saga.
The guy who claimed he was a top tier Quake player… who in actuality, was only scoring well in online matches, because he played on the T1 high speed, stupid expensive business line at his Zip2 business in the 90s… and performed terribly at LANs…
Well here he is 30 years later, now dying to a tutorial boss, partially due to the shitty connection of his own ISP.
Amazing.
The ISP he was supposed to be advertising in doing so, no less.
dae hate Elon Musk?
I’ve hated him since before Trump’s first election, correctly realizing he is a fradulent try hard con man megalomaniac, and have had to endure a decade of people mocking me ‘oh yeah like you are smarter than the richest man on earth yeah right fuck off’.
Yep. I am smarter than him. So were half the people hurling those insults at me, actually.
Elon is actually quite stupid at everything other than conning people.
Much like Trump.
Shit, mentioning the T1 really made me have a minor flashback. Yeah. Back in the 90s computer processing power varied dramatically between users. Like when I got a 386 around 1990 it had a whooping 40mb of space and 1mb of RAM. It was a lot for the time. We never had to run anything directly off disks. But just 3 years later when Doom came out (and I remember the launch of Doom) i was surprised that we couldn’t have it because it needed 4mbs of RAM. Also our computer wasn’t fast enough anymore so when we DID finally get it years later we needed to use the smaller screen option to get it to run fast enough otherwise it was too choppy to play.
Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you’re talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.
It would be like if you took a modern formula one race car from 2025 to a formula one race in 1925. A medicore driver would win, but not for skill.
Back in the 90s my friend and I would play Descent against each other via modem. I had a 100Mhz processor, he had a 66Mhz processor. If I came in blasting with a rapid fire weapon his machine couldn’t render fast enough and he’d get blown up.
Descent… man I haven’t played that or magic carpet in ages. I need a trip down memory lane later tonight…
Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you’re talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.
Exactly.
In that sense, ‘pay to win’ has always been a thing lol.
You sound probably a bit older than me, but I can’t tell you how many times in the 90s and early 00s that I legitimately lost games due to having a garbage tier ping to basically everywhere, and a shitty eMachine, and everyone else just acted like none of that mattered and I was just whining.
Then, surprise, me and the online boys all jump into a server where they all have pings of 80, I have a ping of 200, and then they’re all mad that I cant hit anybody because enemies are rubber banding around like fucking DBZ characters for me.
… Then I do a LAN party with local friends and utterly dominate, routinely.
-.-
I’m younger than both of ya’ll but I remember playing COD Modern Warfare 2 on my Xbox 360 with a 27” CRT TV and a connection that put me a good few tenths of a second behind everyone else(estimating off of killcam footage).
I cleaned up most of the time. I had to get good and I didn’t know at first that it was my connection so I just started going wild lol. I only played hardcore mode and used fast, light weapons so I could react and correct more quickly. Probably couldn’t pull it off these days but it’s a fun memory.
Hehe sounds about right.
Yeah… a whole lot of gamers… seem to… think they know how game design works, think they know how to solve technical problems…
And well now in the last decade we see the buckets of slop games on steam made by such idiots, confirming that indeed, 95% of them have no clue about anything.
I was an early beta tester for Project Reality, which has now become its own studio, Squad is literally Project Reality just rebuilt in UE 4 to higher quality, because EA wouldn’t liscense out Frostbite to them.
But thats all a tangent to hopefully lend some creedence to when I say: solving network lag and having good netcode is actually extremely complicated and difficult, even still today.
We still see AAA studios fucking up the basics of a lot of netcode stuff in mmo/rpg typr games, where they just make way, way too much shit clientside authoritative, and then have to spend a year or two redesigning the entire game.
This, in turn, is why third party kernel anti cheats have taken off so much, because game devs just fucking give up at making a reasonably secure networked game.
Meanwhile Valve figured this shit out literal decades ago, with highly efficient netcode, and a mostly server side AC solution.
It isn’t possible to stop 100% of cheaters.
It is possible to stop 99.9% of them by designing your game and netcode well.
But that is apparently too hard, so basically the entite industry has outsourced it and/or solved it with massively inefficient and privacy/security compromising AC.
Have been using starlink for more than 2 years at this point and can confirm from my view that there are very few connection issues. I’ve almost never looked at my connection as the issue when gaming since getting it. It either went down completely for a few hours (2 times I can remember) or was very solid.
EDIT: Not excusing or fanboying for Musk, as his personal direction has been questionable in recent years. But talking about the technology perspective.
A coworker lives out I the middle of nowhere but has Starlink to keep him connected and working fully remote. Literally once a meeting he drops mid-sentence and when his frozen face comes back to life he’s yelling “GOD DAMNIT ELON”. Never fails to get a chuckle.
My boss had starlink and we used to joke that it was an elaborate plot to get out of meetings/awkward conversations.
Very interesting, I’ve done full zoom lessons for hours and almost never had connectivity issues like that. Our dish has full open sky view, so that may be part of a difference, as well I think it’s the first version of the dish, not one of the later ones.
He does ham radio and we just built him a 20m high tower for it with the Starlink dish mounted at the top to look over any possible trees etc. it’s not obstructions 🤷♂️
I laughed at Asmon being as nice as possible so he didn’t upset him again. He was being roasted hardcore in his own chat. So surreal.
Elon Musk dies….
Tease!
My heart sank
when I finished reading the title
How autistic could he be if he sucks that bad at video games?
Probably everyone died to him first time. You dont know the game so well and he can kill you with one or two hits.
I think the point here is “first time”, not the “I’m the best poe2 player”
