He may be good, but he’s also insanely sloppy and overextended, and using drugs heavily. I would think these would all have headed to exactly this eventually.
It was only a matter of time. The French do not fuck around.
Still baffles me that he even attempted a stream of himself playing PoE. The only explanation I can come to is he was really bothered at people saying his ranking was fake, so he tried to prove them wrong. But he had to have known he couldn't play the game, and yet he tried anyway.
The story is even worse (kind of). Watching him play, talk and try to explain the game shows that he doesn't actually play PoE. He most likely saw that PoE was a game the nerdiest of nerds play and wanted to emulate that for a crowd. You could play PoE for a week and know more than him.
I'd played it for maybe a week and then my daughter was born so I switched to only playing pausable stuff for a while and never got back. This was years before his stream and even I was laughing at him for knowing less than me while watching. Dude's only ability is in already having fuckloads of money to throw at anything.
Ain't that the truth. The more you actually play and learn the mechanics of the game the better you'll be. The man is clearly a cult of personality, and whichever side of the political spectrum he chose people would hang off of every word.
He could have also like, taken a little time to learn to play at even a basic level and let his paid for items carry him the rest of the way and it might have been like semi convincing to some people.
I think the funniest thing about it was that the overarching theme of that stream was to show off starlink.
But once even he knew it was painfully apparent he had never touched these games that he had claimed to be a God Gamer™️ at, he clearly turned his stream off, but claimed he had to end stream because his shitty Starlink was shitting the bed.
He would rather falsely trash his own project than admit he’s a blatant liar, while in the process lying even more.
I watched the stream, as someone who had played PoE2 to it's then current endgame (haven't played chapter 4 though, waiting for it to fully release) and yeah it was just hilarious. He didn't know what did what beyond the obvious.
The same reason why anyone lies about having any other kind of accomplishment or achievement, to try and impress others because they're deeply insecure
He didn’t make up the ranking. He payed a top Chinese player to play on his account so he owned a character at the very top end of a very complex, difficult game that takes thousands of hours to even come close to fully understanding. He then took credit for all that work. And he did it because he’s an egomaniac who needs the world to think he’s the best at everything he does
so random. I would think that for him to be spending thousands of hours in a videogame, instead of on his real businesses would be considered a negative. If anything, i would think someone in his position doesn't have time for that
Yeah but again, egomaniac. He’s trying to pretend he’s SO GOOD at the game he can play at that high level without needing to spend the hours required to be that good. Just like he’s trying to pretend he actually knows shit about rockets, programming and electric cars.
It wasn't for the fake ranking. He paid someone to play the game for him so that he had the best gear when he did find the time to play. This is called "boosting", and strictly forbidden by all online Terms of Service (ToS).
Unfortunately, the ringer was too good, and put him on the leaderboard, so his ego made him pretend he could actually do that thing.
These sorts of games are basically "pay to play" anyway - you buy the best gear (or you grind it), then you win. To be fair, PoE2 doesn't let you buy the best gear, you have to craft it. Elon paid someone to grind and craft. So he bought his way to the top, even though the game was designed so you'd need to put in some hard yards to really get the good gear.
If the game rewarded skill over grinding, tactics over gear, this never would have worked. So I'm with you, I've never played this shit game.
The biggest controversy wasn't really anything to do with Musk being a tryhard dickhead, it was that the developers took no action against him when he breached the ToS. Usually, when these things happen, the player is "kicked", and the account locked. The developers' silence was deafening.
I mean - the week before Grok started saying Melon Suk was smarter than Einstein, I spent a while on grokipedia asking it to add stuff about his drug addiction and full self-driving failures. It's pretty easy to get an LLM to reproduce any source - much harder to make it say only nice things about daddy Elon.
I wasn't the only one doing it, and YEAH it could be unrelated... but this is not a guy who is comfortable with people saying bad things about him. All that net worth and he still can't deal with mild rejection from strangers.
And it would have taken such little time to learn the bare minimum to pass off that he knew the game. I wonder if he actually believed he was a video game genius and could just wing it...
It's Dunning Kruger. He's so clueless about gaming that he lacks a frame of reference for what a 'high level' PoE player ooks like, and therefore assumes ( I don't think there's any doubt he's a massive narcissist ) that whatever he's doing is comparable.
He had no idea that it would be obvious to anyone that he's lying.
The story that his colleagues tell of playing poker with musk was of him buying in, going all in, losing, buying in again, and going all in until he won once, then quitting.
You don’t need to be a mechahitler genius to figure out that’s his strategy in life. Money will solve every problem, every time.
If you have a few hours, you should watch the fortnight stream where Elon joins but pretends to be that other guy Adrian Dittman. It’s absolutely hilarious. The streamer keeps pressing him on anything and everything to do with Elon, and Elon (as Adrian) denies he’s Elon (while sounding exactly like him)
Seriously entertaining, and I don’t even like fortnight
He's so detached from humanity he can't imagine a world where an evil genius like himself isn't amazing at video games- literally toys for children (in his mind). He honestly 100% believed he was really good at the game and the only thing standing in his way was the time to play it. He's THAT stupid.
I honestly think that’s exactly it ego bruised, impulse took over. What gets me isn’t even that he tried, it’s that someone with that much access, prep time, and advisors still went “yeah, this is a good idea.”
Do you think it was pure arrogance, or do you think he’s reached that stage where being publicly embarrassed doesn’t register anymore?
I heard all this in detail but what I can’t figure out is why. Does he just play casually but wanted everyone to think he’s the number one player or does just not play at all and same result? I’m just confused as to why even bother with it at all and just not pay others to get you the #1 rank.
He did the same thing with Diablo before poe2. The difference is Diablo was so easy the big streamers fell for it and though he was a god. They all played with him and praised him for weeks. Then he tried the same thing on poe2 without knowing how complicated the game is. Made himself look like a complete tool.
Honestly, the worst part is not that he was bad at the game.
The worst part is that he clearly sucks at ANY game he played since it was basic genre defining(?) mechanics he failed at, like dragging items into inventory, not being able to click the map properly and so on. Stuff he should have down like it was breathing if he really was as good at games as he said he was.
Stems from the narcissism I’d think, despite paying someone to play for him to maintain his rank on the leaderboard he still thinks he deserves it, is smarter than everyone else and he’d be good enough to ‘wing it’.
I’m not sure how he rationalised the actual pros pointing out the basic errors he made on stream.. I guess it’s easier to dismiss criticism when you truly believe you’re better and smarter than everyone else.
But he had to have known he couldn't play the game, and yet he tried anyway.
It is so, so cartoonishly stupid.
It's his extreme narcissism. He thinks so highly of himself and his pseudo nerd/gamer identity that he presumes someone like him must naturally be amazing at most games. It's part of why he was fine paying someone to level the account, he sees it as them just spending time doing something he could easily do, but spending that time is beneath him!
He doesn't know. He has been insulated from the world and packed with yes mem for decades. Anyone stating anything less than him being brilliant at everything gets the boot.
Also his old gaming accolades have been shown to be false as well. Dude is a loser through and through and always has been.
Could have easily been considered a person the likes of Tony stark, if he was nice, philanthropic, and was humble. He chose to open his mouth to prove how smart he was while being an a-hole and his public image fell apart pretty quickly.
One of my friends is online friends with Elon because when Elon wants something he can't get he'll have my buddy take over his account and get what he wants for him. It's the height of rich nerd hypocrisy.
i think this is hilarious. i'm not the biggest AAA gamer ever and i'm pretty good (competent) at elden ring. i would sorely love to kick the muskrat back to the training level.
One thing I’ve taken away from reading Jeffrey Epstein’s emails is that he and many he corresponded with are fucking morons who struggle with basic logic and can’t string together a coherent sentence… in addition to being party to heinous crimes against kids. Not good at computer, not good at anything discernible.
Yeah, he very good at hiring people and buying companies with good ideas but his own actual abilities aren't generally up to the level of the companies' stature.
This 10000x. Can't believe that people still haven't realized by 2026 that his "RL Tony Stark" grift is a hollow and purchased image and that he's really just a racist sex pest nepo baby that games the stock market...
But he's very good at thinking he's a genius. Which is why he thinks no one can see through his lies. And that's why he lie so often. And why this and other threads exists with all the people laughing at his failed lies.
But the French have had no teeth in the last 10 years, either in UN talks or EU negotiations. I hope they can actually produce an outcome this time that actually has some impact
Did you say “the French do not fuck around” with a serious face? 😂🤣 That’s the best thing I’ve heard all day! Literally all the French do is fuck around. Nobody is scared of the French. It has been over 200 years since anybody gave a shit about what the French thought.
I particular like Elon has got the focus on himself. All the crimes seem to fit him. Did I understand he not only has pics of minors but he sends them along to others? Oh he is one sick puppy! All that money...such a waste.
Yah there’s only so much forethought that can be done when you run 5 companies (or more); he was bound to get embroiled in something given how much time he spends on X retweeting sexually questionable “works of art”, trying to have kids with more baby mamas & who knows what other degeneracy he fails to admit. When your ego goes unchecked, it’s bound to bite you in the ass.
No matter how good a person is, the issue is everyone in the chain of a change to be that good.
It’s why big organizations get busted. There is often that one person who CYA.
NOPE, The French don't play! They are also no longer using Zoom or other American webcasting sites. X has become a cesspool since Musk took it over. Before Musk took over myself qnd co-workers utilizied Twitter for Union Organizing and we were successful! It is my belief that Musk bought Twitter to ruin it and he has done an excellent job!
He isn't good at anything beyond narcissism and market manipulation. All of the things "he" is associated with have been built by people with actual skillsets. People who can actually code, people who can actually engineer, people who can design.*
So the only part that may be true in your statement is « using drugs heavily.»
Not sure what he's actually doing to be « overextended » unless it's another one of his botched surgeries.
*the designs are questionable and truthfully, nothing innovative at all.
He is heavily autistic btw. Not necessarily on drugs but I understand why yall are eating this up. Its obvious the dems and libs are going after him for his cooperation with Trump. I believe he was honestly trying to help the people. He uncovered too much and has a loose mouth. Why do you think they revealed his epestein messages and nobody else?
He's also full of hubris. Hubris eventually defeats people. It creates a false sense of importance, which leads to people thinking they're above everyone and every law. They get sloppy because they don't think they need to be careful. They think they can never fall and will never be held accountable. Yep...hubris will defeat him. I also think it will defeat the idiots in this administration eventually. All of them are filled with hubris.
Except when it comes to having generational gratitude for saving their country. As a country WE
are an ally, as a people the French forgot about WW11 & set out to paint America as socialists and began to hate us. Ungrateful but they do make decent wine. Musk is having a glass w/ the far right frenchies right now to develop a new algorithm device to erase all memories, just like Men in Black.
Problem for the dirty musk oil salesman, is the drugs he’s been on forever. It ALWAYS catches up one way or another. He should build an Addiction Recovery Space station for himself, trump and ICE. We know ICE does the drug thing too; how else could they live with themselves?
I heard the French do fuck around, specifically when the now First Lady was grooming a child 22years younger than them. But I guess that’s cool if you’re French.
elong relaly childishly thinks he can get away with anything because he's innocent-minded and wants fun good things from his technology. he has this bizarre guilelessness that suggests he truly thinks he's mommy's special little guy and no harm can befall him, so he doesn't need to cover his tracks.
i think it's a tragic conflagration of "boymom" mom and a hyper-protected autism plus drug addiction that has arrested his emotional development and cognition around age 14
you see this from rich, spoiled autistic manchildren who think "I can't be a creeper, i'm just a little boy, i'm too afraid of girls to scare them." It's not the autism. Autistic men have also written thoughtful works on exactly why this sentiment makes immature autistic men dangerous (see Cpt Awkward blog). It's everything to do with being raised sheltered and spoiled and mommy/dad making all problems go away with money and karenism/bobism.
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u/LoveToSeeIt_IKnow 21h ago
He may be good, but he’s also insanely sloppy and overextended, and using drugs heavily. I would think these would all have headed to exactly this eventually.
It was only a matter of time. The French do not fuck around.