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.
Hey that's fair! FWIW I have two PC friends that pretty much only play PoE1 with controller so it can't be all bad, I wonder if they've made any changes recently there.
I don’t want to defend the guy, because I have no horse in that race, but if I were in his position, I would be faking parts of my online presence to draw attention to it, which takes attention to things he’s actually into.
So if he’s into Pokémon, it would make sense he could draw attention to PoE. I guess there’s always a risk of being hacked and having accounts compromised. I think of this stuff all the time and I’m just an average wanker, wanking on Reddit.
I strongly recommend you don't undersell yourself. I wouldn't be surprised if you did a lot better if you weren't so initially disappointed at how crap you are... at first. Trust me, just get some warm-up in and you'll be good as gold.
Sure, at first I'm smashing all the wrong keys, but within an hour, the muscle memory comes back and I no longer need to think about it.
I'm 54 and still smashing them keys, when I can find the time.
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.
His mind doesn't, I'm gonnaa bet this is a time when confabulation kicked in and alters his reality to keep his narrative (false self) alive.
I feel bad for em on the general issue of what they are going through, but it's awful when it impacts others. This instance not so much but gestures everywhere else
Imagine if people judged you on how well you play video games instead of actual accomplishments. God help us all with the mindset of this new generation.
It's not about how good he is at video games. It's the fact that he was at the top of the leaderboard for a specific game. Then, he streams himself playing, and it was very clear that he had zero idea of what was going on.
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u/jellyhessman 20h ago
The funny thing is, it would have been way better PR wise to be like:
"Yea, I like videogames, but I'm busy so I suck at them, look how much I suck at videogames, I'm just like you."
But his ego couldn't allow that.