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[T-0800]

I know who you are. It's the word 'popular' I was side eying.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I know who you are. It's the word 'popular' I was side eying.

I gotcha

 

[\m/etalStorm]

So we can safely discredit his Diablo IV account too? This is embarrassing. Elon, the fraud.

It never added up, since it just requires a huge amount of time to grind. It's less obvious in D4, as it just turns into a clicker game when your character build is good enough.
But I always thought that he was paying someone to level up, that is what a businessperson does in the end.

 

[Dick Jones]

I know some gaming execs in a very popular platform that 100% had interns level up their scores in games to look like real gamers.

But that is part of a book one day I need to write

Spencer with Vampire Survivors is well known. 200 hours in 2 weeks

 

[Rentahamster]

Charlie chimes in lol

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I bet it’s Yungroan that is playing Elon’s account!
Edited.

 

[FunkMiller]

Charlie chimes in lol

Imagine actually hero worshipping this fucking dolt

Why would any of his businesses be any different to this? If he's pathetic enough to lie about something so trivial just to try to look good to a bunch of gamers, then he's certainly pathetic enough to apply the same attitude and methods to everything else.

 

[Spukc]

That’s it returning my tesla!

 

[newtypepilot]

i called it last year in the d4 thread.

Him streaming occasionally is just a part of a PR stunt to make himself look like he still has it with the gamer crowd, so he can impress his billionaire friends. He's not going to waste time grinding his character. Just order one of his personal assistants to do it for him (or rather, his PA who knows jack shit about games orders one of the interns to do it).

 

[Valedix]

And? The guy is running how many companies and people critique him for this?

 

[adamsapple]

He's usually pretty quick to tweet about certain things, has he tweeted about this so far?

 

[ntropy]

So we can safely discredit his Diablo IV account too? This is embarrassing. Elon, the fraud.

season 2 he comes out of the no where to copy AceofSpades' Shred build. I seriously doubt he grinded the Tears of Blood glyph that season.

I think he got sensitive after people clowned him for his Elden Ring build

 

[Johnny Concrete]

he is rich, of course he is paying someone to do his job for him

Sure, but apparently also paying someone to have fun for him. Which is kind of sad.

I heard he hired 50 prostitutes to party on his yacht, then also hired 50 dudes to fuck them.

 

[The artful mincer]

He is arguably among the most deceitful famous western civilian people on the planet. I'm continually astonished to see people commending him for falsehoods they are too blind to recognize.

Path of Exile 2, FSD, Hyperloop, Twitter, "Vegas loop", DOGE or Starship, it's all the same bullshit:

It's ironic this silly incident is insight into how Elon always operates.

1. Buys himself into a position of power.
2. Gets more talented people than him to do the hard graft.
3. Takes all the credit for it.
4. Knows just enough to fool the general public to get away with it.

Unfortunately for him he fucked up at 4 this time. The average person doesn't know much about electric cars, rockets, and robots etc so he can look like he knows what's he's talking about with those things. Experts are never fooled by him but they don't have enough influence to stop the misinformation spreading like wild fire.

This is different because

1. He actually had to demonstrate competency.

All the other stuff he can just chat shit to journalists. He never actually has to demonstrate being an engineer.

2. Gamers are experts at being Gamers!

If the old saying about needing 10,000 hours to be expert is true.... Well some of us are overqualified!

It's crazy that this might be the thing that truly sinks his reputation but I'll take whatever I can get lol.

 

[Secret_Lover]

Its truly hilarious how badly he fumbled such an easy PR win. If Musk wanted to appear personable and gain standing with gamers all he had to do was say that he enjoys PoE (or any game for that matter) and maybe stream some campaign gameplay. Instead his egomania got the best of him and he just had to invent some preposterous lie about being the best PoE/Diablo/Quake gamer of all time.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Everyone still raging a out Elton Muks?

 

[pudel]

Unfortunately for him he fucked up at 4 this time. The average person doesn't know much about electric cars, rockets, and robots etc so he can look like he knows what's he's talking about with those things. Experts are never fooled by him but they don't have enough influence to stop the misinformation spreading like wild fire.

What misinformation are you talking about?

I have absolute respect for him creating companies and hiring awesome talents and than achieving great things with them. Thats the normal modus operandi for every business/company.

Its just that this isnt the modus operandi for being good at video games. In fact its a no go. He should just stop pretending to be a godgamer. If he is interested in video games and sometimes play them...like everyone else...that would be already enough to get all the appreciation he is looking for.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Everyone still raging a out Elton Muks?

Eron Lust will always get people angry for one reason or another