This is going to be a short one, as everything that I need to say was said better in these videos.
Commenter “Fox Mulder” sent the above video to me under one of my Escape From Epstein Island cutscene articles. I decided to actually watch it this morning at 2x speed, and surprised myself by making it through the entire thing. Watching the unrehearsed reactions of actual Path of Exile players as they witness this fraud noobing his way through PoE2 on an account that would have required hundreds of hours of playtime was quite enjoyable. For a shorter version, see the video below.
Imagine Elon Musk wanted everyone to think that he was a God Gamer at chess. So what he does is pay some high level GM to grind a new account for him, and gets it up to roughly 3,000 rating on Chess.com or Lichess. Then one day he streams himself playing on the account versus the easiest computer level, and he doesn’t know how the pieces move.
It’s not just that Musk is perpetuating a fraud, it’s that he doesn’t have the decency or self-awareness to make it remotely plausible. Could he not have at least played a few minutes of Path of Exile 2 beforehand, to familiarize himself with the basic mechanics of the game? Are we really not worthy of at least a little effort from this conman? Not even fifteen minutes?
This is the world’s richest man. This is the guy who’s running nineteen different revolutionary companies at the same time, and influencing the heads of multiple Governments. A manchild who is so insecure that he wants to be loved as a god gamer, so lazy that he doesn’t bother making the fraud remotely believable, and so arrogant that he doesn’t care anyway, even though the entire point was to influence our opinion of him.
Rod Hilton Mastodon (December 24th, 2022):
He talked about electric cars. I don’t know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don’t know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard anyone say, so when people say he’s a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
Elon Musk is basically the rightoid version of Malcolm Gladwell, midwit whisperer of years gone by. The centre-left dorks ate up Gladwell’s random bullshit until he started talking about a subject they were familiar with, at which point they realized that he had no idea what he was talking about, but assumed that he’d simply made a one-off mistake in his analysis. This went on for the better part of a decade, until eventually it was so undeniable that Gladwell was a bullshit artist that his reputation was ruined, even amongst the Current Thing Enjoyers. I think we’re getting there with the mumbling African-American.
Truthfully, it is a gift that the world’s richest man is such a joke.
How funny would it be if it turned out that some of the H-1B visas Musk has brought in were pajeets whose sole job was to grind out his Diablo and PoE accounts. It would make his Christmas spergout over “skilled” immigration even more childish and retarded than it already was.
I wondered that myself.
The craziest thing is he totally could’ve just bumbled through early game, streaming that and just saying “hey its pretty fun lol” for a lot of easy sympathy. Instead he just showed everyone how much of a pathological liar and insecure little bitch he is.