Remember when people used to tell you that Elon Musk was successful because he was a genius who spent twenty two hours a day working on his revolutionary businesses?
Elon Musk has a pretty long resume what with him being the CEO of multiple companies and now the co-commissioner of something called the Department of Government Efficiency. He’s about to add another feather to his cap, however.
Musk’s status as a Diablo 4 superfan is well-known with the irascible billionaire beating challenges some thought impossible in the game. He even surprised Joe Rogan with his official international ranking of number 19 in the world.
In an insane leap, Elon Musk looks to have become the number one Diablo 4 player in the world. It’s up in the air at the moment but if his sub-two-minute run in the Artificer’s Pit is accepted on the rankings, he’ll have eked out the top spot by a whopping seven seconds.
This is all real. Musk himself tweeted out his “achievement.”
So many life lessons to be learned from speedrunning video games on max difficulty. Teaches you to see the matrix, rather than simply exist in the matrix. Diablo Tier 150 finished in under 2 mins. (That’s what she said) *LaughEmoji*
– World’s Richest Man (ostensibly) Elon Musk
I had no idea that speedrunners were Based Matrix Seers.
Jaime, can you research this community for me please?
[Serious] Why are there so many transgenders in the speedrunning community?
This isn’t meant to be a derogatory post, I’m wondering why there are so many transgenders that are in the speedrunning community?When I watched AGDQ this year, I noticed there were very few points that I saw women on stream, but at one point there were three transgenders on stream at one time. There’s also cases of runners transgendering like Narcissa or having already transgendered.
Is it just that a couple of them liked speedrunning, and so more felt comfortable being around people like them, and so it became a sort of safe place for transgenders?
I believe in fully supporting them in the community, and giving them that space. It’s just that I’ve never seen that many transgenders at one time before, and it was shocking especially since it is apparently a rare situation.
Speedrunning is the most degenerate act known to mankind.
I’m the best in the world at something hardly anyone does. – Ryan Lockwood
Diablo IV barely even qualifies as a game. It’s a glorified Skinner Box where the main “skill” it tests of the player is the ability to waste your life mindlessly grind the same enemies over and over and over again until the RNG gods give you the right loot. The secondary “skill” is spending money to buy items, or other features such as more inventory space.
According to “HowLongToBeat” Diablo IV takes approximately twenty five hours to beat, but nearly two hundred hours for the completionist run that you’ll need to finish in order to get the top level gear which is a requirement for competitive speedrunning. Then there’s the speedrunning grind itself, where people try the same level thousands of times – often more – in order to get a good time. By his own admission, Musk’s been grinding on this run for over a month.
He took his time from around five minutes on October 20th, to three minutes at the start of this month, to the eventual 1:52 he got about a week ago. This was probably something like a one hundred hour time investment.
In case you’re wondering, the “CyberGamer” account is also his.
A known avid gamer, the Tesla CEO has recently been streaming live on X, formerly Twitter, the social media company he owns. The livestreams are under his gamer-focused handle @cyb3rgam3r420 (yes, it references 420 — a favorite number of Musk’s), not his usual @elonmusk handle.
When Musk isn’t gaming, smoking weed, or running multiple different revolutionary corporations at the same time, he can be seen tweeting.
Boy, can he ever be seen tweeting.
I turned on replies and screencapped all his tweets from the past hour. Keep scrolling, you’ll be here a while.
No, we’re not even halfway done yet.
I’m not cherrypicking anything. I didn’t stalk his account for weeks, trying to find a burst of activity. I just hopped on over and screencapped all the latest tweets within the past hour.
This is a typical hour online for the world’s hardest working man.
We’ve finally arrived at hour 2 of tweeting with his response to Ferrari’s (((DIE))) announcement.
Elon Musk has been famous for approximately twenty years. For the first fifteen he was trying his hardest to convince everyone that he had this Herculean work ethic. That’s why he’s the world’s richest man, Goy. It’s not because his daddy owned a diamond mine and he’s an obsequious little worm who does whatever the Democracy Class wants. No, he just outworks you.
No one should put this many hours into work.
You spend ten hours a day tweeting, and another ten hours speedrunning Diablo 4. Shut the fuck up.
This guy isn’t the real life John Galt. He’s the world’s most famous NEET, whose net worth is downstream of the subsidies his bullshit corporations hoover up because they coincide with the interests of the Democracy Class. Tesla had already received $5 billion in subsidies by 2015, SpaceX’s competitive advantage is the lucrative US Military contracts. Don’t even get me started on his failed companies, like the solar panel roofing, or the Boring Company.
Remember the hyperloop? Crazy how this guy has all these dumb ideas that don’t work out in the slightest, yet he’s somehow the world’s richest man.
I always enjoy writing about Elon Musk, because the guy is such an obvious fraud that the articles write themselves. This guy spends an order of magnitude more time playing video games than I do, and I’m currently developing a video game. Yet he wants us all to believe that he got where he is today because he has this autistic drive to succeed that he can’t turn off.
