good for society
Like what?
Abusing his workers to the point of giving them seizures and exposing them to dangerous chemicals? Just a small sacrifice to push us all into the future
Hanging out with Ghislaine/Epstein? Whatever, all the famous people did
SA of a flight attendant? No big deal, she’s probably lying for attention
Disowning his trans daughter? To each their own, we don’t know what happened behind closed doors
Being hilariously bad at Path of Exile 2? Ok now that’s a step too far.
These are the people who lose their shit because someone gets boosted for WoW PvP.
I’ve seen the wars they’ll start. There’s no more serious offense than being bad at video game.
It is kinda weird though that he hires people to do his leisure too. Isn’t the whole point of being that rich to waste your life fucking around?
What’s the Futurama bit where a man creates a robot to do his job, love his wife and raise his kid? And when his robot gets the award for lifetime achievement and his son starts calling the robot dad, he has the robot experience his feelings of tragic irony for him?
That, except Elon can’t program a robot if his life depended on it.
my guess is, in his mind, being great at vibeo gamez is part of his self-styled mythos. he can’t allow himself to be perceived as normal at any of the “big brain” stuff, because it would jeopardize belief in his meritocratic rise.
he’s got to be preternaturally epic at everything regarded as important by his tech douche mileu. reading, math, physics, code, gamering, sexual conquest/relationships, reproduction, operational management, etc etc.
the whole “real life Tony Stark” thing is crazy instructive about his psyche. a lot of naive people bought that manufactured narrative and are pretty shocked to uncover how bullshit it is.
he can’t allow himself to be perceived as normal
no danger in that ever happening!
He’s propped up heavily by an implicit belief in the great man theory. That and he’s probably a narcissist and has a huge ego as the result of growing up so privileged and being surrounded by sycophants so he can never show humility except in a bragging sort of way
Not to be a vulgar materialist about it, but cultivating this super genius inventor image also makes him a lot of money. The brand and the stock price of his companies are tied directly to how much people believe he’s directly involved in running them, and how much people think he’s “actually super smart you guys, I swear he’s like Tony Stark but irl”.
If people dunk on Elon for being a reactionary asshole with shit opinions, it barely affects the market. If Elon is somewhat outed not to be the savant he claims to be, the companies he has tied to his myth would suffer for it.
God I hope to live to see the day where Elon’s entire house of cards collapses. I want to see the tantrum that he throws when his piece of shit car company deflates and takes down half of the investment funds in America and Europe.
I’m convinced at this point that Tesla’s inflated stock price must be the result of a generation of failsons who don’t invest based on fundamentals and find real estate and other safe investments as too boring
Well, this just confirms my theory that some games are just another job now
He’s outsourcing
People have done this for decades at this point. I remember reading news about gamers paying peanuts to people in the global south to level up their WoW characters.
Yep
Outsourcing
i had a friend in high school who would set his alarm during the summer so he’d be up in time to grind the ladder for Diablo (can’t remember which one bc i’m not a gamer.)
Probably Diablo 2 because that’s when ladder got really competitive. You could make serious bank if you found some of the first high runes after a fresh reset. We’re talking like $300 on E-Bay for a Jah or Ber if found within the first four hours. That price plummets down to less than $1 by the end of the week.
This is mainly due to dupers being able to make their money back the sooner they get their hands on certain things.
I don’t think he was making bank though I think he was just doing it for the love of the game!
Disowning his trans daughter? To each their own, we don’t know what happened behind closed doors
to be fair, most elon fans think think this is cool and fine.
Bro his diablo 4 build was 🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦🪦
I don’t know the first thing about D4, but his PoE2 build is very solid, more or less the strongest build that all the meta andies are playing. Probably bc the dudes he paid to play for him know what they’re doing.
Tesla raised $7 billion from investors in 2019 on the premise of having “one million robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020”, this also pushed up their stock price. Of course, there were no robotaxis. And the Tesla stock price is even higher than it was when the robotaxis were promised.
Instead, Elon cultists are upset at Elon for lying about gaming. I guess they figured that the robotaxis and other lies are a scam that is in their favor, while Elon being good at gaming isn’t a scam in their favor?
The problem is a ton of people aren’t ever exposed to that kind of news in the first place. Like yeah, we’re all abundantly aware of the seemingly endless ways Musk is a piece of shit, but that’s because we’re all terminally online leftists who care enough to find a random Twitter thread linking a small journal post detailing how he used Boring to mulch orphans or whatever while the media that 99% of the population is exposed to will never once even hint at it.
Everyone is fooled by his facade until he lies about something they are familiar with.
As a software engineer, it still blows my mind that any software people take him seriously at all after the way he handled Twitter. He literally asked programmers to print out the code they’d written in the last 6 months so he could fire whoever wrote the fewest lines.
Dude has no fucking clue how any of it works.
I have never seen any evidence that he wrote any code at all. I am interested in being proven wrong. I’d want to see a video or picture of him actually typing something. If not that, then at least some commits with his name on it.
He makes some pretty revealing statements about tech, sometimes.
"I personally wrote the first national maps,directions,yellow pages & white pages on the Internet in the summer of 1995 in C with a little C++.
Didn’t use a “web server” to save CPU cycles (just read port 8080 directly). Couldn’t afford a Cisco T1 router, so wrote an emulator based on a white paper."
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“everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge”.
- Knoll’s law of media accuracy
That’s a good one. Says something that I was unable to put to words.
America being terminally car-brained didn’t help him when he unveiled the cybertruck and it looked like shit and then video emerged of it performing like shit. Lots of comments like “lol my 23 year old Honda sedan could go up that incline.”
It’s easier to be the Prince of Le Science when people aren’t in a rocket for an hour long commute every day. Cars? Everybody is in a car. Make a shitty car? Everyone can see it fail and understand the how and the why.
It’s funny that he’s unironically making good points (“if he lies at something this trivial, then how can we trust him on other things he says?”) but it’s just like, dog, this is what made you realize that Elon might be a dishonest person?
Elon made the mistake of lying about something “normal people” understand.
Elon: “Blah blah, jobs, billions, blah blah government!”
People: Sounds like BS, but IDK…
Elon: “I’m the GOAT at PoE2!”
People: Absolutely the fuck not!
I know a few people who are or used to be fully in the Elon love train, or at least thought the guy was technically capable, and admired him for being “a different kind of tech founder” or an engineer in charge of a company that makes cutting edge stuff, instead of the suits who run all the other companies.
I think it’s easy for us (leftists and chronically online) to see him be deranged now and think “how could someone think he is a smart person”, because we already distrust bosses, and see through his reactionary bullshit more easily. BUT, he has spent the better part of 20 years building this myth of him being a genius inventor who builds rockets and electric cars with his own hands. He’s spent a lot of time and money to build it, and it’s very purposeful. To the casual observer who just kind of absorbs the narratives that float around, without paying a lot of a attention, that becomes the default assumption: Elon has paid all these people to make him look good, must be true.
he is paying money to someone and getting all the credit? wow, first time such a thing happened in history of capitalism
don’t look too hard at my founder titles plzElon is a founder! (but it’s a verb that means “collapse, fail, or sink”)
You could really say he’s a drain of resources
What are you basin that on?
What a selfish sack of privileged shit! All the terrible things Musk has done were completely fine to him, but an inconsequent lie about fucking video games is where he draws the line. Just absurd.
Because all the terrible things Musk has done were good things in his estimation.
You know what? That deserves another broken cracker.
Elon having his “Lance Armstrong took steroids” moment cuz he paid somebody to play vidya for him is extremely funny.
We need an emote of Moe melting down and cussing in front of the Flanders kids for this sort of moment
This is way more embarrassing than that, though. At least Lance Armstrong can say “everybody else was too” and be right about it. Elon was claiming to be one of the best in the world in a highly competitive game while barely able to use the basic interface.
That is a really good point. I’m trying to think of a historical analog that actually fits now.
this is so embarrassing i am fucking dying from it like a terminal illness
Terminal second hand embarrassment.
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Wait you’re telling me billionaires have no problem lying about things? What no way how am I just now hearing about this
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
If he is willing to lie about this, what else is he willing to lie about. (?)
I dunno, having two degrees from Wharton would be where I’d start.
This is obviously a very silly way to arrive at this realisation, but good that they did nonetheless.
Elon said there should be an easy mode in Elden ring and it’s hitting me hard. I don’t think I can in good conscience support the Trump administration anymore
I would say it also makes me wonder, if he is willing to lie about this, what else is he willing to lie about.
This is an inroad
I’ve seen some posts (not on hexbear) claiming that Elon was just playing poorly because he was distracted or playing on a laptop. Elon streamed his boosted Hardcore character on January 7. However, I first learned that Elon was paying someone to play for him on December 21.
On December 21, a user on the Path of Exile Reddit posted the following screenshots.
https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hjbnw5/elon_musk_streamed_poe_2_from_someone_elses/
(these screenshots are dead links from the reddit post above. if you paste the dead url into your discord client the images still load.)
Screenshot 1 shows a trade message sent to Elon’s character at the time. This is an automated message generated by the Path of Exile website when you click the send message to player button, indicating that Elon’s account language is set to Chinese. Also the screenshot tells us that his stash tab was named to “Sell出售”.
Screenshot 2 shows the player in the hideout of Elon’s character at the time, while also in the same party. In the top right corner of the screenshot, you can see the hideout is hosted on the Hong Kong realm.
I can confirm that this information is true. After I saw the reddit post, I decided to also trade the account. I saw a trade message that was also in Chinese and when I visited their hideout, it was also on the Hong Kong realm. Unfortunately I didn’t save a screenshot of my trade because I had figured that the reddit post was sufficient evidence at the time. Then I made a hexbear post about it on December 22.
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