I watched the Elon Musk Path of Exile livestream, and my biggest takeaway from it was that he simply does not enjoy playing games, he seemingly views Gamer™ as a status symbol and is going through the motions, how badly he plays is immaterial to the fact there's no joy in it for him, he's miserable.
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My issues with executive function make it amazingly difficult for me to even try to do anything I don't enjoy.
To game without enjoying it for optics seems like absolute hell.
https://kotaku.com/elon-musk-vivian-wilson-daughter-overwatch-torbjorn-1851773503
Me: I play video games to have fun and enjoy myself.
He is one of the biggest losers of all time.
That said
I'd buy any of the people posting the copy pasta of his baby mama's tweet asking him for child support a beer.
It's rooted n longing for a sense of permanence & stability in inherently short & unstable human life
Although my friend @shrimprider.bsky.social would be able to color that in much better than me, they're the only reason i know any of this stuff 😅
The main character is also a socially awkward asshole who's only passion and hobby is playing games, to the point where his friendships and relationships suffer from how rigid and transactional his thinking is, so no wonder Musk was like
"Ohhh so cool, He's like me Fr"
Like buddy, not enjoying videogames is not a reason no one likes you.
He believes being "good at games" displays superiority
Good grief.
He's got terminal "how do you do, fellow kids?" energy.
All in an effort to make himself look cool, when all it does instead is further expose him as disingenuous.
He wants to desperately be the coolest guy at the children's table.
Not the first time he tried to buy respect either. See his attempts to get himself inserted into Scifi stories (even Star Trek).
People like him are so far removed from the idea of improvement as a survival mechanism that experiencing it is unpleasant and terrifying.
Honestly I strongly prefer Nioh 2 for the much more fluid combat and letting me cosplay as my favorite magic samurai.
He grifts angry white men by posing as a gamer
that’s all it is for him
Or maybe he's just that utterly, profoundly lonely.
That and how the whole collapse of society is pretty much just set dressing.
Stupid and wasteful!
Particularly, the book doesn't care to address it in any way. It just calls it finished once Wade becomes rich and gets the girl. The most that it suggests is that Wade could shut down the whole internet if he wanted, but that's left in the air.
This is what he picked.
Gotcha Elon. :p
I am referring to Artisans of Splendent Vale
You should watch the whole video, the more Elon talks about chess the more it becomes obvious that he doesn’t actually understand the game at all. Yet he says he never lost a game of chess in his life.
When losing, throw more money at it.
Chess isn't MY game but I wouldn't say it's bad... It's just incompatible with my brain fog.
My fun with boardgaming is trying to find THAT game for people. The one that scratches whatever itches they've got...
He don't read, he make Gen AI resume the book and act like a schollar in front a bunch of people.
That's just miserable.
I'm shit at video games and I just laugh about it because I'm just here for a good time.
What makes it crazy is the people he wants to acknowledge him HATE people pretending to be into their stuff
it's that he spent so long trying to claim he was this incredible god gamer and he's been exposed. so now it's mocking the hypocrisy, the lie
but like, anyone who doesn't use guides ends up with a "dogshit" build for at least part of the game so it shouldn't be that big a deal
Instead he took it personally
Did you see Joe Rogan's reaction to him claiming to be top of the leaderboards? That's what he wants
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28340174-Casey-Explosion/
It's a thoroughly wonderful game that is criminally overlooked, a hybrid metroidvania/FPS filled with some amazing boss encounters, and one of the best games I played last year. Currently 40% off and there is a demo to try!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1853760/Frogmonster/?curator_clanid=28340174
https://store.steampowered.com/app/393520/Iconoclasts/?curator_clanid=28340174
no spoilers but man what a finale
really curious to see what @konjak.org is up to in terms of the next game, however long it may take
https://store.steampowered.com/app/761460/Lamplight_City/?curator_clanid=28340174
Legit I cosplayed as Royal for a con once and got in touch with Konjak for advice on getting his outfit right.
The characters made a HUGE impact on me.
Started it back when it came out and I never beat it due to my hard drive dying.
I think I’ll start it up this weekend.
Someone in 2019 asked him what his film of the year was and he said "Parasite" which I feel was him very clearly just picking the "Intellectual" choice.
doesn't justify wanting to be part of that *particular* crowd though :shrug:
Tries to live a more or less normal life as far as I can tell
And Bezos really seems fulfilled by creating a machine to eat us all but I'm not sure if that counts
... oh NOW I get "AI art."
Step 2. Exile him there so he has to be insulted by trains
And that's not how *anything* works.
But claiming he is in the top spot on rankings made by people who play games full time.
https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world-hunger-but-gave-it-to-his-own-foundation-instead/
*Any* of these super wealthy dudes could go down as the greatest philanthropist in history in one day at no cost to their own lifestyle, but despite how much they're ego driven literally none of them have.
Oligarchs are like dragons. They both horde wealth, and both desperately need a mounted lance charge to the chest.
And: "status?" STATUS?
How is it real life that this near trillionaire who's almost singlehandedly destroying the public sector still yearns for the approval of 14 year old edgelords?
And yet, there are people who really want the title despite not liking the thing. It's like marrying someone you can't stand. Why make your life miserable?
https://bsky.app/profile/chedo-b.bsky.social/post/3ll7zvpaotc2u
Would be really fucking funny to see AOC 1v1 him in quake or something but I imagine it would end with her basically doing the Spider-Man 2 “Gunna cry?” bit while he throws a tantrum.
Classic, love it ❤️
seeing this imbecile being a poser out of all things just makes me laugh.