The challenge there is that this is and has always been a real life supervillain origin story. They are ALL like this. It's not a change, it's what created him as we experience him. Too late to stop now, but be cognizant that this is what makes Elon Musks. Normal men acquire 'enough'. Not him.
just imagine going to mars with this guy. you gotta work 100 hours a week and you can't even go to home to your little bunk hovel and enjoy a video game with your fellow indentured servants because you have to pretend he's the best
Oh he'd Oceangate himself (and everyone else) on the way there
But it's never gonna get that far. In reality, his little sTaRsHiP won't even make it to the moon (let alone crash on it), but we can still bully him into trying
like... I'm not the best at games, I've never competed, and I have an impacted reaction time because of my disability... and I bet I could still beat his ass at anything.
Stuff like this always reminds me of this couple that came into the bar where we did trivia. They started googling the answers after the first score announcement because they refused to believe anyone else actually knew the answers.
The fun thing is he would be able to improve his image if hecwas able to do some self deprecation. "Here's me just trolling around like the P2W noob I am"... But no, he has to pretend to increase his self worth.
There's a decent chance he did know how to turn off social interactions, but in the heat of the moment? He was probably embarrassed of the idea that people would see him as weak. If that was the case, then good.
I had a brief look at the response video from that Quin69TV streamer that was mentioned in the article. Elon barely knows how to navigate the game. Slowly dragging items from inventory to equip them (everyone just shift+clicks, works in most similar games). I doubt he knows about chat functionality.
a tutorial boss where the game literally pauses with big "press spacebar to dodge roll out of this attack" AND a pause when your HP gets low to say "you have a health flask. click this button to recover HP"
From the article:
"Gamers reportedly accused the billionaire of having "NO FRIENDS" and charge that he "WILL DIE ALONE," while also looking "DUMB AND UGLY." Touché!"
I didn't have rooting for gamer trolls in 2025 bingo card, but here we are.
Side note, I have dated the stereotype "gamer bro that rege quits" that blames women for everything, and Elon's made that ex look attractive again with his brand of tantrums.
I would NEVER condone online bullying.... But we can absolutely online bully Elon so much harder. I want him to be miserable every time he even thinks about playing a game. In game whispers, account dm, we can use all the tools we have in game to make his life hell!
On the one hand, every minute he spends gaming is a minute he's not fucking up everything else, on the other this can't be good for his mental state, which also slows down his fucking up everything else. So either way, a win
I'm convinced there's no better way to discredit Musk to those most susceptible to his grift than to show them his fraudulent posturing during his PoE 2 play session. it's so easy to see how he uses the same technique to feign expertise in everything else he does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ui4h0J1mIQ&ab_channel=penguinz0
Charlie’s pretty wide-awake as gamer guys go, but yeah when he’s this mad you’ve crossed a line that it is fair to assume many less progressive people will be able to understand
For example, just after this timestamp, where he talks "authoritatively" about the underleveled items that he has -- except, whoops, they're actually god-tier and if he had anything to do with getting them he'd have to have known that https://youtu.be/8Ui4h0J1mIQ?si=9fHoz6MPpgfGn4k0&t=873
Seems to be the opposite: growing up with no challenges and just going through life never having to try apparently makes you a thin-skinned whiny twit. Basically, Musk and Trump don't know failure or frustration so neither can they empathize nor are they prepared to experience it themselves.
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But it's never gonna get that far. In reality, his little sTaRsHiP won't even make it to the moon (let alone crash on it), but we can still bully him into trying
Regardless of my skill level in various games, I’ve never had more fun watching than playing!
... but when people REPEATEDLY tell you that it exists AND try to explain how to use it BUT you still keep ignoring it:
whether right-wingers like to admit it or not, everyone gets motivated to do something when they're rewarded. not punished
If there’s one thing that would make a cyber bully stop and think, it’s a person freaking out and rage quitting.
They would never look at that as an invitation to see who could cause it to happen again…and again and again and again
"Gamers reportedly accused the billionaire of having "NO FRIENDS" and charge that he "WILL DIE ALONE," while also looking "DUMB AND UGLY." Touché!"
Side note, I have dated the stereotype "gamer bro that rege quits" that blames women for everything, and Elon's made that ex look attractive again with his brand of tantrums.
in fact i challenge anybody to show me footage of elon musk looking at and comprehending written text.
The person behind the article deserves some kind of award for that sentence alone.
Alternate Take:
In 1 year, if you make fun of Elon playing video games, you're first in line to El Salvador
Sad