The thing about the “Musk is a fake gamer” story is that the dude demonstrably lies and bullshits all the time, but it’s a lot harder for a layman to spot an engineering problem than see through the gamer shit, but the result is the same, in that it punctures his mythology as all powerful genius - ThreadSky

roryblank.bsky.social • 40 days ago

The thing about the “Musk is a fake gamer” story is that the dude demonstrably lies and bullshits all the time, but it’s a lot harder for a layman to spot an engineering problem than see through the gamer shit, but the result is the same, in that it punctures his mythology as all powerful genius

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i love the story about Elon lying about being good at a video game because it’s not the worst thing he’s done by a mile but it is maybe the most fundamentally pathetic

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magmadoctor.bsky.social•40 days ago

You know he’s a genius savant like Tony stark because he knows how to jump Mario over the flag pole

captainruck.bsky.social•40 days ago

damn, I had something like this a few days ago, but couldn't find it. anyway, yeah, this is a big Elon Realization moment for a lot of people-- the moment when he starts talking about something you actually know about, you realize he's full of shit, and wonder if he is on everything else, too.

captainruck.bsky.social•40 days ago

and there are a lot more gamers than there are rocket scientists or automotive engineers

shawnc1959.bsky.social•39 days ago

Musk is not only full of BS, but is so unstable that anyone thinking of doing business with him needs to have their head examined. Case in point: most of the car industry agrees to reengineer their EVs to use Tesla's charging network just in time for Musk to abruptly fire the Supercharger team. 🙄

work4helium.bsky.social•40 days ago

As an Aerospace Engineer I welcome whatever theme, or meme, necessary for people to see how pathetic, and dangerous, he is

exiledviolet.bsky.social•39 days ago

It's multi-layered.

First he plays a boosted account, which could be a flex if he presented it properly as how rich he is that he can pay a pro Chinese PoE player (or more likely a team of them) to boost a survival account all the way to 97. That's at least sponsoring something impressive.

exiledviolet.bsky.social•39 days ago

Then he plays it BADLY, showing he probably hasn't put even a real afternoon into the game before and that he hasn't watched any videos while taking full credit for a level 97 character that is simply impossible for him to have made unless he can fold time or doesn't sleep.

exiledviolet.bsky.social•39 days ago

Then when he is called on this by literally every gamer ever, he acts like a massive pissbaby about it on Twitter and doubles down on a lie that anyone who isn't clinically brain dead knows is a lie.

exiledviolet.bsky.social•39 days ago

And here's the thing... a level 97 character would actually be worrying if he made it himself because it's like.... dude you're the richest man on earth and a CEO of several companies and the co-president and you fucking spent three months solid minimum playing a stupid video game? What the fuck?

exiledviolet.bsky.social•39 days ago

Like... who is he trying to impress with this lie? In every aspect it's just concerning, whether you're a gamer, an investor, or just an American because this guy is, again, pretty much co-president.

jcarrdoin.bsky.social•39 days ago

spoiler alert, he doesn't spend much time at his companies doing shit either.

sailorfulltime.bsky.social•40 days ago

Musk didn't invent anything. He bought his success with money from his daddies emerald mine.

lurks-no-more.bsky.social•40 days ago

No, he bought his success from the money he got from PayPal sale. The emerald mine story is catchy, but Musk's money ultimately comes from being lucky during the dot-com boom, despite being terrible at business and at programming.

artemisapphire.bsky.social•39 days ago

Had this convo so often with people who think Twitter is fine because they can pose short pieces of text

Not only is the platform now cracking open with glitches and poor functionality any deeper than posting a tweet, it's also a total corporate and investor mess

artemisapphire.bsky.social•39 days ago

It's got to be the worst piece of corporate and commercial management I've seen in decades, and yet everyone thinks he's a business oligarchic genius

Riiight, which is why he's generating thousands of fake bot accounts to fake engagement numbers to stop his investors freaking out

jcarrdoin.bsky.social•39 days ago

You can't be competent in IT and respect this idiot. He's never engineered a god damn thing worth a single solitary fuck. He buys other people's ideas and claims success. He had the shittiest e-payment loser tech and he rode his participation trophy to the richest man in history.

jcarrdoin.bsky.social•39 days ago

Elon musk is proof that capitalism is not a meritocratic system.

roryblank.bsky.social•40 days ago

If he’s lying about being able to be one of the top Path of Exile and Diablo players whose incredible brain power lets him get to these elite levels while working 16 hours a day running several successful companies and being involved in the government, how can we even be sure he has a genius IQ?

roryblank.bsky.social•40 days ago

What else might he be lying about then?
Are we ever going to Mars? Is full self driving just about to happen? Is X really the savior of free speech? Well gosh, if he’s not really at the same level as PoE players who game 50 hours straight and have insane reflex skills, could it be he’s full of shit

tumescentnumpty.bsky.social•40 days ago

well now i'm starting to doubt if he is in fact a no rules street fighter who gets lots of sex

roryblank.bsky.social•40 days ago

That’s true about me though

jcarrdoin.bsky.social•39 days ago

he's already said we won't get to mars in his lifetime, which is a direct contradiction to the shit he was saying on his way to "billionaire" status.

roryblank.bsky.social•40 days ago

so this incredibly petulant, kid whose uncle works at Nintendo ass lie needs to be protected with the same ferocity as the recipe for coca cola. It’s the corner stone of his brand.

thomashansen.bsky.social•40 days ago

#NeverForget

Elon Musk is a dumb persons idea of a smart person.

$TSLAQ proverbs

mattboxer94.bsky.social•40 days ago

Case in point proven by the Helen Lewis article. Fwiw I knew abt the grooming scandal back in 2015 or so due to news reports from the UK at the time and the Islam critical/New Atheist/Skeptic groups I was in at the time

https://bsky.app/profile/mattboxer94.bsky.social/post/3lfwtmezj4s2g

thomashansen.bsky.social•40 days ago

🎯🎯🎯 and hits hard:

Longtime Elon skeptics nodding along and saying “we’ve been here before”. #TSLAQ

As @TeslaFraud said:

truebleu.bsky.social•40 days ago

Sad

luzah.bsky.social•40 days ago

I hate him so much. I have a normal life and it took FOREVER to get my first purple in DiabloIV. He's such a damn liar and cheat. It's obvious there is NOTHING real about him or his "talents".

williamwst.bsky.social•40 days ago

My favorite is still the esmerald mines and him offering a reward whoever could prove it, then his own father showing up with the documents.

tyrotcm.bsky.social•40 days ago

Wait what? I haven't heard this story.

eruanion.bsky.social•39 days ago

As stated, it is also pathetic. He couldn't just be a guy who likes gaming, he had to be "Top 10 ranked gamer god!" for his ego
Like, i enjoy gaming, but I have never bragged I am "the best" at any game. I play how I like. Which annoys some people

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