Such a /technology/ post.
There is technology in it, like a computer game.
It’s got Elon, so it must be Technology. ;)
Honestly don’t care about Elon’s PoE 2 account. Nor do I care much about Asmongold as a person, I only have a single important question:
What’s with gaming streamers/youtubers trying to look like Jesus? GN Steve gets a pass, he’s Tech Jesus and everyone knows it. What’s up with Asmongold and that Penguinz guy though?
By “look like Jesus” do you mean they are white guys with long hair and facial hair?
I think you might underestimate how easy it is to grow your hair out and stop shaving and instantly become a Jesus look-alike. No effort needed.
Also, these two dudes look extremely different from each other and obviously they look nothing like Jesus who was a 5 and 1/2 ft tall brown skinned Semite.
My first instinct was to poke fun but it’s actually important to keep breaking this overpaid influencer’s false image. He’s actively using it to push his harmful agenda.
Rich people work so hard to deserve their perverse wealth /s The only way they can still blow of steam is by pretending to grind online multiplayer games no actual working person has enough time for.
What kind of flex is this supposed to be?
I dont know path of exile in detail but being a top mmo player has always struck me of an archivement in dedication of time much more then inherent skill. The learned skill the pros have just comes natural with enough dedication.
My general reaction to something like it is not more then . Wow “you” must really enjoy this particular game. Is that reaction really worth cheating for?
Do we think he lacks the general life experience to be able to reflect on the common knowledge that a pro failed more times then the beginner has tried?
I known Elon is neurodivergent if not full on autistic but so am i and i cant make sense of this guys wims.
I think it comes down to what you said, but for the obscenely rich.
A pro has failed more than a beginner has tried. The obscenely rich have been told ‘yes’ more than the poor have had the opportunity to even ask questions.
You can learn this type of failed behavior just like a bad habit, and boy howdy is he the master of it.
Fuck, I hate hearing about these people.
I think I’m just gonna ignore you. Sorry OP.
some random twitch streamer is worse than any person I’ve ever heard of. Wow what’d they do! It’s some video game leaderboard bullshit drama about Musk.
Lol fuckin quality journalism vice. Must be a really eventful news day.
Isn’t it weird that he’s the top player in PoE2 AND Diablo IV?
Plus a highly involved, successful CEO for multiple companies! I believe any of that is true as much as I believe he’s a free speech absolutist.
Do you think he pays Chinese teenagers to run his companies
I wouldn’t be surprised given the decisions he has made at Tesla alone.
I would be
Chinese teenagers would be much more competent at running tech companies
Oh, thank you, Vice! I didn’t know Asmongold was worse than Hitler.
Garbage journalism what a joke. Fuck, I still remember when Vice was relevant and renowned for the work.
But the reason Vice uses Asmongold instead of someone like Quin69, who made the video showing Elon is a fraud, is because people know Asmongolds name and it gets Vice the clicks.
Calling Asmongold the “the worst person you know” is fucking pathetic. He gets consistently shit on by journalists for having the ability to think for himself.
He’s pretty clearly a shitty person that no one should model themselves after.
Yeah sure whatever you say, keep following the herd. I stopped giving a fuck about your virtue signaling types months ago.
Go ahead and follow the script to call me a nazi next.
Why would you be a nazi? I suspect you are a cnfused child if you think Asmingold is an aspirational figure.
Asmongold is the kind of guy who is unfuckable despite having money. Why would you want to be that guy?
Do you habitual judge people entirely on their fuckability? I mean, I have little opinion of Asmongold except what I see other people saying about him on the internet, but that seems like a weirdly sexualized take on things.
When Im talking to an obvious teenaged boy it’s safer to talk in terms they understand. A 15 year old might get why Asmongold isunfuckable but they might not understand why adults would hold him in disdain regardless of what he does.
Playing by someone else’s rules means they dictate the conversation. You have significantly less power. If you want people to act like adults, like reasonable people, try treating them that way.
It may not work, but it’s far more likely to do so than constantly talking down to them.
Have you been paying attention to this conversation? Maybe go back and reread before replying to me. You might find yourself thinking differently when you see my comments and the replies that I got from the start
Ah yes because appearance equals value in this dogshit world of yours. Way to admit you dont like him because he is actually popular despite that fact.
Also a kid using lemmy? get real. Most of us here are 21+ at the least.
His personality and hygiene are what makes him unfuckable.
And based on your responses here, why shouldn’t I continue thinking you’re a boy?
Wow that seems pretty harsh.
You try having something like 50,000 hours of recorded streams without saying something dumb.
It’s not what he says rather it is who he is and presents himself as.
No one should aspire to be a troll that is as uniquely unfuckable as him.
I don’t think aspiring to be another person is very admirable in any context.
So then what was the point of your initial comment? I said no one should model themselves after him. You replied that that was a harsh statement, but if you don’t think anyone should aspire to be like someone else what is the problem?
I don’t think he’s a shitty person. He doesn’t actively harm or exploit anyone just spergs out on the internet playing Vidya. If every Texan was an asmongold it would be a half decent state.
I think his larger message is his harm. I think his attitude is problematic as is his hygiene.
without saying something dumb.
except for the misogyny and bigotry
It’s pretty easy to not say racist and misogynistic shit if you’re not a racist and/or misogynist.
Like you realize that people aren’t out here struggling every day to not say the n word. That’s not normal.
He does have based takes on most things tho. IMO
You REALLY need remedial preliminary education if you believe that.
huh
It’s OK, let me help you out:
Remedial means: “to give a remedy,” or in this context, “to provide a corrective education in order to attain the education level of your contemporaries” (“Contemporaries” means a person living and working at the same time as you).
Preliminary means: “denoting an action or event preceding or done in preparation of something important.”
Hopefully that helps!
I didn’t say “huh” cuz I didn’t understand you. I said “huh” because I was confused about why you think I’m uneducated/unintelligent.
Fun fact: There are highly educated and intelligent people with different world views and values than you and other average Lemmy people.
If someone doesn’t think the same as you - that doesn’t necessarily mean they are dumb or uneducated.
I’ve only heard he streams the entirety other people’s work for a living, what are the journalists saying?
why do people hate mongols? i think they are pretty chill people
Wtf is this comment
AS-mongol-D. It took me a hot second to see it
Is that a new one peice character? Mongol D As?
Oh so it’s a really fucking stupid joke, based on noting but a name in the article
Sir, this is a social media.
This isn’t Southern California media wtf, mate!
It’s obviously a joke based on his name lmao
The weird thing is like, this whole situation could have been avoided if he just played the game normally rather than pretending to be some god gamer at it.
Imagine being the wealthiest person on the planet, and still being this insecure.
If Musk is ready to lie about his gaming achievements then can we really trust anything that comes out from his mouth.
I mean who cares if Musk is bad at POE2 but the fact that he goes to such lengths to lie about how good he is in a videogame tells a lot about his character and personality.
He’s a narcissist. Of course he’s the best at this and everything else he does. Any evidence to the contrary is division by zero.
narcissism is a lack of empathy and conpassion. it is not thinking you are better than others.
An example of how a narcissist would think would be “I barely know anything about this subject and you know even less than I do so you must be a fucking idiot if you know less than my dumb ass”
It’s like what Trump would do if he were younger and cared about video games.
Have you heard his opinions on chess? He doesn’t play because it’s too easy.
Wonder how he’d fare against trump at golf.
They’d tie with a perfect score of -18, having somehow gotten a hole in one each course without even touching a club!
They would tie. Would take them each 18 strokes for 18 holes I’m sure.
Oh there would be plenty of strokes, I’ll grant you that.
Fucking gold
That’s exactly what someone who sucks at it would say.
I’m honestly shocked that you have to ask someone if you can trust him.
He is without a doubt the least trustworthy person on the entire planet. Even less so than Putin i would say.
Musk has his loyal fanbase who have been impressed by his achievements with Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX.
Honestly he seemed all right before 2020’s but after that he’s slowly become more and more radicalized.Fortunately his behaviour is alienating a lot of his fanbase, unfortunately they’re getting replaced by more far right fans.
The guy can’t miss an opportunity to demonstrate his character and personality. This seems both extraneous and consistent - it’s more of the same data. I think we’ve got his number.
I love Elon, but what he did is just cringe.
Upvoting because we don’t choose who we love. At least you can see he is cringe and lame :)
I wouldn’t say he is cringe and lame. He is quite based actually (IMO). What he did with PoE 2 is cringe and lame.
I’m up voting you simply because eu think it’s brave to say that on Lemmy 😅
Yeah, Lemmy is crazily echo-chambered. If you don’t actively shit on Elon for absolutely everything he does (be it good or bad) you get downvoted and called a bigot.
Why can’t people be normal and shit on Elon for bad stuff and praise him for good stuff. There is not a single person in the world that is 100% good or 100% bad - everyone is on the spectrum and even the worst people have certain good aspects (and the best people have shit aspects).
I’m struggling to think of good stuff to praise him for.
I mean, he is pushing a lot of good tech forward. He is also fighting against bureaucracy and for freedom of speech.
I would agree that some of his businesses are doing well, but I would give more credit to the scientists and engineers making it happen. We found out shortly after the election that he had almost no involvement in SpaceX lately in fact.
He does get some credit for actually gathering those people and starting the companies sure, however all the insane things he’s done and is doing have really heavily undercut all of it for most people, myself included. I was a fan of his until he completely without evidence accused some diver of being a pedophile just because they didn’t want to use his awful “submersible” to rescue those Thai children years back.
he’s doing none of that
He is doing so, so, so much. If we didn’t have Elon to manage all these companies - they would be nowhere near where they are today. It’s a no-brainer fact.
So you’re telling me if Elon dies today. Tesla, spaceX, Twitter etc. will die with him?
They would be nowhere if they didn’t have his money. Otherwise Musk actively hinders his companies with his idiocy. This is well known from SpaceX employees.
https://x.com/yoloption/status/1595213678147764224?mx=2
The companies’ success is from being in fields that the employees are passionate about so they’ll grit their teeth and put up with it to be able to work there.
And fighting for free speech, are you kidding? He’s fighting for his own speech period. Anything he doesn’t like tends to get journalists temp banned or shadowbanned from Twitter for example.
Exactly, I hate him for who he is and most of what he does but the $100million USD contest to sequester carbon permanently is a fantastic thing to sponsor as we must remove carbon from the cycle and not just store it in trees.
And my point is proven. You literally said you hate him but you still got downvoted cuz you mentioned some good about him. I’m serious! This is a helluva echo chamber. They literally downvoted you for not hating him hard enough. It’s comical!
The sad part is I bet most who downvoted me don’t understand how critically important carbon sequestering is. We can’tjust plant trees. We need to permanently remove all of the carbon from the cycle that has been introduced since industrialization began.
I haven’t looked into it deeply so I don’t really know how important it is but I know one thing: Lemmy people would rather see double the CO2 than admit Elon has positive aspects.
How do you prove it’s legit?
The company behind POE can do it easily with IP address.
E.G. one of the bits is that the character was online and playing while he was on a call with several EU heads of state.
The main ones are that for the rank of the character, he would absolutely have to know the game damn near perfectly. In the video he put out, its very obvious he doesn’t know a damn thing about it. As in just blindly autoattacking, even when he doesnt have mana to attack, not knowing how the map nodes work, going into a run with a full inventory, claiming how bad his gear based on the equip level alone when its functionally tue best possible gear you can get, and that the character’s auction house gear sales are classic RMT scammer money trades, where you put horrible gear up for ridiculous prices.
The character’s auction house gear sales are classic RMT scammer money trades, where they put horrible gear up for ridiculous prices as a way to move ingame currency around between mules.
I thought poe2 didn’t have a real AH, just currency market. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re trying to say.
Rest of the stuff checks out though.
He was selling shit gear for many times its worth, thats all. Sorry, never played PoE for long and uncertain about poe2.
Ty
You apparently have a hateful right wing chud perform “secret” acts that will result in them getting a big push on a new platform.
Also: Friendly reminder that the Vice of today is not the Vice of olde and that “Waypoint” is a brand that is run by one rando (who likely uses a LOT of AI to generate content…) and has none of the social or political values the old Waypoint had. For the old Waypoint, you are looking at Remap Radio (the three founder/owners are Ricardo Contrarez, Rob Zacny, and Patrick Klepek and they semi-regularly collaborate with Austin Walker and, when she is available, BAFTA Award Winner Natalie Watson. And Janet Garcia is a “newbie” but is fucking awesome).
For once Asmongold’s outrage baiting worked in our favour
