• CarmineCatboy2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    Unironically true. The person best primed to enter the cult of Elon is the tech-bro. Those people also tend to play videogames. Which in turn means they are primed for takeover by chud channels. Elon’s fuck up is such that even the biggest chud channels can’t help but point and laugh.

    I used to think that the one redeemable skill Musk has is that he’s a good marketer. He created the self image of a genius inventor and turned it into several speculative bubbles all his to profit from. Mayhap that was never even true because at the very least his ego is stabbing him in the back.

    Elon could have made a video of him being a normal player having fun and fucking up at a Path of Exile boss. He’d have gained mad ‘respect’ from everyone who watched him. But no, he has to be the Tony Stark of videogame timewasters. It’s just embarrassing.

    • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      He’d have gained mad ‘respect’ from everyone who watched him. But no, he has to be the Tony Stark of videogame timewasters. It’s just embarrassing.

      I think this is the central aspect of why he is so pathetic, he’s unwilling to let any sort of vulnerability show on purpose. He doesn’t understand how that kind of thing humanizes a person, because he’s a fundamentally broken individual. You can only admire someone because they’re competent, people should always strive to dominate, rather than fuck around and have a good time and be human.

      It’s like how he posted his unbelievably garbage Elden Ring build but described it in this way that tried to sound like he was a genius engineer optimizing gaming. In fact, I think he got dragged so much after posting cringe that time that he became at least a little bit self-conscious and decided to prove the point that he’s an epic gamer by “mastering” other games. The fact that he’s trying to do that by hiring other people to do the gaming for him is very representative of his awful personal character and complete lack of self-awareness.

  • like I don’t give a fuck or whatever.

    but it’s hard to respect somebody who secretly pays somebody else to play video games for them so that they will receive respect for their video game prowess.

    I play games but for me the point of playing games is to play the game. it’s literally “play”.

    this is like some work friends deciding to play darts or pool or a card game, and one rich guy hiring a professional/ringer to dress up as them in costume/mask and play for them so they can… brag about their skills? like, what a loser. it’s ok to be a newbie and to suck at games.

    the “cool” difference between someone who is highly talented in a game and total buttcheeks at the same game is unrelated.

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      14 days ago

      It’s like paying someone else to go to a concert for you. Yeah going to see X band at Y venue certainly has some bragging rights attached but the real reason you go is to see the band.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    14 days ago

    it would be really funny if that’s what ultimately killed Elon, and not the capitalist crisis bubbling up beneath his (probably) lifted heels.