• Vipsu@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      He made a post using command line lingo too, but anyone with even basic knowledge of those commands can tell you that both the syntax and the way he alludes to them are wrong.

      It’s the equivalent of slinging a guitar in a picture to look cool but pressing the side with the strings against your belly.

      1000083817

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      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.

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      3 months ago

      The craziest part of that article is

      Vice co-founder Shane Smith stepped down as CEO in 2018, but has remained the company’s (…) The Canadian-born journalist’s focus seems to be trained on the southern border, with an editorial line closer to Trump campaign fearmongering than hard news reporting. (Smith is not to be confused with Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, who left the media company and established the far-right militant group the Proud Boys).

      So two of the three Vice media founders are now far right? I tried to find out more about Suroosh Alvi, the third founder, but didn’t see much. Though on his X (🤢) he posts and reports a bunch of pro Gaza stuff.

      I shouldn’t be surprised cuz it looks like they all got rich off Vice, but still.

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        3 months ago

        I feel like I remember them focusing on the sensation around news and not the actual news. Anything news worthy was included as a matter of context.

        I felt like Vice was as if Beavis and Butthead were reporters, they went to the heart of a story that wasn’t getting much coverage and asked about people’s butts.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Not a surprise, dude gives off those vibes in videos as well.

          Some of us remember when Vice was a mean-spirited, local magazine that made fun of the way New Yorkers dressed.

          Not really surprising that those people turned out to be scumbags.

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    3 months ago

    Both of these people could fall off a cliff in a burning Tesla and nothing of value would be lost.

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    3 months ago

    Actually it’s a dumb point because everyone and their mom already know he got boosted. Both of them should shut up and stop showing their face in public thank you very much.

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    3 months ago

    He’s already demonstrated first hand he doesn’t know how to navigate the UI for someone who has invested time to be a top player. It’s obvious to anyone that’s spent more than a couple days in any game.

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    3 months ago

    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.

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    3 months ago

    I like to think this is the start of something important, Musks gaming account, realising that we can seriously sidetrack Trump by calling him the vice president and weird. The public is learning how to enact our own kind of political manipulation.

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    3 months ago

    how does elon even have time to play video games if he’s the most busiest and hardcore guy of all time?

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    3 months ago

    I think that putting in the hours to be very good at PoE2 is more embarrassing than being an amateur who only played a little bit. I say that as someone who looks forward to playing a lot.

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    3 months ago

    It isn’t a great point.

    Sure, what Musk did only further proves what a pathetic loser he is, but it’s the equivalent of “My girlfriend goes to another school, you haven’t met her”. It isn’t illegal or anything, it’s attempted clout chasing that blew up in his face… it’s just sad.

  • Khuda@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    why do people hate mongols? i think they are pretty chill people