well this weekend had a crossover i wasn't expecting
so i am somewhat enfranchised in
Path of Exile (talking a few thousand hours) and as such engage a lot with the community and such. i was vaguely aware elon played, it's kind of hard to avoid people talking about it, esp with elon spoiling all parts of the story on his twitter even when they've unfollowed/hidden him and such, but whatever.
elon had bragged a lot about being in the top 20 something of Path of Exile 2's hardcore ladder - which mind you, is really hard and timeconsuming to do. it's not mario. getting
that far in the game, you need hundreds of hours, you need to know moment-by-moment gameplay, and you need a really intricate farming strategy. in path of exile 1, you used third party tools like Path of Building (
screenshot) to make your build, and that's before even executing it or figuring out a way to get the resources for the stuff you needed. so i was like, cool, elo plays and does a hardcore thing then, good for him, i don't like him, and it's not like i'm ever gonna have to suffer him ingame.
so he recently did a livestream of his top 20 something hardcore character, and it was obvious to everyone that he had people playing for him.
Elon Musk supposedly has god-tier, ultra-geared, endgame-stomping characters in Path of Exile 2. Except the community and its pros say, no, he doesn’t.
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to put it as shortly as possible, i watched some of the stream (highlights, etc), and with the level of investments and hours his character has, there's no way he's been playing the game to even a tenth of this investment. there just isn't. he doesn't even know what buttons to press, and he's getting chinese whispers. it's really hard to translate into other skill languages how obvious this is. players with 20 or 30 hours in the game are baffled at it. for a character of that investment, he would've needed like 500+ hours since the beta release in december. so either he hasn't touched the game at all, or he's high on ketamine, idk.
here's a video of a player much better than me reacting to snippets of the stream, as if that's even important to anyone (more on that below)
there's also the fun detail that he was supposedly playing while being in a live international meeting.
so, yea, someone is playing for him. i'm not sure about the terms and conditions here, but if money changed hands (and they probably did, unless someone's really hot for playing 500+ hours over a month as a favor to a friend), he's for sure earning himself a big, fat, permaban, locking him out from playing the game ever again. the devs take this stuff very seriously.
so... here's the thing.
none of this matters.
i don't care who's on the top of the ladder. the community also generally doesn't.
who the hell really cares? it's not stolen valor discussions, like actual consequence to the world in a sense. it's not like he's pretending to be a vet or a doctor. it's not like the manifold expertise claims he does for his companies, where he claims to know his stuff before wrecking everything he invests in. but... so, none of this matters. but
he clearly cares. he like builds this giant glorious pedestial where he puts a nothingburger and brags about it, and it's not even there.
if he wants to be in with the cool kids, he doesn't actually understand that - like - people that don't play PoE don't care, and people that
do play PoE, who might care, immediately clocks that he's being pathetic. it would be infinitely more endearing if he struggled in the game and actually did his own thing - to the community as well. i'm imagining someone like Walz playing Path of Exile with his kids and getting stuck in act 2 while confusedly trying to figure out what jewels do. that would of course never happen, but that's actually how you get in with the cool kids. elon is a lizard with no people skills who think people only like him if he's the biggest best boy.
so basically to sum it up, Elon pretends to be good at PoE, everyone in the PoE community are laughing their asses off at why he would even do this, they also want him banned in general, and people outside the community don't care that he's Good At Video Game anyways.
just outright baffling man. what the hell.
i'll go back to farming expedition