Slop.

Abusing his workers to the point of giving them seizures and exposing them to dangerous chemicals? Just a small sacrifice to push us all into the future

Hanging out with Ghislaine/Epstein? Whatever, all the famous people did

SA of a flight attendant? No big deal, she's probably lying for attention

Disowning his trans daughter? To each their own, we don't know what happened behind closed doors

Being hilariously bad at Path of Exile 2? Ok now that's a step too far.

Everyone is fooled by his facade until he lies about something they are familiar with.

It's funny that he's unironically making good points ("if he lies at something this trivial, then how can we trust him on other things he says?") but it's just like, dog, this is what made you realize that Elon might be a dishonest person?

he is paying money to someone and getting all the credit? wow, first time such a thing happened in history of capitalism

What a selfish sack of privileged shit! All the terrible things Musk has done were completely fine to him, but an inconsequent lie about fucking video games is where he draws the line. Just absurd.

good for society

Like what?

Wait you're telling me billionaires have no problem lying about things? What no way how am I just now hearing about this

Elon having his "Lance Armstrong took steroids" moment cuz he paid somebody to play vidya for him is extremely funny.

We need an emote of Moe melting down and cussing in front of the Flanders kids for this sort of moment

this is so embarrassing i am fucking dying from it like a terminal illness

This is obviously a very silly way to arrive at this realisation, but good that they did nonetheless.

Elon said there should be an easy mode in Elden ring and it’s hitting me hard. I don’t think I can in good conscience support the Trump administration anymore

If he is willing to lie about this, what else is he willing to lie about. (?)

I dunno, having two degrees from Wharton would be where I'd start.

I would say it also makes me wonder, if he is willing to lie about this, what else is he willing to lie about.

This is an inroad

"as a "

*Snaps fingers* Security, pwn that n00b.

"Let me tell you how I became a leftist..."

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

maybe if casuals stopped speaking over gamers for once they would learn something

I've seen some posts (not on hexbear) claiming that Elon was just playing poorly because he was distracted or playing on a laptop. Elon streamed his boosted Hardcore character on January 7. However, I first learned that Elon was paying someone to play for him on December 21.

On December 21, a user on the Path of Exile Reddit posted the following screenshots.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/1hjbnw5/elon_musk_streamed_poe_2_from_someone_elses/

(these screenshots are dead links from the reddit post above. if you paste the dead url into your discord client the images still load.)

Screenshot 1 shows a trade message sent to Elon's character at the time. This is an automated message generated by the Path of Exile website when you click the send message to player button, indicating that Elon's account language is set to Chinese. Also the screenshot tells us that his stash tab was named to "Sell出售".

Screenshot 2 shows the player in the hideout of Elon's character at the time, while also in the same party. In the top right corner of the screenshot, you can see the hideout is hosted on the Hong Kong realm.

I can confirm that this information is true. After I saw the reddit post, I decided to also trade the account. I saw a trade message that was also in Chinese and when I visited their hideout, it was also on the Hong Kong realm. Unfortunately I didn't save a screenshot of my trade because I had figured that the reddit post was sufficient evidence at the time. Then I made a hexbear post about it on December 22.

https://hexbear.net/post/4149503

What a massive fucking manchild