• @DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    456 days ago

    its almost as if he forgot what gamers are. bitch behind a keyboard forgot that other people can be bitches behind keyboards too.

  • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    586 days ago

    The richest guy in the world, and he is so horny for any love and respect that the smell of desperation fills any room he is in. You can even see it anytime he makes a media appearance. The guy actually exudes a breath-taking level of anti-charisma. He’s truly revolting to anyone who sees him.

    All that money, and he has to rent wombs to manufature his DNA Storage Units/ Organ Donors/ Human Shields because no woman will go near him. Ive heard his dick doesn’t work anyway, due to a botched wiener enlargement surgery.

    So he thinks the gamers are his peeps, and they’ll love him, right? Nah, all those great toys, and still none of the neighborhood kids want to play with him, because he’s so fucking wierd.

    It makes me so happy to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying “Money can’t buy happiness.”

    • @P1k1e@lemmy.world
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      Well if it was just that he was weird he could probably find a real friend or two. Hell I know a ton of just god awful people who still have folks who wanna hang with them.

      It’s that there’s no mutual benefit to knowing or liking him at all. Even your typical maga shitdick has friends who like them but Muskrats only here for clout and that’s the kinda guy who turns on you for a quick part on the back from someone who hasn’t told them theyre special today.

      • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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        106 days ago

        True, and I actually like, and even prefer, people that others think are weird. Weird can be really fun and entertaining.

        But this is a different kind of weird, its Creepy Weird. Like you just know this guy has some incredibly shocking and revolting kinks, beyond your wildest imagination.

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    Elon Musk rage quit a livestream of the video game Path of Exile 2 on Saturday night after repeatedly dying while also being ruthlessly cyberbullied in the chat.

    Path of Exile 2 is one of Musk’s favorite games—so much so that he once claimed to be one of the world’s top players in an attempt to boost his gamer cred, before later backtracking and admitting that he had been secretly paying people to level up his account to make him appear more talented at it than he was.

    Nevertheless, while attempting to show off Starlink’s in-flight WiFi capabilities while onboard his private jet over the weekend, Musk streamed himself playing some PoE2 on the hardest difficulty, which was broadcast live on X.

    The DOGE chief was, predictably, terrible at the game, but that was the least of his problems—Less than five minutes into the stream, a player logged on and asked Musk if he could “please jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack.” It only got worse from there.

    For the next hour and a half, Musk sat in stony-faced silence and blasted techno music while dozens of users with names such as ELON_IS_A_PEEDOPHILE and ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC repeatedly spammed the chat to tell him “YOU HAVE NO FRIENDS AND YOU WILL DIE ALONE” and “YOU WILL ALWAYS FEEL INSECURE AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY.”

    Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers YouTube “Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon,” said an account pretending to be the conservative influencer currently locked in a custody battle with Musk over their five-month-old child, while another said his estranged daughter Vivian “was right” about him being terrible at video games.

    Some streamers attempted to help Musk out by trying to show him how to mute the chat function, while others encouraged people to “Buy TSLA” and thanked him for his work with Starlink and DOGE, but they were drowned out by a cavalcade of abuse from gamers relished the opportunity to give the billionaire a piece of their mind.

    Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamers YouTube “There’s a lot of r-----s in the chat,” said Musk at one point, using the r-word slur while a user named HC_John_Wick repeatedly spammed “ELON HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO LOOK THIS DUMB AND UGLY WHY IS UR TESLA COMPANY FALLING APART AHAAHAAHAAH! WHAT HAPPENED BUDDY?”

    But aside from muting a couple of the loudest trolls after almost an hour of sustained abuse, Musk did little to stop the army of trolls from relentlessly mocking him.

    Eventually, he vanished when his WiFi connection abruptly cut out and ended the stream, which he later deleted from X but was swiftly reuploaded onto YouTube.

    • Komodo Rodeo
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      Less than five minutes into the stream, a player logged on and asked Musk if he could “please jerk off mr trump so he dies of a heart attack.”

      Not all heroes wear capes. Someone buy them a fucking drink, I’m going to be laughing about that alone for years.

    • @KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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      This is hilarious mainly because all he had to do was type /DND and he could have stopped all of this, which anyone who had actually played the game for any substantial amount would know, but of course he doesn’t, because he just paid people to play it for him.

    • @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      That video is really funny and sad. He looks like he’s about to cry. I’m not sure he was reading at a certain point because people were trying to help him. He deserves all of the hate.

      • Geetnerd
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        157 days ago

        It is sad, because so obvious that he wants to accepted, and liked.

        All he’d have to do is help poor people. Kid’s school lunches, scholarships, playgrounds, libraries, low cost subsidized housing, cheap pharmaceuticals, you name it.

        But no, “Empathy is Weakness,” Nazi salutes, fucking up grandma’s Social Security, destroying the Dept. of Education, putting thousands of government workers out of jobs.

        Way to go, psychopath.

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      For the next hour and a half, Musk sat in stony-faced silence and blasted techno music while dozens of users with names such as ELON_IS_A_PEEDOPHILE and ELON_MUSK_IS_PATHETIC repeatedly spammed the chat […]

      Oh my god, Musk is J.P. from Grandma’s Boy. I can’t un-see it now.

    • @LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      37 days ago

      Of course, he used the r slur. Literally beyond pathetic. The only way to lash out he had was to throw a slur out there. It did nothing to detract from how utterly embarrassing the entire thing was.

      • @ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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        117 days ago

        To be fair, it would take me about 16,000 years at an average wage to make a billion dollars. Since Musky has more than one billion years. With the exchange rate of 16,000 years per billion. Musky is going to have a fucking ton of life times to pay his karmic debt.

      • Geetnerd
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        87 days ago

        He could have just kept his mouth shut, and died “Tony Stark.”

        But noooo…

      • Komodo Rodeo
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        I’m not as familiar with the whole theology involved, but still am pretty sure he’ll have to weather a few cycles as whatever multi-legged miniature vermin that insects eat before he can break back into the mammalian strata. He can’t possibly be acting like such a gigantic piece of shit accidentally, can he?

        • Pennomi
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          147 days ago

          He’s always been an asshole, but his reported ketamine addiction compounds with his Twitter addiction. The ketamine allows his brain to reform pathways and Twitter boxes him into a self-made echo chamber. Combined this is the perfect recipe for a god complex, and boy does that prediction fit the observed outcome.

          • Geetnerd
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            87 days ago

            It’s also rumored he fired the PR team that kept this shit under wraps, in the past.

          • Komodo Rodeo
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            Huh, TIL that he was into K. I thought that he was just an oddball because of his weird upbringing and fuckwad entitled bourgeois attitude.

              • Pennomi
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                Prescription or no, it’s not healthy to dive into Twitter so heavily right after doing psychedelics - you’re retraining your brain on the shittiest content available.

              • Komodo Rodeo
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                You can get a prescription for ketamine? Jesus Christ, and this whole time I’ve just been using coffee, alcohol, tobacco, hash, and whatever psychedelic I can get my mitts on…

  • @Iceman@lemmy.world
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    1046 days ago

    Elon. It’s me, Ashley St. Claire. I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon

    I died

    • @Shadywack@lemmy.today
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      236 days ago

      Notice that despite the awesome trolling, it wasn’t until someone called him dumb and ugly that it elicited a response from him. Calling him out for being a piece of shit doesn’t work, denigrating the attributes he built a superiority complex on…ohhh fuck yeah that shit burns him real good.

  • Queen HawlSera
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    Reminder: He died to a Tutorial Boss in a game he tried to use a boosted account in to fake being one of the top players only for the devs to go “Wait, aren’t you a top Diablo IV player? Either you have the time management skills of a God and are the top player in multiple games, or you’re bullshitting… and guess what’s the winning one.”

    • @RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      156 days ago

      It’s such a weird thing to do. He’s in his fifties. He has a bunch of companies and a bunch of kids. If he was a top ranked POE player would you respect him more or would ypu respect him less because he was shirking his duties to work and family to crush mobs?

  • Owl
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    696 days ago

    Correction: Elon musk tries to prove his gaming skills and then Rage Quits after dying to the Tutorial Boss.

    The bullying was a side piece.

  • @OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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    3527 days ago

    Usually I’d feel pity for someone being cyberbullied, but Elon told me that’s a sign of weakness, so fuck him.

  • circuitfarmer
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    Is it really “cyberbullying” against Musk if Musk first negatively affected the lives and livelihoods of, say, millions of people?

    • @Gladaed@feddit.org
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      Yes. And it is still harmful. But there is no good solution here. He should be able to play a mostly single player game in some isolation from the public. (I.e. put DND on and be “fine” but hated, possibly the game should have made that easier for streamers being flooded by spam.)

      That being said the harm being done in America is incredibly impactful and must be stopped at high cost.

      • @ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
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        He could have played alone. HE DECIDED to steam himself publicly, after spending the last two months actively trying to destroy those people’s futures. All for personal gain. He does not deserve to know a moment of peace whenever he chooses to show his face publicly after what he’s done.

  • Geetnerd
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    It astounds me that a middle aged man, who can literally afford anything, do anything, go anywhere, is so fragile emotionally that he craves adulation from absolute strangers. Particularly teenage boys, which emotionally, he is also.

    It would be pitiable if we wasn’t such a psychopath.

    • Billiam
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      As a wise man recently said,

      They tried to rig the game, but you can’t fake influence.

      Money can buy everything but it can’t buy respect. Nobody respects Musk getting to level 90+ in SSF HC PoE2 because he just bought his way there. Nobody respects him on Twitter, because he bought his way there. Nobody respects Tesla, because (say it with me kids) he bought his way there.

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        Money can absolutely buy respect the problem is fuckwad is too stupid to know how, for example he could bankroll building functional replicas of historic vehicles and weapons for museums which would earn him some respect. That’s assuming he doesn’t want to help the poor and build public libraries like Rockefeller or Carnegie.

        • @seemefeelme@infosec.pub
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          You’re both right - spending tons of money just to build influence does not buy you respect, but investing your money in something that contributes to the greater good does. Unfortunately for Elon, this requires good intentions and substantial effort, neither of which he possesses. So, he bought an epic gamer account to brainwash the most vulnerable members of society into believing he’s some kind of 22nd century technogenius! Seriously, what the fuck is actually wrong with this man???

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            Thing is, he could still hire people who do know how to do that - he just doesn’t see the point. Like the person who refuses to hire an electrician instead of just doing it himself, he keeps getting it wrong and then being shocked.

            • @Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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              He had one, but he fired her and looks to be too stubborn and sure of his own competence to hire another one (or maybe too proud to admit that she was right and useful after firing her for petty reasons).

    • And let’s be real, it’s ok to be emotional and want attention. That’s human.

      But I’m sure this can be done, and is probably easier to accomplish by not being a nazi, which is the real issue here.

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        You’ve probably seen people with mommy and daddy issues before, but this is the first time we’ve ever witnessed a billionaire with severe mommy and daddy issues.

        Dude wants attention and doesn’t care how he gets it. Helps a lot to be a Nazi too.

        • @futatorius@lemm.ee
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          this is the first time we’ve ever witnessed a billionaire with severe mommy and daddy issues

          Trump’s one of those too. His mother was a hyper-reserved Wee Free ball of congealed repression, and his father was a mob-connected slumlord bully. None of the kids got affection. Some internalized it, some became raving assholes like Trump.

      • Geetnerd
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        Yes. Thanks.

        Humans are pack animals. We’re not supposed to be alone. When we are, bad things happen, mentally. Which is on display with Musk.

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      Right? I wouldn’t be trying to pretend to be King Shit in a game I don’t even know how to play, I’d make my own game with black jack and hookers, hookers who are voiced by Jack Black. That’s right I’m casting a cisman in the role of a sexy cisfemale character and there’s not even a joke or a bit to it. The character is not implied to be trans and there’s not even a transphobic quip about it, I just got Jack Black to voice a woman because I could, because I’ve got fuck you money… And if the ESRB or Gabe Newell didn’t like it, I’d start an alternative to Steam that actually works.

      It seems such vivid Imagination is wasted on those who cannot make their dreams into reality…

    • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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      What gets me is that he has the means to become the most beloved man in history pretty much on a whim. I can’t even begin to comprehend the amount of good he could do by dumping half his fortune into good causes, which would still leave him with orders of magnitude more money than he’d need to buy/do whatever the fuck he wants with.

      The attention he craves is right there. But he chooses instead to be a villain. Why?? Be a fucking superhero - even if it’s for completely selfish reasons, humanity won’t give shit.

      I don’t get it.

      If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

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        He had that aura when he was building Tesla and solar city and the gigafactory. Become a billionaire and fight climate change? Go Elon.

        Go to Mars? Bit of a stretch goal, but helping Nasa and science is good. Go Elon.

        Save kids trapped underground? Go Elon.

        What? Called him a pedophile? Maybe he has some inside knowledge. Anyway.

        Shout about doge coin? Bit weird. Ok he’s just having fun.

        Sell a consumer grade flamethrower? What?

        Pay 44bn for Twitter? What? Where’s the value? This doesn’t save the world.

        And down and down.

        • @futatorius@lemm.ee
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          He had that aura when he was building Tesla

          Tesla was a going concern (with excellent product quality) when Musk bought it. The product roadmap was already there. The only big things Musk has influenced are underfunding quality during scale-up and rolling out the Dumpsterwagen. Well, that and lying about self-driving.

          • I was addressing the downward trajectory of his outside perception, not his actual skills.

            Musk is willing to risk his capital, and does seem to be able to identify talented engineers and individuals. He used to be able to attract them too.

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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        Look at Bill Gates. He’s a complete asshole and was widely hated until he stepped down from Microsoft. But, spend just a small fraction of his fortune on charity, much of it self-serving, and he’s now he’s widely loved.

        If I randomly obtained a billion dollars, let alone hundreds of billions, I’d spend the rest of my life riding a warm-and-fuzzy high. Helping people feels good!

        The thing is, you don’t become a billionaire if you have empathy. If you’re a normal kind of person who likes helping other people, you start giving away your money long before you hit $1B.

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          In a functioning society, we wouldn’t have to rely on the “philanthropy” of rich people to fund good causes. It should not be possible for one person to hoard so much wealth that they get to personally decide which issues get ignored.

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        He could literally fund free lunches for kids in schools, forever.

          • Geetnerd
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            Yeah, because doing anything altruistic is “virtue signaling.” No one really cares about anyone but themselves. How do I know? Because I don’t.

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        From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what, but he got involved to make those investigations go away. Then he got addicted to being in charge after buying The Presidency.

        Because, as we all know, narcissists love being in charge, and adulation.

        And why is he being an asshole, when he could be generous and beneficent, and get the adulation he craves? Because he thinks he’s superior, and like he said, empathy is weakness, He is unable to understand, or feel empathy.

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          From what I understand, Musk was under investigation from multiple federal US agencies for malfeasance, I don’t know for what

          I’ll give you a hint. It starts with “e” and rhymes with “Epstein didn’t kill himself”…

        • @5too@lemmy.world
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          Bill Gates makes a strong argument for becoming beloved while you’re still around to enjoy it.

        • @Saleh@feddit.org
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          Celebrities are just rich people sportsy, artistic, sympathic, entertaining or sexualized looking enough to get public attention

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    lol rage quits, whining about being bullied on X. Somebody needs to slap the wokism out of Felon Musk.

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        Any idiot can manage 27 companies. You outsource your job to managers. That is why CEO jobs should be replaced by AI asap.

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            How so ? No drugs, no nazism, doesn’t take a salary (more money for rest of us), and is only focused on the job, no drama, has more empathy and compassion than Felon Musk, doesn’t care for bribes. Doesn’t wear a costume. Seems OK to me.

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              When AI eventually gets genuinely I, I’d bet it could be reasoned with.

              In fact, since it would likely be unbound by our biological emotions and short-sighted instincts, it would probably think longer term than the current crop of utter psychopaths running the show.

              I mean, that’s a loss for capitalism right there. They put a machine smarter than they are in charge, they’re in for a rude awakening I reckon.

      • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        Helps if you proudly “don’t do market research.” Tesla has stopped taking in Cybertrucks as trade ins, funnily enough.

  • AmidFuror
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    Compare and contrast:

    • Elon Musk Rage Quits Livestream After Getting Ruthlessly Cyberbullied by Gamer
    • Eventually, he vanished when his WiFi connection abruptly cut out and ended the stream, which he later deleted from X but was swiftly reuploaded onto YouTube.

    He was showing off Starlink wifi while on a plane. Isn’t it possible his connection got dropped? Or at least, if you rage quit doesn’t there have to be some rage?

    • Gordon Calhoun
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      Well, either he quit due to rage or starlink failed to sustain the connection, undermining his claim about its greatness. Seems like a win either way.

    • @Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Eventually, he vanished when his WiFi connection abruptly cut out and ended the stream

      He didn’t and it didn’t. He experienced lag, but he stopped playing before his character died on screen. He could have very likely survived if he continued any movement input. The stream didn’t cut out abruptly, his video remained clear and he spoke before ending it manually.

      He was upset about the incoming messages and used the lag as an excuse to log off. He was willing to blame his own product rather than spend one more moment on camera. He’s a weak little man who craves the validation of gamers and internet strangers and absolutely cannot handle being bullied.

      • AmidFuror
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        I was just relying on the reporting. Thanks for enduring the video.

    • @cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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      Or at least, if you rage quit doesn’t there have to be some rage?

      Oh, there is. You feel the rage internally, but you would never give anyone else the satisfaction of seeing you rage. You save the rage until after the quit and then you rage in privacy. I’ve ragequit many a thing. I am very experienced at this.

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      That’s the excuse.

      He cut the connection when everyone didn’t kiss his ass.