{"id":17389,"date":"2025-01-20T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T13:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/elon-musk-stands-accused-of-pretending-to-be-good-at-video-games-the-irony-is-delicious-keza-macdonald\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T13:37:32","slug":"elon-musk-stands-accused-of-pretending-to-be-good-at-video-games-the-irony-is-delicious-keza-macdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/elon-musk-stands-accused-of-pretending-to-be-good-at-video-games-the-irony-is-delicious-keza-macdonald\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk stands accused of pretending to be good at video games. The irony is delicious | Keza MacDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musk desperately wants to appropriate gamer credibility, but he may be faking it \u2013 and doing exactly what toxic nerds have been accusing women of doing for decades<\/p>\n

Last year on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, Elon Musk claimed to be one of the world\u2019s best Diablo IV players \u2013 and surprisingly, the leaderboards backed him up. For those that haven\u2019t had the pleasure, Diablo is one of the most mercilessly time-intensive video games out there; you build a character and carve through armies of demons, spending hundreds of hours refining skills and equipment for maximum hellspawn-cleansing efficiency. I played it for maybe five hours last year and immediately quit, for fear that it would consume my life. Most of the people who play it are young, often male, and have plenty of time to themselves to spend on the internet and playing games \u2013 so, the exact demographic of many Musk stans.<\/p>\n

It suited these hardcore gamer guys to believe that someone who tweets all day and runs several businesses was also an elite player who poured hundreds of hours into Diablo. This made him relatable. It fed into his preferred image of being the hardest-working man alive. But then Elon made the mistake of actually playing a game live on X, and it became clear very quickly that something was amiss. It seems Elon Musk might be a fake gamer<\/em>.<\/p>\n

On 7 January, Musk played Path of Exile 2, a very Diablo-like hack-and-slash game that came out towards the end of last year. His character was extremely well-equipped; suspiciously so. Viewers noted that he had better gear than some of the professional streamers who play this game all day every day, and he didn\u2019t seem to know what their stats meant. I have not played Path of Exile 2 and so I can\u2019t independently assess these claims \u2013 unlike Musk, apparently, I am quite happy to admit when I\u2019m not an expert on a particular game \u2013 but within a few hours the many inconsistencies in his play and commentary were laid out exactingly on Reddit<\/a> and in YouTube videos<\/a>. (He also posted a suspiciously rubbish Elden Ring build<\/a> back in 2022, which was dredged up as further evidence.) Evidently Musk forgot that we nerds are known for our attention to detail.<\/p>\n

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\nMusk desperately wants to appropriate gamer credibility, but he may be faking it \u2013 and doing exactly what toxic nerds have been accusing women of doing for decades
\nLast year on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, Elon Musk claimed to be one of the world\u2019s best Diablo IV players \u2013 and surprisingly, the leaderboards backed him up. For those that haven\u2019t had the pleasure, Diablo is one of the most mercilessly time-intensive video games out there; you build a character and carve through armies of demons, spending hundreds of hours refining skills and equipment for maximum hellspawn-cleansing efficiency. I played it for maybe five hours last year and immediately quit, for fear that it would consume my life. Most of the people who play it are young, often male, and have plenty of time to themselves to spend on the internet and playing games \u2013 so, the exact demographic of many Musk stans.
\nIt suited these hardcore gamer guys to believe that someone who tweets all day and runs several businesses was also an elite player who poured hundreds of hours into Diablo. This made him relatable. It fed into his preferred image of being the hardest-working man alive. But then Elon made the mistake of actually playing a game live on X, and it became clear very quickly that something was amiss. It seems Elon Musk might be a fake gamer.
\n On 7 January, Musk played Path of Exile 2, a very Diablo-like hack-and-slash game that came out towards the end of last year. His character was extremely well-equipped; suspiciously so. Viewers noted that he had better gear than some of the professional streamers who play this game all day every day, and he didn\u2019t seem to know what their stats meant. I have not played Path of Exile 2 and so I can\u2019t independently assess these claims \u2013 unlike Musk, apparently, I am quite happy to admit when I\u2019m not an expert on a particular game \u2013 but within a few hours the many inconsistencies in his play and commentary were laid out exactingly on Reddit and in YouTube videos. (He also posted a suspiciously rubbish Elden Ring build back in 2022, which was dredged up as further evidence.) Evidently Musk forgot that we nerds are known for our attention to detail. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musk desperately wants to appropriate gamer credibility, but he may be faking it \u2013 and doing exactly what toxic nerds have been accusing women of doing for decades Last year on Joe Rogan\u2019s podcast, Elon Musk claimed to be one of the world\u2019s best Diablo IV players \u2013 and surprisingly, the leaderboards backed him up. …<\/p>\n

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