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    I was really excited to read the start of that headline.

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    In the last minutes of the stream, Musk made a hardcore difficulty character he named Kekius Maximus, a 4chan-esque meme name he’s used as his display name on X. But Kekius Maximus was not long for the world. Musk died to one of the game’s tutorial bosses due to a bad connection, which subsequently concluded the stream, ending another sad, weird data point in the Elon Musk fake gamer saga.

    The guy who claimed he was a top tier Quake player… who in actuality, was only scoring well in online matches, because he played on the T1 high speed, stupid expensive business line at his Zip2 business in the 90s… and performed terribly at LANs…

    Well here he is 30 years later, now dying to a tutorial boss, partially due to the shitty connection of his own ISP.

    Amazing.

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      Shit, mentioning the T1 really made me have a minor flashback. Yeah. Back in the 90s computer processing power varied dramatically between users. Like when I got a 386 around 1990 it had a whooping 40mb of space and 1mb of RAM. It was a lot for the time. We never had to run anything directly off disks. But just 3 years later when Doom came out (and I remember the launch of Doom) i was surprised that we couldn’t have it because it needed 4mbs of RAM. Also our computer wasn’t fast enough anymore so when we DID finally get it years later we needed to use the smaller screen option to get it to run fast enough otherwise it was too choppy to play.

      Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you’re talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.

      It would be like if you took a modern formula one race car from 2025 to a formula one race in 1925. A medicore driver would win, but not for skill.

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        Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you’re talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.

        Exactly.

        In that sense, ‘pay to win’ has always been a thing lol.

        You sound probably a bit older than me, but I can’t tell you how many times in the 90s and early 00s that I legitimately lost games due to having a garbage tier ping to basically everywhere, and a shitty eMachine, and everyone else just acted like none of that mattered and I was just whining.

        Then, surprise, me and the online boys all jump into a server where they all have pings of 80, I have a ping of 200, and then they’re all mad that I cant hit anybody because enemies are rubber banding around like fucking DBZ characters for me.

        … Then I do a LAN party with local friends and utterly dominate, routinely.

        -.-

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          I’m younger than both of ya’ll but I remember playing COD Modern Warfare 2 on my Xbox 360 with a 27” CRT TV and a connection that put me a good few tenths of a second behind everyone else(estimating off of killcam footage).

          I cleaned up most of the time. I had to get good and I didn’t know at first that it was my connection so I just started going wild lol. I only played hardcore mode and used fast, light weapons so I could react and correct more quickly. Probably couldn’t pull it off these days but it’s a fun memory.

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            Hehe sounds about right.

            Yeah… a whole lot of gamers… seem to… think they know how game design works, think they know how to solve technical problems…

            And well now in the last decade we see the buckets of slop games on steam made by such idiots, confirming that indeed, 95% of them have no clue about anything.

            I was an early beta tester for Project Reality, which has now become its own studio, Squad is literally Project Reality just rebuilt in UE 4 to higher quality, because EA wouldn’t liscense out Frostbite to them.

            But thats all a tangent to hopefully lend some creedence to when I say: solving network lag and having good netcode is actually extremely complicated and difficult, even still today.

            We still see AAA studios fucking up the basics of a lot of netcode stuff in mmo/rpg typr games, where they just make way, way too much shit clientside authoritative, and then have to spend a year or two redesigning the entire game.

            This, in turn, is why third party kernel anti cheats have taken off so much, because game devs just fucking give up at making a reasonably secure networked game.

            Meanwhile Valve figured this shit out literal decades ago, with highly efficient netcode, and a mostly server side AC solution.

            It isn’t possible to stop 100% of cheaters.

            It is possible to stop 99.9% of them by designing your game and netcode well.

            But that is apparently too hard, so basically the entite industry has outsourced it and/or solved it with massively inefficient and privacy/security compromising AC.

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          Them calling you a whiner was a massive dick move. I hope they have their ass roasted (in a video game. Literally, as in they cannot win a single multiplayer) for that insult.

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        Back in the 90s my friend and I would play Descent against each other via modem. I had a 100Mhz processor, he had a 66Mhz processor. If I came in blasting with a rapid fire weapon his machine couldn’t render fast enough and he’d get blown up.

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          Descent… man I haven’t played that or magic carpet in ages. I need a trip down memory lane later tonight…

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        I’ve hated him since before Trump’s first election, correctly realizing he is a fradulent try hard con man megalomaniac, and have had to endure a decade of people mocking me ‘oh yeah like you are smarter than the richest man on earth yeah right fuck off’.

        Yep. I am smarter than him. So were half the people hurling those insults at me, actually.

        Elon is actually quite stupid at everything other than conning people.

        Much like Trump.

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    Sucking at games is not bad. Fucking human lives, exploiting countries, being a Billionaire and a fucking Nazi, is.

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      While playing games is bad. Lets not forget this guy believes that this is all a simulation, like its all one big fucking game to him. He is out of touch and seems to have a latency akin to Starlink connections.

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        I don’t want to ruin it for you, but all rich at 1 billion level and above, or people with power believe that life is a game, and all others exist just to serve them. Believing that the world is a simulation does not make you an arrogant fascist SOB.

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          Agreed, thinking the world is a simulation or illusion goes back millennia. Most people take that knowledge to mean that it’s a co-op game.

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          Wasn’t arguing that his believing the world is his playground dismisses the arrogant man child fascist megalomaniac that he is, just stating that he believes that we are all NPCs

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      It’s not about the game, it just shows how much of a pathetic liar he is. And the length he goes to lie about something stupid like playing video games just shows how far he would go for his actual lies and just shows even more what kind of a sad pathetic human being he is.

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      It’s not that he’s bad at games, it’s that he used illegal methods to cheat his way into being one of the Top Diablo IV and POE 2 players, and when the devs of the latter called bullshit (Blizzard being the old men who yell at clouds didn’t because they thought being associated with Elon was a positive thing) so he played on a new account to “Prove” he was “Just that good”

      And basically did the Action RPG equivilent of dying to the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros.’ World 1-1 at a live convention where your speedrunning skills are the main attraction

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        And basically did the Action RPG equivilent of dying to the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros.’ World 1-1 at a live convention where your speedrunning skills are the main attraction

        I’m pretty sure the current standard is playing Halo and fumbling so badly you have to turn the difficulty down from Legendary to Normal, and missing your target time by over an hour (see: the Cody Miller Halo GDQ speedrun).

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    This is almost as embarrassing as the botched penis enhancement surgery he had.

    Dude just can’t win.

    Dickless, his kids won’t talk to him, and he sucks st video games?

    Dudes gonna off hisself I bet.

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      So that’s why his testosterone is so low and he needed all those hair plugs and face tucks and chin sculpting.

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      Dude just can’t win.

      Ordinarily, this wouldn’t have been such a bad thing, were it not for the fact that he’s desperate to both be seen as an infallible genius, and well liked.

      If it was the image people had of him 10 - 20 years ago, him admitting that he likes video games but wasn’t that great at them might have actually helped his image.

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        If Elon had said he loved PoE2 but he sucks at it because he rarely has time to play then that would have at least aligned with his claims that he works 60 to 80 hours a week. Elon pretending to work 80 hour weeks and also grind 16 hours a day on PoE2 was just insane. He is such an idiot

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    “Elon, deep down you will always be cringe no matter how much money or power you have.”

    Deep down? To me he’s cringe on the very outside.

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      There’s an interesting psychological analysis about musk on a podcast called Psychology in Seattle. They speculate that he is unconconsiously recreating his childhood bullying on twitter due to a psychological phenomenum called “repetition compulsion”. As in, you recreate relationships from childhood to try to have a " corrective experience" to heal the trauma.

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        This is exactly what Ted Bundy did when his first love dumped him.

        He fell for a woman called Diane Edwards while in college, and they dated for about a year. She was everything he thought a woman should be; beautiful, smart, successful, and from a well-off family. She dumped him because she saw him as “pitifully weak”. Psychologists believe, and Bundy himself all but confirmed, that this was the catalyst that would fuel his homicidal rage towards women. It’s also believed that Diane heavily influenced the type of women he killed; young white college students with brown hair parted in the middle. He began killing women the same year Diane dumped him.

        Five years later he was married and living a double life as a serial killer. During this time, he sought out and reconnected with Diane behind his wife’s back, and Diane was impressed with his transformation. He was on the cusp of a successful legal and political career, and he seemed a lot more masculine and sure of himself. She was smitten and wanted to pursue the relationship. They even got as far as discussing marriage. That’s when Bundy dumped her and cut off all contact with her, getting his “corrective experience” moment, which clearly did nothing to heal the trauma of rejection that spurred one of the most terrifying episodes of serial murder in history.

        Elon Musk doesn’t need to beat the bullies to get closure. He needs therapy. Or rather, he needed therapy, and he needed it many years ago. At this point, he’s in his “dumping Diane” phase, where he’s already hurt so many people and he’s so far gone that no amount of therapy would help him. He’s already too addicted to the monster he’s become to ever want to heal himself. His need to have these corrective experiences, like Bundy with Diane, is strictly to feed the monster’s ego.

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      the boss is “harder”, you have to actively dodge his abilities but he’s not “dying two times in a row” hard

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        It should still be really easy to first time the tutorial boss if you have like, any experience in games where you need to dodge telegraphed attacks

        Sure, someone new to video games in general would struggle. Someone who played at least a tiny bit of Elden ring? Should feel completely natural

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      If you read the article, he died because his Starlink connection disconnected - which also cut the stream.

      Which doesn’t excuse his lack of skill throughout the stream before that.

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        That he lost to the tutorial boss as well as being trolled to high heaven as well as Starlink crapping out is the icing on top of the icing on the cake. Bully these people. The ones that call others “snowflakes” are projecting harder than an IMAX. Bully them into the fuckin grave

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      Kind of. It shows he is a liar. Maybe that wakes someone up. News showing that political leaders and figureheads lie about even the mundane is good reporting, even if the topic is dumb.

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        I think the more important insight is how desperately he is trying to appeal to the young male demographic, and going so far as to pay a pro gamer to boost his account in a video game so he can pretend to be one of them.

        Why? Probably a lot of potential reasons, but anyone with even a little bit of critical thinking skills should immediately become suspicious when they see that. Because whatever the actual reason, it probably isn’t good.

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          What’s really funny is that he still could’ve faked it. Like, it would be simple to talk on face cam while someone else plays. This showcases his deep narcissism that he is buying his own pathetic hype.

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          The most charitable answer is sad: that he sees himself as one of them. It’s entirely possible that he thinks of himself as essentially a 20 year old who loves video games, drugs, and trolling.

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        If what I thought of elon mattered to elon, he’d have offed himself by now.

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          He just doesn’t know but internet is the place to exchange ideas so we just need to keep trying.

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          That just means you’re not making your hatred loud enough 🤷🏽‍♂️

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      He’s trying to build credibility among younger audiences through the only thing they give a shit about: video games. It’s more anti-propaganda than it is “news”. And, really, most news is some form of propaganda or anti-propaganda.