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[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 58 points 3 months ago

due to a bad connection

lenin-sure

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"due to a bad connection"

lol blame lag more scrub

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Richest man in the world running a gaming rig on 56k. Tragic.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The other funny part is, he owns the ISP so if there actually was lag it was still his fault

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

~~to be fair, he was on a plane~~

on second thought there is no need to be fair to elon

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah he was on his own private jet, which means he was definitely using starlink, which means the lag he blamed for his total lack of gaming skill would still be his own fault

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

billionaire-tears No, you see, I don't suck at PoE my product is just shit.

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

It can be both

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If he was lagging then the first thing to drop would have been streaming the video, which takes considerably more bandwidth than the game itself.

He wasn't lagging, he was just so high on ket he couldn't even beat a tutorial boss.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

Was it the ket or was it pure skill issue?

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, how can the game lag because of a bad connection? Was he streaming the game itself for some reason? Surely the Muskrat can afford a gaming rig for his plane to run it locally.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't played PoE2 but PoE is always online and server dependent.

But he wasn't lagging he's just bad.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

OK, I only know the game by name and was vaguely aware that it's single player or at least can be played single player.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

It can be played single player, but even in single player mode it's still online, presumably so the club of hArDcOrE gAmErS that Musk is trying to be a part of can brag to each other about their leaderboard scores or whatever (and also as DRM)

It can't really be played single player, it just have faux single player mode when you can't trade or party with others but you still need to be online.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

Pillars of Eternity is the single player CRPG that has the same abbreviation (that you might be confusing this for)

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This guy said chess is too simple btw lol

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And that the real smart people game is some mobile Civ clone or whatever.

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Its not even a civ clone though. It's more like, "what if civ had the same complexity as settlers of catan?" The dumb boy finally found a game he's good at, because it's easy, and assumed it must be more intellectually relevant than the games he's bad at. Kids aren't this dumb.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's full of micro transactions, and Elon is all about macro-transactions

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

Pay to win is the only way he's ever won anything lol

[–] TheVelvetGentleman@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm tired of putting chess on a pedestal. It's a shit game. Play go like a real gamer.

[–] Orbital@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

I logged in to upbear this

[–] halfpipe@hexbear.net 44 points 3 months ago

This man is in his 50s, with hundreds of billions of dollars and dozens of kids, and this is what he's doing.

[–] volcel_olive_oil@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A: I did thing (lie)
B: You obviously can not do thing
A: Yes I can, I'll prove it!
A then proceeds to fail miserably at doing thing

Is there a word for this? I'm looking for something a little stronger than "hubris".

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ask the Germans. I bet they have a word for it.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

the way things have been going, that word is probably "antisemitismus"

[–] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago

A then proceeds to fail miserably at doing thing

Failed at a trivial scale of the thing.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

due to a bad connection

Lmao, sure.

[–] AntifaSuperWombat@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago
[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blaming it on lag is worse, right? Like, that's his whole fucking job. You're allowed to be shit at video games, but it you're the guy who's in charge of making the computers work good and your own personal computer works like shit, then like???

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Yeah, he just showed us all that starlink is trash lol

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

He should really play easier games. Why do this to yourself?

Or maybe he should suffer.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

He's not playing games to have fun, he's playing games to signal membership in the reprehensible freeze-gamer subculture

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You literally can't lose to the tutorial boss unless you're trying to. He must have been high as shit on ket

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

Ketius Maximus

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago

Or he's got as much gaming skill as my Gran

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 3 months ago

The boss is slightly harder than that, but it's not like the sekiro tutorial where you're supposed to lose. It has a giant slow attack where he lights up, and you have to move out of the way. It's simple if you're familiar with this kind of game. Musk just is shit.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

turns off camera

throws computer against wall like the man baby he is

[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

looks longingly at the emergency release lever on the plane cabin door

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol I also suck at this game, where's my army of followers trying to justify foibles

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

You need more commas in your net worth

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

due to a bad connection

There are two options here. Either his Starlink is trash, or he rage quit and blamed it on lag like a fucking dork ass crybaby loser. Both are rqually believable, and both make him look worse.