Re: One BEEELLION dollars

On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:09:57 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 20/01/2025 21:15, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

Well, I was going to say Elon Musk but the gif only says 1 billion
dollars which is too small for Elon to put any effort into it.

One billion you say, so about the same as he spent on paying people to
make him an uber gamer?

<chuckle>

That whole story* is just so sad and cringey, but then the same can be
said for the person it is about. Musk is just so desperate for
attention and validation. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he wasn't
so otherwise loathsome and willing to use his enormous advantages to
the detriment of others.

The thing is, if he had just said, "hey, I'm a gamer; I'm pretty good"
he'd have been fine.** Apparently he had some (not a lot, but probably
better than average) skill at Quake, and I'm willing to believe he is
the same in a number of other games. But its his insistence that he's
always the best, always right is what keeps getting him into trouble.

Hubris, Musk. Look it up.









* For those of you who don't know what this is all about: Elon Musk,
CEO of Telsa and Twitter, has claimed to be one of the top players in
Quake, Diablo IV, and Path of Exile, even going so far as to
live-stream him playing the latter to prove his 1337 skillz. However,
the evidence backing up his claims is extremely sketchy, and the
live-stream made it obvious he has very little idea what he is doing,
and there are lot of indications the high-level character he used on
the stream was the result of his paying somebody for it rather than
earning it through his own efforts, including the fact that his
so-called top ranking in Diablo IV was self-reported and used a
short-lived glitch to speed-run a single dungeon, and that his Path of
Exile character was seen farming phat loot in China some days prior to
his live-stream. Oh, and Dennis Thresh Fong is on record saying Musk
wasn't a very good player at Quake either.

** I mean, I'd still wonder what he was doing spending so much time
playing video games when he has three companies to run, and so many
elections to subvert, but I guess all that ketamine he (allegedly)
takes gives him that extra energy to keep going on through the night
;-)