Re: One BEEELLION dollars

On 1/22/2025 7:33 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:00:28 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
  

And not just gaming. He's doing politics with our old President again. Oy!

 I guess his success will depend on how well your president responds to
Nazi salutes ;-)
 Anyway, Musk has since admitted* that he did pay someone to boost his
account (that is, give access to an somebody so they could do all the
hardwork of leveling up and getting the good gear; essentially the
rich-man's way of using a console command to add XP and equipment).
 According to Musk, "the top accounts in Diablo or POE [Paths of
Exile] require multiple people playing the account to win a leveling
race." The old, 'everybody does it so its okay' excuse. Which -despite
what he thinks - does nothing to prove that he's good at the game. It
just shows that he has more money.
 But the whole incident is just another indicator of how petty Musk is.

Ah so he's basically botting only by paying people instead of using bots.
I don't really care, and it lowers my impressions of the games rather than Elon that they are so grindy that that's valuable.  (Not that I have a great opinion of him, after all he started with PayPal that I've had nothing but trouble with at the time he was at the helm and refuse to ever use again. Yes I'm holding a 22+ year grudge.)
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