The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ Account
The Worst Person You Know Made a Great Point; Asmongold Asks Elon Musk To Prove Legitimacy of His ‘Path of Exile 2’ Account
My first instinct was to poke fun but it's actually important to keep breaking this overpaid influencer's false image. He's actively using it to push his harmful agenda.
I can‘t even tell for sure who of the two you’re talking aboout but I agree either way.
Yes
Have you not noticed any of the many things Musk has said and done to suppress things like civil and worker's rights? How he's sucking Trump's cock so he can dictate policy to the country? How he turned Twitter into an actual Nazi mouthpiece? That's what he's using his image to try to push.
Among other things:
Basically your bog-standard right-wing corporate fascist grab bag. He's using his platforms (in all meaning of the word) to push that internationally.
Check the first comment on this turd nugget from last week: https://x.com/RealAlexJones/status/1877066245192794146
Rather than taking the time to try and research Elon, it's probably faster to just read the Wikipedia entries on the German Nazi party and apartheid South Africa. That should give you a pretty good idea of what he believes and is pushing.
FYI, Vice is now a far-right mouthpiece https://theintercept.com/2024/11/19/vice-news-right-wing-trumpism/
The craziest part of that article is
Vice co-founder Shane Smith stepped down as CEO in 2018, but has remained the company's (...) The Canadian-born journalist’s focus seems to be trained on the southern border, with an editorial line closer to Trump campaign fearmongering than hard news reporting. (Smith is not to be confused with Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, who left the media company and established the far-right militant group the Proud Boys).
So two of the three Vice media founders are now far right? I tried to find out more about Suroosh Alvi, the third founder, but didn't see much. Though on his X (🤢) he posts and reports a bunch of pro Gaza stuff.
I shouldn't be surprised cuz it looks like they all got rich off Vice, but still.
Their new podcast style conspiracy videos are just terrible, he comes across as a complete moron.
I feel like I remember them focusing on the sensation around news and not the actual news. Anything news worthy was included as a matter of context.
I felt like Vice was as if Beavis and Butthead were reporters, they went to the heart of a story that wasn't getting much coverage and asked about people's butts.
Shane has intense yuck vibes if you meet him IRL
I mostly remember it as reporting abput random ass topics "transsexual ketamine dealers of Uruguay" type of stuff.
but the tolerent left told me asmon is far right
Such a /technology/ post.
There is technology in it, like a computer game.
It’s got Elon, so it must be Technology. ;)
He invented technology
Actually it’s a dumb point because everyone and their mom already know he got boosted. Both of them should shut up and stop showing their face in public thank you very much.
I want the account sharer banned though.
Both of these people could fall off a cliff in a burning Tesla and nothing of value would be lost.
That's how you get forest fires though.
There are plenty of cliffs in deserts :)
More than there already are?
I'd mourn the lithium.
Hey, don't disregard the value of scrap metal!
The scrap metal was MADE in the event!
In an interesting plot twist, it would actually be a net positive for said Tesla brand in the long run, too.
Who the fuck cares. Elon, is average moron playing average game. If this was something important, I could understand, but this is nothing more than attention whoring.
The Worst Person You Know
Asmon isn't even close to to the top of the worst people I know. What even is that title?
Who the hell is Asmon? I thought the headline was referencing Elon.
It's Asmongold. He's a relatively popular gaming streamer who also does commentary but some of his political opinions have been a bit questionable.
It's a reference to an Onion headline
Yeah, what a joke. Especially when Musk is right there in the headline 😞.
I guess because VICE is hard right now they view Asmongold as somebody really bad?
The weird thing is like, this whole situation could have been avoided if he just played the game normally rather than pretending to be some god gamer at it.
It's for the same reason he's pretended to be a genius his entire career, he's obsessed with his self image and being number one. He's lied about being the best quake player in the world at some point. He's like Billy Mitchell with more money.
He's like Billy Mitchell with more money.
Careful there, or you'll have two nut jobs suing you
Fragile masculinity combined with wanting to appear sufficiently tech savvy to tech bro investors. Tech bros want nerds because pretty much every dollar they've ever made was off the back of some innovation of someone they consider a nerd, so Elon wants to be the biggest nerd to tech bros so they will throw even more money at his dumb projects.
Imagine being the wealthiest person on the planet, and still being this insecure.
Rich people work so hard to deserve their perverse wealth /s The only way they can still blow of steam is by pretending to grind online multiplayer games no actual working person has enough time for.
What kind of flex is this supposed to be?
I dont know path of exile in detail but being a top mmo player has always struck me of an archivement in dedication of time much more then inherent skill. The learned skill the pros have just comes natural with enough dedication.
My general reaction to something like it is not more then . Wow “you” must really enjoy this particular game. Is that reaction really worth cheating for?
Do we think he lacks the general life experience to be able to reflect on the common knowledge that a pro failed more times then the beginner has tried?
I known Elon is neurodivergent if not full on autistic but so am i and i cant make sense of this guys wims.
I think it comes down to what you said, but for the obscenely rich.
A pro has failed more than a beginner has tried. The obscenely rich have been told 'yes' more than the poor have had the opportunity to even ask questions.
You can learn this type of failed behavior just like a bad habit, and boy howdy is he the master of it.
some random twitch streamer is worse than any person I've ever heard of. Wow what'd they do! It's some video game leaderboard bullshit drama about Musk.
Lol fuckin quality journalism vice. Must be a really eventful news day.
He’s already demonstrated first hand he doesn’t know how to navigate the UI for someone who has invested time to be a top player. It’s obvious to anyone that’s spent more than a couple days in any game.
I think that putting in the hours to be very good at PoE2 is more embarrassing than being an amateur who only played a little bit. I say that as someone who looks forward to playing a lot.
Yeah I've put 97 hours into PoE2... I am far from good..I put nearly 2k in PoE1 and I did fight all the non-uber bosses at some point.
I like to think this is the start of something important, Musks gaming account, realising that we can seriously sidetrack Trump by calling him the vice president and weird. The public is learning how to enact our own kind of political manipulation.
Oh, thank you, Vice! I didn't know Asmongold was worse than Hitler.
Garbage journalism what a joke. Fuck, I still remember when Vice was relevant and renowned for the work.
But the reason Vice uses Asmongold instead of someone like Quin69, who made the video showing Elon is a fraud, is because people know Asmongolds name and it gets Vice the clicks.
how does elon even have time to play video games if he’s the most busiest and hardcore guy of all time?
Honestly don't care about Elon's PoE 2 account. Nor do I care much about Asmongold as a person, I only have a single important question:
What's with gaming streamers/youtubers trying to look like Jesus? GN Steve gets a pass, he's Tech Jesus and everyone knows it. What's up with Asmongold and that Penguinz guy though?
By "look like Jesus" do you mean they are white guys with long hair and facial hair?
I think you might underestimate how easy it is to grow your hair out and stop shaving and instantly become a Jesus look-alike. No effort needed.
Also, these two dudes look extremely different from each other and obviously they look nothing like Jesus who was a 5 and 1/2 ft tall brown skinned Semite.
I mean, I walked into the church hall for the daughter of my friends' baptism and everyone paused to look at me, even the priest. I even overhead "it's Jesus" from the mother who was 2 pews in front of me.
Seeing the bewilderment and expressions of everyone was just magical.
By "look like Jesus" I do indeed mean the popular modern western depiction of Jesus, because as far as I know, there's no conclusive proof of a historical Jesus existing, and if he did, he was obviously not a modern European-origin American man.
As for the second point - idk, it might just be because I can't grow a decent full beard, but after the first centimeter or 2 of facial hair, I just get told to shave because it's not funny anymore. I also can't imagine letting my hair grow for several years to get it as long as those guys. I thought one of the perks of being a man is that you get to be comfortable instead of spending years growing out your hair and shit lol
For once Asmongold's outrage baiting worked in our favour
Inb4 Bezos suspends his twitch account for "inappropriate activity"
It isn't a great point.
Sure, what Musk did only further proves what a pathetic loser he is, but it's the equivalent of "My girlfriend goes to another school, you haven't met her". It isn't illegal or anything, it's attempted clout chasing that blew up in his face... it's just sad.
How do you prove an account is legit?
The company behind POE can do it easily with IP address.
E.G. one of the bits is that the character was online and playing while he was on a high profile call with some German Nazis (sorry "AFD")
The main ones are that for the rank of the character, he would absolutely have to know the game damn near perfectly.
In the video he put out, its very obvious he doesn't know a damn thing about it.
• As in just blindly autoattacking, even when he doesnt have mana to attack
• Not knowing how the map nodes work, going into a run with a full inventory
• Skipping over all drops including a "Chaos Orb". Only picks up maps.
• Claiming how bad his gear based on the equip level alone when its functionally tue best possible gear you can get
• The character's auction house gear sales are classic RMT scammer money trades, where they put horrible gear up for ridiculous prices as a way to move ingame currency around between mules.
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The character's auction house gear sales are classic RMT scammer money trades, where they put horrible gear up for ridiculous prices as a way to move ingame currency around between mules.
I thought poe2 didn't have a real AH, just currency market. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say.
Rest of the stuff checks out though.
He can't at this point
You apparently have a hateful right wing chud perform "secret" acts that will result in them getting a big push on a new platform.
Also: Friendly reminder that the Vice of today is not the Vice of olde and that "Waypoint" is a brand that is run by one rando (who likely uses a LOT of AI to generate content...) and has none of the social or political values the old Waypoint had. For the old Waypoint, you are looking at Remap Radio (the three founder/owners are Ricardo Contrarez, Rob Zacny, and Patrick Klepek and they semi-regularly collaborate with Austin Walker and, when she is available, BAFTA Award Winner Natalie Watson. And Janet Garcia is a "newbie" but is fucking awesome).
Aww, the chuds must be angry that I am not giving their shit goblin his due credit for asking musk for a streaming deal.
I don’t know who that is 👴🦯
Fuck, I hate hearing about these people.
I think I'm just gonna ignore you. Sorry OP.
I love Elon, but what he did is just plain cringe and lame.
I'm up voting you simply because I think it's brave to say that on Lemmy 😅
Yeah, Lemmy is crazily echo-chambered. If you don't actively shit on Elon for absolutely everything he does (be it good or bad) you get downvoted and called a bigot.
Why can't people be normal and shit on Elon for bad stuff and praise him for good stuff. There is not a single person in the world that is 100% good or 100% bad - everyone is on the spectrum and even the worst people have certain good aspects (and the best people have shit aspects).
EDIT: I sometimes feel like I could write a full-on essay about how Elon sucks and it would still get downvoted into oblivion just cuz I said like one positive thing about him in it.
Upvoting because we don't choose who we love. At least you can see he is cringe and lame :)
I wouldn't say he is cringe and lame. He is quite based actually (IMO). What he did with PoE 2 is cringe and lame.
If Musk is ready to lie about his gaming achievements then can we really trust anything that comes out from his mouth.
I mean who cares if Musk is bad at POE2 but the fact that he goes to such lengths to lie about how good he is in a videogame tells a lot about his character and personality.
Have you heard his opinions on chess? He doesn’t play because it’s too easy.
That’s exactly what someone who sucks at it would say.
Wonder how he'd fare against trump at golf.
He's a narcissist. Of course he's the best at this and everything else he does. Any evidence to the contrary is division by zero.
narcissism is a lack of empathy and conpassion. it is not thinking you are better than others.
An example of how a narcissist would think would be “I barely know anything about this subject and you know even less than I do so you must be a fucking idiot if you know less than my dumb ass”
I'm honestly shocked that you have to ask someone if you can trust him.
He is without a doubt the least trustworthy person on the entire planet. Even less so than Putin i would say.
Musk has his loyal fanbase who have been impressed by his achievements with Paypal, Tesla and SpaceX.
Honestly he seemed all right before 2020's but after that he's slowly become more and more radicalized.
Fortunately his behaviour is alienating a lot of his fanbase, unfortunately they're getting replaced by more far right fans.
It's like what Trump would do if he were younger and cared about video games.
He made a post using command line lingo too, but anyone with even basic knowledge of those commands can tell you that both the syntax and the way he alludes to them are wrong.
It's the equivalent of slinging a guitar in a picture to look cool but pressing the side with the strings against your belly.
Isn't that suggesting he has the wokemind virus? Lol
The guy can't miss an opportunity to demonstrate his character and personality. This seems both extraneous and consistent - it's more of the same data. I think we've got his number.
I bet if Musk played DBD he'd be the first one on the damn hook, every, fucking, time.