1 week Ago By [email protected] (Lloyd Coombes)
and video games have a fractious relationship, it'd be fair to say. Despite his intentions to use AI " ", the Tesla owner has been caught up in a about whether or not he plays , before . Not to be deterred, he ended up trying to slam Assassin's Creed Shadows when it launched — , X (formerly Twitter).
You'd be forgiven for thinking he'd be done with gaming at this point, but after trying to showcase his Path of Exile 2 skills in a livestream test aboard a private jet, . As shown on the Reddit post above, Musk's mission to play Path of Exile 2 online while streaming on his jet ended in disaster. "You have no real friends and will die alone," one viewer said, while another chimed in "You ruined the country just like you ruined all your marriages", likely in response to .
One commenter even claimed to be MAGA influencer Ashley St Claire, who previously claimed Elon was the father of her child. "Elon. It's me, Ashley St Claire.
I have no other means of contacting you so I bought PoE2 early access just for this. Please pay your child support. Thank you Elon" while another simply said is daughter "was right".
Following the Assassin's Creed fallout, streamer Hasan Piker interviewed Musk's estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, who alleged her father asked her and her twin brother to help him rank up in games. As if the stream couldn't get sadder, Musk turned on some music — from his ex, Grimes. He then got battered by a boss in-game, before logging out and claiming the "connection was lost".
Why does Musk really want to be known as a gamer? It's hard to say, but it's clearly important to him for some strange reason. As the world's trade market collapses under the weight of Trump's tariffs, though, it's hard not to feel like there are better ways one could be spending their time than trying to convince the gamers of the world that he's one of them. Vivian Wilson perhaps put it best in her appearance on Hasan's stream when she said "I don't believe the f***ing 'I am a pro Path of Exile whatever the f***.
' No the f*** you are not. This is so cringe. Why would you even pretend to be? It's fine not to be a gamer.
" With gaming seemingly being one of the key battlegrounds of the culture wars (which might be the saddest sentence I've written today), perhaps it's fine for Musk not to be a gamer. To impress his legions of Lemmings-like followers, he needs to be the "alpha gamer" or something similar, proving he can get things done in games so they believe he can get things done in reality. This is a man who has sent rockets to space, helped revolutionise electric cars, and even had a cameo appearance in a Big Bang Theory where he worked in a soup kitchen.
Does he really need to prove himself to be some bizarre tech bro messiah? If he wants to keep flinging mud at "woke games journalists", then maybe the answer is yes, but it just all feels like a sad act of a man losing touch with his cretinous fanbase. I'm not one to advocate toxicity, but there has to come a point where a man with fourteen kids (that we know of) and who is pushing the age of 54 to just play games like most of us do — to have fun, and not as some bizarre, constantly-backfiring need for attention. Wondering what the fuss is about? We've rounded up some information about to help you decide which one is for you.
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