Elon Musk dies….
Tease!
My heart sank
when I finished reading the title
Dear lord, that’s the loudest profanity I’ve ever heard!
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ftfy
I was really excited to read the start of that headline.
Elon Musk was caught on the street and beaten to death…
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me2. its like seeing a donald trump is dying to eat bigmacs headline.
You had me at Elon died. ❤️
I was super excited for a brief moment until I kept reading
In the last minutes of the stream, Musk made a hardcore difficulty character he named Kekius Maximus, a 4chan-esque meme name he’s used as his display name on X. But Kekius Maximus was not long for the world. Musk died to one of the game’s tutorial bosses due to a bad connection, which subsequently concluded the stream, ending another sad, weird data point in the Elon Musk fake gamer saga.
The guy who claimed he was a top tier Quake player… who in actuality, was only scoring well in online matches, because he played on the T1 high speed, stupid expensive business line at his Zip2 business in the 90s… and performed terribly at LANs…
Well here he is 30 years later, now dying to a tutorial boss, partially due to the shitty connection of his own ISP.
Amazing.
Shit, mentioning the T1 really made me have a minor flashback. Yeah. Back in the 90s computer processing power varied dramatically between users. Like when I got a 386 around 1990 it had a whooping 40mb of space and 1mb of RAM. It was a lot for the time. We never had to run anything directly off disks. But just 3 years later when Doom came out (and I remember the launch of Doom) i was surprised that we couldn’t have it because it needed 4mbs of RAM. Also our computer wasn’t fast enough anymore so when we DID finally get it years later we needed to use the smaller screen option to get it to run fast enough otherwise it was too choppy to play.
Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you’re talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.
It would be like if you took a modern formula one race car from 2025 to a formula one race in 1925. A medicore driver would win, but not for skill.
Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you’re talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.
Exactly.
In that sense, ‘pay to win’ has always been a thing lol.
You sound probably a bit older than me, but I can’t tell you how many times in the 90s and early 00s that I legitimately lost games due to having a garbage tier ping to basically everywhere, and a shitty eMachine, and everyone else just acted like none of that mattered and I was just whining.
Then, surprise, me and the online boys all jump into a server where they all have pings of 80, I have a ping of 200, and then they’re all mad that I cant hit anybody because enemies are rubber banding around like fucking DBZ characters for me.
… Then I do a LAN party with local friends and utterly dominate, routinely.
-.-
Them calling you a whiner was a massive dick move. I hope they have their ass roasted (in a video game. Literally, as in they cannot win a single multiplayer) for that insult.
I’m younger than both of ya’ll but I remember playing COD Modern Warfare 2 on my Xbox 360 with a 27” CRT TV and a connection that put me a good few tenths of a second behind everyone else(estimating off of killcam footage).
I cleaned up most of the time. I had to get good and I didn’t know at first that it was my connection so I just started going wild lol. I only played hardcore mode and used fast, light weapons so I could react and correct more quickly. Probably couldn’t pull it off these days but it’s a fun memory.
Hehe sounds about right.
Yeah… a whole lot of gamers… seem to… think they know how game design works, think they know how to solve technical problems…
And well now in the last decade we see the buckets of slop games on steam made by such idiots, confirming that indeed, 95% of them have no clue about anything.
I was an early beta tester for Project Reality, which has now become its own studio, Squad is literally Project Reality just rebuilt in UE 4 to higher quality, because EA wouldn’t liscense out Frostbite to them.
But thats all a tangent to hopefully lend some creedence to when I say: solving network lag and having good netcode is actually extremely complicated and difficult, even still today.
We still see AAA studios fucking up the basics of a lot of netcode stuff in mmo/rpg typr games, where they just make way, way too much shit clientside authoritative, and then have to spend a year or two redesigning the entire game.
This, in turn, is why third party kernel anti cheats have taken off so much, because game devs just fucking give up at making a reasonably secure networked game.
Meanwhile Valve figured this shit out literal decades ago, with highly efficient netcode, and a mostly server side AC solution.
It isn’t possible to stop 100% of cheaters.
It is possible to stop 99.9% of them by designing your game and netcode well.
But that is apparently too hard, so basically the entite industry has outsourced it and/or solved it with massively inefficient and privacy/security compromising AC.
Back in the 90s my friend and I would play Descent against each other via modem. I had a 100Mhz processor, he had a 66Mhz processor. If I came in blasting with a rapid fire weapon his machine couldn’t render fast enough and he’d get blown up.
Descent… man I haven’t played that or magic carpet in ages. I need a trip down memory lane later tonight…
The ISP he was supposed to be advertising in doing so, no less.
dae hate Elon Musk?
I’ve hated him since before Trump’s first election, correctly realizing he is a fradulent try hard con man megalomaniac, and have had to endure a decade of people mocking me ‘oh yeah like you are smarter than the richest man on earth yeah right fuck off’.
Yep. I am smarter than him. So were half the people hurling those insults at me, actually.
Elon is actually quite stupid at everything other than conning people.
Much like Trump.
Imagine sucking so bad it makes the news.
Never before have I so wished for a sentence to end earlier.
That post title really got my hopes up.
Have been using starlink for more than 2 years at this point and can confirm from my view that there are very few connection issues. I’ve almost never looked at my connection as the issue when gaming since getting it. It either went down completely for a few hours (2 times I can remember) or was very solid.
EDIT: Not excusing or fanboying for Musk, as his personal direction has been questionable in recent years. But talking about the technology perspective.
A coworker lives out I the middle of nowhere but has Starlink to keep him connected and working fully remote. Literally once a meeting he drops mid-sentence and when his frozen face comes back to life he’s yelling “GOD DAMNIT ELON”. Never fails to get a chuckle.
My boss had starlink and we used to joke that it was an elaborate plot to get out of meetings/awkward conversations.
Very interesting, I’ve done full zoom lessons for hours and almost never had connectivity issues like that. Our dish has full open sky view, so that may be part of a difference, as well I think it’s the first version of the dish, not one of the later ones.
He does ham radio and we just built him a 20m high tower for it with the Starlink dish mounted at the top to look over any possible trees etc. it’s not obstructions 🤷♂️
For sure should be fine connection wise, maybe it is the connection on the ground that starlink has a connection with. Not meaning at your coworker’s place, but on the ISP end. Unfortunately not something that can really be addressed.
Is the PoE 2 tutorial boss any harder than the PoE 1 tutorial boss? Because if not, then thats actually crazy.
the boss is “harder”, you have to actively dodge his abilities but he’s not “dying two times in a row” hard
It should still be really easy to first time the tutorial boss if you have like, any experience in games where you need to dodge telegraphed attacks
Sure, someone new to video games in general would struggle. Someone who played at least a tiny bit of Elden ring? Should feel completely natural
If you read the article, he died because his Starlink connection disconnected - which also cut the stream.
Which doesn’t excuse his lack of skill throughout the stream before that.
That he lost to the tutorial boss as well as being trolled to high heaven as well as Starlink crapping out is the icing on top of the icing on the cake. Bully these people. The ones that call others “snowflakes” are projecting harder than an IMAX. Bully them into the fuckin grave
Ringing endorsement of Starlink. Can’t wait till the FFA relies on it.
It’s harder. Many top payers have died to him. if you don’t pay attention
What? Maybe on the first day but not since.
Ppl die to him all the time. You can see that in the daily clip compilation YouTubes
Elon Musk is a fake gamer girl
Hahaha, this is too accurate
Is this actually news that matters?
Kind of. It shows he is a liar. Maybe that wakes someone up. News showing that political leaders and figureheads lie about even the mundane is good reporting, even if the topic is dumb.
It’s essentially this moment, but for gamers. At least it should be.
I love this and hate this, because it prescribes way too much credit to Musk for work he’s never done.
Yeah, it’s not his rockets. There was a lot of hard work behind them by literal rocket scientists.
If anything, the rockets have excelled despite his stupidity.
I think the more important insight is how desperately he is trying to appeal to the young male demographic, and going so far as to pay a pro gamer to boost his account in a video game so he can pretend to be one of them.
Why? Probably a lot of potential reasons, but anyone with even a little bit of critical thinking skills should immediately become suspicious when they see that. Because whatever the actual reason, it probably isn’t good.
What’s really funny is that he still could’ve faked it. Like, it would be simple to talk on face cam while someone else plays. This showcases his deep narcissism that he is buying his own pathetic hype.
I would assume the reason is that young disenfranchised males are easy to radicalize into a personal army. Every war lord knows and uses this age old trick.
The most charitable answer is sad: that he sees himself as one of them. It’s entirely possible that he thinks of himself as essentially a 20 year old who loves video games, drugs, and trolling.
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What we think of Elon matters to Elon, so yes.
If what I thought of elon mattered to elon, he’d have offed himself by now.
He just doesn’t know but internet is the place to exchange ideas so we just need to keep trying.
That just means you’re not making your hatred loud enough 🤷🏽♂️
He’s trying to build credibility among younger audiences through the only thing they give a shit about: video games. It’s more anti-propaganda than it is “news”. And, really, most news is some form of propaganda or anti-propaganda.
Shit is, in real life these assholes live forever.
Talk about bait and switch headline
#MUSK DIES
^(to a video game boss)
“Elon, deep down you will always be cringe no matter how much money or power you have.”
Deep down? To me he’s cringe on the very outside.
Surface level, “fellow kids” level.
