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Elon Musk is the #19 rank Diablo 4 player in the world on the S6 pit leaderboard

EviLore

Expansive Ellipses
Staff Member

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Confirmed to be him on his JRE appearance today.
 

Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
I don’t understand how he could even have the time, unless there’s some element of pay2win. I’ve got a full time job and there’s zero chance I’d be able to put in enough hours to be top 100 in any game. That’s wild.
 

TintoConCasera

I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Retard here, how is this measured? Character level? DPS? Is there some sort of ranked matches in Diablo or something?
 

simpatico

Member
I enjoyed the hell out of Diablo IV just as a single player action RPG. Got plenty of hours and certainly my money's worth. I'll go back the DLCs too. I think D4 is super underrated on those terms. It's a must play even if you have no interest in the end game shit (like me). Every biome looks great. They're diverse enough that when you reach a new one it actually feels fresh. The main story missions are almost like a COD campaign via action RPG. I say that in a good way. Just action-packed set pieces and spectacle. Very well paced.
 
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Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Dude, he's a billionaire. He can do whatever the fuck he wants.
I guess this explains why Twitter’s value has been tanking lol
 

Hookshot

Member
The other day after the rocket catch people were moaning that he was playing Diablo in the debrief meeting. Even so I suspect he has others to play for him when he is working
 

Puscifer

Member
I don’t understand how he could even have the time, unless there’s some element of pay2win. I’ve got a full time job and there’s zero chance I’d be able to put in enough hours to be top 100 in any game. That’s wild.
When you're in management you hire people to do the jobs you don't have time to do. I've min maxed my management job to staff and contractors so good I barely come into work in person short of meetings where I want to show my face.

I'm starting to understand how these high level folks do it is what I'm saying
 

BennyBlanco

aka IMurRIVAL69
if you are billionaire, you don't have time to actually play the game. It's all about bragging rights so you can gloat about it on twitter.

If this were like Philly Spence or something I could understand why he would do that. But why would Elon do that? No affiliation with Blizzard. No skin in the game.
 

Rush2112

Member
I don’t understand how he could even have the time, unless there’s some element of pay2win. I’ve got a full time job and there’s zero chance I’d be able to put in enough hours to be top 100 in any game. That’s wild.
Lol you think hes working all the time?
 

Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Lol you think hes working all the time?
I know two billionaires personally, one who works in tech. It’s a limited sample size, admittedly, but they’re always incredibly busy almost all of the time. Between things like television appearances (in one of their cases, but based currently around politics) and managing a variety of high-level projects, I just never got the impression that people in that position actually have any semblance of teenager-levels of free time.

I’m not shitting on Elon Musk or anything, I’m just genuinely surprised that he has the bandwidth for something that almost certainly requires at least dozens of hours per week.
 
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I don’t understand how he could even have the time, unless there’s some element of pay2win. I’ve got a full time job and there’s zero chance I’d be able to put in enough hours to be top 100 in any game. That’s wild.


Watch the first 5 minutes of this interview released today where Elon talks video games with Rogan, he says playing videos games, especially on very hard difficulty, helps him clear his mind and focus.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
I don’t understand how he could even have the time, unless there’s some element of pay2win. I’ve got a full time job and there’s zero chance I’d be able to put in enough hours to be top 100 in any game. That’s wild.

He, (and everyone else clearing pit 150 are using a bugged out build that is ridiculously broken and is capable of hitting for quadrillions of damage). It's actually not that difficult to do this season.
 
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Dacvak

No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
He, (and everyone else clearing pit 150 are using a build that is ridiculously broken and is capable of hitting for quadrillions of damage). It's actually not that difficult to do this season.
Oh, I’m dumb. For some reason I initially read this as “#19 overall”, not for “season 6”. I don’t know anything about D4, but I was definitely originally thinking he was somehow in the top 20 of the game, full stop.

I guess it’s less significant if it’s for a specific season. Still, I’m surprised he has that amount of free time.
 

Rentahamster

Rodent Whores
Oh, I’m dumb. For some reason I initially read this as “#19 overall”, not for “season 6”. I don’t know anything about D4, but I was definitely originally thinking he was somehow in the top 20 of the game, full stop.

Nah, it's just this season. I don't recall him trying to push a high rank in previous seasons but he could have been. This is the easiest season it's ever been to do so.

I guess it’s less significant if it’s for a specific season. Still, I’m surprised he has that amount of free time.

True, it's not like it's easy, but it's not really that hard either. All you need is the right gear and skills/stats layout. Once you have that, mechanically, the gameplay is incredibly easy since you melt all the enemies like butter and are effectively immortal.

You don't need a lot of time to farm the requisite gear yourself, either. Especially if people have given him stuff, which may or may not have happened.
 

a'la mode

Neo Member
suuuuuuuuuurrrree lol

We don't have shit to even confirm that HE HIMSELF actually played it to get there so, doubt.

^ this.

Yeah just ain't no way this is legit. Grinding 300 paragon levels for pit pushing is such a ridiculous, time consuming chore already, not to mention grinding all the gear for the build too - especially with his other time commitments. You're looking at day job/content creator hours, daily.

But if you hire someone to grind the levels for you, grind Duriel/Andariel for you, RMT gold and buy 4GA drops from the marketplace, while following a maxroll build guide, you too could be a super star!
 
A lot of people here failed the midwit check, second time I've seen it this week on GAF

He literally streams himself playing it on Twitter, it's easy to confirm it is himself playing the game

Dude works like 18 hours a day and plays a little Diablo IV between running his 5 companies

One thing I've realized about most people is they literally cannot fathom that someone can be more intelligent, work harder, or simply sleep less than them. It's the only explanation for how some people are so mentally retarded they don't believe a man can have the time and intelligence needed to land rockets upright, run the world's only successful electric car company, shitpost on Twitter, and play Diablo IV all in the same human lifespan as them without inventing some headcanon where it didn't happen

Even though it literally did
 
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