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On Tuesday night, Musk livestreamed a play session with his high-level Path of Exile 2 character on X. To the practiced eye, there were a lot of red flags. PoE 2 is an action RPG that's similar to Diablo IV. Players comb maps for valuable items while leveling up their characters. Like Diablo IV, it can take hundreds of hours to grind a character up to max level and get the best loot.

A few minutes into Elon Musk's livestream of his hardcore character in the video game Path of Exile 2, someone DMed him ASCII art of Mario taking a shit on the name "Elon." The fact that the world's richest man and a self-professed epic gamer didn't know he should turn off DMs before starting a livestream was weird. But it was a stream full of weirdness that pointed in one direction: despite claiming he was a high-level PoE 2 player, Musk didn't seem to grasp the basics of high-level play.

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"I can say after watching an hour of this livestream that I would put, like, $100,000 or more on a bet…that Elon did not level this character from level 1 to level 90 himself." YouTuber Cynicalex said, commenting on the stream.

The suspicion among players who actually play Diablo IV and PoE 2 is that someone else is grinding an account that Musk takes over and claims is his. In that scenario, Musk isn't actually putting the work in to grind these characters up, he's just taking credit for someone else's hard work.

"Musk's embarrassing Path of Exile 2 stream, as reported by VICE, solidifies those suspicions," he said.

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It's important to note that Musk's PoE 2 playthrough is in hardcore mode. In that mode, if your character dies the game deletes it. One mistake could mean the end of days of work and there's no way to come back from it. A player with a high-level character in hardcore mode should know what they're doing.


Yet Musk runs past high-level items that, based on his inventory, would be a massive boon. He attacks walls. He puzzles over pressing a switch that would open a passage to him. He's got a specialized inventory tab labeled "Elon's Maps," suggesting that they've been reserved for him by someone else. He also doesn't seem to understand how his character works and claims to be clearing a map at the hardest difficulty despite it being set to a low level.


"Running past super valuable items? Not knowing what vital endgame mechanics are? Not the behavior of someone who has put in a lot of their own time into the game," Cox said. "Calling a stash tab 'Elon's map'? Exceptionally odd for someone allegedly playing their own character."


Multiple Path of Exile 2 YouTubers posted videos critiquing Musk's performance and they all came to the same conclusion: this is not a man who knows anything about high level Path of Exile 2 play. "What I do know is that if you're a level 90 player, you do not make these errors," Cynicalex said in his.


"Maybe you trick really braindead people who have no idea into thinking your high end in a game that they have no clue about," Quin69TV said in his video on the stream. "What does that do? That does nothing. What's the point in that? So you're going to trick a bunch of boomers into thinking you're good at games whenever boomers think the games are cringe as fuck anyway. It makes no sense. And it's cringe."

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[Yoshichan]

if you've played a total of 3 minutes of POE2, you can watch the stream and see Musk has a bought account

 

[Punished Miku]

The Romans at least got gladiator fights, bread and circuses. Tons of Elon fans were fooled with just a fake stream. haha

 

[clarky]

Pretty obvious.

I have 80 hours in game on one character and im not even at the end game. Admittedly you can do it a lot faster but you need to no life the game to be at the point he is.

No way he has time for this while poking his nose in every Tom Dick and Harry's business

 

[BennyBlanco]

this guys video cracked me up. to what end is elon doing this?

 

[RoboFu]

Oh a lot dumbtubers make a video about the most popular man in the world ? You don't say?

YouTube was a mistake.

 

[diffusionx]

Cynicalalex is trying to get a job to be Elon's game player.

 

[Punished Miku]

this guys video cracked me up. to what end is elon doing this?

Same reason he repeats shit like Vox Populi and then buys the government. The top job of any billionaire right now is to obscure the fact that they aren't like normal people, they don't have the same self-interests and they're actually opposed in almost every way. It's literally propaganda for young men. You think he's focused on PoE2 right now?

 

[MMaRsu]

this guys video cracked me up. to what end is elon doing this?

To impress young people who are easily duped.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Hey Elon, I'll get you some high scores in Galaga and you can claim they're yours.

 

[Yoshichan]

To impress young people who are easily duped.

young people dont give a fuck about poe2 or anything alike

he's trying to impress OLD people, dad facebook gamers that rotate diablo 4 between them getting scolded and cucked by their wives on a daily basis

 

[Herbspiceguy]

Oh no, it turned he didn't actually go full degen no-lifer mode to play the game 8 hours per day weeks on end.

Also, Quin acting like a hungry hyena with a hate boner for Musk.

 

[Kacho]

What the FUCK?! I've been bamboozled.

 

[Punished Miku]

Oh no, it turned he didn't actually go full degen no-lifer mode to play the game 8 hours per day weeks on end.

Also, Quin acting like a hungry hyena with a hate boner for Musk.

Oh no it turned out he didn't actually ____________.

Herbspiceguy
Year 2029

 

[drotahorror]

Just curious but did Elon claim he leveled the character? If he didn't, these are just hit pieces. If he did, well, he should have known better.

 

[Yoshichan]

Just curious but did Elon claim he leveled the character? If he didn't, these are just hit pieces.

stop he's not going to fuck you dude

 

[Kacho]

 

[Skifi28]

I'm not sure what's worse, a Billionaire having others grind his gaming accounts just to say "I'm totally one of you guys" or us giving him the attention he craves.

 

[Rocinante618]

I mean who cares? Just a game.

This is clearly nitpicking lol. If there was another billionaire who was on their side, these articles would be positive.

If you really thought that billionaires are grinding videos games to reach top leaderboards oh boy, I got to tell you - focus on your life and what you want to do. Ignore this shit.

Ignore all billionaires, celebrities and similar - they're not harbingers of truth, they are machines driven to profit your money, time and admiration.

lmao, the obsession to nitpick and comment both sides have to certain individuals is so juvenile - I guess it's being human in today's digital world.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

To impress young people who are easily duped.

I know some gaming execs in a very popular platform that 100% had interns level up their scores in games to look like real gamers.

But that is part of a book one day I need to write

 

[Punished Miku]

I know some gaming execs in a very popular platform that 100% had interns level up their scores in games to look like real gamers.

But that is part of a book one day I need to write

#PhilToo

 

[Kacho]

this guys video cracked me up. to what end is elon doing this?

I assume to promote game streaming on X

 

[diffusionx]

I know some gaming execs in a very popular platform that 100% had interns level up their scores in games to look like real gamers.

But that is part of a book one day I need to write

if you tell me Cerny didn't get that Cuphead platinum, I will lose it

 

[Topher]

I know some gaming execs in a very popular platform that 100% had interns level up their scores in games to look like real gamers.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

if you tell me Cerny didn't get that Cuphead platinum, I will lose it

No idea how PS execs operate their accounts

Cerny comes off as a real gamer to me

 

[LiquidMetal14]

And? The guy is running how many companies and people critique him for this?

 

[Topher]

And? The guy is running how many companies and people critique him for this?

Folks praised him for his massively leveled up character. Why wouldn't they fault him when finding out its bullshit?

 

[STARSBarry]

I had assumed he would be paying someone to play an account for him pretending to be him for Internet credits.

I'm glad more people are coming around.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Folks praised him for his massively leveled up character. Why wouldn't they fault him when finding out its bullshit?

Plus when he has that much money how much is he really hands on with all he has going

He likely puts very smart people around him and points at them and tells them to handle it he has a podcast to do, or game or whatever someone that rich does

 

[GHG]

#PhilToo

Well at least it explains why you had to play through Hellblade 2 twice.

 

[Punished Miku]

Well at least it explains why you had to play through Hellblade 2 twice.

3x

 

[GHG]

3x

Oh yeh, shit, forgot about Sarah.

 

[Topher]

3x

 

[clarky]

I know some gaming execs in a very popular platform that 100% had interns level up their scores in games to look like real gamers.

But that is part of a book one day I need to write

Little Chicken ? DAHGAMING ?

 

[MMaRsu]

And? The guy is running how many companies and people critique him for this?

For lying and pretending he's running these accounts himself?

Yes?

Or do you think because he runs companies, he should be able to lie about whatever

and we should just swallow it?

Really?

A little critique isn't out of place hereis it.

 

[Punished Miku]

It's part of my H1B requirement. Don't worry about it.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Like someone mentioned to me that knew Phil super well most times Phil was on camera "playing" a game you hardly ever see his hands on the controller

The analogy he used was like giving your 3 year old a dead controller while you played and they thought they were controlling it

Plus something I have said here before (and maybe these type of shooters arent his thing) but played PUBG and Warzone with Phil and he was terrible at them

But I digress, I bet most of these people don't level up these huge accounts

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Folks praised him for his massively leveled up character. Why wouldn't they fault him when finding out its bullshit?

It's fair. Just not worth the energy. And let him, he's a busy ass man.

 

[GHG]

It's fair. Just not worth the energy. And let him, he's a busy ass man.

I think the issue is more the reasoning behind having someone else level up the character for him.

It was mostly so that he could go online and brag about it in order to make him look "cool" or relatable.

It's bound to raise a few eyebrows when someone of that stature is doing that sort of thing, raises questions about what else he's lied about.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

For lying and pretending he's running these accounts himself?

Yes?

Or do you think because he runs companies, he should be able to lie about whatever

and we should just swallow it?

Really?

A little critique isn't out of place hereis it.

I'm mad. Ate breakfast.

 

[The Cockatrice]

To impress young people who are easily duped.

And GAF as well as there are a lot of pro Elon dicksucking fans.

 

[Banjo64]

I've always thought Elon pretending to be a top percentile gamer to be absurd.

Most low level CEOs work 12-15 hour days, never mind a high level one. They don't switch off at all typically and work weekends also.

It's literally impossible to fit 10 hours of gaming per week in. Even if he completely shunned any personal relationships/responsibilities. Not to mention he's been heavily involved in the US election.

Bizarre.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

"I can say after watching an hour of this livestream that I would put, like, $100,000 or more on a bet…that Elon did not level this character from level 1 to level 90 himself." YouTuber Cynicalex said, commenting on the stream.

Of course he did not - are all the YouTubers this retarded?

 

[MMaRsu]

I'm mad. Ate breakfast.

I'm sure Elon is a very smart guy, I do have some respect for him really, but this isnt cool to pretend you did this when in fact you bought the accounts

 

[Punished Miku]

raises questions about what else he's lied about.

Check out Thunderfoot's channel on youtube sometime for not only those questions, but the answer as well. Been quite a few things over the years. Guy is literally a pathological liar, and I really don't say that lightly. It's not even my opinion, it's just video of what he says and then updates on what has happened.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Little Chicken ? DAHGAMING ?

This dosnt apply to big Phil, to be frank im sickened by the acusations. Hes a real gamer, one of us and most of all hes an Xbox warlord, captain, leader, legend. He cares about Microsoft Xbox and its gamers and strives to provide us with the best games and the greatest, most powerfull hardware to play them on. Hes a realy good gamer aswell, sometimes I just watch hes game profile waiting for it to come online so I can message him support with whatever game hes playing and watch hes gamerscore get bigger .

 

[adamsapple]

What the FUCK?! I've been bamboozled.

 

[BennyBlanco]

I assume to promote game streaming on X

I guess, but like the guy said. Just play the game normally. Nobody is gonna tease you for just playing the game. If Elon came out beforehand and was like I paid somebody to grind this out because I wanted to see what high level PoE was like, I would've respected that too.

 

[RoadHazard]

I wonder how much the person who sits and levels characters for Elon all day is paid.

 

[Topher]

I wonder how much the person who sits and levels characters for Elon all day is paid.

Probably way too much