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Trigger warning for an ableist lyric but otherwise funny…
if you actually wanted nerd cred it would be so much better to try some games where skill is actually the determining factor so you could maybe lie about how you were “the best” just naturally… while paying someone else to actually play the game of course.
trying to lie about these games that are time gated is just so silly. he didnt play d4 9 hours a day for the entire month of October to get the account to the point it was when he decided to claim he was the best d4 player.
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The driver of all of this is Elon Musk. There’s no “free speech” on Twitter. We’ve seen with predictable frequency that his version of “free speech” is one in which those who get on Musk’s bad side routinely get their accounts suspended, shadow-banned and all the rest. What Musk has created is no more than a crude parody version of what rightwingers always claimed the old system was — self-interested bosses crudely putting their thumbs on the scale to advance their political goals. There’s some real argument to a genuine hands off approach. But Musk-rules have rapidly degenerated into what was always predictable: rule by the boss. Free speech and amplification … if you agree with Elon Musk. The fact that the Axios crowd can’t say this openly just shows the DC corruption they’ve always been part of.
OK each paragraph is funny/good
We see predictable signs of this everywhere as billionairedom collectively assumes the position for the incoming President. That Melania Trump documentary? Turns out Amazon paid not for ownership but simply licensing, a whopping $40 million. Yes, $40 million straight into the Trump family’s pocket. (Really, what do you think the expenses for this charade amount to?) And there was a bidding war to get on board. Disney and Paramount got outbid by Amazon. Sad! They lined up to for their chance to hose Trump down in cash, in a kind of licensing wet t-shirt contest.
One thing I’ve been entertained by for years is that the far-right co-optation of social media has followed almost exactly the arc conventional, now-legacy media took over 30 to 40 years. Move fast and break yourself, you might say.
Start with a longterm campaign of tendentious bias claims, aggressively play the refs and over time build in a playing field reliably tilted to the right. The funny thing is that the tech billionaires seemed totally oblivious to the fact that this was precisely the game plan, exactly the progression the same folks pulled with old media. Now they don’t care. But for several years they took the whole thing at face value. Only it went an order of magnitude faster.
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Maybe there’s a better match for the tune? This is close.
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Eggers’ Nosferatu movie had a budget of $50M, I’m very excited to see what Amazon’s $40M+ Melania biopic is like.
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Unrated with a lot of T&A, I assume. Maybe like an old Cinemax softcore porn, the kind with a plot.
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Since we’re doing Slovenians I’d like to see a Slavoj Zizek biopic.
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If you play POE this shit is gold
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And here’s another top HC POE streamer. Like, her only job for the past 5 years is playing POE.
Couldn’t make 9 minutes before I reached my quota of cringe from Elon. He’s completely clueless.
So Elon is supposed to be somehow a top Diablo 4 and Path of Exile player? Is that what I’m to understand? Wouldn’t it take 40 hours a week do that?
https://x.com/Liv_Boeree/status/1877086601689571408
Now that her friends are affected, it’s a sadistic platform.
Before, it was just the woke mind virus and the anti-free speech crusaders who were opposed to it of course.
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What’s more likely: he’s a top level pro gamer while also being ceo founder of 10 companies and running the executive branch of the US government while also spending 16 hours a day posting on twitter… Or! He’s a liar
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Like Hard Ticket to Hawaii?
I don’t know about D4, but it would take much more than 40 hours/wk to be a top POE player, much less in HC. I knew his D4 stuff was fake, but I don’t know the game. I know POE well enough to know that he’s basically clueless.
It’s not like he’s an average POE player trying to prove he’s good. He’s just shit.
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Any competitive game would take that x2 to be in top percentile unless it is hardcore pay to win then 40 hours might do it.
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That would be amazing. Hopefully the Melania movie will also feature a toxic deadly snake.
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