If they were just whiter and manlier the fire wouldn’t stand a chance.
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california never had fires before DEI
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this past D4 season had a time gated paragon system where level 300 took about 180hrs for a pro player min/maxxing the experience gains to reach and more like 200 hours for a “good” player. elon posted a stream that was allegedly him playing on a character that was paragon 300 prior to the election and the season came out october 8th. so he was on d4 for something like 8 hours per day every day including weekends in october if we are to believe it was his account.
just think, someone at tesla’s entire job is just to play games all day and let musk get all the credit.
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Probably not their entire job. If they are gaming 8 hours a day, that still leaves 8 hrs for a standard job and a generous 8 hours of free time. You have to be hardcore to succeed in Musk world.
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Letting Musk get all the credit is everybody’s job at Tesla and SpaceX and Twitter and xAI and the rest of his empire.
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In 1997, I loaded my every worldly possession into my air-conditioner-less 85 Mazda glc and drove from south AL to Denver.
The day before departure I had the car serviced at a Walmart auto center, so I felt confident that my car and its 250k+ miles could take on any road conditions I might face. My “worldly possessions” included two two books on (cassette) tape to help pass the time: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in which the obviously-white reader went full-throttle with the hard r’s; and another id never heard of before my smartest friend recommended it to me, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. (Rand was the inspiration behind Rand Paul’s name i assume.) Armed with these classics, a 1989 Rand McNally Road Atlas, and my other shit, I climbed into my mean machine and hit the road! I chose to leave at noon on the day after Thanksgiving, reasoning that I would likely have the roadways mostly to myself while everyone else was sound asleep from their turkey and fixins.
Things started going sideways almost immediately. My dad had warned me to “keep an eye on that oil” before I left so, being a good son, I decided to check it at least once on the trip, Despite never seeing any warning lights on my dash, the stick show I was 1 qt low. Knowing I was in good shape after WMT gave it a clean bill of health, I thought it was maybe my imagination. Undeterred, I simply added a qt, topped off the tank, and pressed on, somewhat pleased with myself for solving this potential issue.
As the fuel tank on my car was about 2x the size of one you might find on a riding mower, it wasn’t long before I had to stop and fill er up again. On a whim, I decided to check the oil again and, sure enough, it was again a quart low! At this point I looked underneath my car, thinking someone was maybe pranking me or that I had possibly acquired Cape Fear Deniro somewhere along the way. He wasn’t there, but the bottom of the engine was rather oily. But shit, that’s normal. Nothing that a third quart of 10w40 won’t fix!
By the time I stopped for the night in Little Rock, and saw that the oil was low again, i decided to call my friend (collect from a phone booth) and ask him about it, since his dad owned a shop. He assured me that, no, this is not normal or good, and urged me to take it to a shop as soon as possible. So I checked into my hotel, inquired of the clerk about nearby repair shops (fortunately there was one next door), and turned in for the night.
The next morning, I drove over to the garage, which was thankfully open on a Saturday. I explained the events I have outlined for you previously, dear reader, to the good ole boy on duty. He took a look underneath the car and said, “Days shore is a pile uh oiwle unner dare!” Having grown up in the aforementioned AL town and thus able to understand most neck dialects, I could tell that he was also puzzled by the amount of dang oil. He put it on a rack, and found the culprit right away: the oil plug had been cross-threaded when it was reinstalled after the oil was replaced. My first reaction was, of course, “this fuckin guy!”, but he went on to explain that one of his customers had sued a local Walmart after they only put in a single replacement qt after changing his truck’s oil. The guy won and they had to replace his blown engine.
Horrified, and swearing revenge on WMT, i asked him to please fix my ride so that I could continue my journey. He said that he could, but he would have to take it to a machine shop to get the opening rethreaded. It would be Tuesday, at the earliest, before I could have it back. Having no other choice, I agreed to the hayseed’s terms and left my baby in his (hopefully capable) hands. Fortunately the Motel Six wasn’t booked as the holiday weekend was ending, so I headed back to my room and waited…
(To be continued)
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As Lily mentions in her video, she could probably figure out who is playing his account, because there are maybe around 50 hardcore players who could obtain that gear and level. Of course, Elon doesn’t know this, but it takes a genuine freak to be that good at HC, not just a dedicated Tesla employee. However, it appears he’s playing on an Asian server, and that’s a different player base.
This of course means that he ordered a flunky to find some Asian account that would be set up for him and that he could buy.
Probably more than one person, but they are in China, much cheaper than H1-Bs.
Far more than 8 hrs a day. The quality of the gear he is wearing is equal to or even markedly better than pros who play more than that, despite Elon being an obviously slow and inefficient player who doesn’t even know what is worth picking up off the ground. I do not even think it’s especially likely that there is just one Chinese guy grinding away to make Elon a top character. I think it’s more likely that there is a guild of, like, a half dozen guys like that funneling gear, and the currency to trade for gear, to Elon’s sock puppet.
He plays like someone unlikely to get out of Act 1 on hardcore on a fresh character. Hell, I’d be surprised if he could genuinely beat the boss of the first zone without dying the first time.
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So…why would Elon do this? He’s a 50 year old dude. Why would he give a fuck about video games let alone cosplaying as a top gamer?
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He cos plays as a top CEO. It’s all he knows.
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Stancil is fighting it out with some subset of “the left” on BS who are calling him a neolib and damned if I know who is who or what but I feel like this is right.
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Asian servers in my experience and this varies on games I don’t play there now maybe it’s different but was a lot easier competition, bots just grinding whatever, even in games that really doesn’t make any sense to do that, and also way more cheaters. So you can easily beat some noobs, kill some bots, then get absolutely rekt out of nowhere by obvious cheating.
Not really sure if elon is just paying someone for the equipment or has a bot going all day or both. Probably both given his ban.
“I think we’ll try for $2 trillion. I think that’s the best-case outcome,” Musk said. “But I do think that you kind of have to have some overage. I think if we try for $2 trillion, we’ve got a good shot at getting 1,” he said, meaning $1 trillion in spending cuts.
Can’t he get his $2T cut by having the fed stop buying eggs or something?
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Just cancel NPR a million times. That should be good for $1 trillion.
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Nobody knew budgeting was so hard.
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I haven’t played POE, but I’m familiar with Kripp from Diablo 3, enjoyed this.
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So Elon is… a communist?
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