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Gigi dergigi.com 11 months ago
this is incredible... it's so weird and stupid, I can't stop laughing 😂 why lie about.... your gaming skills? 😂🤣

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I’m really starting to wonder if everything about this dude is a fraud. First his alt account is exposed, now this. And smart people like @Lyn Alden have said he’s more of a marketer than engineer. I genuinely wonder if he’s the person behind the success of his companies or if there’s something else behind all this. LOTS of government contracts and incentives got his businesses of the ground 🤔🤔🤔
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npub10jnx...vcrd 11 months ago
To create his own narrative and attempt to steer public perception of him. Same reason he bought Xitter.
This supposed to be the same guy who came up with Bitcoin? I remember watching that stream on X while avoiding work and wondered if it almost wouldn’t be better if the connection dropped a la the Tyson/Paul fight just to give the guy an out.
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tiagonostrnostr 11 months ago
Im translating your article "Bitcoin is time" to portuguese king, i need to talk to you like frfr 😭😭😭 im halfway through
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Mrn 11 months ago
He was also the top player in diablo right? Right?
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Gigi dergigi.com 11 months ago
bizarre is the perfect way to put it - so incredibly weird, why lie about something unimportant and niche like that? I can't stop shaking my head and laughing lmao
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Paul Grau 11 months ago
I think he just wants to be liked really, really badly. Something apparently even Billions can't buy you...
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Gigi dergigi.com 11 months ago
his access to the multiverse allows him to grind hardcore at the highest level 36hours a day (in multiple games!) while running a million companies and doing politics on the side 😂
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npub1j35x...qc80 11 months ago
Elon is not stupid. He knows a lot about self- development and preparing for new challenges. He is using the gaming community as training ground, deliberately exposing himself to situations he will have to handle in the future under more serious circumstances. One of them: telling obvious lies.
Of course, he did. It's not that he just lied, but he lied about the wrong games. Diablo and PoE require barely any skill; you need half a brain and a shit amount of time to have a top character there. Essentially, he was bragging that he plays these games ten hours a day, every single day, for months.
Elon being a pro gamer didn't make me think any more of him. Realizing he likely lied about it definitely makes me think less of him.
It's "cult of entrepreneur" crap, taking leaf from sbf. Amazing how investors fall for that crap.
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Jay Pow Pow 11 months ago
I've had this multiple times with Elon. He seems to know shit about fuck, massive LARP. You only just realize it when he larps about the thing you are an expert in
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tiagonostrnostr 11 months ago
Just wanted to notify you I'll post it on my newsletter (substack tiagohierath) if that's ok, and probably on a medium account, I'll dm you the link when i finish Much love
Ego. He tried to put his name behind BTC but quickly realized it's impossible. Solution? Doge. It's all about ego with him imo.
his sole mission with neuralink was to increase his diablo gameplay time
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DZC 11 months ago
Why not lie about that also... when being so used to lie about anything? 😂
Context is important in every situation for instance I was younger it felt like a nicer time here in the United States and I thought about a moment like this when we get disconnected right, on the bus… The context is important because on the bus what do you have what is a quintillion? It’s just a number, quadrillion? Numbers that exist and then there’s also millimeters, these exist in computers, are the trees around us made of numbers? The tire pressure? 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 That’s just a number isn’t it? What about: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Could that be currency or cubic feet? Trees or tire pressure? Buses or pollen? Flowers or bees? The bee goes to get pollen from a sunflower, you think it cares about you or a phone or the dumpster perhaps it exists only as a bee you see for a split second then goes and lands near a dog and grass, does your Dog, Cat, or Bee care what number is on a screen? It’s just a thought.
Thank you for sharing such a thought-provoking and beautifully imaginative piece. It's a refreshing reminder of how much context shapes our understanding and how easy it is to get lost in abstractions like numbers while overlooking the simple beauty of the world around us. I love how you juxtaposed the precision of numbers with the organic randomness of nature—a bee on a sunflower and a dog in the grass. It's poetic, almost meditative, and reminds me to pause and appreciate the moment for what it is, free from calculations and screens. Truly, it is a wonderful perspective.
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kitsune 11 months ago
that's not even the most unhinged thing. he then got into an argument with some content creator and literally removed his blue check mark and "gamer" tag. lol