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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] raynethackery 5 points 4 hours ago

Great. Now he'll just buy Grinding Gear Games.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago

Really showing off how much work CEOs need to do.

[–] fox2263 57 points 1 day ago (8 children)

How does he even have time to play games

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 13 points 7 hours ago

He has people. For the wealthy, being busy is a choice. He can decide to disconnect from his duties whenever he wants, because he has entire teams of people who will pick up the slack.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago

He took a break from tweeting all day

[–] MojoMcJojo 9 points 8 hours ago

When you're that rich, ie the richest person on the planet, time is not a scarcity. His management style is to say do it or your fired. Doesn't take a lot of time to be a dick to everyone.

[–] x00z 5 points 9 hours ago

Well if you cheat you don't really need much time to climb to the top.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 20 hours ago

I've had his role a couple times on a smaller scale. My job was to make one or two decisions per day, communicate the ideology of why to subordinates, and hold them accountable. I spent tens of hours reasoning why and how, then ten minutes doing the work.

Elon skips the reasoning part. He just spends a few minutes per day communicating nonsense. My favorite line so far is, "We coup who we want."

[–] [email protected] 60 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Because he is a CEO.

CEOs don't actually do anything, they are just a face. They collect all the money and then fuck off to do whatever they want, which for musk is TV interviews, trump rallies, obsess over Twitter and apparently play video games.

[–] CitizenKong 10 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean ideally CEOs make informed decisions and have at least a pretty good grasp about what the company does and what could be done to make it better (after listening to people under them). CEOs like Musk are lazy and skip the actual work and make uninformed decisions that hurt the company.

Since CEOs are never actually punished for doing the latter it becomes the norm more and more.

[–] ignotum 4 points 8 hours ago

CEOs like that just needs some extra motivation, maybe a 20 mill pay raise will make them work a tiny bit harder

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

The same way Trump manages to golf as president.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He have so much time for posting on twitter cause he don't have normal job so he have time to play games.

[–] [email protected] 179 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Everyone who saw his Elden Ring build knows he's as good a videogame player as he's a father.

[–] FooBarrington 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Even if you tried, it would be hard to come up with a funnier build. Seriously, it's life imitating art... He literally leveled intelligence without any weapons that require it, because he of course wants to seem intelligent.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Sho 4 points 8 hours ago

This kicks so much ass!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Oh shit this is rad as hell

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Oh how unfair. He busts his ass running 3 companies, running one more company into the ground, running around Trump’s club annoying everyone, arguing with everyone on twitter, attending major events, and he has enough free time left over to gain top 10 skills in multiple video games?

No. He does not. Is he cheating or just lying about everything?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

GGG doesn't fuck around, he was cheating for sure.

[–] ViolentPacifist 7 points 11 hours ago

It would seem cheating

[–] rayquetzalcoatl 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My boss still believes he plays a major role in designing the rockets at Space-X. Surprisingly, my boss apparently isn't a child.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I’m good friends with someone who worked at SpaceX. It’s sort of an open secret that Elon has an entire team of people designated specifically to keeping him away from the engineers. Their entire job is to run interference and keep him distracted, so he can’t go marching into the engineers’ areas and ruin all of their work. Because apparently they have learned that if he is given free reign, he’ll tell the engineers to do a bunch of impossible shit, fire them all when they say they can’t, and then the management is left scrambling to hire new engineers.

[–] rayquetzalcoatl 1 points 1 hour ago

Which is a fun coincidence cos that's not dissimilar to how my boss "runs" our department lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

My only reference is an old reddit thread from someone who claimed to work there, but it exactly corroborates this.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago

Is he cheating or just lying about everything?

yes.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I dont know about path of exiles, but he exploited a bug that was going around to get that Diablo spot.

Given that in diablo it was a bug, I think thats fair game. But with path of exiles if he's cheating as in using hacks or whatever, thats hilarious and fucked and he dserves the ban lol.

[–] kautau 28 points 1 day ago

he

You mean the person he paid

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Is he cheating or just lying about everything?

First one, then t'other.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Fades 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Not it legitimately happened and Leon tried to play it off as if it was proof of his high skills, he tweeted how he really was just performing a high number of actions per minute and the game kicked him because of it.

From the actual article (and not this weird one OP posted):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/12/14/elon-musk-kicked-out-of-path-of-exile-2-for-high-apm-says-its-a-hall-of-famer/

Musk shared a photo of a disconnected screen from Path of Exile 2. The reason given within the photo was “You have been kicked for performing too many actions too fast.”

Musk wrote, “Wasn’t even using a macro lol.” One user replied “hey give us like 10+ active skills and don’t expect us to hit the buttons?!” To which Musk replied, “Seriously… And the penalty for too many clicks/sec is you get executed immediately! I think this will get patched.”

Gotta love the dicksuckers that come rushing in to find a way to blame the game for offending their lord. Of course, to literally anyone with the context and a brain can see he’s full of shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Forbes has time for this wank?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

This is Forbes contributor. It's a blog, not by Forbes staff.

[–] billwashere 4 points 9 hours ago

I just can’t tell anymore what’s real and what’s not…

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As hilarious it is to see him face at least some kind of repercussions for the awful excuse of a human he is, this should be no surprise Mr Racist Bloodmoney has a problem with following the rules like the majority of humanity and cheats anytime he can (the rich dont get/stay rich by playing fair)

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme 7 points 9 hours ago

PoE devs having more balls than the combined governments of earth.

[–] njm1314 37 points 1 day ago

Well the intern he hired I guess.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the only obvious thing for him to do to correct this heinous wrong is to liquidate everything and try to buy tencent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Damn, this is how I find out GGG is owned by Tencent? I actually don't think he has enough wealth in assets (at least that he can liquidate) to actually buy Tencent though for the record

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Just wait till this game is free in a half year. It will actually be done at that time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Xelon a liar? Cue my :shocked: face.