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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

Elon was named after a town in a scifi book written by a Nazi rocket scientist recruited through Operation Paperclip https://www.mind-war.com/p/the-elon-how-a-nazi-rocket-scientist It is weird that people don't mention this more.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Video of Elon Musk performing a Nazi Salute side by side to a video of a Neo Nazi performing a Nazi Salute

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Ok but did u hear about the path of exile thing

[–] Valmond 33 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

And side by side of another "controversial person":

[–] Lemminary 1 points 10 minutes ago

I prefer this one:

[–] misterdoctor 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

German Leader Does Awkward Hand Gesture

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

At least one of those people looks like an actual person and not a fucking 4chan troll.

[–] teft 48 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

"It's impossible to beat the other players because they cheat too!"

What a whiny little shit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Fuck, I've heard this shit before. The entire point of online play, for competitive games; in my mind, is seeing who YOU as a player, are better than. Cheating ruins any of the fun. You don't grow as a player, you don't do better at your class/weapon/whatever. If you can overpower everyone through illegitimate means, you're missing the point entirely; plus you ruin the fun of everyone else. In short, fuck those people. That being said, I like single player RPGs. If I've played through legitimately 10 times, I don't see a problem with some sort of QOL type cheats. I've done it before, I've spent the time farming currency; ultimately, it detracts from my experience - Key word: MY experience. Its single player. I'm not fucking over another human being.

I was alive in the glorious era of LAN parties.

My friends and I had spent approximately 36 hours (straight) mainlining caffeine and running a variety of games. Quake 3 RA, AOE2, a little CS, etc. Towards the end, we all played.... fuck, I can't remember the name. It was an over the top FPS that took Duke Nukem to unheard levels of cheesiness. Anyways, after a certain level of exhaustion after the caffeine was gone, someone suggested we all LAN CS with a caveat, we all had 30 minutes to find and install the best hacks we could find and see what happened. It was mostly auto-pilot at that point, both gaming wise as well as things like breathing.

It was a fun experiment, and to allay any worries about online play, all of us were the nerdiest of nerds. We formatted our drives frequently. Hell, a friend of ours was running WindowsME at a LAN party and we formatted his drive and installed a cracked version of XP before he even got a game up, lol.

End results of the hackfest rounds? It was determined that the scout rifle was superior to the AWP, with perfect headshots. Mobility won out when guaranteed headshots were a thing. It did take a few people a surprisingly long amount of time to figure that out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

He would be the sweaty fuck that cares about "beating" others in a pve game, too.

[–] SoftTeeth 10 points 7 hours ago

It's gonna be really funny when he gets all his skin ripped off by a violent mob.

[–] ceenote 23 points 8 hours ago

Even though I play Path of Exile, I really don't care that he's cheating at it, except insofar as it reveals what an insecure little child the (arguably) most powerful man in the world is.

[–] MushuChupacabra 13 points 8 hours ago

Nazi cheats at online video games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

What a loser. Has there ever been a bigger loser? Maybe, but the only contender is Dump.