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Elon Musk Admits to Paying People to Play Video Games for Him


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According to one of Elon Musk’s gamer buddies, the controversy surrounding Musk’s use of boosted characters in Diablo IV and Path of Exile 2 is a big misunderstanding. In a DM exchange on X, Musk told streamer NikoWrex that he did, indeed, pay people to play video games for him. According to Musk, everyone at the highest level is doing it so it’s fine.

At the same time he was preparing to sit at the right hand of President Donald Trump, the world’s richest man was beefing with people online about video games. At the beginning of the year, Musk did a livestream of his Path of Exile 2 character on X. It was weird.

According to high-level players with a lot of knowledge of the game, Musk didn’t seem to know what he was doing. And his account had tell-tale signs of a guy who’d paid to have someone else level it. The gamers called him out and Musk began to publicly fight the allegations. At one point Grimes, the mother of three of his children, even took to X to defend Musk’s gaming honor.

 

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The world’s richest man doesn’t have time to level his characters but wants people to see him as a ‘living god of video games.’

 

Props to the gamers getting paid!  Gaming is probably the worst career out there.  I keep dreaming that one day there will be a real gamers league where the education is free and you don't have to win every game to make money.  Some gamers were upset about it.  They felt it diminished their own accomplishments.  They work hard to get on that leader board and they don't have billions to show for it!  🤣

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Such an odd thing to lie about. But I do love it every time he talks about something that other people know about. He always gets called out. He should have stuck to talking about rocket science if he wanted to appear like a genius. Rocket scientists don't really have the time to call out the lies. Car guys, train guys and gamers do.

 

After the first stream, didn't he try to prove everyone that it was his account and he went on some mid-level map with one of the most overpowered accounts in the game, then died immediately? I've heard this but not really looked into it. If true, that's hilarious.

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  On 23/01/2025 at 02:15, Andrew said:

Such an odd thing to lie about.

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I don't really keep up with news about Elon Musk, but QFT.

I mean seriously, I suck at games.  I'll flat out admit it.  I'm stupid.
(That's unironically my hook as a youtuber 🤣)

Basically I think its more honorable to just own your faults and be yourself.  Nobody should really care if Elon Musk is a gaming god or not.  Who cares?  It'd still be fun to sit down and join a game and have Elon Musk there.  I don't care if he beats me or I beat him, it should just be a good time (my thoughts on gaming).  Yeah, there's competitive gaming out there, but that's not Elon, nor is it 99% of gamers out there anyway.  I refer back to Andrew's quote above........

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Read the article and its a political hit piece, They are going after him as they do Trump. I've met many online who consider themselves gaming gods. Do I care? Nope. I believe Elon has earned the right to do whatever he wants. Legal things of course. He would not be the first one that lets others play his toons. I would think the gaming community would consider it a good thing that a guy that has done so many things is himself a gamer. 

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  On 23/01/2025 at 07:58, mx500torid said:

Read the article and its a political hit piece, They are going after him as they do Trump. I've met many online who consider themselves gaming gods. Do I care? Nope. I believe Elon has earned the right to do whatever he wants. Legal things of course. He would not be the first one that lets others play his toons. I would think the gaming community would consider it a good thing that a guy that has done so many things is himself a gamer. 

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Articles similar to this have been coming out since 2018 because he keeps embarrassing himself and he's a public figure. He's only been getting involved in politics over the last couple of years.

 

The article exists because it's such a weird thing for a 53 year old man to lie about, then get into a weird online beef with a guy who uses the smell of a dead rat as an alarm clock, then try to prove everyone wrong, only to prove them right. Had he said "yeah, this is my account but I paid other people to level it up for me" then no one would have cared. At least not to this extent.

 

No one cares that xX_ToeMango69_Xx lied about being a world class gamer because they're not a public figure. Similar articles are written about other public figures who lie about their gaming skills such as Billy Mitchell.

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Asmongold seemed particularly upset.  He called Elon out and they supposedly beefed a bit.  That's when Elon doubled down and then someone came out and said it was their character.  It's a story about who's ego is bigger and it's petty on both sides.  Elon often pops up in the news for saying things he shouldn't, but ever since he bought twitter the media turned against him.

 

  On 23/01/2025 at 02:15, Andrew said:

Such an odd thing to lie about. But I do love it every time he talks about something that other people know about. He always gets called out. He should have stuck to talking about rocket science if he wanted to appear like a genius. Rocket scientists don't really have the time to call out the lies. Car guys, train guys and gamers do.

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Yes!

 

When Elon was talking about making car bodies all one piece and how it would make production cheaper, I realized he surrounds himself with a lot of smart people but doesn't understand some basic concepts.  The Delorian was a cool car, but there aren't any on the road because fender benders cost too much to repair.  Replacing an entire body would sky rocket insurance prices and the automotive repair guys would be up in arms.  The cybertruck's titanium body repeats the problem the Delorian had.

 

I think it's funny that all the Teslas have a front indent where the radiator air scoop would typically go.  It's a sign the body wasn't designed for an electric car.

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I am sure that Elon is not one bit embarrassed. Asmongold plays games. Not impressive to me. Elon builds rockets and electric cars and the richest person in the world. Very impressive.

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  On 24/01/2025 at 00:54, mx500torid said:

I am sure that Elon is not one bit embarrassed. Asmongold plays games. Not impressive to me. Elon builds rockets and electric cars and the richest person in the world. Very impressive.

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I'm sure he's not embarrassed either, but that doesn't mean he isn't embarrassing himself. He lacks the self awareness to be embarrassed.

 

His only inputs with SpaceX is money. SpaceX has measures in place to stop him from doing anything other than the countdown and pushing a launch button.

 

Before the Cybertruck, his only inputs in Tesla were money, and saying the Roadster should have carbon fibre body panels. The lead engineer at the time said that's not a good idea because it will make the car too expensive and that fibre glass panels are much cheaper and lighter, Elon Musk told them to do it anyway. It ended up being too expensive and he fired the lead engineer for it. The Cybertruck is an absolute failure of a vehicle. Engineers who quit Tesla because of it, said they came up with much better alternatives and Elon Musk refused the alternative ideas.

 

Now, Tesla have a $100K truck that doesn't function above 50mph outside of Southern California that no one wants to buy. You can tell because they've cut back production significantly and they lumped in Cybertruck sales in with the Model S and X sales just to seemingly inflate the numbers for the shareholders.  Tesla have huge parking lots full of manufactured Cybertrucks that they're unable to find buyers for. They even dropped the price by $20,000 not that long ago just to sell them. Not an issue Ford or Rivian are having with their EV trucks.

 

They can go on about having millions of pre-orders all they want, but how many of those pre-orders actually turned into sales? The pre-order was a $100 fully refundable thing. Effectively a crowed sourced interest free loan. Thanks to the 7 recalls the Cybertruck has had for things that can't be OTA fixed, we know there's an estimated 27,000 sold.

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  On 23/01/2025 at 03:21, pio said:

I don't really keep up with news about Elon Musk, but QFT.

I mean seriously, I suck at games.  I'll flat out admit it.  I'm stupid.
(That's unironically my hook as a youtuber 🤣)

Basically I think its more honorable to just own your faults and be yourself.  Nobody should really care if Elon Musk is a gaming god or not.  Who cares?  It'd still be fun to sit down and join a game and have Elon Musk there.  I don't care if he beats me or I beat him, it should just be a good time (my thoughts on gaming).  Yeah, there's competitive gaming out there, but that's not Elon, nor is it 99% of gamers out there anyway.  I refer back to Andrew's quote above........

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Yeah its odd. There's a reason I don't play multiplayer shooter games...I am so bad at them and I have really no desire to play or improve in those types of games. Just not my cup of tea when I want to play a game these days.

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  On 24/01/2025 at 02:23, Sir Beregond said:

Yeah its odd. There's a reason I don't play multiplayer shooter games...I am so bad at them and I have really no desire to play or improve in those types of games. Just not my cup of tea when I want to play a game these days.

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The way I enjoy gaming, one of the things I appreciate most is the solitude. I don't enjoy online multiplayer. I probably play games no more than 12 to 16 hours, maybe 20 hours, over the course of a year. When I play it is usually in a binge with only a few larger blocks of time scattered throughout the year. Almost always (with very rare exceptions) a linear FPS title when I do. Gaming is something I enjoy doing partly because the way I do it does not involve interaction with people, and I like it that way. 🤣 No open world, strategy, RPG or MMORPG... just run and gun single player campaign. While I own several hundred game titles there are probably less than 15 that I have played through to the end and a few that I have played through several times because I enjoyed them so much.

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Well then if he lacks self awareness like you say then how can he be embarrassing himself? Oh wait OTHERS think he is embarassing himself. I do not understand why you guys are ragging on Elon. Elon does what Elon does and is the richest, most successful man in the world. I believe what what I have read that all sales of new vehicles are down right now. Ford is losing money hand over fist on evs. Cold weather? All evs will deplete faster and have less power. Rivian is cutting back production. Just Google Rivian problems. All evs have problems. Cold weather, not enough charging stations, battery replacements are very expensive, and what do we do with the batteries when they die. Elon said it best. Take away the government (taxpayer) funding and see which companies survive. Elon picked Shotwell to run Space X, so if he picked her then he must still be the man in charge??? This thread started with Elon and gaming, now it has morphed into something else. 

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  On 24/01/2025 at 14:08, Mr. Fox said:

The way I enjoy gaming, one of the things I appreciate most is the solitude. I don't enjoy online multiplayer. I probably play games no more than 12 to 16 hours, maybe 20 hours, over the course of a year. When I play it is usually in a binge with only a few larger blocks of time scattered throughout the year. Almost always (with very rare exceptions) a linear FPS title when I do. Gaming is something I enjoy doing partly because the way I do it does not involve interaction with people, and I like it that way. 🤣 No open world, strategy, RPG or MMORPG... just run and gun single player campaign. While I own several hundred game titles there are probably less than 15 that I have played through to the end and a few that I have played through several times because I enjoyed them so much.

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I miss the social aspect of gaming, but I can only do fetch quests so many times until an MMO isn't fun.

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  On 24/01/2025 at 14:23, mx500torid said:

Well then if he lacks self awareness like you say then how can he be embarrassing himself? Oh wait OTHERS think he is embarassing himself. I do not understand why you guys are ragging on Elon. Elon does what Elon does and is the richest, most successful man in the world. I believe what what I have read that all sales of new vehicles are down right now. Ford is losing money hand over fist on evs. Cold weather? All evs will deplete faster and have less power. Rivian is cutting back production. Just Google Rivian problems. All evs have problems. Cold weather, not enough charging stations, battery replacements are very expensive, and what do we do with the batteries when they die. Elon said it best. Take away the government (taxpayer) funding and see which companies survive. Elon picked Shotwell to run Space X, so if he picked her then he must still be the man in charge??? This thread started with Elon and gaming, now it has morphed into something else. 

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I think Elon is awesome. I think the world would be a better place with more people like him and none of the woke haters that like to rag on people they hold a totally irrational hatred toward. Some people are just easily influenced by the nonstop assault of lies and disinformation they feed themselve from the big media circle jerks and social media zombie sheeple horde. 

 

I think all EVs suck and I want nothing to do with them no matter whose name is associated with them.  The fact that the vast majority of normal people feel the same way will hopefully help to ensure the failure of the nonsensical agendas that are the driving force behind it.

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Guys, the article and thread are about Elon potentially hiring gamers so that he's "the best gamer".  Please keep the thread on topic.  Yes, Elon is a political figure, but let's keep it to the article's subject matter please.  TY.

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  On 23/01/2025 at 03:21, pio said:

I don't really keep up with news about Elon Musk, but QFT.

I mean seriously, I suck at games.  I'll flat out admit it.  I'm stupid.
(That's unironically my hook as a youtuber 🤣)

Basically I think its more honorable to just own your faults and be yourself.  Nobody should really care if Elon Musk is a gaming god or not.  Who cares?  It'd still be fun to sit down and join a game and have Elon Musk there.  I don't care if he beats me or I beat him, it should just be a good time (my thoughts on gaming).  Yeah, there's competitive gaming out there, but that's not Elon, nor is it 99% of gamers out there anyway.  I refer back to Andrew's quote above........

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Well,I am a gaming god based on the quality time I spend in brothels in Witcher3 and the realistic way I'm able to die in just about every other game I play. 😂 lol,wife said it's 1 of the few things I'm good at.😂

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