• Maxnmy's@lemmy.world
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    6 天前

    Just excuses. Not like I care, but he’ll never actually own up to this or apologize for being rude to people who called him out.

    • HornedMeatBeast@lemmy.world
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      6 天前

      He needs to pretend to be a top tier gamer to win the affection of internet strangers because he craves validation and attention.

      Natural born grifter and liar.

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          6 天前

          Yes but he has no time for this sh*t of course. If you want to reach this kind of levels, you need to play hours and hours per day. And every day of the week. Nobody has time for that.

          • Good_morning@lemmynsfw.com
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            5 天前

            Precisely, whenever I heard Diablo 4 I had my doubts, at the least I expected he paid others to grind out some of the time sink stuff. Should’ve picked a game thats less time intensive, though I’m sure he’d cheat anyways.

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        6 天前

        To me the reality of it is so damn stupid, If this were back to lying about quake, that’s one thing. He’s claiming on games with continual progression however. Of which even if you have amazing skill, it’s meaningless without time. IE it would be well understood that if someone is in those leaderboards legitimately, they’ve been living the NEET lifestyle (IE spending almost all waking hours playing the game), not say… on a nation tour following around a presidential candidate, while also forming a new government consulting group, spending considerable time on twitter as a user… and being a micromanaging incompetent CEO at 4+ companies.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.world
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    6 天前

    I just remembered that Grimes came out defending him on this topic.

    Or did I fall for a meme/shitpost?

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      6 天前

      She said something about Diablo that I didn’t understand as someone who doesn’t play that game but apparently confirming that, at one time, he was very skilled. Which is absolutely meaningless in a context where he pays people to play for him and then pretends that he did it.

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        6 天前

        Diablo IV gives scaled advantage for having very good equipment, and you can spend tons of time getting that equipment optimized. If someone else got him max rolled equipment and all he did was pilot it, it might look to someone who is a non-gamer that he is amazing at the game. You’d have to get the honest opinion of other top tier gamers if he is actually skillful.

        Some builds all you have to do is keep spamming one or two attack buttons to wipe out all enemies.

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    5 天前

    Who’d of thought. A billionaire a cheater. /s

    These people cheat at every aspects of life, society rewards narcissism, rewards people willing to forgo morals. We have systematised this were we can look at hi school bullies and have a vague idea where they will end up.

    These people aren’t worthy of our respect, and we need to make it known.

    • Snapz@lemmy.world
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      4 天前

      He’s the President of one of the more powerful countries in the world, so I think a lot of people.

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      My initial reaction mirrored yours; who even gives a shit? But seeing how people have been responding, apparently quite a few. And I’m left here, just utterly blown away that it’s this that is making people angry. This? Not all the Nazi shit? Inciting riots? All the molest-y allegations? Lying about a goddamn video game?

      Please, asteroid, hurry the fuck up already. C’mon monkey pox, do your stuff.

      • Red_October@lemmy.world
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        5 天前

        Believe it or not, a lot of us are actually capable of being angry about more than one thing at a time.

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        5 天前

        N n nope. Doomerism will not due. The masses without a voice do not deserve to be flushed away just for the sake of being written off along with the outsized vocal minority of status quo warrior right wing authoritarians (and liberal sympathizers of such)

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      It reveals his character pretty well in a clear and verifiable way.

      He denied it strongly. Only to have people call him out all over the place which eventually triggered him to admit to it.

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        5 天前

        And more importantly It reveals his character in a way that some of his die hard supporters might actually care about.

        He’s been shedding fans for a long time now, but way slower than he’s been going off the rails, because the things he’s done have rarely been directly contradictory to the image his fans have of him. Sure taken as a whole they are, but individual actions can be written off as haters using cult logic.

        This though, this is… just so pathetic… so blatantly approval seeking and manipulative tendencies.

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          5 天前

          Interestingly my instant seems to cache the original photo. If I go on the website it’s a different image he still looks like prick though.

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            Nah, but it’s part of the radicalisation stream. Get them when they’re feeling worthless, point a finger and say it’s not you, it’s them. Once they’ve bought in, point at someone else. Keep going and next thing you know, you’ve made a domestic terrorist.

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    6 天前

    I enjoy that the meta image is him doing the nazi salute

    Not that I like him doing it, just that it’s being shown around.