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Honestly not sure if this belongs here or in the FFZ... but all this drama from Elon claiming he's one of the best PoE2 players in the world and the gaming community calling out the fact he clearly had other people boost him is pure comedy gold.Ā  šŸ¤£

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Elon Musk Vs. Asmongoldā€”The Gaming Feud, Explained

Elon Musk is currently in the midst of a feud with Twitch streamer Asmongold, after he was accused of boosting his ā€˜Path of Exile 2ā€™ account, leading to Musk leaking Asmonā€™s private DMs.

Elon Musk, the worldā€™s richest man, is in the midst of a heated feud with gaming streamer Zack Hoyt, better known as ā€œAsmongold,ā€ who is accusing Musk of cheating at Path of Exile 2.

Asmongold is not the only gamer accusing Musk of cheating, as the larger gaming community, particularly Path of Exile players, believe that Musk is paying people to play games for him, leveling up his characters and arming them with powerful equipmentā€”a practice known as ā€œboosting.ā€

After Musk played Path of Exile 2 on a livestream, gamers quickly noticed that his actions did not match that of a proficient player, and compiled a list of evidence on Reddit that strongly implies that Musk is boosting his characters.

Commentators responded in bemused disbeliefā€”one wrote that Musk ā€œdoesnā€™t seem to understand why he canā€™t pick up items when his inventory is full.ā€

It should be noted that Path of Exile 2 is a very difficult game that requires a serious time commitment to reach the level that Muskā€™s character achieved (level 97 on hardcore mode).

The prevailing sentiment is that a man who is running multiple businesses simply does not have time to do this.

What Happened With Elon Musk And Asmongold?

Like many gaming streamers, Asmongold watched Muskā€™s livestream of Path of Exile 2 and came to the conclusion that Musk did not know how to play the game properly.

Asmon took it a step further, and challenged Musk to prove that he had reached level 97 by himself.

If Musk could prove this, Asmon promised that he would stream on X (Twitter) for a full year. Once the news of Asmonā€™s challenge made its way to X, Musk didnā€™t take the criticism very well.

Musk, who had been following Asmongold on X, quickly unfollowed the Twitch streamer. Asmon then reacted to Musk in a video titled ā€œElon Musk has lost it,ā€ stating:

ā€œElon unfollowed Asmon? Heā€™s probably not happy about the PoE video. Thereā€™s no way he played that account ā€¦ it was so obvious! You cannot get mad at me for bringing this up. Everybody was talking about this. Come on, man.ā€

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/01/16/elon-musk-vs-asmongold-the-gaming-feud-explained/

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Asmongold is much more powerful on Twitch, Elon is a fool to challenge him there :lol:

Any way, it is obvious that someone with businesses, responsibilities and passions of Musk, has no time to make himself a skilled player of complicated computer games.

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2 hours ago, Yama said:

Asmongold is much more powerful on Twitch, Elon is a fool to challenge him there :lol:

Hard to believe, but absolutely true.Ā  This may be the one area in recent years where Musk has no chance of coming out on top.Ā  šŸ¤£

He's also just digging himself further into a hole with each move he makes.Ā  It was already suspect that he was playing this character before he streamed.Ā  To get to that level you have to spend a lot of time playing, and he simply doesn't have that time.Ā  But then the stream... which made it painfully obvious he didn't know how basic aspects of the game worked and barely knew how to play to begin with, just made it fucking obvious.Ā  I think Asmongold himself said something to the effect of, "if he just came out and admitted he got boosted it wouldn't be as big a deal as it is now... or just owned up to it and we'd have an oz of respect for him."Ā  Instead, Musk doubled down on the petty and stupid.

He releases private DMs he's had with Asmongold (breaking X ToS... but rules are for little people, apparently) and then horribly misinterpreting what was actually said just makes him look like an out of touch dirtbag.Ā  It's fucking glorious to watch.Ā  šŸ¤£

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Real question is:

"Why should anyone give a fuck?"

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From the replies so far it's giving several of us a good laugh.Ā  That's all it needs to do.

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5 hours ago, bojan said:

Real question is:

"Why should anyone give a fuck?"

Pretty common for celebrities to pretend they're expert players in some popular video game, which, in reality, they probably played only a bit. We have seen this before.

When Musk can show us his Dwarf Fortress, I'll be impressed B)

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12 minutes ago, Yama said:

Pretty common for celebrities to pretend they're expert players in some popular video game, which, in reality, they probably played only a bit. We have seen this before.

When Musk can show us his Dwarf Fortress, I'll be impressed B)

The Ds did something similar during the campaign.Ā  Think it was AOC, Waltz, and someone else jumped into an online game (LoL?) to play for a bit.Ā  It was quickly apparent only AOC knew how to play.

But they weren't asserting they were gods at the game and were honest about it just being an attempt to reach out to a different audience... so it didn't get much traction.Ā  Here, Elon is using a backhoe to dig that hole deeper for himself... and it's fucking hilarious.Ā  šŸ¤£

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Well, I'll take comfort in knowing that regardless of how much money Elon has, he will never achieve divine adaptation in Kharim Legions' situational warfare-abilityĀ :P

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