Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream

I was really excited to read the start of that headline.

Elon Musk was caught on the street and beaten to death...
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me2. its like seeing a donald trump is dying to eat bigmacs headline.

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- ftfy

You had me at Elon died. ❤️

I was super excited for a brief moment until I kept reading

In the last minutes of the stream, Musk made a hardcore difficulty character he named Kekius Maximus, a 4chan-esque meme name he’s used as his display name on X. But Kekius Maximus was not long for the world. Musk died to one of the game’s tutorial bosses due to a bad connection, which subsequently concluded the stream, ending another sad, weird data point in the Elon Musk fake gamer saga.

The guy who claimed he was a top tier Quake player... who in actuality, was only scoring well in online matches, because he played on the T1 high speed, stupid expensive business line at his Zip2 business in the 90s... and performed terribly at LANs...

Well here he is 30 years later, now dying to a tutorial boss, partially due to the shitty connection of his own ISP.

Amazing.

Shit, mentioning the T1 really made me have a minor flashback. Yeah. Back in the 90s computer processing power varied dramatically between users. Like when I got a 386 around 1990 it had a whooping 40mb of space and 1mb of RAM. It was a lot for the time. We never had to run anything directly off disks. But just 3 years later when Doom came out (and I remember the launch of Doom) i was surprised that we couldn't have it because it needed 4mbs of RAM. Also our computer wasn't fast enough anymore so when we DID finally get it years later we needed to use the smaller screen option to get it to run fast enough otherwise it was too choppy to play.
Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you're talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.
It would be like if you took a modern formula one race car from 2025 to a formula one race in 1925. A medicore driver would win, but not for skill.
- Someone playing Quake, a game that only came out a few years later, with that kind of machine you're talking about would dominate. Not because of skill, but simply that his comp has the speed that can allow him to act and react much faster than his opponents.
  Exactly.
  In that sense, 'pay to win' has always been a thing lol.
  You sound probably a bit older than me, but I can't tell you how many times in the 90s and early 00s that I legitimately lost games due to having a garbage tier ping to basically everywhere, and a shitty eMachine, and everyone else just acted like none of that mattered and I was just whining.
  Then, surprise, me and the online boys all jump into a server where they all have pings of 80, I have a ping of 200, and then they're all mad that I cant hit anybody because enemies are rubber banding around like fucking DBZ characters for me.
  ... Then I do a LAN party with local friends and utterly dominate, routinely.
  -.-
- Back in the 90s my friend and I would play Descent against each other via modem. I had a 100Mhz processor, he had a 66Mhz processor. If I came in blasting with a rapid fire weapon his machine couldn't render fast enough and he'd get blown up.
The ISP he was supposed to be advertising in doing so, no less.
dae hate Elon Musk?
- I've hated him since before Trump's first election, correctly realizing he is a fradulent try hard con man megalomaniac, and have had to endure a decade of people mocking me 'oh yeah like you are smarter than the richest man on earth yeah right fuck off'.
  Yep. I am smarter than him. So were half the people hurling those insults at me, actually.
  Elon is actually quite stupid at everything other than conning people.
  Much like Trump.

Elon Musk dies….

Tease!

My heart sank
when I finished reading the title

100%

Sucking at games is not bad. Fucking human lives, exploiting countries, being a Billionaire and a fucking Nazi, is.

Yes, but it hurts him emotionally to call him a fake gamer.
While playing games is bad. Lets not forget this guy believes that this is all a simulation, like its all one big fucking game to him. He is out of touch and seems to have a latency akin to Starlink connections.
- I don't want to ruin it for you, but all rich at 1 billion level and above, or people with power believe that life is a game, and all others exist just to serve them. Believing that the world is a simulation does not make you an arrogant fascist SOB.
100%, but this is also kind of hilarious after he literally compared himself to Neo because he's so good at Diablo 4, before finally admitting months later that he paid to boost his account.
It's not that he's bad at games, it's that he used illegal methods to cheat his way into being one of the Top Diablo IV and POE 2 players, and when the devs of the latter called bullshit (Blizzard being the old men who yell at clouds didn't because they thought being associated with Elon was a positive thing) so he played on a new account to "Prove" he was "Just that good"
And basically did the Action RPG equivilent of dying to the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros.' World 1-1 at a live convention where your speedrunning skills are the main attraction
- And basically did the Action RPG equivilent of dying to the first Goomba in Super Mario Bros.’ World 1-1 at a live convention where your speedrunning skills are the main attraction
  I'm pretty sure the current standard is playing Halo and fumbling so badly you have to turn the difficulty down from Legendary to Normal, and missing your target time by over an hour (see: the Cody Miller Halo GDQ speedrun).
It's not about the game, it just shows how much of a pathetic liar he is. And the length he goes to lie about something stupid like playing video games just shows how far he would go for his actual lies and just shows even more what kind of a sad pathetic human being he is.

Elon Musk is a fake gamer girl

Hahaha, this is too accurate

This is almost as embarrassing as the botched penis enhancement surgery he had.

Dude just can’t win.

Dickless, his kids won’t talk to him, and he sucks st video games?

Dudes gonna off hisself I bet.

So that's why his testosterone is so low and he needed all those hair plugs and face tucks and chin sculpting.
- Gender affirmation for Elon not for thee lol
- And oil drums full of HGH that ballooned his torso like mister Creosote from Monty Python.
Dude just can’t win.
Ordinarily, this wouldn't have been such a bad thing, were it not for the fact that he's desperate to both be seen as an infallible genius, and well liked.
If it was the image people had of him 10 - 20 years ago, him admitting that he likes video games but wasn't that great at them might have actually helped his image.
- If Elon had said he loved PoE2 but he sucks at it because he rarely has time to play then that would have at least aligned with his claims that he works 60 to 80 hours a week. Elon pretending to work 80 hour weeks and also grind 16 hours a day on PoE2 was just insane. He is such an idiot

“Elon, deep down you will always be cringe no matter how much money or power you have.”

Deep down? To me he's cringe on the very outside.

Surface level, "fellow kids" level.

Talk about bait and switch headline

#MUSK DIES
^(to a video game boss)

My wife thinks maybe he has a humiliation kink.

- This is exactly what Ted Bundy did when his first love dumped him.
  He fell for a woman called Diane Edwards while in college, and they dated for about a year. She was everything he thought a woman should be; beautiful, smart, successful, and from a well-off family. She dumped him because she saw him as "pitifully weak". Psychologists believe, and Bundy himself all but confirmed, that this was the catalyst that would fuel his homicidal rage towards women. It's also believed that Diane heavily influenced the type of women he killed; young white college students with brown hair parted in the middle. He began killing women the same year Diane dumped him.
  Five years later he was married and living a double life as a serial killer. During this time, he sought out and reconnected with Diane behind his wife's back, and Diane was impressed with his transformation. He was on the cusp of a successful legal and political career, and he seemed a lot more masculine and sure of himself. She was smitten and wanted to pursue the relationship. They even got as far as discussing marriage. That's when Bundy dumped her and cut off all contact with her, getting his "corrective experience" moment, which clearly did nothing to heal the trauma of rejection that spurred one of the most terrifying episodes of serial murder in history.
  Elon Musk doesn't need to beat the bullies to get closure. He needs therapy. Or rather, he needed therapy, and he needed it many years ago. At this point, he's in his "dumping Diane" phase, where he's already hurt so many people and he's so far gone that no amount of therapy would help him. He's already too addicted to the monster he's become to ever want to heal himself. His need to have these corrective experiences, like Bundy with Diane, is strictly to feed the monster's ego.
- unconconsiously

Is the PoE 2 tutorial boss any harder than the PoE 1 tutorial boss? Because if not, then thats actually crazy.

the boss is "harder", you have to actively dodge his abilities but he's not "dying two times in a row" hard
- It should still be really easy to first time the tutorial boss if you have like, any experience in games where you need to dodge telegraphed attacks
  Sure, someone new to video games in general would struggle. Someone who played at least a tiny bit of Elden ring? Should feel completely natural
If you read the article, he died because his Starlink connection disconnected - which also cut the stream.
Which doesn't excuse his lack of skill throughout the stream before that.
- That he lost to the tutorial boss as well as being trolled to high heaven as well as Starlink crapping out is the icing on top of the icing on the cake. Bully these people. The ones that call others "snowflakes" are projecting harder than an IMAX. Bully them into the fuckin grave
- Ringing endorsement of Starlink. Can't wait till the FFA relies on it.
It’s harder. Many top payers have died to him. if you don’t pay attention
- What? Maybe on the first day but not since.

Is this actually news that matters?

Kind of. It shows he is a liar. Maybe that wakes someone up. News showing that political leaders and figureheads lie about even the mundane is good reporting, even if the topic is dumb.
- It's essentially this moment, but for gamers. At least it should be.
- I think the more important insight is how desperately he is trying to appeal to the young male demographic, and going so far as to pay a pro gamer to boost his account in a video game so he can pretend to be one of them.
  Why? Probably a lot of potential reasons, but anyone with even a little bit of critical thinking skills should immediately become suspicious when they see that. Because whatever the actual reason, it probably isn't good.
What we think of Elon matters to Elon, so yes.
- If what I thought of elon mattered to elon, he'd have offed himself by now.
He’s trying to build credibility among younger audiences through the only thing they give a shit about: video games. It’s more anti-propaganda than it is “news”. And, really, most news is some form of propaganda or anti-propaganda.

Shit is, in real life these assholes live forever.

Never before have I so wished for a sentence to end earlier.

~~Dogshit~~ dogeshit

Misleading headline.

Emphasis mine:

Musk died to one of the game’s tutorial bosses due to a bad connection

Not due to being bad at the game, as the title implies. It doesn't refute the core "message" of the facts, but I despise clickbait headlines.

He just claimed it was a bad connection. It definitely wasn't if you watched the stream. What makes this even funnier is that it was supposed to be a demonstration for Starlink and he ended up shitting on it because he couldn't handle the defeat.
- Heh, that is even better. His ego wouldn't let him blame himself instead of the service he was purposely trying to promote... leading to him doing the opposite.
Bad connection, eh? Either Starlink is crap and prone to bad connections... or not even its owner uses it.
- In my experience, Starlink has been surprisingly stable. Not that I own it personally, but I do know people who have it that would instantly call me for help if they had a single issue with it.
- He was on a jet to be fair
He ran out of the arena, and very poorly kitted the thing around for no apparent reason... He died because of a bad connection, but the fight was still going because he's bad.
Seconded, I hate Musk but I also hate clickbait. Worth noting though, he seems to have been connected via Starlink so that's funny.
- But Musk owns the ISP he was using.
  Still a skill issue no matter how you look at it.
- Not only was he "using" starlink, he was specifically doing it as a promotion to show that it is good for gaming. And even with that being the whole premise, it was still his kneejerk reaction to blame the connection, even though everyone watching knows that can't be what happened. His ego couldn't let him blame himself instead of the service he was purposefully trying to promote.
someone with elons wealth an access to literally anything and he couldnt even get a stable connection?
Now, I'm not familiar with Path of Exile, but isn't the game PvE?
The connection shouldn't matter, unless you're playing co-op.
- It's an online game where your position is important. Dodging to the wrong area can get you killed. It also uses both your computer and the server to manage things, to avoid cheating. In the original, there used to be massive problems with desyncs, where your computer thinks you're in one area, the server thinks you're somewhere else, and so the instructions sent from one to the other caused headaches with aiming and especially avoiding attacks. Most of the competitive players probably still have a macro bound to type /desync. If you have a bad connection, the desync is almost unavoidable. This will get you killed fast.

Imagine sucking so bad it makes the news.

That post title really got my hopes up.

Have been using starlink for more than 2 years at this point and can confirm from my view that there are very few connection issues. I’ve almost never looked at my connection as the issue when gaming since getting it. It either went down completely for a few hours (2 times I can remember) or was very solid.

EDIT: Not excusing or fanboying for Musk, as his personal direction has been questionable in recent years. But talking about the technology perspective.

A coworker lives out I the middle of nowhere but has Starlink to keep him connected and working fully remote. Literally once a meeting he drops mid-sentence and when his frozen face comes back to life he's yelling "GOD DAMNIT ELON". Never fails to get a chuckle.
- My boss had starlink and we used to joke that it was an elaborate plot to get out of meetings/awkward conversations.
- Very interesting, I’ve done full zoom lessons for hours and almost never had connectivity issues like that. Our dish has full open sky view, so that may be part of a difference, as well I think it’s the first version of the dish, not one of the later ones.

I laughed at Asmon being as nice as possible so he didn't upset him again. He was being roasted hardcore in his own chat. So surreal.

TBF, if he's playing the tutorial he's not pretending to know what he's doing.

He secretly paid people to grind his POE2 character to become a top-leveled character and then claimed credit for it. Yes, he is pretending to know what he's doing.
He was pretending to know what he's doing a few months back.
- "what hes doing" is a downplay, he had some of the best items in the game's existance and was global top10. He is manipulating for power and status.
  This is what he does, he is not an inventor or somehow smart.
  He pretends and buys. While being able to stop world hunger and us-homelessness without even losing billionaire status
He went on podcasts bragging about how he’s the best player in the world.
I assume "tutorial boss" is the one you're required to kill on any new character, before you can access the first city, the one that any first time player might have trouble with, but once you've done it once it's never going to take you down again.
Edit,
The death in the video they posted was the first "boss" after the first city, also pretty pathetic to lose to, but not a required (tutorial) fight. Seeing his mechanics there it wouldn't surprise me if the hillock (or whatever his poe2 counterpart is called) killed him.
Second edit
Musk died to one of the game’s tutorial bosses due to a bad connection, which subsequently concluded the stream, ending another sad, weird data point in the Elon Musk fake gamer saga.
The entire thing was a publicity stream for how reliable star link was, seems like if he's dieing to early game bosses because of connection issues star link might not be suitable for gaming on...
Last edit, he died 3 times to the tutorial boss, at that point it's connection issues and lack of skill.
- Read everything you wrote again but realize you're talking about the wealthiest dude in the world who was hawking his own shit and this was the result.
  He literally has more resources at his disposal than any other human and this is what he produces, I guess as marketing?
  What the fuck is going on?
- Cybertruck bulletproof window all over again. He really needs to stop demonstrating stuff live.
- Im at work so I havent watched the video uet. Was it beira (the ice witch) he died to 3 times? Because thats hilarious