Some extra context for those who have not played: PoE2 does not hold your hand. When I was learning the game that fight killed me too. But I wasn't claiming to be one of the best players, (I'd still describe myself as bad) and that same fight can't even hit me now.
I would generally agree but PoE is brutal and early game involves dying a lot. The fact that he thought dying was a problem is a WAY bigger tell that he's never played the game. Dying POE is like dying in a souls game, it shouldn't phase you in the least.
Whilst I appreciate the source material, in this case it's not even danger he's running away from, it's being rubbish at a game he claimed to be good at.
This headline is missing the most important part. the trolling didnt make him quit, him trying to prove that he's a good gamer and then dying to the tutorial boss made him quit.
The It Could Happen Here podcast just discussed why people like Elon have been trying to present themselves as gamers.
They state video games are played by 3 billion people, and gaming generates more revenue than movies, tv, and music combined. It is a huge, untapped group of people that is misunderstood by most politicians.
People like Musk of Sam Altman present themselves as gamers to try to get the support/money/etc of this massive group of people. It's also a way to spread a narrative within a group that will fly under the radar of politicians.
GamerGate showed the power of a potential stoking of the fire of this group of otherwise unrelated individuals.
Exposing Elon as the fake he is in this arena takes away his power within that group. He is a poser, so it isn't hard, but it cuts him off of an avenue of power he's wishing to grasp and manipulate.
I hate that Elmo, one of the most kind and smartest muppets, gets his name dragged through the mud like this. Why don't people just use his real name, F. Elon Musk?
The richest guy in the world, and he is so horny for any love and respect that the smell of desperation fills any room he is in. You can even see it anytime he makes a media appearance. The guy actually exudes a breath-taking level of anti-charisma. He's truly revolting to anyone who sees him.
All that money, and he has to rent wombs to manufature his DNA Storage Units/ Organ Donors/ Human Shields because no woman will go near him. Ive heard his dick doesn't work anyway, due to a botched wiener enlargement surgery.
So he thinks the gamers are his peeps, and they'll love him, right? Nah, all those great toys, and still none of the neighborhood kids want to play with him, because he's so fucking wierd.
It makes me so happy to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying "Money can't buy happiness."
You're reminding me when Some More News did an episode of Russian mouth pieces. Tim Pool was one of them and he has the same aura. He's in some band, named after himself. He has some skate park set up in his house. There was some people in the background on some shots, but the whole 'smell of desperation filling any room he is in' reminded me of that douche.
Also some forget this douche canoe just a few months ago was showing of his PoE 2 character and boasting about how he was a pro gamer with his 'level 97' character and then for exposed that he had others playing and streaming on his account.