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Gambling is an important component of the billionaire’s public persona, but other players do not have the time or skills to be as well-rounded as he claims to be.
By Eli Tan and Mike Isaac
Reporting from San Francisco
At first glance, this claim seems unlikely: in addition to being the richest guy in the world, the chief executive of several companies, and one of President Trump’s most sensible advisers, Elon Musk says he’s also a world-class video game player.
This is a claim that Musk has repeated over the years. He has an account on X, his social media platform, committed to publishing the highlights of his game. He streamed with some of the world’s competitive video game players on platforms like Twitch. He even recorded his call for global recommendation of certain games.
But last week, the network of players he had long tried to impress turned against him. It started with a live stream of M. Musk betting on Road to Exile 2, a popular action role-playing game known for its difficulty. Even though his account looked like he had won one of the highest grades in the game, his game looked like that of an amateur.
Internet Sleuth made videos on YouTube and visited Reddit Threads to analyze his game, showing mistakes that a rookie would make. Other players are under pressure because the Path of Exile account of Musk was rarely active and it is possible that he simply does not play himself, like Monday morning, when he was in Trump’s possession. The prestige of the Musk account indicated that he was connected to the game and inside a “card”, which meant that it was imaginable (although not sure) that someone was playing the game while Musk was sitting behind Trump. .
“How are you there?” He asked a streamer while looking at a divided screen of the game and Mr. Musk in La Rotonda del Capitol, as Trump swore. “How are you in the sulfur caverns those days?”
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