A few minutes of Elon Musk’s livestream of his hardcore video game character Road to Exile 2someone DMed him ASCII art of Mario making fun of the name “Elon.” The fact that the richest man in the world and a self-proclaimed epic gamer doesn’t know he has to turn off DMs before starting a livestream is amazing. But this is a stream full of strangeness that points in one direction: despite the admission that he is a high level PoE 2 player, Musk doesn’t seem to understand the basics of high-level play.

Musk loves video games. He kept a replica Diamond Back .357 pistol from the Deus Ex: Human Revolution on his nightstand. Grimes, mother of three of Musk’s children, wrote a song about their relationship and his addiction to gaming. He likes to talk about how he’s one of the best Diablo IV players on the planet.

For Musk, it’s important to not just project the image of a gamer. No. He should be the best player. But his accomplishments are absurd, and his Path of Exile 2 livestream provides evidence of someone making it up as he goes along and, presumably, taking someone on the level of characters for him.

On Tuesday night, Musk livestreamed a gaming session with his high-profile Road to Exile 2 X character. To the trained eye, there are many red flags. PoE 2 an action RPG similar to Diablo IV. Players will comb the maps for valuable items while leveling up their characters. as Diablo IVit can take hundreds of hours to grind a character to max level and get the best loot.

Where the hell does Musk spend his time? He is the head of six companies and a close associate of future President Donald Trump. He posted on X, the social media site he owns, almost 61 times per day. He meets with world leaders, tries to bend national and international politics to his will, and whatever else has time to play like Diablo IV and PoE 2 at the highest level.

Unless he’s full of shit like ASCII Mario who puts his name in his DMs.

“I can say after watching an hour of this livestream that I would put, like, $100,000 or more on a bet…that Elon didn’t level this character from level 1 to level 90 in himself.” YouTuber Cynicalex said, commented on the stream.

The suspicion of players who are actually playing Diablo IV and PoE 2 so someone else is grinding on an account that Musk took over and claimed as his. In that scenario, Musk didn’t actually put in the work to grind these characters, he just accepted the hard work of others.

Joseph Cox, co-founder of 404 Media an action RPG fan with more than 500 hours of Diablo IV and more than 140 in Road to Exile 2. Cox told me he had long suspected that Musk’s vaunted achievements in both sports were lies.

Cox has long been on the Musk gaming beat. Back in 2022, he destroys the billionaire’s poor mechanics terrible construction of the Elden Ring. “Diablo IV Gamers are already very suspicious of Musk’s alleged world-leading success in the game,” Cox told Gizmodo. “He tweeted about a Diablo IV loophole in October that will make your character unfairly strong, and the considerable time investment required raises good questions about how a person who runs several companies with several weeks in several weeks to play if he doesn’t get help from boosters.

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“Shame on Musk Road to Exile 2 stream, as reported by VICEstrengthens the suspicions,” he said.

It is important to note that Musk’s PoE 2 The playthrough is in hardcore mode. In that mode, if your character dies the game will clear it. One mistake can mean the end of working days and there is no way back from it. A player with a high level character in hardcore mode should know what they are doing.

Yet Musk is running on high-end items that, based on his inventory, could be a huge boon. He attacked the walls. He hesitated to press the switch that would open a path to him. He has a special inventory tab labeled “Elon’s Maps,” suggesting that it was reserved for him by someone else. He also doesn’t understand how his character works and claims to clear a map on the hardest difficulty even if it’s set to a low level.

“Running more valuable things? Don’t know what the key endgame mechanic is? Not the behavior of someone who has given so much time to the game,” Cox said. “Calling a tabloid ‘Elon’s map’? That’s pretty weird for someone who’s said to be playing their own character.”

many Road to Exile 2 YouTubers posted videos criticized Musk’s performance and they all came to the same conclusion: this is not a person who knows about the top level Road to Exile 2 playing “All I know is that if you’re a level 90 player, you can’t make these mistakes,” Cynicalex said to himself.

“Maybe you’re fooling brainless people into thinking your high end in a game they don’t know,” Quin69TV said in his video on the stream. “What does that do? That doesn’t do anything. What’s the point of that? So you fool a bunch of boomers into thinking you’re good at games every time the boomers think games suck as fuck anyway. It makes no sense. And it vibrates.”

Cox was offended by Musks constant taunts about his playing PoE 2 at the highest level. “His constant stream of emphasis that what he’s doing is extremely difficult while seemingly not understanding what he’s actually doing is unique to the brand for attention and love that Musk is desperate for,” he said. .