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[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

For once Asmongold's outrage baiting worked in our favour

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it weird that he's the top player in PoE2 AND Diablo IV?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Plus a highly involved, successful CEO for multiple companies! I believe any of that is true as much as I believe he's a free speech absolutist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Do you think he pays Chinese teenagers to run his companies

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

I like to think this is the start of something important, Musks gaming account, realising that we can seriously sidetrack Trump by calling him the vice president and weird. The public is learning how to enact our own kind of political manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

The weird thing is like, this whole situation could have been avoided if he just played the game normally rather than pretending to be some god gamer at it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's for the same reason he's pretended to be a genius his entire career, he's obsessed with his self image and being number one. He's lied about being the best quake player in the world at some point. He's like Billy Mitchell with more money.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

He's like Billy Mitchell with more money.

Careful there, or you'll have two nut jobs suing you

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

He’s already demonstrated first hand he doesn’t know how to navigate the UI for someone who has invested time to be a top player. It’s obvious to anyone that’s spent more than a couple days in any game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Inb4 Bezos suspends his twitch account for "inappropriate activity"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t know who that is 👴🦯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Asmongold is one of these 'anti-woke' YouTubers. Spends a fair amount of time complaining about women not looking pretty enough for his standards from what I've seen, while he himself looks like a fucking rat, with a bedroom that looks like a rat's nest. I hate downing people's looks and I too, have been a depressed mess with a terrifying bedroom before. But also, people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

I don't actually follow any of these YouTubers and to be honest the only time I ever use YouTube is when I'm in the mood for some music videos but I've seen this asshat come up over and over in feminist spaces and places where people make fun of the anti-woke grifters and the idiot marks that adore them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't personally seen him talk about women but maybe. Some of his other talks about current events seemed very reasonable, though, so I thought he was pretty OK.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Here's the most recent take of his that I've seen:

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But he's definitely a repeat offender in these circles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

When I searched Asmongold "hoeflation" I got a couple results of people talking about it but no results for the post itself.

I guess indexing for Xitter is broken.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

how does elon even have time to play video games if he’s the most busiest and hardcore guy of all time?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Who the fuck cares. Elon, is average moron playing average game. If this was something important, I could understand, but this is nothing more than attention whoring.

The Worst Person You Know

Asmon isn't even close to to the top of the worst people I know. What even is that title?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I guess because VICE is hard right now they view Asmongold as somebody really bad?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

It's a reference to an Onion headline

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who the hell is Asmon? I thought the headline was referencing Elon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

It's Asmongold. He's a relatively popular gaming streamer who also does commentary but some of his political opinions have been a bit questionable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Ah alright, I've yet to watch a single streamer.

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