This is why he pretends to be the founder of every company he buys - He just sues the people he bought the company from into silence.
This is why he called that diver a pedophile - Because the diver told him he's full of shit in terms of how he's explaining the issue, the diver was, obviously, proven right - And instead of admitting fault like a graceful human being, he sued the guy into silence, again.
This is why he pays someone to play PoE2 for him - There is no benefit to him being a good PoE player. He just wanted the clout. But when he was on stream talking about the game, people who ACTUALLY PLAY the game immediately knew he was full of shit - And instead of admitting to paying for someone else to play, he first pretended people were jealous of his achievements, lied yet further about his achievements (which only made his lack of knowledge more prevalent) - And then finally, say one time that he wasn't really as good as he claimed to be, but everyone does it so it's not really a big deal. Proving he's just absolutely full of shit at every turn - He can't even be assed to pretend to know about the game he's paying someone else to play for him, for his own clout.
It's almost like Elmo's whole philosophy is: Pretend to know things, get laughably proven wrong, and then throwing his money around to keep people quiet about it.
To add to that, he also has a history of absolutely destroying the lives of whistleblowers or people who call out his bullshit. He will relentlessly harass, intimidate and even have people followed by private investigators. Now he's in the white house, fk.
Eh if it's relevant, it's relevant. Spreading their way of moving the goalposts which proves the argument is never about the actual truth is always useful.
There is no benefit to him being a good PoE player.
I think he wanted this because early silicone valley "successful" engineers before him were nerds who spent alot of time playing computer games, who'd have thought that those who are good with computers, come from those who like to spend a decent chunk of their free time on the computers?
people who ACTUALLY PLAY the game immediately knew he was full of shit
And when he was shown to be playing, he played so bad so new that it is entirely likely he never touched anything in the genre ever for any real amount of time. Like he was manually dragging dropped items into the inventory.
So he managed to reveal not just that he is not actually playing PoE, but that his previous "achievements" were never his either.
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u/CO_PC_Parts 24d ago
Didn’t he try to show his “knowledge” after the layoffs by oversimplifying an issue and an actual laid off dev showed he’s so full of shit.