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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 hours ago

Who'd of thought. A billionaire a cheater. /s

These people cheat at every aspects of life, society rewards narcissism, rewards people willing to forgo morals. We have systematised this were we can look at hi school bullies and have a vague idea where they will end up.

These people aren't worthy of our respect, and we need to make it known.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 20 minutes ago

Not cheating! Boosting/account sharing.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I hope every article uses that picture of him for everything.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Yo, did they change the photo? I'm only seeing it in the thembnail

[–] [email protected] 3 points 50 minutes ago

yes, bunch of Nazi supporting pussies.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

They probably don‘t want to loose the incel people in their audience

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

My initial reaction mirrored yours; who even gives a shit? But seeing how people have been responding, apparently quite a few. And I'm left here, just utterly blown away that it's this that is making people angry. This? Not all the Nazi shit? Inciting riots? All the molest-y allegations? Lying about a goddamn video game?

Please, asteroid, hurry the fuck up already. C'mon monkey pox, do your stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Believe it or not, a lot of us are actually capable of being angry about more than one thing at a time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

N n nope. Doomerism will not due. The masses without a voice do not deserve to be flushed away just for the sake of being written off along with the outsized vocal minority of status quo warrior right wing authoritarians (and liberal sympathizers of such)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

Idk how anyone can say he is not a real gamer after the nazi salutes seen side by side with his twitter history.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago

This is a distraction. Ignore it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago

I don't even want to joke about this anymore.

Stay strong and resist folks.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure if there was actual worthy news this wouldn't be reported on however there is obviously nothing else happening so clearly we need to talk about this instead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

This is a consumer board at its core.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Man who never earned anything a day in his life continues streak by not earning video game achievements.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Of course he is

[–] [email protected] 250 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (5 children)

What a loser.

I totally understand people who use cheat engine or similar to break games and to have fun seeing what they can do. Skipping content. Whatever.

But those that cheat to be able to boast… pathetic.

And then he’s like “well, everyone’s doing it.” 🙄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I mainly just have Cheat Engine in order to reduce save scumming in Monster Rancher and keep monsters I like alive longer. I specifically avoid doing anything with the online because I know it's not fair to everyone else. Though some use mods and cheats for the same game just to make it harder.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 19 hours ago (15 children)

Honestly, one of the big reasons multiplayer sucks now is because of cheaters. You wanna cheat in a single-player game? I couldn't give less of a shit. But giving yourself an unfair advantage while playing against other people is pathetic and ruins the game for everyone...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Trolls & Cheaters & Just downright punk behaviour is something I don't tolerate in MultiPlayer

Which is why I opt for more Role-playing games like Space station 13 & Barotrauma (Not saying that there's no crappy behaviour there, it's just that those games are high-ceiling & there are less instances)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

This ^

If I'm playing by myself I'll use cheats if I feel like it, like messing around, or if I wanna get that ONE unlock that I've been trying at for months now and I just wanna be done with it....

But in an online game lad? There's no glory in ruining other people's fun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Exactly. I never cheat in MP games, but I use guides and whatnot in SP fairly often.

If you're cheating in MP, just don't play MP.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 20 hours ago

Well, since the only persons on his mind appear to be Trump and himself: Yeah, everybody's cheating.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

If he says he’s top 20 player and it turns out he bought that account then what does that mean for the credibility of his other supposed achievements? Oops.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It tracks with everything else. He also bought Tesla in order to become a 'founder'.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Not just bought either, he had to sue them too in order to be called a founder.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

That's missing some crucial information regarding him being a Nazi asshole - amongst other things.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He's a 50 year old manchild

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago

You know gamers are called man-child, he is something else

A sociopath

[–] [email protected] 48 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

This goes against the TOS for both games. If you play either, I highly recommend flooding them with reports on that. It would be great to see him banned. He'll probably just set up a new account and start again, but it'll cost him and you know he'll keep cheating so you can just rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (5 children)

You're talking about a guy that could pay 100 million dollars for a new account and not even notice. He obviously wouldn't pay anywhere near that much for something like this. There is no financial cost you can force on him that will change his behavior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 27 minutes ago

Time is money and it’ll consume some of his.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't recall saying anything about even attempting to change his behaviour, anyone with half a brain knows that's a lost cause. The point is being a thorn in his side. He clearly cares or he wouldn't invest the time and money into these games.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, but it will annoy him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wealth redistribution I can get behind, even if it doesn’t stop him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah but the money’s partly going to Blizzard so yeah…

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Elon Musk attempts to draw attention away from his drug fuelled gaff

Come on, you fuckin morons

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

Said the guy who called a Sieg Heil a "gaff"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I enjoy that the meta image is him doing the nazi salute

Not that I like him doing it, just that it's being shown around.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago

Known liar founding lying. More obvious observations at 5!

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