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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2489 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025

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Wow, Musk really walked into the wrong neighbourhood here. His earlier D4 claim went mostly unquestioned (to my awareness) because frankly D4 bad nobody really gives enough of a shit, but with how zealous its fanbase is PoE was a bad choice to flex, and specifically PoE2 (brutal and borderline bullshit as it is) was a really bad choice. Other replies already mentioned it but you absolutely do not get this far (in HC to boot!) without considerable knowledge of the game, and the minor things like the item level gaffe instantly betray the lack of underlying knowledge. This whole charade distinctly feels like reading a "budget" starter build guide that has Mageblood or something as a required item. I will be very disappointed if there won't be a new meme unique item that does something with level requirements before the end of the year.

It warms my heart to see gamers(tm) continue to be the community least deceived by, or tolerant of, transparent bullshit. Truly the master race.

From what I've gathered with D4 there wasn't much for the community to judge, just some short gameplay clips without commentary and ladder positions. I assume if he had done longer streams and tried provide commentary on D4 he would betray a similar lack of understanding.

No, he regularly streams Diablo 4 for hours. This captured video is 3 hours long:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ca_SCFn8s

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