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Hasan Piker had his daughter on his stream and she shit all over him.
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In a March 29 appearance on left wing streamer Hasan Piker's Twitch channel, Elon Musk's estranged daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, offered her opinion on Musk's prior claims of world-class performance in Diablo 4 and Path of Exile 2. Musk has since admitted to paid account boosting in both games.
"When I was 12, he was Bronze in Overwatch, and me and my twin weren't," Wilson told Piker when asked about Musk's recent adventures in the gaming world. "He would try to constantly get us to play ranked with him, and I'm 90% sure it was just because we could carry him."
"I was a twelve-year-old Hanzo main who was barely in Silver," said Wilson. "He was a Bronze Torbjörn main. He was fucking dogshit. Awful, like godawful." For some added context, Bronze is the lowest tier in ranked Overwatch play, representing the bottom 5-10% of the player base.
Hanzo and especially Torbjörn were both "off-meta" or suboptimal characters in the game around the time period in question—I have no idea what it's like in Overwatch 2. It could be boom times for S-tier Torbjörn for all I know.
"So no, I don't believe the fucking 'I am a pro Path of Exile whatever the fuck,'" Wilson concluded. "No the fuck you are not. This is so cringe. Why would you even pretend to be—it's fine not to be a gamer."
If I had my druthers, it would actually be illegal not to be a gamer, but Wilson alighted on an interesting dimension to the whole saga. Musk has invited such a high degree of scrutiny on his gaming habits by making them a matter of public discussion, laying claim to newsworthy performance in two very high-profile games, and admitting he was spending money to project an illusory degree of mastery the whole time.
I can't help but wonder if Musk was set on this path by the truly apocalyptic roasting he continues to receive for the infamous fat rolling, low endurance, double shield, triple weapon build he shared for Elden Ring—"Equipped load will be lower if fast roll is needed." Even then, a better response might have been to laugh it off and respec with Rennala.
Musk's ARPG blitz fizzled out with his admission of account boosting, and his time is now monopolized by a quest to take away your grandma's Social Security and have strange little men with names like "Big Balls" harass the last career bureaucrats in the US who know what all the passwords are.
With that in mind, his headline-grabbing sojourn into the gaming world seemed pretty done and dusted, though he has threatened to start an "AI game studio" at some point down the line.
But it's all spun up again with Musk calling Piker a "fraud" for doing a sponsored stream of Assassin's Creed Shadows, a game that appears to be selling and reviewing rather well despite a pre-launch culture war death march over black samurai Yasuke and female ninja Naoe.
Zooming out further, Wilson has been outspoken in her condemnation of Musk's far right politics, particularly his aggressive support of anti-trans extremism. Musk has publicly called Wilson, who is trans, "dead, killed by the woke mind virus," and insists on referring to her by her birth name. Wilson has called Musk a "cold" and "narcissistic" father who would "harass her for exhibiting feminine traits and pressure her to appear more masculine."
One of his baby mama's selling her tesla because he took away child support. She is a right wing
China: 34%
European Union: 20%
South Korea: 25%
India: 26%
Vietnam: 46%
Taiwan: 32%
Japan: 24%
Thailand: 36%
Switzerland: 31%
Indonesia: 32%
Malaysia: 24%
Cambodia: 49%
United Kingdom: 10%
South Africa: 30%
Brazil: 10%
Bangladesh: 37%
Singapore: 10%
Israel: 17%
Philippines: 17%
Chile: 10%
Australia: 10%
Pakistan: 29%
Turkey: 10%
Sri Lanka: 44%
Colombia: 10%
Where's Russia?
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So Trump says he's setting tariffs at a rate of half of what they are charging on the US
He claims Vietnam is charging 90% tariffs on US goods.
Maybe there's a category where they are charging 90%. They actually dropped many, knowing this was coming. Natural gas dropped from 5% to 2%. Cars dropped to 32%, ethanol to 5%
Not sure where the 90% is coming from. Anyway, get ready for Air Jordans to cost $900 at Foot Locker
If it didn’t take a decade to build mega factories, transistor factories, bio-med facilities, all these policies might have some teeth.
Obviously that’s why Trump wants to push for the 3rd term because none of this shit is going to come to fruition in 4 years and if it’s all half way done and no one’s realized the savings or employment benefits, they will be done.
People shit on Tim Cook and Apple but I saw an interview where he basically said they would love to move production away from China for Apple products but the US does not have the manufacturing capability in terms of precision tooling.
He said China has hundreds of thousands of workers who are experienced with precise manufacturing whereas they’d be hard pressed to fill a single factory in the states with comparable labour. Whether it’s just BS or not he said it’s not “cheap” labour either and that ship had sailed long ago in terms of electronics manufacturing in China
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Apparently Sri Lanka does women’s underwear (lol) and Cambodia does tonnes of big name shoes
Everyday items will suddenly become more expensive for the average American (I didn't say rich American!)
Do they even produce these things domestically? I don't think so? (Could be wrong!)
To Hondaracer's point, developing a skilled labour force doesn't happen overnight. While a drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of things, I always revert back to the example of bicycle manufacturing in America. Cannondale nearly went bankrupt and completely folded because "Made in America" which cost them dearly because their frames would crack while someone rode their bikes, earning them the nickname, Crackendale. Outsourcing manufacturing to Taiwan, who, at the time, and still to this day, leads in a skilled workforce and in metallurgy and welding technology so advanced it took the US nearly a decade to catch up (and I'm being generous!)
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I read a pretty in depth article last year on semiconductors and it said even if the USA started right now building factories for chips it would take them approximately 10 years to get to where Taiwan currently is with it nevermind how much farther Taiwan will go in that 10 years. No bueno.
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are big in clothing industry. Bangladesh is the worlds second largest exporter of clothes in the world. I don't know why some people have such a hard on for low paying low skilled factory jobs.
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