Gamers Suspect Elon Musk Is a Charlatan

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How does Elon Musk find the time? Not content with spending his precious hours busting unions, hanging out at Mar-a-Lago, and catapulting meme coins to the crypto stratosphere, Musk is also a bona fide gamer god — or so he would have you believe.

On a recent X livestream, Musk played the just-released action-RPG Path of Exile 2, turning heads with two extremely high-ranking characters on hardcore mode, a punishing version of the game most notable for its permadeath mechanic.