Mia Wong
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I don't know. You're sort of like online people who come out of gaming, like H-Bomber guy, I guess is an example, like Hassan to some extent. There's just like a lot of people who are like gamers. And then they sort of like,
become political but on the other hand gaming has always been like a not always but has traditionally been an extremely right-wing space oh god garrison i feel like you will actually appreciate how fucking shit this is have i told you the story about kebab the german no oh boy okay so back in the dawn of time i played a lot of hearthstone as a kid and i was like i wasn't like good is that like a resource management type game for like gay autistic people i
become political but on the other hand gaming has always been like a not always but has traditionally been an extremely right-wing space oh god garrison i feel like you will actually appreciate how fucking shit this is have i told you the story about kebab the german no oh boy okay so back in the dawn of time i played a lot of hearthstone as a kid and i was like i wasn't like good is that like a resource management type game for like gay autistic people i
become political but on the other hand gaming has always been like a not always but has traditionally been an extremely right-wing space oh god garrison i feel like you will actually appreciate how fucking shit this is have i told you the story about kebab the german no oh boy okay so back in the dawn of time i played a lot of hearthstone as a kid and i was like i wasn't like good is that like a resource management type game for like gay autistic people i
No, this is the World of Warcraft card game. Okay, that's even more embarrassing. Yeah, really bad, really bad. I think I peaked at, like, 2K Legend North America, which, like, technically speaking is, like, top, like, half a percent of players in the world.
No, this is the World of Warcraft card game. Okay, that's even more embarrassing. Yeah, really bad, really bad. I think I peaked at, like, 2K Legend North America, which, like, technically speaking is, like, top, like, half a percent of players in the world.
No, this is the World of Warcraft card game. Okay, that's even more embarrassing. Yeah, really bad, really bad. I think I peaked at, like, 2K Legend North America, which, like, technically speaking is, like, top, like, half a percent of players in the world.
Oh, yeah, yeah. But 2K Legend NA is, like, fucking shitter ranks. It's bad. I was never, like, good, good at it. I was just, like, Okay. Kind of. But, you know, this is, like, a thing that I did growing up. And something I remember is, like, all of the fucking Hearthstone streamers, and these were, like, really big streamers, would play music from this guy they called Kebab the German.
Oh, yeah, yeah. But 2K Legend NA is, like, fucking shitter ranks. It's bad. I was never, like, good, good at it. I was just, like, Okay. Kind of. But, you know, this is, like, a thing that I did growing up. And something I remember is, like, all of the fucking Hearthstone streamers, and these were, like, really big streamers, would play music from this guy they called Kebab the German.
Oh, yeah, yeah. But 2K Legend NA is, like, fucking shitter ranks. It's bad. I was never, like, good, good at it. I was just, like, Okay. Kind of. But, you know, this is, like, a thing that I did growing up. And something I remember is, like, all of the fucking Hearthstone streamers, and these were, like, really big streamers, would play music from this guy they called Kebab the German.
And it turns out that his actual name was Remove Kebab because he was a fucking German neo-Nazi. Well, many such cases. Yeah, for people who are not aware of mid-2010s German fascism, Remove Kebab is a slogan calling for the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Turkish people in Germany. So, great stuff, great stuff.
And it turns out that his actual name was Remove Kebab because he was a fucking German neo-Nazi. Well, many such cases. Yeah, for people who are not aware of mid-2010s German fascism, Remove Kebab is a slogan calling for the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Turkish people in Germany. So, great stuff, great stuff.
And it turns out that his actual name was Remove Kebab because he was a fucking German neo-Nazi. Well, many such cases. Yeah, for people who are not aware of mid-2010s German fascism, Remove Kebab is a slogan calling for the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Turkish people in Germany. So, great stuff, great stuff.
This was just sort of like the water you were swimming in if you were a gamer in the 2010s. Now, this goes some way to explaining something that I noticed kind of recently, which is the absolutely bizarre obsession. These tech CEOs like who want to be thought of as gamers. And so the two examples we're going to look at are Sam Bankman Freed.
This was just sort of like the water you were swimming in if you were a gamer in the 2010s. Now, this goes some way to explaining something that I noticed kind of recently, which is the absolutely bizarre obsession. These tech CEOs like who want to be thought of as gamers. And so the two examples we're going to look at are Sam Bankman Freed.
This was just sort of like the water you were swimming in if you were a gamer in the 2010s. Now, this goes some way to explaining something that I noticed kind of recently, which is the absolutely bizarre obsession. These tech CEOs like who want to be thought of as gamers. And so the two examples we're going to look at are Sam Bankman Freed.
And this is this is really technically on both sides of political spectrum. Right. We're going to look at Sam Bankman Freed and we're going to look at Elon Musk, our new overlord, I guess. So we're going to start with Sam Bankman Freed. And, you know, as we go through what's happening here, we're going to sort of unravel why it's so important to them to be seen as gamers.
And this is this is really technically on both sides of political spectrum. Right. We're going to look at Sam Bankman Freed and we're going to look at Elon Musk, our new overlord, I guess. So we're going to start with Sam Bankman Freed. And, you know, as we go through what's happening here, we're going to sort of unravel why it's so important to them to be seen as gamers.
And this is this is really technically on both sides of political spectrum. Right. We're going to look at Sam Bankman Freed and we're going to look at Elon Musk, our new overlord, I guess. So we're going to start with Sam Bankman Freed. And, you know, as we go through what's happening here, we're going to sort of unravel why it's so important to them to be seen as gamers.
And I guess it is important to know, like, Sam Bankman Freed, like, is, I guess, like, he is a gamer in the sense that, like, he's, like, addicted to video games effectively and just plays them fucking literally constantly. Yeah, he looks the part, too.