Elon Musk has been in the news recently for his attempts to acquire Twitter for a reported $44 billion.
Since that deal might be on hold for now, he’s found the time to finally dig his teeth into 2022’s most beloved open-world game Elden Ring.
Now, after finally sharing details about his character, he’s received a massive amount of criticism on the very website he’s aiming to purchase.
The 50-year-old billionaire tweeted out his character’s build on May 24, showing off his “power mage” build.
The tweet revealed his level 111 character with a focus on high Mind and Intelligence stats.
Many Elden Ring players were quick to point out just how bad his gear is paired together, focusing on the fact he was wielding two shields at once and opting for a heavy roll.
One user said, “Wtf is this build? I thought this guy was supposed to be a genius?”
Another user mocked his use of a cell phone photo instead of an actual screenshot and said, “Elon Musk posting phone photos of the least efficient Elden Ring build I’ve ever seen proves meritocracy is fake.”
Although Elon Musk might become the owner of Twitter someday, that won’t shield him from its users roasting him when they see fit.
Especially went it comes to something as serious and meticulously thought-out as Elden Ring builds.
When Gwendolen (Frances O’Connor) professes her love to Earnest (Colin Firth), he begins to probe into how she would feel if his name weren’t Earnest.
FILM DESCRIPTION: A superb cast brings Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy of manners to life in the third big-screen adaptation of this hilarious look at fun, games, and dubious ethics among the British upper crust. Algernon Moncrieff (Rupert Everett) is a slightly shady, but charming gentlemen from a wealthy family who has a bad habit of throwing his money away. Algernon has a close friend named Jack Worthing (Colin Firth), a self-made man who acts as a ward to his cousin, a beautiful young lady named Cecily (Reese Witherspoon). Algernon has created an alter ego to help him get out of tight spots brought on by his financial improprieties, and when he learns that Jack has created a false identity of his own — Earnest, a brother living in London whose exploits have earned him no small amount of notoriety — Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as the mysterious Earnest. Having heard of Earnest’s misadventures many times over the years, Cecily had developed something of an infatuation with the lovable rogue, and Algernon’s impersonation of him works no small degree of magic on Cecily. Meanwhile, Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolyn (Frances O’Connor), arrives for the weekend, and is startled to discover Jack is also there — except that she knows him as bad-boy Earnest. So just who is in love with who? How will Lady Bracknell (Judi Dench) handle the matter of her daughter Gwendolyn’s suitors? And what’s the truth about Jack’s mysterious heritage? The Importance of Being Earnest was director Oliver Parker’s second film adaptation of an Oscar Wilde comedy; he previously helmed An Ideal Husband, which also starred Rupert Everett. Everett and Colin Firth also co-starred in the 1984 drama Another Country.
Davie Village (also known as Davie District or simply Davie Street) is a neighbourhood in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the city’s gay subculture, and, as such, is often considered a gay village, or gaybourhood. Davie Village is centred on Davie Street and roughly includes the area between Burrard and Jervis streets. Davie Street—and, by extension, the Village—is named in honour of A.E.B. Davie, eighth Premier of British Columbia from 1887 to 1889; A.E.B’s brother Theodore was also Premier, from 1892 to 1895.
Along Davie Street are a variety of shops, restaurants, services, and hotels catering to a variety of customers, in addition to private residences. The business with the most notoriety is Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium (“Little Sister’s”), a gay and lesbian bookstore, because of its ongoing legal battles with Canada Customs that have received extensive national media coverage. Many businesses and residents along Davie Street and in the West End generally also fly rainbow flags as a symbol of gay pride, and many of the covered bus stop benches and garbage cans along Davie Street are painted bright pink.
The Village hosts a variety of events during the year, including the Davie Street Pride Festival which runs in conjunction with Vancouver’s annual Gay Pride Parade, during which sections of the street are closed to motor traffic.
Davie Day is also held each year in early September, to celebrate local businesses and the community itself. This Day is designed to build awareness and promote the surrounding businesses, and is focused around Jervis to Burrard Street.
The Davie Street Business Association coined the name “Davie Village” in 1999 and also commissioned banners from local artist Joe Average, which fly from lampposts in the district. The two-sided banners depict a rainbow flag on one side and a sun design by Average on the other.
Davie Village is also home to the offices of Xtra! West, a biweekly LGBT newspaper, Qmunity (formerly the Gay and Lesbian Centre) which provides a variety of services for the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender residents, and the Vancouver Pride Society, which puts on the annual Pride Parade and Festival.
For the second year in a row, a lone Soviet-era tank rolled across Moscow’s Red Square during Russia’s Victory Day parade, prompting social media users to mock President Vladimir Putin’s military’s procession on a day which is traditionally used to display the country’s might.
A single T-34 tank participated in the parade in Moscow to mark May 9, or Victory Day, which is the annual commemoration of Nazi Germany’s defeat during World War II. Like last year, this year’s procession was notably muted in contrast to previous events amid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, during which both sides have suffered extensive casualties and have lost vast amounts of military equipment.
Agentstvo, a Russian investigative site, said this year’s modest parade indicates that the war in Ukraine, which began in February 2022, continues to absorb all of the Russian army’s resources.
“Truly hilarious that the T-14 Armata has been found not only too costly to use in Ukraine, but also doesn’t exist in large enough numbers to survive the attrition of the Victory Day Parade in Moscow,” said Oliver Alexander, an OSINT analyst, on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“This T-34, the legendary Soviet tank from World War II, was the only Russian tank on display at the Victory Day parade in Red Square today,” said Max Seddon, Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times. “The others must all be busy somewhere!”
Pro-Ukrainian X user (((Tendar))) wrote: Well, at least it runs.”
Another X user added: “Nothing says second army in the world more than a lonely tank at your victory day parade for a second year in a row.”
Last year, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense published a video mocking the lone T-34 tank that participated in Moscow’s Red Square Victory Day parade.
“This Victory Day, Russia had exactly one tank rolling down Red Square…a T-34 first produced in 1940,” the ministry said on X, sharing a 40-second video that included clips from last year’s military parade. It was made up of a montage of clips of the tank, played against the backdrop of Eric Carmen’s hit song “All by Myself.”
More than two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, both Moscow and Kyiv have sustained significant losses.
Dutch open-source intelligence defense analysis website Oryx has visually confirmed that 2,001 Russian tanks have been destroyed, 156 have been damaged, 329 have been abandoned, and 514 have been captured since the start of the war.
Oryx has also visually confirmed that 547 Ukrainian tanks have been destroyed since the beginning of the war, with 68 damaged, 61 abandoned, and 132 captured.
Kyiv’s military said in an update on Thursday that Moscow has lost 7,429 tanks so far, including 11 in the past day. The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces posts figures on Russia’s troop and equipment losses as part of its daily update on the war. Newsweek could not independently verify the figures.
Estimates of casualty numbers vary, with Ukraine’s figures usually exceeding those of its Western allies. Moscow rarely shares information on the number of casualties or equipment losses it has sustained in the war.
The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank, said in its latest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine on Wednesday that recent satellite imagery of depleted Russian military vehicle and weapon storage facilities indicates that Moscow is “currently sustaining its war effort largely by pulling from storage rather than by manufacturing new vehicles and certain weapons at scale.”
“Russia is relying on vast Soviet-era stores of vehicles and other equipment to sustain operations and losses in Ukraine,” the think tank said, adding that Moscow will likely struggle to sufficiently equip its units with materiel in the long term without President Vladimir Putin transferring the Russian economy to a wartime footing.
Regardless of the fact that it was released fairly early on in the life of Nintendo’s 16-bit console, Axelay remains one of the best looking and most impressive shooters available for the format.
Employing a similar format to Konami stable mate Lifeforce, Axelay switches between a vertical and horizontal viewpoint as you progress through the levels. The vertical sections are slightly infamous for the not entirely successful use of Mode 7 to simulate depth of field. Whatever your opinion on this visual trick, you can’t deny that it was mind-blowing at the time, even if it doesn’t look very realistic!
The rest of the game is graphically faultless, and it’s hard to think of any 2D shooter that has been released since that has quite the same polished and detailed style.
The gameplay is also top-notch, with a neat selection of weapons and some impressive boss battles (who could forget the robot spider, ED-209 look-alike and the lava boss?). It’s also fairly challenging, with some of the later levels being especially tough to crack.
A special mention must go to the sound – if ever there was a game that confirmed the sonic divide between the SNES and the Megadrive/Genesis, this was it. The music is practically CD-quality and the sound effects are punchy and dynamic. There’s also a little bit of crystal-clear speech thrown in for good measure.
It’s extremely difficult to pick fault with a game this well produced. Although Thunderforce IV is more fun and Radiant Silvergun has more depth and lasting appeal (ironically, one of the developers of Axelay would later leave Konami to form Treasure), We honestly can’t think of another shooter that brings everything together with such aplomb.
It’s like Konami threw all their weight behind the game to make it as good as possible – a seemingly rare event these days! Playing games like Axelay makes you realize just how vital retro gaming is – download and enjoy!