
Billionaire Facebook/Meta CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, visionary, and an avid strategy gamer. He claims to have put over 1000 hours into Sid Meier's Civilization VI, which shows, if nothing else, he has good taste. The megalomaniac also claims to be the best at it in the entire world, and we'd like to accept that challenge formally, willing to wager 10% of our respective wealth on the outcome.
Zuckerberg threw down the gauntlet in a recent interview with Pubity (thanks, Kotaku). This revelation came to light after his wife, Priscilla, discovered the incriminating amount of time Mark had spent playing Civ VI, which prompted the following: "In terms of strategy games, the one that I'm more likely to want to be the best in the world at is Civilization. I think at some point, I should do like a Twitch stream of me playing with someone because I'm pretty convinced that I'm close to Grandmaster status. I'd be surprised if anyone in the world could beat me at that."
It sounds like you play at Deity level, Mr Zuckerberg, which is impressive, and so is making all that money. But the AI cannot orchestrate a tall, John Curtain culture bomb strategy, and we doubt you could handle our fearsome Digger rush in the mid-to-late game. Name literally any time of the night or day.
What are the odds that Mark Zuckerberg is an S-Tier strategy gamer? Now that he has a more relatable haircut, would you watch him stream some competitive Civ VI gameplay? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source tiktok.com, via kotaku.com]
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Not surprised that an android excel at strategy games, what surprises me is that he seems to have improved his personality algorithm by several 0.01 percentages.
A wholesome story for sure, but knowing how sweaty the competitive Civ scene is I wish him good luck with that statement. 😁
I'd be surprised if the devs lose to anyone. Wouldn't the devs be the best at it? So yeah I don't think he can beat the devs at their own game.
So his latest update came with a personality. Cool beans.
@CutchuSlow
Yeah no. It's one thing to develop a game and it's another to truly master its gameplay mechanics. Those two are entirely separate entities. Hidetaka Miyazaki has admitted he's not very good at any of the souls games he develops for just one example of countless others.
I used to think I was good at video games. I was always the best of anyone I knew. Any time I'd be in a situation where I could play against new people--people's houses, arcades--I'd always beat them, often outright destroying them.
Then online gaming became a thing and I was humbled quite quickly. I'd love for that to happen to Zuckerberg--some random South Korean kid just destroying him without even trying. Publicly, of course. 😹
I mean, lizards are very overpowered when it comes to history.
You'd think he'd brag about playing his own platforms games. Specifically ones he owns and publishes. But ok.
@TrickyDicky99 it's the most brag worthy of his personality traits though. I'm sure it focus tested much higher than "I'm the world's foremost identity thief."
Would love to see that forehead of his getting slapped like a bongo!
I used to think Zuck was the most hateable of that lot but Musk is so so much more pathetic in so many more ways. Zuck is more just your classic soulless corpo-bot, except he looks like he eats flies with a giant frog tongue.
I mean, he loves the ancient Roman hair cuts doesn't he.
OMG. Skynet is getting smarter! 😱
Mark Zuckerberg became father in 2015, 2017 and 2023. And even his days only have 24 hours. So how can this man run Meta, play Civ VI in high intensity and have a fulfilling family life?
Not sure what is ( anyone can inform me if they wish) but the link to something called ‘Pubity’ sounds suspicious and NSFW.
Not clicking on that!
I do not understand the insults being thrown his way tbh. He enjoys playing a good game. Seriously, good for him.
And on the grand scale of things, I would rather spend an evening with this man playing Civ than five seconds with Musk.
I used to think Zuckerberg was the worst we could possibly get with the worst social media in the world... boy was I wrong, didn't know we had it so good 😅 (he's still an Android though, beep boop)
@Max_the_German Because he's Skynet 😆
Betcha $100 he loses to Holly Furman
Haters gonna hate I guess. I don't know why though ? 🤷♂️
Well at least we know what he does all day now.
@Max_the_German you don't think billionaire CEOs actually do much work, do you?
I would be surprised if he played Fortnite.
Definitely plays on settler difficulty and reloads constantly.
Mark Zuckerberg being good at Civilization is a a bit weird considering his massive role in the downfall of civilization.
Sounds like a textbook example of a frog in the well. Or lizard in the well, if you'd prefer.
"Hello, fellow humans!
I, hereby, inform you that I partake in the biggest popcultural entertainment form, just like you!"
@Bagwag82 He's way deep into the US spy networks, one of the biggest server providers for military surveillance operations and acts like he is one of "us". You have more in common with every user here than with anyone who's a millionaire, let alone one of the ruling class. Stop stanning for oligarchs even when they're US citizens.
@beardybot they definetly don't
@beardybot THAT‘s why the Metaverse is such a joke.
@TrickyDicky99
What else? That he has 200 billion? Man that's so 2012. This is much more fun to brag about.
@Max_the_German I think he's playing CiV on Facebook while cuddling with his wife and bottle feeding his kids. Problem solved.
@PerpetualBoredom is there somewhere I can read up on this please?
@Max_the_German he has never been good at running his company… that he even didn’t funded himself. His Metaverse delirium was a good example of his lack of vision. Also he bought other social medias like Instagram but never thought about commercialization. Stakeholders are the ones telling the management board what to do.
@Bagwag82 I was mistaken, Amazon definetly works for the US forces. Google will do at that!
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