You might need already identified that Musk loves turn-based technique sport The Battle of Polytopia. A 2022 Grimes profile in Vainness Truthful discloses that Musk “has the highest rating” on it; spectacular, although he inaccurately describes the sport as a “far more advanced model of chess.”
Polytopia is extra of “an approachable sport for newcomers to the civilization builder style,” Sisi Jiang wrote for Kotaku, however it displays Musk’s long-term fixation on technique video games basically.
“Musk had loved all sorts of video video games as a youngster in South Africa,” Isaacson writes, “together with first-person shooters and journey quests, however at school he turned extra centered on the style often known as technique video games, ones that contain two or extra gamers competing to construct an empire utilizing high-level technique.” Or one thing.
A few of his faculty favorites embrace Civilization and Blizzard’s Warcraft: Orcs and People, however Isaacson describes Musk’s fashionable attachment to Polytopia as a particular “habit.”
One time, Musk refused to talk to Grimes for the remainder of the day after she’d “surprise-attacked him with a flame ball” in Polytopia, Isaacson writes. One other time, he delayed worldwide work conferences as a result of he couldn’t cease taking part in the sport, after which he performed it for the whole thing of his airplane journey residence. He missed his sister-in-law Christiana Musk’s birthday as a result of he was spending “hours by himself in his room or within the nook taking part in the sport.”
Musk’s brother, Kimbal, discovered to play Polytopia as a result of Musk had informed him it could educate him the way to be a CEO, however he finally needed to cease “as a result of it was destroying my marriage,” he mentioned. Musk additionally tried giving up Polytopia after discovering it “was taking over too many mind cycles,” showing in his desires, however he redownloaded it on his telephone just a few months later.