As someone who swore off WoW not for gameplay reasons, but due to appalling behavior by Blizzard management, I'm not sure I think associating your political campaign with the game is a good idea.
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I get what you're saying, but I also can't fault a political campaign for defaulting to the most "basic-bitch" MMO they can find for this sort of stunt. A VP who's opinionated enough about Blizzard v. BNETD to eschew WoW is, frankly, too much to hope for.
Drag would vote for a politician who streams Warframe
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What year is it? 2004?
The median WoW player has to be at least 38.
Yeah..
Great idea. But young voters ain't playing WOW
38 year old adults are generally assumed to be of voting age, registered, and willing to vote. Do you think he'll get better voter turnout from something like Roblox or Fortnite?
I was going to find the stream and see what types are in the audience. Can't find it.
I can glimpse 6:30PM before the paywall blocks it, though I can't see what timezone. Looks like EST or CST, so probably just ended and vod should be up soon somewhere?
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Do kids still do WoW? I assumed it'd be all parent aged folks by now
Yeah, I'd guess the average age is probably ~30-35+ years old. There are probably some younger kids that play, but I'd be surprised if they represented more than a marginal amount of the overall playerbase.
Article on Waltz's gaming history..
You know what just occurred to me, Waltz might actually be on the other tail of WoW players if he picked it up in the early 2000's. He might actually be decent at the game.
Walz
Yep. I have a relative his age or even a bit older who's been a WoW fanatic since release.
If I was going to pick a high profile stream, I'd sandbag for a game I'm good at.
It is.
It’s not like they want to pander to 14 year olds, who historically have pretty low turnout
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I realized today that Trump also has a Twitch (because it was recommended to me???) that basically just (re)streams his rallies.
Reported that shit for Hateful Conduct.
Even "better", from what I recall he had what was listed as a permanent suspension after the whole "mildly incited a tiny bit of light insurrection (/s)" thing. They unbanned him specifically for this election season.
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What's his build?
Demo-lock to trigger the weirdos.
Ngl, if a politician goes 5/9M on stream, I might just vote for them, 100% chance if they are the raid leader
What is 5/9M?
Kill 5 bosses out of the 9 total in a raid dungeon in the mythic difficulty
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Twist: Tim Walz is Leeroy Jenkins
Instant vote for him. That is some presidential behavior. I’d love to finally have a progressiveish president that just tries to get shit done.
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As long as we got someone crunching the numbers, I'm cool with there being a Leroy Jenkins to ignore the stats.
‘least I have a chicken in every pot’
This is one of my top two episodes!!!
I thought you were great in it!
Zing.
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"How can you kill that which has no life?"
Oh hey, it's Pirate Software's dad.
I haven't really seen much of South Park, but heard Thor talking about this. Is this actually the character they designed around his dad?
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Lmao, then you should have went to Valorant or Overwatch.
He wants to reach out to people of voting age, not children.
WoW came out in 2004. If I wanted to reach younger voters I would not choose a 20 year old game.
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Man I might be imagining things, but I'm pretty sure he played it back in the 00s. I remember him saying something about 40-man raids and leadership when he was talking to a group of high school seniors about voting.
This was right at the time he was campaigning for his first term in Congress, and I doubt it was recorded anywhere. It still makes me chuckle thinking this guy is running for VP.
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Wtf nobody under 30 is going to vote for genocide. You lost them
You're right! Not sure why you're getting downvoted. No one is going to vote for Trump who wants to melt Palestein
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