World of Warcraft hobby sparks US political row
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Maybe "She puts children on a tree and removes their parents!".
An african american woman in the office turned to us and said "maybe it's the master who needs the slave?"
She wasn't really offend or anything and she said it with a sincere smile. She was just calling out our idiotic computer lingo for what it was.
After apologizing feeling like complete idiots we quickly changed our terminology both in words and in the script to parent/child.
Politics makes me sick.
Most of which don't vote.
> and only alienate the older crowd
Most of whom do vote.
So what could have triggered this? Was she really that much of a threat?
Seems like a small state party just screwed up and brought attention to someone that very likely would have lost anyway. Now it's interesting.
Seems to be semi-rural, from google maps...
EDIT- corrected suburban to semi-rural
What matters is whatever they are blabbering about actually gets them out of office or paints a negative picture to enough people that it makes a difference.
If it is not effective, that's when things get interesting, I believe. It could mean a number of things; younger people are voting more, games are becoming more widely accepted as not a bad thing, for instance.
In the latter case, one could argue that the perpetrators are very much out of touch.
If it doesn't work, I hope for the most part it means the wider population assumes she'd be good at her job and what she does online is her own business, but if it means younger people think of voting that's also a good thing.
I'd vote for her because, you know, For the Horde!
Who cares what the politicians are doing when not at work, especially if it's a harmless hobby?
Blizzard is in the business of making money through making games. It is in their interest to keep users playing month to month because of their recurring fee. In order to do that, they need to keep the game fresh so they introduce a lot of content. People want to play this new content so they keep playing.
E.g. The inside of a casino always looks the same, even at night. No windows (being near the entrance is the exception), lots of bright lights. It makes it easier for a gambler to lose track of time.
Before Zynga and before free to play games were popular, MMO's like WoW were the default case study for arguments about where the line is, between a pass-time and a conditioning chamber.
Both of those are perfectly fine hobbies, and I bet people interested in them absolutely have skills and accomplishments they're proud of. And that's fine. I may not get the hobbies, but I'm certainly not going to judge the value of how they spend their spare time. That's for them to determine if they're happy with. And I'll worry about my spare time.
I played WoW for 5 years - usually never for more then 5-6 hours a week. In that time I freelanced and was rather successful for it. I also got married, bought a condo, and did many other things happy productive people did.
I got mocked by friends who insisted I was addicted when they were paying 100-200 dollars a month on new games and spending upwards of 20+ hours a week playing them.
edit: don't play anymore because that type of game is now like melba toast to me. No amount of jam can make melba toast taste good.
To bring an overdone statement in to the mix: "guns don't kill people, people kill people". It isn't the game, it is the individual who already has addictive tendencies. It doesn't matter if it is WoW, another game, or another activity people who are predisposed to addictive behavior will tend to go overboard on their chosen activity. It isn't WoW's fault (because if it is, then many other games should be brought into this blame list).
WoW isn't a game you can finish or win, and it manipulates players into continuing to spend more and more time in it. That's the part I think is damaging.
I'm surprised that a WoW player running for political office doesn't in and of it's self alter your expectations of players.
Will someone make a website saying not to trust him because he is deceitful in poker?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/155285/Atheists-Muslims-Bias-Pres...
(Of course, the same crowd clamoring for a ban on videogames has no problems with splatter horror movies in the theater, which from my experience surpass any game in realism and pointless violence)
at least nobody called anyone a "hatchet-faced nutmeg dealer" yet