I'm not what you call political, but I am fascinated with the circus that politics becomes in a presidential election year. Train-wreck, rubber-necking to see car accidents kind of fascinated. I just can't look away, despite how ludicrous things become, or perhaps because of exactly how ludicrous things are.
I am what you would call a gamer, and my current preferred game is World of Warcraft. So when I visited the Indecision 2008 website this morning and found an article about campaigning within WoW, I smiled on the inside. I might have smiled on the outside as well, but I'm frankly too tired from raiding Tempest Keep last night to notice much of anything beyond the flatscreen monitor before me and the cup of coffee inches away from my fingertips.
The article makes a couple of references to game mechanics that completely fail (interrupting Feral Combat spells? And the Death Knights aren't even in the game yet, my naive political satirists.), but all in all the satire is fairly sound. We look at things from a class perspective in game, and I still maintain that Boyfriend isn't simply playing a paladin he *is* one. I often consider things from a DPS perspective in real life, in attacking the weakest problems first, burning them down, then moving on to the next. Sure I can AoE several adds at once with my IRL version of Blizzard (manic multitasking) but that will wear me out faster, and will cause me running for the snack machine to regenerate mana and health several times a day.
I wonder though, are the candidates missing the boat by ignoring cyberspace? There are 10 million WoW players, 2 million in the US alone. Those are a lot of potential votes. Although, to be honest, with Clinton's anti-gaming stance the Internet itself might reject her login as viral and erase her virtual existence on contact. Still, I think the gamer as a demographic is growing, and soon it will be one that cannot be ignored when planning out a walk down the Yellow Brick Road we know as the campaign trail.
[Indecision 2008 Blog]
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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this is a fascinating approach to it all...
that's a lot of votes out there!
hmmm... what will the candidates of your generation come up with? hee hee hee....
hmmm... I'm still waiting on a candidate from MY generation... oh well...
The original post aside, Im impressed that you've managed to attract gold spammers outside of the game. They must have followed you...
I'm just epic like that. They know that I draw the really classy gold-buying readers :P.
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