What year is it? 2004?
The median WoW player has to be at least 38.
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?
It’s twitch. Go on any channel with above 500-1000 viewers and it’ll all be the same. Unless it’s a super modded channel with sub-only and slow mode and shit. Even then you get quite a bit of spam
Yeah…
Great idea. But young voters ain’t playing WOW
They are watching Twitch though. And what game is playing? Doesn’t seem to matter.
My bro is exactly 38 and plays WoW daily 😅 so from my perspective you can’t be far off. Apropros for people saying wow players can vote, the attempt was to reach young voters.
If not older. I’m older than 38 and my guild mates are older than me.
I think there is a new Wow, or one coming… There have been a bunch of ads about it in the last month
One just came out. It’s pretty good, but that’s easy to say because Shadowlands set the bar very, very low.
I feel seen.
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.
Yeah gotta give him a chance to do a major insurrection obviously, because that sounds like they banned him for failing the first time 🙄
It was pushed on my home page. I reported for inciting terrorism, and reported the twitch app on google store for political terrorism.
Do kids still do WoW? I assumed it’d be all parent aged folks by now
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.
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.
I know all of these words, but in this particular order they are nearly meaningless to me.
Walz
It’s not like they want to pander to 14 year olds, who historically have pretty low turnout
Children never show up to vote, that’s why they keep losing their rights.
It is.
Yeah well, they need to vote too. Hope it went well
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.
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.
“Mr. Walz what is your position on student loan forgiveness?”
“Stop DOTs”
“Interesting. What do you think the escalating border issues?”
“Many whelps. Handle it.”
Minus 50 DKP for Trump
Trump stands in the fire
“How do you propose we handle increasing aggression from Russia?”
“LEEEEROOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEENNNNKIIIIIIINNNSSS”
This is one of my top two episodes!!!
I thought you were great in it!
Zing.
Well here’s some fun info for ya
“How do you kill… that which has no life?” Is one of the best lines.
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?
Yup
“How can you kill that which has no life?”
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.
The Dean Scream of Wow. Only it got him more famous and traction.
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’
Ngl, if a politician goes 5/9M on stream, I might just vote for them, 100% chance if they are the raid leader
If he can get 40 randos into the same instance in under 30 minutes and kill the boss, an entire country is nothing.
What is 5/9M?
Kill 5 bosses out of the 9 total in a raid dungeon in the mythic difficulty
I saw that. For the first time, I saw that Kamala Harris was live in my recommended channels, instead of Donald Trump, who is live every other day.
They’ve a lot of time and some viewers to make up, but it’s a good start.
What’s his build?
Demo-lock to trigger the weirdos.
Cool. What policies are they going to talk about?
Making Azeroth Great Again
Roll back to Burning Crusade.
Burn Bobby kotick at the stake?
Tune in and find out? You could also just go to the Harris website and read them for yourself.
Durotar’s right to defend itself against Kobold terrorists.
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.
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.
What makes wow a basic bitch?
Also, I think they went with it because it’s popular and apparently walz has a history with it.
Drag would vote for a politician who streams Warframe
Lmao, then you should have went to Valorant or Overwatch.
He wants to reach out to people of voting age, not children.
Tbh Overwatch is already 8 years old. If they picked up the game as a teenager when it was most popular, chances are they can vote. While there are a lot of teens who play the game, there’s quite a large 20s demographic
WoW came out in 2004. If I wanted to reach younger voters I would not choose a 20 year old game.
Man i agree with you
Well reading through the article I actually dont agree with myself anymore if WoW is what he was good at and he was streaming. The headline made it sound like he just picked a game and launched it. Yeah, if you want people to see you play then pick something you are good at with the most players. I still believe WoW is too old for an actual “young” demographic. Once again that would be Apex Legends or something for 18-26 year olds. WoW is going to net you mid to late 30s at the youngest on average.
Roblox is also 20 years old, give or take
Yes, but you dont go to Kongregate to play Kongregate. You feel? Roblox is just the new flash games.
Also idk what Kongregate as a game is. But I would go to Armor Games to play Achievement Earned
Of course I fucking would if flash still worked?!
I have a pc program that has every flash game archived so I can play them all there.
I think theres an archival website too. Ugh I’m so fucken happy I was alive for that time. Truly a golden era of gaming for children with too much internet access.
God damn right.
Put er there 🫱
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