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Sims Online Presidential Campaign Shapes Up
Ant writes "Wired News has an article on a campaign for the presidency of Alphaville, the biggest city in The Sims Online. Two challengers will square off in a final primary for the opportunity to unseat Alphaville's incumbent president, the appropriately named Mr-President, in next month's general election."
...One candidate has mob ties, the other will be caught having cybersex with an underaged prostitute, and a third will vanish from the campaign because EA doesn't like his ideas for cleaning up the game...
So it's more like reality than we thought?
Does this mean i can run for president of the SOCOM world?
The sad thing is that there will probably be better voter turnout than for the US Presidential election in a few months.
Sigh.
--saint
Excellent it is time for reform in the sim community... give it a break. I can't wait to hear the platforms of the running parties, especially the 16 year old..
A friend of mine has laid claim to the title, President of the Internet. The rules are simple - whoever is the #1 result in a Google search for "President of the Internet" is the winner.
You mean to tell me that George W. Bush isn't a simulated president?
Does that mean whoever gets elected gets to play SimCity?
From what I can tell, there's no Mac OS version of The Sims Online. I call that discrimination. When will we look past people's instruction set and network byte order and accept each-other as members of a community?
They should also probably have a Commodore 64 version, but one injustice at a time.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Most states are expected to have voter turnouts higher than 100%.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
I demand that The Sims either open source their voting system, or provide every voter a PKI-signed certificate record of their vote! Otherwise we will never be able to trust that the right gamer was elected, and civil chaos will result! The Sims could at least attempt to meet the standard we apply to these United States of ours, ... oh, wait.
Never mind, go ahead and fix it like a game show.
Remain calm! All is well!
Can you kill people in the game? Can you launch a violent coup, etc?
Am I the only one that doesn't see the point in running for election to rule over something that you don't really rule over at all?
Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
Perhaps, we'll see for the first time the President screwing the first lady in Hot Date, on the love bed with the nude patch. :P
President of the Internet
free speach
Did you mean: free speech
Who's going to trust the results of this election? Everyone knows computer voting systems aren't secure.
At least the Alphaville ones probably weren't designed by Diebold.
Can anyone tell me how to set my sig on Slashdot?
all it sounded like was blah-blah blah-blah to me...
Maybe I'm just simical, but I expect that most campaigns will resort to MUDslinging...
So if Simland is formaing faux governments, does this mark the beginning of the online nation state?
Will the arise of virtual nation states become the same quagmiritic mess of so-called diplomatic relations that exists in the real world today?
If so, then will these diplomatic relations between online communities breakdown and become virtual online hostilities?
Should all of this happen, I'd put my money on Everquest kicking the shit out of Sims Online, using the simoleans to bloat an ever increasing warchest, turning the peoples of Alphaville into nothing but a nation of slaves used for bizzare Orcish sexual practices, and rolling on to conquer even more virtual online lands.
Even after conquering the majority of the internets online lands, The majority of our new internet masters will still remain savagely unlaid.
(I'm very aware that I used the word "faux," and I'm not sorry for it.
Nor am I sorry for the cheap shot I took at Everquest players.)
s'wut i sed.