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Video Game Characters to Get Out the Vote
Thanks to Gamasutra for the heads up about a political music video starring video game characters that is to start airing on MTV today. The newest "Choose or Lose" video will feature characters from popular video games such as The Sims and BloodRayne and is intended to encourage youth voters to show up at the polls. The video will air for the first time on MTV today on TRL, and afterwards can be seen on the MTV Choose or Lose site. This follows closely on the heels of MTV2's Video Mods series, which uses video game footage for the visuals in music videos.
... I voted for Lara and Sonic
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So for whom is the Master Chief voting? I'll wager Republican, since the military likes to vote that way.
Of course, that could explain the sudden demand for electronic voting....
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I know we are in trouble when videogames idols are persuading America to vote. What character would you personally listen to? I'd love to see Lesiure Suit Larry telling our youth to vote ;)
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"Musha moy mi la! Fo sha ta nee ra may dah! Losa men tar RISHO!"
I can hear the masses screaming in pain now.
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Get ready for Slashdot's election campaign to start airing commercials next week, it's titled "Choose or Loose".
Oh my.... Oh well. Can't talk now. Something is telling me to go play pong....
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Isn't it ironic that I can't view a video encouraging people to register to vote because I'm not registered on that site?
Viacom, as all liberal media, want to redistribute wealth to lower socio-economic classes so that they can consume more and the advertisers can pay more for the commercials.
This is due to the lower marginal savings rates for people that don't make much or any money, where as wealthier ($75k+) start having a higher savings rate, which means they aren't buying as much as they make. Economics 101 meets Media 101.
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Get out the vote?
Optimus Prime: "Hey Spike, where're you going?"
Spike: "I'm going to go vote! I have the power to choose clean water, new schools and do my civic duty to the country."
Optimus Prime: "Now you're talking!"
Everybody: "Transform the world, Vote!"
Or maybe a nice Thundercats ad
Snarf: "Meow, Lion-o you know who Dick Cheney reminds me of?"
Lion-o: "No Snarf, who?"
Snarf: "Mumm-ra! That's why I'm voting for John Kerry, he won't blow up Thundara the way Bush/Cheney are!"
Lion-o: "Wow Snarf, I like our planet. I never thought of it that way. Maybe I should vote in this election."
Panthro: "Snarf, get your liberal butt out of here!"
Snarf: "Panthro, you're such a closet homosexual!"
Everyone: "Hahahahahahaha! Get out the vote!"
But then we're a generation that was taught environmental rights and wrongs by Captain Planet and the Planeteers...
No wonder the world laughs at us. We don't watch news programs or stay informed... We have animated characters tell us what to think and how to act.
Maybe they will expand on their Video Game campaign and start using Porn and Free Beer to get people to vote.
I want to be encouraged in this way.
It will motivate me.
Please?
"If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried"
you'd have nice rotating blocks (in a tic-tac-toe pattern) with alternating pictures of the candidates (as in the bonus game in Super Mario World after collecting 100 stars).
If you can make Mario hit the blocks so that your candidate shows up three in a row, your vote counts. Get more than three in a row for multiple votes.
Get three Nader's and you get a sunflower suit
If you get no matches, it's a vote for Bowser.
(I'll leave it to others to come up with the prizes for Kerry and Bush, though I'm looking for something along the lines of Tanooki suit of Mass Destruction...)
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Was it the sheep climbing onto the altar, or the cattle lowing to be slain,
or the Son of God hanging dead and bloodied on a cross that told me this was a world condemned, but loved and bought with blood.
Mario and Luigi: While they are independent contractors and likely own their own LLC for their plumbing business, they would side heavily with the unions. Besides, their gratuitous use of "mushrooms" would tend to look for a party with some liberal laws. My guess? Democratic
Link: Heavily independent, but believes in the maxim that there is always a damsel in distress. Tends to alter the time-space continuum. Republican
Lara Croft: Big on guns, big elsewhere, too. Values the ability to use her body any way she pleases and keep her prized possessions to herself. Libertarian
Donkey Kong: Takes a stand that no one should be in his jungles, going so far as to take hostages and have rescue parties sent in. If you ignore the fact that he is a monkey, he has some decent environmental goals. Green
--Chag
Since when does MTV play music videos? I thought they were strictly about reality shows.
What's next? Objective reporting on Fox News?
- Despite popular opinion, I am not perfect.
Video game characters posing for Playboy?
Naaah, can't be...
*g*
np: Local - They Are Local (Children Of Mu (Disc 2))
"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole
According to the media, people do everything that video game characters tell them to do.
For example, I'm killing a hooker with a rocket launcher right now. If GTA:VC had Ray Liotta voting or going to work, perhaps life would have turned out better for me. For now, I've got to get to the voting station to get rid of these wanted stars.
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MTV ANNOUNCER: And now, a message from The Sims
MAN: Fraba dey...huhhh...ka tey do una so
WOMAN: UNA MOI! UNA MOI! Hmmmmm! [MOTIONS TO STOMACH]
MTV ANNOUNCER: And that was a friendly reminder from The Sims to get out and vote! Or feed them, I'm not entirely sure, check their aspiration meters...
"Here's a spoiler: You're will die alone."-Triumph the Insult Comic Dog