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Video Game Characters to Get Out the Vote

Posted by Zonk on from the vote-mario-in-2004 dept.

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.

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  1. fp! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!

  2. voting is for old people by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the draft is for you

  3. Re:Here's the thing I don't get about MTV. by castlec · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is it that I got old, or does it actually suck as unrepentantly, and unrelentingly as it appears to?

    I think the major problem is that MTV lost its M. It was temporarily cured by the introduction of M2, which later lost its M. There is still a bit of M left, but it's not worth searching for.

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    When I tell an object to delete this, am I killing it or telling it to kill me?
  4. Re:Here's the thing I don't get about MTV. by Rallion · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh, it clearly sucks. If you compare old and new MTV, new is always worse. And I'm not old, unless 19 is old.

  5. Re:If it takes video game characters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How can a single guy be a political issue? Oh, I get it! It's because you think that Bin Laden is THE terrorist and if he's arrested than we'll live in "peace" ever after.

    BZZZT! Al Qaeda is not a group with a big CEO that control everything. Al Qaeda is a name that many small interconnected (but still independant) terrorist group use. In fact some of those groups don't even say they are "Al Qaeda", it's us who say they are part of it. Arresting or killing Bin Laden won't change a thing. It's like iraqi resistance that was supposed to end with the capture of Saddam Hussein.

    Bin Laden is not a "political issue" at all.