World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue

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World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 4, 2012 @11:25AM from the by-my-axe! dept.

Dr. Gamera writes "Maine state senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz plays World of Warcraft. The opposing party in Maine has issued a press release attacking her for her Level 85 Orc Assassination Rogue. From the article: 'In an unusual press release issued Thursday, the Maine GOP attacked Lachowicz for a “bizarre double life” in which she’s a devotee of the hugely popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft. In the game, she’s “Santiaga,” an "orc assassination rogue" with green skin, fangs, a Mohawk and pointy ears.' Her incumbent, much to his credit, rejects the attack as 'mudslinging politics.'"

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I bet.. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-04 11:28 · Score: 5, Insightful

I bet she just gained a shit ton of voters in the 18-30 range.
1. Re:I bet.. by 2.7182 · 2012-10-04 11:30 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'd rather vote for an orc assassination rogue than a democrat or republican.
2. Re:I bet.. by flyingsquid · 2012-10-04 11:46 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It doesn't matter whether you vote for the Horde or the Alliance. It's not a real choice because ultimately both of them are owned by the moneyed interests of the guild banks and the vendors, and will do anything for a few gold pieces and some high-level items. Until we break free of this two-faction system there will never be any change in Azeroth.
3. Re:I bet.. by Narcocide · 2012-10-04 11:49 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  STFU, Panda coward!
4. Re:I bet.. by drkim · 2012-10-04 12:44 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Her comeback to this should be, "I KNOW the difference between fantasy and reality. Apparently, my opponent does not."
5. Re:I bet.. by flyingsquid · 2012-10-04 14:14 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I would suggest voting Libertarian, but Azeroth is already a Libertarian paradise: no taxes, neither the Alliance nor the Horde maintain a police force, fire department, or public library system; there's minimal public investment in infrastructure like roads (in fact virtually no government to speak of), government does nothing as demons and undead stalk the land (I don't know what the official Libertarian position on a plague of the undead is, but I assume Ron Paul would argue that this should be left up to the private sector). Plus, everyone's on the gold standard!
6. Re:I bet.. by Doc+Ruby · 2012-10-04 15:18 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Yes, Libertarianism is an excellent way to run an imaginary world. The real world requires compromise with reality. Like the people forming governments to protect themselves from each other. Especially from bands of marauding warlords.
  
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7. Re:I bet.. by Anubis+IV · 2012-10-04 18:42 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  No taxes? Last time I visited Azeroth (admittedly, a few years ago), they imposed a levy on every transaction via the (government-owned and monopolized) auction house, and because my work (raiding) provided benefits, the government effectively forced me to share my hard-earned wealth with the lower and middle-classes of Azeroth. They didn't call it "taxes" in that case, however. Instead, they called it things like mandatory "repair bills" and "reagent costs" that were the result of them working in collusion with private sector members who got kickbacks like prime real estate in capital cities. And that's hardly the least of their sins.
  Rather than leaving the private sector alone to manage itself, as they should, they went on that "Burning Crusade" reform campaign while I was visiting, during which they imposed stricter limits on the number of people allowed to work on a job at any given time. That, in turn, forced my company to eliminate 15 paid positions on their raid team, leaving me destitute and begging for scraps.
  And no police? As if! Not only do they have police (who they refer to as "guards", for some strange reason), but the police habitually discriminate against foreigners, even going so far as to physically assault them for doing nothing more than being in the vicinity of a city. I can't tell you how many times I invited friends to visit me, only to have the guards insist that my friend was most unwelcome.
  The public transportation system is a hodge-podge as well. The privatized zeppelin transportation seemed to be doing fine, but the publicly-funded tram system was regularly plagued by...odd problems.
I'm sorry, but.... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-04 11:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone with an empty socket in her belt does not deserve our sympathy.
Armory link by goodmanj · 2012-10-04 11:37 · Score: 5, Insightful

You're all going to do it anyway, so I'll save you the trouble. Here's her character:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/garrosh/Santiaga/simple
My question is, how the hell can we trust her to work hard for the citizens of Maine when she can't even find the time to pug a few heroic dungeons? Her gear is terrible! Does she even know where the justice point vendor is?
Seriously though, it looks like she played heavily up until a few years ago. I guess she's spent more time lately on real-life issues. Like running for Senate.
In my experiance... by Kaenneth · 2012-10-04 11:37 · Score: 5, Interesting

People who roleplay 'evil' characters are much nicer than those who play 'good' characters...
Those who play 'good' (particularly Paladins) tend to think they are always right, while 'evil' (Necromancer players for example) are more open minded and accepting.
YMMV
1. Re:In my experiance... by Anne_Nonymous · 2012-10-04 12:10 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  >> There are jerks of every ilk.
  Don't get me started on the people who play as ilk.
Re:Not surprising by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-04 11:38 · Score: 5, Insightful

Gaming still isn't mainstream outside of the "sub 35" group

I'd say that number is at least 45 now, and gets bigger with each passing year.
Re:Blind Slaves, most of you... by Mike+Buddha · 2012-10-04 11:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Have you seen that study that suggests that tinfoil hats actually attenuate radio signals? I'll just leave this out here.

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This might lead to her losing a lot of votes by VAElynx · 2012-10-04 11:52 · Score: 5, Insightful

from voters playing Alliance characters.
That said, I love the fact that her "secret life" involves a computer game while that of a lot o republicans involve fucking men in public bathrooms.
Re:Stupid gamers can't even read TFS by Intropy · 2012-10-04 13:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

Absolutely right. And let me just add that anyone who disagrees is a Nazi.
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Re:Could be much worse by Nemyst · 2012-10-04 15:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Farmville actually qualifies you to be a lobbyist. You get to learn how to nag people until they give up and comply or bribe the system if you don't get what you want fast enough, all while doing absolutely nothing good for society.
Re:Her opponent is reasonable about it ... by retchdog · 2012-10-04 16:27 · Score: 5, Insightful

no, i understand just fine. he gets to look like a white knight to the privacy people, while slurring his opponent to the christ-bothering meddlers at the same time through the side-channel. makes perfect sense.

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Sufficiently ... by Martin+S. · 2012-10-04 19:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

... subtle satire is indistinguishable real world politics.