JollyPieFedKamala Harris Dropped a New Custom 'Fortnite' Map
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Huh. Grandpa Simpson was right. It did happen to me too.
What? You started wearing an onion on your belt? They do say fashion comes back into style....
DurandalI hope we get pictures of bumblebees on nickels soon.. five bees a for a quarter I'd say.
Hal-5700XPolitical ads in games. Just no. They can be from the Right or Left. Can we not do this.
shani66Stupid, but maybe stupid in a good way? Right wing grifters target kids all the time, if a moderate acknowledges them maybe they'll be less likely to fall into a pipeline.
icecreamtacoNot for me but this is a very good idea. Plenty of voting age zoomers play this
what a time to be alive
*Pokemon go to the polls!*
GodricI mean, how many gamers are there of target voting age (especially those on the cusp of going to the polls)? These days probably a lot more than those that watch commercials. There is no way they'd invest in this without proper numbers backing it up. Games are as much entertainment now as sports or TV.
BananaPealWhen Biden ran in 2020, they gave out patterns in Animal Crossing. But if I'm being honest, I didn't mind that pandering and some effort was involved, plus it was kind of what everyone was going during lockdown. Now this... mixed feelings but it must not have been cheap and at least there's some effort there (likely from a staffer). I only hope it works.
Gamer me only really trusts AOC, though.
FireWire400Didn't Hillary Clinton have her own Animal Crossing village?
JohnmannescaShe is locking down the gamer vote, I guess. Good luck with that.
Mayor PoopingtonIs anyone on fortnite old enough to vote?
swab148Between this, and the Walz/AOC Madden stream, yeah they're really going after the gamers!
Brave Little Hitachi WandThis isn't weird, you just don't like fortnite.
I don't either, but I'm not exactly holding out for them to put a political ad scroll in noita.
idk it certainly feels weird to me that videogames- even ones I don't personally enjoy- are viewed as relevant enough to get this kind of political attention.
Realistically, if I take a step back from it I'm just stuck in 2008, but.. yeah.
Besides, weird isn't necessarily a requirement here. Just 'it looks like satire but isn't'.
Also: you have excellent taste in videogames. Noita is great.
Games do feel like an oddity as political outreach, but the more I think about the idea the more I think it has capabilities (as Lancelot Brown might have put it). With legacy media like papers, books, art, film, recorded music and all, you are a passive consumer of the media. With video games as art, you are an active participant and your choices define your experience with the work. Games like Planescape: Torment, Tyranny, and Disco Elysium are great examples where you're expected to engage with political or moral ideas as a participant. You aren't being treated as a receiver of propaganda per se, but as someone who can develop understanding and agency in the context of certain ideas, which seems like an improvement over propaganda in legacy media, don't you think?
SchmooNarrative-driven games give players the *illusion* of choice. To me this seems like it would lend itself to being even more effective than traditional propaganda because it's capable of tricking the player into thinking they came to a conclusion on their own.
Don't get me wrong, I love Disco Elysium, but it is *very* effective communist propaganda. Propaganda has a negative connotation but is not inherently bad or dishonest, though it certainly can be.
Narrative-driven games give players the illusion of choice.
What do you mean by this? There's a finite amount of possibilities coded into the game? You only get (number) of possible choices so choice is an illusion?
Every carefully crafted game has a deliberately narrowed scope in service of a vision. The saving grace of such deliberate textual framing is that when it's done well you might notice it, but it gives you a shared point of reference with others in conversation. Instead of e.g. discussing racism in abstract, we can talk about how Measurehead, despite being everything his worldview espouses, is still ultimately a tiresome pawn.
I totally cede the point about framing, but not the one about DE being effective propaganda. To me it reads more like the author had a lot of complex feelings about communism's promise and its shortcomings.
Mina for president
If they're not too busy being an upstart deity, they have my vote
Yes, it is still weird. Wewve just gotten used to it.
The weirdness of that stuff is the *reason* people don't like fortnite.
I'm not sure how to have a conversation about this if weirdness has a secret definition. What is normal but the weird stuff you're used to in life?
I don't have a comprehensive definition of "weird". But having "concerts" and election propaganda in a multiplayer shooter isn't weird to you?
I heard there have been concerts in Minecraft that were popular. Anything beats doing it in Zuckerberg's whatever thing, imo. Virtual concerts seem lame certainly, but some enjoy it.
As for election propaganda, video games are big media. Bigger than Hollywood. Whatever my preferences, it would be absurd to expect it to be some kind of ideological dead zone.
Like I said I feel pretty disinterested, but more on grounds of taste than any firm feelings of social norms.
AatubeI don’t remember my election propaganda in real movies released during election season
I've played Fortnite many times. I just think it's odd for a politician to create a map.
It's certainly novel, but there aren't many voters who will object to being reached out to on their own terms. The election will be the one to decide whether it's stupid or not. It'd be far from the weirdest aspect of American culture, at any rate.
Log in to Lemmy.
Russia has fined Google more money than what exists in the world.
Vatican has anime mascot.
Now this. Excuse me wtf
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Captain AggravatedI wonder if Kamala Harris herself knows what that means.
On the one hand it's a bit like how it was newsworthy that Barack Obama's campaign was on Twitter. I remember the hearings in '94 when congress flipped their collective dentures over video games, and the president of Nintendo of America promised congress that Night Trap would never be available to play on Nintendo hardware. Video games were particularly expensive toys for sex accidents at the time. Well the accidents grew up and registered to vote. Now look at Washington. "Congressman Ocasio-Cortez and vice presidential candidate Walz play Crazy Taxi."
There are sitting politicians today, probably including Harris and absolutely including Biden, who campaigned to ban video games because that's what was popular with the 55 to 95 demographic. I don't know if I should forgive them as a cohort for that.
All this does is remind me how hollow and inhuman politicians are.
There are sitting politicians today, probably including Harris and absolutely including Biden, who campaigned to ban video games…
Doubtful that Harris would have ever said anything about banning video games, but happy to be proven wrong here. She’s the same age as Walz and became an elected official an entire decade after the 1993-94 Senate hearings, and also would have been in her late teens/early twenties during the tail end of the arcade era and the rise of home consoles like the NES. I really doubt Harris has a closed minded view on video games “corrupting the youth” or whatever..
I've got no clue if Harris or Biden campaigned ever to ban video games ... But let's say they did. Wouldn't it be a good thing to have had their opinions change? I know my opinion changes regarding a lot of things as time goes on.
Call me when it's maga hats on the lycans in Resident Evil.
Or a re-release of the game somebody already made: Nazi Zombies.
Look, opposing genocide is off the table, but we've got a bunch of republican endorsements and a fortnite map!
"boooo they don't oppose genocide. You should vote for the other guy who actively supports it instead."
Fuck off with this disingenuous trolling bullshit.
"Actively supports it" is absolutely a description befitting the Biden/Harris administration, in regards to this genocide.
As well as Trump. Its almost like you want to throw away your vote because you forgot to support/talk about a third party candidate about 3.5yrs ago
harkWe have to vote for hitler because worse hitler might win instead.
Is this worse than funding a genocide? And has Biden not had 4 years to reverse this? To be very clear: Fuck Donald Trump. But why do you people act like he is all powerful, but your leadership isn't responsible for anything?
Yes, it is huge in the history of Palestine since the UN partition plan https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/UN_Palestine_Partition_Versions_1947.jpg (note that the city of Jerusalem was given to neither side) I would wager that "after the fall" of Jerusalem, Bibi turned his head towards Gaza to "finish the job". Golan Heights/Lebanon will be an ongoing genocide beyond Bibi's and even our lifetimes.
Risky move. I feel some edgy gamer type is going to go viral with it.
Don't forget to pokemon go to the polls.
Dude this is a lot of work to go into just a Political ad. I wish I knew how big the team was that made this because they all deserve a part of that money the campaign spent to make this. I'm not a fan of Fortnite but this is still pretty crazy.
Somehow, Harris/Walz have returned...
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