4mo ago

Wow, they really attacked gamers. Conservatives speedrunning how to be hated by everybody.

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I like him even more now
- I know right? The Dreamcast was awesome.
  
  I still remember how exciting it was to see/hear the boot-up screen 😄
  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHmwksG_98Y
  
  Piracy was rampant on it though. Kind of feel bad having contributed to that but I was a poor teenager.
- There’s a non-zero chance that Tim Walz still has his VMUs.
  
  They still working though? Battery damage? I can't imagine the next scandal, lol
  I found a couple of my old VMUs a while back... Luckily the batteries didn't leak and they worked once i found batteries to try em with! The Dreamcast really was awesome 😌
- Same, lol. I thought this was a post to make me think he was more relatable and cool. Cause that’s how I felt after reading the first paragraph. When I realized who was making the post and his take on it, all I could think was, why is this guys face so small relative to the size of his head!
- Exactly. But the reality is the republicans would attack whatever side paints him in a negative light. If Walz was attacking video games the republican spin would be “first they’ll take your guns, THEN they’ll want to tell you how to spend your free time!”

Walz likes video games? Like a third of the entire planet does? What a weirdo, so unrelatable.
- 188.9 million Americans are gamers. What a stupidly broad attack.

Walz is the guy who will join your 3 man group in Phantasy Star Online at 2 AM to go take down Dark Falz.
- Walz manages to save your quarter from getting stuck behind the frame for the top display of the arcade cabinet, and lets you have next.
  
  If “I was born in the 80s” were a comment…
- Damn those were the good old days… Setting up my PC as a run through to fool the Dreamcast into thinking my DSL was dialup internet. I played PSO and Shenmue so much my family hated it.
  
  DSL
  I did some shenanigans back in the day to fake a local network for my xbox 2001, so we could 'LAN' with others over the internet, mostly 2v2 deathmatches. I remember you neede cross-over UTP cables, and we had to learn what that meant. What did your DSL/Dialup switcheroo give you ins PSO and Shenmue? Just regular old multiplayer?? or something like pokemon trading over the link cable?
- OMG yes. I loved PSO.
  
  Ultimate Dark Falz was one thing (3rd form putting your buddies voodoo doll in its mouth so damaging it damaged the player), but Ultimate Olga Flow, yeesh. My brother and I loved that first form, then that second one was always rough.
- My god, you have incited my urge to pick up that game again
  
  Been emulating it on the Steam Deck all week. :)
- Walz the kind of VP to join the ARMA 3 session and play medic
- ig man, I lived that game. maybe I should return to it at some point

The fact that’s it was the Dreamcast of all consoles puts so much respect on it tbh.
- you just know this man was up all night playing phantasy star online with that wide ass dreamcast keyboard
  
  I remember being a teenager PC gamer in that era and going, "I really want a Dreamcast to play games with a mouse & keyboard". I was a weird kid.
  
  Getting all the unlocks in MvC2 and Power Stone, also too many games of Lucky hit.
- Exactly. That lets me respect him more. With a more common answer of x-box or playstation, I would have thought "okay, who cares?" And move on. Now I think, man this guy has taste.
- That Charlie thought the Dreamcast was something to be ashamed, they just don’t grasp that it’s a badge of honor
- You have no idea

The republicans really, really do hate being called weird, don’t they.
- Conservatives value conformity; they think they are 'normal', and that being 'normal' is by definition good. Pointing out how fucking weird they are hits them where it hurts
  
  this is much more concise than my comment. and i edited out a couple paragraphs.
- they're trying so hard to turn it around. just listen to anything they say nowadays; it either involves calling democrats or leftists weird, or calling what they do normal.
  this is why this word is more potent than anything you could say about them. say they're fascists and draconian, they wear that as a badge of honor. fascists love being feared, fearsomeness is the refuge of the pathetic.
  but they can't handle being called weird. the entire conservative mindset is about how a set of nonsense beliefs and traditions are "normal" and everyone who doesn't align with that is degenerate. that's what they're conserving after all, the "normal". once that's turned around and everybody agrees that they're the weird ones they lose their fucking minds.
  so now they're trying to call everything the democrats do weird. they're so desperate.
  
  This guy gets it.
  They took "deplorable" as a badge of honor because "deplorable" is a term a high school teacher would use to describe the cool kids who smoke and hang out.
  "Weird" is a term the cool kids would use to describe Barbie Bible and her farm boy buddies.
  
  Problem is most leftists embrace the weirdness because we’re proud of being unique. Right wingers are the ones who want to be clones.

Wow! They're really struggling to attack him! He's gotta be squeaky clean if this is the best they can do!
- My favorite was that he came out of retirement after 9/11 to rejoin the national guard, but somehow his second retirement was timed to skip out on a deployment.
  (My real favorite part of that is they have Corporal One-And-Done from the Public Affairs office trying to cast shade on a 24-year veteran).
  
  And they say this while ignoring that their guy dodged vietnam because of made up bone spurs.
  Trump is absolutely the weirdest and they want to be just like him

I despise Republicans so much. Bro your candidate is a rapist insurrectionist who spent all day in the White House watching TV. Now he's using Twitter's AI to make fake images of himself being popular.
Glad being called "weird" is enraging them this bad, though.

No charlie, that's not that weird. In fact it happens all the time.
- With normal people at least.
  
  Also there is so little context to this. What counts as "addicted"? Was she just mad, that he wasnt spending enough time with her? Was she maybe just generally against playing video games? Or was he actually addicted? We will never know and its also completely irrelevant information.
  
  Bingo! Rich people don't need games, their lives are a fucking game. The rest of us use them to relax and escape.
- Also there's like good weird and bad weird. This is good weird. Bad weird is having your name on Jeffery Epstein's flight logs.

Dude... he has a fucking Dreamcast? Tim Walz is the dad I never had.
- Every attack they try just makes Walz seem cooler
  
  We call this the Hunter's Dick Effect
- Well, not anymore.

I'm really sick of the age thing when it comes to gaming. Tons of middle-aged and older men spend hours watching sportsball every week, but nobody gives them shit.
- HE WAS WATCHING SO MUCH SPORTS AND GETTING SO DRUNK HIS WIFE HAD TO UNPLUG THE TV AND THROW THE BEER IN THE TRASH. Isn't that quirky and relatable? Dare I say demure?
- I overheard a probably-55 yo guy saying something about playing Assassin's Creed this morning. Games are for everybody.
  
  My dad is 72 and builds amazing stuff in Cities and Skylines
  
  I was watching youtube yesterday, and some elderly 72 year old gamer actually came up.. https://www.youtube.com/c/GrandpaGaming
  So definitely. He was also part of the Navy for 20+ years... People like this and walz actually give me a whole new respect for the people in the military honestly. In the past I actually pictured it as incredibly toxic due to someone I met from the Army.
  But, at least in the case of the Navy, everyone I've met or heard about are so incredibly honorable and respectful.. They're literally normal people
- I bet people said the same thing when baseball just started pro leagues.
  'It's a children's game, they'll grow out of it as they mature'...
- God yes..
  Here in Australia everyone watches the AFL (Aussie Footy).
  We had a customer who was a major footy player, and it was obvious he was surrounded by "yes men" his whole life. I watched as everyone around me started laughing at everything he said the moment he stepped in the room...
  What he was saying at the time really wasn't that hilarious honestly..
  And it reminds me of the time we got a phone call from danii minogues family to tell us a "special guest" was coming to our store. The room was full of a bunch of nerds. None of us really cared (even if it was Kylie) lol.. None of us even recognised her. Even my audio engineer friend who works with good celebrities (like she's worked with Tim Minchin) just sees them as normal people (and yeah, she's a gamer)
  Yet I guarantee, lots of people super into celebs dislike gamers.
- ☝️🤓 akshully sportsball bad
  
  That wasnt their point and ya damned well know it. Ya aint being quirky youre being obnoxious.

This just makes me respect him more.
Dreamcast was a fantastic console, but it didn't have much success in the US due to poor marketing decisions.
The fact that Waltz recognized its value back then shows good judgement IMO.
- thps was best played on the Dreamcast IMO.
  I wonder who his favorite skater was and why it was Kareem Campbell
- It's thinking
- Uhm.. I suck. Nevermind.

I don't find that anecdote weird, but I do find searching through the life events of some politician to find things to signify that he's weird to be creepy and fucking weird.
But that's par for the course for you, Chuckie, you fucking balloon headed weirdo. Get a real job you mutant potato.
- Meh, I wish they had done this with George Santos before he got elected. Being scrutinized is part of the process of running for office. That these are nothing burgers is a good thing.
  
  I agree with you that scrutiny for public office holders is a necessary part of the process.
  However, the angle of scrutiny is what is strange to me. I understand their position in that they definitely are grubby little terminally online weirdos but desperately want to escape being characterized as such and so they're looking for ways to squirm out of it...but their attempts are also weird.

He supports a criminal who openly lusts for his own daughter.
But please, tell me how too much video games is the issue here.
- He supports a criminal who openly lusts for his own daughter.
  Thought you meant Hulk Hogan until I realized you meant the Commander-in-Cheetoh.
  
  It's difficult to tell the difference between pieces of shit.

Imagine:
You enjoy your hobbies. And you have a good enough relationship with your spouse that you’re able to keep each other accountable in simple small ways.
What a weird way to live!
- you’re able to keep each other accountable in simple small ways.
  Not only that, but also to have a sense of humor and understanding about it.
  
  Oh, so Gwen Walz hiding Tim's Dreamcast so he's not tempted to waste away a Sunday playing Powerstone is normal?
  But then Mike Johnson having his son install an app on his phone to sound an alarm when the Speaker of the House looks at porn is weird?
  Pretty revealing double standard.

On the scale of "weird shit"
Being addicted to videogames<fucking couches
- Playing games on the couch: normal. Playing games with the couch: weird.
  
  Playing video games while you're on the couch: weird
  Sitting on the couch over the split of the cushions you just splooged into without cleaning it up...
  ...that's just a Thursday evening for Vance.

You mean Tim Walz is one of us?
Way to lose the gamer vote, Trump

If this is real I smell a “Gamers for Waltz” fundraiser soon
- Walz should host a Twitch stream
  
  Playing Dreamcast games. No politics, just him talking about his experiences with the console and shooting the shit with chat. HEAVY MODERATION though. Cause damn.
  
  The new Crazy Taxi is almost ready for release. Sounds like the perfect way to preview it for the fans.
  
  Didn't AOC do that with LoL?
  It would certainly be very highly watched
  
  I thought I heard the Harris campaign was going to launch a Twitch channel?
- They targeted gamers. Gamers.

Kirk should be very careful about accusing anyone of being weird, a liar or a racist - those are qualities he has on his own resume.
- In response, Kirk avoids the topic entirely and instead > asks Short: “What is a woman?”
  “Oh my God, that is so fucking weird, y’all,” Short > > > > replies. “Maybe you should meet one.”
  Wow
  
  Being racist isn't weird to them. It's the only reason they like him
- The kid said it - that's trouble

I already like Walz you don't have to sell me on him.

That is quite the laboured attempt at insulting Walz. Like the worst thing you can say about him is that he, like so many humans, got hooked on a video game? You're really not finding anything on this guy, Republicans, you fucking weirdos.
- I could be wrong, but i imagine him just furiously playing on the dreamcast and his wife told hil like 5 times to do something and he kept telling her: soon honey. And then she unplugged the dreamcast and they had a good laugh and he jokingly chased her around the house. And they can't stand that, because we know how the other racist wannabe comedian conservative influencer treated his wife. (I can't believe i forgot his name, but don't tell me, it makes me quite happy.)
  
  I don't want to destroy your happiness but I do think it's important people see the video. Everyone should be able to say "oh that horrible guy" if anyone ever brings him up for anything. Dude's career should be destroyed already and nothing but a mere wimper of a passing fart in time. Anyone that listens to his opinion after seeing his real personality at home needs to re-evaluate their influences. He just cares about his position in life and everyone else is just a passing thought he dismisses.
  edit: I realized people thought I could be talking about Walz if they were skim reading lol, I'm referencing the conservative influencer wife abuser.

I'd say the story shows more character than anything.
Meaning "This politician sometimes knows how to realize when they're obsessed with something and will take steps to make sure they back off of it".
I like when politicians have functioning frontal lobes and can self-moderate. Usually it makes them far less extremist, or likely to be extreme in their viewpoints.

With each new revelation, Walz gets better and more relatable, while Vance gets creepier and weirder. It must be tough for the Republican strategists having to come up with attacks against Walz when this is the kind of material they have to work with.

Tinyface McGhee is trying to dictate who is weird? Talk about pure deflection. That clown is basically in a villain group for talentless weirdos (along with Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Tomi Lahren, Matt Walsh, and Steven Chowder).
And after all the weird shit Kirk and company have pushed over the years, they are gonna have to do a lot better than Walz being hooked on playing a games console.

Oh yeah that fucking loser Charlie Kirk is going to call other people weird. Nah.
- Just a reminder he did this
  
  It's almost spectacular someone could induce so hard a cringe.
  
  I remember those days. The era of “wait you really should be embarrassed by this, why are you not embarrassed by how you’re acting?”
  
  That's oddly topical this election
  
  Is this the same guy that shoved stuff up his ass on camera to prove he was a man or whatever?

Bumping up on 50 here. I'll be playing something or other before bed tonight, maybe PC maybe PS5... who knows, but it will be fun... and it will actually be IN BED... and in the background will probably be the DNC nomination acceptance speech. It isn't weird, it is relatable...
Also, if he was playing Soulcalibur on Dreamcast then who can blame him. That was one of the few games my attention span actually pushed through from start to finish.
I've never been a GQ model, but I've not yet understood how someone who literally looks like Butthead has become such a focus. I feel like I missed out on being a pundit.
GAME ON FOREVER MY FRIENDS
- Fellow GenX Gamer! Good to see the One Button Generation still representing.
  And Soul Calibur was the REASON I bought a dreamcast lol!
  Been playing Elden Ring all day, helping others in their games. Between summons I've been watching DNC clips and hyping HarrisWalz on twitter.
  THEY CAN TAKE MY CONTROLLER WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD, DORITO STAINED HANDS!
  
  I believe Soul Calibur was the reason MANY of us bought the dreamcast. Keep doing the good work, buttonbrother.
- I'm playing cs2 with my dad. I'm 40.
  
  That's so awesome. I used to play Atari 2600 with my dad. OUTLAW was our favorite, COMBAT probably #2. He became rather techy as part of his job before he retired, but he didn't continue in gaming at all so I'm super glad to hear you're able to share that with yours. Now he's a master gardener which I confess is probably better for survival, but I am what I am.
- It was the most relatable thing I've ever had to a politician

Dang, I wonder if Coach was really into Crazy Taxi. Or maybe Space Channel 5? 🛸
- Soul Calibur
- Shenmue
  
  Hey, uh, I'm looking for some sailors. Do you know where I can find them?
- Gotta be Powerstone
  
  Hell yes! Loved Powerstone 1 and 2!
- Jet Grind Radio (Jet Set Radio for international players).
- Nah 100% PSO, staying up stupid late with the guys to do one more run for that bazooka with a 0.001% drop rate
- Hey hey, come on over, have some fun with Crrrrazy Taxi!
  🎵Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!
  
  Easily one of the best Dreamcast games imo 🙌 i loved the bowling stage where you try to drift into the pins for a strike... I don't remember how you got there but it was so much fun. That game was also a blast in the arcade in the sit-down style cabinet.
- Skies of Arcadia
  
  Rain of swords!
  
  And now all I can think of is Jello apocalypse bits.
- nba 2k. when it was good.
- Sonic Adventure and Sonic Adventure 2

Come on Lemmy, it is in the contract:
https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/
- This is art.
- There's no way 100% is standard Kirkface. 108% looks normal but I'd take 104% as a standard.
  
  I will admit I don't look at this dude face that often but 108 seems off, i can't put my finger on it but it just does. I'd meet you at 104 though
- About 68% just made me wheeze with laughter.

What a very weird, sad thing for a very weird, sad person to say.
Anyway, my Saturn crawled so that the Dreamcast could fly.

Are they weirded out that he didn't beat her like a conservative man would if his wife did that? And are they going to pretend there aren't countless women fed up with their manchildren conservative husbands?

They attacked gamers.
Gamers.
(I don't remember how the rest of the copypasta goes, because I'm a leftist video game enjoyer and try to distance myself from Gamers®.)
That said this probably won't go anywhere. In the Gamergate days the right wingers kept outright insulting Gamers® and the Gamers® just did some mental gymnastics. Political literacy among Gamers® has gone to even deeper depths since.
- It's good not to make copypasta a standard here as well. There are tons of places for it already.

The stuff they say is cringe af. They try SO HARD.

I was pretty addicted to league and my wife had to give me an ultimatum. It was affecting my sleep and work.
I haven't touched that crack in 8 months.
- Fuck League, what a cancer of a game
  
  I'm thankful for the two toxic trolls that shouted me out of my 3rd match. Saved me years of greater pain.
  Sometimes a toxic fanbase is useful.
  
  I only play URF or ARAM. Short games and no ranking. Just an arcade. Addictive arcade
- Wait...
  "Rocket" or "League of"?
  
  league is league of legends. rocket league is just rocket league
- I'm glad it never came to an ultimatum for me, but at one point in my life it was like
  1.Work
  2.Sleep
  3.Social Life
  4.World of Warcraft
  Pick 3.
  I chose work, social life, and sleep. Things turned out well for me as opposed to some friends who went deep into WoW. These dudes would literally show up to get-togethers with their gaming laptop because it was raid night. Or even worse, miss out on sleep or call out of work so they could raid.
  Video games can be a fun and healthy hobby, and shit they still are to me, but some things need to take priority.

They attacked gamers. Gamers.
- This is clearly an attempt to make a second Gamergate happen.

This Charlie Kirk guy seems to be counter productive to the GOP.
So far, I've seen him antagonizing:
gamers
fathers, with healthy relationships with their daughers
possibly, healthy families as well
women, as in tradition
people of color
Not that I'm complaining...

Wow, the propagandists have fucking nothing huh? Seeing the bots and troll nets flounder like this is pathetic and fun to watch. Money down the drain for the fascist. You love to see it.

Genius. Gamers are such calm and quiet people and definitely not prone to loud retribution against people they hate. Legally, of course. No gamer has ever perpetuated violence against someone.
- They let the SWAT teams do it for them.

I love how they keep trying "no u" as their attempt to counter the weird label democrats have put on the MAGA crowd. Seems to be working great for them.

I can't keep my racists straight, is Charlie the one who picks boogers to the point of blood or is that Nick?
Anyway, I like video games. Looking to get a steam deck so I can sit with the wife.
- Charlie is the one where you can't tell if he's got a giant head, a tiny face, or both.
  
  whispering voice says "little biiiiiits"
- 10/10 Deck. They're consoles made for adults.
- We love ours!
- You are aware it's more of a computer than a gaming console right? It runs full on Linux. Don't make the mistake I did by going in blind lol. I got it all figured out now but I had great difficulty getting various things to work at first. If you are aware disregard this message I'm just trying to look out for a fellow steam deck bro
  
  the 'computer' part of it is hidden away behind a menu, you can absolutely use the steam deck without ever touching it
  
  What did you have difficulty with? For "verified" titles the deck is basically 100% a console experience.

I'd rather a politician be addicted to Dreamcast than cocaine.

I get what they were going for considering I've known certain people who have been so addicted to specific games that they've ruined their lives but I don't think Walz is in that crowd. He's still married, looks like he's a great father who's involved with his kids and is a more responsible and active politician than 90% of those in politics.
It's such a poor jab. Besides gaming being this mainstream hobby that everyone partakes of these days, there's also the fact that even if he was irresponsible, the youngest two of the voting generations would vibe with it. I know people who overspend their money or ignore reality entirely because they feel helpless. It's a symptom of a problem.
- Poor guy couldn't stop gaming. Ruined his life. Ended up becoming a governor, and soon to be VP. CANCEL SEGA.
  
  In a different universe:
  'Timmy, you need to keep playing if you want a chance in government!'
  'But mom I don't wanna! Can't I just do a few more pages of homework?'
  'Young man you will pick up that controller and beat that boss or no dinner for you, please consider your future!!'
- My coworker told me he's spent I think he said $8,000 on Destiny 2. That was half a year ago or more. So more by now. I was so floored that I don't remember the number exactly but it was astronomical. One of the few times in my life I struggled not to show a disrespectful amount of shock or however you wanna put that.
  Today he told me his friends are trying to get him into Warframe. But he said he didn't like the idea of not being able to get into the main quests without jumping through hoops. I don't know either game well, but I'm pretty sure that's ironic.
  It's escapism for him, I know that much, so it's tangential.
  
  Yeah people meme about it but the addiction exists.
  Even before microtransactions were huge on mmos, I remember people letting Runescape ruin them. Knew a guy with 3 daughters who was divorced over it. Had an old friend who wouldn't last more than two weeks at any job cause he'd quit to play and the whole group we played with would get to hear his girlfriend screaming at him over it sometimes (he did get better though).
  Now days we have gachas and games with loot boxes so it's even more predatory.

Ah. Trying to switcheroo the weird insult to imply they aren't the weird ones. Clever girl.
- They really don't like that they're being called weird.
  
  It's funny that amidst EVERYTHING they've been called, "weird" is beyond the line.
- It's hateporn addicts blaming someone else for being addicted to something.
- “Conservatives try owning the insult!
  It wasn’t very effective.”
- In other words, "I am rubber, you are glue"

Bro, if the Dreamcast taught me anything it's that the world would be threatened by giant lizards anally pleasuring themselves via death-laser equipped space colonies far less often if we could get political figures capable of telling Sonic from Shadow.
Tim Walz has my support. Prevent Biolizards from threatening the planet!

Poor Charlie never had a dweamcast... 😫

Real men get addicted to booze, pain pills and fox
- Apperently Walz did get caught drunk driving once, but then stopped drinking entirely. Which reading between the lines sounds like he had a drinking problem and used that ticket as a catalyst to kick the habit entirely, which if that is the case, I have mad respect for him breaking that addiction. Addictions are hard to break

Omg he's literally me

I once heard someone arguing a similar thing back around 2010, and we already thought it was an odd thing to say. Why, yes, grown people do play video games, and certain mechanics are addictive no matter how old you are.
- It's just a very dated critique. Like calling someone satanic for collecting Magic Cards or implying they're a loser for spending a summer driving for Uber. Also just very... anti-fun. Same with the "How dare he lead a class trip to visit China!" What high school student body wouldn't have loved to go on a trip like that?
- And also, sometimes you get too into your hobbies. If it was the key to his wood shop or his fishing pole it’d be some relatable joke to boomers. Whether it’s that you just got really sucked into a current project/game or you’re struggling and overdoing it with a healthy coping mechanism (I know when I’m burning out my wife has to remind me to take us time or I will be on my bicycle from the time I get home until it’s too dark to bike). This shit happens sometimes.
  
  For Walz, it was apparently Crazy Taxi, so yeah, you can totally see how that'd happen.

Your face is weird. Like, really.

Powerstone was fucking awesome. And Soul Calibur.
- Mvc2, dead or alive 2, sf3.
  What a era!
  
  Dreamcast had an amazing library, especially for fighting games. That little machine is seriously underappreciated.

...said the normal man who's been a Koch Brothers funded propagandist since he was 18, normally.

Lmao they're trying so hard.
"I'm not weird, you're weird!"

But, did she give it back?
- Maybe if he wins the election, he'll get it back 😜

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