Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch

THIS is how you do fellow kids
- What kids are playing Madden, though?
  
  Lots of normies (assuming American normies love Madden as much as European normies love fifa)
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people.
  The fact of the matter is that casual gamers and console owners overlap with Facebook and all generic social media.
  We know that we only Lemmy are small, so we should try to keep in mind that our understandings and opinions of generic things in the world are the uncommon ones. Madden sells. FIFA sells. Call of Duty sells. Grand Theft Auto sells. Trying to criticize these outside of Lemmy will only result in losing even more faith in the general public, if that was even possible.
  
  My friend groups are. And the new NCAA game. Video Games and Football, there is truely no greater combination of american values
  
  People who lead boring normal lives.
  Most people who own consoles I guess the
  
  Which edition of Madden are we up to now? Like 57?
  
  A handful of small executive yachts worth of kids are judging by the numbers.
  
  Aged boomers who are regressing to an unempathetic childlike state.
- It's just outreach. May be corny, but they're intentionally getting outside their comfort zone to reach more people.
  
  Both Walz and aoc play video games already.

Can we have a real talk?
I want them see how well they work together in extremely stressful situations... Get Kamala, Walz, AoC, and maybe uh, Sanders playing HELLDIVERS II!
- Overcooked
  
  Geez man I'd rather be tasked with deciding whether to retaliate a possible nuclear strike. That sounds way less stressful.
  
  Yes. Please. That game is actually fun too
  
  Could you imagine if the presidential candidates and their VP pick had to play Overcooked together for a few hours?
  It wouldn't even have to be a competition on score. You could learn so much about them so fast - their communication, ability to adapt, and how they handle frustrations.
- Make them play Chained Together
  
  God no. That game is horrible. Me and my friend started getting angry at each other after trying to climb that starting tower
  I do not recommend . We don't want one of them to quit their job
- Omg that would be great. Like maximum everything too...
  
  Sanders turns out to have no idea how to play a shooter game and the next day every news outlet reports that he defected to the communist automatons

AOC fell off. From among us to madden? Come on
- Trying to catch a crowd with the biggest net. Should have done super smash bros
  
  If they're trying to win over young male Trump voters, they should be playing CoD.
- Next thing you know she'll be playing Elden Ring like a fucking poser while using a cheese build like some communist normie.
  Nah, I need that real gamer shit. If she doesn't have a Steam account with 60 games completed, 120 played and 400 unplayed with 1000 hours on Terraria and Stardew Valley each, then is she really a gamer, or is she just some fucking millennial just like I am wait...
  
  Only 1000? Newbie numbers right there.
- Bernie and AOC have me scratching my head in confusion more often lately.

Well that did it for me. I'm voting Harris!

Are there any crazy glitches/exploits one can do in a modern Madden game that would be akin to taking shots from that one specific spot in Double Dribble where it's 100% guaranteed to go in?
I wanna see one of them just gobsmack the other with that kinda play. lol

Madden though?...
- It's probably the game that has the most disaffected centrists playing it.
  
  Plus then it's a nice tie in to Walz's coaching background for that group
- Yeah, it's not my cup of tea either but there's a huge playerbase of guys who play the hell out of it. Pretty much the demographic they want to target. As much as I'd love to see them play something like Elden Ring or POE, I think that might miss their target lol.
- Which year? Because the extremely subtle differences between versions make all the difference
  
  94 on the Genesis

I want Walz under a real stress test. Set this man up on a ranked league of legends match and in a discord group with his team of randos.
- That's straight up evil and will result in a shit load of insults against him.
- I'm fall 2020, I think I was in a game of LoL with AOC. She famously played Support, but I was paired up as a newbie support paired with an account AOC-ADC. I was not really good and died early. I asked the account if they really were AOC, and they told me to go vote!
  She also accused me of intentionally dying, and I told her I wasn't. I told her I was sorry that I was just bad. We ended up losing, mostly because of me.
  So that's my dumb AOC gaming story.

So they are both maddening?
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Thank you, I will be here all week
- I respect the joke, but I simultaneously also respect whoever downvoted the comment nearly instantly :)

between this and WoW, are they going to stream any good games?
- Would be fun if they streamed Civilization.
  
  Walz: MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
  
  Fuck, play some Clock Tower, tis Halloween afterall.
  Or hell, play Resident Evil and do commentary talking about how it's not only based on the works of George Romero, but also pretty dang based considering the moral of the story is "American Pharmaceutical Companies are literally evil and responsible for mass death"
- Musk is streaming a full playthrough of the Leisure Suit Larry series.
  
  Leisure suit larry is a good nickname for musk. Although it soils the leisure suit larry brand.
  
  A bunch of horribly aged sex comedies full of misogynistic "jokes", blatant homohpboia, and various pop-culture references that you'd have to have been born in the 70's to have a chance of getting?
  Sounds like his kinda game being a washed-up divorced dad living in the past who's children and ex-wife want nothing to do with him.
  Seriously, I own the series, bought it in a bundle for Steam and I've tried playing them. I love old adventure games, especially comedies like Monkey Island and I heard so many good things about it from my dad and the laughs he had from LSL when he was a dumb kid fresh out of high school.
  ...and I nearly died of anti-lulz trying to play these things.
  I love a good raunchy comedy, for fuck's sake, my favorite Boomer Shooter is Duke Nukem 3D... but LSL has aged about as well as Larry himself has been implied to.
  I'm too young to even know what a leisure suit is, and I'm in my god damn 30's.
- AOC did among us during the previous election

It would be funny if one of them started cheating

This is refreshingly wholesome for political news. No bullshit or partisan politics here, just people being human and enjoying some entertainment.

I'd give Walz the edge, but EA never made Madden for the Dreamcast. 🤣

John Madden

Not my game of choice, but as an elderly gamer, this works for me.

Wallz by 21

That's pretty rad.

Better be Madden ‘96

Net than the trump ralley they put up on twitch from the trump side.
I flagged that shit for bigotry

Ugh, sportsball? That's not gonna get gamers. That's gonna get dudebros that would have bullied nerds in the 1980s but now play competitive BS video games.
- Aren't the dudebros in the biggest group of trump supporters? They should target them instead of preaching to the choir.
- It’s still a video game.
  It might be one of the lamer segments of the gaming market, since the games are basically the same each year, but with updated stats.
  Personally, they should go retro with some short order(NES powerpad, basically a memory game, styled as a short order cook making giant burgers.), or maybe some n64 Mariocart. I bet Walz can hit all the RR shortcuts.
  Is DDR old enough to be retro now? That could be fun, too.

how do you do, fellow kids?
- They are both former gamers, this isn't Hillary pretending she is hip.
- ah yes, madden players are famously kids.
  they aren't streaming roblox. they're streaming madden because he pricks probably used to play it decades ago in between sessions of WoW.
  
  I think they chose to play Madden because Walz used to be a football coach.

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So gimmicky. AOC is listening to DNC strategy morons way too much. This makes the party look even more out of touch, not more relatable. Same with the "X has a beer with "Y" articles. This is all Joe Biden/centrist reacharound logic.
- Doesn't AOC do twitch anyways? This isn't her first time doing this.

This is stupid. I didn't vote for these two to play video games.
- I'm betting you've never voted for either of these two.
  
  As a Minnesotan, I have voted for Walz twice. I have even spoken to him directly.

Nah how about fuck off. 😊
I don’t want politicians on twitch or any where near games. Yall are toxic enough as it is. Leave my hobby alone. The one place I can go to escape your bullshit.
- So just don't watch then? It's incredibly easy to just not participate.
  Even easier than going on the internet to complain about it, in fact.