I like him even more now
There’s a non-zero chance that Tim Walz still has his VMUs.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
The republicans really, really do hate being called weird, don’t they.
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.
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
No charlie, that’s not that weird. In fact it happens all the time.
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.
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.
All politics aside, one of those scenarios in today’s America is objectively fucking weird. I see no double standard.
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.
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.
It’s a damn shame if we’re being real. It reminds me of sports betting. I’m glad your friend has overcome that obstacle. I can’t grasp the issue myself because the idea of it offends me, but I recognize addiction and destructive behavior when I see it.
Hopefully things will change for the better. At least in the US, we’ll have to wait for a regime change, however that comes about.
Australia is certainly a harbinger.
