145 points

What year is it? 2004?

The median WoW player has to be at least 38.

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38 year old adults are generally assumed to be of voting age, registered, and willing to vote. Do you think he’ll get better voter turnout from something like Roblox or Fortnite?

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14 points

The title says “young voters”

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Have you ever voted? Like, gone to the voting booth and voted? How about attended a caucus or primary? Because I regularly do, I’m 45, and I’m typically the youngest person in the building.

The US voting base is old as fuck.

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4 points

I was going to find the stream and see what types are in the audience. Can’t find it.

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8 points

I can glimpse 6:30PM before the paywall blocks it, though I can’t see what timezone. Looks like EST or CST, so probably just ended and vod should be up soon somewhere?

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It’s twitch. Go on any channel with above 500-1000 viewers and it’ll all be the same. Unless it’s a super modded channel with sub-only and slow mode and shit. Even then you get quite a bit of spam

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18 points

Yeah…

Great idea. But young voters ain’t playing WOW

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They are watching Twitch though. And what game is playing? Doesn’t seem to matter.

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9 points

My bro is exactly 38 and plays WoW daily 😅 so from my perspective you can’t be far off. Apropros for people saying wow players can vote, the attempt was to reach young voters.

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3 points

I waited in line at the fountain valley fry’s.

43 here lol

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1 point

We could tell from frys

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2 points

I think there is a new Wow, or one coming… There have been a bunch of ads about it in the last month

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One just came out. It’s pretty good, but that’s easy to say because Shadowlands set the bar very, very low.

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2 points

If not older. I’m older than 38 and my guild mates are older than me.

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1 point

I feel seen.

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118 points

I realized today that Trump also has a Twitch (because it was recommended to me???) that basically just (re)streams his rallies.

Reported that shit for Hateful Conduct.

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Even “better”, from what I recall he had what was listed as a permanent suspension after the whole “mildly incited a tiny bit of light insurrection (/s)” thing. They unbanned him specifically for this election season.

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Yeah gotta give him a chance to do a major insurrection obviously, because that sounds like they banned him for failing the first time 🙄

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4 points

It was pushed on my home page. I reported for inciting terrorism, and reported the twitch app on google store for political terrorism.

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98 points

Do kids still do WoW? I assumed it’d be all parent aged folks by now

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63 points

Article on Waltz’s gaming history…

You know what just occurred to me, Waltz might actually be on the other tail of WoW players if he picked it up in the early 2000’s. He might actually be decent at the game.

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5 points

Walz

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44 points

It’s not like they want to pander to 14 year olds, who historically have pretty low turnout

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3 points

Children never show up to vote, that’s why they keep losing their rights.

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35 points

It is.

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1 point

Yeah well, they need to vote too. Hope it went well

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8 points

Yeah, I’d guess the average age is probably ~30-35+ years old. There are probably some younger kids that play, but I’d be surprised if they represented more than a marginal amount of the overall playerbase.

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Man I might be imagining things, but I’m pretty sure he played it back in the 00s. I remember him saying something about 40-man raids and leadership when he was talking to a group of high school seniors about voting.

This was right at the time he was campaigning for his first term in Congress, and I doubt it was recorded anywhere. It still makes me chuckle thinking this guy is running for VP.

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“Mr. Walz what is your position on student loan forgiveness?”

“Stop DOTs”

“Interesting. What do you think the escalating border issues?”

“Many whelps. Handle it.”

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7 points

Minus 50 DKP for Trump

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1 point

Trump stands in the fire

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“How do you propose we handle increasing aggression from Russia?”

“LEEEEROOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEENNNNKIIIIIIINNNSSS”

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This is one of my top two episodes!!!

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41 points

I thought you were great in it!

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9 points

Zing.

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3 points

Well here’s some fun info for ya

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13 points

“How can you kill that which has no life?”

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13 points

Oh hey, it’s Pirate Software’s dad.

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4 points

I haven’t really seen much of South Park, but heard Thor talking about this. Is this actually the character they designed around his dad?

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Yup

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