A Maine Republican running for State Senate is attacking her opponent for playing World of Warcrat, and includes in the attacks in-game quotes taken out of context, forum posts, and weird accusations based on her in-game class and role.
Oh, Republicans. I keep thinking you’re done, and you keep finding even more impressive ways to be stupid.
Fortunately, the Democratic candidate responded very, very well:
I think it’s weird that I’m being targeted for playing online games. Apparently I’m in good company since there are 183 million other Americans who also enjoy online games. What’s next? Will I be ostracized for playing Angry Birds or Words with Friends? If so, guilty as charged!
What’s really weird is that the Republicans are going after my hobbies instead of talking about their record while they’ve been running Augusta for the last two years. Instead of talking about what they’re doing for Maine people, they’re making fun of me for playing video games. Did you know that more people over the age of 50 play video games than under the age of 18? As a gamer, I’m in good company with folks like Jodie Foster, Vin Diesel, Mike Myers, and Robin Williams. Maybe it’s the Republican Party that is out of touch.
Updated: 2nd link fixed.
Best comment to the original article:
“Clearly she is a lazy person though. This World of Warcraft character demonstrates it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
I mean, she’s playing an Assassination rogue. That’s the easiest spec of the most cheap-sauce class in the game. What a lazy, lazy player.
Now if she was playing a protection warrior or a healer or something though – that would be a different story.”
Also, it struck me as odd that Lachowicz compared herself exclusively to movie star gamers.
Also, I am deeply, deeply enraged that the second link in your post goes to a nice Sennheiser wireless headset.
Also, this is also my most poorly written comment ever, also.