I promise you read that headline correctly. Kamala Harris is taking her campaign right to 'Fortnite' in a truly surreal way.
  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    23 days ago

    I uhh… I got nothing. If this isn’t in the new South Park season I don’t know what is.

  • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
    244·
    23 days ago

    This isn’t weird, you just don’t like fortnite.

    I don’t either, but I’m not exactly holding out for them to put a political ad scroll in noita.

    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      idk it certainly feels weird to me that videogames- even ones I don’t personally enjoy- are viewed as relevant enough to get this kind of political attention.

      Realistically, if I take a step back from it I’m just stuck in 2008, but… yeah.

      Besides, weird isn’t necessarily a requirement here. Just ‘it looks like satire but isn’t’.

      Also: you have excellent taste in videogames. Noita is great.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        23 days ago

        Games do feel like an oddity as political outreach, but the more I think about the idea the more I think it has capabilities (as Lancelot Brown might have put it). With legacy media like papers, books, art, film, recorded music and all, you are a passive consumer of the media. With video games as art, you are an active participant and your choices define your experience with the work. Games like Planescape: Torment, Tyranny, and Disco Elysium are great examples where you’re expected to engage with political or moral ideas as a participant. You aren’t being treated as a receiver of propaganda per se, but as someone who can develop understanding and agency in the context of certain ideas, which seems like an improvement over propaganda in legacy media, don’t you think?

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      43·
      23 days ago

      I’ve played Fortnite many times. I just think it’s odd for a politician to create a map.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        23 days ago

        It’s certainly novel, but there aren’t many voters who will object to being reached out to on their own terms. The election will be the one to decide whether it’s stupid or not. It’d be far from the weirdest aspect of American culture, at any rate.

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    23 days ago

    When Biden ran in 2020, they gave out patterns in Animal Crossing. But if I’m being honest, I didn’t mind that pandering and some effort was involved, plus it was kind of what everyone was going during lockdown. Now this… mixed feelings but it must not have been cheap and at least there’s some effort there (likely from a staffer). I only hope it works.

    Gamer me only really trusts AOC, though.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    105·
    23 days ago

    I wonder if Kamala Harris herself knows what that means.

    On the one hand it’s a bit like how it was newsworthy that Barack Obama’s campaign was on Twitter. I remember the hearings in '94 when congress flipped their collective dentures over video games, and the president of Nintendo of America promised congress that Night Trap would never be available to play on Nintendo hardware. Video games were particularly expensive toys for sex accidents at the time. Well the accidents grew up and registered to vote. Now look at Washington. “Congressman Ocasio-Cortez and vice presidential candidate Walz play Crazy Taxi.”

    There are sitting politicians today, probably including Harris and absolutely including Biden, who campaigned to ban video games because that’s what was popular with the 55 to 95 demographic. I don’t know if I should forgive them as a cohort for that.

    All this does is remind me how hollow and inhuman politicians are.

    • elliot_crane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      23 days ago

      There are sitting politicians today, probably including Harris and absolutely including Biden, who campaigned to ban video games…

      Doubtful that Harris would have ever said anything about banning video games, but happy to be proven wrong here. She’s the same age as Walz and became an elected official an entire decade after the 1993-94 Senate hearings, and also would have been in her late teens/early twenties during the tail end of the arcade era and the rise of home consoles like the NES. I really doubt Harris has a closed minded view on video games “corrupting the youth” or whatever…

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      I’ve got no clue if Harris or Biden campaigned ever to ban video games … But let’s say they did. Wouldn’t it be a good thing to have had their opinions change? I know my opinion changes regarding a lot of things as time goes on.

  • mrvictory1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    Log in to Lemmy.

    Russia has fined Google more money than what exists in the world.

    Vatican has anime mascot.

    Now this. Excuse me wtf

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    23 days ago

    Call me when it’s maga hats on the lycans in Resident Evil.

    Or a re-release of the game somebody already made: Nazi Zombies.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
    417·
    23 days ago

    Look, opposing genocide is off the table, but we’ve got a bunch of republican endorsements and a fortnite map!