From BBC:
The gaming hobby of a political candidate has become an issue in a state senate race in New England, US.
Maine Republicans have created a webpage revealing that Democrat candidate Colleen Lachowicz plays an orc rogue in World of Warcraft (WoW).
Ms Lachowicz's liking for back-stabbing and poison in WoW raise questions about her "fitness for office", they claim.
Ms Lachowicz has hit back saying the attack showed the Republicans were "out of touch".
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Posted 05 October 2012 - 08:11 PM
aren't most of the players of WOW... politicians, generals, and cardinals...?? 
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Posted 05 October 2012 - 09:16 PM
Colleen Lachowicz plays online fantasy games? She'd get my vote! 
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 05:12 AM
If I was a politician, in this day and age, where nothing can be kept secret, playing an orc when you are online is not the smartest political move. I'd suggest keeping things heroic.
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 07:29 AM
I love playing villains and monsters in games, as a counterbalance to my natural sweetness and niceness. 
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 12:12 PM
I love playing villains and monsters in games, as a counterbalance to my natural sweetness and niceness.
I was going to say something similar. I know plenty of perfectly decent people who role-play or have online personas that are diametrically opposed to how they are in real life.
I'm thinking in particular of one buddy who always role-played pretty vile (though sometimes charming) characters. When the chips were down for me a couple years back, he was totally there. Right now, he spends all of his free time (besides his full-time lawyer job) raising his two boys, since his wife came down with cancer.
Honestly, what a crap argument.
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 06:27 PM
Ms Lachowicz's liking for back-stabbing and poison in WoW raise questions about her "fitness for office", they claim.
Ms Lachowicz has hit back saying the attack showed the Republicans were "out of touch".
This is hilarious!
Ms Lachowicz has hit back saying the attack showed the Republicans were "out of touch".
This is hilarious!
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Posted 07 October 2012 - 12:23 AM
Oh for Pete's sake! A real boneheaded direction to take a campaign, I think - especially given the myriad of meaningful issues nowadays.
As for the WoW candidate, I would offer only this quote from Napoleon I: 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'
As for the WoW candidate, I would offer only this quote from Napoleon I: 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.'
Edited by Sardonikus, 07 October 2012 - 12:27 AM.
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Posted 07 October 2012 - 05:49 PM
Would the same questions arise about an actor who played a villain in the movies?
Ah, well... Politics is like professional wrestling (without the integrity).
Ah, well... Politics is like professional wrestling (without the integrity).
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Posted 07 October 2012 - 08:23 PM
Would the same questions arise about an actor who played a villain in the movies?
Good point. Like Arnold playing The Terminator.
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Posted 11 October 2012 - 05:10 AM
Anyone what server she is on? i want to gank her
