Obama, Clinton Supporters Battle in Second Life
Obama, Clinton Supporters Battle in Second Life
April 18, 2008
As the crucial Pennsylvania primary draws near, competition between Democratic presidential contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is heating up in real life as well as Second Life's virtual world.As reported by the Wall Street Journal, SL's Obama and Clinton supporters have been griefing one another of late:
The trouble began in March 2007, when Obama supporters held a rally... [other avatars] raided the virtual Obama headquarters. They littered it with T-shirts, posters and signs sporting anti-Obama messages or expressing support for Sen. Clinton and Republican contender Rep. Ron Paul...
During a November rally at the unofficial virtual Clinton beachfront headquarters, supposed Obama supporters hid under a dock and then emerged with signs, shouting via connected headsets and shooting at people... it's unclear if the disruptors were actually from the Obama camp...
Last month, virtual gunmen disrupted a planned Obama march, shooting and pushing people around. That knocked some marchers offline... The Obama group responded by teleporting... to the CNN hub... to hold their rally. But soon images of a Clinton campaign poster and a clip of Sen. Obama next to a photo of Osama bin Laden were flying all over the screen...
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Posted 09/06/08 at 05:52pm
Freyar: I prefer Mid-night snack.. Because I can eat in the middle of the night without feeling too stupid, or whatever.
Freyar: I prefer Mid-night snack.. Because I can eat in the middle of the night without feeling too stupid, or whatever.
Posted 09/06/08 at 05:35pm
TJLK: I like brunch, because you can have waffles but it isn't in the morning.
TJLK: I like brunch, because you can have waffles but it isn't in the morning.
Posted 09/06/08 at 02:07pm
Dark Sovereign: @GP: This list, number 30, for the librarian story: http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/
Dark Sovereign: @GP: This list, number 30, for the librarian story: http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/
Posted 09/06/08 at 12:55pm
gamepolitics: is there a better meal than breakfast? If so, I've not experienced it...
gamepolitics: is there a better meal than breakfast? If so, I've not experienced it...
Posted 09/06/08 at 12:30pm
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar: mmmm syrup *lick*
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar: mmmm syrup *lick*
Posted 09/06/08 at 12:21pm
Freyar: Buy Waffles, tasty waffles with lots of syrup.
Freyar: Buy Waffles, tasty waffles with lots of syrup.
Posted 09/06/08 at 08:30am
Shadow Darkman Anti-Thesis of : @Waffles: WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIVIDE BY ZERO, DAMMIT!? NOW SHADOW IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VOID!!! -T.O.S.
Shadow Darkman Anti-Thesis of : @Waffles: WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DIVIDE BY ZERO, DAMMIT!? NOW SHADOW IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE VOID!!! -T.O.S.
Posted 09/06/08 at 05:32am
King of Fiji: @MaskedPixelante: Is it me or in a way dose he look like what the AVGN will look like in a few decades in that picture? xD
King of Fiji: @MaskedPixelante: Is it me or in a way dose he look like what the AVGN will look like in a few decades in that picture? xD
Posted 09/05/08 at 10:14pm
ZippyDSMlee: BlackIce: its funny it dose not mind zippy speak tho :P
ZippyDSMlee: BlackIce: its funny it dose not mind zippy speak tho :P
Posted 09/05/08 at 08:40pm
BlackIce: @Zippy: Yeah, it does. Fucking thing..
BlackIce: @Zippy: Yeah, it does. Fucking thing..
Posted 09/05/08 at 07:31pm
MaskedPixelante: This new Jack picture should be the official picture whenever there's an article about Jack.
MaskedPixelante: This new Jack picture should be the official picture whenever there's an article about Jack.
Posted 09/05/08 at 07:19pm
ZippyDSMlee: Tyler Baumbarger: Iuse <br/> withno troubl, it dose like catching links as spam tho.
ZippyDSMlee: Tyler Baumbarger: Iuse <br/> withno troubl, it dose like catching links as spam tho.
Posted 09/05/08 at 07:11pm
BunchaKneejerks: Couldn't sleep 'till I got this one last idea for a 'shop out my head.
BunchaKneejerks: Couldn't sleep 'till I got this one last idea for a 'shop out my head.
Posted 09/05/08 at 06:35pm
Tyler Baumbarger: Hmm, maybe I should take the <hr/> off of my sig. Keeps being flagged as spam.
Tyler Baumbarger: Hmm, maybe I should take the <hr/> off of my sig. Keeps being flagged as spam.
Posted 09/05/08 at 06:12pm
Freyar: I do love Italian foods..
Freyar: I do love Italian foods..
Posted 09/05/08 at 06:10pm
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar: Then you must agree I iz not quit "humanz" either :P I dunno what worse thinking your "Garfield " or thinking your odie trying to be as smart as Garfield. =0-o= UHg I fail ! but then the joy of life is trying not to. ^_~
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar: Then you must agree I iz not quit "humanz" either :P I dunno what worse thinking your "Garfield " or thinking your odie trying to be as smart as Garfield. =0-o= UHg I fail ! but then the joy of life is trying not to. ^_~
Posted 09/05/08 at 06:05pm
Freyar: I recognized the Garfield joke. *grin*
Freyar: I recognized the Garfield joke. *grin*
Posted 09/05/08 at 06:04pm
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar: No but I could probably mail self to you in lil pieces :P last time I went brown box I wound up in Abudobie... (Garfield joke BTW). Sadly I am in the US =0_o=
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar: No but I could probably mail self to you in lil pieces :P last time I went brown box I wound up in Abudobie... (Garfield joke BTW). Sadly I am in the US =0_o=
Posted 09/05/08 at 05:56pm
Freyar: Are you British? Otherwise you won't have a hope in hell of queing me.
Freyar: Are you British? Otherwise you won't have a hope in hell of queing me.
Posted 09/05/08 at 05:51pm
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar:*chases you with my battered tung* I'll que uuuu!!!!! :P
ZippyDSMlee: Freyar:*chases you with my battered tung* I'll que uuuu!!!!! :P
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All of them dude. All of them.
Wow.
I thought "penis spam for my candidate" would be a troll's sport but apparently it is more widespread than I thought.
But I already heard a few stories of supporters psyhically fighting each other....so I tend to believe the split is that bad.
Second Life: Serious Business!
Wait...
The people who will be pissed that Obama won just won't vote. It's that simple.
To be fair, all the candidates are pretty bad. McCain is the best of the bunch, amazingly enough. If we vote Hitlery in, it'll be the end of America as we know it.
First off - you almost have to be a moron to believe one lying politician's lies over another - they are all the same, just tell different sets of lies - 'both' parties. I use 'both' as a very loose term, as I firmly believe each and everyone of them is just laughing at us as they rob us blind...
It's clear each and every contender for the presidency has told multiple lies, odd how people still will believe them.
Sheep indeed...
I wonder how many Obama messages were flat out racial slurs and how many anti Clinton messages were stuff like "Get back in the kitchen!!11!1!!11"
Still though, you can expect more of this kind of trolling in the future as the world becomes more internetz-ized
Few people have supporters so fierce.
If one could proform such acts in Second Life, I would actually try it.
@ chadachada
I was thinking the same thing about Ron Paul
There has to be. I think that if some griefer can down entire servers with christmas-themed genetalia, they can make a bomb.
Something well coded can eat up the server's memory in an instant. A well coordinated team can nuke SL easily and the extremely uncoordinated PNs have already nuked some servers in a pretty gruesome way.
Frankly, I think MMO denizens are the laughing stock of gamers and the internet in general.
It's a game where you walk around and talk to other real life people.
@ Wookiee
Why are MMO players a laughing stock but online gamers are not? I'd rather hang out with an MMO player than a screaming bitchy little kid/adult who acts like a screaming bitchy little kid. At least MMO players are social.
You've obviously only used Xbox Live.
On PSN, the foul-mouthed juvenile racists of that sort are likely to be shouted down and have no one to play with (at least in every online game I've been in). But I'm first and foremost a PC gamer, and I can tell you that Quake, Team Fortress II, Counterstrike and multiplayer Gary's Mod are remarkably civilized communities.
World of Warcraft actually is as well. Same thing that happens on PSN happens there.
You're April 18th comment was hilarious.
Actually there isn't a huge problem with idiots on XBOX Live. Then again, I play games like Uno, Carssacone, and Brain Challenge online so I could be wrong.
I can't comment on MMOs simply because I have never played one. Yet, this whole Second Life news is a riot. After the hysterics subside, I'm left asking: 'are you serious?' Are people really that obsessed that they'd take to killing each other in the virtual world? What the heck happened to having friendly discussions albeit virtual or real? Man what is wrong with some people?
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