December 13, 2007 -
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton wants to know about your gaming habits.A lengthy list of questions from a Clinton campaign poll has been published on the Huffington Post. Along with the usual inquiries into political views, demographics and the like are a couple of questions which probe the subject's gaming and online activities:
Which of the following have you visited or played online?
Sim City
Second Life
Sims
None of the above
Other
Don’t know
It's interesting that the Clinton poll mentions only three games by name. All are either PC or primarily PC games; would seem to have a higher ratio of female players than the average game; and none of the three feature violence as a main theme. We're not sure that's the reason for their inclusion, simply trying to find a common thread.
There's also a question about Internet usage:
Which activities do you do online most?
Research issues or questions
Use a webcam
Share digital photos
Download music or video
Read or post to blogs
Research products or services
Watch video sites like youtube
Shop
Read the news
Play video games
Instant message
Online banking or bill pay
Use online social networks
Talk on the phone using VOiP
Comments
Ok, back to the topic - you'd think they'd ask some more relevant questions about the games we play... Sim City? Second Life? Sims? Where's Halo? Where's World of Warcraft? Where's Battlefield 2? Starcraft? Supreme Commander? City of Heroes? Freakin' EVERQUEST?
How out of touch with reality is her campaign if the best games they can come up with are those miserable 3?
Nightwng2000
NW2K Software
Also as part of the online activities thing, where's the 2 most common activities: "Look at porn" and "Delete/ignore spam"
"Online banking or bill pay"
Is she insinuating that some people might actually subscribe to an ISP just to pay their bills? Isn't that a bit counterproductive? (granted, she wouldn't have written the survey, Iknow)
With the state of litigation down there, would anyone be stupid enough to admit to that?
Maybe she plans to open a SL HQ.
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
Well, with NetFlix, Napster, iTunes, XBL Media, ect. Downloading music and videos is perfectly legal now. Just have to pay someone for them. Also, I pay so many bills that they are a large part of my internet usage, though porn and games will always be the top two.
Look at porn (mentioned here)
Look at child porn
Research bomb making (could go under generalised research)
Maintain Al-Queda terrorist cell (webcam / conference call / instant message, maybe)
Hack into pentagon / other governmental military systems
Illegally download media (different from what they're asking)
Credit card fraud
Uh, I ran out. The others could probably go under the communication options, and 'promote communism' is probably a bit too fuzzy a term.
But yeah, online activities really lack porn surfing and BitTorrent abuse. >.>
Have you every visited or used these three games..... or ANY OTHERS?
Will she also track time some people spend on political blogs? I think some people spend more time blogging than I do playing video games.
I'm REALLY not looking forward to this witch at all.
*shakes head*
So someone go troll the study for the lulz while you can.
I suspect that the survey - or at least parts of it - are just slapped on as an afterthought to let people think that Hillary's camp really does care about what 's going on. Call it a political gesture.
I imagine many gamers won't respond to the poll because it's so poorly made. I wonder how that will skew the results.
When quoting a question answer type survey, it helps the reader to better comprehend the information when you differentiate between the questions and the answers.
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
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Random Tower
What is with all the questions about our opinions on celebrities?
Also this part was nice:
Take a close look. This may be a typo from the Huffington, but it made me laugh. Barack Obama is missing from the second list. To me this makes it look like Obama is a shoe in for first choice.
But that may be a typo by the Huffington (which is not surprising from the lack of formatting of the article in question).
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
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Random Tower
My guess is whatever game gets the highest votes, she will attack.
Maybe she should have researched the more popular online games and put them on the list instead of one that probably is dead, one that even I didn't know existed, and one I don't even think is a game in my opinion.
Although it doesn't affect me much because I'm Canadian, I don't want her in the white house. If I could vote, I'd pick Obama at this point.
However, I take much solace in that fact that she stands absolutely no chance of being elected.
Never heard that one is hilarious.
Hillary is an idiot, they should make Hilary a boss on WoW, and in her Treasure Chest, I could not just say chest ;), you would find Bill's Balls, attached to them, Monica ;) haha. Is it just me or is there no real candidate to be excited about this election, seems like I remember saying that in the last elections as well.
http://www.sony.com/SCA/bios/seligman.shtml
So what does her work as a counsel for Bill have to do with this?
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
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Hell why even list the 3 sucky titles anyways? Could it be that those that play such are likely to vote for H. Clinton?
I am curious why they did offer the normal follow-up question. "Which system(s) do you own or plan to purchase in the next 6 months? (check all that apply)" Shrug.
Maybe this is a low cost toss in to try and stave off the gamers she and her posse offended last week.
Hilary doesn't know shit.
Thank you! I made it up on the spot.
Translation provided free by the "Aliasalpha Gibberish To English" translator.
IS THIS LEMMA CHARLIE TO ANYONE.
Dude. On the left side of your keyboard, three keys from the bottom, is one that reads, "Caps Lock". Make sure that it is turned off before posting.
E. Zachary Knight
Divine Knight Gaming
OK Game Devs
Random Tower
"Would stand up to President Bush and the Republicans in Congress"
Unless I am painfully unaware, Bush will be gone when the new president gets elected. Also, Congress is mainly Democrats.