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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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?