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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 121 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Can we have a real talk?

I want them see how well they work together in extremely stressful situations... Get Kamala, Walz, AoC, and maybe uh, Sanders playing HELLDIVERS II!

[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 88 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Geez man I'd rather be tasked with deciding whether to retaliate a possible nuclear strike. That sounds way less stressful.

[–] GreenSkree@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Could you imagine if the presidential candidates and their VP pick had to play Overcooked together for a few hours?

It wouldn't even have to be a competition on score. You could learn so much about them so fast - their communication, ability to adapt, and how they handle frustrations.

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[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Make them play Chained Together

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Omg that would be great. Like maximum everything too...

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 13 points 4 days ago

Sanders turns out to have no idea how to play a shooter game and the next day every news outlet reports that he defected to the communist automatons

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[–] grubbyweasel@sh.itjust.works 145 points 4 days ago (2 children)

THIS is how you do fellow kids

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (19 children)

What kids are playing Madden, though?

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Lots of normies (assuming American normies love Madden as much as European normies love fifa)

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My normie friend buys it every year, and acknowledges he paid for an updated sport wiafu roster.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 11 points 4 days ago

Way easier than guessing the spelling of husbando.

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[–] wolfshadowheart@leminal.space 21 points 4 days ago

Hundreds of thousands of people.

The fact of the matter is that casual gamers and console owners overlap with Facebook and all generic social media.

We know that we only Lemmy are small, so we should try to keep in mind that our understandings and opinions of generic things in the world are the uncommon ones. Madden sells. FIFA sells. Call of Duty sells. Grand Theft Auto sells. Trying to criticize these outside of Lemmy will only result in losing even more faith in the general public, if that was even possible.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's just outreach. May be corny, but they're intentionally getting outside their comfort zone to reach more people.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Both Walz and aoc play video games already.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

between this and WoW, are they going to stream any good games?

[–] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Would be fun if they streamed Civilization.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Fuck, play some Clock Tower, tis Halloween afterall.

Or hell, play Resident Evil and do commentary talking about how it's not only based on the works of George Romero, but also pretty dang based considering the moral of the story is "American Pharmaceutical Companies are literally evil and responsible for mass death"

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Walz: MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Walz: Oh that is SO you Gandhi, you piece of shit!

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Musk is streaming a full playthrough of the Leisure Suit Larry series.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

A bunch of horribly aged sex comedies full of misogynistic "jokes", blatant homohpboia, and various pop-culture references that you'd have to have been born in the 70's to have a chance of getting?

Sounds like his kinda game being a washed-up divorced dad living in the past who's children and ex-wife want nothing to do with him.

Seriously, I own the series, bought it in a bundle for Steam and I've tried playing them. I love old adventure games, especially comedies like Monkey Island and I heard so many good things about it from my dad and the laughs he had from LSL when he was a dumb kid fresh out of high school.

...and I nearly died of anti-lulz trying to play these things.

I love a good raunchy comedy, for fuck's sake, my favorite Boomer Shooter is Duke Nukem 3D... but LSL has aged about as well as Larry himself has been implied to.

I'm too young to even know what a leisure suit is, and I'm in my god damn 30's.

[–] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Leisure suit larry is a good nickname for musk. Although it soils the leisure suit larry brand.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Loser suit Larry seems more musky.

[–] bartvbl@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

AOC did among us during the previous election

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 49 points 4 days ago (3 children)

AOC fell off. From among us to madden? Come on

[–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Trying to catch a crowd with the biggest net. Should have done super smash bros

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[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Next thing you know she'll be playing Elden Ring like a fucking poser while using a cheese build like some communist normie.

Nah, I need that real gamer shit. If she doesn't have a Steam account with 60 games completed, 120 played and 400 unplayed with 1000 hours on Terraria and Stardew Valley each, then is she really a gamer, or is she just some fucking millennial just like I am wait...

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 days ago

Well that did it for me. I'm voting Harris!

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I want Walz under a real stress test. Set this man up on a ranked league of legends match and in a discord group with his team of randos.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

"do you think your mother's would still love you if they knew how bad you were at this game?" - Walz

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago

I'm fall 2020, I think I was in a game of LoL with AOC. She famously played Support, but I was paired up as a newbie support paired with an account AOC-ADC. I was not really good and died early. I asked the account if they really were AOC, and they told me to go vote!

She also accused me of intentionally dying, and I told her I wasn't. I told her I was sorry that I was just bad. We ended up losing, mostly because of me.

So that's my dumb AOC gaming story.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Are there any crazy glitches/exploits one can do in a modern Madden game that would be akin to taking shots from that one specific spot in Double Dribble where it's 100% guaranteed to go in?

I wanna see one of them just gobsmack the other with that kinda play. lol

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's probably the game that has the most disaffected centrists playing it.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 49 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Plus then it's a nice tie in to Walz's coaching background for that group

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[–] auzy@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

It would be funny if one of them started cheating

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

So they are both maddening?

rimshot

Thank you, I will be here all week

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I respect the joke, but I simultaneously also respect whoever downvoted the comment nearly instantly :)

[–] dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Not my game of choice, but as an elderly gamer, this works for me.

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