An Obama FCC transition team co-chair is outed as… a Tauren Shaman.
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An Obama FCC transition team co-chair is outed as… a Tauren Shaman.
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Zifnab
FROST SHOCK!!!!
RememberNovember
pure pwnage- and he’s geared pretty well too!
Obama collects Spiderman and Conan comics. THE GEEKS HAVE WON!!!!!!!!
( insert Robert Carradine laugh )
pharniel
Horde Shamen. Fair enough. Now if we could get a troll holy priest running whoever handles welfare.
because if there’s anyone who knows suffering it’s a holy priest.
But only if he had to go solo from 1-60 at release.
Hugh
I got all those references. Shame… Shame…
RememberNovember
I want to hear him say OMG the Senate is just like Trade chat!
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
OT: Bush is on tv pardoning a turkey. After the past 8 years, and after Palin’s turn last week, all I can say is: not enough Gore.
(I just sliced my finger while prepping lunch. I’m no Julia Child, but I do my best.)
jnfr
This makes me weirdly happy.
jj
Nerf Boomkins.
That is all.
Vincent
Do we really want a WOW addict who’ll be too busy conducting raids in charge of the FCC transition team?
…says a level 24 human mage. I know of what I speak!
over_educated
@pharniel:
Dude, smart priests go Shadow for leveling.
ThymeZone
I have never played any modern video game and my plan is to never do so. Mainly because I spend way to much time fighting real wars on computers to earn a crust, and the machines cannot have any more of my time.
But I for one welcome our gamer overlords. Something tells me that this transition from boomer cold war mentality to generation xbox/PS3/Wii is a good thing.
Blue Raven
When my WoW-playing girlfriend heard the guy was in two endtime guilds, she asked when he had time for his day job. And yes. The geeks won. But it’s not the Xbox generation yet. This is Gen Jones/first-wave Gen X proving that casting away childish things isn’t always the right idea.
Blue Neponset
A high level player in the Obama team knows what ‘QQ moar noob’ means. This is good new for America.
Suicidal Zebra
lol, welfare epics.
/official Blizzard WoW forums.
(and seeing as I have a WoW blog, I should laugh too much ;) ).
smiley
I’m old.
Egilsson
What’s even more astonishing, and cool, is that the guy went and got the title "Jenkins".
That says a lot of things.
I wonder if the FCC has a future role in regulating Barrens chat? ….
(Parenthetical Love)
Since the latest patch holy priests can melt face! My lvl 48 priest crits holy fire for over 1000 dam.
Mike35
Obama makes his first mistake. Needs more Alliance.
pharniel
@over_educated:
But hardcore go holy.
but yha, the holy raider had a 60 alt hunter for grinding in order to pay for the raiding.
i miss my little facemelter:(
Jody
No big deal. I mean, we’ve been ruled by the living embodiment of Barrens chat for the past eight years.
machine
[ insert obligatory Barrens chat Chuck Norris riff ]
Comrade Kevin
@Jody:
We have even had the real Chuck Norris during the primaries.
Brett
That. is. Awesome!
Seriously, can we please try to make this the "golf" equivalent for politically related connection-making? I’d much rather discuss how I’m going to carve up the world on WoW rather than on a golf course.
On a sidenote, I remember reading an acknowledgement in the book "Grand New Party" from Ross Douthat and Ramesh Ponnuru to a guy who saved one of them from doing nothing but playing World of Warcraft. Was that Ross, or Ramesh?
John Cole
As someone who has a horde and alliance mage, what is funniest about Barrens chat is that it is bad no matter what faction you are.
Although Barrens chat has nothing on Goldshire. Really. The idiocy on display there is unparalleled.
ninerdave
@John Cole:
My goal when leveling up a new toon is to make through those areas before I fill up my /ignore list
Egilsson
My secret shame is that I enjoy "listening" to Barrens chat. It has a certain rough vibrancy (yet sweetly idiotic).
I miss the global chat channels because I like amusing text spam.
Xecky Gilchrist
Like I said before, I’ll believe Obama is a geek if, in his first State of the Union address, he describes the economy as "one whole joojooflop situation".
Delia
Shows how much I know. My first thought was: What will James Dobson do?
Oh wait. He’ll probably do it anyway.
lee
n00bs all of you.
I actually ‘won’ WoW (quit playing) about 2(?) years ago (right when Burning Crusade was released).
60 priest, warlock, shaman. 29 level shaman twink that pwned any and every Alliance whimp that dared to show up in battlegrounds.
p.a.
Not only do I not know WTF you all are talking about, for one of the first times in my life I’m rather proud of my ignorance. Now GET OFF MY LAWN!
Robert B
You can be in an endgame raiding guild, and have a job and a family life, because I’m doing it. However, you can’t do that and sleep. At least I can’t.
Shinobi
My relationship with WoW is like other people’s bad relationships. We keep breaking up, and then he’ll do something sweet and I’ll go back to him for a while until i remember that I HATE him.
TheAssInTheHatOnMyCat(Formerly Comrade Tax Analyst)
LOL ~ Yeah, me too…
I joke about being old, but at times like this I think maybe I really AM.
smiley
@p.a.:
I would quibble with your definition of ignorance. To not know all things about everything is not ignorance. Not knowing about basic math, literature, science, civics might plausibly be argued as ignorance. Not knowing about arcane video-game jargon is not ignorance. It’s good sense. Oh, and you’re old too.
Notorious P.A.T.
Big deal. Find me a nymphomaniac swimwear model who likes bald guys and crossword puzzles and has a thing for feral druids, and then I’ll be impressed.
Seanly
For the Horde!
Alliance sux.
TheDeadlyShoe
Obama: powerleveling we can believe in.
also you would be surprised how many old farts play MMOs
Phoenician in a time of Romans
Has anyone ever considered that the whole terrorist thing could be bought to a screeching halt fairly cheaply just by paying for WoW access for every Islamic teenage male with a chip on his shoulder?
lane
Alliance to be the young ones.
Horde tend to be older – 70%+ of my guild is over 30; we have fewer than 10% under 20; and the rest are 40+
Knowledge of any language is a positive.