What is up with this idea that libertarians are basement dwelling WOW players?

[Mechaman]

I mean really.  Not sure if I can answer for others on here but right now I'm a full-time (more than 12 hours) college student, have a job, and am paying rent on my own apartment.  And I don't even play computer games for Christ sake!  Especially MMORPG sh*t like World of Warcraft.  If anything I spend most of my free time either talking philosophical bullsh*t with my fellows from the university or watching some dude get his head blown off in (insert random action movie title here).

It had to be said.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

I've only played WoW once and that was cuz I got a free demo from Hot Topic. I mean, I generally stay indoors because I hate being outside and being around many of the people that I live near, so I just write songs and sleep all day. I don't get that stereotype either.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Because they don't understand reality.

[dead0man]

Some people will never get it.  I don't know why, it's not any more complicated of a political philosophy than any other yet we still get seemingly not retarded people claiming Somalia is a libertarian paradise.  You can't fight ignorance that runs that deep.

The best we can do is distance ourselves from the nutters that claim to be libertarian but are nothing of the sort and about once a month remind everybody else that libertarianism and anarchy are not the same thing.



(for the record, the wife talked me into giving WoW an honest try and I did play the game...played for a month or so....got to level 63....and it was exactly what I was expecting it was going to be, boring to me.  So I have played WoW...I know more about the game than I'd like to, but I'm not basement dwelling WOW player....though this is being posted from a basement, but it's a basement in a house I make the mortgage payment on.)

[Gustaf]

Some people will never get it.  I don't know why, it's not any more complicated of a political philosophy than any other yet we still get seemingly not retarded people claiming Somalia is a libertarian paradise.  You can't fight ignorance that runs that deep.

The best we can do is distance ourselves from the nutters that claim to be libertarian but are nothing of the sort and about once a month remind everybody else that libertarianism and anarchy are not the same thing.



(for the record, the wife talked me into giving WoW an honest try and I did play the game...played for a month or so....got to level 63....and it was exactly what I was expecting it was going to be, boring to me.  So I have played WoW...I know more about the game than I'd like to, but I'm not basement dwelling WOW player....though this is being posted from a basement, but it's a basement in a house I make the mortgage payment on.)

So, are you now, or have you ever been, playing WoW in your basement? Answer the question, yes or no?

PS: why do you want to turn the US into Somalia?

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

Not all libertarians are basement-dwelling WoW players, since many libertarians are holed up in their off-the-grid compounds.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Because it's true. You also all have horrible neckbeards (tautology?), lack any knowledge of basic hygiene and breathe through your mouthes.

[Yelnoc]

There is a strong correlation.

[Joe Republic]

[tpfkaw]

Projection, mostly.

[MaxQue]

They mostly are. They will just not answer to you because they are too busy playing WOW. We only have the exception to deny. But, the exception is confirming the rule.

[dead0man]

Yeah, I forgot you guys have that bitter thing going along with the ignorance.

[Lief 🗽]

I used to play WoW. Got to level 60. Of course, in those days, getting to level 60 was a pretty big deal, but not to the dedicated players, no sir. So I joined up in a Guild, you see, sort of an association of players, and we raided dungeons every week. Lost a lot of good hours to that, spent a lot of in-game gold on equipment repairs, bandages, and food for my pet (I was a hunter, so I got a pet, he was a white lion named Echey and he was pretty much the greatest and I miss him so much). I eventually got full Tier 1 armor, as well as the epic hunter bow/staff combo from killing Onyxia (a big-ass dragon) so that was cool. After that I quit though.

But I guess the moral of the story is that I really enjoyed Joe Republic's cartoons.

[King]

It really is ridiculous.  They live on the second floor of their parents house like any normal upper middle class teenager.

[Lief 🗽]

Growing up, we didn't have a basement, and neither did most of the kids I knew, even the ones with big fancy houses. And those who did have a basement certainly didn't let their children live in it. They used it for storing things, maybe a game room or something. But basements aren't really a big thing in Texas, for a few reasons. First, land is cheap here, so it makes more sense to build out than down I guess. Second, the soil here is very soft, which I guess makes it hard to build basements. Third, we're not very high above sea level, which makes water penetration a problem.

And yet, noted libertarians Ronald and Randy Paul grew up here, and probably lacked basements to live in. So how they turned out to be libertarians is an enigma.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I never understood why people played Warcraft. It is just a bunch of fairies floating around a computer screen. Ok, so not all of them are fairies. Some are bull men and werewolves who cast spells on people. But who cares? The only game that Blizzard makes worth playing is Starcraft. Mind you, I am not a gamer, but that game is awesome except when assholes pull cheap crap I am incapable of pulling.

[Iosif]

Have a gander at the forum picture thread.

[The Mikado]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBo7q8VWvQ

[dead0man]

Have a gander at the forum picture thread.

It's been awhile so I thought I'd look to see what you were talking about......I couldn't stop laughing at the half formed mustaches on the first couple of pages to get any further.  Did you have anything specific in mind?

[Meeker]

I've only played WoW once and that was cuz I got a free demo from Hot Topic. I mean, I generally stay indoors because I hate being outside and being around many of the people that I live near, so I just write songs and sleep all day. I don't get that stereotype either.

That fits in pretty well with the stereotypical libertarian teenager...

[phk]

Koreans are libertarians?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

I never understood why people played Warcraft. It is just a bunch of fairies floating around a computer screen. Ok, so not all of them are fairies. Some are bull men and werewolves who cast spells on people. But who cares? The only game that Blizzard makes worth playing is Starcraft. Mind you, I am not a gamer, but that game is awesome except when assholes pull cheap crap I am incapable of pulling.

Back when I played warcraft, you couldn't even build ships, and archers shot further than the stronger spearmen!

[Iosif]