She's not serving me, she's serving the lich king!

[blackjedii]

Despite what the Republican Party of Maine might want people to believe, playing "World of Warcraft" does not make a person unfit to hold office.

Or so Colleen Lachowicz proved Tuesday night.

Comments

[rainbow_fish]

The GOP is so entirely out of touch with the electorate, I honestly can't @ them.

[poetic_pixie_13]

Ngl, I often worry what'll happen if, on the off-chance my writing actually takes off, my alt handles and general online life are found out.

[skellington1]

Knowing fandom and the internet... probably legions of fans asking to friend you/join your guild. :P

[msdevin92]

Oh god, this. So much embarrassment from the young teen days.

On the other hand, I'm using my GW characters as templates for something in a book, so...

[the_physicist]

i'm so utterly useless at keeping my identity anywhere near secret. i'm just happy in the knowledge that no one will every care enough to connect any dots. i guess writers have the chance to publish under a pseudonym though and that would make it harder to find out who you are and through that what online accounts you've used in the past?

[underfiend]

This is awesome... but why the "pirates" tag?

Congratulations to Colleen Lachowicz!

[mirhanda]

So true. I'm very quiet and timid in real life, but my MMO characters are KICK ASS.

[maladaptive]

I love that a woman gamer got elected, too. They're still so much bias against women in gaming.

[mirhanda]

This is a point that I hadn't thought of. She will definitely be someone to point to when someone says you can't be a gamer because you're a woman. (And she's not a healer, yea!)

I really take offense because I've been a gamer longer than most of these boys have been alive. My mom gave me my first video game, PONG. Yes, we had PONG at my house when I was a kid. Then we got the upgraded pong with skeet shooting. That was awesome. (later followed by the atari 2600, etc.)

[emeraldus]

Pong was also my first game and first "shooter" was Duck Hunter LOL.

[mirhanda]

Such a simple game, but soooooooooooooooooo addictive!