Tim Walz and AOC are going to play Madden together on Twitch

how do you do, fellow kids?

They are both former gamers, this isn't Hillary pretending she is hip.

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

Would be fun if they streamed Civilization.
- Walz: MY WORDS ARE BACKED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS
AOC did among us during the previous election
Musk is streaming a full playthrough of the Leisure Suit Larry series.

This is stupid. I didn't vote for these two to play video games.

I'm betting you've never voted for either of these two.

Nah how about fuck off. 😊

I don’t want politicians on twitch or any where near games. Yall are toxic enough as it is. Leave my hobby alone. The one place I can go to escape your bullshit.

It's pretty suspect that these totally understandable comments are getting obliterated with downvotes. Keeping American politics out of video games is a reasonable ask.

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!

Overcooked
- Geez man I'd rather be tasked with deciding whether to retaliate a possible nuclear strike. That sounds way less stressful.
- Yes. Please. That game is actually fun too
Make them play Chained Together
- God no. That game is horrible. Me and my friend started getting angry at each other after trying to climb that starting tower
  
  I do not recommend . We don't want one of them to quit their job
Omg that would be great. Like maximum everything too...
- 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
This I might actually care about and watch.

It would be funny if one of them started cheating

THIS is how you do fellow kids

What kids are playing Madden, though?
- Which edition of Madden are we up to now? Like 57?
- 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.
- Lots of normies (assuming American normies love Madden as much as European normies love fifa)
- People who lead boring normal lives.
  
  Most people who own consoles I guess the
- My friend groups are. And the new NCAA game. Video Games and Football, there is truely no greater combination of american values
- A handful of small executive yachts worth of kids are judging by the numbers.

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

Trying to catch a crowd with the biggest net. Should have done super smash bros
- If they're trying to win over young male Trump voters, they should be playing CoD.
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...
- Only 1000? Newbie numbers right there.

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.

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.
"do you think your mother's would still love you if they knew how bad you were at this game?" - Walz
That's straight up evil and will result in a shit load of insults against him.

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

John Madden

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

Madden though?...

It's probably the game that has the most disaffected centrists playing it.
- Plus then it's a nice tie in to Walz's coaching background for that group
Yeah, it's not my cup of tea either but there's a huge playerbase of guys who play the hell out of it. Pretty much the demographic they want to target. As much as I'd love to see them play something like Elden Ring or POE, I think that might miss their target lol.
Which year? Because the extremely subtle differences between versions make all the difference
- 94 on the Genesis

So they are both maddening?

rimshot

Thank you, I will be here all week

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

This is refreshingly wholesome for political news. No bullshit or partisan politics here, just people being human and enjoying some entertainment.

I'd give Walz the edge, but EA never made Madden for the Dreamcast. 🤣

Wallz by 21

Ugh, sportsball? That's not gonna get gamers. That's gonna get dudebros that would have bullied nerds in the 1980s but now play competitive BS video games.

Aren't the dudebros in the biggest group of trump supporters? They should target them instead of preaching to the choir.
It’s still a video game.

It might be one of the lamer segments of the gaming market, since the games are basically the same each year, but with updated stats.

Personally, they should go retro with some short order(NES powerpad, basically a memory game, styled as a short order cook making giant burgers.), or maybe some n64 Mariocart. I bet Walz can hit all the RR shortcuts.

Is DDR old enough to be retro now? That could be fun, too.

That's pretty rad.

Better be Madden ‘96

Net than the trump ralley they put up on twitch from the trump side.

I flagged that shit for bigotry

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