Jesus, Mary, Joseph! We fleetingly mentioned those Tax Day Tea Parties yesterday, but this is too much. That’s right: Tea Parties in Second Life, the game that, um, is still popular? (Not a lot of buzz about it these days, I mean to say.) Anyway, here’s a few photos of the in-game protest about in-real-life issues. Because that’s how minds are changed, in online video games. Or don’t you remember the Republican National Convention in Stormwind last year?
My thoughts: if you’re so upset about the issues of the day, why not actually protest? Did Robespierre register his disgust with Versailles by flying around virtual worlds? (Never mind that virtual world didn’t exist back then. The point is that this whole thing is silly.)
i will say though i hope the girl with the sign picks the teabag!
Even funnier is the fact that what they’re protesting doesn’t even take effect until next tax year…
While China is busy buying up reserves of the world’s precious metals, we continue to be completely irrelevant.
How is this story/post related to gear?
this is a very poorly thought out post at that – how do you know the individuals who protested in a virtual world did not also protest in the real world … or even both at the same time?
Because we also write about video games, and Second Life just barely qualifies as a video game.
Because in Second Life, they are able to pretend the demographics (and beliefs) of the Tea Party crowds aren’t identical to those of a Klan rally.