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Title: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: DrumAnBass on November 13, 2008, 03:09:15 pm

(http://peteryang.com/images/a7/x_obama2.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Level42 on November 13, 2008, 06:40:07 pm
At least he uses the right kind of computer.
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Mauzy on November 13, 2008, 08:10:15 pm
How can he NOT be if he plans on being a good leader?
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Ed_McCarron on November 13, 2008, 08:15:21 pm
I thought he said to be a leader you needed to multitask?  He can't handle more than one button? ;)

 :gobama
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Mauzy on November 13, 2008, 10:07:03 pm
Call Politico. Maybe he played Defender. Id call that multitasking...
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Level42 on November 14, 2008, 04:23:28 pm
I thought he said to be a leader you needed to multitask?  He can't handle more than one button? ;)

 :gobama
Mmmm, how many ages ago since you've touched a Mac ?
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: FrizzleFried on November 14, 2008, 04:26:02 pm
Yeah,  Mac went to more than one button when they became PC's...

 :laugh2:
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Ed_McCarron on November 14, 2008, 04:52:08 pm
I thought he said to be a leader you needed to multitask?  He can't handle more than one button? ;)

 :gobama
Mmmm, how many ages ago since you've touched a Mac ?

I've never touched a mac, its against my religion.
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: TOK on November 15, 2008, 07:08:06 am
I thought a crApple implied a non-gamer. Who else but a non-gamer would put an eyeball on Pac Man?  :P
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: RyoriNoTetsujin on November 15, 2008, 07:50:55 am
... um, that's not his personal computer.

It belongs to the 21-year-old, just-graduated intern who is taking his picture in that moment.

President-Elect Obama probably just needed to hop on the forums and post in EE about something inflammatory that Chad said...

 :burgerking: :gobama
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on November 15, 2008, 10:41:04 am
I don't know if Obama is a gamer himself, but his campaign sure was gamer-friendly...during this election, they bought "virtual ads" in 18 Xbox360 titles. Another historic first.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6199379.html

(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4066/obamaxbl3154352li6.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Mauzy on November 15, 2008, 11:08:30 am
I don't know if Obama is a gamer himself, but his campaign sure was gamer-friendly...during this election, they bought "virtual ads" in 18 Xbox360 titles. Another historic first.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6199379.html

(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4066/obamaxbl3154352li6.jpg)

I wonder if those will get removed/changed with game updates.
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: wp34 on November 15, 2008, 11:48:10 pm
Yeah,  Mac went to more than one button when they became PC's...

 :laugh2:

The laptops didn't.  Steve Jobs is dead set against a second mouse button for some reason.  You can get a second button with an external mouse but not on the laptop itself.  I tried one for a few weeks (running XP) and switched back to a tablet PC.  Couldn't stand not being able to easily right-click without a mouse.
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Level42 on November 16, 2008, 02:44:04 am
But then again, who gets a Mac to run an ancient OS like XP ?

And seen the new Macbooks yet ? Try using two fingers on a PC laptop.....
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: Ed_McCarron on November 16, 2008, 08:39:46 am
Keep this up and it'll get moved to politics and religion... And not because of the politics. :)
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: DaOld Man on November 16, 2008, 10:46:35 am
Where did he get the money to run all these ads?
He had a channel tied up on DISH 24/7 during the race.
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on November 16, 2008, 11:24:53 am
I wonder if those will get removed/changed with game updates.

Yeah, they do. Those ads rotate, as various companies "rent" the virtual billboard space for a short period of time. Obama was just the first political candidate to take advantage of this type of target marketing.
Title: Re: Obama a retro gamer?
Post by: wp34 on November 16, 2008, 12:39:45 pm
But then again, who gets a Mac to run an ancient OS like XP ?

And seen the new Macbooks yet ? Try using two fingers on a PC laptop.....

Someone who needs to run Visual Studio.  ;)

I've not see the new Macbooks yet but am anxious to try one.  Dell does have a multi-touch Tablet that I will probably end up with.