[cicero2k]

Yeah, this is tremendous way to make the GOP as unpopular as possible with young people by looking square, and horrifically out of touch (which a lot of people on FR seem to want to do as well.)

Correct. Hobbies are hobbies. Restoring a 64 Impala means you like 64 Impalas. Reaching a high level in a game may be equally satisfying.

Full disclosure: my youngest daughter works for Blizzard Entertainment, but does not play any of the games they produce. Yet she is told that her deparment would not function as well without her.

[Strategerist]

What’s irritating about this is that the actions of a couple morons in some irrelevant backwater can go viral nationally and make the party as a whole look bad.

Will it decide the election? No. But this story will spread like wildfire on every MMOLG bulletin board in the country and probably sway several hundred undecideds, at least.

[GunRunner]

I'm having a hard time seeing the parallel between restoring 64 Impalas and playing a video game. Restoring cars is a rare skill compared to video games, and creates an enormous amount of value both in the finished product and the skills learned to do such a thing.

If my son decides that he wants to spend his teenage years restoring old cars, I'll be thrilled. Not so much if he wants to sit in the dark drinking Diet Pepsi and playing WoW all day.