New York Times Picks up Alphaville Elections
by Alphaville Herald on 31/03/04 at 10:24 pm
The New York Times article on the Alphaville Elections is now up at
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/circuits/01sims.html?ex=1081400400&en=e5984c6cc0bf6db8&ei=5062. There is a cute picture of Ashley Richardson on the online version. I noticed that the article used the term ‘gievers’ instead of ‘griefers’. Perhaps the most significant revelation in the article is that they now quote EA as saying that TSO has 57K subscribers. Yikes! We are getting down to E&B numbers now!
Any thoughts, comments or criticisms?
Ian
Mar 31st, 2004
wow, i thought it was like 80,000 a few months ago, sigh. but I am like “wow” that this election is getting all this “Real-Life” attention lol.
Teflon Don
Mar 31st, 2004
Uri, I got my follow up coming soon.
Mr-President
Mar 31st, 2004
I know they talked to EA, but those are the OFFICIAL numbers?
Scrambled1
Mar 31st, 2004
Wow.. lol.. interviewing 13 yr olds, 12 yr olds, and 21 yr olds Oh MY!
I gotta say, that looks like one old ass’d monitor she has there.. lmao
I dont know why there is so much publicity about this junk… Why did the NYT interview people about the sims? lol
urizenus
Mar 31st, 2004
Awww, come on, its a fun story!
RB
Apr 1st, 2004
Indeed Uri. That all it is. Is fun. You can hardly take it seriously when the “opposition” are 12! and 14 yr old girls. lol. =D
How’s our 21 yr old Mr-President feel about the people running against him being pre and barley teen girls?? =D
- RB
Mr-President
Apr 1st, 2004
lol RB,
I’m only running against Ashley though.
Urizenus
Apr 1st, 2004
Why should we take a 14 yr old girl less seriously than an 80 yr old senile actor turned politician (which we had in Reagan) or a Yale party-boy alchoholic who never accomplished anything on his own (W). I don’t see why Ashley couldn’t manage the AVG at least as well as those guys would have.
ian
Apr 1st, 2004
uri dont bring RL politics into a “role-playing” government that has absolutely no effect in real world matters. and just because the current president is stereotyped as a dumbass, doesn’t mean he is. love it or leave it.
nick
Apr 1st, 2004
ashley richardson in rl is so ugly
Fans II
Apr 1st, 2004
How pitiful it would be if Mr-President did loose against a 14 year old girl. What a sad day that you be, lol. I really think Ashley Richardson and her so nice “Anti-Scammer” program is going to fail. No Offense but theres been tons of groups doing that and they all failed. She is misleading AVG by that, and I belive these proposes shes offering arn’t going to do much good. Nor do you go into detail much on ‘stronger police forces’. And plus, Ashley, You and your running mate are alwaus shouting, cussing, Of a matter in fact you IM me on AIM saying go to he** and other stuff you should not be saying when your trying to run for a election. Your a bit too young to understand how to treat people when trying to run for a election. Your great and all but I don’t think the AVG would last if you were President.
urizenus
Apr 1st, 2004
Oh oh, the election is heating up. The mudslinging has begun.
ian
Apr 1st, 2004
yeah, i totally agree with fans. I like that Mr-P doesn’t have one of his main “campaign strategies” of anti-scamming. leaving that low on the priority list, makes the scammers not want to attack you. if you dont pay attention to them, they go away.
Anonymous
Apr 1st, 2004
I am the leader of the Sim Liberation Army (SLA). Soon you will all see the corruption of the Alphaville Government and that of the President. Jihad has been declared on the Alphaville Government.
RB
Apr 1st, 2004
Agreed Ian. Trouble only comes to you if you go looking for it. This anti-scam platform will indeed fail. You can’t stop crime. You can only minimise the impact. And in a make believe world where you have no control or power over it, How can you even do that?? And red links will soon be abolished as we know them in favour of a new worse off system based on constant interaction rather than 2 mouse clicks.
- RB
JC Soprano
Apr 1st, 2004
I’ve never needed to tag people. Tagging is for first graders. Sure we do it when we know it will really bother someone, but other than that I’m in the game for the wealth.. And trust me, you can control crime… Just gotta know who to call hahaha
JC Soprano
http://www.thesimmafia.com
Call me, We’ll do lunch! lol
Mrs.PresidentBradley
Apr 1st, 2004
Come on. We all know who is going to win. Nobody wants a 14 year old in charge of them.RB, you speak of a thing called ‘crime’? I’m sorry but i wasn’t aware that there were laws. And if there are/will be laws. Than who do we have to “enforce” them? Oh and Uri; you think Ashley is ‘cute’??? Wow i wasn’t aware that we have sunk to the level of molestation. Ashley once told me that her objective was to ‘make the AVG fun’ Well I’ll tell you that I will be so happy to know that ‘when’ (yeah right) Ashley wins our AVG will be spending lots of money on balloons.
-With love
-Lady Bradley
483742
Apr 1st, 2004
And no body wants you.
Mr-President
Apr 2nd, 2004
Position on scamming:
You can’t stop scamming 100%. People will scam, people will get scammed. My administration’s goal is to reach and inform as many sims as possible, in order to educate and help prevent scamming. Cutting off the flow of nieve people to these “FREE-MONEY” lots and others like them.
Ian
Apr 2nd, 2004
Mrs-President Bradley,you only want ashley to win because you will tear her to pieces. not gonna happen. and your right mr-p, you can’t stop it 100%, but ignoring it somewhat will cut it down.
Viva T
Apr 5th, 2004
Yeah, Laura McKnight is so UGLY! Her face makes me sick! She is a member of uglypeople.com
Ashley Richardson
Apr 5th, 2004
lol… This is funny reading all these comments- Well my only comment would be that this is a game, and age means nothing. I do not understand why everyone thinks it is so horrible that a 14 year old is running for President of AVG when the other candidate is a 21 year old guy lol. This game is a fun game for kids too.. and of course those few adults
This is a game and I think that a kids ideas count just as much!