Quick Look: The Political Machine 2012

Stack Stackhouse was quoted today saying: EXTERMINATE

Brad Garrett does a better Larry King.

"Another great thing about Bush being gone is it ends 12 years of fundamentalist Christians in the fucking white house, thank you God. Finally my prayer got through. I was on hold with that prayer for about 8 years with fucking Reagan. God help us. God are you there? Surely this is a really bad fucking joke God. This B-actor idiot fucking illiterate bozo-looking fuck can't be the president of the country can he God not really? Reach your hands down from the clouds and pinch my butt; make sure I'M NOT DREAMING. Finally my prayer got through."

Stack Stackhouse for President.

STACK STACKHOUSE WILL THE BOX OUT PLAN REALLY WORK? HOW DO WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT OUTSCOURCING REBOUNDING JOBS FROM OVERSEAS?

Stack Stackhouse is the only candidate with the guts to stand up for mandatory abortion for all humans.

@Animasta: Very true. They chose a good price point for the game. Stardock seems to usually be pretty decent about that sort of thing.

I'd just hire a bunch of fixers.

As a North Dakota resident, I would support the fuck out of Stack Stackhouse.

I'm gonna do a write-in for Stack Stackhouse

Shoemaker 2012. A vote for Emails! is a vote for America.

Looking forward the youtube comments for this one.

STACK STACKHOUSE FOR SPACE OVERLORD.

For 10 dollars this looks like an ok game.

RON PAUL 2012

IF WE DON'T RETURN TO THE RON PAUL APPROVED GOLD STANDARD THEN THE REPTILLIAN SHAPESHIFTERS WILL BE ABLE TO RULE OUR GREAT NATION

So all you do is look at what the people want and say whatever they want to hear? And then the game ends when you become presdent so you don't even have to do anything you promise?...yup sounds pretty realistic.

Did anyone else think that gas mask looked like the one that Mr. Stewart wore in Deadly Premonition?

@Baal_Sagoth said:

I really like the more playful than vicious satirical tone and some of the references seem quite funny but it really doesn't look like a very engrossing game at all. More like something you'll fuck around with for a few hours, chuckling and moving on. Which is actually pretty acceptable given how singular the attempt to create a game like this is - at least to my knowledge.

I believe this is the 3rd Political Machine game actually. The game's more about seeing if you can win elections from different approaches, particularly at higher difficulties. It's got more of a boardgame feel than anything I'd say. So yeah, you'd play for a few hours, and maybe come back to it later wanting to try a different candidate.

I'm not even American, but the amount of fun these guys seem to be having with this game makes me want to play it.

I'd vote for Stack Stackhouse and his triple play of military might, global dominance, and robo superiority.

@XNaphryz: That makes sense! I knew there were games in the same franchise but haven't checked them out so far. I researched Stardock a bit back when Sins of a Solar Empire and Impulse and all those relatred headlines happened. Either way, it's interesting stuff.

@Monkeyman04 said:

Did anyone else think that gas mask looked like the one that Mr. Stewart wore in Deadly Premonition?

I immediately had the same association!

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

@deadly_polo said:

Because politics is a game

+100

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

So, Brad is saying even a murderous death robot can beat Mitt Romney at the Presidential election?

@XNaphryz: There's also another game which is in roughly the same ballpark called Democracy 2, an older game by the developer of Gratuitous Space Battles. http://www.positech.co.uk/democracy2/

Boss Shoemaker calling in those wards. Just another day in Stackhouse's America.

Dave should be in more QL's

@Tiny_Tank said:

"Another great thing about Bush being gone is it ends 12 years of fundamentalist Christians in the fucking white house, thank you God. Finally my prayer got through. I was on hold with that prayer for about 8 years with fucking Reagan. God help us. God are you there? Surely this is a really bad fucking joke God. This B-actor idiot fucking illiterate bozo-looking fuck can't be the president of the country can he God not really? Reach your hands down from the clouds and pinch my butt; make sure I'M NOT DREAMING. Finally my prayer got through."

bill hicks would have so much material to work with if he was still with us.

Wasn't Stack Stackhouse a name of an hamburguer in Burger King?
 
EDIT: Nope, there's Stacker and Steakhouse, my bad.

woa i didnt think giant bomb would be ignorant about ron paul

@DexterKid: Well its a realistic simulation of politics.

@Tarsier said:

woa i didnt think giant bomb would be ignorant about ron paul

...What? He was on the screen for like 15 seconds...

Does anyone remember "Hail To The Chimp"?

Leave it to the guy who always references topical political subjects in the podcast to lead this QL. Smart move.

@chrismafuchris said:

Does anyone remember "Hail To The Chimp"?

@Zamir: I was talking about the game.

@chrismafuchris: yea, i remember that game it wasn't very good, it was made on unreal engine for some reason http://www.g4tv.com/videos/26876/hail-to-the-chimp-review/

This looks like a lot of fun. Good ol' politics--nothing else gets people mad so easily.

I played The Political Machine 2008, and it's basically a pretty shallow 4X game that gets by on charm and not much else. So basically like real elections.

@dagas said:

So all you do is look at what the people want and say whatever they want to hear? And then the game ends when you become presdent so you don't even have to do anything you promise?...yup sounds pretty realistic.

Modern Democracy in a nutshell! As such this game is not just a simple video game but like a meta commentary on the state of our modern world. Kinda funny but also really scary :/

#psychomantis2012

Hey Stack Stackhouse, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

@audioBusting said:

I'm not 'merican and what is electoral college. I guess I won't be getting this game.

Each state has a certain number of electoral votes attached to it, based on size and population (California has 55, New Jersey has 14, Montana has 3). So, in the 2012 election if Obama wins the majority vote in California, he gets 55 electoral votes. A candidate needs 270 votes to win.

The system certainly has its flaws. In the 2000 election, Al Gore actually won the popular vote but Bush got into office because he won the electoral college. It also leads to candidates only campaigning in the few major "swing states" (states with a lot of votes that vary between Republican and Democrat) like Florida. Nixon lost the 1960 election because he tried campaigning in all 50 states, unlike Kennedy who focused on the big ones.

This map on HuffPo might help sort this out: http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/romney-vs-obama-electoral-map

NO STACK STACKHOUSE IS A HOLLOW CHILD! HE WILL LEAD TO OUR DOOM!

@Tarsier said:

woa i didnt think giant bomb would be ignorant about ron paul

what are you talking about

I know who ron paul is. he's that guy who is crazy and loves ayn rand :]

傑斯特曼2012

@damnable_fiend said:

@Tarsier said:

woa i didnt think giant bomb would be ignorant about ron paul

what are you talking about

I know who ron paul is. he's that guy who is crazy and loves ayn rand :]

i was referring to the video, jeff and brad show ignorance of ron paul. unexpected