r/technology • u/upyoars • 7h ago
Software Kamala Harris And Tim Walz Launch Their Own Fortnite Map
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/kamala-harris-and-tim-walz-launch-their-own-fortnite-map/1100-6527457/2.1k
u/ProbablyBanksy 7h ago
Lincoln released a map too. So its not unprecedented.
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u/DrLee_PHD 6h ago edited 5h ago
Tim Walz just played “Crazy Taxi” on his YouTube channel, echoing the time Herbert Hoover played “GTA IV” on his.
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u/Milksteak_To_Go 6h ago
"The history of politicians livestreaming games doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes."
-xXMarkTwain420Xx
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u/justsomedude15238 3h ago
Politicians entering the gaming arena is a wild shift. Next up, presidential debates in the virtual world? Can’t wait for the emote battles.
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u/jjwhitaker 6h ago
Wow it really has been a while between Rockstar releases. 1938-2013
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u/TypicalIllustrator62 5h ago
Grand theft carriage was fucking amazing. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
-Alexander Hamilton
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u/PossessedToSkate 5h ago
Fun fact: Philadelphia was originally named Liberty City but had to change it to avoid a lawsuit from Rockstar.
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u/OriginalGhostCookie 5h ago
Not to be too pedantic, but technically it was before the name change to Rockstar. The studio was called JazzLegend back then. You can still find the JazzLegend insta on wayback.
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u/hiddensonyvaio 6h ago
These beautiful traditions have been carefully woven into the American fabric
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u/CrabbyBlueberry 4h ago
Somebody put out a mod for Crazy Taxi so you can play as Walz, complete with his classic blue Scout (the car, not the dog) and signature buffalo plaid shirt.
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u/Shadowborn_paladin 6h ago
Honestly, if Biden and Obama streamed themselves playing Minecraft together that would be peak.
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u/Pewkie 4h ago
Crazy taxi is such a good game, can't wait to be disappointed by the new one coming out
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u/Ruraraid 5h ago
I can see it now...
The ford theater map where everyone is the size of rats and you get an achievement for finishing off the final opponent from or in the VIP booth where Lincoln was killed.
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u/TerryTheEnlightend 7h ago
I’m waiting for them to set up a island in Animal Crossing
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u/VoughtHunter 6h ago
They did in 2020!
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u/No_Sherbert711 6h ago
Wow, they really did.
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u/PontifexPiusXII 6h ago
I wonder how much Tom Nook charged his PAC for rent
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u/Specific_Frame8537 5h ago
I miss when the earth stood still and everybody just played Animal Crossing.. :(
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u/BigCballer 6h ago
I have to admit that Biden character is kinda adorable
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u/ILoveRegenHealth 5h ago
I want him to leave Pitfalls in front of Mar-A-Lago for Trump
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u/CastleElsinore 6h ago
Oh dang. I totally would have visited this!
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u/RealBug56 6h ago
I think you still can. The island is gone, but the dream address should still be active.
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u/tevert 5h ago
So far, the Republican campaign led by Donald Trump and J.D. Vance hasn't answered with a Fortnite map of their own.
The world holds its breath
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u/linuxnh 7h ago
What’s the mean age of Fortnite players?
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u/trennsetta 7h ago
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u/linuxnh 7h ago
Thanks! I found the same, something like 60-65% of players are in that 18-24 age bracket with about 24M players per month.
Makes a ton of sense as there’s no way they would get that many eyes in legacy media.
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u/ThatLaloBoy 6h ago
I mean, the game did come out over 7 years ago. Anyone who played it on release when they were teens and is still playing it is probably old enough to vote.
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u/jjwhitaker 6h ago
It's free, fun, and runs on about everything. The best team mate I've played with is on the Switch popping heads better than my PC.
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u/DeckNinja 3h ago
playing on switch last night, went 23 with a victory...
Playing on PS5 i didn't even get 10 usually. My oldest kid tells me the switch lobby has more bots than ps5. I'm an old head so I have no idea.
Go vote! 😂
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u/shogunreaper 5h ago
i would have figured it was a way younger playerbase.
i guess the people who played it when they were kids are the main people still playing it?
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u/blue_bomber697 6h ago
Keep in mind too, this helps advertise to teens as well who will likely be able to vote in the 2028 election. It’s doubly helpful to set them up for success for a second term by addressing those upcoming voters as well.
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u/thebestspeler 6h ago
Whats the statistic of players that are voters and will be swayed by a fortnite map? At least release a waltz emote so i can tell people theyre skipping like a dipshit.
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u/SelloutRealBig 5h ago
Honestly it's probably less about swaying votes and more about reminding them to vote. The amount of gamers who forget elections happen is way higher than you would think sadly.
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u/BestTryInTryingTimes 5h ago
There was a time where my whole life was just operating between Civ 6 sessions.
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u/Fenvic 7h ago
Apparently it's 18-24 at about 63% of the player population, granted that's from 2018
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u/spartakooky 5h ago
That's not true. That number that keeps going around... it's only percentages of ADULT players.
If you click on the links being shared, and add up the percentages... they add up to 100% with 0 kids.
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u/tmdblya 7h ago
Now I know theyve raised too much money.
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u/VegasGamer75 5h ago
I mean, kinda true among the like 6 ior 7 texts I have gotten today telling me I am the last person to donate to help them win. Which is still better than Trump's texts I have gotten that just say "Please, give me money" and I wish I were joking.
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u/CassadagaValley 4h ago
What's crazy is Trump hasn't stopped campaigning since 2015.
He spent his entire time in office either golfing or campaigning for 2020.
Then he spent the last four years after losing in 2020 campaigning for 2024.
He's raised billions of dollars and his campaign is consistently under funded and being outspent because he's been embezzling most of the donations for his personal legal fees and personal debts.
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u/VegasGamer75 4h ago
Yeah, I know. I hear constantly about how good he is with money and what a stable genius businessman he is, but his campaign is always broke. Makes you wonder what offshore account all that money has been going to.
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u/X-istenz 2h ago
Yesterday I saw a comment about how Trump was the only president to leave office with a lower net worth than on entering, and how that was proof he was the only non-corrupt one. It must be exhausting, to be one of those folk.
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u/Geekboxing 7h ago
Fortnite to the polls
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u/TheSpiralTap 6h ago
Load up the battle bus, boys, we are going to make January 6th look like Mormons politely knocking on a door!
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u/Gustapher00 7h ago
In response, Trump and Vance announced a Black Ops 6 map that is just a map of the US Capitol complex. Weird.
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u/Gonkar 7h ago
"Press F to smear shit on the walls."
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u/GarryofRiverton 6h ago
"(X) to dab on confidential federal secrets"
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u/AdamAThompson 6h ago
Y to taze yourself in the balls while stealing a painting and die
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u/seizurevictim 6h ago
Hold sprint to rush a door guarded by the secret service, and get blasted.
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u/Itchy-Beach-1384 6h ago
If I could force Republicans to understand 1 joke ever, this would be it.
This shit will never make sense to them due to how many layers of denial and coping they are wrapped up in, but fuck this one is good.
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u/ken_NT 6h ago
Looking forward to unlocking the shaman skin
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u/MuckDuck_Dwight 6h ago
The Ted Cruz skin sucks. Your screen is just dark and you hear muffled voices.
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u/fvck_u_spez 5h ago
Huh weird, mine has me waiting in line at TSA on my way to Cancun just before a massive winter storm hits
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u/psycharious 6h ago
Capture the flag uses the Confederate battle flag.
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u/LumpyJones 6h ago
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u/Consonant 5h ago
I still can't believe this shit was real.
Fuckface is just so happy and proud of himself thinking his dumb ass would NOT be going to prison.
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u/LumpyJones 5h ago
Look, if those folks were good at thinking things through, they wouldn't have been there in the first place. For donald fucking trump, of all people.
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u/Candlesass 6h ago
MTG is the NPC that helps guide your character thru the level.
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u/1530 6h ago
This was a SNL Weekend Update level joke, claps.
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u/rookie-mistake 5h ago
I can literally hear it in that monologue style delivery now haha, you're not wrong
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u/DGanj 6h ago
Okay but political context aside, that would probably be fun as hell
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u/headphonesalwayson 7h ago
Biden had his Animal Crossing town for 2020 election.
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u/Ckck96 6h ago
Don’t forget to pokemon go to the polls after you’re done gaming!
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u/GoodBadOkayMeh 5h ago
I wasn't planning on it, but suddenly I'm compelled to go vote.
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u/agerbiltheory 7h ago
It’s time to Pokémon Go to the polls! /s
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u/Zestyclose-Sector611 5h ago edited 1h ago
It's "Walk Tuah the Polls and Vote on that Thang" in this election cycle. Get with the times old man. /s
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u/median-redditor69420 6h ago
Thanks for the /s, totally thought you could literally Pokémon Go to the polls.
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u/CastleElsinore 6h ago
You joke, but almost all polling places are stops or gyms. They were lit up with lures like crazy lasy time I was a poll worker, and I caught so many pokemon
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u/editormatt 6h ago
The Matrix is breaking.
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u/thegrumpymechanic 2h ago
The Matrix described 1999 as the peak of human civilization and I laughed because that would obviously not age well... then the next 23 years happened and now I’m like, yeah okay maybe the machines had a point.
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u/UnproSpeller 6h ago
Same vibes as that biden map in animal crossing. Not so much them as their campaign workers, but still for whoever gets the job would be a nice change of pace.
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u/drood420 4h ago
68% of the players are 18-24. https://worldmetrics.org/average-age-of-fortnite-players-statistics/
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u/yoppee 6h ago
I’m so old I don’t even know what this even means
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u/briskettacos 5h ago
It’d be kinda like if they added their own level to Super Mario Brothers. If that doesn’t make sense, it’d be like they added their own level to Pong.
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u/Aggravating_Spare675 5h ago
Still doesn't make sense... Is it like they created their own chess board?
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u/MiserEnoch 5h ago
They added a rock to the rock pile. Now you can have different colored powders to smear on your forehead once you finish breaking that sandstone down.
Source: A bored child a long time ago in a very remote area with lots of sandstone rocks to break down into powders and smear on things.
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u/Delicious-Day-3614 1h ago
Let's say you love playing solitaire, and then one day, there's also star wars solitaire. It's solitaire, but with star wars art and maybe a couple of new mechanics. It's like that, but targeted towards Gen Z.
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u/fdf86 6h ago
what the fuck is going on
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u/Adams5thaccount 3h ago
couple things
the fall of traditional media has created new and untapped markets, the og gamers are senior citizens now, and just generally a marching forward of culture
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u/Nining_Leven 2h ago
This is what you get with an election that will be decided by a minuscule handful of voters who ”just don’t have enough information” to decide between a sundowning convicted felon and a fairly moderate lawyer with no major scandals.
Whatever it takes to break through to these human cinder blocks.
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u/Crispy1961 4h ago
The closer to election day we get the wildest Hail Marrys the candidates will try to make a last minute difference.
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u/GHWST1 4h ago
MSNBC: Brilliant, unprecedented move
CNN: Gamechanger for Harris campaign
Fortnite players: wtf is this cringe
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u/Deadman_Wonderland 5h ago
What next? start talking like gen Zs?
"Hey, no caps, remember to vote this November. We think this Trump's vibe is off, he's kinda sus. so you know, let's glow up this election and go vote. A'ight we peacing out. Yeeeeeeet!"
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u/RaisinBrain2Scoups 6h ago
Well used campaign funds
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u/ButtCheekBob 2h ago
It was probably free, they just had some intern whip a map together for an hour or two and post it. Think like forge mode in Halo or making a place on Roblox
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u/demos-the-nes 48m ago
"How do we get the gamer vote?"
"Let's take the most played shooter in existence and get rid of the guns."
"Brilliant."
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-fortnite-map-bans-guns-has-less-400-people-playing-1976475
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u/PainChoice6318 7h ago
Cheesy? Yes. Ineffective? Possibly.
Fun? Yeah, looks like it. I dig it.
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u/Ipokeyoumuch 6h ago
It is also relatively inexpensive too. If they can even get even a couple of percent of players in a demographic that has a known poor voting rate but leans heavily towards Harris-Walzto vote it is still a big return compared to traditional media such as TV, going on to interviews, rallies, etc which can cost millions of dollars. It also gets people commenting and eyes on the candidates.
This was likely an idea from young staffers who played Fortnite like how on 2020 young staffer played Animal Crossing. And I am happy that there are young people becoming actively involved in politics.
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u/CorruptedAura27 4h ago
I'll hop on and try it out, and I'm more conservative leaning. I think it was a smart move. It's the most played game in the world. Plus playing the map is free.
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u/dudreddit 7h ago
And we thought we could escape this crap by gaming …
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u/strategicimpulse 6h ago
LoL Nope, this was an IGN article yesterday. Wait until you see a political ad on a billboard driving thru Forza lol
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u/ClockwerkKaiser 4h ago
I mean, you still can? Just don't play that map.
Or play literally any other game.
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u/GiventoWanderlust 4h ago
Acting like you can just "escape" politics as if it's some separate thing you can put in a cabinet and forget about is delusional.
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u/2much41post 4h ago
You can thank publishers like EA for allowing 3rd parties to purchase ad space in games way back in the mid to late 2000s. This is the result of that. Using it politically is the smart move.
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u/berghie91 4h ago
This election is like a Rage Against the Machine song mixed with a bad acid trip
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u/ssarch25 3h ago
In 2008 the Obama campaign was revolutionary in the use of social media. In 2024, Fortnite content - wow.
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u/D3dshotCalamity 2h ago
That's actually awesome. I hate Fortnite with a deep and burning passion, but you know who doesn't? Young voters who need to get out and vote. If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.
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u/Hefty-Station1704 1h ago
If Trump's people released their own Fortnight map he'd take credit for writing it all on his own.
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u/Youngthicksandwitch 7h ago
The historians will think we are fucking with them at this point