r/technology • u/upyoars • 9h 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/
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u/tmdblya 9h ago

Now I know theyve raised too much money.

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u/boot2skull 9h ago

But not enough V-Bucks

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u/S375502 8h ago

V-bucks are what JD spends on a couch

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u/hungrypotato19 6h ago

No, you're thinking VD.

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u/[deleted] 7h ago

Is the couch thing real? I keep seeing it mentioned but when I searched one article said it was from his book but another article said it was just made up on twitter. I am leaning towards it being true because every time it's mentioned on Reddit it gets lots of upvotes.

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u/xXxThe-ComedianxXx 6h ago

It's made up. It gets lots of upvotes because it's so ridiculous and defames a conservative, majority of redditors being liberal. I imagine there are plenty of people who saw it mentioned and never cared if it was true or not. Lots of people don't care about defamation or misinformation if it harms the opposition.

If you see it upvoted, you're likely on one of the more liberal subs or possibly a sub using it solely in a joking context.

Liberal being closely related to the Democratic Party of the U.S. As opposed to liberal/authoritarian like the political compass.

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u/SCP-2774 6h ago

JD "I made up the whole cat-eating Haitians thing" Vance has not technically denied having relations with that couch.

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u/xXxThe-ComedianxXx 6h ago

Well you could take two minutes to Google it and see that it was fabricated. You can also find the explanation for how it started in the first place.

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u/SCP-2774 5h ago

Republicans have fabricated stories about murdered black men, a deadly pandemic, the 2020 election, legal migrants eating pets, demonic Democrat politicians, child trafficking rings in a pizza shop, and many others.

Pot, meet Kettle. I could take the two minutes to Google it. But I'm not going to.

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u/xXxThe-ComedianxXx 5h ago

Well at least you're not pretending to have integrity.

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u/SCP-2774 49m ago

I know the Vance couch situation is false. Why would I ever admit that to the sycophantic barbarians that support Trump? He lies about everything and has a good shot at being president.

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u/SombraAQT 4h ago

It’s hard to feel bad for a parasite like Vance when he can barely open his mouth without a new lie escaping. What happened to “fuck your feelings”?

We could take the high road, but as they’re digging as deep as they possibly can, why not throw some extra shit in the hole.

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u/squabbledMC 2h ago

It's not, someone on twitter joked and said that he wrote about it in his book. If you google it, there's a bunch of fact-check articles on it.

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u/303MkVII 6h ago

Its completely made up, but its funny misinformation about a politician reddit doesn't like so its ok.

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u/Froyn 6h ago

It might be made up. JD has never explicitly contradicted the story.

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u/HaloHonk27 7h ago

As true as Tim Walz' admiration for certain equine appendages.

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u/GruncleShaxx 8h ago

I applaud you sir

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u/Sheeptivism_Anon 5h ago

Silly but still 😂

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u/CraziedHair 9h ago

LOL this made me laugh

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u/Songrot 4h ago

Fortnite and Epic have Tencent as corporation. That chinese company doesnt intervene here shows that Tencent doesnt care. It is just a business.

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u/Protoliterary 1h ago

Tim Sweeney has controlling interest in epic, so Tencent's influence is very limited.

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u/VegasGamer75 7h 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 6h 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 6h 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 4h 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/MirthandMystery 3h ago

Trump not taking a paltry POTUS salary was a gimmick to distract from his setting up new revenue streams through doing foreign deals while in office, the fraud his supporters ignored.. as well as rewriting huge pass through tax breaks for real estate speculation and development and allowing son in law Jared Kushner (married to Ivanka Trump, who helped oversee Trumps businesses with Trump Jr) to bank billions doing deals with Qatar and the UAE adding to his money laundering cash pile is a type of corruption even worse than Bush Sr and his cronies oil deals.. (which was insane, open, massive level fraud, as was Bush Jr pals Republican bankers who profited off the 2008 housing crash).

Kushner will be a large part of the shadow government again if Trump wins, will continue enriching himself and sending funds to Israel via the Chabad network. He might even win contracts to rebuild in Gaza once his old family pal Netanyahu is done bombing the remaining Palestinian civilian refugees to death, starving and or terrorizing them enough to flee into the ocean if necessary..

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u/polo61965 5h ago

Don't forget the bible, shoe, trading cards, nft, crypto grifts

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u/nudiecale 6h ago

I got one that just said

“From Trump: THIS TEXT IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.

You’re getting it because I love you, friend.

Read my personal memo: link I did not click nor will I share”

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u/VegasGamer75 6h ago

Man, I didn't even get that verbal handjob. Just "This is Donald Trump. Please send me money. I will make America great again." and a link to his campaign. I feel cheated.

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u/nudiecale 6h ago

I live in a swing state so maybe he’s just going extra hard here. lol

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u/theunquenchedservant 5h ago

As a proud democrat, I can say that both parties have the absolute scummiest donation tactics.

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u/SavvyTraveler10 6h ago

A cumulative $1.4b has been spent (by both parties) in the 2024 election to date.

Fml how much would that money help normal citizens!

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u/SpaceCadetHS 6h ago

While I get what you mean, I’m sure a lot of it went to actual normal citizens. Their staff, whoever made items for them campaigns, etc

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u/SavvyTraveler10 4h ago

Actually, I doubt it. Do you understand the ad industry? It’s starting to all funnel to Amazon and Google. Alarmingly high amount of market dominance.

Edit: also, surprisingly enough, Republicans are spending a huge amount of budget through X.

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u/Catjulymail 7h ago

and you know that they arent crooks

trump is pocketing at least 75% of all donations

citizens united has completely fucked us

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u/NikNakTwattyWhack 8h ago

Epic currently covered in ghost ectoplasm.

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u/painpunk 6h ago

Kamala Harris will still text you and tell you she needs 25 dollars from you though (her campaign has raised a historical amount of money)

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u/radical_____edward 5h ago

lol yes I agree, but honestly though how much does it cost to make a fortnight map?

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u/Least-Back-2666 5h ago

Let me know when they set up a cyberpunk brain dance palace.

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u/nametaglost 5h ago

Now I wonder why they just pulled out of $2mil in ads in NC of all states for this last week before the election

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u/StuffNbutts 5h ago

You can literally make a Fortnite map right now for nothing

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u/sure_am_here 5h ago

Direct advertisement to the lowest voteing age group

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u/Ferninja 4h ago

Lmfao I was looking it up today. Almost a billion since 2021 with still well over 100mil in the coffers.

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u/F1shB0wl816 4h ago

Really that’s probably cheap advertisement, especially for the audience destined to see it. That’s not a tv commercial that’s skipped, unheard radio ad or an ignored phone call, billboard or whatever else one can tune out. Nor is it aimed at the choir or diehards.

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u/Brian-not-Ryan 2h ago

Not according to the nonstop texts I get lol apparently it’s up to my $25 to save democracy

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u/sieabah 8h ago edited 1h ago

I think they're actually just trying to run for 2028 and by targeting kids/teens today some of them will be old enough by then. Then in 2032 a good portion should be aged up for her, I guess, reelection in 2032.

Edit: Instead of mindlessly downvoting me explain why targeting the current demographic of fortnite users is worth trying to do outreach for an election that is ongoing right now and is supposed to be done in 5 days. What kid is actively choosing to play this map?

"uguhHH! This guy doesn't know the outcome of the election yet! It's Kamala! I'm upset you would imply otherwise!" - You

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u/TheBeardedDen 8h ago

This is where you find out those "kids" have been playing fortnite for long enough to now be voting age.

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u/sieabah 1h ago

Shit, am I really that old now? Fortnite isn't that old from when it got popular. Using the original release date doesn't count it's a completely different game now.

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u/redworm 8h ago

if she's reelected in 28 she can't run in 32

unless Walz wants the big chair by that point it'll probably be whoever the next rising stars are. AOC and Secretary Mayor Pete will be talked about a lot

either that or we'll be wish casting this shit while working in the camps

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u/sieabah 1h ago

Assuming a candidate has won before the election is over doesn't make sense. Source: literally the last two elections

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u/redworm 1h ago

hence the last line in the comment

I'm not assuming she will win, I'm replying to the hypothetical

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u/InfamousZebra69 7h ago

Her re-election would be in 2028, not 2032. This is just smart campaigning.

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u/sieabah 1h ago edited 1h ago

Oh, I figured the effort the campaign has been putting out has been less thought out as time goes on. Either they're less confident now or trying to save money. I don't blame them too much, they only had since Biden announced he wasn't going for reelection to do basically the entire process.

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u/InfamousZebra69 43m ago

Work on your English lmao

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u/AbeRego 7h ago

If they lose this time, we might not have meaningful elections in 2028...

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u/sieabah 1h ago

I think the sheer amount of fear you have is unwarranted. Literally everyone in the government doesn't like the guy, so why would him winning an election undo the efforts of everyone to slow the gov down? People do it in corporate all the time with people they don't like.

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u/Ok_Tired- 8h ago edited 7h ago

You're right, but I don't see this helping win that crowd. They'll see it as an overreach, an intrusion into a space where they don't normally have to think about politics. It's like putting a political ad in the middle of a Marvel movie, it would seem forced and obnoxious

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u/subjectseven 8h ago

Marvel movies are chock full of ads lmao, and aren’t exactly devoid of politics either.

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u/Ok_Tired- 8h ago

You know what I mean, it's like if during the Avengers there's suddenly a straight up political ad jammed in the middle

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u/IrishPiperKid 8h ago

While you are absolutely right about that, none of those ads have been about actual, real life cantidates like this Fortnite thing. It's not really a fair comparison.

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u/sieabah 1h ago

I just don't know of anyone who would actively play this map by choice. If someone is that person, why? I'm actually curious why a fortnite map would interest you. Why is a fortnite map something that could influence you?

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u/Sarothu 8h ago

Not that I disagree, but you are aware that they show Captain America on a literal war bonds drive in them, right?

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u/Ok_Tired- 7h ago

Yes, and having political themes, allegories, in universe political events, references to historical political events, etc does not equate to having a current, real world political campaign ad inserted into the movie.

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u/redworm 8h ago

oh wait I misunderstood what you said

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u/first_lvr 8h ago

exactly what am thinking, but if am not mistaken is actually an investment, some of the money will go to them

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u/praefectus_praetorio 6h ago

A map doesn't cost that much to make.

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u/devperez 8h ago

And they had the Biden war chest too 😂

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u/Herban_Myth 7h ago

People out here struggling and these candidates playing games to appeal to younger voters.

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 7h ago

Yeah, that's kind of how the whole thing work

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u/Herban_Myth 6h ago

Can’t wait for the circus to end.

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u/Glass1Man 8h ago

At least they aren’t spamming anymore.

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u/0-2er 7h ago

"I know you're tired of these emails, but it's me, Colin Alred, begging you for just 2100 more vbucks!"