I don't play no stinkin' video games, but this is odd enough to be interesting Boing Boing reports, in two different posts, that
a) Some employers are apparently discriminating against World of Warcraft players on the grounds that their heads are always within the WoW and not fully in this one (a stance that some WoW players agree with),
but
b) Obama is apparently NOT one of those employers, as he hired at least one WoW player -- Kevin Werbach (aka Supernovan Jenkins to WoWers -- to head his FCC transition team.
I'm not brave enough to speculate on what this means.
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