Senator Ted Cruz is a man that I would be, to name all his politically and moral defects want be hold tight she for hours. He’s also, like most of us, someone who plays video games and how he plays them will not surprise anyone.
Here’s a snippet from the latest episode of Cruz’s own podcast, which he co-hosts with Michael Knowles:
This clip and the quotes above are a bit lacking in conversation; the actual segment from his podcast runs a little longer, and Cruz says in full (I’ve removed a bit where they went off topic):
Video games are meant to be addictive. Well, I’m something of a gamer, I’m not a gamer like hardcore twitch streamers, and I don’t do massive multiplayer games… I don’t like the fact that you can buy and sort in-game items to power up your character or to give you an advantage.
Well I’ll admit if I play a few games I buy it sometimes because it’s more fun when your character suddenly has a lot more awesome stuff that would take you six months or a year to build. So sometimes I’ll, okay, I’ll spend $20 and buy a treasure chest full of coins, because then I can spend them to get cool things in the game.
As an answer on the above tweet says, “‘I’ve never heard such a succinct summary of Republican economic policy.”
For the record while it looks like this a speed run through the definition of “hypocrisy,” something the senator is no stranger tofor context, the clip is actually part of a longer conversation where Cruz is basically saying that while he spend money to get to the top faster, He thinks having things like loot boxes in games aimed at kids is a very bad idea.
