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[size=150]PAP Hougang candidate Desmond Choo blames Diablo 3 for poor rally turnout[/size]
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Fresh from his first by-election rally in Hougang, which had a disappointing turnout estimated at less than a thousand, PAP candidate Desmond ‘Baby Face’ Choo seemed calm.
Until he heard the reason why some of his supporters failed to turn up. Prior to the rally, he sent out a mass SMS exhorting his buddies to show up and cheer for him.
They never responded.
Shrugging it off, he went on stage to deliver his speech.
“I’m furious,” he says, showing this reporter his iPhone, “many of my buddies were too busy playing Diablo 3 to bother coming for the rally.”
One of the texts, from a friend in the banking industry, said: “Sry. Busy slaying demons now. Will catch your speech online.”
Another, this time from a public relations executive: “Opps, I forgot today is your rally. I was trying hard to upgrade my witch doctor to lvl 13. Gonna skip work tml. LOL.”
Both of these friends have been his faithful supporters ever since he first joined politics in the last election.
“This shows how computer games have increasingly become a bad influence on Singaporeans. We must control and regulate them,” he warns at a press conference.
“But here’s the truth: My rally had a poor turnout not because people are lukewarm about the PAP. Those Diablo 3 addicts are a minority,” he adds.
However, reports coming in from PAP activists have confirmed that the rally’s poor attendance was the direct result of Diablo 3′s launch, which saw an extremely long queue that extended outside Funan Digital Mall.