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Today is a sad day.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=24247233

Good.

Well not completly banned, but they're going to start enforcing the attirement requirements, and added a $5000 fine.  Judging from the comments beneath the gamespot blog, this is a good thing.  The fewer drooling retards going to the show to ogle the floor show and fellate their heroes, the more devs might remember "oh right, Trade Show.. I should have something here.. maybe talk to some people."

Hey, I can dream.

Banning booth babes should be easy enough.  I mean there is no legitimate reason any female to even be in the building, rite?

Correct.  They should be stored neatly in the Victorian Sanitation Cabinets provided, so that the noise and lights do not move them to unseemly lubricity.

There's still auto shows for the drooling retards, no?  They'll never get rid of booth babes at those things.

So it's now $5k for a booth babe license.  Probably not too steep to be covered by marketing.

Or actual men, either :(

Well, we ARE talking about E3.

Meh, a nice CYA move by the E3 organizers. Now if they could just make their show less like the burning of Rome while Nero fiddles, all would be well.

Boo.  If I want a game trade show without boobies I'll go to GDC or AGC, thank you very much.  E3 has always been about the spectacle.

AGC had plenty of boobies. Of course, they were on some of the men...

For the last time, moobs don't count.

Ever been to E3? There's more tits on guys there than on booth babes or females in attendance. If they're going to enforce some attire code for the booth babes maybe they should make some of the slobtardsweatknobs wear some decent clothes. I can't count how many times I avoided a crowd because of the smell and not because it was a bad game trying to market shit *cough25toLifecough*

This picture shot up to number one on Yahoo's most viewed photos after this story started circulating:
(http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20060124/2006_01_24t144141_450x308_us_media_videogames.jpg)
Booth babes are one thing but actually bringing in a bed is a good hint that things have gone too far.

Now what are all those aspiring models going to do for work? Nothing like taking away their paycheck. Am I the only one who sees unemployment written all over this? ;)

So long as the can drive a manual transmission they'll be fine. (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20060125-9999-1m25valet.html)

They will go back to blowing rock stars backstage.

I'm fairly certain the girl second from the left is Chyna. I don't want her wenis on my leather seats. I wonder if you get to pick the girl that drives your car in places like that.

There's always a pole somewhere to be danced around.

Bite me.

Now we are getting some where!

Sachant had a momentary lapse in judgement.  She's probably slapped her forehead by now remembering that on this board tough talk, agressive debate and threats of physical violence by women are considered sexual foreplay.  What she MEANT to say was, "Fuck off and die.  The lot of you." 

/signed

Thank you Signe.  That was eloquently spoken on my behalf. ;)  Will you be my official spokesperson?  I can pay you in meaningless but well-intentioned compliments!

You can become her new magical power-up guy girl!

Does this mean that there will be any PC games released this year that aren't sequels to existing IP or, you know, worth getting interested in?

Spore? Maybe?

Hi, my name is Sarcasm.  Pleased to meet you.

Indeed, as defined elsewhere, Sachant fell into the sarchasm.

Please tell me this won't impact having booth boys there??????  (green is still sarcasm isn't it?)


Rather impressed they took this step and now if they could just duct tape the mouth of everyone who says "girls/women don't play video games", I would be one happy camper.  The only drawback I can see is that it is going to be much more difficult at this year's E3 to figure out which games are good since from my experience in past years, I found the more revealing the booth babe, the worse the game would be.

Hi.  I know sarcasm very well.  Thus why I responded with "Bite Me" vs a tirade. ;)  Sarcasm lives with me.  I guess it forgot to tell you it had left you for someone better at it. ;)

Between raising babies and cooking dinner when the hell would they have time to play games?  Reality check!

At Night when the children and husband are asleep.  Why you think I only got four hours of sleep on average while working on the WoW guide? ;p  I went 72 without sleep too during that period.  That is not really recommended. ;)

I wish you'd only gotten 3 hours a night and I had gotten an index.


I kid, I kid.

That wasn't my call!  That was the editors call.  :)  We (Michael and I) wanted an index.

It seemds to be a corporate mandate. I don't think any of them have indices, which is, of course, fucking moronic.

There's no money in that.

Traditionally they make a fair amount of cash in the UK sellng their story to The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/).

Don't hate on auto shows....I like cars.


 :rimshot:

I don't hate auto shows, I love them.   However, I cannot deny that there are many, many attending retards who drool at the booth babes.

If you put me in a room with hot women and cars I would be looking that the women too, not sure why that makes me a retard.

99% of cars at auto shows aren't worth a first glance. But titties, that's another story.

I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to say that Auto shows are the only place where ogling women doesn't make you a chauvinistic pig. But ogling cars? Hi hi, wang extensions for sale.

That might be true of US car shows but the car shows in Britain and Europe are awesome.  Of course, compared to US car shows, they are mostly booth babeless. 

Too easy.

I thought about it, but I'm afraid of Signe.

Hey!  I'm the nicest person you know.  You don't know anyone nicer than than what I am!  Dumbass.

Anyway, I don't get it.  What did I say?

Well, there's too many lines there, but the one that leaps out is European women are ugly and that's why we're boothbabeless.


Bearing in mind that, pound for pound, America has much more female flesh than us.


'Cause they're all such fucking fatties.

 :rimshot:

It has nothing to do with chubby American women, of which I am probably one.  I was born here, you know!  Bastard.  Anyway... it has everything to do with how Britain and Europe feel about cars.  They wouldn't be looking at the booth babes anyway, even if they had some, mostly.  They'd be looking at the new TVRs and the new Marcos and the Ferarri and the Lambo.  Even I have a hard time not drooling at car shows.

Have you seen that new Marcos?  Yum.  They finally made a pretty car.

(http://www.marcos-eng.com/s3/model-images/frontview-shot.jpg)

And its NOT all that expensive. 

We don't get TVR here, unfortunately.

Canadian Auto Show has no booth babes and it still sucks. Why does it suck? Cause we're canadian and we say aboot and eh. Beat you all to it, fuckers.

Don't forget that you have that unnatural round bacon.

Don't forget Celine Deon.

And Bryan Adams...

She's a product of the french. We do NOT acknowledge the french as being canadian. They want to seperate anyway. We should let them.. and sell them to the US.

And Peameal bacon isn't your ordinary bacon. Don't knock it till you try it.

What would the US do with a bunch of French Canadians?  It's not like they're even really French.  I bet they can't even cook.  On the plus side, I reckon their breath smells better.  Anyway, isn't it the opposite?  Isn't it the French Canadians who don't recognise the rest of Canada?  Or do they really not consider themselves Canadian.

God, can I post some stupid rubbish or what? :roll:

The Canadian government has apologized on several occasions for Bryan Adams.

Was Pam Anderson one of those apologies? 

Most of her parts are American by now.

Those questions lead to politics. I don't like those.

What would you do with a bunch of french canadians? Have a state that the rest of the world actually likes? *rimshot*

I thought this thread was about booth babes? More babes, less booth. Thx.

I'l get you started.

(http://www.e3girls.com/images/E32005%5C514tecmogirls05.JPG)

Booth Babes. Not bridge hags.

Hey, some of us take whatever we can get.

Did you hit that or something?

Don't tell his wife.

Edit: Is that your wife?

Just to clarify, she *is* wearing a wig.

She also, somehow, looks like a white trash Christina Aguilera (no, I can't spell that made up bullshit last name). Maybe she looks better in motion. Or maybe it's the lighting. 

Well, we don't heave dealerships, if that is what you mean....but TVRs can be acquired in the US.

You can only drive them 2500 miles per year on a special registration except for some old models like the 28i or something, I think.  That's why we didn't bring ours with us.   :cry:

wtf!? You can't just import a left-hand drive version (or modify the car as such)?

What's with the special registration? Is it due to TVRs not going through the stupidass US Highway Safety testing bullshit?

This has been implemented.  You know it as Louisianna.


I didn't look into it too much but I remember reading about it when I was looking for a car a few years back.  It's an import restriction but I don't remember the reasoning behind it.  If you already have one you are OK, I think, but getting one otherwise is practically impossible.  Shouldn't have anything to do with leftedness since U.S. Mail Jeeps have right-side steering, but like I said, I don't remember.  Should be easy to find info, lots of people want a TVR and complain on the internet about it.

Oh my gosh - people complain on the internet? Next you will tell my people use it for porn.

HELLO.  I AM A GIANT SILVER PENIS.

It just screams phallic to me.  I don't know why, when you really look at it there's not a lot of resemblance, but first glance just screams 'PENIS!!!!!!'  Not many things scream 'PENIS!!!!' at me (some cars, one of the towers in the castle on the cover of The Little Mermaid, people with Tourette's), but this does.

On the bright side, at least it's European.  We can point at that when they make fun of us for the Washington Monument.

People with tourette's scream "penis" at you? Oh, I get it. Ho Ho Ho. You've been saving that one, haven't you?

He must have been looking for a place to use it and couldn't find one so he picked on some post I made back on February 10.   :|  That car doesn't look a bit like a penis to me. 

Get help, Llava, before you start seeing giant penises everywhere you go.

That car doesn't look a bit like a penis; it is sex incarnate.

(http://www.penyork.com/movie/uploaded_images/paul_rudd12-756179.jpg)

Actually, I thought of it as I was making that post.  I was thinking "Hm... what things could scream 'PENIS!' to me?"  Tourette's just came to mind.  I am a comic genius.

Hey. The English kicked their asses all over North America in the 18th century and incorporated them into the The Empire. Then, some of us, deciding this was a crappy idea, tossed some tea into a harbor. Your own damn fault you didn't hitch a ride on that particular bandwagon.

Daeven, with his soon to be released 'Illustrated History of the Word: How the Freemasons and Other Weirdos Fucked Up Your Life'