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E3 'Booth Babe' Interviews Reveal Comedy, Tragedy 191

Posted by simoniker from the oh-dear dept.
Thanks to GameCritics.com for its series of interviews with 'booth babes' at this year's E3 videogame show, discussing "the tales these women had to tell." A model promoting Saga Of Ryzom is asked "if she's comfortable with so many guys posing with her", and answers: "It's weird when they put their arms around me... but then I feel them shaking and I'm like, whatever, if it's so important to you... it's funny when guys come up to me and tell me that it's their first time touching a girl." Girls at the Nintendo booth are also interviewed, complaining of the trade-show melee: "It's funny that people act this way over little stuffed toys... there have been people attacking us for free stuff. People will walk up to us and just try to grab it."
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  • --head explodes--

  • Stumped for words. (Score:5, Funny)

    by MindStalker ( 22827 ) <mindstalker@@@gmail...com> on Thursday July 01, 2004 @04:36PM (#9585653) Journal
    Apparently slashdot is stumped for words. I guess the idea that booth babes can talk scared them into hiding under thier desk.
    • I'm insulted by the article. But I can't bring myself to complain about it on slashdot. :) So instead I've write this comment on how I can't complain about it, thereby complaining about, but not appearing quite so sad.. I should shut up now. Yeah.

    • Re:Stumped for words. (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I'm sorry to say this, but it may be the case that no one has anything to say because no one really hires these booth babes in order to listen to them wax philosophic about their life experiences ?

    • Re:Stumped for words. (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Alkaiser ( 114022 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @06:22PM (#9586843) Homepage
      Please. This has more comments for a recently posted Games topic than most of the others I've seen lately.

      I honestly can't believe anyone would have told the "talent" that this is their first time touching a girl. That's just a little too phenomenally stupid to believe, I'm sorry.

      My first E3, I went around and took pictures of and with the women, after that, it was kind of...oh-kay, whatever. I just tried to do more interesting things. Like pose with them while holding a tube of Mentos. (That got a great reponse.)

      The past couple years what I've noticed is how truly AWFUL some of these women look. For example, the Dual Screen Twins Nintendo hired. The most butt-ugly women at show. They were not a year under 40, and they were (as part of the presentation) trying to flirt up the voice of Mario, who looked to be about 65-70. The sad thing is, I think if they came on to him, he'd actually turn them down.

      A lot of women just should NOT have been wearing those outfits they were putting on. I'm not of the "fat people should be shot" mentality, but I don't think you should be getting paid to traipse around in skimpy outfits when you are more likely to make people recoil than not.

      This E3, which was kind of shocking, I dicovered that more and more of the employees and the show attendees are very attractive people. The girls working the booths without shedding their clothes were more prevalent, and better looking this year than any year in the past. So it was either, get in line to take a picture with a floozy who doesn't game, or strike up a conversation with a decent, attractive girl who does.

      While this article was interesting, it didn't really show any dramatic insight or anything, in fact, that only piece of information I learned from it was that there were booth babes at the Total War booth, and that some of the women there were complaining their mouths hurting. (presumably from smiling the entire day.)

      I think the most important line in the article is when the non-booth babe character tells the interviewer, "These women KNOW what they're doing with their bodies." If they didn't want to be hanging around in video game costume for hours, THEN FIND A REAL JOB! Yeah, they're people, people who are taking a job that basically demands they be objectified. If everyone talked to them about the games, they wouldn't have a freaking clue for the most part, and that would mean they didn't have a JOB either. So they can deal with it.
      • I think the most important line in the article is when the non-booth babe character tells the interviewer, "These women KNOW what they're doing with their bodies."

        I found it interesting that that person was so elitist (assuming that it wasn't an act). "I'm better than mundane booth babes because instead of being hired to appear at E3 because of my looks, I was hired to appear in a video game because of them."

        BTW, I'm pretty sure the booth babes realize that they're doing a job which entails objectificat

      • Re:Stumped for words. (Score:2, Interesting)

        by Urox ( 603916 )
        from your post: it didn't really show any dramatic insight or anything

        from the article: Candice tells me she studied Journalism in college, but is now an actor and model. "I work one trade show a month to pay the rent," she says

        Only one day of work a month and the rest to do whatever you want (well, I suppose eating and activites that cost money will probably require you to work more than that). Doesn't sound too bad to me.

        I think it interesting the comment from the non-booth babe. She sounds like a

      • Why don't you post a picture of yourself here, I'm sure you're drop dead gorgeous.

  • Appropriate Popup... (Score:4, Funny)

    by White-out_On_Screen ( 766364 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @04:45PM (#9585778)
    Somehow, it just seems fitting that I got a dating service popup when I followed this link...

  • From the article... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 01, 2004 @04:46PM (#9585793)
    Perhaps I have a dirty mind but this made me stop and wonder for a second why their booth was such a high volume spot:

    This was another high volume spot, so I knew I would have to be brief. I approached Jessica, Kelia and Alicia and asked what it was like to sit there all day. "My mouth hurts," Jessica responded

    Kind of makes you wonder...

  • It's interesting to see one sterotype (women objectified by male-oriented games) discuss another (many gamers are male, lonely, and have no interaction with women). I'd hoped to hear some kind of positive comments as well, but I suppose when you're modeling, most people don't have long and involved coversations.

    I notice at the article ends with, "Hey, why did she get a plushie?" I would've liked to hear the apparently female author give more discussion about what she personally thought about the situation. Clearly, some games objectify women. The racing game's "booth babes" seem to be a clear example. But what did she think about the woman dressed as the sword-wielding character? Was she affected differently than the horse jockeys that seemed to be nearly up for sale? And did she buy what the Swedish developer was saying about "just dressing up in a skintight outfit for fun"?

    And why are all outfits in the future skin-tight anyway? :)

    -Zipwow
    • And why are all outfits in the future skin-tight anyway? :)

      Home liposuction kits.

    • Re:Sterotype Battle! Objectification, I choose You (Score:5, Insightful)

      by LehiNephi ( 695428 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @06:04PM (#9586599) Journal
      I, too, didn't realize that the author of the article is female until the "why did she get a plushie" line. I suspect being female helped the booth babes open up more willingly.

      I wonder if/why so many of the attendees were lonely males? And why they shake when getting close to touching a woman? The last time I was playing video games with other people, it was with four other males. All of whom are married.

      Personally, I might also be shaking, but that's because I don't feel comfortable being in close physical contact with any scantily-clad woman who is not my wife. Perhaps the reason the babes had such a strong impression of pale-skinned, shaking nerds was because all the happily-married men weren't clambering for a photo op.
      • I wonder if/why so many of the attendees were lonely males?

        This is a convention for members of a particular trade. It's not necessarily that the guy is lonely, it's more that the wife is back home, in a different city/state/country.

        Booth babes have been around long before videogames, and they will outlast us all. They are there because sex sells. The guys that get a picture taken are mainly subscribing to the "while the cat's away" philosophy, in my opinion.

        I've been to E3, and it's not all that diff

  • IHRA Drag Racing 2005 girl quote (Score:4, Funny)

    by hoferbr ( 707935 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @04:55PM (#9585920)
    "My mouth hurts"
    Out of context, that sounds kind of sexy...

  • Shaking just to touch (Score:4, Interesting)

    by slaker ( 53818 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:01PM (#9585993)
    It's incredibly fucking sad that there's a large enough group of people from whom contact with members of the opposite sex is such a foreign concept as to induce such atypical physical reactions - the article refers to the awkwardness the male conventiongoers have around the so-called "Booth Babes".

    I freely admit I'd likely be in the same category. I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.

    The question is, what does one do about it?

    • Re:Shaking just to touch (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Descartes ( 124922 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:12PM (#9586107) Homepage
      I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.

      Seriously? I just don't understand this. Maybe it was the way I was raised but I often hug my friends male and female. I can't imagine not being able to touch other people. Although I'm not surprised at the E3 guys being a little nervous when they pose with the booth babes the line about having never touched a woman really surprises me. Maybe they just mean "I've never touched a hottie before".

      The question is, what does one do about it?
      Take a ballroom, swing, or salsa dancing class. Don't worry if you can't dance, that's why you take the class. As I said I've never been squeamish about touching other people, but I definately felt more comfortable with it after I took a couple dance classes in college. I also took a relaxation class where we gave eachother massages which was pretty good. and I got P.E. credits for all of them.

      • Re:Shaking just to touch (Score:2, Interesting)

        by Anonymous Coward
        Aside from work and the occaisonal visit to a friend's house, my social life consisted of nothing but my computers, yardwork, and talking to my neighbors. That is until I discovered dancing! I'm an argentine tango fanatic, and am getting to be pretty damn good now too. People in these circles largely accept others based for their efforts, skills, and general attitude. Body style, social skils, and general looks are largely ignored.

        It was terrifying to start, but now it's a regular social outing for me. The
        • Aside from work and the occaisonal visit to a friend's house, my social life consisted of nothing but my computers, yardwork, and talking to my neighbors. That is until I discovered dancing! I'm an argentine tango fanatic, and am getting to be pretty damn good now too. People in these circles largely accept others based for their efforts, skills, and general attitude. Body style, social skils, and general looks are largely ignored.

          It was terrifying to start, but now it's a regular social outing for me. Th
      • College has P.E.?

        I'm not around people much. I imagine a lot of gamers and geeks are in the same boat.

      • The question is, what does one do about it?

        Take a ballroom, swing, or salsa dancing class. Don't worry if you can't dance, that's why you take the class. As I said I've never been squeamish about touching other people, but I definately felt more comfortable with it after I took a couple dance classes in college.

        Or try a karate class. Hell, any form of martial arts will do. After you've had your nuts crushed skillfully by a cute chick half your weight and height, your attitude towards other people, and

    • It's incredibly fucking sad that there's a large enough group of people from whom contact with members of the opposite sex is such a foreign concept as to induce such atypical physical reactions.

      I freely admit I'd likely be in the same category. I don't think I've actually touched another human being in a couple years.

      The question is, what does one do about it?

      Define touching another individual. While I was in College and Highschool, I got "touched" mainly by passing people in halls and bumping through
      • I mean zero contact with a human being. I don't go places where it's crowded, so I can't say I've even bumped into someone. I mean, if someone is giving me change back from my purchase and grazes my fingertips with theirs, that's as close as I get.

        I'm not phobic about it, and at one time I *did* have a fiance (who, it turned out, was gay) who did let me grab her butt and hug her.

        But now the extent of my social interaction with anyone is talking to my cats.

    • Re:Shaking just to touch (Score:5, Informative)

      by NanoGator ( 522640 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:34PM (#9586342) Homepage Journal
      "The question is, what does one do about it?"

      Sadly, society isn't very nice to us geeks. So we're down on ourselves. It doesn't help that we think women are attracted to blond

      haired blue eyed athletic gits. Combine low-self esteem with a misunderstanding of what women are attracted to, and you've got

      yourself two people who'll never hook up.

      What can you do about it?

      a.) Don't approach a woman like she's the most precious thing on the planet. They hate that. Besides making them feel

      not-so-special, it also feels like talking to you isn't possible without strings attached. Chicks dun wanna hurt your feelings.

      b,) Don't draw attention to what a loser you are by telling them that you haven't had many girlfriends. I don't mean lie. Instead,

      resist the temptation to tell them your sad story. They dun like damaged goods.

      c.) A date is about having fun, not about showing the girl how nice you are. There's no need to pull a chair out for her. Put yoru

      energy into being entertaining.

      d.) Don't talk about Star Trek, Slashdot, Linux, or quote Monty Python. They don't have the slightest interest in any of those topics

      so it's not like they can interact with what you're saying.

      e.) It's okay to have a cheeky sexual side. Resist the temptation to hide the fact that you're interested in sex. (Don't hump her

      leg, either.)

      f.) It's okay to have your own opinions. If she asks if you like Ricky Martin, the answer is NO, not "well I guess he's okay".

      Chicks dun like yes-men.

      g.) If you have to fart near her, make a show of it. I don't know why this works. (Note: Do not aim at her more than once.)

      h.) Don't give her your phone number without getting hers. DO yourself a favor and avoid the whole "I'll call you" brush off.

      i.) It's okay to OCCASIONALLY tell a woman she's pretty, but never ever EVER say "not as pretty as you".

      j.) If they ask for an honest opinion that you know will get you into trouble, say "Yeah right, I know better." Telling them what they want to hear won't get them closer to you, niether will telling them their ass looks big.

      k.) It's okay to have passion, but it's not okay to be fanatical.

      I could keep going, but these are the big ones. The most most most important one is to treat her like a friend, not like you're applying for the job of boyfriend.
      • All of this pre-supposes that someone is capable of getting a date. I'll agree that in my limited experience with (a) woman, your advice sounds right to me, but as one of those poor bastards who define every bad stereotype about geeks (er, I do shower and groom at least daily. But all the other ones), let me just say the chances of getting so far as an actual "date" have a lot in common with quasars, nebulae and black holes.
        • "All of this pre-supposes that someone is capable of getting a date. I'll agree that in my limited experience with (a) woman, your advice sounds right to me, but as one of those poor bastards who define every bad stereotype about geeks (er, I do shower and groom at least daily. But all the other ones), let me just say the chances of getting so far as an actual "date" have a lot in common with quasars, nebulae and black holes."

          Not really true. The advice I mentioned isn't specifically intended for dating.
        • Successful dating requires two things:
          1. Practice
          2. Resilience

          That's right, number 2 means you have to lose your fear of rejection. When you leanred to walk, when you learned to ride a bike, did you ever fall? And after that did you give up and never try again? Of course not. You got right back up again and again until you got it right. You will need to do the same for dating.

          Dating is a skill that needs to be learned through practice. This way, you can not only learn how to be yourself in a way that does

      • Or hey, you could just

        a.) Not try to follow a list of rules that assumes that all women are exactly the same, and just be yourself.

        Unless you just want sex, but in that case you might as well get a prostitute.

        Rob (Maybe it's a crazy idea, I dunno)
        • Why Not "Just Be Yourself" [sosuave.com]

          And apart from navigating that site there's also "Fast Seduction 101: Art of Pick-up and Seduction" [fastseduction.com] that could also help you get laid.

          It's not to be taken as a ruleset, it's like shaking your social world's knowledge and take a new view that not only conforms with what you think is right but also with can work for you.

          But whatever you do don't say "Just be yourself", it's the lamest thing I've heard and I'm glad I'm past that thing. Hey, it doesn't mean I'm not myself, it simpl
          • In the post that you replied to:

            Unless you just want sex, but in that case you might as well get a prostitute.

            That is to say, if you're looking for a serious relationship, not being yourself is pointless. A relationship that's based upon lying about who you really are doesn't work very well.

            Rob
      • You guys are taking girl advice from this guy? Here's an excerpt from his livejournal [livejournal.com]:

        "I drove a coworker/good friend home tonight. On the way back, I got to thinking about all the times I've been called a dork. On every single occasion, I had done something really funny, usually embarrasing. "I'm proud to be a dork!" I thought to myself. I had a pretty good drum solo going on against my steering wheel. I stopped at the light and there was a car next to me. From the angle, I could see a little bit of the

      • What the? (Score:2, Insightful)

        by sassamifrass ( 520217 )
        Don't talk about Star Trek, Slashdot, Linux, or quote Monty Python. They don't have the slightest interest in any of those topics

        Dear God no, I'd never date a man who had never heard of Monty Python or Linux. Not all girls are the same, there is no topic that is either perfect for/disasterous for a conversation like that. If you think every girl on the planet has the same interests, you've got some re-thinking to do my friend.
        • "If you think every girl on the planet has the same interests, you've got some re-thinking to do my friend."

          Gimme some credit, will ya? I couldn't possibly come up with a generalization that would encompass every last female on this planet. Given that, why would it be assumed that I meant everybody as opposed to playing the odds? Additionally, why is assumed that this guideline must be strictly followed even after it is discovered the femme likes Monty Python? Heh.

      • If I go out on a date with a guy he better be ready to talk about slashdot and Linux, or that will be our last date!
      • > Don't talk about Star Trek, Slashdot, Linux, or quote Monty Python. [Women] don't have the slightest interest in any of those topics

        Then what's the point of dating them? Teh boobies am teh r0x0r, but that's what the intarweb is for.

        Seriously. I, too, haven't had human contact beyond a business handshake in living memory. And y'know what? I'm just fine with that. Human contact is overrated. I enjoy the omnipresent booth-babe eye candy as much as the next geek, and can I appreciate and re

    • "The question is, what does one do about it?"

      uhhh... stop playing video games?
    • ... that "demographics" have led developers to think that most gamers are in their 20's or 30's so they should make more 'mature' games. This of course leads to the article's problem, gamers supposedly 'objectifing' women. True women at times have been major... topics of discussion, but whens the last time someone went out and bought a copy of the horribly buggy Tomb Raider : Angel of Darkness over Half-Life just because Gordon Freeman was male?

      The second major problem is too much media coverage on booth ba

  • Am I the Only One (Score:4, Insightful)

    by Cornflake917 ( 515940 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:05PM (#9586048) Homepage
    ...that finds these girls, for the most part, unattractive? I suppose a few of them have good bodies. But none of them would make me "shake when I put my arms around them." I can't believe there are actaully guys who are that deprived. I think it's a very inaccurate stereotype that "nerds" don't get any action. I find that most girls are very attracted to intelligence and to guys with a passion for technology.

    If you're one of these guys who goes to E3 conventions and freak out around girls that are halfway attractive. Do us slashdotters a favor and stop giving us a bad name by freaking out these poor women! At least pretend that you've touched a girl before or something.
    • Well, they're not hideous. But I'd agree with you.

      And neither of us went to E3, did we.

    • While I agree about the nerd stereotype, I think there's a slightly more relevant and serious problem. Such as, you know, our widespread acceptance of gaming companies using 'booth babes' as their primary way of advertising everything from Laura Croft to Tetris.

      IF you want to get rid of their sterotype of nerds not getting and 'action', perhaps the solution is to stop driving away all the female nerds. Even if they don't care about the stereotype, stop bloody supporting this idiocy.

    • What's your proof that women dig intelligence? (Score:5, Interesting)

      by GuyMannDude ( 574364 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @06:19PM (#9586802) Journal

      I find that most girls are very attracted to intelligence and to guys with a passion for technology.

      Would you mind tell us how you came to this determination? I'm not being an ass; I really want to know. I've never found any indication that this is true of "most girls" like you suggest. Oh sure, I find lots of women who claim they are attracted to intelligence. But I think many say this because it sounds a lot better than stating that they are attracted to good-looking morons. There's also a question of what they mean by "intelligence". Many people (not just women) seem to think that those people on Jeopardy who have crammed tons of useless trivia into their heads and can regurgitate it at will are intelligent.

      While I am not a techie, I am a mathematician. And you know what? When I tell women that I'm a mathematician, they give me an obligatory "ooh" or something along like that before starting to tell me about how much they suck at math or hate math or didn't understand math. That's pretty much where the conversation ends. Sometimes, I'll get someone who still wants to know more about what I'm working on. But even that conversation doesn't go on for very long.

      I'm sure some here will argue that it's unfair to expect a non-scientist to ask too many questions of a mathematician they are meeting socially because there is such a large barrier to entry in the field. I disagree. Hell, I don't know shit about marketing but when some woman tells me that she works in marketing I can ask enough questions to keep the converstation going. Hell, even generic questions like "Can you describe for me what a typical day at work for you entails?" or "How much interaction do you have with coworkers/bosses/customers?" or "How much stress is involved?" It's hard to take their lack-of-questioning to be an indication that they are secretly attracted to my intelligence.

      Again, I'd really like to hear how you came to the conclusion that women are "very attracted to intelligence and to guys with a passion for technology." I haven't really seen any clear evidence of that. I think the women are mostly looking for someone who is (a) kind, (b) stable, and (c) fun to be with. I don't think your IQ or ability to recompile your linux kernal really enters their decision process to any signficant degree.

      GMD

      • You bring up a very good point. As I was writing the sentence you quoted, I was thinking to myself that's not a completely valid statement. Now that I give it more thought I know a shitload of girls that are dating guys who don't seem to have a shred of intelligence located within them.

        But I think a more accurate statement would be "Girls are very attracted to guys with alot of money" or perhaps "guys who are really talented at something." I realize that intelligence isn't always proportional to how muc

      • Re:What's your proof that women dig intelligence? (Score:4, Interesting)

        by real_smiff ( 611054 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @07:11PM (#9587349)
        i think what you're missing is that there's many kinds of intelligence that people can have. i think when women say they want an intelligent guy, it usually means witty, observant, sensitive and things like this. *not* a walking encyclopedia, or even someone who is any good at academic work at all. being good with your hands (no double entendre intended) is one example, being practical and so on. if you think about it (to get deep), evolution has favoured women who went for these sort of things. oog oog ape man. console yourself with the thought that being a mathematician is such a recent idea that women haven't had a chance to catch up ;). i am not an expert on sexual attraction.
      • Women are first and foremost attracted to confidence. If you're confident and you can project your intelligence through humor then that's a winning combination.

        It's the explanation to the old "nice guys finish last, but the assholes get all the women". Women don't always interpret that behavior as that of an asshole... she'll most likely see that as confident behavior and *that* more than anything is what scores the babes.

      • It was Einstien, that I recall, that started this trend of women being purely attracted to intelligence. The women flocked to him all the time, he was Hugh Heffner of the science world. All of this occurred before Playboy, at which point women just sold out to men with lots of money. So before, it was all about "EM^2" and then Heff ruined with those damn cute bunny outfits.

        DAMN YOU HEFF!

        /Sarcasm

      • When I tell women that I'm a mathematician, they give me an obligatory "ooh" or something along like that before starting to tell me about how much they suck at math or hate math or didn't understand math. That's pretty much where the conversation ends.

        Yes, all women! Even the ones who are into math! Oh, wait.

        But stereotyping aside: you should read this node [everything2.com]. I particularly like the assertion that being "bad at math" is fine, but claiming to be illiterate just gets you blank stares (and, fifty years ago

    • In fact... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by Thedalek ( 473015 )
      I'm probably going to get labeled as gay for this, but:

      I have been to E3 once. I have met these booth babes. I still recoil at calling them that.

      I find the booth girls actively repulsive, not due to how they look, but how obviously false they are. I value honesty over pleasantries, and truth over superficial beauty.

      No, I'm not gay. In fact, I'm rather solidly hetero. However, I'm not going to set myself up for disappointment by investing any amount of emotion or biological impulse in someone who so

      • Re:In fact... (Score:3, Insightful)

        by Lemmy Caution ( 8378 )
        Um, the point seems to have flown completely over your head.

        The piece was largely about just how human the booth babes were. They had jobs that presented them as mindless pieces of meat, but the interviewer went passed it. The main story is how stilted geek-sexuality is and how it ends up framing the question of gender among geeks as "how do I get a girlfriend" and "what kind of girl do I like."

        The booth babes are the nth degree example of positioning women entirely in terms of male desire instead of bein
        • It's times like this that I wish I had a way of embedding sound files in a post. A gameshow-like buzzer sound would work right about now.

          The booth babes do not have to be "pleasant, attractive, and vaguely sexualized" to me, because I'd rather simply have a video game expo be about (say it with me) video games!

          I don't expect them to like me. I don't expect them to be cuddly with me. I expect them to not be there, getting in the way of the product they're meant to be selling.
          • I don't want them to be there, either. I don't like pandering and hype (what was I doing at E3? That's a good question - ultimately, I realized that it's about meeting other people in the media, and in the industry, which is why I try not to spend too much time on the floor.) That's not the point. The point is that you are attributing to them the characteristics that they are being projected onto them by the situation they are in. The author's approach - treating their presence as symptomatic of a wider dy

      • Let me get this straight. You've been to *one* E3, and in your time there you discovered that all booth girls are "actively repulsive," dishonest, and superficial?

        Two points:

        1) These girls are *working*. They are paid models advertising a product - period. The fact that you feel that this somehow involves having you "invest emotion or biological impulse" in them speaks volumes about how you deal with women. If you can't even say hi to a chick in a goofy costume without "setting yourself up for disappointm
      • > I find the booth girls actively repulsive, not due to how they look, but how obviously false they are. I value honesty over pleasantries, and truth over superficial beauty.
        >
        >No, I'm not gay. In fact, I'm rather solidly hetero. However, I'm not going to set myself up for disappointment by investing any amount of emotion or biological impulse in someone who so obviously merely tolerates my existance.

        The most fun coverage I ever saw of E3 was some TV show for gamers. The news crew started a

  • Fess up (Score:5, Funny)

    by NanoGator ( 522640 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:15PM (#9586148) Homepage Journal
    " it's funny when guys come up to me and tell me that it's their first time touching a girl."

    Okay, time to come clean. Which one of you was it?

  • I love the Simpsons (Score:3, Funny)

    by jman251 ( 320040 ) <foremaster&suu,edu> on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:33PM (#9586337)
    (Voice of Comic book guy) "So, do you like ... comic books?"

  • A close friend of mine was an E3 booth babe (Score:4, Interesting)

    by daviddennis ( 10926 ) * <david@amazing.com> on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:38PM (#9586376) Homepage
    Not one of the front-rankers, she said, but she had to admit that she thrived on the male attention. It was just a great big high for her.

    She had a good time, but at the end of the day it was exhausting - 12 hour days on your feet will do that to you. File it under the kind of experience you're glad you had but not terribly keen to repeat.

    She said she was one of the few babes who didn't cut up the provided clothes to be sexier and I guess get more photo ops. It's pretty funny since a friend of mine hates her normal, um, lack of modesty in dress, so we were both thinking she would have gone to town on it.

    But she got plenty of attention anyway, and it definitely made her a little high on life for a while, which I cheerfully admit I enjoyed seeing.

    She had much more of a natural look than the booth babes I've seen in pictures. Curiously enough I felt she was much more attractive than the women who actually got photographed, but, well, that might have to do with her personality and 10,000 watt smile more than her looks. Not that the latter were deficient, you understand, but it's that personality that keeps me coming back for more.

    The game she was representing was someting called 25 to Life. Her comment was that I wouldn't like it. Smart girl; I have no interest whatsoever in killing people or pretending to kill people or being in the ghetto because it's "cool".

    I'd rather be in my house at the top of the hill with my PowerMac G5 and Cinema HD display.

    Why do people, in games and in music, find such repellant environments attractive?

    D

    • She said she was one of the few babes who didn't cut up the provided clothes to be sexier and I guess get more photo ops. It's pretty funny since a friend of mine hates her normal, um, lack of modesty in dress, so we were both thinking she would have gone to town on it.

      She had much more of a natural look than the booth babes I've seen in pictures. Curiously enough I felt she was much more attractive than the women who actually got photographed, but, well, that might have to do with her personality and 10,0

      • The first one's not her, but the natural look and lack of cut-up clothing are similar. (The second is much less close).

        I ran through the pictures, and although it's a little hard to tell with the bad lighting and what-not, I don't think any of them are of her.

        Maybe next year :-).

        D

    • Re:A close friend of mine was an E3 booth babe (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Pluvius ( 734915 ) <pluvius3&gmail,com> on Thursday July 01, 2004 @07:24PM (#9587451) Journal
      Why do people, in games and in music, find such repellant environments attractive?

      Because it's completely different from their daily lives, and video games are supposed to be escapist fantasy.

      Nice attempt at a threadjack, though.

      Rob
    • The game she was representing was someting called 25 to Life. Her comment was that I wouldn't like it. Smart girl; I have no interest whatsoever in killing people or pretending to kill people or being in the ghetto because it's "cool".

      That's probably because you aren't 13 years old.

      I'm not a big fan of being in the shoes of a gangsta living in the slums or something. I do, however, play violent fps's such as counter-strike or Unreal Tournament 2004. For me, the gore in these games are a very small reas

  • Foot in mouth... (Score:5, Funny)

    by km790816 ( 78280 ) <wqhq3gx02@@@sneakemail...com> on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:40PM (#9586395)
    I went to the GDC in San Jose in 2002. Almost every booth had a beautiful woman that would approach me when I walked by, give her little 30 second schpeel and then bring me to someone who "really" knew what they were talking about.

    I started getting cocking as I figured out how this worked (it was my first conference.)

    Late in the day I was looking through some literature at a booth and another beautiful woman approached me asking if I had any questions. I said that if I had any questions I'd find someone who "really" knows what they are talking about.

    Her reply: "Um, I'm the vice president."

    Ooops...

  • I read Slashdot for the articles! (Score:5, Funny)

    by phamlen ( 304054 ) <phamlen&mail,com> on Thursday July 01, 2004 @05:44PM (#9586435) Homepage
    Alright, fess up!

    How many of us read the article just to see the pictures of the booth babes?

  • I wonder... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Gogo Dodo ( 129808 ) on Thursday July 01, 2004 @08:48PM (#9588061)
    Was the only reason that the article author was able to get any information out of these booth babas was that she was a girl? I'm sure at least one of the booth babes has heard the "I'd like to do an article about you" line from somebody. Sure, her press credentials probably helped, too.

  • I have the opposite problem (Score:4, Interesting)

    by M3wThr33 ( 310489 ) on Friday July 02, 2004 @12:08AM (#9589205) Homepage
    Of the 5 years I have gone, three of them have been with my girlfriend. So it's a bit awkward being around her. Of course, if it's any X-Men or Roman person, SHE wants her picture taken.

  • Ultimate Pick Up Line! (Score:3, Funny)

    by Vincman ( 584156 ) <vincent.vanwylick@gmail . c om> on Friday July 02, 2004 @06:52AM (#9590530) Homepage
    "guys come up to me and tell me that it's their first time touching a girl."
    • --- Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.--

      This isn't all that useful to those of us who are not slugs and snails. If you're in either category, trying to pick up on booth babes is probably a mistake for you.

  • That's life for most women who model. Modelling is a good paying job for a few hundred women in NY and LA. Outside of that, models need day jobs.

    If you spend any time in LA, you'll meet actress/model/waitress types. I've had friends in that trap - a minor screen credit, a few TV commercials, occasional extra work, and a day job as a waitress. It's sad when they have the acting bug but can't break into the industry. Some spend years in that state, until they're over the hill and stuck in a low-paying j

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