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E3 2005 Booth Babe Hall of Shame
DanAckerman writes "GameGal.com offers some of the out-of-control examples of Booth Babe excess seen every year (five years running) at E3 in their annual Hall of Shame gallery." From the article: "They're smiling on the outside, but three days of snapping Poloroids with sweaty game geeks leads these girls to swear off Guild Wars forever."
...for a couple hours. She's a marketing manager for a large game company and volunteered to hand out t-shirts or some crap for a shift.
Sweaty, nasty geeks indeed. She said it was worse than you can imagine.
Can anyone else think of a better idea to get lonely gamers (the kind that would go to E3 to begin with) to check out their booth? These are just good looking girls is tight outfits. Depending on where you live, you can see that in any bar/club anyway. Just check out the girls that come around on promos or sell shots.
Most likely, they are girls that are looking for modeling/acting jobs. I guess that is a modeling job, but I guarantee they could make more money on the pole. At least strippers don't have to pose next to a fat bald guy so he can show the pictures to his friends as proof of his story that he made out with a hot chick.
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Would you feel the same way if a soapsuds company hired some Chippendale dancers to bump and grind in the aisles of your local grocery store to promote their product?
My guess: You'ld find it less than comfortable. The girls are just pointing out the same thing.
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Sorry retard. 'Nerds' have nothing to do with booth babes. In fact for most game companies a good percentage of the company doesn't even attend E3, let alone know about the company's E3 plans outside of what they are working on to demo at the show.
Booth babes are a marketing department phenomenon. And game company marketing departments have a high percentage of female staff - easily 50-50.
But thanks for sharing your inane opinion. Perhaps someday you'll actually land a testing job at a game company and see what they are really like inside.
Make sure to use the word 'nerds' when you do. You'll most likely get your ass kicked right there by one of those very 'nerds' right in front of his girlfriend before he drives off in his sports car for an expensive lunch...
I'm sorry ladies, but guys are very simple creatures, we like looking at semi-naked, good looking, women.
Want to know a secret? Girls like looking at good-looking naked guys, too. The fact that you believe they don't is why they're capable of controlling you.
Karma: Terrifying (mostly affected by atrocities you've committed)
And in my mind, going to a strip club isn't about getting your rocks off. It's about finding just how much you can embarass a girl with a dollar.
Perhaps you just have a very warped mind. I've been to several strip clubs in my town. The customers aren't allowed to touch the girls and don't get any closer than the girls want to let them. While I'm sure there's the occaisional smelly customer, most of the guys I see in the places are dressed pretty well and the worst smell you get is from the guys that wear too much cologne. My brother worked at a strip club for a couple years and dated a few of the strippers as well. They made good money, had a relatively easy job, and could afford to go to college. All in all, they're doing better than a lot of people I know. No idea why people don't seem to have much problem with women in bikinis at the beach, but feel that you're a slut or whore with no dignity if you show your nipples. What a fucked up country this is.
Don't forget 'cosplay', been around since forever, along with race bunnies, E3 looks tame compared to all the Asian gigs going on.
Mmmmm dressed up japanese chicks.... I'm going to live in asia forever.
Oh let's see how about the one I know that is doing it as a way of supporting herself through college. She's the one that was in foster care most of her life and did not have a mom's basement to crawl-out of and daddy to foot the bills. And guess what I have never seen her without her clothes on so it is not like it was a story she told me to hustle me for cash. Nope she is my wife's friend.
Or how about this one, another stripper working with the previous one. She is a single mom and her toddler has a dead beat dad. Dancing two nights a week for a basically guaranteed $4K (mostly tax free) a month is a great gig. Just drop the kid off at grandma's to work and tan.
It's about finding just how much you can embarass a girl with a dollar.
You are VERY screwed-up, completely warped :( You think you are embarrassing them? I have news for you crap for brains, they are hustling you for your money, you are the mark, they are in complete control of you.
BTW the smelly guys are a real problem. That and the bruises and scratches from bumping into stuff while dancing are the biggest complaints according to my wife's friend :)