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Good Riddance To Booth Babes
Colin Campbell has an editorial at Next Generation in which he applauds the decision to fine risque outfits worn by the traditional 'booth babes'. From the article: "Exhibitors at E3 employ a whole range of human beings to attract attention to their booths and excitement to their live events. The ones who attract the largest crowds are either celebrities (fair enough), well-loved industry-creatives (quite right) or so-called 'booth-babes', often behaving in ways that at least mimic the lowest sort of strip joint. People do not dress this way in normal life, not even in Los Angeles. There are some companies that seem more susceptible to this kind of technique than others. It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense."
...put a stick up that guy's ass? I've locked at the article, I've locked a a few pages of booth babes pictures - and I wonder if "risque outfit" has the same definition in american dictionaries as in mine.
All of these girls are fully and appropriately dressed. Aside from the fact that they have logos all over and some of them are wearing obvious custumes, the only reason any of them would be looked at even twice if they were to, say, go shopping in the center of my city tomorrow was because it doesn't fit to the damn cold.
I've seen much more revealing outfits at pretty much every party and not few during normal summer shopping.
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You and your christian conservative buddies are (agressively) pushing your moral agenda: you don't want other people to look at things you disapprove of so you try to get them banned. I don't mind you disapproving of things in private, I do mind you imposing your morality onto me and other less narrow minded people. You don't have to go to e3, nobody's forcing you. If you go there, you know what to expect. E3 boothbabes are a hugely popular attraction of the event (for obvious reasons). Trust me, most guys there don't mind them at all (including most of those who say they do take offense).
I'd be much more understanding if you were critical of minors playing with ultra violent games at such conventions. Boothbabes no (no nipple in sight, just the odd cameltoe) , ultra realistic headshots (highly detailed gore) yes. The same people taking offense at a nipple on tv buy their 10 year old kid highly violent games. IMHO conservative America is full of shit.
One thing makes me wonder why? and really why did they do this? dod some kid complain that he saw too many "nice looking" (American style) girls. This type of thing would only happen in America.any other country wouldnt care about girls that actually have cloths on that dont show private parts. Are they now going to make the "family restraunt" HOOTERS girls dress different now too? WTF? We have gone past being PC with this. There has to be a way to shelter kids from girls with big racks with out affecting us people that dont care.. oh yeah pock their eyes out... that might work. or provide blind folds for people when they come into the expo.
It's difficult to imagine, say, EA or Sony or Microsoft or Nintendo bothering with this nonsense.
Has this fool played any games from the last 15 years? How many of those games have women in skimpy outfits? How many of those game women are horny developers' wet dreams?
Please! These booth babes are just a reflection of what's in the bloody games!
Pretentious fool.
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Yet strangely, valve nipples will give you fourteen pages of mostly-relevant images, with no spurious mammalian protuberances to be found.
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