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Good Riddance To Booth Babes

Posted by Zonk on from the they-could-be-fining-folks-that-dress-poorly dept.

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."

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  1. Who did... by Tom · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...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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  2. Good grief... by Lord_Pain · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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  3. I think your boss was giving you a come-on... by Thud457 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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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