It's not a Jew conspiracy thing. The disconnect is in the writer's glory being usurped by the director. I wrote an absolutely brilliant screenplay. I've written several scripts that can best be described as quick paydays, but this one is a once-in-a-lifetime fluke. And if it ever goes into production? The average shitsock who goes to the multiplex will think the director wrote it. Sickening.
Formula has its place - sometimes, if done well, formula can make for a great hour and 45 to two hours. Mission Impossible 3 was a great recent example of that. Horror films, my guilty pleasure, are DESIGNED to be like a ritual. But there is just a lack of interest in coming up with new ideas. Maybe because the established studio guys know it'd be the same amount of money to write a generic fluff piece than to write an innovative story that knocks the socks off. There is no profit sharing program for writers. THAT is why you see such shite.
The reason for this is that writers are shit on by the Hollywood system. Honestly. Alex Garland was given 1m to write the Halo script. I guarantee you that the director, stars, hell - even some producers will make more on that film than the writer. Writers in general have no real incentive to make a script good after getting "in the door," simply because they a) are paid the lowest of any creative professional in tinseltown, and b) don't see an extra dime if the film does well.
It's bullshit, especially because good direction can never save a shitty script. Directors - especially on the indie circuit - are egocentric little sods who go on and on about "communicating" their "vision." It really is like the director thinks it is "*their* movie. Why do you think so many decent writers want to direct? Not all of them are qualified, but it's the only way to get any goddamn respect.
I'm in the process of putting together an independent feature, and I can tell you, the director of the piece has been nothing but a liability. I keep him around because he's got some very good contacts and is an amazing bullshit artist (which will come in handy when it comes time to go to festival), but he acts as if I'm "just the writer." His attitude cost us when his little "I am worth so much" tirade turned off a wealthy relative to financing us. Now, we're running on sweat and blood. He pulled a Troy Duffy.
Writers OUGHT to fucking strike their asses off until they are given the same respect - if not more - that is given to directors.
Bad argument. If you own a car, you are expected to know how to perform basic maintenance. It's a tool, and you want it to "just work," but you should at least to know how to put gas in the car, check the oil, and squeegee the windshield from time to time.
Likewise, anyone who cannot bother to run an antivirus, not download strange email attachments, and click every "hot call girls" banner that pops up shouldn't own such a complex machine until they are willing to put some basic effort into learning how to use it properly.
I think the biggest problem is that gaming as a medium isn't very conductive to being watched. That's why you see so much bullshit around the spectacle, as opposed to the actual gaming. There are cheerleaders in football, sure. But the action on the field is the focus. The same cannot be said for gaming, where the girl with the cheerleader looks gets the sponsorship, even if she can't tell a motherboard from a twinkie.
How can anyone take this seriously as sport? Smokescreens and lightshows and sponsorships are all part of any sufficiently advanced league, I suppose, but when the core of the activity is dependent on such cheap diversions to generate its excitement, you're left with a poor concept.
At the end of the day, you are manipulating a computer program. You may be among the very best in the world at manipulating said program, but it is still manipulating a program, and unlike sporting, any lazy couch potato in the world could actually be playing instead of watching you do the same.
Then again, Survivor is in its umpteenth season, so it's obvious my finger isn't on the pulse of "middle America."
It's not public accommodations. It's a private subscription based service for a video game. This isn't like being told to get off the bus because you like buttsex.
1, 2 and 4 are all examples of you giving the masses too much credit, my friend. Since when does Joe Shitfuck give a damn about what is more elegant or intuitive? Everyone would own iPods and macs if this were true, and nobody would use shit sites like Ebaums. Everyone would take the time to learn how to make their own blog hosted on a server. People would, given the opportunity to post on a medium where millions of people could potentially read what they write, go out of their way to not look like a fucking tard.
I do think you have a point with number three, and that'll be what causes the downfall of that horrible Internet cancer we call Myspace. When I started using the net heavily in 98, you could easily go on the find-a-buddy search of any major IM client and find an actual person to talk to. Hundreds of them, in fact. And, back then, many of them actually had some form of intellect. Now we live in the days of Nascar branded machines and Disney Dream Desks, however, and any illiterate asshole can get online with a sub 300$ machine, so that's not so much the case. Social networking tools are only as high quality as the people who use them, and it's because of this that the Internet as a whole has pretty much become a giant version of Geocites or Tripod.
There is an upside to this, though, if you can call it that. You can bet your ass that eventually, all these spam accounts will cause the user base to abandon ship, and Myspace will be forced to reveal its true identity as nothing more than a shallow marketing tool to cater to the lowest common denominators on the WWW. Myspace is nothing more than the Internet's version of MTV, but an interactive version which means that particular fanbase can contribute to the unreadable, unintelligible absurdity, rather than just chugging it down like a good consumer whore. A similar fate happened to just about all the major IM clients because of casino and porno bots, even though they used to be THE way to find people online, and as we all know, history repeats itself.
You'll excuse me if I take this opinion about the lack of American culture with a grain of salt, given the fact you have a permanent link to a fucking DBZ site in your header and sig!
Honestly, Jackson personifies what is wrong with the current state of Hollywood. A graduate of the George Lucas school of filmmaking (BIGGER IS ALWAYS BETTER), he decided the best way to follow up a movie trilogy lasting 12+ hours was to remake an 88 minute movie about a giant ape into a THREE HOUR EPIC.
Please, give me a break. We all know you're good with a camera. Now try to learn about telling a story with some efficiency. If your movie is going to be nothing but 3 hours of Weta jerking themselves off on film, why not just make your movie a video game and be done with it?
Oh, wait, they did make Kong into a game, and it was so good and so immersive in ways the movie never could have been (especially in HD + 5.1) that after playing, I don't care if I EVER see the movie. If I'm going to watch a three hour movie, it better be more than just "kill/evade exotic beasts on a remote island, reach the boss lair, save the princess." If that's your storyline, what you have is a video game, not a movie.
Now, I'll wait for all the slashtrolls to come out and wave all the money Kong made in my face; as if that's any measure of the product's actual quality.
But Google's image search doesn't check to see if a site is acting legally. It simply indexes what it finds. If Perfect 10 wants to sue someone, they should sue the people putting those pictures up to be indexed/thumbnailed in the first place. It's not the job of a search engine that crawls millions of pages a day to figure out if every site it indexes is respecting your copyrights.
...in 2006, who the fuck is dumb enough to PAY for jerk off material?:p
On topic, Google can't possibly be held responsible for the actions of these sites. That's like the RIAA/MPAA forcing them to remove all links to any warez sites.
I agree, there is no 'need'. However music is an art and art doesn't (or at least shouldn't) worry about 'need'. It is an expression of the artist's vision. If the artist sees the value of a surround mix, then to me it is a valid form of expression.
Oh yeah? If the artist's "vision" means that the distribution media/format is going to cost double the price of an already overpriced CD, he'll be sharing that vision with very few people.
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Home theater is a 50in. Hitachi LCD projection TV with a Onyko sound system. A modded Xbox is set up to work with the video on my desktop, plus I have a Xbox 360 and a HD DVR box.
All this is powered by a Linksys wireless router with firewall. I keep the wifi open and only share things over the network that I don't mind people copying. If you want to "borrow" those firefly rips, be my guest;)
Since the iPod uses a proprietary connection to interface with the computer, wouldn't it be smarter (and less hassling to employees) to just ban bringing the Pod-to-USB (firewire) cord?
If you want to keep your kid from playing video games, why lug out the entire system when all you have to do is take the power cord?
At least Doom made an EFFORT to replicate the game on film. Yes, they changed the thing about hell to something about zombies. Yes, they forgot to put in a Cyberdemon.
But it still took place on Phobos, still got in shots of all the required guns and enemies STRAIGHT FROM THE GAME, and even had an ENTIRE SUBPLOT revolve around Sarge's search for the BFG-9000. There were plenty of in-jokes for fans, like Karl Urban's character being named John, a dead scientist named Carmack, and Rock's utterance of the three words we were all waiting to hear once he found the BFG - the computer monitor might call it the Bio Force Gun, but we at least got to HEAR it get called the Big Fucking Gun.
On top of that, I remember reading in an interview with someone from ID that the producers actually used art design from Doom 3 as a basis for the set design. You know what? It shows. The overhead lighting above doors, the fonts, everything seems ripped out of the game and come to life on screen - which is the WAY IT SHOULD BE.
Was Doom high art? No. But it was awesome, awesome Nerd Porn, which is exactly what a good video game movie SHOULD be, and my friends and I had a great time sitting in the theater picking out all the references to the game we know and love. Boll has yet to accomplish this.
You have no "inalienable rights" to express your sexuality in a fucking online video game run by a private entity. This isn't being discriminated against for a job, or a straight only lunch counter, or whatever. Again, this is an online video game. Period. Instead of sending "strongly worded letters" over this, why doesn't the spokesperson suggest a boycott of the game by any who feel offended or "persecuted," and suggest alternative MMORPGS where the offended can take their business if they feel Blizzard doesn't want it.
Oh, wait, that wouldn't garner these kinds of headlines... my bad.
Gays and lesbians in America have many legitimate concerns and gripes. (Read the previous sentence three times, slashbot mafia, before you mod me down on impulse...) This ain't one of em, and only makes the rest of their cause look cheap by association.
How in the bloody fuck is this trolling? I don't believe in the "gay agenda" conspiracy theory, but "gay moderation mafia?" Perhaps..
Nobody is forcing them to pay 14 bucks a month for a game. EQ, EQ2, SWG, and any other number of mmorpgs are waiting in the wings. What they really ought to do is get rid of the stupid concept of marriage in online games altogether, that way nobody can develop a persecution complex.
You must be reading a different statement, because I never even mentioned any of those things. Everyone's life has drama. The point is that a private company telling you that you can't bring yours into an online video game does not constitute persecution. Please, come off the cross.
Tell me this: what would happen if someone started a "straight pride" guild? What about a white power guild? The same effect, I'm sure. And, I'm sure there would be NO repercussions at all if someone held a "straight pride" parade, right?:rolleyes:
How can anyone take the gay/lesbian community seriously when this is the kind of shit they're up in arms about? Does the fact that people in an ONLINE VIDEO GAME use "fag" as everything from a vague insult to a greeting require a goddamned parade from you people?
Yes, we know there are republican inbreeds that will beat you to death for "bein' queer." Yes, that's a terrible thing. But holy soap on a roap, Batman, I wouldn't start crying persecution if some asshole in an online game called me a drunken Irishman. This isn't a civil rights struggle. This isn't a battle for equal rights in civil unions. Blizzard saying "don't bring your sexual orientation into our game" isn't going to result in "straight only" lunch counters any time soon. Pick your battles people, seriously.
In closing, when you define your entire life by what you like to fuck, even to the point of bringing your fucking drama into an ONLINE GAME, it really ought to not be a shock why people look down upon you.
Ahem... now excuse me while I go jump into my flame-resistant jammies.
This kind of shit really does sadden me as a gamer. We have a medium that sets itself apart from every other medium on earth in hundreds of different, subtle ways; and yet what does our beloved industry do? They pull the same shit gimmicks that the film and music guys do. LOL HEY HUGE PARTIES AND SLUTS AND HEY CONCERTS and uh... yeah, the product is over there, if you want to look...
It's always great when I see my fellow game journalists write about how gaming isn't "taken seriously" by the mainstream media. Of course, these same people then write a review about Need For Speed Most Wanted where they spend more time making childish sexual puns about Josie Maran than covering the actual game. Then, they'll make a 30-40 page special feature about E3, with only 10 or so pages of game coverage, the rest devoted to shit like multi-page spreads of booth skanks or HEY SONY THREW A PARTY AT A HOTEL AND 50 CENT PERFORMED LOL or OMG TOM CRUISE WAS AT E3.
Lovely, really. And by lovely, I mean fucking pathetic. Sadly, I might be in the minority here, but when I pick up a feature piece on E3, I don't care about vapid celebrities whoring for print space or brainless models dressed up like Bloodrayne. I care about the fucking games, you sods. I have the Internet; if I wanted beat off material, I'd go to empornium, not EB's newsstand. If I ever actually wanted to know what Paris Hilton is doing, the idiot box is sitting in the corner of my room, and it gets E!
If this is the attitude gamers, gaming press and game companies alike have, then truly, we don't deserve any respect at all. Or dates, for that matter.
Developers/publishers: If you need dozens of women and a rap concert and an open bar to sell your game, then that makes me think there's probably something lacking in your actual product and thus makes me less likely to want to go anywhere near it.
Press: You're not goddamned maxim, fhm, or any other of those shit rags - stop taking photos of ever harpy dressed like a game character you see and start putting in more screenshots. Use the space you clear up by trimming down on celebrity shit to put in more things like developer interviews and the like.
And finally, for my gaming brethren, yes, women have breasts. Get over it.
Give me a break. They're being paid thousands of dollars a day just to stand around and look pretty. They ought to be glad they live in a society where being worthless can get you a payday that nice as long as you have big cans.
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It's not a Jew conspiracy thing. The disconnect is in the writer's glory being usurped by the director. I wrote an absolutely brilliant screenplay. I've written several scripts that can best be described as quick paydays, but this one is a once-in-a-lifetime fluke. And if it ever goes into production? The average shitsock who goes to the multiplex will think the director wrote it. Sickening.
Formula has its place - sometimes, if done well, formula can make for a great hour and 45 to two hours. Mission Impossible 3 was a great recent example of that. Horror films, my guilty pleasure, are DESIGNED to be like a ritual. But there is just a lack of interest in coming up with new ideas. Maybe because the established studio guys know it'd be the same amount of money to write a generic fluff piece than to write an innovative story that knocks the socks off. There is no profit sharing program for writers. THAT is why you see such shite.
It's bullshit, especially because good direction can never save a shitty script. Directors - especially on the indie circuit - are egocentric little sods who go on and on about "communicating" their "vision." It really is like the director thinks it is "*their* movie. Why do you think so many decent writers want to direct? Not all of them are qualified, but it's the only way to get any goddamn respect.
I'm in the process of putting together an independent feature, and I can tell you, the director of the piece has been nothing but a liability. I keep him around because he's got some very good contacts and is an amazing bullshit artist (which will come in handy when it comes time to go to festival), but he acts as if I'm "just the writer." His attitude cost us when his little "I am worth so much" tirade turned off a wealthy relative to financing us. Now, we're running on sweat and blood. He pulled a Troy Duffy.
Writers OUGHT to fucking strike their asses off until they are given the same respect - if not more - that is given to directors.
Likewise, anyone who cannot bother to run an antivirus, not download strange email attachments, and click every "hot call girls" banner that pops up shouldn't own such a complex machine until they are willing to put some basic effort into learning how to use it properly.
Uh, it's not a choice when you need food and shelter and other shit to live, fucknut. Must be nice to be a trust fund baby.
I think the biggest problem is that gaming as a medium isn't very conductive to being watched. That's why you see so much bullshit around the spectacle, as opposed to the actual gaming. There are cheerleaders in football, sure. But the action on the field is the focus. The same cannot be said for gaming, where the girl with the cheerleader looks gets the sponsorship, even if she can't tell a motherboard from a twinkie.
How can anyone take this seriously as sport? Smokescreens and lightshows and sponsorships are all part of any sufficiently advanced league, I suppose, but when the core of the activity is dependent on such cheap diversions to generate its excitement, you're left with a poor concept.
At the end of the day, you are manipulating a computer program. You may be among the very best in the world at manipulating said program, but it is still manipulating a program, and unlike sporting, any lazy couch potato in the world could actually be playing instead of watching you do the same.
Then again, Survivor is in its umpteenth season, so it's obvious my finger isn't on the pulse of "middle America."
Good thing I very much like it that way.
It's not public accommodations. It's a private subscription based service for a video game. This isn't like being told to get off the bus because you like buttsex.
Your screenname has the word queef in it. I'm supposed to take this shit seriously, troll?
1, 2 and 4 are all examples of you giving the masses too much credit, my friend. Since when does Joe Shitfuck give a damn about what is more elegant or intuitive? Everyone would own iPods and macs if this were true, and nobody would use shit sites like Ebaums. Everyone would take the time to learn how to make their own blog hosted on a server. People would, given the opportunity to post on a medium where millions of people could potentially read what they write, go out of their way to not look like a fucking tard.
I do think you have a point with number three, and that'll be what causes the downfall of that horrible Internet cancer we call Myspace. When I started using the net heavily in 98, you could easily go on the find-a-buddy search of any major IM client and find an actual person to talk to. Hundreds of them, in fact. And, back then, many of them actually had some form of intellect. Now we live in the days of Nascar branded machines and Disney Dream Desks, however, and any illiterate asshole can get online with a sub 300$ machine, so that's not so much the case. Social networking tools are only as high quality as the people who use them, and it's because of this that the Internet as a whole has pretty much become a giant version of Geocites or Tripod.
There is an upside to this, though, if you can call it that. You can bet your ass that eventually, all these spam accounts will cause the user base to abandon ship, and Myspace will be forced to reveal its true identity as nothing more than a shallow marketing tool to cater to the lowest common denominators on the WWW. Myspace is nothing more than the Internet's version of MTV, but an interactive version which means that particular fanbase can contribute to the unreadable, unintelligible absurdity, rather than just chugging it down like a good consumer whore. A similar fate happened to just about all the major IM clients because of casino and porno bots, even though they used to be THE way to find people online, and as we all know, history repeats itself.
You'll excuse me if I take this opinion about the lack of American culture with a grain of salt, given the fact you have a permanent link to a fucking DBZ site in your header and sig!
Honestly, Jackson personifies what is wrong with the current state of Hollywood. A graduate of the George Lucas school of filmmaking (BIGGER IS ALWAYS BETTER), he decided the best way to follow up a movie trilogy lasting 12+ hours was to remake an 88 minute movie about a giant ape into a THREE HOUR EPIC.
Please, give me a break. We all know you're good with a camera. Now try to learn about telling a story with some efficiency. If your movie is going to be nothing but 3 hours of Weta jerking themselves off on film, why not just make your movie a video game and be done with it?
Oh, wait, they did make Kong into a game, and it was so good and so immersive in ways the movie never could have been (especially in HD + 5.1) that after playing, I don't care if I EVER see the movie. If I'm going to watch a three hour movie, it better be more than just "kill/evade exotic beasts on a remote island, reach the boss lair, save the princess." If that's your storyline, what you have is a video game, not a movie.
Now, I'll wait for all the slashtrolls to come out and wave all the money Kong made in my face; as if that's any measure of the product's actual quality.
But Google's image search doesn't check to see if a site is acting legally. It simply indexes what it finds. If Perfect 10 wants to sue someone, they should sue the people putting those pictures up to be indexed/thumbnailed in the first place. It's not the job of a search engine that crawls millions of pages a day to figure out if every site it indexes is respecting your copyrights.
...in 2006, who the fuck is dumb enough to PAY for jerk off material? :p
On topic, Google can't possibly be held responsible for the actions of these sites. That's like the RIAA/MPAA forcing them to remove all links to any warez sites.
Of course, I may just be giving them ideas...
I agree, there is no 'need'. However music is an art and art doesn't (or at least shouldn't) worry about 'need'. It is an expression of the artist's vision. If the artist sees the value of a surround mix, then to me it is a valid form of expression. Oh yeah? If the artist's "vision" means that the distribution media/format is going to cost double the price of an already overpriced CD, he'll be sharing that vision with very few people.
Laptop: 1.8 ghz Celeron / 1gb ram / 80gb HD / Mobile Radeon 9700 (128mb)
Backup drive for media: 500 gb Lacie external disk
Video editing disk: 300 gb Maxtor one-touch
Home theater is a 50in. Hitachi LCD projection TV with a Onyko sound system. A modded Xbox is set up to work with the video on my desktop, plus I have a Xbox 360 and a HD DVR box.
All this is powered by a Linksys wireless router with firewall. I keep the wifi open and only share things over the network that I don't mind people copying. If you want to "borrow" those firefly rips, be my guest ;)
Since the iPod uses a proprietary connection to interface with the computer, wouldn't it be smarter (and less hassling to employees) to just ban bringing the Pod-to-USB (firewire) cord? If you want to keep your kid from playing video games, why lug out the entire system when all you have to do is take the power cord?
At least Doom made an EFFORT to replicate the game on film. Yes, they changed the thing about hell to something about zombies. Yes, they forgot to put in a Cyberdemon.
But it still took place on Phobos, still got in shots of all the required guns and enemies STRAIGHT FROM THE GAME, and even had an ENTIRE SUBPLOT revolve around Sarge's search for the BFG-9000. There were plenty of in-jokes for fans, like Karl Urban's character being named John, a dead scientist named Carmack, and Rock's utterance of the three words we were all waiting to hear once he found the BFG - the computer monitor might call it the Bio Force Gun, but we at least got to HEAR it get called the Big Fucking Gun.
On top of that, I remember reading in an interview with someone from ID that the producers actually used art design from Doom 3 as a basis for the set design. You know what? It shows. The overhead lighting above doors, the fonts, everything seems ripped out of the game and come to life on screen - which is the WAY IT SHOULD BE.
Was Doom high art? No. But it was awesome, awesome Nerd Porn, which is exactly what a good video game movie SHOULD be, and my friends and I had a great time sitting in the theater picking out all the references to the game we know and love. Boll has yet to accomplish this.
Fuck, I wish I had mod points...
You have no "inalienable rights" to express your sexuality in a fucking online video game run by a private entity. This isn't being discriminated against for a job, or a straight only lunch counter, or whatever. Again, this is an online video game. Period. Instead of sending "strongly worded letters" over this, why doesn't the spokesperson suggest a boycott of the game by any who feel offended or "persecuted," and suggest alternative MMORPGS where the offended can take their business if they feel Blizzard doesn't want it.
Oh, wait, that wouldn't garner these kinds of headlines... my bad.
Gays and lesbians in America have many legitimate concerns and gripes. (Read the previous sentence three times, slashbot mafia, before you mod me down on impulse...) This ain't one of em, and only makes the rest of their cause look cheap by association.
How in the bloody fuck is this trolling? I don't believe in the "gay agenda" conspiracy theory, but "gay moderation mafia?" Perhaps.. Nobody is forcing them to pay 14 bucks a month for a game. EQ, EQ2, SWG, and any other number of mmorpgs are waiting in the wings. What they really ought to do is get rid of the stupid concept of marriage in online games altogether, that way nobody can develop a persecution complex.
You must be reading a different statement, because I never even mentioned any of those things. Everyone's life has drama. The point is that a private company telling you that you can't bring yours into an online video game does not constitute persecution. Please, come off the cross. Tell me this: what would happen if someone started a "straight pride" guild? What about a white power guild? The same effect, I'm sure. And, I'm sure there would be NO repercussions at all if someone held a "straight pride" parade, right? :rolleyes:
So, by the same logic, you must be saying straight people bring their "drama" into everything from dating games on TV to online games, too.
You'll get no defense of reality television or MMORPG drama from me, buddy. Sorry to throw a wrench in your argument.
How can anyone take the gay/lesbian community seriously when this is the kind of shit they're up in arms about? Does the fact that people in an ONLINE VIDEO GAME use "fag" as everything from a vague insult to a greeting require a goddamned parade from you people?
Yes, we know there are republican inbreeds that will beat you to death for "bein' queer." Yes, that's a terrible thing. But holy soap on a roap, Batman, I wouldn't start crying persecution if some asshole in an online game called me a drunken Irishman. This isn't a civil rights struggle. This isn't a battle for equal rights in civil unions. Blizzard saying "don't bring your sexual orientation into our game" isn't going to result in "straight only" lunch counters any time soon. Pick your battles people, seriously.
In closing, when you define your entire life by what you like to fuck, even to the point of bringing your fucking drama into an ONLINE GAME, it really ought to not be a shock why people look down upon you.
Ahem... now excuse me while I go jump into my flame-resistant jammies.
This kind of shit really does sadden me as a gamer. We have a medium that sets itself apart from every other medium on earth in hundreds of different, subtle ways; and yet what does our beloved industry do? They pull the same shit gimmicks that the film and music guys do. LOL HEY HUGE PARTIES AND SLUTS AND HEY CONCERTS and uh... yeah, the product is over there, if you want to look...
It's always great when I see my fellow game journalists write about how gaming isn't "taken seriously" by the mainstream media. Of course, these same people then write a review about Need For Speed Most Wanted where they spend more time making childish sexual puns about Josie Maran than covering the actual game. Then, they'll make a 30-40 page special feature about E3, with only 10 or so pages of game coverage, the rest devoted to shit like multi-page spreads of booth skanks or HEY SONY THREW A PARTY AT A HOTEL AND 50 CENT PERFORMED LOL or OMG TOM CRUISE WAS AT E3.
Lovely, really. And by lovely, I mean fucking pathetic. Sadly, I might be in the minority here, but when I pick up a feature piece on E3, I don't care about vapid celebrities whoring for print space or brainless models dressed up like Bloodrayne. I care about the fucking games, you sods. I have the Internet; if I wanted beat off material, I'd go to empornium, not EB's newsstand. If I ever actually wanted to know what Paris Hilton is doing, the idiot box is sitting in the corner of my room, and it gets E!
If this is the attitude gamers, gaming press and game companies alike have, then truly, we don't deserve any respect at all. Or dates, for that matter.
Developers/publishers: If you need dozens of women and a rap concert and an open bar to sell your game, then that makes me think there's probably something lacking in your actual product and thus makes me less likely to want to go anywhere near it.
Press: You're not goddamned maxim, fhm, or any other of those shit rags - stop taking photos of ever harpy dressed like a game character you see and start putting in more screenshots. Use the space you clear up by trimming down on celebrity shit to put in more things like developer interviews and the like.
And finally, for my gaming brethren, yes, women have breasts. Get over it.
Fuck.
Aw, let's feel bad for the whores.
Give me a break. They're being paid thousands of dollars a day just to stand around and look pretty. They ought to be glad they live in a society where being worthless can get you a payday that nice as long as you have big cans.
So yeah, they should be smiling.
Well fucking said, sir. Mod parent up.