Dom's Post-e3 Rant, Fun? You think this is FUN?!

So I'm checking my MT e-mail at work and see a really long e-mail waiting for me, entitled "E3 & MMORPG Suggestiong [sic]"

I read about a paragraph of it, and then I see this:

Emphasis mine. Okay, people, now I'm going to extract sentences from my various E3 rants and would like to ask you how anyone can get the idea that this was fun, rather than 12-hour days at work kicking my ass.

From the May 17th rant:

- But given how stressed I was,
- And after the food deprivation that marked the rest of the show, it was very, VERY good. It was especially nice given that it was again my first solid food of the day
- I was working, dammit!
- As a sidenote, due to the severe stress I underwent while working E3, the next MT fan who says to me "I envy you so much for going to E3" will be punched. Not hard, just punched. Because if you want to go for fun? More power to you. If you want to be me and work 12 hour days with little food and no rest? You're an idiot.
- if I'd had food in me, I might have vomited gleefully, Roller Coaster Tycoon-style.

From the May 13th rant:

- It's two-thirty, and in a wild imprvement from yesterday, I have had a decent meal at this point of the day.
- After a blessed, blessed hour of sitting down
- I'm tired, need steak and am going to try and eat it raw.

From May 12th:

- I was seriously ready to jump out of Greg's car, yell "I REGRET NOTHING!" and hop off the highway, hoping to jump far enough to splatter
- Blessedly, I had my first twenty or so minutes of free time here.
(note that in the same paragraph, I mention that it was around 2:30)
- yes, boys and girls, my first non-pretzel solid food (The pretzels were at BioWare) came at 4 PM in Atlus' room.
- If you'll excuse me I'd like to collapse in a heap in the corner and take perhaps an hour of free time before dying.


So. With all of that information there, who would think that I had FUN at E3? And why? Do they no longer teach reading comprehension in schools?

Each and every little E3 famboy is gonna say that's fun, if you made them go through what you did, they'd just smile and do it, cause they're going to E3! OMFG E3, Ican't believe it, I'm going to E3!!!![/fanboy]

Me on the other hand, see what you're talking about, hell, just going to a computer expo in Dallas last year for the school newspaper was a bitch, I couldn't even comprehend having to write about all the shit at E3. I don't envy you, I sota pity you for having to go through that.

yes, but did you get me some swag?





hmm, i guess this is what writing a suicide note feels like

This post has been edited by Dom on May 18 2004, 01:53 PM

Did DOM see the MGS:3 demo get stolen?

Dom probably had something to do with it.

according to my roommates who went to E3 you didn't so much walk the floor as shuffled around.

they did bring me a sweet Dawn of War shirt... yay finally a GOOD 40K video game.

May I just ask what the hell you do for a living, Dom?

i think hes one of the ladies in bakinis that were wandering between booths with little or no idea what product they were selling their bodies to endorse.


obviously he has a good make up person.

This post has been edited by ee21035217k on May 18 2004, 02:52 PM

You sound as bitter and pissed off as a forum vet in a n00bie introduction thread

This post has been edited by Cymbaline on May 18 2004, 02:32 PM

The main difference being that forum vets rarely dedicate as many words to the subject as I have

And if some of you're still wondering, I'm a freelance writer. Tech in general, but with specialties in Japanese tech/culture, and video games.

I looked in WIRED and it said your an intern. Do they get to hose you down each day after work?

No. They give me a paycheck every week and the chance to write articles about my hobbies for one of the biggest tech magazines in the world, though. I kind of consider that a plus.

Hehehe. Even the most dedicated ones get flustered (no food==anger). Why do you put yourself through all this? Actually, why would anyone?

For the money, and the free game demos

Didn't think about that... However, after what Mr. Dom said, E3 kinda scares me now. But the free games amenity does own.

From what I've heard E3's like some sort of like the sweatiest annoyingest games store you've ever been in, but with more buxom ladies. So I'll pass (nothing to do with the fact that getting me there would use up most of my student paper's yearly budget).

The ECTS on the other hand... that's the right sort of thing (nothing to do with the fact that getting me there would use up my weekly beer budget and little else).

You expect something other than stupidity out of a guy who calls himself "LockhartFF7"? Come on, Dom. :/

(Some) FF* fans scare the hell out of me.

Fixed.

^_^ We're not scary. We're obsessive. ^_^

The majority of FF fans annoy the hell out of me.

Not YamiChan, but there are many....

Urashima

Breath dom, breath... in therough the nose, out through the mouth... you are a hollow reed, throuble blows stright through you... okay, dumb n00b shutting up now... and besides, you have f00d now! r3joyc3!

Wee. Starvation. Fun times.

This post has been edited by DarkDays34 on May 18 2004, 11:33 PM

I feel your pain. I really do. I've handled idiots at an Anime Con only twice in my life (I helped man an RPG gamer group), so I certainly don't envy getting peppered with mails like that--much less the assumption that people who either staff the booths or write up reports on the happenings "Have fun" at such occasions.

I forgot what the reason was, but on at least one occasion, I had to assist in BODILY removing a certain annoying person bugging our booth. (I think I posted it previously, though)

Be that as it may, I'd like to suggest EAGames to release a new series of interactive stress-relief games based on the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

This post has been edited by Wavehawk on May 19 2004, 02:54 AM

ah this is what i have to lok forward to next year. im on commitee for ITSACON. and with 1500 confirmed already(12 months before it happens) i think this will be one of those life altering/scarring experiences.