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- LemonHerb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+41I predict this will be one of the most clicked on links on Digg this week.
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20The truth is, contrary to what they told you at E3, they don't think your Saitek X52 is sexy.
- Jovan, on 10/12/2007, -9/+17If I wanted to be an ignorant prick, yeah I'd agree with you. But look at it this way: they need to make some money, one way or another (It's the "working on my "GED" -- read: sucking some dick -- alternative).
However you do make a point with the "wannabe starlet attention whores". That's usually how I look at it anyway. Honestly I don't really see a purpose to them. If I wanted to take a look at idiotic blonde women (no, I am not generalizing, read), I'd go to a strip club, atleast there they aren't denying anything -- if you catch my drift.
That coral cache link blows. - Pogue_Mahone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not even 300 diggs yet.
Forget talking to them, geeks are even scared to read articles written by hot chicks. ;) - wheremyarm, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15http://revolution.advancedmn.com.nyud.net:8080/article.php?artid=6511 Coraliiiiized.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Actually, you find lots of people denying their situations in the strip clubs. I've known a lot of strippers (I don't go to strip clubs, I just happen to know a lot of girls who are or have been). There are TONS of women who strip and tell themselves and the world that they're just doing it to put themselves through school (the big cliche). And much of the time, that's *****. It's good and easy money. Well, if you can stay out of the "after parties" and "personal appointments" and drugs.
Anyway . . .
Nobody is saying that it's a bad living. But it is what it is. I don't begrudge them making a living or having dreams, but don't kid yourself about them wanting to be there. They're there the same reason chicks like that show up at car shows and model off the latest car-wax awhile laying half naked across a corvette.
I don't like going to shows with show-floor-models/booth-babes for the same reason I don't go to strip clubs. They're there for the buck. They don't care about the product, the company or the consumers and nobody is enjoying it except the few ignorant patrons. Just like rational people can't enjoy going to a strip club, because all you can see on stage is the *****-up daddy's girl who can't get off the powder and hates men. It feels exploitive and at the least, you feel embarassed for them.
I'm sure there are some that love going to the shows, love the attention and just see it as a step in their career, the way a lot of engineers maybe had to work in low-grade tech support on their way up through college and into their career.
Then again, I don't like going to comic-cons, either -- because I feel embarassed for all the dorks that are half naked wandering around in xena costumes and trying to hide their cottage cheese under the latex. - zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You know I like a sexy girls as well as a sexy guys but I thought the Idea of going to E3 was to
see the hardware and software. Not just the wetware. - arnaudh, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Don't be such a jackass. Most of these girls are not strippers, they're just among the many girls trying to make a living as model and/or actress in LA. Not that there is anything wrong about being a stripper.
Why do you feel the need to look down on them anyway? You sound like a socially inept ***** who's gotten rejected by booth babes and never learned a lesson. - autobahn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7You know, it's the same way with booth babes in video games as "hood whores" are for cars.
I'm a big car guy, and most definitely heterosexual, but I get extremely annoyed when some (usually suprisingly ugly) chick cavorts around on the hood of a car wearing next to nothing, and 1000 guys are all over it taking pictures.
Does anyone else think booth babes are just completely unneccessary and not only degrading to females but males too? Whenever I see a company that has some bimbos wearing next to nothing to market a product, I think "that company really has a poor marketing department". It's intellectually degrading and almost condescending to have my penis marketed to rather than my head. I know sex sells, but it's so..... out of place to have what amounts to strippers at a gaming convention.
Are most guys really that lame? I mean, I know a lot of "enthusiastic" gamers aren't the type to really have any experience with the ladies, but wow. When I'm at a car show, or if I was at a video game show, I'd be there for cars or video games. I don't need sex at those places, that's what the internet (and my girlfriend) is for.
I just don't see why guys go for it. OMG THERE'S A CHICK WITH ALMOST NO CLOTHES ON OMG OMG GOTTA GET A PIC WITH MY ARM AROUND HER SO TEH GUYS ON THE FORUMZ WILL THINK I R TEH KEWLIEZ!!!
Just... Sad : - BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7That whole article seems like it was cooked up just to promote Yvonna Lynne's website (whomever the hell that is).
Why does she need a website?
Why do moderately attractive women on the internet seem to be almost universally diseased with vanity? She seems to be the very type of "obnoxious" girl she makes fun of in her article. - triforcer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5she loses credibility with me because she confused that starcraft: ghost statue for a real person.
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"I'm a booth babe, but I'm not in it to get admired, I'm a GAMER!!! Oh and I'm also an actress and model and you can look for me in front of the cameras."
Also, this is about 2005, not 2006. - Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8What truth? They're a bunch of moderately attractive women working for a paycheck. What's next, a super expose on why people shop at Wal Mart?
- iKato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow, she seemed actually... nice.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7E3 Through the Eyes of a Booth Babe
March 30, 2006
by: Yvonna Lynn
The truth about booth babes straight from the source. AMN's newest tells her story.
My goal for E3 2005 was simple…I wanted to find a way in. You see, I am both a gamer and a girl, so when the ‘Christmas Holiday’ of gaming came up, I had to be there. Luckily for me, I had the chance to be a booth babe. I found that getting a way in wasn’t difficult through being a booth babe, but securing the best booth placement was a bit of luck.
In 2005, I got the spot I had been campaigning for at the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess booth for Nintendo. I suppose some girls would have preferred to be an idolized booth babe; you know, the half naked hotties who get paid out the wazoo, but I'll talk more about them in a just a second after I get my fun, geeky side out.
In the Zelda booth there were two other booth babes who were gamers too, so we were ecstatic. If you didn’t see it, you missed out on the coolest booth at E3! Nintendo recreated the environments of the game so that you could literally walk through them. The first room was made up of scattered three story high trees from Hyrule where you could play the demo of Link in the forest at one of the 15 kiosks. Then you walked across an interactive holographic bridge on the floor which had slats that disappeared with each step you took. You could also corral the fish images in the pond the bridge was hanging over. Next, you would meander through a castle hallway showing game sequences and would see what looked like a life-size model of a giant Stalfos Knight until he would come crashing into the bars holding him back from slicing you with his sword. The final room had 22 Gamecube kiosks of a forest dungeon and big boss demo, a huge overhead screen playing the sequence of Link turning into a wolf and a real animatronic wolf that would jump out from above a wall to startle you.
The best part happened in this room. If you were really lucky, like me, you got to talk with Shigeru Miyamoto. I just love him! This place must have been some sort of “Magnet for greatness vortex,” because I also got to meet the AMN god, “MadSkill” Ken.
I was floored to find out that some of the prettiest girls I knew, busting out of their tops and shorts all day couldn't get into the [after show] parties.
I also got to go above the whole scenario into the control room. It was a mezzanine platform full of computers and switchboards controlling the lighting and great musical accompaniment for the grand display. There were four people on the floor controlling the animatronic characters, two audio guys, and three others controlling everything else.
Behind the big Nintendo set was the lounge area complete with an old European coffee café and endless tables of catered food for the VIPs, special guests, and booth workers. All this was created to keep the posh delicate flowers (a.k.a. booth babes) happy during their breaks. I, however, opted for a Power Bar instead of resting in this room. Why? Well, you may not know this, but many of us booth girls only get two 15 minute breaks and an hour for lunch. So, I cleverly cached my short breaks, added them to my lunch break, and viola! I had some time to sprint to that crazed place, the West Hall, to quickly take in all I could.
Ok, back to booth babes. There are basically four categories of booth babes (pictured below) and within each of those categories there are two types of booth babes: cool and un-cool. - kristin364, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I hate the whole concept of booth babes. Sure - sex sells. But seriously - as a female gamer, I feel excluded form E3. It just seems like some big meat market. Honestly - they're blatantly objectifying women. I don't see a bunch of buff guys running around there topless.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Why do you love booth babes? Is it because it's the only chance you get to touch a real woman?"
You assume too much. I love booth babes because I enjoy looking at attractive people. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Quite an interesting read actually
Whoever subbed it wants shooting though - Groovester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3autobahn, i 100% agree with you. I remember when I was at E3 last year and there were these two "booth babes" walking around in a string thong and angel wings. I won't be able to tell you in 100 years what they were selling because I don't remember but damned if that image of those two "booth babes" will ever be erased from my mind. The way I see it is the less booth babes wear, the more the companies products suck. Look at the big 3, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, all of their "booth babes" were dressed very modestly and, surprise!, their products didn't suck. But like the earlier mentioned "angels" their product sucked so hard that I can't remember what it was.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Still interesting to read about it from their perspecive
- Hooger158, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Actually an interesting and well-written article.
- scotty588, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I mirrored it with imageshack images. Hopefully it will stay up. Heres a qurl url since its a long url http://qurl.com/9wj7q
- drdrifter, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6all the article is about is the attitude of the girls of e3.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -23/+26What truth is there to learn? They're a bunch of wannabe starlet attention whores hoping to make it as supermodels or actresses making a buck flaunting ***** to a bunch of geeks. Why they're not in strip clubs - who knows? Maybe they want to avoid the coke habit. *shrug*
- kden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Post E3 insight, not the babes. Babes are only there to get more attention to certain booths, etc...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4"Being an actress, PR kind of girl, and journalist" - last bit probably explains it!
It's just a shame the sub decided to use pull-out quotes that make it sound like it was writted by the air-head variety of booth babe - panique, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It appears that some people will deny their situations outside of strip clubs too.
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I agree with you 100%. It just doesn't seem that the boys get this concept. :(
- Tufriast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ok, my analysis of the article...
It had nothing to do with why booth babes were banned, but everything to do with how sweet E3 is. I think in the end E3 will come back to a more liberalesque vantage of booth babes, but we'll see. As far as the equal pay thing goes - I think that's a serious problem. Girls flaunting the goods should have been paid well. Oh well, that won't happen again I guess.
As a matter of fact, it could be why girls are forced to dress UP for E3 now. Perhaps someone noticed the pay discrepencies, and complained? Just a hypothesis. - blackhand0114, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The title had nothing to do with the article but still a good read from a prospective we don't see.
- Moogle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, this is one of the BEST articles I have ever read.
- extant59, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Kevin Perriera? that was an e3 goal.. to meet him? wow. interesting story, remember to not touch the boobies kids, well unless they say you can. oh, and a little axe body spray never hurt anyone... well unless sprayed in the eyes..but better safe then sorry.
- juanbobo808, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Read through the article, and found it to be a good read considering who it's coming from. I was actually glad to hear this kind of perspective, because, while I've heard from the big bad media corps. that booth babes at E3 is a bad thing, you can't take their word for it. You have to consider everyone's opinion of what's going on. This girl going in there and /basically/ saying that these women aren't paid ENOUGH is something worth saying, and something a lot of young, 20-something game dev's need to realize when they go to E3: The girls are eye candy for the customer. Wouldn't you have a different opinion about a seemingly bad game if you have a girl flaunting her boobs in your face while you played it? Just goes to show, "it's all in the presentation."
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heh, you didn't offend me - the post I replied to asked for a summary and I stand by mine. Likewise, I'm sorry if you took offense to the tongue in cheek. I didn't criticize you or what you did. The article focused a lot on the attractiveness factor and how it could or couldn't be exploited, and on the attitudes of the other booth babes toward each other, and I just chuckled at the end, after all of that, at the note that we should look for you in front of the cameras. I hope you are able to make a go of it doing journalism and also doing something you enjoy (gaming). I'm over 30, female, and a gamer - there's more to the demographic than people think.
As a side note, I spent some time in the cable TV industry, and I've also attended a few E3s. The E3 girls still have it easy compared to the booth babes for cable TV channels, and I'm not even talking about the Spice Channel girls. @.@ - serra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yay, a man that gets it!
- yvonna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow... that's a pretty harsh look it. I kinda thought I'd shown that not everyone was half naked (lots were wearing full length-shirts & pants) and that the parties were not actually coke filled fiestas after all. It is more like what arnaudh said, these are mostly models & actresses trying to do commercial work at an industrial venue.
- MadOgre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Playboy has great political commentary.
- autobahn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Why do you love booth babes? Is it because it's the only chance you get to touch a real woman? :
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I heart booth babes.
I don't understand why anyone would complain about them. - yvonna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1thank you very much :)
- yvonna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1btw, i don't think i said anything that would have referenced my disdain for being admired?? I am a gamer, but I thought I'd been clear that I felt pretty darn privileged to be able to find a way into E3 as a booth babe. Its funny, I just had not even viewed the issue from a standpoint of admiration. If I had problems with being in the public eye, I wouldn't have chosen to be an actress. It is not something I feel I should be proud of or ashamed of. Its just a fun career. I make a living doing acting. I have fun by playing games. I am sorry to have seemed so offensive to you, Saska (cool name btw). I just recently started journalism again. This is what they asked me to write about. It was my assignment, that's all. Also, I think it is pretty clear this was about 2005 since everyone knows E3 2006 is another 5 weeks from now.
- serra, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2-stupid comment system went wonky on me, can we get a delete comment button yet?-
- yvonna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, they aren't banned this year. They just can't be virtually naked. I'm sure there will be enough babe-ism to satisfy. :)
- wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Oh please. How many female gamers are there? 2? Not only does sex sell, demographics has a role in advertising pitch.
FWIW, Those girls look like strippers to me. Remember to support your local single mom! :) - o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"they're blatantly objectifying women"
I hear variations of this catch phrase all the time. Please explain what it means and how this is harmful. - arnaudh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There is a solution to that: don't click.
- ChileanGoD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Did anyone actually read the article ? :) I know i didnt.
- yvonna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1it is! that's why i wanted to be there!
- diskopo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2It is, but after 1 or 2 days even the most hardcore gamer gets bored (Like I did). And the event goes on for 3. Trust me on this one.
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