What are you missing?

-bumping shoulders with hundreds of sweaty mole-people who have come out of their game-dev caves for the annual Running of the Booth Babes,

-overhearing bits of conversations from people more geeky than you, no matter how geeky you are,

-more lame yet colorful displays in a smaller area than you would believe possible,

-dumb ass tchotchkies, and

-long lines for expensive crap food (which is really only more a problem if you’re working the show).

Also, of course, Sturgeon’s Law is in full effect: 90% of everything you see is utter, utter crap.

Oh yeah, you’ll also get to hear either about some game that won’t come out for three more years winning Best of Show (for the third year straight), or the Best of Show winner for the last three years won’t be out yet.

E3 is only fun in your imagination. I can’t take even three minutes of the G4 coverage without having flashbacks of running demoes in a over-crowded booth years ago.

“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep for ever, and ever and ever.”

tell me about it. My best guess is that it is refreshing each story every time a new ‘reference’ is added.

Sadly, many of the blog sites seem to do this.