• RIP & GG, E3. :(

    From Ant@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 13 00:52:24 2023
    http://e3expo.com :(

    I only went to one back in summer of 2014. It was decent. I did meet
    David Braben, play his new Elite Dangerous game, see the models,
    chatted, etc. I wasn't even an Elite fan since I never played a game,
    but my online buddy loved that game and told me to visit it. It was
    worth it even though I still didn't care for this game! :D
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Ant on Tue Dec 12 19:49:25 2023
    On 12/12/23 18:52, Ant wrote:
    http://e3expo.com :(

    I only went to one back in summer of 2014. It was decent. I did meet
    David Braben, play his new Elite Dangerous game, see the models,
    chatted, etc. I wasn't even an Elite fan since I never played a game,
    but my online buddy loved that game and told me to visit it. It was
    worth it even though I still didn't care for this game! :D

    Never got to visit one, but it dying feels like the end of an era..
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 14 09:03:52 2023
    On 13/12/2023 01:49, candycanearter07 wrote:
    On 12/12/23 18:52, Ant wrote:
    http://e3expo.com  :(

    I only went to one back in summer of 2014. It was decent. I did meet
    David Braben, play his new Elite Dangerous game, see the models,
    chatted, etc. I wasn't even an Elite fan since I never played a game,
    but my online buddy loved that game and told me to visit it. It was
    worth it even though I still didn't care for this game! :D

    Never got to visit one, but it dying feels like the end of an era..

    The last one I visited was the ZX Mincrofair in 1984. A great show as we
    sold so many games (well when I say games I mean we nicked the insert
    from a shop, and put them in with a blank tape) that we bought quite a
    lot of stuff and still had more money than we came with.

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 14 15:34:50 2023
    On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:52:24 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
    wrote:

    http://e3expo.com :(

    I only went to one back in summer of 2014. It was decent. I did meet
    David Braben, play his new Elite Dangerous game, see the models,
    chatted, etc. I wasn't even an Elite fan since I never played a game,
    but my online buddy loved that game and told me to visit it. It was
    worth it even though I still didn't care for this game! :D

    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Zaghadka on Fri Dec 15 02:11:34 2023
    Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:52:24 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant wrote:

    http://e3expo.com :(

    I only went to one back in summer of 2014. It was decent. I did meet
    David Braben, play his new Elite Dangerous game, see the models,
    chatted, etc. I wasn't even an Elite fan since I never played a game,
    but my online buddy loved that game and told me to visit it. It was
    worth it even though I still didn't care for this game! :D

    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.

    Booth babes ended many years before that!
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    Apple & colony. Slammy times R back. :(
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Zaghadka on Fri Dec 15 09:06:35 2023
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they were a
    good idea of the fact that they worked!

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Dec 15 09:03:08 2023
    On 12/15/2023 1:06 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they were a
    good idea of the fact that they worked!

    You have obviously never seen a single ad or piece of advertising in
    your life. Sex has ALWAYS sold.

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  • From Ant@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Fri Dec 15 22:02:04 2023
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
    On 12/15/2023 1:06 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they were a good idea of the fact that they worked!

    You have obviously never seen a single ad or piece of advertising in
    your life. Sex has ALWAYS sold.

    Look at the video game ads like in the old video game magazines. ;)
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    colonies, slammy times, etc. :(
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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Dimensional Traveler on Sun Dec 17 11:54:47 2023
    On 15/12/2023 17:03, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 12/15/2023 1:06 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they were
    a good idea of the fact that they worked!

    You have obviously never seen a single ad or piece of advertising in
    your life.  Sex has ALWAYS sold.


    I understand it does work but a lot of the time I still think why. It
    used to be something in the world of model kit shows and I always
    thought am I going to buy that vendor's paint just because there's an attractive woman wearing a tight top over a large pair of honkers. Even
    worse the people who get selfies with their arm around them. She'd paid
    to do that, she's not thinking I like a man with a slight body odour
    problem!

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 17 07:10:40 2023
    On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:54:47 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB
    wrote:

    On 15/12/2023 17:03, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 12/15/2023 1:06 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they were
    a good idea of the fact that they worked!

    You have obviously never seen a single ad or piece of advertising in
    your life.  Sex has ALWAYS sold.


    I understand it does work but a lot of the time I still think why. It
    used to be something in the world of model kit shows and I always
    thought am I going to buy that vendor's paint just because there's an >attractive woman wearing a tight top over a large pair of honkers. Even
    worse the people who get selfies with their arm around them. She'd paid
    to do that, she's not thinking I like a man with a slight body odour
    problem!

    The idea is you're going to look at her (ooh squirrel!), and that means
    you might see the booth display as well, while you're oggling the eye
    candy.

    It's a visual cue.

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  • From Xocyll@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 17 08:40:26 2023
    Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
    entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
    say:

    On 12/15/2023 1:06 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they were a
    good idea of the fact that they worked!

    You have obviously never seen a single ad or piece of advertising in
    your life. Sex has ALWAYS sold.

    Especially to the have never seen a woman in real life who isn't their
    mother or the mother of a friend types who go to game conventions.

    FFS, they geeks haven't even been to a strip club, so booth babes make
    their year and certainly get them to buy any merch touted by them.

    Xocyll

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  • From Xocyll@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 17 08:41:19 2023
    JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:
    <snip>
    I understand it does work but a lot of the time I still think why. It
    used to be something in the world of model kit shows and I always
    thought am I going to buy that vendor's paint just because there's an >attractive woman wearing a tight top over a large pair of honkers. Even
    worse the people who get selfies with their arm around them. She'd paid
    to do that, she's not thinking I like a man with a slight body odour
    problem!

    Slight?

    Xocyll

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  • From Justisaur@21:1/5 to Zaghadka on Sun Dec 17 05:50:31 2023
    On 12/17/2023 5:10 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:54:47 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB wrote:

    On 15/12/2023 17:03, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 12/15/2023 1:06 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they were
    a good idea of the fact that they worked!

    You have obviously never seen a single ad or piece of advertising in
    your life. Sex has ALWAYS sold.


    I understand it does work but a lot of the time I still think why. It
    used to be something in the world of model kit shows and I always
    thought am I going to buy that vendor's paint just because there's an
    attractive woman wearing a tight top over a large pair of honkers. Even
    worse the people who get selfies with their arm around them. She'd paid
    to do that, she's not thinking I like a man with a slight body odour
    problem!

    The idea is you're going to look at her (ooh squirrel!), and that means
    you might see the booth display as well, while you're oggling the eye
    candy.

    It's a visual cue.

    There's also research that shows that hetero men get significantly less rational especially where it comes to finances (i.e. willing to spend
    money) after having just seen a picture of a woman they perceive as very attractive, and that is more pronounced in their actual presence.

    There's the infamous Mythbusters episode where Kari Byron works a couple
    days at a coffee shop, day 1 normally, and day 2 with a stuffed bra
    where she got significantly more tips in the tip jar, even from women.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YJ91FKZHI0

    i.e. sex sells.

    Why does it? That's a harder question, and a quick search doesn't
    really turn up an answer, the best I've been able to find relates it to
    the social structure of social animals, as it can be seen among other
    primates as well, attractive (to others of the same group) ones
    garnering more attention and gifts.


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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Sun Dec 17 10:36:44 2023
    On 12/17/2023 5:50 AM, Justisaur wrote:
    On 12/17/2023 5:10 AM, Zaghadka wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 11:54:47 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, JAB wrote:

    On 15/12/2023 17:03, Dimensional Traveler wrote:
    On 12/15/2023 1:06 AM, JAB wrote:
    On 14/12/2023 21:34, Zaghadka wrote:
    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.


    I'm not sure what was worse, the fact that companies thought they
    were
    a good idea of the fact that they worked!

    You have obviously never seen a single ad or piece of advertising in
    your life.  Sex has ALWAYS sold.


    I understand it does work but a lot of the time I still think why. It
    used to be something in the world of model kit shows and I always
    thought am I going to buy that vendor's paint just because there's an
    attractive woman wearing a tight top over a large pair of honkers. Even
    worse the people who get selfies with their arm around them. She'd paid
    to do that, she's not thinking I like a man with a slight body odour
    problem!

    The idea is you're going to look at her (ooh squirrel!), and that means you might see the booth display as well, while you're oggling the eye candy.

    It's a visual cue.

    There's also research that shows that hetero men get significantly less rational especially where it comes to finances (i.e. willing to spend
    money) after having just seen a picture of a woman they perceive as very attractive, and that is more pronounced in their actual presence.

    There's the infamous Mythbusters episode where Kari Byron works a couple
    days at a coffee shop, day 1 normally, and day 2 with a stuffed bra
    where she got significantly more tips in the tip jar, even from women.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YJ91FKZHI0

    i.e. sex sells.

    Why does it?  That's a harder question, and a quick search doesn't
    really turn up an answer, the best I've been able to find relates it to
    the social structure of social animals, as it can be seen among other primates as well, attractive (to others of the same group) ones
    garnering more attention and gifts.

    Peacocks and other colorful birds and various bird mating rituals with
    dances and collections of attractive to a bird items around a
    prospective nest are much the same thing.


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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Justisaur on Mon Dec 18 08:32:15 2023
    On 17/12/2023 13:50, Justisaur wrote:
    There's also research that shows that hetero men get significantly less rational especially where it comes to finances (i.e. willing to spend
    money) after having just seen a picture of a woman they perceive as very attractive, and that is more pronounced in their actual presence.

    I can certainly believe that as it's not unusual to find men where their
    brains are in their pants*. I used to have a drinking partner who was
    very attractive and it never ceased to amaze me how men would act around
    her. She also knew that and took advantage of it.

    *That's underwear for the non-Brits.

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 18 12:33:01 2023
    Am 13.12.23 um 01:52 schrieb Ant:
    http://e3expo.com :(

    I only went to one back in summer of 2014. It was decent. I did meet
    David Braben, play his new Elite Dangerous game, see the models,
    chatted, etc. I wasn't even an Elite fan since I never played a game,
    but my online buddy loved that game and told me to visit it. It was
    worth it even though I still didn't care for this game! :D
    E3 had been dying for years before covid... there is still the european gamescon in summer in Fankfurt I think or Colona, I never bothered about
    those mass events, they were nice to promote new consoles however, but
    besides that I never really did care.
    They were good for the occasional unwanted comedy events though, like
    Sega being hit hard by Sonys price announcement, or Nintendo in their
    3rd year of their wii cycle after showing off some mini games basically
    having to admit that there was no new big title in the line!

    Either way, the world will go on without it and most company are happy
    that there is no E3 anymore, I guess!
    Strippers are losing a side job as booth babes, but even that profession already was on its way out before!

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  • From Werner P.@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 18 12:37:15 2023
    Am 17.12.23 um 14:50 schrieb Justisaur:
    Why does it?  That's a harder question, and a quick search doesn't
    really turn up an answer, the best I've been able to find relates it to
    the social structure of social animals, as it can be seen among other primates as well, attractive (to others of the same group) ones
    garnering more attention and gifts.
    Male primates have it in their biology to react to visual female stimuli because they are signs of healthy fertility, female primates also but
    they have other criterial as well they put before that to get the best
    partner for mating because those are signs of being partners who are
    able to protect the family!


    So yes, visual sex work, at least in 50% of the population and the other
    50% as well but not that strong that they shut their brains off unless
    they have none (which affects roughly 50% of that population as well)

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  • From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Werner P. on Mon Dec 18 09:45:11 2023
    On Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:33:51 +0100, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Werner P. wrote:

    Am 14.12.23 um 22:34 schrieb Zaghadka:
    On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 00:52:24 +0000, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ant
    wrote:


    Guess all the "booth babes" will have to find employment elsewhere.

    It always was a side job for strippers and the occasional student, who
    needed the money and did not mind the myriads of dorks!

    This was the "elsewhere." Back to OnlyFans.

    --
    Zag

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    spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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