Monday, July 31, 2006

Penny Arcade on E3

As you would expect, Tycho has managed to wax eloquent on the announcement of the down-sizing of E3 (not to mention the genius accompanying comic):

"All it really means for gamers in general is more news more often, outside of arbitrary dates. I knew a Jehovah's Witness named Hannah in gradeschool, and after learning that she didn't celebrate birthdays or Christmas as the rest of the class did I imagined her life a miserable parched desert, barren of gifts. She looked at me like I was an idiot and informed me that she got presents all throughout the year.

If you thought I couldn't tie Jehovah's Witnesses into this shit, well, you were wrong.

There must have been a time before there was an E3, but that's not really a part of my experience. Hearing that it's cancelled, or at any rate will be altered in "format and scale" (read: cancelled) is like hearing that Australia has been cancelled, or that the weak gravitational force is being temporarily suspended. It's not an event anymore, I don't even remember how many I've been to. It's like something that cracks through the asphalt and then grows upward. I make it a point to avoid Los Angeles the rest of the year, so it's always been my presumption that the entire Staples Center recedes below the Earth's mantle, there to sleep until the warm pavement buckles again in early May."

I swear to god...the fact that Tycho is a writer of such genius and yet never even attended a day of college boggles my mind...

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