Tupacalypse

@Phished0ne said:

This article...man...this article, and these comments. I am going to start with with this statement, I hate the idea of using attractive women to promote a game, a service, a product, a store, anything. BUT, Modeling IS a profession, and im sure a lot of models really enjoy their jobs. Maybe not the ones who have to dance on a pole at the DMC booth. BUT it is, there is nothing inherently wrong with the idea of using attractive women to draw attention to your booth.

It happens all the time, it is the purpose of the model in a lot of cases. Be it walking the catwalk at the Victoria Secret show, or walking around the nintendo booth with a 3DS strapped to them. They arent being forced to do it, they are getting payed(fat stacks of cash too, in a lot of cases) to do their job. We can argue until we are blue in the face if this is right. But it happens, and it isnt even a problem with video game industry, it is a problem with marketing and advertisement in general. Marketing companies want to take the easiest way out, so instead of focusing on the merits of their product, they focus on the easiest thing possible. If a woman wants to take a job showing off her body to promote a product, that is her right. Maybe she enjoys the attention, maybe she likes the money, but we cannot act like these women are being forced into these jobs. They aren't, its a decision THEY make.

Wanting to institute a convention-wide ban on 'booth babes'(isn't it fun when the people that are calling out against something use a term as degrading as they think the practice itself is?) is so asinine i dont even want to talk about it, but i will. A company should decide if they want to draw the people who would be drawn by that. If they make that decision, they should be allowed to. Outsiders are allowed to criticize and critique it as much as they want, but as long as using models is standard practice in the marketing world, they cannot ban it. It seems the people that want to ban them forget the most important point, models are people too. You think the people standing up against the 'terrible objectification of women' that this practice is, would hold strict to their baseline argument. They are people, if you start banning the practice, models will start to lose jobs.

this. I would really like the models to know a thing or two about the game or product they are working for too, but this sums up how I feel.

on the waiting list, goddamn i cannot wait

@SmokePants: Just because he's a baseball player doesn't mean he would have bad ideas and concepts for a game, playing sports doesn't mean you're not creative.

@MindChamber: HAHAHAHA...... well done heh

Hmm first time it looks like they're really doing something new....we'll see

@BraveToaster: You're so right it's really sad sometimes to see wasted potential, all to just try to get some radio play. All the artists here that i work with have had their styles since they started and have just evolved them and i have yet to see one of them sell out. They've just evolved and improved them over the couple years ive been here and a several have been making some big moves lately.

aye that box frame Cadillac music! hes a great rapper, glad hes moving on up finally after a while of being underground.

@BraveToaster: Thanks yea we tried to do some creative things to differentiate our style, but still working on that the next video we're hoping to do more unique shots and maybe structure the whole cypher in a cool way where we'll all be walking using a dolly shot or something.

This is awesome and a great point. Games are to us obviously but to many others not so obviously more than just a "game"

Hey yall hope things are cool, been a member for over 2 years now and have always loved the Giantbomb love for hip-hop and good rap (starting mainly with Jeff) Anyways, me and my friends at my school of Loyola University New Orleans where i study music industry, just did a cypher that we edited and put together a week ago. It just was put up on Youtube and we're trying to get it as much exposure as possible. Let me know what you think! I'm M-80 btw

Also Ps. to everyone going through finals now, SOLDIER ON.