Ratboy's "TenTonTastic" E3 Preview

Time 7:13am CST
Place:  Winnipeg National Airport
Number of Coffees Consumed:  3

So here I am, waiting to get on the flight to L.A. for what should be an excellent E3.  “Messiah”, my old comrade in arms from when I worked on the World of Warcraft site, and I are currently sitting in the waiting lounge writing tomorrow’s (which will be today’s) common content article for our respective sites.  Currently our fearless leader “Ralphedelominius” is nowhere to be found… no doubt his Canadian Military Training is paying off!  Thankfully not all is lost, as I’ve consumed one coffee before departing my beloved Canada, ensuring that I will have some good taste in my mouth before it gets turned into a Starbucks.  The other two coffees have been contributed by my partner in crime Messiah.  Perhaps I will keep track of this growing number of coffees as we meet up with others on the journey.

As the last paragraph was finished our leader arrived, and Messiah is repeating his argument with the American Customs Officer (don’t ask).  The discussions about our trip are now going from awful to TenTonTastic (yes, we even make up words on our trip).  I don’t know what the context was, but Ralph just told Messiah that “It’s not you…  it’s him.” Mighty creepy, mighty scary, all TenTonTastic!

Time 8:30am CST
Place:  Flying Above Winnipeg
Number of Coffees Consumed:  4

Skip ahead 45 minutes and I am now on the plane, forced to endure sitting beside Messiah as he reads his book.  Looking outside the window I see nothing but divided farmland that is the staple of good old Manitoba (for those of you who don’t know, that’s a Canadian province).  The struggle to get my headphones on is now complete, and Messiah is looking at me funny, but hey… at least he’s not a Catholic priest (I think…).

Apparently jealousy has set in and Messiah has pulled out his own laptop, intent of transferring the dust that covers it over to mine.  I think this is some master plan of his… small plane so I’m forced to sit right by him and endure his taunts and dust attacks.  Pity that Ralph’ is not sitting close to us or I would expect some form of “bah” to come my way.

Getting on topic…  I’m looking forward to what will be my first E3.  The questions that myself and Messiah have come up with for our interviews thus far should be good and hopefully spark some good answers and discussion.  I also hope to take in some of the sights at the Expo and take tons of pictures to taunt you all wi…  I mean show you all!  Of course I do honestly intend to lord this over some of my geekier friends back home, but that’s just because like the majority of TenTonHammer staff I am an overtly horrible person.

Trying to think about good stuff to write on a plane kind of sucks, that and Messiah takes up a lot of space and writing beside him is difficult.  They did however just announce that drinks will be served; I am choosing to get a soft drink as even I consider Starbucks to be superior to the horrible dribble served on airplanes.  Apparently Messiah will be linking to my blog in some effort to force me to keep tabs on the coffees consumed… I think now to start up a tradition Messiah, Ralph’ and myself had on our last roadtrip...  It will appear in the next entry as a tallied number.

Since you’re probably scratching your heads over this new tally I want to institute, allow me to explain.  Messiah, Ralph’ and myself went on a roadtrip two years ago that was haunted with the use of the term “SMC”, it was used about 26 times before we lost count… before you ask, we were not reffering to the SMC router.  At this rate, who knows what wacky tallies will come out of E3.  If only I could get a number aside from zero beside “number of times groped by Booth Babes”.

For those of you who don’t know, this entire running Blog of mine will be online at ratboy.blogs.tentonhammer.com and should likely be contrasted by that of Messiah’s (messiah.blogs.tentonhammer.com), so if you want a good laugh (and are not easily offended) I suggest reading both our blogs…  Unless you want to read Ralph’s, but that would just be a few words broken up with “bah” and where’s the fun in that?  Who am I kidding; our blogs will be without a doubt the best on the entire TTH network, likely to be the basis of future E3 outings and Court Cases for years to come.

If you have any comments, concerns (because with Messiah and myself there are usually a lot of concerns), or anything you want explored or mentioned, feel free to email me at anytime as I should be checking my email frequently while on the road:  [email protected]

Since I am the Community Manager for the Warhammer Online site, the main point of this trip for me will be to see what Mythic has to show the drooling hordes of fans.  The pre-released trailer for Warhammer Online has given me quite a good impression and I look forward to seeing what other tidbits will be offered during the event.  Messiah is writing a list of the games we’re covering in his blog, however I think it’s important to mention the goals we have that fall outside of our actual work there, and things we hope to accomplish:

• Stop by the Nintendo booth to find the genius who came up with the idea of the “Wii”
• Try to force at least one fistfight between developers of different companies.  Violence is always funny, as long as someone gets hurt.
• Engage in an escalating contest to see who can get their camera the closest to the Booth Babes without getting slapped.  Just think of it like Jenga!
• Convince the makers of the Pirates of the Carribean MMO to add zombies as a playable race, along with their own PvP and everything!

The above are just goals Messiah and myself have decided on now, I’m sure other more horrible ideas will come as the time passes on, and our collective evil intelligences think of worse things.  More will come…  stay tuned to the blog for further updates!