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Editorials 
Rob's Journal - Tuesday 5/15
- By Rob
Schlicht
E-3 is off to a terrific start. I woke up at 5 in the morning. Not a problem in and of itself, but when coupled with the three hours of sleep I got that night, it made me a little angry. Regardless, at about I finally got rolling, with my own personal chauffeur, Cory Kroll (diminutive site tech troll). After about six hours of boring driving (mixed in with me achieving one of my goals, capturing a crown from Burger King so I had a hat to wear at the event), we finally arrived in Eagan, Minnesota, about to rendezvous with Tariq Bashir, the guy in charge of the whole event. About five minutes later, we arrived in Eagan Again. Ten minutes later, we were in Eagan again. We managed to go the first 5 and a half hours without getting lost, but the last half hour was an exercise in horrible street-planning. We managed to turn a 10 mile drive into a half hour excursion, mostly thanks to my newest arch-rival, Dodd Street. Regardless, we finally found Tariq.
We spent about an hour and a half at Tariq’s house as he packed. Cory and I found our way to a pool table in his basement, where the fun ensued. You see, I’ve never exactly been good at pool. Just never really cared about the game. Cory, however, seemed to have a small fetish for the game, and began taunting me mercilessly. Funny thing is, I was able to stay competitive with him, despite never playing more than ten other games of pool in my life.
Two hours later, we were on the plane. As I was stowing my bag full of N64 goodness, I noticed someone sitting in a seat reading a magazine with pictures of Final Fantasy X. I took a look, and asked him if he was headed to E-3. Along with him, we found out we were actually sitting next to two of the represantatives from Muse, the company that provides game descriptions for many major internet retailers, including Amazon and Yahoo. We had a lively discussion with them concerning server details, and Tariq’s sheer stupidity in not selling Snowball.com stock when it hit 20 points per share. Other than that, most of the trip was spent with Cory whining about not having headphones for the in-flight movie, Cory whining about wanting to sleep in an actual bed in our hotel, and Cory whining about not being able to play “The Sims” on his laptop (supposedly used for actual site maintenance). All in all, very productive for him.
I’ve known Tariq for about 3 hours now, and he seems to be a very nice guy. Reasonably intelligent, good organization, and a hat that may have not been washed since the Berlin Wall fell. Despite these endearing qualities, I have no problem destroying him in some of our hotelroom wars later tonight, though.
Getting off the plane proved to be less simple than we originally thought. We had to meet up at our gate with Joe, arriving from a different flight. For whatever reason, our flight decided to show up a half hour early. While we were waiting around for Joe to show up, me and Cory decided that then would be an appropriate time to go get our luggage. As we began walking away with our baggage, a security guard decided to make us give him identification. We provided it, but he refused to let us carry Tariq’s bags, as well. He kept that bag, and told us to go get his identification.
We made the trek upstairs, and found Joe waiting for us. We all then went back downstairs again, and found the security guard nowhere in sight, with Tariq’s bag sitting out in the open. We grabbed it, and began to leave, when another security guard admonished us for leaving a bag out in the open, saying “Be careful, this is Los Angeles!” Yeah, be careful, don’t listen to what any law enforcement officer tells you.
When we finally got to the hotel, we found that they used a box to cover up the A/V ports on the TV, preventing us from hooking up our N64. Of course, being of higher-than-normal intelligence, we attempted to remove the back section of the television using a small club. After repeatedly beating the black hunk of plastic with every blunt object we had, and using just about every other object to try and unscrew the box, we gave up for the night. Other than a debate over whether Tendobox’s Star Fox Planet game was real or not, that was the last thing that happened at night.
Today's All-Stars
Winner:Tariq - For being brave enough not to wash his damn hat, just to stand up for his rights.
Loser:Holiday Inn - For screwing me out of kicking everyone's ass in every N64 game imaginable
The opinions expressed within are the sole opinion of Rob Schlicht, and are not necessarily the opinion of NGenres or NSports.
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