The Reasonable Gamer’s Guide To Surviving E3
by John on May.30, 2009, under Main Stuff
Step One: Set up your favorite RSS reader to download headlines only from your various game news resources. I prefer Google Reader on a main computer, with Byline being the best option I’ve found on the iPhone (it has bi-directional sync with GReader, too, so I don’t have to reread anything).
Step Two: Set up page-blocking software on your browser– again, I use LeechBlock on Firefox, you might want to use something else– to prevent yourself from reading the news directly on those sites you have set up in the RSS reader.
Step Three: Sit back and enjoy the important parts of the news without having to suffer through the complaining of the four-year-olds bragging that their console is the best, or the mentally challenged people who would disparage anyone who doesn’t fit their sickeningly narrow description of what a “gamer” is.
Step Four (optional): two weeks after E3 ends, undo the page-blocking and reread the articles, disregarding the comments entirely as they will be without merit and will be stale anyway.
That’s my plan, anyway.
