L.A. Convention Center: Swine Flu Looking Like a Non-issue for E3
L.A. Convention Center: Swine Flu Looking Like a Non-issue for E3
May 8, 2009
Bird flu, mad cow disease, and now swine flu. It’s probably just a ruse engineered by farm animals to keep themselves off my dinner table.
Be that as it may, H1N1 Influenza A continues to make headlines and gamers want to know if it’s going to negatively affect that annual orgy of video game news that is E3. Last week, the ESA announced that the gaming expo would proceed as planned and the LA Convention Center Administration Department has now echoed that sentiment in comments to Eurogamer:
The swine flu has not yet affected this part of Los Angeles County (Downtown LA) and we do not expect the outbreak to spread any further than it has already. The swine flu has in fact declined over the last few days in Los Angeles County.
We hope that by the time E3 is in the building, swine flu will be a thing of the past and no longer a threat to the health of Los Angeles and the rest of the country and world.
Still, just because the ESA and LACC aren’t anticipating an issue with the swine flu doesn’t mean attendees are excused from acting like a pig:
As a precaution, guests are urged to wash their hands regularly and cover their mouths when coughing.
-Reporting from San Diego, GamePolitics correspondent Andrew Eisen...
DOCUMENT DUMP: An earlier swine flu-related statement by the LACC, issued on April 27th.
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ZippyDSMlee: oh may the cute stab out your eyes, http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:17pm
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:10pm
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ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:01pm
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
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DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:49pm
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JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:46pm
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:44pm
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
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DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:33pm
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:27pm
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ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
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JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
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ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
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JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:56pm
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:49pm
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:47pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I know they are intimate friends of yours...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:I know they are intimate friends of yours...
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:44pm
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Neil and Bob?
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Neil and Bob?
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Why worry about Swine Flu when there's going to be at least one crappy press conference. At least Nintendo can't do much worse than that Wii Music demonstration last year. Although they may have a couple of titles to show off called Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver.
When Jack Thompson runs his mouth, does anyone really care what he has to say anymore?
Wait, they're remaking Gold and Silver? Damn, that's a surprise.
They need to remake the Special Edition games from the GB days (like Yellow)* as well. That would kick ass.
*Was Crystal a Special Edition of Gold/Silver, like Yellow was for Red/Blue?
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"The sun will always rise tomorrow. We can only live for today, and hope more days will come." -Unknown
Its because of that stupid non-GBA slot that the DSi has. Pokemon players have to get their GBA Pokemon from somewhere now that the DSi has no GBA slot.
I do wish they'd redo the Yellow game though, especally since that has Jesse and James in it, and yes I did watch the anime a bit.
Call me a cynic, but I can't help but wonder if the Convention Center Administration would ever cancel E3 and deny the City of Los Angeles the millions of dollars which it brings unless and until H1N1 was causing folks to drop dead like flies and pile up like cordwood around the Convention Center.
Dead Rising 3 CONFIRMED!
"That's not ironic. That's justice."
Did anyone expect E3 to shut down over an overblown flu?
http://www.magicinkgaming.com/
Why add the qualifier "for E3"?
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Bird flu, mad cow disease, and now swine flu. It’s probably just a ruse engineered by farm animals to keep themselves off my dinner table.
heehee! That's probably the best theory I've heard yet!
it's ok most of the nerds that go don't have much contact with real humans anyway.
The Swine Flu is already disappointing those that were apparently hoping for a pandemic. Guess the WHO feels a need to justify their existance.
E3 is pretty much a non-issue as well. At least it has not been much of an issue in close to a decade.
I guess 2 weaksauce events could by theory interfere with each other. The question begs though. Who would care? Well I guess the ESA, since they could not use E3 as an excuse to rake over the game companies for more money.
Glad to see that at least some places aren't shutting down cause of Swine Flu, just wish the Mayfest had some commen sense about that, but they didn't and shut down.
Mayfest and Cinco de Mayo festivities were shut down this year in DFW. But the A-Kon anime convention is still good to go, minus their headlining band which canceled their appearance because their music label is forbidding any of their bands from travel.
"It’s probably just a ruse engineered by farm animals to keep themselves off my dinner table."
You realize you can't get the swine flu from eating pork products, right?
You realize what a facetious comment is right?
The "Swine Flu" is really called "North American Flu" and is the H1N1 designation which also incudes the "Human Flu" meaning the Common flu.
Let me put that on my to-don't list.
Wow, you're a bigger buzzkill, than Buzz Killington.
"That's not ironic. That's justice."