TGS 07: The Chester Anger Society of Tokyo, Japan

Yesterday at TGS, I met my ex-colleagues from Kotaku for the first time. Michael "Beardo" McWhertor! Brian "LOL" Ashcraft! Flynn "Fruit Brute" Marco! And some pallid kid with a gobbling thorax who looked exactly like a young Carrot Top. Collapsed in a heap in the corner of the press area at the Tokyo Game Show, rivulets of dirty sweat streaking down their brows as they feverishly pounded their words, impressions and LOLs into the keyboard. In their eyes danced that journalist’s madness, the insane thirst for the scoop. The very archetypes of the game journalist professional.
I wandered up to them with a dixie cup full of beer in my hand. I introduced myself. "What’s the rumpus?" I asked. Gandalf-like, Ashcraft arched his massive eyebrows. I translated it into his own patois. "What’s the happy-haps?" I repeated. Ashcraft — god bless him — LOLed.
When I first met […]

Original post by mrdestructoid@gmail.com (Destructoid.com) and software by Elliott Back