It’s not that she was drinking during the podcast, but that she arrived smashed already.
You got to understand, she was so bored.
I have this vision a drunk 3 Moves Ahead E3 wrapup in my mind. Complete with a totally exhausted Bruce 3 martinis in…
Pure bliss…
It’d never get posted. Aaron Sorkin told me that when Tom gets drunk he drops the c-bomb a lot.
But couldn’t Troy just put in a really cheesy overdub of “tapir” every time Tom did so? Maybe in a Speak n’ Spell voice.
New episode of A Life Well Wasted is out!
edit: I love you Robert Ashley
That’s just, like, your opinion, man!
Adree
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Dear RebelFM:
CHANGE YOUR MOTHERFUCKING SMOKE ALARM BATTERY
sometimes these things can be out of a guys control
ok
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Adree
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How can it be out of one’s control?
It gets better. She did the same thing last year, except that she spent most of her time stomping on other people’s words and making a furious plea for Hideo Kojima to respond to those nude photos she has to have sent him. And she REALIZED that she acted like a complete idiot and apologized on her blog.
Some people get funnier when they are tipsy. Most of the Giantbomb guys and their usual conference guests are like that. The liquor loosens them up after a couple of days of short sleep and they talk about various and sundry crazy crap that they probably wouldn’t talk about in their right minds. Other people - Leigh Alexander and Scott Sharkey come to mind - turn into flaming pork rendering plants, loudly belching noxious and toxic plumes of disgusting effluence without any regard whatsoever for the other people who have to share the habitat with them. It’s okay to do that once, realize that you made a complete dick of yourself, and then decline to ever do it again, but it’s another thing entirely to do it, be ashamed, apologize, live it down, and then do it again, but harder and this time without the shame.
Certainly doesn’t seem to be apologizing this time.
For public consumption, I’d rather be in my right mind.
And, yes, I was aware that Alexander was drunk and apologetic last year. So the Giantbomb guys set her up again? With friends like that…
Troy
Blaming the Giant Bomb guys doesn’t seem fair. She showed up plastered. I guess they could’ve asked her to leave, but the responsibility for acting a fool is squarely on her shoulders.
If she was plastered when she showed up, and they know how she was last year then yeah, the Bomb guys do have some responsibility for putting her on the air.
Troy
I’m not sure what they could do. They were live streaming it, for one. So she shows up plastered and someone is supposed to get up and politely ask her to leave? They were just sort of talking informally at the house they rented for E3 and she was an invited guest. I’m just not sure there was a tactful way to get rid of her in that situation. It would’ve been less embarrassing for her in the end, I’m sure, but asking a friend to leave after shortly after she shows up would be extremely awkward. I suppose they could just not have invited her, but maybe they wanted to give her some chance to redeem herself which she took as a good reason to repeat, or make worse, her mistake from last time.
If one of my personal friends shows up to my party tweaking and agitated for some weird reason, I’m going to tell him to get the hell out. It’s certainly very tactful to say to her that you’re trying to record something here and she’s a little too inebriated to represent herself well, so maybe she should go hang out somewhere else. I’m not sure I see how it would possibly be awkward unless she’s dating one of the guys, in which case my understanding is that it would get a little weird to tell your drunk-ass girlfriend to get out. Certainly, at the point that she fell out of her shirt, it might have been wise to ask her over to some other location off camera and perhaps suggest that she might want to reconsider her conduct. I think that Ryan or Jeff or SOMEBODY should have stepped in, because not only was she embarrassing herself, but she was ruining the entertainment product they were trying to produce. I don’t know why they invited her in the first place (I assume that at least one of them is friends with her), because I wouldn’t have in their place, but somebody should probably have politely suggested that she should go off-camera once it became clear that she wasn’t going to make any positive contribution at all.
I don’t disagree that everyone would’ve been better off if Leigh had been asked to leave, but it seems like a hard thing to do tactfully while live streaming a video podcast.
