HomeStation Presents: Caption This Picture #6
by Olivia_Allin, HSM team writer & photographer
So unless you were abducted by a UFO for the last couple of weeks, you know that HSM’s NorseGamer and AlphaZone4’s Cubehouse attended this year’s E3.
We’re trying not to be envious. We really are. But let’s face it: a little good-natured hatred is in order. While most of the Home blogosphere had to armchair commentate on E3 from afar, we all secretly wanted to be there, in Los Angeles, getting hands-on with these crazy titles. When Norse casually mentioned in a previous article that he had Brandon Laurino giving him pointers on how to blow people up while he was playing Dust 514, or Cubes sends us mouth-watering photos of waiting in the queue to play Metal Gear Androgyny, it’s hard to not want to cheer them on, live through them vicariously, and simultaneously crush the entire LA basin with your hammerfist of envy.
It’s not like those boys didn’t deserve to be there. They earned it. Getting media passes to E3 is not an easy accomplishment at all, but Cubes has by far the most-visited Home fansite in the world (we’re talking hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of unique visitors), and it can be arguably contended that Norse is Home’s foremost journalist. Getting to E3 is a delineation point: it validates and legitimizes what you and your entire team have been doing, and no one can take that away.
Now, with all of that said, it’s time for us to poke some good-natured fun at them, since they got to have their heads blown off at E3 and we didn’t.
Cubehouse at E3!
Remember, as always, nothing mean-spirited or beyond a PG-13 rating. It’s time to have some fun with the top gun of the Home community media scene: Cubehouse!
June 17th, 2012 by Olivia_Allin | 29 comments
Olivia_Allin is a team writer, photographer, model, curator, graphic artist, researcher and comic relief for HomeStation Magazine; she lives in Texas with her boyfriend, and Home is more than just a game to her. Years ago she discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. On weekends, to let off steam, she participate in full-contact origami. She saw a Bigfoot once, made a sound you never want to hear twice, and was so proud of her Special Olympics gold medal that she had it bronzed. She is, in her own words, adorkable.
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Wait a minute… did that thing behind me just MOVE?
“E3 was terrific. Los Angeles traffic.. Not so much..”
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“YOU STUCK THIS STRAW UP ITS WHAT!?”
Lol! Winner, winner, chicken dinner…
“Whose eyes do you think are bigger, his or mine?”
“What was in this drink? Why is everything suddenly blue colored?”
“She’s standing right behind me isn’t she…DOH…act nonchalant”
whats a bit of alien drool between friends.
yeah i brought my mom with me….so what?!
clubhouse’s plans for world domination were well underway….one beverage at a time.
suddenly freezing, cubehouse remembered he hadnt put in enough change in the parking meter.
“What, that? Didn’t you know? That’s what Norse looks like after a few drinks.”
“Am I drunk or do you see it to?”
“YES! I am old enough to shave. I just choose not to.”
“The Booth Babes at E3 2012 have really let themselves go.”
“I’m Alpha Zoned 4 realz”
She stands “NO” chance!
“I am the Zamfir of the straw flute”
After the picture was taken, Cubehouse realized why everyone warned him so adamantly about not letting Norse eat or drink after midnight.
the Beast says, “I’ll have one of those.”
- Heey you took MY last drink?!?
-- Hmm, now I understand better why Ellen Ripley beat your race, loser!
“What’s the matter? Is there something in my hair?”
Say hello to my little friend
No, you can’t share my alien cool-aide!
I don’t know what they spiked the coke with here, but its giving me some monster gas!
Remember that geek you made fun of back in grammar school? Yeah, he has a friend he’d like to introduce you to.
(Shamelessly stolen from Terra)
“It keeps calling me Mini Me”
Cubes wins 1st place on his science fair project… but it did eat all his competition