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PAX Concert
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I failed to attend the PAX concert on Friday (I was watching a friend get third in the SSB:M tournament), but I was at Friday's. It went a little like this:
Karaoke Revolution: This was pretty cool. Some people were clearly better than others, but either way it was fun to listen. I thought it was an interesting idea to include this in the Omegatron, and I think it worked out pretty well.
Conney Lin: I really like Final Fantasy music, and I really like pianos, so no surprise that I liked the performance. The biggest problem was that wherever you went in the performance hall there were people talking, so it was a little hard to listen to, and especially get lost in, the music. If you don't care to hear the songs, leave the performing hall, they let you come back afterwards anyway.
MC Frontalot: I hear his lyrics are good, but the problem was that I couldn't understand anything he said over his accompaniment. Auditorily it wasn't anything I enjoyed, so without the (supposedly) good lyrics there was nothing for me here.
MC Chris: What did he have to do with gaming? If it's nothing I think he shouldn't return next year, and I hope it's nothing because I really don't want him back next year. You people demanded his performance? It sounded like pure crap, and all he did the whole time was swear because he could. That's all. Swearing for absolutely no goal or purpose. It actually reminded me a lot of http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2004-01-16 this, except PA was joking, and MC Chris was serious. If anybody can please explain how I am wrong about this (in a calm, intelligent, rationaly, measured way) I honestly want to hear it, because I want to learn and I am at a loss here.
Minibosses: These guys were awesome. If the concert was just them performing for four hours I wouldn't have been dissapointed at all. I am a little dissapointed, however, that their time was cut short on stage because the other performances ran long. I really hope they perform next year, and not last like this time, so if anything they can be the ones to run long. Side note: Most of the songs they performed sounded very familiar, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what they were. If somebody could tell what the songs were that they performed I would be appreciative.
Karaoke Revolution: This was pretty cool. Some people were clearly better than others, but either way it was fun to listen. I thought it was an interesting idea to include this in the Omegatron, and I think it worked out pretty well.
Conney Lin: I really like Final Fantasy music, and I really like pianos, so no surprise that I liked the performance. The biggest problem was that wherever you went in the performance hall there were people talking, so it was a little hard to listen to, and especially get lost in, the music. If you don't care to hear the songs, leave the performing hall, they let you come back afterwards anyway.
MC Frontalot: I hear his lyrics are good, but the problem was that I couldn't understand anything he said over his accompaniment. Auditorily it wasn't anything I enjoyed, so without the (supposedly) good lyrics there was nothing for me here.
MC Chris: What did he have to do with gaming? If it's nothing I think he shouldn't return next year, and I hope it's nothing because I really don't want him back next year. You people demanded his performance? It sounded like pure crap, and all he did the whole time was swear because he could. That's all. Swearing for absolutely no goal or purpose. It actually reminded me a lot of http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2004-01-16 this, except PA was joking, and MC Chris was serious. If anybody can please explain how I am wrong about this (in a calm, intelligent, rationaly, measured way) I honestly want to hear it, because I want to learn and I am at a loss here.
Minibosses: These guys were awesome. If the concert was just them performing for four hours I wouldn't have been dissapointed at all. I am a little dissapointed, however, that their time was cut short on stage because the other performances ran long. I really hope they perform next year, and not last like this time, so if anything they can be the ones to run long. Side note: Most of the songs they performed sounded very familiar, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what they were. If somebody could tell what the songs were that they performed I would be appreciative.
I'm fairly confident that if cows wanted to be freed, they'd tell me as much.
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That said, MC Front was rad, if a little staged and the Minibosses were surprisingly excellent.
Concerning MC Chris, I'm pretty sure that he wasn't serious and that was what was so fucking funny/awesome/cool about it.
Maybe I'm seeing this wrong, I dunno. I liked the music, but I took the swearing for what it was: satire upon the genre of rap.
Am I wrong? Am I terribly, terribly wrong?
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
nope, bang on. if the poster had spent any time with chris outside of the show, he'd have seen this pretty clearly.
Also, thanks for staying intelligent.
Joined today, eh?
What in the fuck does join date have anything to do with this post? Giving feedback on PAX needs to take place from as many people as possible so it can be improved upon in future years instead of this very narrow cross section of attendees represented in this forum posting the usual shit.
He's acting suprised that he got flamed for bashing on an artist that is very popular around here. General forum protocol states that the text under what the quote is referencing the text that was, you know, quoted and not necessarily the first post of the thread.
I don't want it to seem like I was giving him shit or anything. I mean, mc was around a LOT just talking to people and stuff. he's a really decent guy, but he does a lot of the whole "rap-bravado" thing onstage.
Oh, I know. In fact, he showed up to the same hotel party as I did, and I had a beer with him. He was a great guy.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
gotcha, ya i'll blame sleep deprivation on that one.. mybad. I just remember last year alot of the feedback that came in from non board "Regulars" was getting bashed on by the usual posers here, and thats not a good situation for an event that is trying to grow.
And I missed that. But I was there when his DJ showed up.
I was the hammered guy wearing a "1-Up" shirt and swaying to-and-fro. The BO somewhere during the MC Chris portion sobered me up, but not enough to NOT piss in public. I did it while walking, but the amazing part is I did not get one drop on me. I can't even do that standing still sober. Thank you Captain Mo'.
-Louis C.K.
Wait, so. I'm confused.
Did you pee while walking, in public? Like, at PAX, or outside while walking?
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
It was after the concert. I was tired and left when Mini Bosses started doing Ghost'n'Goblins. I was walking down 108th street I think, or whatever the main road back to the Double Tree was. I thought I could use the excercise so I forwent the bus, and besides I wasn't feeling anything. It was along that chain fence on the south side. I think I could still smell the urine today.
I'd like to add I was also aiming sidways. I expected my right leg to be soaked. But even better than my pissing was the concert. At one point it hit me hard that I was in the middle of a crowd, mob even, that was rocking out to video game rock/nerd rap. It was glorious.
-Louis C.K.
MC chris was a voice actor on various adult swim animated shows, and you are stupid and smell like poo
Oh, you have to be drunk! Ok, that explains the vast disparity between opinions. I guess any further discussion about MC Chris would be irrelevant given this newfound revelation.
And yes, I did just make this account today (well, yesterday now). Actually, I made this account just so I could create this thread, but I'm not new to forums, and less new to Penny Arcade, I've just never thought to combine the two until Sunday. I do thank you (sincerely, I'm not being an ass) though, because even though you were basically saying "noob" you refrained from that terminology.
To clarify, I'm not surprised that I'm getting crap for expressing my opinion about MC Chris. I guess more than anything I wanted to see if there was anyone outside of my friends and me who didn't like his performance.
Edit: Also, I'm not a parent, I would consider myself too young for that. I can see how it kinda looks like that given my name, sig, and what I wrote, but I'm just tired and verbose, and when I do those I sound old, and because I complained during part of my post (and name and sig again), that means I sound like a parent.
I don't see how who MC Chris is as a person, or for that matter what voice-acting he does, matters when you're thinking about his music. Case in point is Michael Jackson. He has lost all touch with reality and is in fact quite creepy, but his music's good. MC Chris is perhaps the opposite of that. /End Edit
The second-biggest reason I wrote this was to affirm that minibosses were awesome, and third (although not in any way diminutive) was making sure everyone knew to shut up during the Conney Lin performance.
Edit: Also, I'm not a parent, I would consider myself too young for that. I can see how it kinda looks like that given my name, sig, and what I wrote, but I'm just tired and verbose, and when I do those I sound old, and because I complained during part of my post (and name and sig again), that means I sound like a parent.
I don't see how who MC Chris is as a person, or for that matter what voice-acting he does, matters when you're thinking about his music. Case in point is Michael Jackson. He has lost all touch with reality and is in fact quite creepy, but his music's good. MC Chris is perhaps the opposite of that.
I wasn't bothered that so much as the jerkwads clapping for the guy that was turning the pages in the middle of the performance. I actually moved closer to the origins of the sound after the second time they did it so I could tell them to shut the fuck up, but they knocked it off after that.
I think its funny that the origional poster ignores the first couple of posts, since those are the "intelligent" responses he so desires and instead tries to bash the people that are bashing him....for bashing mcChris.
And since I think his opinion of mcChris is stupid and that mcChris will be reinvited next year (and will return unless disaster strikes), I feel that I don't have to flame him.
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I think the problem isn't so much that you didn't like his performance, as you don't like his music. I'm by no means an expert on concerts, but as a person that's been going to them regularly since 1997, that was definately a hell of a show, and probably in the top five performances I've seen.
They meant Parent of the thread, since you started it. Not used too much around here, but they weren't calling you an old person with kids.
I think Bionic Monkey hit it. Because he was performing music, I figure if I don't like his music I don't like the performance. But that isn't everything though: I knew I was in trouble before he eeven started his first song. It just sounded stupid and pointless to me.
And thank you Legacy for clarifying the terminology.
It wasn't so much a concert as it was a hate rally, and I was just shocked at how many people were just eating that up.
He was funny, IMO, about 50% of the time during the talking portion of his show. The other 50% of the time, I wanted him off stage so I could hear the Minibosses sooner. I can't tell you about his lyrics (or MC Frontalot's) because the sound system made it impossible to discern quickly spoken/rapped words over the music.
He did give a good performance and it was clear that a lot of people enjoyed his shtick. But there is a portion (minority, likely) who did not care for it and do have the right to speak up for their opinion.
It was funny, don't take him so seriously.
I guess you're going to run into problems when half of your target audience has Aspergers to one degree or another. Heh.
Hell yeah it was. I was laughing my ass off.
It was an awesome experience.
It also bothers me that he was marketing the "war" between jocks and nerds. Basically, jocks hate nerds because jocks think they're better then nerds. Nerds hate jocks because they think nerds are better than jocks. When people as a group think that they're better then another group, that's some kind of -ism. MC Chris might have been joking in talking down to non-nerds, but I'd be willing to wager that at least half of the crowd didn't know he was joking.
As a good Mexican friend of mine once said, "That's why Mexicans are so cool. We're pretty sure there's no master race, but if there is... we know it's not us."
QFT
I cannot get that song out of my head: My backpack, HAS JETS!
I am almost 100% sure that the three of them were on a mind-altering substance.
My name is Bobba, the Fette!
I heard it on the Bebop Cola episode of Sealab first.
Me too, but its a LOT different when you are standing 3 feet from him.