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Your favorite part of PAX
Thoughtless Muse
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I'm just curious. What makes you love PAX?
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Okay, maybe not.
Khoo. He is just so damn suave.
And oh, Khoo...
But I think the environment really makes PAX a special convention.
A huge, big, smelly gaming family!
most of all, most of all
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Mostly I just liked being among like-minded people for a few days. Even if they did stink.
I can play console games at home. I don't need to hit all the panels, especially now that I've seen them once. But how often are you going to meet gamers; it's not like there are gamer hangouts.
up, up, up, up, up, up, up!
o and nintendo had a nice showing i guess
backbone did too which suprised me
and i loved the raffle at microsoft, though i never won anything
Also, playing multiplayer games like Smash Bros with people I've never met before.
ALL HAIL BALL. ALL HAIL BALL. BALL IS KING. I was the guy who suggested they auction it for Child's Play in the first Q&A panel.
Both concerts. Ignoring leg pain to enjoy music at its fullest potential FTW.
Guitar Hero Motherfucking two. War pigs is trapped in my head for the next week. Tycho smashing the guitar FTW.
The PA Panels. I'm a connoisseur of stand-up comedey, and both of the panels were funnier than anything I've ever seen in my life. The best part was that I used the word 'cockthirsty' while waiting in line for the panel. I forget the conversation. Also, hearing the words 'Rain-slick Precipice of Darkness', and then hearing it had Lovecraftian themes.
The lines. I actually love waiting in line for things at PAX, it's the best way to make new friends. However, my friend and I were the FIRST PEOPLE in line for the non-wristband line for concert B, and by the time the door opened there were 20 people wthout wristbands in front of us. The cutting was insane, but usually it didn't really matter if you were 20 people behind.
Bawls, Bawls, Bawls. While they lasted.
Yeah i noticed that as well, so the front crew i was in, we all just starting jumping haha
And as a media agent, it's kinda disappointing to see it from the frontal aspect. I saw one dude just zoning out on the obnoxiously overused strobelight, and I almost wanted to splash him with some water. If you're just going to stand there and block the view of people who want to enjoy it, stand at the back. I thoroughly enjoyed myself at the side of the stage in the small little media area, rocking out to a solid level during both concerts.
I fully agree with you. But if you started moving closer to them to enjoy the fun, they would actually move, but in a way saying "Back the hell away"....
The concerts were okay. I wasn't feeling them that much because it was basically the same as last year, but with less groups. Video Game Pianist is pretty cool. Optimus Rhyme is good, probably my favorite act. NESkimos were way too fucking loud and the distortion made it sound like ass, plus they didn't even have a drummer. I'm not an MC Frontalot fan much at all. His beats seem awkward for hip hop and I don't feel his lyrical style. Minibosses are good, but it seems like they play the exact same set every year.
The Final Omegathon round was very unclimactic. People waited in line for hours for what lasted all of two minutes. Gabe and Tycho could of least played each other or something. Nothing against Tetris, but next year you should pick a game where the players actually interact with each other.
There were just too many goddamn people this year.
Note: I haven't slept much over 2 hours since Thurday Night, and that might've had an influence on this post.
I will post this image mercilessly out of respect for the ball.
Yeah, I let the experience drag me back about six years to when I was a huge head banger. The evidence of this act is the fact that my neck will ache for days to come.
I think next year I'm going to bring a cattle prod for the folks I see just standing around, because I'll be as close to the front as I can get and if you're not moving when you're that close you need to be zapped with a cattle prod.
Ah, the head banging will leave me a nice stiff neck for the next few days as well hehe.
Haha, That cattle prod will give them a nice little boost or atleast give them enough energy to move from our veiw.
His response was just as good:
"I've got your name and your number, pal."
Sounds like a fucking brilliant plan. Sorry a lot of people don't enjoy thrashing around like a retard and would rather stand and enjoy the music.
I'm a white guy. I can't dance. If I had a few drinks in me, I'd thrash around like a retard, but that's cause that's what you do in times like that. But I didn't even attend the concerts this year, I was too busy at a party on Friday and drinking with Leroy on Sat.
Naw, it's probably just hanging around with people with similar interests, and getting to chat with the people that make the things I love. It's just damn hard to nail down one thing.
Jerry smashing the guitar controller was pretty damn cool though.
Yeah, It was pretty damn cool haha. Hes pretty much a beast at guitar hero
I had no goddamned idea that Khoo was that great at it.
I was amazed.
Khoo beat Tycho twice? Does this include the crash?
Why is there no video of Tycho smashing the guitar? I want to see the whole match. The youtube video i saw ends with the game crash.
It must be the jacket.
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I was sitting a row or two behind you, and that was awesome when you held up that laser cell. Classic!
Yeah. They played the first time and Khoo had a commanding lead before the game crashed. Then, they played again and Khoo came from behind to win it.
man when it crashed our whole little group was like "O_O" and then came the sony sucks chant from all around the crowd haha
I totally called that it'd crash.
bustin' out some doubles DDR once or twice a night to remember my good ol' days.
Waiting in line and talking with people, making lots of new friends...
Going 45 hours without food or sleep by Saturday morning, and still competing in tournaments over the weekend (got my ass handed to me constantly, needless to say.)
Most of all, I just loved being there. I honestly didn't do much the entire time, and am kinda sad about it... but I still feel really great that I was there. Being in the environment, was just... renewing. My geekhood has been secured, and I will continue to drive 40 minutes to PAX every year.
On a side note, I did feel good looking awkward every day.
First day I was wearing a suit/tie (lost the jacket quick, it was too damn hot.) and the second day I just tried to dress as flamboyant as I could; beanie hat w/ bill, and a white button-up with blue flowers all over it.
I hope to continue to look like a moron year after year.
I love all of you guys, keep commuting to WA.
YAY! I was remembered
Favorite moment was after PAX though, drunken friday nights ftw.
Another favorite was on Saturday night, I put my badge/lanyard underneath my button-up to prevent it from flying everywhere, and after an hour or so of it being down there, I retrieved it from beneath my +2 Shirt of Flamboyance, lo and behold, there were two lanyards with a 3-day pass on each of them.
Somehow, in my sleep/food deprived stupor, I put on a pass that was PROBABLY left on one of the tables out on the 4th floor balcony.
So, whoever's weekend/summer I completely ruined, I'm sorry. Although you DID leave it there, we all make mistakes.
I was just weirded out because I thought I suddenly gained some magical cloning power or something.
anybody else have weird shit happen to them in the midst of a sleep-starving drunken stupor?
*ALL HAIL THE BALL!
*Basically all of Guitar Hero 2 before Concert B. The crash sucked, yes, but it's one of those "you had to be there moments", like the guitar smash that followed about 4 minutes later. Oh, and the Minibosses vs. Frontalot shellacking on "War Pigs" was also cool.
*Swag from the Exhibition Hall. 5 mousepads (thanks Wizards), 4 t-shirts (Precipice, Messiah, Nvidia and Pirates), 3 game CDs, 2 starter sets for Magic: The Gathering and a broken Nvidia bag in a pear tree (ok, so it doesn't quite have the same ring).
*Playing NWN2 and seeing most of my major concerns being addressed.
*Cheering at people who didn't make it to the Nvidia raffle when their numbers were called.
*Seeing the Minibosses rock the fuck out. Would have been cooler if I wasn't totally tone-deaf, because I didn't recognize any of their songs that weren't for download from their webpage.
Not Cool:
*The lines (I know people have said that they use the lines to meet people, the only problem is that I totally suck at conversations)
*Hearing my friend bitch about the lines
*Having my legs cramp up from spending too much time standing up in lines
*Spending maybe a little over an hour in the BYOC total.
*PC games I play that there were servers for: 0
*PC games I absolutely hate that there were servers for: 2
*Bawls running out late Saturday. WTF?
*Having everything start late (especially last Omegathon round)
*The concert schedule. Is there some sort of law I'm unaware of that states that metal NES cover bands have to play behind nerdcore rappers? I can't be the only one who thinks this makes no sense.
*The lines (it warrants mentioning again)
Started off not cool but ended up cool:
*The line for the first PA panel. My group were basically the first ones there, but then people started to glob around us, essentially cutting en massé. It would have been cool if it stopped there, but then the Enforcers said the line was moving outside. Still would've been OK had they simply pushed the line back, but instead they made everyone who was inside go to the back. WTF? The only redemption came when about 20 minutes into the panel a group of 4 left, so we took their spots, and those chairs happened to have the cards for the Precipice t-shirts.
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