A friend and me asking a lady if this train goes to the convention center.
"Is that where the flower show is this weekend?"
Actually, there was a flower show at the Bayside Expo Center running at the same time. Too bad the local news stations were complete morons and covered the flower show instead of PAX.
I doubt this counts, because it was Scott Kurtz, and it wasn't so much "overheard" as "story he told us during his panel", but it needs to be enshrined and etched in stone.
Kurtz: "I mean, I'm fat, but there are some fucking fat people here. I think Khoo hired some sort of alpha fat guy to sit in the corner and make me feel good about myself. He just sits there and keeps eating soup, he's too tired to chew anything at this point, and he keeps making noises and begging to leave but Khoo won't let him."
someone was talking about how stupid it is for people to dress up in costumes.
so the guy mentioned that right up the street next week you can see thousands of people cosplaying as pro baseball players.
I doubt this counts, because it was Scott Kurtz, and it wasn't so much "overheard" as "story he told us during his panel", but it needs to be enshrined and etched in stone.
Kurtz: "I mean, I'm fat, but there are some fucking fat people here. I think Khoo hired some sort of alpha fat guy to sit in the corner and make me feel good about myself. He just sits there and keeps eating soup, he's too tired to chew anything at this point, and he keeps making noises and begging to leave but Khoo won't let him."
ALPHA FAT GUY!!!! that was a "where's waldo" type search for me afterwards."is that him?"
did anyone record that?
in the food court either Fri or Sat, when just about every seat was filled, every table was taken and every bin was overflowing. yeah, lots of people flooding in and spending tons of money, thats good.
A mid-30's to early-40's mom in the hotel elevator w/ her kids.
"Boys, if you want to go back to console freeplay, I'm going to need a couple of shots first. Mario Bros is more fun after shots".
Loaded elevator in the Sheraton, stopping at nearly every floor... portly fellow waiting at one of the last stopped floors.
"Yeah... not gonna happen..."
I had the same experience except my elevator contained a couple union guys moving stuff around for the Reebok conference. As the doors are closing one of them says "Better watch out, those nerds will hack the elevator."
@Undead, There actually was quite a bit of coverage for PAX on the news.. Don't know which one that you didn't see any on, but I saw it several times during the weekend.
They said that it brought in over $20m I think?
That being said, I wish that PAX smelled like the Flower Show rather than what it indeed did wreak of.
I was in front of the swag line on saturday and i was chatting with the 3 guys behind me while we were waiting for the red shirts to let us loose.
I was commenting on how different the terrain was in Boston compared to my home town of Virginia Beach. all the up and down combined with different types of concrete asphalt and coble stone. 2 of the guys said they were from upstate new york and were used to it.
the 3rd guy pipes up with the thickest Scottish accent i've ever heard in person and says " I come from a town built on 5 hills".
the way he said it with his accent made us all chuckle. his home town sounded mythical
during the create a strip panel a girl stands up and says " I'm glad i haven't been followed, or cornered while i've been here. its refreshing to not be treated like a farm animal"
and Mike says "then i guess your not going to the milking panel"
On an the elevator with two other PAX attendees and a middle-aged lady at the Colonnade Hotel, one of whom was giving out those infectious stickers:
(insert generalized PAX convo here)
GIRL: ...speaking of, can I...?
*she sticks her companion, me and my fiance with PAX Pox)
GIRL, to MIDDLE AGED LADY: Excuse me, could I infect you?
MIDDLE AGED LADY: Uh...sure.
Middle aged lady exited elevator before the rest of us got off at the lobby level.
A group of people spent over 2 hours setting up their newly purchased board game with hundreds of cardboard pieces in the Sheraton lobby (Android, I think). After another short time, my wife wanders over to ask who was winning. "The Game. The Game is winning."
Speaking of Paul and Storm! ....Okay then, how about written words?
During P&S, when the camera focused on the audience waving DS's/other mobile devices back and forth during a song, only to center on the DS in Pictochat with the hand-written word, "Awwww!"
YES! I loved that! Everyone in the audience approved. I think that Paul and Storm weren't expecting us to take to it so well, because even they started laughing at how often we said Awww or Arrrr eventually!
Since we're still on concerts, after JoCo performed Mr. Fancypants and he was hopping around the stage and made it sound good, a guy standing somewhere behind us said, "He's talented even when he's WALKING."
In my opinion, people were overall AWESOME. No one was a dick at all that I saw. When I'd roll up to things, people a few times asked if I could see or if they needed to move so I could (rarely needed them to, but that people did was awesome...much more used to people not paying any attention at all).
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world attaching the electrodes of knowledge to the nipples
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While I was dressed as the Tenth Doctor, one lady asked to take a picture and produced a sonic screwdriver of her own, exclaiming, "We're screw buddies! ... Wait, that came out bad."
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During the first game of the Munchkin Tournament:
In order to get rid of a particularly nasty curse (actually a pair of them) someone stood up and declared:
I'll pay $1 to the first two people that come over and help me get rid of this curse.
I haven't seen half a room move that fast in a long time.
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WOW. That is brilliant.
A: "What do you want from me?!?!?"
Nerd 1: "Yeah, he brought his girlfriend"
Nerd 2: "Wait, his girlfriend? Like a real one?"
Mine was having a hard time not pissing herself laughing.
The one outside? That was hilarious. Just when I thought it was over that little girl came outta nowhere fists flying.
"Good god, this queue room is like a limitless Bag of Holding for humans!"
"Is that where the flower show is this weekend?"
"Yeah, I wanna go Matrix." - Scott Kurtz
(Scott Kurtz panel - PAX East 2010)
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Actually, there was a flower show at the Bayside Expo Center running at the same time. Too bad the local news stations were complete morons and covered the flower show instead of PAX.
Yahoo group GCIACST
Kurtz: "I mean, I'm fat, but there are some fucking fat people here. I think Khoo hired some sort of alpha fat guy to sit in the corner and make me feel good about myself. He just sits there and keeps eating soup, he's too tired to chew anything at this point, and he keeps making noises and begging to leave but Khoo won't let him."
so the guy mentioned that right up the street next week you can see thousands of people cosplaying as pro baseball players.
ALPHA FAT GUY!!!! that was a "where's waldo" type search for me afterwards."is that him?"
did anyone record that?
in the food court either Fri or Sat, when just about every seat was filled, every table was taken and every bin was overflowing. yeah, lots of people flooding in and spending tons of money, thats good.
My wife overheard this too, hilarious!
That was really funny, especially after we sang happy birthday.
A: "What do you want from me?!?!?"
"Man, stop acting so angry."
"Yo, he reminds me of that guy who lives in the trash. What's his name?"
I had the same experience except my elevator contained a couple union guys moving stuff around for the Reebok conference. As the doors are closing one of them says "Better watch out, those nerds will hack the elevator."
They said that it brought in over $20m I think?
That being said, I wish that PAX smelled like the Flower Show rather than what it indeed did wreak of.
Random calling of "Jayson" (Heavy Rain reference) through the halls.
Everyone shouting processor (including me) when I won a processor. No idea what it was worth at the time. Thanks Intel!
I was commenting on how different the terrain was in Boston compared to my home town of Virginia Beach. all the up and down combined with different types of concrete asphalt and coble stone. 2 of the guys said they were from upstate new york and were used to it.
the 3rd guy pipes up with the thickest Scottish accent i've ever heard in person and says " I come from a town built on 5 hills".
the way he said it with his accent made us all chuckle. his home town sounded mythical
<head turn>
"dayymmnnnnn"
Massive Crystal Cavern!
"When I told him it cost $100 he choked me."
Red Shirt "Also, if you see anyone wearing a silver or gold medal, its because they're bad-asses"
and Mike says "then i guess your not going to the milking panel"
*crowd laughter*
or something close to that.
Some guy in the console freeplay room around the Super Street Fighter IV tables asking my brother "Excuse me, are you Seth Killian?"
My brother : "Man, I gotta change my name to Seth."
(insert generalized PAX convo here)
GIRL: ...speaking of, can I...?
*she sticks her companion, me and my fiance with PAX Pox)
GIRL, to MIDDLE AGED LADY: Excuse me, could I infect you?
MIDDLE AGED LADY: Uh...sure.
Middle aged lady exited elevator before the rest of us got off at the lobby level.
Lead Singer of Anamanaguchi: "If only there was a way that we could party sitting down."
That guy wasn't kidding, he IS cosplaying Scott Pilgrim for real.
PAX East Unboxing Parody
"AWWWWWWW"
those of you who were there know what I'm talkin' 'bout!!!
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"It's like they only know binary!"
"Alright guys, take a deep, cleansing breath....
Now let it out."
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
"We walked right into that one."
Paul and Storm were just wicked in general.
During P&S, when the camera focused on the audience waving DS's/other mobile devices back and forth during a song, only to center on the DS in Pictochat with the hand-written word, "Awwww!"
Priceless.
Since we're still on concerts, after JoCo performed Mr. Fancypants and he was hopping around the stage and made it sound good, a guy standing somewhere behind us said, "He's talented even when he's WALKING."
The night of the Pokecrawl (I didn't attend) but I was admiring all of the bulbasaur hats.
So I did my famed bulbasaur impression ... "BULBA!" hollered through the streets of Boston.
The people in front of us were like "Did someone just yell 'vulva'? What the f-ck?" It was rather amusing!
"don't be a dick"
Wheaton FTW
QFT.
In my opinion, people were overall AWESOME. No one was a dick at all that I saw. When I'd roll up to things, people a few times asked if I could see or if they needed to move so I could (rarely needed them to, but that people did was awesome...much more used to people not paying any attention at all).
world attaching the electrodes of knowledge to the nipples
of ignorance?" - John Lithgow, 3rd Rock from the Sun
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