Finially going to write about PAX
Ya, I've been back from PAX for two days, but I actually had to go from that strait back into school so I've had a bit of catching up do do. Well, first off PAX was amazing. I'm still recovering from it and I may have made a friend drop a class to go with me, and I now I have no money and still have to repay for my flight there.....ok, that sounds bad. BUT!, but even with all that it was worth it. The little geek no man's land that I'm from has constricted my geekdom to long! I needed to be with my people, and damn was it all that and more. I arrived to Seattle on Thursday with a friend, everything went pretty smoothly and we got to our hotel. I knew there were going to be pre-pax game nights, but we didn't really have any ways to get to them. Of coarse the next day we found out we could have taken a free shuttle from our hotel to them, but oh well. The first day of pax arrives, we actually meet the actors playing the Marines from Aliens in the lobby of our hotel, and we talked to them a bit throughout the weekend. The line for PAX was huge when we got there, and we got there at least 2 hours early. Got our shwag bags and talked with a few people and threw around a beach ball. The first place we went to was the Flying Frog booth. They make some great board games, and my friend was really excited to see them. We bought some retro video games somewhere else (I also got a Saturn analog controller). I went to the Halo universe, Mega 64, Roosterteeth, and Angry Video game Nerd Panels. I got my copy of Friday the 13th signed by the AVGN and NESpunk, as well as getting a hell of a lot of T-shirts. Got a code for Poker Night at the inventory from the Telltale booth. At night, went my friend had already went back to the hotel, I went to the Loading Ready Run Panel and their movie night. I liked there stuff, but didn't realize how much until I was psyched to be able to be there. They are awesome, and if you haven't watched there stuff, do it now! The next day we Finally actually got to see Aliens: colonial marines, and I got to say, the game looks pretty good. I've only ever seen aliens, and I wasn't that big on AVP, but I definitely will keep an eye on this game as it gets closer to coming out. The event was so huge, that I really didn't know where half the stuff was. I didn't get to the Roosterteeth booth until the second day, and never got any of my stuff signed :/ but I did splurge and buy the remastered box set, the recollection box set, and a Drunk tank shirt. I also saw a little of the Minecraft Adventure update, as well as Cobalt, both looked pretty good, though clearly, 1.8 isn't done yet. I hadn't gone to the Keynote nor the Q&A, but I would be damned if I was going to miss the continuation adventures Acquisitions Inc. I got it like about 2 and a half hours early, and got a pretty good seat (my friend didn't want to go). While in line I finally figured out how the 3DS street pass works. Acq Inc was pretty awesome, worth the wait. I was a little disappointed about the lack of fighting going on, it seemed more goofy then their past games, but damn was it funny. On the last day, I was walking by the coffee show in the convention, and I spotted one of the guys from LRR! I will admit it took me awhile to work up the courage to talk to him, but I did and he also pointed me towards there booth, which was pretty out of the way in the band section. I don't know why and I probably would never have found it if he hadn't told me. So I went there, and there were huge lines to see JoCo, Will Wheaton (also don't know why he was there) but there was no one in front of the LRR booth. I thought they might be on break or something, but finally decided they were not, I went up and said hi and bought some of their dvds. I would have bought t-shirts to, but I was already out of room in my luggage. I got into line and got two CDs from Jonathan Coultan and right before it was my turn to go up and get stuff signed, I remembered my story of how I heard of him. I'm surprised I had the courage to tell him (if you can't tell, I am very nervous around celebrities). I then went back and got my LRR stuff signed by the guys, even though two of them were not there :/ They were really cool guys though, also actually pretty funny in person as well. I did some more stuff and eventually it was almost to go down and wait for the last shuttle to pick us up so we could get ready to go to the airport. I wanted to go back and see if the other 2 guys from LRR were back, but if I went I might me late. I started walking anyway, but lo and behold some of them walked right past me, including one of the ones I missed. I ran up to them and he signed my DVD. They were really nice about it, then I had to frantically run downstairs to go, before I missed the shuttle. The plane back was pretty uneventful, except my friends check- in back was searched by the TSA again (it was also searched on the way there, and he is...well he looks like the person the TSA would profile against) . I Crashed that night at my new dorm, having to get up the next day for school. Now that I'm writing all of this, I feel sad that it's over, as well as all the missed opportunities there. I barely went to Halo fest at all (I didn't find it till the second day) I missed a lot of the panels because of lines, I didn't hang out with as many new people as I would have hoped, and I didn't meet as many celebrities as I wanted to (mainly through my own stupidity). I definitely learned what to do and don't do next time, even if that won't be for a few years. Man....now I'm a bit bummed. I going to go watch AT4W and think about ways to become an internet celebrity myself :p -jjcard |
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