Medal of Honor, developed by Danger Close was released October 12th 2010. It had a 3 week head start on Call of Duty Black Ops. Medal of Honor was marketed as a more realistic and not a ridiculous over the top like Modern Warfare 2. If Medal of Honor came out around the same time as MW2, it would have fared a bit better.

In the single player campaign you play as 4 different soldiers, but it seamlessly transitions in a way it seems like you never changed a soldier. The Tier 1 squad consists of the names Preacher, Dusty, Mother, and Rabbit. The game starts off in the Tora Bora mountains. The Tier 1 operators are undercover driving a technical in a town to rescue an informant. At night they get stopped by a shepherd and a dozen goats crossing the road. At first the squadmate shouts in the native dialect to move. Then after a long time of 5 seconds, the Tier 1 operative yells “Move!” in English like no Taliban soldier would ever notice.
A special forces soldier undercover would never yell in English in any Middle Eastern, Central Asian conflict. Within the first 5 minutes I was stunned.

When the Tier 1 Ops, get to the informant, they pull guns on him. They did this to make sure if the informant lead them into a set up. The informant tells the soldiers that The Taliban are bad people and he wants his daughter to grow up and get an education. All the Taliban does in the context of the game is terrorize the locals. This is one of the rare times Taliban is actually mentioned in the game. Throughout the game Tier 1, US Marines, and helicopter pilots refer to the Taliban as “bad guys”. Not tangos, but bad guys. Danger Close couldn’t make it any more black and white.

The US invade the Bagrams airforce base. What makes this odd, is that the takeover of Bagrams was a joint op of US and UK special forces. While Danger Close mentioned multiple times that they consulted with the Tier 1 Special Forces, it seems like Danger Close gave them full control of script writing.

In the game the Colonel in Bagrams airforce base wants to use tactical strikes to slowly weaken the Taliban, but the clueless General in Washington D.C. that has no idea what’s going on in Afghanistan wants to send marines. The missions consists of destroying Taliban ammo caches, bunkers, installations, getting ambushed, and a rescue mission. There isn’t a good sense of mission pacing of rising conflict, climax, and resolution compared to call of Duty. Due to the success of Modern Warfare’s All Ghillied Up, Danger Close tries to implement stealth in some later missions, but it never has the same effect. The mission pacing is as clueless as the US military main purpose in Afghanistan. The last mission of Medal of Honor just ends. There is no change in pacing such as a massive firefight to indicate the end.

While the game tried to be a grounded, and have a serious tone, the Linkin Park music washed all that away. There was two Linkin Park songs used in Medal of Honor. One of the on rail helicopter scene and one for the end.  It was strange that they licensed Linkin Park when they already had an acclaimed hollywood composer. The end credits of Medal of Honor has a long over the top tribute to US veterans.



My first time reading the slides, I remembered what Chris Antista said in October 2010. “Without your sacrifices we wouldn’t been able to make this game.” I was recalling information of the TalkRadar hosts in Episode 123. Tyler Wilde was not making an exaggeration about the ending deifies the troops. Tier 1 consultants basically were given free reign of the story. After playing Medal of Honor, I don’t understand that Medal of Honor accurately depicts what the actions of the Special Operation Forces. The Tier 1 could do nothing wrong, and the Marines barely caught breaks. Medal of Honor comes off way more propagandized compared to the Call of Duty Modern Warfare games because it never uses real historical events as a setting for their games.

Setting the game based upon real life conflict was a bit tasteless. It wasn’t pulled off that well. The Taliban could have been called opposing force and it would have made no difference. While it tried to be serious, it never fully committed to the tone. It is sad that one of the most influential and creative series in World War II shooters got rebooted to be the pinnacle of this generation generic contemporary military shooter.

PAX Prime 2012 adventures

Thursday

I arrived at my airport terminal at 11AM. 3 Hours early. There was 4 people that were specifically going to PAX. Storm, Theron, CM manager of Tripwire Interactive, and Darren a Deputy Manager enforcer. We all talked about our previous PAX experiences, how many times we’ve gone to PAX and what were we most excited to do or see at PAX. 3 were in the Atlanta area, and Storm had a connecting flight from Baltimore Maryland.

When we landed in Seattle, Darren was a great help to us on using the Sea Tac Light Link Rail to get from the airport to the Westland station to get to our hotels. During the 1 hour transit ride, Darren shared the benefits of the Google app that gives notifications 15 minutes early like if you want to get to an appointment and under these traffic conditions for this time of day you should leave within the next 15 minutes. Overall it is more helpful than creepy, but he finds utility in that app.

When I got off the station it took a little longer than it should have to find the hostel. When I got checked in, I met Curtis Stone, Ryan Maggs, and Zach Beason. It was quiet at first. We had lots of 1 to 2 minute conversations followed by silence for 15 to 30 seconds. When I told Curtis in person about my dream of him jacking off, he didn’t want to know more. After the awkward conversations with many pauses, we went downstairs to get some free tacos.

Before eating, a hostel worker talked about all the events the Green Tortoise hostel was sponsoring and promoting over the weekend. One of them was a group that does Reggae dubstep. Zach, Ryan, and I became disgusted. The free tacos were adequate. I didn’t eat anything for the past 8 hours so the food was satisfactory. Most of the people at the hostel were their for BumperCrop. A musical festival which happen to attract a lot of hipsters. Ryan and I chatted about videogames like Max Payne 3, Red Dead Redemption. Later Zach and Ryan were chatting about college majors.

While I was waiting in line for tacos I met Robert Beach, and Cole Frazier. My first interaction with Cole was “Hi Cole.” Then Cole said “Hi.” back. Then we look at each other, for another 5 seconds and don’t talk and then we go our separate ways. That was the first of many.

Later that night, I went to Gameworks where I saw Landon, Hannah, Blake, and William. When I greeted Lando he was enthused to see the TURbo. Which I only get that treatment at PAX. Thursday night I walked around Gameworks seeing most of the arcade machines. Street Fighter IV was the busiest section at the arcade. Lando offered his Gameworks card to anyone if they wanted to play any arcade games. No one accepted his offer. Zach asked Landon to guess his weight. He said “410 lbs.” Zach responded with “Not anymore.” Zach is currently as of August 29th, 360 lbs.

When I arrived back at the hostel I got to meet Marco. We both realize we had the same Mass Effect 3 N7 wallets that we both redeemed through Gamestop’s Power Up Rewards. When Zach arrived in the room when the lights were off, Marco did an excellent Bane impression of “Ah you merely adapted to the dark, but I was raised in it.”

I had a horrible time sleepings Thursday night. The street lights from the window was to bright, and the noise was too loud. When I went to bed I woke up 45 minutes to an hour later. This happened 4 times that night. I woke up in the middle of the night at 3:30am then went back to bed. I then woke up at 4:47am then went back to bed. Then at 6AM I woke up with only 3 to 4 hours of sleep.

Friday morning
Robert, Marco, and I had breakfast at 6:30 AM. Marco and I went to Target in which Marco got overcharged for a 20 oz of Gatorade. Instead of $1.07 it was $4.99 since it was originally part of a 6 pack. He thought it only happened to him because he was a Mexican. He was only half right.

Marco and I went to the convention queue line and waited 2 hours before the show floor opened up. During that time I blew up a beachball and hit toward a line that had no one in it. There was a kid playing Pictochat on a DS lite and had his wi-fi on and wondered what ASL was. I assumed he must have been 16 or under. Waiting in the queue line was a 45 year old guy from Florida that worked for Microsoft, and another guy that served 3 combat tours in Iraq. And behind us was 2 guys Steve and Zach who I chatted with for the last 45 minutes until the show floor opened up.

I brought a beach ball, so did 9 other people in the queue line. While I was blowing up the beachball, people nearby told me I was going to pass out. They indirectly joked I had no lung capacity and or I had heavy asthma. However when I hit the beach ball it went to a queue line where no one was. This happened twice. The Omeganauts got to see the show floor before the others, and one of the omeganauts names were A_ynss. Somehow he managed to slip that past the Penny Arcade guys.

On the show floor the first thing Marco and I went toward was Square Enix booth. They had stations to play Hitman Absolution and Sleeping Dogs. It was strange for Sleeping Dogs because it was already out. For Hitman Absolution there was no one from Square Enix to give tips. I ended up dying a lot due to lack of tutorial and high difficulty. The Chinatown setting was very detailed, and the stealth detection system was superior to the previous Hitman games. I accidentally punched a pedestrian in which all the surrounding pedestrians saw what a I did and a couple went to find a policeman. Thirty seconds later the police came.  I only played for 5 to 10 minutes. Throughout the entire expo, there was no line for Hitman Absolution because most people probably quit after 5-10 minutes. Due to not knowing what to do. Hitman Absolution was the only game I played on the show floor. Going into the show floor I got to say hi to the enforcer I have met at the last 3 PAXses.

On the show floor, Borderlands 2 and Halo 4 had the longest lines. Borderlands 2 was still 3.5 hours long, even though they had twice as many stations compared to East. Compared to East the expo was more packed, and there was worse congestion. It was not as bright as PAX East. The ACIII expo and Firefall expos were the same as East. I didn’t have much of a desire to play any F2P games mainly because you can already play those games at home. Firefall did have very nice soft carpet. Firefall has been at the last 5 PAXses. On the show floor I got to say hi to the tastiestjamb and the guy that tags along with him.

After playing Hitman Absolution, Marco and I went upstairs and saw the League of Legends room. They had a nice stage setup. I had no desire to wait in line to get a PAX skin. Sometime later Marco and I walked across the skybridge in which I met Sam Hulick, the only composer to score all the Mass Effect games. I got to have a 30 second conversation with him and told him how much I liked his music, and the ME3 romance theme so much I learned it on piano. Sam pointed me to the guy that played the violin for the ME3 Romance theme, and I got to shake his hand as well. After he left to go to the Bioware Base, I became really giddy and started shaking my hands in a super spastic manner. Marco saw all of this happen. Marco and I went to the Colonial Marines exhibit where we got our picture taken in the loader.

Marco and I later went to the Assassins Creed III GamesRadar meetup that was giving away from BBQ in a food truck. Blake Hall, Zach Beason, Landon VanBuskirk, and Hannah were also present. I got a spicy pulled pork BBQ and a Mexican Coca-Cola with real cane sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup.

Soon Landon, Blake, Marco, Zach, and Hannah went their seperate directions, and I stayed at the food truck talking to Dave Rudden, Henry Gilbert, Mikel Reparaz, and Tyler Wilde. It was my first time meeting Mikel Reparaz, Anne Lewis, Scott Butterworth, Henry Gilbert, Evan Lahti, and Logan Decker. Chris Antista arrived later. Dave Rudden and Henry Gilbert talked about how Chris Antista was busy working at Capcom, and that put a damper on the podcast schedule. When I met Mikel Reparaz I first talked about how much I enjoyed his historical top 7’s when he discussed them on TalkRadar. We then later spent most of the time talking about history which included the The 3rd Crusades, the historical significance of religion and how that related to the Spanish Civil War. We also talked about Kane and Lynch 1 and 2, and why 2 was a lot worse in many ways. Mikel had to go to an appointment. I got to say hi to Logan Decker which he was busy reciting for the opening of the PC Gamer panel. He told me speaking to a crowd of hundreds makes him anxious in a sick way of about to throw up but not because throwing up is gross. I told him I remember him back from the Maximum PC days and he said something about he was just a young one back then.

For the PC Gamer panel, they got Notch from Minecraft, Rocket from DayZ, Greg Kasavin from Bastion, Jake Solomon from X-COM Enemy Unknown, and Sean Vassman from The Walking Dead episode series. Before going in, Notch was looking at the crowd. People weren’t sure it was him because he had the black hat off. It made him incognito. Before going in everyone waiting in line got PC Gamer swagbags. It came with 9 gift codes for EA F2P games.

Logan Decker started off with a great presentation. He talked about his experiences where he had to hand crank the Apple II to get graphics. The panel mainly focused on what will be the future of storytelling in games. Notch and Rocket, were more focused on having storytelling through environment. While Sean and Greg games they work on linear narrative. Overall they agreed that being a hero, and large amazing spectacles are done well. However elements such as being insignificant in a large world hasn’t been done that often. Rocket wanted games of you will die, but the world goes on just like in real life. Jake Solomon said it is hard to depict love, affection, and relationships in a sound manner through gameplay mechanics, but sex is a lot easier. After the panel I got to say hi to Mitch Dyer, and Andy Bauman. The woman that worked for Sales and Marketing for Future US gave Blake and I Dead Island Riptide iPad cover. She didn’t want to give it to me at first because she thought I worked at Future US. I should have said “You can’t fire me!”

Leaving the PC Gamer panel, Blake Hall and I got lunch at Subway. The guy that made my sandwich was if Joakim Noah was 5’ 3’’ and was a complete asshole. After Blake and I grabbed our sandwiches we headed toward the Mega 64 panel. Waiting in line for the Mega 64 panel I ran into Marco and Ryan. The Mega 64 panel was a lot of fun. There was high amounts of energy in the room. They gave away very nice Razer headsets. The Q&A was ok. One guy dressed in a nice suit, asked the worse question you can possibly asked at a Mega 64 panel, but due to dressing up in nice attire it was booing was kept to a minimum.

Afterwards the 4 of us went to Gameworks, which there was a long line for a Turbine WB party which was seperate from the IGN meetup party on the 2nd floor at Gameworks. I didn’t want to wait in line for a long time so I went with Blake Hall to the videogame gameshow panel. Along walking to the panel, there was a group of people blasting Gangham Style, so I stopped walking with Blake Hall, and started dancing to Gangham style. It was pretty awesome. On the “HEY SEXY LADY!” I was leg shuffling just like PSY would.

I was only at the Gameshow panel for 3 minutes until Marco told me that line was for something else, and told me to just walk into Gameworks. At Gameworks on Friday night, I saw 435 for the first time, and first time I saw churcheswife and knucklesdawson at Prime. Brett Elston said he would come at 8pm, but Chris Antista and Brett Elston didn’t come until 11:00 PM.

At Gameworks, Tyler Wilde and the conversation around him was about gaming. We talked about downfall of retail sales, why digital will be the future, review scores and scales, the horrible of internet commenters, and the everyday awful of r/gaming or just the internet in general. Overall Tyler said the Half Life 3 exclusive reveal by PC Gamer, irritates him because it sounds more legitimate than 99% of all the other poor rumors he reads or hears at work. For the Steambox he said that is still a ways away. On review scores he says PC Gamer is more critical than GamesRadar, but on 100 point review scales the difference between a 67 and 68 is indistinguishable. Tyler talked about Nintendo ended Nintendo Power, and OXM, and PTOM they paid a license to have those magazines be official. For @Gamer for reviews, they will only publish games that will be above a certain score, if not there is no review. If you wondered why Amy, or NeverDead was reviewed by @Gamer that is why. On Tyler Wilde review scores, Curtis, Robert, Cole, and I were a tribunal. You gave Brink an 8? Medal of Honor also got an 8. You gave Borderlands an 8, which Tyler Wilde thought he gave Borderlands a 7. Tyler Wilde gave us an employment tip if we were going to work in the gaming press. Don’t say fag on twitter.

After chatting with Tyler Wilde I went to talk to Mikel Reparaz about Sleeping Dogs and Max Payne 3. Then we talked about how dangerous was Brazil was and it will be very dangerous for tourists that attend the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Rio De Janiero olympics. Mikel said if you are really rich in Brazil, you have helicopters to get around and you never walk the street. Mikel always looks tired regardless what time of day it is. I told him about him getting mad on TalkRadar when they called him Mikel Cubikal which he said all he probably did was scold Chris.

It was nice when Chris Antista arrived. However he did have sad news to share that there would be no LaserTime PAX podcast. I was bummed. I showed Chris the gift I would have give him live on the podcast. It was kid size Minnie Mouse underwear which would be great for your future girlfriend. Chris Antista said to me “Wait you gave me used children’s panties?” “That is worse than a sex toy, or it can be a sex toy.” Soon people started asking question to me like where did you find these panties? I found them off the sidewalk. Someone said “In Seattle?” I said “No, in Alabama.” Chris responded “That’s even worse.” I said it was fine because it went through the airport so it was nothing bad. Anyway Chris Antista took the Minnie Mouse underwear.

Even though I was tired and hungry at Gameworks, it was nice just seeing my online friends in person and listening to their conversations. Later on that night there was some guy that was going to have a panel 11:30 AM tomorrow. He said he had an infinitely long penis with no tip and never cums. And sucking his dick is like corn on the cob. The last thing he said was all the possessions he currently has is in a bag on the other side of Gameworks. The main thing I got from the 3 minute interaction was that he is unemployed and homeless.

When Chris Antista talked to Churcheswife about the Lemon Party he said it was both his grandfathers and their friends. He later hypothesized that those old guys dicks must have tasted like chalk, which churcheswife looked in disgust and said something along the lines of “Why are you thinking what old guy’s dicks taste like?”

Our decided to leave Gameworks to get some food and alcohol. Outside I let off a high pitch scream which Brett said we are taking no 14 year olds. Brett Elston and our group of 14 decided to walk to the TapHouse. Instead of going right, where we would only walk ⅓ of the block, we went left and walked ⅔ of the entire block. Somehow Brett Elston and I had a taint debate, me discussing the functions, and Brett understanding that, but wish it had more purposes like sexual stimulation.

It took a while to get food at the Taphouse. I dranked water and had a couple of fries. While eating fries, David saw how similar we both eat our fries, and that we eat a lot while staying skinny. Also how we both dance like awkward white people. Somehow David talking about similarities led to me  gyrating my hips and grinding on him from his knee to upper thigh 4 times. Churcheswife asked me if I had a girlfriend which I said no. She responded with “KICKSTARTER! Get Turbo a girlfriend for $100,000.” Someone said naked pictures, which Churcheswife immediately responded with “Must be artistic nudes so they don’t violate the TOS.”Churcheswife makes a high pitch noise like a seal that inhaled helium fell off a record player.Churcheswife internet daddy came to the TapHouse and what they talked about is irrelevant to be posted to the internet. KnucklesDawson asked churcheswife is she would finish her Long Island Ice Tea which she replied “I can do it alright.” I ended up chugging the remaining bits of the liquor she couldn’t finish. Heavy Rain in our group will probably be the most quoted least played game this generation. Chris Antista said something of he dared someone to grab his balls. I heard that conversation and just grabbed his crotch which freaked him out because he wasn’t expecting a response. Chris gave me back the Minnie Mouse panties saying he wanted me to hold on to them. I guess he would rather have childrens lingerie.

Even though Ted Rossi couldn’t make it, Ted Rossi was the most talked about. I got to learn that of all the crazy stuff he said in last years podcast, most of it wasn’t even recorded. Before Brett left, he said there is a lot of things he likes about East after being at Prime 2012. I agreed with him on East is better as a convention building to deal with lots of people. But Prime has its own benefits over East. On talking on conventions Brett didn’t like it takes a week for both San Diego and New York Comic Cons to get set up and leave. Compared to PAX come in Thursday and leave Sunday. Anyway when Brett left the TapHouse Saturday at 1AM he said he will be at the PAX East, which I said to him see you March 22nd to 24th. I went to the hostel that night completely tired and had no problem going to sleep.

Saturday

Saturday morning I got up 6:30 AM. Got breakfast, then went to Target to buy cheap Gatorade for $1.07. a piece, while Marco got charged again for $4.99 a bottle for Gatorade. Of all the panels I wanted to go to, I was the most excited for Behind the Blockbuster music of videogames. I was the first person to line up at 7:40 AM. 2 Hours and 50 minutes in advance for the panel. I brought my games Deus Ex Human Revolution, Assassins Creed II, Hitman Blood Money, Mass Effect, and Halo 2 to sign. I was lucky that I had Halo 2 on me. I brought Halo 2 to intentionally give it away at a LaserTime podcast. Luckily I didn’t take it out of my bag. A couple minutes later the people that were right behind me, also waited behind me in the queue room on Friday. During the wait, I talked to the Asian girl and her boyfriend about Mass Effect, Mass Effect scoring, and other videogame soundtracks. She was looking forward to see Jesper Kyd and Sam Hulick. The special guest was Marty O’ Donnell from the Halo series.

I got to sit in the front row for the panel. When they introduced the composers, I raised the game they composed in the air. When Jesper Kyd was introduced, I raised my Assassins Creed II and Hitman Blood Money copies. Jesper Kyd saw that and he thumbs up me. I was thrilled. The panel was very interesting talking about their experiences on how they got into composing. Jesper Kyd said he started to score videogames because he wanted to turn his hobby into a paid profession. His first game company he was in failed, but the group started IO Interactive that made Hitman and Jesper played it off like it was no big deal. There was 10 minutes of Q&A at the end and I got to ask a question about, when you score a game what are you given for material? Jesper Kyd and Michael McCann said concept art. McCann said for scoring Splinter Cell if he saw a more complete build of the gameplay he would have scored the game a faster. Marty O’ Donnell for being a audio director at Bungie, he can make more demands and see the final build so they can score more appropriately to gameplay. Afterwards I had them sign my games, and told them how much I loved their music. When the panel was over there was a section in the Hyatt hallway where they would sign our games. During the quick wait I won a Bioshock Infinite poster which I put in my poster container making bringing my poster container worth it. I told Jesper Kyd to sign the bald head of Agent 47 on Hitman Blood Money. When Marty O’ Donnell signed by copy of Halo 2 on the PC, he looked at the box strangely because he said he never signed a box copy of Halo 2 on PC. He might have forget, but signing a PC copy is very rare for him.

After the videogame blockbuster music panel I tagged along with Blake Hall to the Major Nelson podcast. While I never listened to the podcast, for the special guest they had Jeff Norris, the head of JPL-NASA for the Curiosity mission to Mars. While Randy Pitchford was there discussing Borderlands 2 and Aliens Colonial Marines, Jeff Norris stole the show about talking about the Curiosity capabilities.

At 4pm I tagged with Blake Hall to the Dan Amrich, How not to write a review panel. During the wait we ran into Landon and Hannah and we played some Cards Against Humanity. PC Gamer Evan Lahti was present. After the panel, I bought his book and he signed it. He was so glad that I will learn how to read. For all the PAX memories he has with me, the slurping beer off a convention center table sticks out the most. Afterwards Blake, and I chatted with Evan Lahti on how great the PC Gamer panel was. I chatted with Evan about X-COM Enemy Unknown and how much I loved the original. I suggested for games like DayZ and Minecraft, they have to be thought of as ecosystems than conventional games.

After the panels, there was nothing for Blake and I to do or go. We went to the Red Lion Hotel and in the lobby I printed off my flight itinary for tomorrow, and jotted down my PAX experiences. I tagged with Robert Beach, and I got to meet MrPuft and friends at the Sheraton hotel. Their bed was nice compared to the hostel. However it cost them $250 a night instead of $30. When chilling we talked about cum omlettes, shitting, suicide, and semen. Lando and Hannah later came in which we played some more Cards Against Humanity. One of the guys who’s first time playing the game said “What type of game is this?” after reading the cards. MrPuft spent $10 for hotel wi-fi one night so he can look up reddit r/WTF NSFW. Like a naked man doing a jig behind a man fucking a woman. They talked about upper decking a toliet. Remove the top shit in it, and when people try to flush, shit water continually comes out. We all ganged up on Robert Beach making fun of him for being a big shot media person. When I quoted something from TalkRadar, Robert was unimpressed and replied “Ok TalkRadarWiki/Quotes.” Anyway the tension would be over later that night at Gameworks.

Even though there was no podcast at Gameworks, Chris, Brett, and whatever people from Future US would be there. At Gameworks I also got to meet Darryl Miller, an Omeganaut in East 2011, and a person that I have met at every PAX I’ve gone to. Chris Antista wanted to buy a polka dotted Scooby Doo with the intention of setting it on fire and throwing it to the street. Anyway the group at least cheap in $100 worth of arcade credit and we only walked out with 500 something tickets. Chris Antista played a shitty Spongebob game which we had no idea what was the purpose of the game. Chris jump on a light and Spongebob looked like he got sodomized. Chris only got 1 ticket for the $1 or $2 it cost to play that game. Anyway Chris was furious. Another game he played was Frogger. Where you press the button, and for the rest of the game you have no control of the frog. You just have to be lucky and time it right for all the frog hop across the obstacles which will never happen because it is rigged. Chris also said fuck that game and gave that game a finger. Anyway we were thousands behind from getting a polka dotted scooby doo, so we got as many kazoos we possibly could. We probably didn’t have enough for 40 but the workers weren’t paying that much attention. So from Midnight to close, we kazooed the fuck out of Gameworks. Chris Antista was playing Baker Street, and we all tried to play the Star Wars Cantina. I tried to make high pitch screams into the kazoo that sounded like I was being raped. I felt light headed, some people thought I was going to pass out. Chris and Brett had the tip of their kazoos touch. so they were doing some docking. Whatever shit Robert and I gave each other we  hugged each other and rocked each other in a back and forth motion and started rubbing dicks. It went on for about 20 seconds. Some kid took a lot of pictures, but it was only the upper half.

After Gameworks and saying bye, Marco, Zach, Robert, and I went back to Dylan’s (MrPuft) room. For the hotel elevators, people would put chairs and benches in the elevator. We had a cultural exchange by showing how different United States driver licenses were different from Canadian ones. We just chilled until 2:25AM, then we walked back to the hostel.

At the hostel I gave Ryan my 3 day badge in exchange for his Friday and Saturday badges because I wanted to have some badge to commemorate my Prime 2012 presence.

Sunday

I woke up at 7:30 AM said goodbye to who was awake at the hostel and went to the airport.

TURbo's PAX East 2012 experiences

TURbo's Journey of PAX East 2012

Thursday

I departed to Atlanta on a 1.6 hour drive to get on a plane to Boston at 3:30 PM. I was pumped. I was listening to Two Steps From Hell and a lot of the Quad City DJ's mashups. It felt like Christmas all over again. I was going to see old pals again and meet some new ones.

I arrived in Boston around 6PM. The plane was a little slow due to some problems with the engines starting. I called Willyfresh telling him I arrived in Logan. He was by the baggage claim. I told him I was the person waving my hands up and down the escalator. During the chat of leaving to get to the parking garage, Willy forgot where he entered the airport. Then in the parking garage, we spent about 5 to 10 minutes trying to find his station wagon. It was nice chatting with him and it reminded me of last year. We chatted about what we were going to see and do. Willy paid $9 for parking but forgot to pick up the ticket, which he later called himself a fucking moron dumbass to the tollbooth guy for forgetting. The tollbooth guy laughed.

After leaving the airport parking garage, we embarked on a fucked up 8 mile journey guided by the GPS. Just getting on the road, a taxi barely skimmed us. It was a crazy Taxi. An SUV in front of us broken down, and luckily a car let us pass through otherwise we would have waited longer than 5 minutes. We managed to arrive to said apartment we were staying at.

After getting our stuff in, we decided we would go outside find a taxi and meetup with Zanthis or turbobison. Hang out for a couple of hours and then take the cab back at midnight. Unfortunately we had no taxi phone numbers. Willy and I started to walk in the dark in a heavily populated minority area of Boston “Jamaica Plains”. Willyfresh joked that we were the only white people in a 1 mile radius. There was some homeless guy saying things toward us, which I started picking up my walking pace. After walking away from the apartment for 20 minutes I went inside a pizza restaurant and asked for a local taxi. The guy working the counter said there was one right next door.

I tried opening the door it was locked. There were 2 people working the front desk. They looked very strange at me. The sign of the Taxi and Limo service seemed odd. It was just a generic image of a Limo and nothing more. Willyfresh said “Don't call.” Later I was thinking that maybe they used their taxis and limos as an escort service and drug running, and not a point A to point B destination. Like “Our bosses said nothing about 2 white 20's year olds ordering a taxi.” So Willyfresh and I walked another 20 minutes back to the apartment. We were a bit tired. We walked over a mile in the heavily minority populated area of Boston for a chance to get raped. We got something to eat from the local convenient store. We ordered a large pizza and a 2 liter Sprite. I bought 4 32 oz. Powerades for Friday and Saturday because the drinks at the convention center aren't cheap.

The rest of the night we chatted about videogames, and watched some Arrested Development. Willy showed me the last 10 minutes of the Wrestling LaserTime stream Horse Hogan vs. Hollywood Hogan. It was pretty funny. For bedtime, Willy and I rock papered scissored over the super firm futon. I won so I got to sleep on the super firm futon and he slept on the floor. It took us another 2 to 3 hours until we could finally sleep. The mattress was ridiculously hard, there was no fan, and there was no good place for me to jerk off. I heard Willy go to the bathroom and I thought he was having some liquid shit when it was only gas.

FRIDAY

We were both up super early at 6:30 AM. While we didn't have that much sleep we were pumped up for PAX. I asked Anindya for a cab phone number to get directly to the BCEC. He said Brookline Cabs. We called Brookline Cabs, but it took them a while since we were Glen Road in Jamaica Plains and not Brookline. Anyway luckily MetroCab just so happen to be on the street while we were waiting for the Brookline cab and we went straight to the BCEC. It wasn't bad. It was under $20 for being 6+ miles from the convention center. We got there at 8AM. There was a long line. During the wait outside, I got to see Tyler Harville, one of my Omeganaut friends from last year. All I said was “HEY TYLER!” and he responded back.

I got to see Travis and Angela, and meet this year's Omeganauts. Besides meeting Ross and Cassandra, I met PorkBuns and FiascoKnowsNYC who managed to go all the way to the finals. I had a quick 1 minute chat before they had to go away and get Omega briefed.

While inside, Willyfresh and I walked towards the queue room and started talking to people in front or behind us. One of the guys had a 3DS and was happy that he could street pass with a lot of people, and said that the Streetpass was the only reason he got a 3DS. While walking to the queue room I noticed churcheswife and said hi to churcheswife. She said to me “Hi internet.” In the queue line, there was a beach volleyball being tossed around by the crowd. One side of line would collectively boo if the beach ball was hit away from them. I brought 1.5 Piggybanks filled with pennies to give out to people dressed as Assassins. I gave a couple hundred to some guy dressed as Ezio. Unfortunately, I dropped that piggybank 5 feet from the ground and it shattered, dispersing all the pennies. There were over 100 people that had a collective sigh and someone yelled “This is why we can't have nice things!” Some person made a lame Arrow to the knee joke, which resulted in a person 2 lanes away say “If you make that joke one more time I will kill fucking you.” There was another person that wanted the cardboard foldout spiders or whatever creatures that came in the swagbag. A couple seconds later, 20 to 40 people in proximity to him started giving him the cutouts which he was so overjoyed he could have a mega large cardboard cutout army. There was so much spontaneous help. I also had some PC games I gave away waiting in the queue room. I gave out Halo 1, Red Faction Guerilla, Assassins Creed 1, and some other PC games to people.

FRIDAY MORNING

The PAX show floor was not as compact as last year. It was 20% larger than last year and the aisles were bigger, but it felt just as packed as last year. Borderlands 2 had the longest wait of all the games. There was less junk bulk swag like pens, and buttons, and higher end swag like T-shirts and electronics. There was elaborate Easter egg a hunt done through twitter, but the Wi-Fi at the convention center wasn’t that good which prevent me from entering any of the competitions.

When the expo hall was opened, Willyfresh and I headed toward the Assassins Creed III exhibit. There was no wait. It was pretty awesome. What Ubisoft demo'ed was pretty awesome. It was the Battle of Bunker Hill. The improved engine could handle up to 2500 people on screen compared to 200 people in the previous games. The scope and scale of the demo was nothing compared to the previous Assassins Creed games. The assassin had no recycled animations from the previous games. The tree climbing and rock climbing was nonlinear compared to climbing buildings. The rope dart where Connor shoots a dart at a British soldier, jumps off the tree and then hangs the soldier in the process was pretty kick ass. The executions are even more brutal and awesome. I was very impressed by the Assassins Creed III demo. I then preordered it to get an Assassins Creed III shirt.

After the Assassins Creed III demo, I got to meet Zanthis(David). We decided to go check out the Max Payne 3. We had to wait about 90 minutes. During that time, we chatted about TalkRadar no longer existing, LaserTime, videogames, and the ending to Mass Effect 3. That was the first of many 5 to 10 minute conversations I had with people about Mass Effect 3. During the wait I did a short promo for the POW Block. While waiting for Max Payne 3, I got to see Mitch for the first time. Matt, Alex, Dan, and Mela were also present.

Before meeting Brett Elston, we were all singing a couple lines from Lunchbox’s “Happy Birthday to Brett Matt, David, Willy and I ran into Brett Elston in the Capcom booth where we said hi, and Matt asked if there was something he loved about Dead Rising. Brett had no comment. He had another question about the Tekken vs. Streetfighter DLC and Brett was ok since Blanka is still there. It was nice seeing a familiar face and saying hi. Churcheswife and KnucklesDawson stopped by the booth. This is when I said "Brett, I can't believe you fucked her in the ass without permission." Which all Brett could do is be silent, and shake his head.

After Max Payne 3, David, Mitch Matt, Willy, and I walked to .9 miles to South Station to get something to eat to avoid the tyrannical $8.00 shitty food. We all got McDonalds because it was the cheapest. I got to do my special handshake with flabslapper where we made a jerk off motion with our right hands before we high fived. Despite all the shit we give to each other especially Mitch, everyone was very cool. Maybe the internet makes us bigger assholes than we are and will never be a decent substitute to interacting in person. Mitch thought I was a murderer, and all I heard about Jayson was that he was an animefag and retardly into League of Legends. At McDonalds for $3.66 I had a McGangBang. That was my breakfast, lunch, and dinner that Friday.

After eating I went to go to the Bioware Mass Effect panel which by the internet, it seemed like this panel would be the biggest thing ever. There would be a riot and shit would happen. There would need to be arm guards. I went there 2 hours early and I was the 800^th of 1200 people in line. In front of me there was a couple that came from Louisiana, and 2 guys from Rhode Island. One of the guys from Rhode Island reminded me of Strangleme with the use of his yo's. He was a cool guy. During the wait I got to take a picture with the face model of Samara (Rana McAnear). from ME2 and ME3. Also in line I engaged in at least 25-30 minutes of Mass Effect story and Mass Effect 3 ending discussion. A girl that was next to me didn’t like the ending, but she said her favorite character was Zaeed Messani so I couldn’t take it seriously. The panel was only 10 minutes of Q&A and most of it was about the development of the Mass Effect series. Patrick Weekes I felt sort of made some new canon on the spot with not everyone dying on the Citadel because the Citadel pieces itself has a strong enough Mass Effect field to function and sustain life even if was split apart. Someone had a question about the husk statues on Ilos, and wondering what they were, but Bioware would never flatout say yep that was the Insuannon the ones who came before the Protheans. I discovered I was a bigger fan compared to others there, when I could answer any question anyone had about Galatical Geography in Mass Effect. There was no riot and most of the people were pretty cool. After the panel ended I got to meet Katie(@Katiesaurus). We talked about the ending of Mass Effect 3 and other stuff. She had another panel to get to, and I tried to find willyfresh.

Unfortunately, Willyfresh phone battery was dead, and he had no way to contact me. This was bad since I had the only key to the apartment we were staying at. I went to the main entrance where I got to see the Random Assault crew again. During this time at the main entrance I got to meet turbobison and tokengirlstfu and shanghaisix. After they left, a couple minutes later Bladdercat and her friend Joe saw us. She identified Matt and Mitch by their hats. I got to tell Bladdercat how amazing her fan art was for LaserTime, TalkRadar, and Random Assault. She asked if MrSuitman was here, and I said he lives in California and he is still in high school. After the RA crew was going back to their hotels and apartments, I foolishly tried to find Willyfresh.

During my quest of horribly trying to find Willyfresh in a 1.7 million square foot convention center I saw Will Harding, and we talked about our PAX experiences so far, and how soon he just got 3 day pass before they expired. Mainly due to me messaging him less than 24 hours on Facebook before they sold out. He talked since last PAX; Willyfresh attended some midnight launches at his GameStop.

GETTING DRUNK 8PM

When it was about 8PM I decided to attend the GamesRadar PC Gamer Witcher 2 Open Bar Party at The Brahmin. When I arrived there, I first noticed chinspired. I had a 30 second talk to him. I told him I loved his diarrhea jokes on chinspired. He wondered if he followed me on twitter. He might have, but I’m not going to be like Batman5273 and tweet about people that unfollowed me. I got to meet Zack, Rock, and Chris from Known Griefers. Tokengirlstfu, turbobison, shanghaisix, batman5273, kmdeftones, his girlfriend Ashley, Ryan Tajonick, Ted Rossi Dave Rudden, Chris Antista, Brett Elston, churcheswife, and knucklesdawson were there. When tokengirlstfu met Chris Antista I told Chris "In episode 143 you said you would have rebound sex with tokengirlstfu." Chris responded with "I said that? If TURbo says it, it must be true." Tokengirlstfu gave me a punch on the shoulder when I said that. Turbobison got me a Rum and coke. I didn't like it and I only drank a fourth of it. Batman5273 kissed me on the cheek and I felt the alcohol on my left cheek. Afterwards I went to Chris Linendoll and Rock Closson my alcohol role models who I respect greatly who got me my first beer last PAX East. I asked what is a good drink that gets alcohol in my system but isn't hard to drink. They both recommended Long Island Ice Tea. It was pretty good. It was the first time I was intoxicated. I felt lighter. I tried to do my agility moves and I could still agile move only I felt lighter. It felt awesome. I got to talk to kmdeftones and once again I talked about the Mass Effect 3 ending. He asked me what drink I had and I said a Long Island Ice Tea. I asked for him to get water, and he said “No buddy. You are getting another Long Island Ice Tea. I still had my agility and I could still move through crowds without making contact with other people. I felt lightheaded in a good way and I was dancing even more. I felt like I could do more than I ever could sober even though I knew it wasn't true. Churcheswife started dancing on Knuckles Dawson, and then Chris Antista started dancing on churcheswife, then I started dancing on Chris Antista.

Tokengirlstfu started slightly hitting people in a playful way. I gave her a slight hit on the shoulder and she gave me a checkmate. She twisted my left nipple and I could do was watch. Some later time when I was dancing tokengirlstfu said it was not okay to dance on her, but it was ok for Ashley because she had a vagina. Tokengirlstfu later said to Ashley she had a fuck buddy for the last 4 years, and all the privileges of having a fuck buddy. She went on about being a bridesmaid at some wedding and it being really shitty. During this time I was thinking of her tweets that matched up with the story she was telling Ashley. The first thing that popped in my head was her twitter feed a while back where tokengirlstfu had to choose between $7 Mass Effect 2 DLC or sex.

After The Brahmin was no longer an open bar, we all walked to the World of Tanks party which Lizzie Cuevas was our contact in. During the walk to the bar, someone asked Chris Antista about the Tyler Wilde Episode 71 Cult Apartment story. Chris said since that incident, some people took Tyler Wilde’s advice and left the compound. Tyler Wilde was one of the few people that had the balls to challenge the man that led the Charge of the Night Brigade. We got in and I danced even more. They played a lot of electrohouse remixes of songs like Don't Stop Believing, Don't Stop Till You Get Enough, Billie Jean, Shots, the song with the saxaphone Calabria and other pop songs. I thought it was bullshit at a 21+ bar and club they censored the words to LMFAO's Shots. The music was loud, and the club was barely lit. While it was dark, I could tell from 15 feet away, the girl dancing in the corner of the dance floor alone was very chubby. I did get to dance with tokengirlstfu but no contact was made. I did grind with some other ladies on the dance floor wearing my N7 shirt. The last song I remember being played was Levels by Avacii. I danced crazy. Afterwards, all the people I was with were outside the bar. This worried me because I didn’t want to be left behind. I sent a text to Joe that was “Ok went crazy o, avacii levels”

Outside there was some drunk Spaniard guy that took a piss on the wall. After he finished Ted Rossi yelled at him in drunk South Boston dialect, and they went back in forth yelling drunk obscenities. Ted Rossi was being a fucking boss on the walking to a restaurant to get something to eat. He had some trouble walking around line dividers, and bumped into walls. Ted Rossi's state made me think of TalkRadar 143, on how in the world did he find a place to eat in Boston with Chris and Brett last PAX? Ted Rossi crossed the crosswalk when it wasn't clear. He drunk strutted across the crosswalk. While taxis honked at him, he stretched his hand and tagged cars that were turning right in proximity. He got in a taxi but he left tokengirlstfu and turbobison behind. Afterwards I walked with Joe and Matt to the Hyatt hotel with the intent a taxi would be there for me to ride to the BCEC to pick up Willy and then head back to the apartment. While waiting there was a 20 ish year old girl and a guy twice her age and they went in the Hyatt at 1:30 AM. Matt, Joe, and I had a strange look on our face. When I got to the BCEC I started yelling Willyfresh, so he would get in the taxi. We got back to the apartment at 2AM. Willy and I were fucking tired.

While I felt sober at the end of the World of Tanks party, my mind was still in a state of altered perception. Even though I was tired it was still very hard for me to go to sleep. While trying to sleep I was hearing multiple random conversations all at the same time at South Station. The conversations in my head went on for another half hour until I went to sleep. Conversations ranging from Did you feed the dog, family coming into town, and other random errands conversations were going all at once. I felt like Jobe from Lawnmower Man when he could read everyone’s thoughts. It could have been from the ridiculous loud music at the World of Tanks Party, but I heard random conversations in place of a ringing noise.

Saturday

I got a hotel room for a day at the Park Plaza hotel. The first Tdard I met on Saturday was Addison. I gave him my boxed copy of Stalker Shadows of Chernobyl and a CD of Quad City DJ's space jam mash ups. For the queue line someone when the lines were leaving someone hit the beach ball at the empty lines it just rested their alone. There was a huge collective sigh and boo. When my line could go to the expo hall I walked towards the down beach ball and hit it back to group still waiting in line. I got a huge cheer for making hitting the beach ball towards the line of people. An entire line of people cheered me on. That was the only time I got to touch the beach ball, but I had a lot of fun in that moment. After I got the hotel cleared and meet up with fellow Omeganaut friend Darryl last year. Afterwards willyfresh and I took a cab back to the apartment which smelled liked rotten fish and piss. After getting the stuff from the apartment, Willy went on a long drive back to the Park Plaza hotel. We got lost. I told willyfresh “No matter what happens we will always be friends.” He responded with “Fuck you.” We managed to get back sometime later.

I decided to wait for the Community Manager panel. During the wait there were at least 15 people associated with LaserTime or TalkRadar. I got to see Chris Repretti and I talked again about Mass Effect 3 ending, and other stuff. I got to see Christopher Davis the Ginger Ryan Reynolds and the friend he was with and I had another conversation about the Mass Effect 3 ending and PAX. Turbobison, Matt Lewis, Joe Garcia, Bladdercat, and a couple of others were present. JugglerofGeese was also there and I got to chat with him a bit. I had so much fun talking to Tdards and Lasertime fans it never felt I was waiting in line. Kmdeftones (Kevin) was glad to see me, and that I was alright from last night.

The community panel was fun. Gabe, Jeff, Brett, Dan, and Andy gave their insights about being a community manager, and what they were in the games press before being community managers.

After the panel, we made our way to the Sam Adams food court. I saw GuinessGamer again, and he brought a bottle of Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum. I also got to see Sinsloth01 who also attended PAX East last year. And I asked him did you eat a KFC Doubledown and shit on your ex- girlfriend pillows and bed sheets as revenge. Which he said yes, so don't fuck with sinsloth01. He will shit on your shit. Later I asked him about the feeling you know you'll get diarrhea even though you just had food go down your mouth. Like if the food already in your digestive tract is already turning into liquid. I got to chat with catw0od about the QOTW experience he was mentioned in. GTA San Andreas is not GTA III. I saw therawski, originalMrBibz, old bro, and cousin. While seeing Mitch again I got him from behind and humped him 3 times. Also when I hugged Mitch my right hand was reaching for his butthole. He smiled, so I probably did a good job. During the podcast, Chris, Rock, kmdeftones, Ashley, Eric, and I just had a fun time talking while LaserTime was recording the podcast to the left of us. I gave out a lot of free PC games I had no desire of playing again. Chris and Brett made fun of the old PC games I was giving away even though they weren’t that old. Brett joked I might as well be giving away PS1 games.

After the podcast I got to meet Seth Killian. By his appearances on TalkRadar episodes 17, 45, 72, 86, and 140. I had a background with him to converse while not being into the fighting games. The story that Seth made $4000 to $5000 a summer Street Fighter hustling on the east coast. Also horrible academic burnout stories of writing papers about German women in the 1850's that lived in Agrarian societies, and starting EVO which is the world’s largest fighting tournament in the world. And I got to talk to Seth about CANGATE and how it was a big deal. Matt Lewis took a picture of me with Seth. It was neat meeting everyone again. I met Lizzie again and she said her band was on hiatus because Matt Payne had a baby. Her last band Sputterdoll broke up because the band members started having kids. She said maybe she should go solo which I said “If you go solo you would get pregnant and that you can’t break the cycle.”

When the podcast was over, we walked to the O’Malley’s Bar that was in the Westin hotel like last year. The good thing was that there was lax carding so Willy could get in. FTG did a podcast in the back of the bar. I got to talk more to Joe Garcia (Wons23). It was neat talking to another person that beat the single player game to Midnight Club II, which is one of the hardest racing games ever. The crazy hang time jump physics, and the horrible voice acting accents. I told him for the Tokyo part of the game, it’s like they got people from every difference province of Japan and China so there would be different horrible engrish dialects.

Kevin had another conversation about the end of Mass Effect 3, and Brett Elston said he wasn’t there yet in the game. I participated in another conversation about the Mass Effect 3. I didn’t contribute much to this one since I contributed to half a dozen others. Later in the bar I got to see how Brett Elston picks his nose, in a slowly and methodical way. He takes his pointer finger and circles his nostril, and going slightly deeper on each rotation. I watched Brett Elston pick his nose for 20 seconds. The way he picked his nose made me rethink how I picked my nose for the last for the last 20+ years of my life. That way of slowly circling in is way less prone to nose bleeds than just straight up reaching with the finger. Being in O’Malley’s Bar reminded me a lot of last PAX just chilling and talking with the fans. I had the same conversation with Brett about his description of TalkRadar 22 of how great PAX was really sold it for me, and made me want to go to a PAX. If you love games you should go to PAX. At the bar Andy Salisbury congratulated me of my dancing at the World of Tanks party. I asked Lizzie how many people at the World of Tanks party were associated with Games Industry or PAX since most of the people seemed to be College kids. While I was talking to Lizzie I was interrupted by The TastiestJam or TastiestJamb. I tried to talk to Lizzie and then his rebuttal was he bought a round of booze for Seth, Lizzie, Andy, and Dave so he was ok. He picked the wrong person to interrupt. I won’t forget you TastiestJamb. You were on TDar PAX Prime 2010 cast. You were born in 1986, grew up in Ohio. Hope to see you at next PAX Prime 2012 where I interrupt you at a bar when you’re talking to Games Jarnalists again. Lizzie said the guys that were just dancing to dance at the event were probably gay. Didn’t matter, had PAX. I told Chris Antista about a domain name idea teenagegrandmothers. He laughed and wondered where I got that joke from. I got it from a TalkRadar episode when Chris said 1990 was the year his girlfriend’s mother was born. I just added an extra generation to that joke. There was a guy from Montreal that came to the LaserTime podcast meetup.

After 3AM, a group of 10 was waiting outside for a cab. Bladdercat called Walt Disney and Howard Stark a commie. I replied saying that Howard Stark was a patriot and was crucial for developing the Atomic Bomb which ended World War II sooner, and then Chris Antista used what I said to Bladdercat’s rebuttal. Batman5273 had a special gift from me. He gave me a Front Towards Gamer Medallion, which FTG rarely gives them out to people. I hugged him, and got on my taxi with David and Willy to the Park Plaza hotel.

It was nice sleeping on an actual bed. It felt so good. The bed sheets were very tight. Before going to bed around 3AM Willy and I got into a conversation where we listed all the horror scenarios of jerking off in the hotel room, and lack of ability to jerk off the previous days. Semen hitting the ceiling and needing more than 2 socks for cleanup. Also trying to get out the bed without jizz drooling everywhere, the patheticness of calling out for help, and the response being “You did this to yourself, you’re on your own.”

Sunday

I brought everything with me to the convention center. I only had the hotel room for one night. For the show floor despite it being Sunday, it was just as packed as it ever was. I had over a dozen friends that were taken away by Jesus that Sunday. Church, family obligations or early flights back home.

I went to the Mega64 booth and danced with them. Waiting at the queue line I saw churcheswife and knucklesdawson again. I bought an Official Internet Soldierz shirt. For Breakfast I got skittles and 20 oz. Mountain Dew for $7.00 on the show floor there was 6 people Dress as Claptraps that were dancing. The last thing I did at the convention center was play The Great Dalmuti card game with Will, Dan Amrich, and some other people around 1:30 PM. I did ok. I never got last place. Someone playing Great Dalmuti with us traveled all the way to Anchorage Alaska to come to PAX. When I placed better than Dan Amrich I did a 30 second taunt. Someone said “Teabag him!” Dan had a serious face and said “Nobody is teabagging anyone.” Looking back I should have just sang Ke$ha’s WE R WHO WE R, since he is not a fan of that song.

When it was 2PM I made my way to the airport for my 5PM flight. When I got to my gate, I got to eat a burrito, which was my first real meal of the day. I was spent, and during the wait is when I started writing whatever I’m writing now. PAX weekend is something you’ll never forget unless you got really drunk.

Thoughts on PAX East 2012

I had so much fun meeting the same people from last year, and meeting new internet friends I’ve known for a long time. While videogames are the main attraction of PAX, I had so much fun just hanging out with my friends. It’s the only place where your online friends from all over the US and internationally can hang out and enjoy each other’s company. I miss PAX and I miss my friends. Hope to see you all and even more next year.