I woke up naturally at 5:30 AM on Thursday morning. I was going to Boston for PAX East 2011. I had to reschedule my statistics exam Thursday at 9:30 AM, so I wouldn’t miss any part of PAX on Friday. Not only I was going to meet my online TDar friends, I was going to be one of the 28 Omeganauts to compete in the Omegathon. At 10:20 AM I was done with my exam and I was Boston bound. I checked face book and twitter one last time to see If I got other Tdards phone numbers since I had a phone with no internet, nor could it send or receive texts. I managed to get Bloodyshadow, humor_tumor, and flab lapper’s phone numbers before leaving to Boston.
When the plane landed in Boston after 9 PM, the first Tdard I called was humor_tumor. When humor_tumor picked up the phone he called me “TURbo” and I talked about all the Tdards were going, and when and where we could meet up. While I was talking on the phone, other passengers on the plane started giving me strange looks, since I was referring to all the people by their GR forum username. Then I called Bloodyshadow, and we went over plans, and I shared their phone numbers to other Tdards who would be at PAX East.
I went to bed on a hard ass futon, and didn’t go to sleep until 1AM.
Friday
This is it the beginning of PAX. My body naturally woke up at 6:00 AM. An hour ahead of my alarm clock I set on my phone. For breakfast I got a egg Mcmuffin meal, which I only managed to eat a couple of bites , before stuffing the rest of the biscuit into my backpack. I was in the awe of PAX, as I walked into the BCEC at 8:28 AM., I looked at the ceiling and raised my arms, and then closed my eyes knowing I just entered nerd heaven.
I was the first Omeganaut to check in at PAX, in which I waited in the far right corner of the north lobby on level 1. Then Tyler Hartsville was the second Omeganaut to make himself known. I knew about half of the Omeganauts from face book and twitter and it was my first time seeing online people in person. When Joe Kilman introduced himself, I said “You’re @jooishjedi on twitter.”
Tyler was the only Omeganaut that had a lanyard, and the other Omeganauts wanted a lanyard for their 3 day badge. We asked where can we get the lanyards, which he said it’s far left and go down. He said it was far, but Ross, Cassandra, some other Omeganaut Pete? and I didn’t believe it and we all thought we could get the swag bag and get back in 10 minutes for the start of the Omeganaut orientation. With 4 minutes left, we arrived at the place where they gave the swag bags and programs only to discover there was a line that looked way longer than 10 minutes, and we decided to semi speed dash back to the north lobby. We had to take an elevator up, since none of the nearby escalators were going up. In the short time in the elevator, someone made a level up joke, which reaffirmed the magicalness of PAX. I raced speed walked by to the North Lobby, at the 8:45 AM, only for Travis the head Omegatech to arrive 5 to 6 minutes later. Travis did create a sign on a 8 by 11 piece of spiral notebook paper with the word Omeganauts written in sharpie.
Afterwards Travis sent the Omeganauts to the Main theatre, where we received our T-shirts, Omeganaut badge, swag bag, and orientation. After the orientation, we had front row seats to listen to Jane McGonigal’s keynote. In the hour wait, I chatted to Cassandra and Alex about Mass Effect since they had N7 apparel which reaffirmed them being Mass Effect fans. Alex and I speculated about the Reapers for 5 minutes. In the meantime I traded my phone numbers with Omeganauts Tyler and Alex who I became great friends with over the course of PAX. During the wait, speakers were blasting music from Optimus Rhyme. It dawned on me I was no longer listening to nerdcore music at on my computer speakers, or headphones, but at a public setting. I was moving to the music, and I had no fear or shame. I saw Gabe from Penny Arcade and thanked him that he called me Friday, February 4th 4:52 central time when I became an Omeganaut. He looked at me a tad freaked out, but it was cool.
Before the keynote I called humor_tumor to meet me at the Keynote, which he went to see the keynote. We still couldn’t find each other, so I called him to meet me at the Merman theatre for the first round of the Omegathon. I sort of felt bad that I sent humor_tumor to go on a fetch quest like TURbo is in another theatre.
Jane McGonigal had an excellent keynote, but midway into the keynote I went from I need to pee, to my bladder feels like it’s about to explode. Printing out the PDF floor layout of the convention center was extremely helpful. When everyone stood up and applaused, I took the shortest route possible to the closest restroom where I relieved myself for the next minute.
OMEGATHON ROUND 1
The first round of the Omegathon was going to begin. I was a bit nervous. I decided to finish my 4 hour old egg Mcmuffin, which tasted like it aged in years. The game was Beautiful Katamari. The program said Katamari Damacy, and when we were first briefed for Omeganaut games, the sheet just said Katamari which there is 6 Katamari games. Even though only the lowest 3 of the 27 scores were going to be eliminated, it didn’t make me feel any better. Before the first round began, Tyler Hartsville sang Sweet Caroline, and when he got to the chorus, 20 + people joined in, He single handedly improved the atmosphere of the first round which reduced a lot of tension and made the wait enjoyable. When it was my turn to rolled extremely well. I got third out of 27 Omeganauts for largest Katamari. Omeganaut Jessica, FDC_Ruckus rolled the largest of all the Katamaris. Frag Dolls are serious business. My aunt sat behind her, and yelled “You have a new rival!” Afterwards of getting third highest roll, we the Omeganauts lined up from largest Katamari to smallest Katamari. Then teams were drawn with highest scoring paired with the lowest scoring. When my name called, I jumped in the air and high five my partner Kevin Mullen, which such precision there was no awkwardness.
At the end of the first round, I had my first face to face encounter with TDard fan humor_tumor. After the 1st round of the Omegathon, we proceeded to the Capcom booth. We both played Resident Evil Mercenaries on the 3DS. For me the controls were awkward, and the 3D did nothing to enhance the experience for me. I got a call from Bloodyshadow, and I told him to meet me and humor_tumor at the Capcom booth. I told humor_tumor we’re looking for a person that has the Ed Norton’s beard from American History X. (GR forum reference)
Afterwards, humor_tumor, bloody shadow and I wandered around the expo show floor, until my Aunt Mary bumped into me. I introduced my online friends to my aunt in which she replied “I’m so glad Andrew has real friends.” in such a way that I had no friends and I was a loner. They both laughed, and my aunt wanted to get their phone numbers just so they could relay her messages to me. They put her in their contacts as Lady TURbo. I went to Jamspace and played Captain Falcon’s Theme from F-Zero GX when I was there. When I was wandering alone on the show floor I was dancing with the Mega 64 guys to Robot Rock by Daft Punk. I managed to get a free Sexy64 t-shirt out of it. I look stupid at the beginning mainly because I have my backpack on during the first half of the dance.
I hanged out with Bloodyshadow, where I listened to Bloodyshadow and Community Manager Rigo for Mortal Kombat talk for 20 minutes about anything about Mortal Kombat. While I’m not much a fighting game fan, or into Mortal Kombat, just hearing the stories behind how Mortal Kombat vs. DC was playable through all the financial problems Midway went through in 2007. Bloodyshadow was nice enough to let me leave my excess swag in his car, which I requested he put that shit in the trunk so nothing gets stolen.
Around 5 PM ish, humor_tumor called me and I met with a sizable portion of Tdard fans. I saw Lizzie Cuevas, Samael, WillyFresh992, GuinessGamer, Ted Rossi, flabslapper, Batman5273, and Del_673. I saw Eric Woods stop by, but I didn’t get to know who he was then, since he was going to catch some other panel. One of the first things Samael said to me was “You are so much nicer in real life.” When I introduced myself to GuinessGamer he said “You’re Turbobison!” Which I replied “No, I’m the Tdar Wiki TURbo.” He responded with an enthused oh my god. Lizzie Cuevas gave all the Tdard fans that were there 3 The Glowing Stars stickers. Tyler Wilde trickled in, and then Brett Elston and Chris Antista. When I first saw Brett and Chris, I stood up in a chair and screamed their names.
WillyFresh992 gave gifts to Chris Antista and Brett Elston. The gift he gave to Chris Antista was a Mickey Mouse statue within a phone box that was in a box. For Elston, he gave a copy of the first edition of the Black Spiderman, which Elston went into a 3 minute all factual detail about the origins of the first Black Spiderman. Someone asked where is Mikel Reparaz, in which all of the GR people responded he’s old. I managed to record a 7 minute bit of a smoke break with Antista, Batman5273, and the 6 other non-smoking Tdards that just wanted to listed. Antista is funny just like he is in the podcast cracking jokes and having a great time.
After the GR people left to go to their hotels, Bloodyshadow, Willyfresh992, and I just walked around the convention center, telling jokes, making Tdard references, and talking to Assassins Creed II cosplayers in horrible Mario Italian English accents. We went to the console freeplay until we realized we would have to wait half an hour to check out a game. Instead we went to the handheld freeplay and we relaxed on the nice large sumo beanbags, which was a great relief from standing up for most of the day. While at the handheld freeplay, some Enforcers started playing music and created a dance party in which Tyler, I and 2 other people danced away in front of hundreds of people lying down in beanbags. It was beautiful experience. The worse part was a guy dress as Chun-Li who had really hairy legs and completely a boner killer.
Around 10 PM ish, Bloodyshadow was nice enough to give me and WillyFresh992 a ride to our hotels. Bloodyshadow was flipping through songs on his iPod for minutes, until it was the Tearing Me Apart Dubstep Remix which was the only song he played to the end. On the way back to the hotel, all three of us sang that song. I went to the hotel tired with aching legs.
Saturday
Whatever pain was in my legs last night was completely gone. I got 2 games of practice of Bananagrams before Round 2. I played a game with Tyler in which I won and managed to connect the words rape and me. This was going to be the most brutal round of the Omegathon. 24 enter, only 12 will advance. My partner Kevin is a beast in the word games. He knew the odd 2 letter and 3 letter words. When the game started, we had sucky letters. The opponent team had a significant lead. Then my partner went into word mode and was rearranging words left and right, and calling peel every 5 seconds. We definitely had a shot at this. Unfortunately, we had bad dumps and we were stuck with 6 letters we couldn’t do anything with. The other team called bananas. Demoralized, my partner and I didn’t challenge any words. However my partner felt uneasy with the word Jew. The worse part of all is Jew is not a word recognized in the Scrabble dictionary, and if we challenged the word that team would have been disqualified and we would have moved on. I told Rocco about this at the Mega 64 booth and Rocco responded “JEW ISN’T A WORD!” This is probably the first time ever for me that the Jewish culture and race were responsible for any team’s early exit out of the Omegathon. However, the top 5 highest and lowest scoring people in Beautiful Katamari were all eliminated in the Bananagrams, which reaffirmed success in previous rounds meant absolutely nothing for the next round.
While all my close Omeganaut friends got eliminated in the second round, it was still a lot of fun participating in the Omegathon, and being only 27 of the 21,000+ people at PAX East as an Omeganaut. For the Omeganauts that were eliminated, we received 2011PAX East medals. Which only 340 of those are given out for this PAX East.
After losing, I hanged out with Alex’s friends and went to the Deus Ex Human Revolution panel. While waiting in line, I got a free t-shirt. I had a nasty headache, which Alex saved the day with having antihistimine in his backpack. Walking towards the line, Alex told me to look to the left, where I saw a very sexy cosplayer riding down the esclator. I thanked him for notifying me. While waiting in line, I was talking to a women from New Jersey about how nice the people were here, and meeting online friends for the first time here, and having a blast. She responded with “I know what you mean, I met my husband playing Halo 2.” The Deus Ex trailer on the big theatre screens was an awesome spectacle, and the gameplay looked awesome. The only flaw was the really stupid enemy AI, when the character went into stealth mode.
After the panel I met up with Bloodyshadow and WillyFresh992 at the food court that served 20oz soft drinks for $3 and burger and fries for $9. At 5:45 PM at the food court we spotted Brett Elston, and I yelled at him “BRETT FOR FUCK SAKE”. He responded with “Are you going to wait here another 3 hours?”
Afterwards, Willyfresh992 and I walked around the convention center, having a great time, and we walked to the end of the level 1 convention center. Unfortunately the level 1 doesn’t rectangulate completely around the convention center. Instead there is a long access hallway that is off limits. Instead of walking back, Willy and I “Arkham Asylumed” our way through the service corridor. 100 feet in, we turned around, not wanting to risk getting caught, or have our badges taken away.
Humor_Tumor, WillyFresh992, and I went in the Arcade room. While I was there I met last year’s Omeganaut PAX East 2010 champion. The first question he asked me was “Is Ross Reeves still in?” I replied yes and he seemed disappointed. Then he told me about how upset Ross was, crying, filled with rage, and the only reason he acquired a lot of PAX swag, was to calm him down.
Around 7:20 there was a crowd amassing outside of the Sam Adams pub. Besides the TalkRadar hosts, Dan Amrich and AJ Glasser were also there. Before the cast began, there was at least 6 to 8 Tdards huddled around a host talking about anything related to games, movies, and tv shows. This was the first time I met Dan Amrich, and I got my picture taken with him and one of his OneofSwords buttons. He thanked me for the Palette Swap Ninja page I created on up at the TalkRadar Wiki. Dan Amrich talked about his Palette Swap Ninja, and his 80’s cover band with Jude Kelley, slight disappointment of Activision not showing up at PAX, Hugh Sterbakov’s stories on the OneofSwords podcast that related to shitting, his wife shitting, and Seth Green. His 80’s coverband missed Jude, because their new keyboardist sucked. WillyFresh992 said one of the funniest things at PAX with “So he sounds like Ray Charles if you moved him down an inch.” Everyone who heard it was laughing hard. When bloodyshadow got his picture taken with Dan Amrich, he crossed is eyes. It was another cruel funny after another. I got to meet Shanghai Six from Front Towards Gamer, and he congratulated me that I was an Omeganaut. Batman5273 forget the guy at the Valve booth who’s name started with C. I said it was Chet Falisek, and the other people looked at me in a way that I knew my shit.
The TalkRadar PAX East 2011 podcast was like its own mini convention of itself. TDARDCON East 2011. I knew about 12 to 15 of the people, but 2/3 of the fans were mainly one to ten time posters on the forums, or they didn’t have an account, or they posted once and forgot their log in information. When the podcast started, there was over 40+ Tdards cheering and yelling. I flashed my nipples when everyone was cheering, I think AJ Glasser’s comment of “Put your shirt down.” Was directed towards me. People at the Sam Adams bar turned their heads wondering what the hell was going on. A cosplayer of stereotypical Italian chef with the stereotypical Italian mustache looked on in such anger. For some of the people that stopped, I told them that the videogame podcast TalkRadar was podcasting, and these are the fans. You could only hear the podcast if you were within 10 feet of the recording. If you were behind 3 people you couldn’t hear much. It was an amazing experience, every Tdard fan there was awesome. All of us were great friends. When I introduced myself as TURbo, some Tdards were like “Holy Shit! You’re TURbo!?” It was amazing and odd to be congratulated by many of the fans. To these people I was a celebrity. Before PAX, I never was thanked in person for my contributions for the TalkRadar community. The beer comraderie was awesome. Fans were buying each other beers, and the hosts beer. It was an experience, since just about all the people there collectively probably listened to 4 years worth of TalkRadar podcasts.
I got to meet a female listener Katie (ponyoyo). She congratulated me after I said I had the most post on the TalkRadar podcast thread, which is odd. Anyway, the 2 female listeners were treated very nicely. No one said sexiest things to them. No Tdard proposed to Lizzie, or did any creepy. Lizzie was in front of me less than a foot away, and I could have eased closer in, and sniffed her hair, but that didn’t happen. Maybe I did but either way she didn't notice. The podcast was the highlight of the convention, even though I selected as an Omeganaut. When I first got on the mic, I was criticized by all the hosts for the few inaccuracies on the TalkRadar Wiki, the same way I critizied them for the free work were provided towards each other. When I was done speaking, I spilled a beer, right next to the podcasting equipment. With limited time, I dove mouth first on the convention center table and drank the beer off the table. Everyone was yelling and cheering “TURbo!” and “TURbo is the man.” I spilled 2 beers during the TalkRadar podcast. Another special thing that happened during the podcast was Rockmotron9000, bought me my first beer. He didn’t know what it was. It was horrible. I tried to drink as much as I could. I only gotten 2 chugs. Anyway I only managed to drink 6 ounces over the period of 45 minutes. If you really love soft drinks, you are going to hate beer. One of the guys, just tagged along with his friend who loves TalkRadar. He never listened to an episode of TalkRadar, but the podcast experience touched his heart, when he was going home, he would start downloading TalkRadar podcasts. During the podcast, I was used lay down some of the fact checks. Batman5273 gave me a Star Wars Old Republic Shirt, and in return I humped his leg. This was the first time I humped a 37 year old man I knew on the internet for about a year. I never got drunk, but I was very animated. It was so much fun podcasting for 2 hours and 45 minutes, 8:15 ish to 10:45 PM. Afterwards, Ted Rossi gave me a bottle of Jameson whiskey which he said the bottle was completely full this morning, in which I had whatever TalkRadar fans and hosts sign the bottle as an artifact of the TalkRadar PAX East 2011 podcast.
Afterwards, we walked across the street to a bar in the Westin Hotel, where we got beer in glasses, with ice that wasn’t overpriced in $6 plastic cups served only slightly less than room temperature. While walking to the bar, Brett Elston decided there was not going to be any Rock Band freeplay since the line looked at least 40 minutes long. Someone was signing Tenacious D Tribute, and I being the only one with energy, jumped up and down and flailed my arms screaming and cheering him on. During this time, he was reflecting back the energy I was giving him and he was being more animated. After the podcast, Chris Antista and I walked to the restroom where we both took dickshits. During the walk there I brought up AforExtreme’s thing about to Chris about using every figure, and form of speech to describe words like shitting, shit, and boners. Paraphrasing Chris, he uses the entire spectrum of human emotion, and he channels all that emotion into words like boner. It’s the equivalent of Beethoven using all of his passion, and torment into his music, instead Antista uses it on Boners.
After the podcast, 12 to 15 Tdards were just hanging out and chatting with Antista, Elston, and Wilde in a bar. My throat was dry from all the screaming and yelling, so I ordered water. The water was so good, there was ice and it was free. I tipped the bartender a dollar. I listened in to Elston’s conversation about Henry Gilbert on Family Guy, and the horrible Batman Forever movie. Tyler Wilde and I chatted about our first experiences playing multiplayer games online. It was a fun experience just to chat to them about movies, tv shows, games, and anything that was ever discussed on TalkRadar at one point. At 1:32 AM, humor_tumor and I left the bar, since we didn’t want to miss the last shuttle.
Once again, printing out the PDF floorplans of the BCEC was a huge help in knowing where we needed to go for shuttle pick up. humor_tumor and I talked back in forth about the last 6 hours we experienced being the highlight of PAX. Meeting other Tdards, meeting and taking pictures with the GamesRadar crew, being in their podcast, and just hanging out in the bar. The 2 AM shuttle was a bit late. The ride back to our hotels were scary. Every block of the way there was police cars and ambulances in the crowded streets with their sirens on. I was sheltered in the beautiful and peaceful bubble of PAX. Looking outside the windows, there was drunk people fighting each other, drunk people making out, people being hit by cars, every other car cutting each other off, and big fat land walruses not giving a fuck to Big shit buses when it wasn’t their turn to cross the street.When humor_tumor got off the bus, there was a guy that sat next to me in the front row. He told the bus driver “I’ve live in Detroit, and I never experienced nothing like this.” During the shuttle ride Daylight Savings Time kicked in, and I freaked out when my cell phone said it was 3:16. When I got off the bus, I was booking to my hotel, since I didn’t want to get mugged. I finally got the hotel at 4 AM, and I took a long shower since my face and Omeganaut shirt reeked of beer from the TalkRadar podcast. I went to bed happy.
Sunday
I woke up sore. Daylight Savings ruined everything. My body was taking a toll at PAX. I woke up and I lost my voice completely. Whatever voice I had going to bed, it was all gone Sunday morning. When I went to the shuttlebus, I sat next to a guy from Canada, and I shared about my experiences, and he did walk by the food court when TalkRadar was podcasting. I told him about TalkRadar, and he said he was going to check it out.
When I arrived at the convention center, I visited Dan and Jude’s Palette Swap Ninja’s Breakfast Meet and Greet. There was no breakfast, but then again breakfast is super expensive at the convention center. Dan and Jude talked about the formation of Palette Swap Ninja, what programs they use to create songs, how songs get made, and their future plans for Palette Swap Ninja. Dan Amrich laughed at me when I couldn’t speak, saying I got face herpes last night. There was about a dozen people there. During the meet and greet, there was a person walking down the food court with a Palette Swap Ninja hoodie and well yelled at him and said “Palette Swap Ninja is here!” Dan remarked that he is only 1 of 7 that has bought any Palette Swap Ninja apparel off the site. I got my 3 day badge signed by Dan Amrich and Jude Kelley. Afterwards, WillyFresh992 had to leave, since his dumbass friend wanted to leave PAX at 10 AM. It makes no sense because his so called “friend” isn’t attending school. Only went to play a demo of Gears 3, and then stay in the hotel playing Dragon Age Origins on his laptop. What a horrible human being.
Around 2 PM I spotted 2 other Tdards in the IGN Gamescoop panel. I helped Will Harding color in the “ASS 2 ASS” posters. It was some inside joke referring to Greg Miller at IGN. I don’t know who he was at the time. Anyway I did a better job filling in the color for the ASS 2 ASS poster. When that guy was introduced, Will, I, and a guy sitting next to me held up the posters. Even though I never listened to any bit of Gamescoop podcasts, they started off with 10 minutes of their funniest podcast moments, that were animated by Javi Rodriguez. They had tons of swag since they are owned by a major media network. While they were at episode 197, they said they would have this episode be the 200th episode of Gamescoop. They gave out a Prinny thong, and a Jesse Jane fleshlight. While wearing a prinny thong and jerking off in a fleshlight sounds and probably feels amazing, I wouldn’t raise my hand, unless I was at a more appropriate convention like JIZZCON There was at least 300+ guys in the room, but only 20 guys were jumping up and down, motioning, and screaming about how bad they wanted one. Some dude that sat in the front row got it, and someone shouted “Do a video review.” They gave out swag to people that went to the mic and asked questions. One kid was about to receive an iPod touch until he said “I already have one, and how many gigabytes?” He gave himself an instant disqualification. When the panel was done, they had boxes of swag on display in a first come first serve basis. I was one of the first people to swarm to the swag. Just about all of it sucked. There was Medal of Honor box cover art T-shirts and some Sims expansion pack. That Sims expansion pack was passed up by at least 50 people. Since I was at the front I was throwing swag to the back of the line. I had more fun throwing that unwanted T-shirts to people who weren’t fast enough to get to the front of the line, then if I had received it. The swag reminded me of when TalkRadar gave out Inkheart and The Legend of Chun Li DVD’s and no one wanted to claim them. If it wasn’t for PAX, that swag was just collect dust, since no one at work would steal it because it’s that ugly.
After the panel I had one last meet up with the Tdards humor_tumor, bloodyshadow, and Samael. We took our last pictures together at PAX, said our goodbyes, and went our separate ways.
Afterwards, I was going to the final round of the Omegathon and the closing ceremony. While I was eliminated, I wanted to see the amazing spectacle. There was 7 to 8 other Omeganauts who were spectators. Darryl, Greg, Brian, are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Before going into the theatre, we hugged our Enforcer Angela who did a great job organizing and making the Omegathon run smooth. As I walked in the main theatre slowly I had my head looking at the ceiling, and arms open feeling the love and warmth of PAX. The benefits of being an Omeganaut was standing in the front row, in which I and other Omeganauts put our bags at the base of the stage, so we didn’t need to carry them. I chatted with Brian Rowland, my nemesis who defeated me in Bananagrams. He managed to get to the Operation round before losing. I had no malice towards him, since I had an excellent time last night being on the TalkRadar podcast, and hanging out with the fans.
The Omegathon kicked off with the Final Countdown. Eric and Zach were against Cassandra and Ross. I was thinking Dance Central was going to be the final round, and Ikruga surprised me. At the end of the first round, either Eric or Zach had a score higher than the other 3 players combined. That person’s amazing combo chain gave their team the victory to Gamescom 2011 in Cologne or $3000. The most exciting thing of the final round, was when Ross was the only player left, and everyone in the theatre was shouting “GO GO GO!” Afterwards I congratulated Eric and Zach for winning the Omegathon, and Ross for his amazing game of Ikruga. Ross now gets to join the legendary ranks of Fallout for being the second Omeganaut to appear in 3 Omegathons. During congratulating the Omeganauts, I saw Robert Khoo, and Seth Killian, the community manager of Capcom.
Leaving the theatre, I talked with a former PAX 07 Omeganaut from Minnesota. He was eliminated in the first round of Zombie Dice, and as a consolation prize he got the game he failed at. He said to me “I’m 33, debt free, and I go to both PAXes for vacation. After chatting with him I walked outside and waited for my ride, I saw a guy who won the $5000 gaming PC that NVIDIA raffled off. The box looked like it was for a 42 inch TV. I congratulated him on winning the raffle, and he congratulated me on being an Omeganaut. Then my aunt picked me up.
End of 2011 PAX East Boston.
tl;dr It’s the Jews fault.
For TDard fans: PAX East 2011 is awesome. If you love games and gaming culture go to PAX. Doesn’t matter if its East, or Prime. Just go to a PAX. All the stuff you I heard about accepting Jesus into your heart and feeling the holy spirit, I felt that at PAX. The TalkRadar people are awesome, and it’s the only places where 40+ Tdards can congregate in one place and have a great time. Hopefully more fans will turn out for future podcasts. There was Tdards from West Texas, Toronto, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Vermont, Alabama, Rhode Island, New York, and they were all were gathered outside the Sam Adams pub in the BCEC. It was beautiful. There was none of that sport shit at PAX. No one brought a football, and if they did it that shit would have gotten confiscated. I hope next year Future US can get a booth at PAX East 2011. While Future US having a panel would be nice, no alcohol, and 1 hour limit sounds horrible.
For Omeganauts and people who want to be Omeganauts.
Check yes on the Omeganaut box when you order 3 day tickets. Also when the phone calls are going out on a private number a month in advance, pick up the phone, say I am the “your name” are calling and you do have a 3 day pass. Do not hang up. Gabe said he called a lot of people for the Omeganauts, which definitely sounds like a higher number than 28.
