Bag are packed and I’m off to PAX. Bringing lots of DS goodness and blue/purple hair.
See you there!
P.S. For those of you who aren’t going here are some great indie game demos to play with in addition to your BioShock goodness: (Comiket Doujin Game Demo Pack)
Last night I was at Wumpskate and someone asked me for an EGR flyer. Turns out it was Cory of Neoramen and Xenocanon fame!
We talked a lot about old video games, TG-16, games with awesome sound, Arcade Infinity, and Herzog Zwei (ya!). I was a fan of Neoramen back when it was Pockybot - it’s always awesome to meet up with people from The Internets. At the same time, however, it’s a bit like… “what are you doing here in the real world?”
My Pokemon Friend code is: 4725 4550 3134
Feel free to post yours as a comment or pal me in game.
Don’t expect to win against my pokemons though
(16:27:38) zuggg: yeah PAX is gonna be raep this year
(16:27:47) meeee: estimates are about 40-50k
(16:28:28) meeee: which is like take.. anime expo, add five years, and minus all the girls
(16:28:32) zuggg: yeah
(16:28:33) zuggg: hahahha
(16:28:37) zuggg: hahahahhahah
(16:28:39) zuggg: add sausage
(16:28:45) zuggg: reciev convention
(16:28:52) meeee: push PAX
(16:29:01) meeee: reciev Wiener
We had a good time at Wizard World. Even with it being somewhat of a small con, we tend to bring the fun with us so it always works out.
The tournaments and the artist alley were definitely the highlights of the con. Special shout-out to Chrissy from Dim Sum Yum who I swear is stalking us.
Awesomeness pics and video after the jump
Maybe this one is specific to the west coast or to SoCal, but I’ve noticed an alarming trend. About 60-70% of the grocery stores I go into have one (and only one) checkout clerk who reminds me of Dan Aykroyd in mannerism if not in physicality. They usually are good at the quick smile and shallow witticism, but you can tell they’ve told a joke or two in their time. Is this the fallback career for the Laugh Factory contestants? I’m not sure, but I figured it was as poignant a scientific assertion as any. And like a good theory, I get to name it.
I’m going to call it the TGIF theory for Think Grocer Is Friday. Of course the real reason I’m doing this is there is a definitive lack of good google links from the words ‘grocer’ and ‘friday’, so I figured if there’s anything I can trump it’s this. Hey at least this post won’t serve to increase our google index on “but I poop from there“. Or will it?
I’m glad to see someone agrees with me about the failures of GDC as a whole to properly see “what’s up”. And that someone is Joi Ito, who presented a good monologue about what we’re missing with all this CliffyBism. Yes, I have made that a word.
The Game Developer’s Choice awards happened last night with mostly predictable results.
I’m very happy about the IGF selections, but I would probably have been pretty happy regardless of the choice as they are all quite amazing games. Special gratz out to Tom Fulp for bagging the Excellence in Visual Arts and the Audience awards for Castle Crashers.
However, I don’t feel the same love and reverie for the GDC awards. Don’t get me wrong, the nominees are all good games, and this award ceremony still holds far more of my respect than all the Spike TV awards in the world combined. Just this once, though, it feels that the forward thinking world of video game developers and press are lagging behind the mainstream now by what feels like at least a year plus.
This just about sums up why the internet exists:
Holy crap, hahaha
I just finished watching the first episode of the new anime Master of Epic.
It is basically a theatre of MMO (and many WoW-specific) in-jokes that only someone who plays would really get.
Some examples:
Glad to see we’re way past the time when this can’t be considered ‘mainstream entertainment’. Most of it isn’t really even that ‘funny’, though I am curious as to how many years until the ’situation comedy’ distinctions wear off and it just becomes another sitcom genre like ‘guy with only women in family/household’.
