Fun at PAX

August 31st, 2008

This weekend, I attended the Penny Arcade Expo for the second time (and the first as a Hothead employee). I didn’t get booth duty this year, which was fortunate, because I’m not sure I can stand being around all the noise and nerd sweat for too long without my head imploding, so instead, I wandered around, poked my head into panels that were either so boring that I left after five minutes or so full that I couldn’t actually get inside, [1] and attempted to socialise — namely, with Max Battcher, John Green, assorted Telltale people… and my co-Hotheads, but I see them all the time, so that hardly counts.

Hmm. By the way I wrote that, you’d think I had a terrible time. The truth is, I actually had fun, if only because I had a good excuse to break out of my normal routines. And I managed to stay in a rather chipper mood, to the point that John pointed out that I appeared to be a lot more… shall we say… “bubbly” in contrast to the more pointed sort of writing style through which I present myself on internetland. Then again, I’d say I came more for the interesting people than for the expo itself. The expo was really just a way to bring said people together, really.

Anyway, in case you haven’t seen them already, you ought to check out the DeathSpank teasers that Ron posted. They’re delightfully silly.

Footnotes:
  1. I do, however, regret not getting to see the “How to Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming” panel, if only for the sheer hilarity value. I also regretted not seeing “Writing for Games”, but Ron filled me in on the most interesting bits, at least. ↩
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  1. ComradeNarf September 2nd, 2008 5:02 pm

    Yeah, those are truly awesome trailers. And I *love* the music for it. I’m really stoked to see what you and your cohorts have in store for the game. And maybe I should start going to PAX so I don’t have to peruse eBay for Fallout 3 stuff? Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself!

  2. The Management September 2nd, 2008 7:28 pm

    You should start going to PAX, if only because I’d love to meet you. :)

  3. ComradeNarf September 2nd, 2008 8:21 pm

    I appreciate that. Modern society doesn’t realize that it’s very polite and proper to give someone a restraining order in person. :)

  4. John September 5th, 2008 3:37 pm

    It was great meeting you! I wanted to give you some of my comics, but I never ran into you again.

  5. The Management September 8th, 2008 2:36 pm

    Dang, I would have loved to have checked out your comics! Ah well.

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