Slog - Comments on Penny Arcade Expo: Saturday Coverage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage 11:59 p.m.: Nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot might as well have changed the first two letters in his alias to DM. At the evening's concert, Frontalot threw dice and talked in D&D-anese before nearly every song ("you have earned enough experience points to level up to the status of nerdcore rapper"). Still, unlike many of the other acts, who used nerd cliches and game song covers as crutches for their otherwise so-so performances, tonight's hip-hop act held his own with a relatively solid flow and a quality backing band. Still, you gotta love the crowd's reaction to his "wave your hands... Copyright 2008 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:38:26 -0800 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:08:52 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Katelyn I just stood in line for fifteen minutes at Specialties at 5th and Union, amidst dozens of PAXers... *swoon*

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790783 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790783 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:15:42 -0800 Comment by Garrett F!!! Wait there K, I'll be down at 5th/Onion by 11-- we'll do play-by-play all day, my hat says 'groot' in invisible ink, big letters, can't miss it. talk to ya soon

ps. i'm more of oldskool PAX, as in two bong hits, remote tthe changer to Xian channel, nostalgia trip to horrifying love: laura ingalls, manly, Pa, willie, nellie.... HIT THE STREETS

]]> Garrett http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790785 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790785 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:29:15 -0800 Comment by Joh I have to admit that I'm the most attractive male at PAX. That ain't sayin much.

]]> Joh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790792 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790792 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:13:53 -0800 Comment by Original Gomez COMMENT DELETED: Off topic

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]]> Original Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790802 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790802 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:01:57 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Someone let me know when that nervous system exploration game is available, I'd totally play it. Or actually an endocrine system game would be even BETTER... it would be like a hormone strategy game and you could wildy affect the state of the body you're inside! Like, "woah, oxytocin hit! Now I'm lactacting!!" and there could be two players even who could battle it out inside the body. It would be like Pokemon for med students.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790808 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790808 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:39:57 -0800 Comment by Katelyn *wildly.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790810 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790810 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:41:02 -0800 Comment by Orv Your comparison to underground music is apt...there actually *is* a community of "underground" independent game developers. Some are doing amazing things by writing mods for existing games, others are actually starting to develop new games from scratch.

]]> Orv http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790812 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790812 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:57:14 -0800 Comment by Peter I'm working at Gameworks tonight for my studio's PAX-related party, handing out prizes.

I've been suggesting game concepts for the entire 13 years I've been in the local game industry, to no avail, and I was assured almost a decade ago by one of the PAX keynote speakers (then, my boss) that "Superheroes don't sell" after pitching a superhero-themed game at our studio. What a fool I was.

]]> Peter http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790833 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:54:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Wouldn't this have made more sense as "You're a Nazi who's been sent back in time to fight Ninjas" instead of the other way around?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790835 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790835 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:58:50 -0800 Comment by lostboy While those ideas will probably never reach the actual drawing board of a developer, mine very well could.

Please, get over yourself.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790842 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790842 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:22:56 -0800 Comment by Sam Machkovech "lostboy," I forget to edit back in the sarcasm inherent in that claim. Truly, the ninja time travel game has a far greater shot than mine. Sorry to mislead.

]]> Sam Machkovech http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790848 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790848 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:08:27 -0800 Comment by Christin I crack my knuckles, and the knuckle-cracking thing was excruciating anyway. *shiver*

]]> Christin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790854 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:58:43 -0800 Comment by lostboy Sam @11, thanks for the response, and sorry for taking the quip seriously.  I'm glad to have been wrong.

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790856 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:18:38 -0800 Comment by Frank Dear Huge Fucking Geek posting this, or the Web staff who monitors (?) him:
Hide your extremely overwrought run-on posts under a jump for those who give a rip.

]]> Frank http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790857 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790857 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:49:18 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Oh my god, Frank, just don't read it if you're not interested... I'm digging it

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790865 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790865 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:03:25 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @3

U crazy! I'm here. Plus I'm not single (as of today), which makes me hotter.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790866 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790866 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:36:53 -0800 Comment by What losers! What sort of losers spend an August day in doors?

Dorks on dorks.

]]> What losers! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790868 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790868 Tech Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:45:17 -0800 Comment by John Scott Tynes I was one of the panelists on the games business thing (and am a former Stranger videogame reviewer, for that matter). Thanks for the great write-up. I thought the panel description was the vaguest and most banal thing imaginable ("Changes in the Industry!"), but our moderator didn't show up and when we reviewed the list of canned questions, we rejected them all and wrote new ones that we thought were better. The result was a blast with a high dynamic range and I'm glad you were there to see the fireworks.

I didn't think it was as doom and gloom as you did, but c'est la guerre.

]]> John Scott Tynes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790880 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790880 Tech Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:22:06 -0800 Comment by Whirled Peas Hear the Yoda get wicked

*applause*

]]> Whirled Peas http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790904 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790904 Tech Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:51:28 -0800 Comment by Judith what IS ths? why are you guys spending so much time covering this?? get on to something else already.

]]> Judith http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790905 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/penny_arcade_expo_saturday_coverage#c790905 Tech Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:08:52 -0800