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I just stood in line for fifteen minutes at Specialties at 5th and Union, amidst dozens of PAXers... *swoon*

Posted by Katelyn | August 25, 2007 10:15 AM
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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

Posted by Garrett | August 25, 2007 10:29 AM
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I have to admit that I'm the most attractive male at PAX. That ain't sayin much.

Posted by Joh | August 25, 2007 11:13 AM
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Posted by Original Gomez | August 25, 2007 12:01 PM
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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.

Posted by Katelyn | August 25, 2007 12:39 PM
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*wildly.

Posted by Katelyn | August 25, 2007 12:41 PM
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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.

Posted by Orv | August 25, 2007 12:57 PM
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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.

Posted by Peter | August 25, 2007 2:54 PM
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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?

Posted by Will in Seattle | August 25, 2007 2:58 PM
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While those ideas will probably never reach the actual drawing board of a developer, mine very well could.

Please, get over yourself.

Posted by lostboy | August 25, 2007 3:22 PM
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"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.

Posted by Sam Machkovech | August 25, 2007 4:08 PM
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I crack my knuckles, and the knuckle-cracking thing was excruciating anyway. *shiver*

Posted by Christin | August 25, 2007 4:58 PM
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Sam @11, thanks for the response, and sorry for taking the quip seriously.  I'm glad to have been wrong.

Posted by lostboy | August 25, 2007 5:18 PM
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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.

Posted by Frank | August 25, 2007 5:49 PM
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Oh my god, Frank, just don't read it if you're not interested... I'm digging it

Posted by Katelyn | August 25, 2007 7:03 PM
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@3

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

Posted by Mr. Poe | August 25, 2007 7:36 PM
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What sort of losers spend an August day in doors?

Dorks on dorks.

Posted by What losers! | August 25, 2007 7:45 PM
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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.

Posted by John Scott Tynes | August 26, 2007 1:22 AM
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Hear the Yoda get wicked

*applause*

Posted by Whirled Peas | August 26, 2007 11:51 AM
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what IS ths? why are you guys spending so much time covering this?? get on to something else already.

Posted by Judith | August 26, 2007 12:08 PM

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