PAX 2009 was AMAZING! I am not much of a writer so I'll describe my experience by means of INTERPRETIVE DANCE! By which I mean I will post all my pictures with mildly funny captions.

THURSDAY
Encounter

The weekend started for wifey and me on Thursday and on arrival we went to the Space Needle to get a bird's eye view of the city we'd be crawling with Dtoiders for the next few days. The rumblings began in the gift shop... I could tell Chad was in the area because I found this friend of his:



IT WILL SNUGGLE YOU TO THE POINT OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS. Oh boy what are we getting ourselves into? So we head out to a classy dinner at the J-Ro organized Farestart meetup, where we encountered a gaggle of Dtoiders and dined on the finest in hobo cuisine. After that we headed to gameworks where it was packed with so many Dtoid people that we couldn't get past the doorway!

FRIDAY
Overload

Friday the doors opened at PAX but I had two things on my mind. Get to the Hey Ash Whatcha Playing panel and get to the Destructoid panel. After showing up about surveying the main floor, I met Mr. Destructoid! I spoke with him for a while and he exposed me to many secrets I cannot utter here about cold fusion, Atlantis, Jimmy Hoffa, and the meaning of life. And then all of the sudden, he whipped out a baseball cap and declared his favorite team!



Surprised by that bombshell I wandered around in a daze, working my way up to get in a gigantic line to see the HAWP panel where a MANLY TEAR was shed.

Learning my lesson from the HAWP line, I went to the next line almost an hour early for the Destructoid panel, where I stayed around and met another large number of community members. Then out of the blue, Maya shows up with the coveted LOBSTER MILKSHAKE of Cblog fame!



When I got in to the theater, the crowd was huge! The line was so long that the last people lucky enough to make it in were standing room only. We were greeted with the teaser clips on the screen, getting us pumped up for an amazing panel. When the presentation, questions, and Samit's birthday were over... Chad grabbed the mic and sang an incredible song. As someone who posts comments in a gaming community environment I am subject to using a lot of hyperbole, but this performance really brought me back to the days of being a child seeing Disney movies for the first time. I entranced by the music, but this time the song was about a community I was a part of and made it very profound, and emotional for me.

Fast forward a bit after going to pike place and seeing the town, my wife and I head to Elephant and Castle to rejoin the Destrucoid masses. The yummy Imperial IPA then fuels a night of debauchery until 2 am when management told us to get the fudge out.

WHEN YOU SEE IT YOU WILL SHIT BRICKS



SATURDAY
Hangoverance

The next day I drag myself out of bed and head to the indie games panel and scribble down some nonsensical notes. I think they translated to something along the lines of "innovation = good, big budget = bad". Armed with my indie notes, I head over to the luxurious Best Western to record a NGCast with Wardrox, Nintendoll and the gang. We sat down and talked about indie games, the GHost's close friends and of course Bionic Commando, Half Life 2, and Halo.


More tourism ensued, and then we headed out to a classy Destructoid party across from the Red Lion. Over the course of my evening we got to meet even more people we hadn't gotten around to yet! (We still didn't get to say hi to everybody) As we said our goodbyes, and got ready to head out for the next leg of our trip in Vancouver, we were sad to leave you guys but we had a great time!

Left to right: My wife Anna, Me, Sharky McSnaggletooth, MamaDonna

10. Hippies. Hordes of them, and they are all swinging bags of oranges at you

9. Swine flu pig, it has one

8. Yashoki doesn't like it

7. Mr. Destructoid

6. You can trip balls in it

5. It's split screen like goldeneye, who's got the golden gun?

4. 16 players over XBOX Live, which you have since you listened to Blehman

3. Chad Vs. Reverend Anthony and other editor mashups with the character roster

2. MOOCHEEVOS

1. PEW PEW PEWs, lots of them


Only 240 moonbucks

Now that Agent MOO: Maximum Overdeath has been released on Indie Games marketplace (Available here), so it's time for some Friday Night Fights! I will be hosting at 11PM ET on my gamertag Agent MOO. Also, Kauza will be hosting at 9PM ET.



Please excuse some of the network hiccups, I am working on an update to make the experience smoother. The update will be available as soon as it goes through the Indie Games peer review process!

My game, AMMO, is releasing soon as a community game on the XBOX Live Marketplace. It will be available for 200pts as soon as it passes the peer review process. Here's the trailer for the game, you can find more info at the game's hompage, agentmoo.com/AMMO. I look forward to playing it online with you all once it's launched on the XBOX 360!

The music in the trailer is one of the tracks from the original soundtrack created by I KILL PXLS (Dtoid username: Guitar Atomik).

100. THI4F
Who are the ad wizards who came up with this one? As everyone's pointed out, this title has picked up either an "A" or a "FOUR" depending on how you say it. Here's my verbal interpretation:



99. Single blogs split into 10 posts
Come on, you guys are better than this.

Hay isn't it someone's birthday?



Have a good one, ol' wielder of the mighty ban hammer! May wimmens comply with your sharky wishes.