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I'm a recent Master's graduate from Caltech with a degree in Chemistry. I'm currently living in Pasadena, CA, with a degree I don't want to use, trying to break into the game industry. I've been reading Destructoid since June of 2006. I'm a huge Nintendo fanboy, though I spend most of my gaming time on the 360 these days. I've got far too many posts on the forum.

I play all types of games except realistic sports games and real-time strategy games. The former because I think they're boring and the latter because I utterly suck at them.

I've got an Examiner page. That place pays based on hits, comments, and subscriptions, so if you like my stuff, go check that out. If you don't like my stuff, go tell me how awful I am over there!

Games I'm currently playing:
Burnout Paradise (360)
Left 4 Dead 2 (360)
Lego Rock Band (360)
Mass Effect (360)
Modern Warfare 2 (360)
ModNation Racers (PS3)
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)

Games that are on the back burner:
BioShock (360, need to go back and get the Achievements I missed)
Crush (PSP, I never really think to play my PSP)
Culdcept SAGA (360, the battles just take way too long)
Grand Theft Auto IV (360, it just didn't draw me in like the old games)
Mario Kart Wii (Wii, I just never feel like playing its single player)
Rock Band 2 (360, Just missing one Achievement: Endless Setlist without pausing or failing)
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, need to complete with Luigi)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, same issue as with Mario Kart)

Games I haven't even touched yet:
Crackdown (360)
de Blob (Wii)
God of War (PS2)
MadWorld (Wii)
Metal Gear Solid 1-3 (PS1, PS2)
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Xbox)
Okami (PS2)
Persona 3: FES (PS2)
Project Gotham Racing 4 (360)
Quantum of Solace (360)
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories (Wii)

Games I have finished 100% during this console generation:
1 vs. 100 (XBLA)
Aegis Wing (XBLA)
Banjo-Kazooie (XBLA)
Bionic Commando: Rearmed (XBLA)
Bomberman Live (XBLA)
Borderlands (360)
Call of Duty 2 (360)
Call of Duty 4 (360)
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (XBLA)
Halo 3 (360)
Fable II: Pub Games (XBLA)
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes (DS)
Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (XBLA)
Modern Warfare 2 (360)
NEVES (DS)
Omega Five (XBLA)
Pac-Man C.E. (XBLA)
Peggle (XBLA)
Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 1 (XBLA)
Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 2 (XBLA)
Picross DS (DS)
Picross 3D (DS)
Professor Layton & the Curious Village (DS)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty (PSN)
Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (XBLA)
Shadow Complex (XBLA)
skate. (360)
Uno (XBLA)
Worms (XBLA)

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True stories from Destructoid's E3 Intern Bitch 2008
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Checking out Halo 3: ODST through the ODST tour
Improving game communities: gaming together
The wrong thing: the procrastinating protagonist
What will be the last game you ever play?
Teh Bias: The Evolution of Dexter's Bias
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I got drunk with Mr. Destructoid.
Darren Nakamura | 2:42 AM on 08.26.2007 12 comments




And it was awesome.

And to be fair, I'm still drunk right now.

I'm sitting outside the main theater, where CTZ and some other Dtoid people are listening to the Minibosses.

Up in the photo above you can see CTZ. And maybe Droobies. And Dyson. And a super blurry NIERO! I think.

If you want more pictures, you'll have to wait for a later post. Just like my other PAX posts here, I don't have the high quality pictures on my computer yet. These are just from my camera phone.

After a full day at PAX, I went over to Gameworks to party with the Destructoid crew. At the risk of forgetting somebody (for which I have an excellent excuse at the moment), the following people were there: Niero, CTZ, Orcist, Colette, CharlieSuh, TehUberOne, namelessted, phist, some guy who I had to ask who he was like three times but I still don't remember, HushGush, et cetera, et cetera.

I bought Niero a Jager bomb. I bought CTZ a Heineken. I bought Nex a Captain Morgan and Coke. I bought my friend John a hefeweizen. I matched each and every one of them. AFTER I bought myself a dry martini (because I'm classy like that). And that's why I'm in the state I'm in right now.

At some other point, I sent my girlfriend a text message. Here's that gem:

"Whew I'm not sure
how I got so drunk
but I'm in good
company and I still
have excellent
spelling so I must
be fine."

Reassuring words, I'm sure.

And at some other point, we left Gameworks (I assume). I found myself in the main theater listening to MC Frontalot. I can say without a doubt that there were sound waves emitting from the stage. I was gyrating to the beat of the music. Was it good music? Ask somebody else.

Later, I got on Pictochat on the theater floor. Here is (and I'm copying this exactly) what I sent to the Pictochat room, in its entirety:

"Woo I'm drunk yeah! It took me like
ten minutes to send this message! I had to
backspace nine times and I'm all wobbly! But
I require good grammar!"

To be fair, that was actually a lie. I had to backspace eleven times, but I had already gotten way past the part where I said nine, and I didn't want to go all the way back.

After MC Frontalot were the Minibosses, who I hear are really excellent (I wouldn't know for sure, but I think they're still playing, and I intend to head back in there when I finish this post). I continued to swing back and forth with the music.

I came outside the main theater to write this, and I talked to some supernerd about Dungeons and Dragons. Then my laptop battery started to run out and I had to relocate. Now I'm sitting next to some cool dudes named Shawn and Rudy. They're playing DS and I'm super jealous.

Now I'm heading back into the main theater, where CTZ is wearing the Mr. Destructoid helmet (and Niero has gone MIA). Woo! (That was not a "woo" to losing Niero. That was an indiscriminate "woo.")



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Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 03:47
Aaron Mxy Yost
I'm so jealous of you right now.
Volcanon's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 03:56
Volcanon
hey, you asked me my name like 3 times...lol good times..
droobies's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 04:29
droobies
Great time tonight, Dex. Had tons of fun and your friend can babysit other people's stuff like no other.
mid3vol's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 04:43
mid3vol
dude, it was great. good meeting you and your friend, hope to spend more times tomorrow. btw, remember we're going to pink godzirra in the daytime. if you'd like to go, look at latest posts and find my number. OK BAI!
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 05:36
Justice
Haha sounds like damn fun
Pedro Blandino's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 09:41
Pedro Blandino
sounds like a blast
masterledz's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 12:37
masterledz
There's nothing better than getting drunk in the middle of Gameworks and hassling the DDR freaks, trust me. I've been banned ever since then.

Continue the revelries for great justice!
Virtualgirl's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 12:38
Virtualgirl
haha, drunk text messages that are supposed to be reassuring are awesome...
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 13:06
Darren Nakamura
Here are some things I forgot to mention:

1. I lost my PAX badge, but luckily the Dtoid army came through, and tehUberOne gave me his spare.
2. I woke up this morning with a travel size tube of toothpaste in my pocket. It was mine, but I don't remember putting it there.
3. I talked to these two guys from the ITT Tech booth for like a half hour. They were drunk.
4. I stood in line for the bar in front of one of the guys from Mega64.
5. I can't think of anything else right now, but I know there was more I wanted to write.
WastelandTraveler's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/26/2007 13:27
WastelandTraveler
lolol dammit I really wish I was there :( I could have had some jager bombs w/ niero :'(
Hamza CTZ Aziz's Avatar - Comment posted on 08/28/2007 18:32
Hamza CTZ Aziz
It was great meeting you Dexter. Thanks for the drink again!
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